THE ASCENT OF MONEY A FINANCIAL HISTORY OF THE WORLD

Hurly-burly of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, [formerly Saigon] to the warm golden beaches along the North West coast of scenic, and beautiful Vietnam. Follow their race against time to recover a cherished possession from an old dangerous adversary, a cunning, astute, antagonist driven by[r]

Introducing To The Reader The Chief Personages Of This Narrative At that famous period of history, when the seventeenth century (after a deal of quarrelling, king-killing, reforming, republicanising, restoring, re-restoring, play-writing, sermon- writing, Oliver-Cromwellising, Stuartising, an[r]

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1228 – and still it was incomplete! He leant forward on the windowsill so that he could see whether anyone was working below. Pulleys, ropes, scaffolding, cranes, mortar buckets, masonry and tools of all kinds desecrated the site. A frown crossed the Bishop’s brow as he noticed the idle me[r]

3 -Foreword- he world already has Bond: James Bond. Jones: Indiana Man: Super, Spider and Bat. Now meet the next generation of super heroes as they begin their second adventure in South East Asia, once again thwarting the plans of some very dodgy characters in the face of adversity. Stu, Sp[r]

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Richard considered reminding his wife that Beatrice was also his daughter - albeit stepdaughter - and that (technically, anyway) it was he who would have the final say over whom she would wed. He stopped himself just in time, realising that, although this might be the legal situation, in reality Mar[r]

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distress and almost save a country from total destruction. They definitely do however, drink copious amounts of amber fluid and have lots of horizontal fun. The story is set mostly in the amazing city of Pattaya, located on the Eastern Seaboard of Thailand. Lush green palm trees, crystal clea[r]

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A SONG FOR PETER By JIMMY BROOK “No one should have to bear the pain and the anguish of man‟s differences and dogmas. Not even children. It never goes away despite the changes and the attitudes we adopt.”

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for the house is an old one, built in an age when the homes of doctors, lawyers and so forth were part of a provincial town, and not yet suburban. There are two or three fine old prints on the walls, Right and Left; and a fine, old fireplace, Left, with a fender on which one can[r]

CHAPTER XII............................................................................................................. 84 CHAPTER I. His name was Oyvind, and he cried when he was born. But no sooner did he sit up on his mother's lap than he laughed, and when the candle was lit in the evening the[r]

among the first who responded to the call to arms was young Lance Lovelace. After San Jacinto, when the fighting was over and the victory won, he laid down his arms, and returned to ranching with the same zeal and energy. The first legislature assembled voted to those who had borne arms in behalf of[r]

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“Clarence, can you please stay close to Daniel?” Car -rying both the bassinet and the food across the twenty feet to where her brother was attempting to doze in the soft grass directly u[r]

To the south and east, about a quarter of a mile from the tent, the pressure of the floes had thrown up an enormous ridge of shattered ice-cakes, a mound, a long hill of blue-green slabs and blocks huddling together at every conceivable angle. It was nearly twenty feet in[r]