Strong's Concordance
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Strong's Concordance, is a concordance of the King James Bible (KJV) that was constructed under the...
365 Days of Flow
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Flow. A magazine that takes its time Celebrating creativity, imperfection, and life's little...
Logical Piano
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Do not know how to play the piano, but always wanted to learn? It seems that it needs to spend a lot...
Amino Acids: Quiz & Flashcards
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Do you know the chemical formula of glycine? Amino acids are building blocks of proteins and...
Quo Vadis
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Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero, commonly known as Quo Vadis, is a historical novel...
Wired for Healing - Remapping the Brain to Recover from Chronic and Mysterious Illnesses
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Annie Hopper had exhausted the medical system and was still suffering from disabling symptoms of...
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There are three main timelines, four characters, and an ancient text that connects them all.
Anna lives in Constantinople just before the Ottomans bring down the wall and claim it as their own. Omeir is one of those Ottomans, a reluctant cog in their war machine.
We go forward 500 years to a hostage situation in a US town library, where a disillusioned teenager, has planted a bomb on the bookshelves. An old man, an ex-soldier who has taught himself Ancient Greek, has translated a very old book and turned it into a play. He is upstairs in the same library.
Then, on to the future where a girl, her family and a number of other scientists, explorers and volunteers, are all on a spaceship at the start of a long voyage that they know they’ll never see the end of. And disaster strikes.
I didn’t want this book to end. I had a huge book hangover when this ended, and I’m very certain that I will need to read this again. It’s perfection.
Many thanks to The Pigeonhole for serialising this.
A Short History of Lithuania to 1569
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Why did Lithuania’s dictator in the 1920s (the pro-Nazi Augustinas Voldemaras, who aligned himself...
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Health through Breath - Pranayama
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Stressed? Balance your life and experience a relaxed meditative state to relieve your daily stresses...