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The Arabic alphabet has a rich history, one that is closely linked with the development of culture and society in the Middle East. In this comprehensive introduction the authors trace the origins of the Arabic alphabet back to Aramaic, which also gave rise to the Hebrew and Greek alphabets. Using...

“Dinosaurs won’t mislead you, Josué. Only the richest property supports them. If you don’t see a raptor on your first fly-by, don’t look twice.”Absorbing what he can from his father while he still has time, Josué Trevino senses the war between the families will overtake him soon....

In Homeschooling: The History and Philosophy of a Controversial Practice, James G. Dwyer and Shawn F. Peters examine homeschooling’s history, its methods, and the fundamental questions at the root of the heated debate over whether and how the state should oversee and regulate it. The authors trace...

Ten-year-old Randal Thane is distressed to be taken from his mother, his governess and his home and sent to prep school. But once there, he discovers an adult world he had never before imagined, and falls unwillingly but entirely under the spell of a charismatic older boy, Felton, who will introduce...

Impregnated By The Past is a story untold about a young lady that spent nine years carrying around the past that she had conceived at an early age. Betrayal, abandonment, abuse etc. The emotions and hurt left this young lady scarred on the inside while she was left trying to fool the world on the...

Ivana Sergeiyevna Modorina, star programmer, control, and tactician of Marlowe, Inc., had just come in from a night of clubbing. Spotting a bevy of patrol and unmarked cars of the NYPD a block away from her loft, of course she just had to investigate. Follow one of the favorite characters of the Marlowe,...

There was once a belief that if a witch's hair was shorn, she would lose her powers. Terry finds out, the hard way, that this just is not the case. Not at all. So what is a boy with a witch's essence inside him going to do? Well, give her a new home. of course, as with anyone else, this...

Even a wizard can make mistakes. The trouble is, when a class 2A wizard does it, it's usually a corker. Enter Bertrand Magnus McGowen, wizard, class 2A, if only recently and somewhat begrudgingly. It was a simple thing. he was trying to perfect a spell that would move large quantities of goods in...

Diko decided to land the scout in a likely looking pocket of atmosphere conveniently near a cluster of the odd life-form’s dwellings. All seemed to be working properly. There didn’t seem to be anything it had to particularly watch out for, so it entered a landing pattern into the autopilot and...

The ages-old prophesies had nearly been fulfilled. It should be a time of rejoicing, but Avondeira, more commonly known as Dera, also Branna, among the clans of the steppes, seeing the frown on her daughter’s face, asked, concern apparent in her voice, “What seems to be troubling you.” Kasela,...

Denis Halliday has an avatar. No big deal. Everyone has them. They're almost universal. People use them for e-mail, chat rooms, on the social networking pages, and even as game pieces. The difference between those and his, however, is that, unbeknownst to him, his avatar has an agenda of its...

Mark Twain and his famous riverboat captain return, comet-borne from the far shores of Heaven, with some new tales from the "hereafter" and some never-told tales from the "here-below. These new yarns take us from the great Mississippi to the far west. Highlights feature the Colorado High Pass Opera House, The Hanging of Danny Bugel, and The Demon Child of Walker Lake.

A race of enlightened magical women protect the men of Earth from a sisterhood that still views males as food. It doesn't matter who you are - fighter, fighter pilot, cellist, or ballet dancer. If you've ever been stalked by one, lived with one, married one or, Heaven forbid, picked a fight...

An elderly British woman on the east cost of England fancies that if she sits on a specific pew in the ruins of an old church, she can speak with and guide the steps of the soldiers stranded on the beach at Dunkirk. Her alleged insanity deepens when she decides to confront the Nazi advance in the...