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In 1940, as World War II is raging in Europe, Boudewijn van Oort Sr., a Dutch immigrant living with his wife, Wilhelmina, and young son, Boudewijn Jr. (the author), in South Africa, decides to move his family to the Dutch colony of the Dutch East Indies, today known as the Republic of Indonesia. Van Oort Sr. made the move wanting to support and strengthen his mother country Holland against Japan, the threatening and belligerent aggressor. Two years after having settled down comfortably on the island of Java, Japan invades the entire Dutch East Indies archipelago.

Ben, Eileen, Alexander, and Richard are four of close to nine million people that were trapped within the Blue Hole Radius, in Southern California, and emerged into a world that is 1,410 years into their future. For every second that passed by inside of that radius, 23 and a half years passed by outside of the Radius. This resulted in the advent of the Blue Hole Radius, stalling time for those trapped inside for 1,410 years.

Sun-filled Sarasota, Florida, is up to its lovely hips in murder. Not the run of the mill household variety, these are vicious. Attorney David Winter receives a phone call in the middle of the night from a distraught woman worried about her missing son. He takes the case and he soon finds himself up to his ears in sex-trafficking, kidnapping, and hunted by the Arab Mafia.

A firsthand account of Ronald Reagan's leadership style, with personal insight and practical application.

This is the story of a Dutch national who lived in Africa, preferring the unknown over the security of a successful career at one of the largest global companies in the world. By believing in himself, Cohen was able to make a fresh start and get to know the traditions of the country. The Kikuyu didn't call him "Simba" for nothing. But his success and confrontational attitude did not leave him without enemies. Cohen describes his professional and personal life filled with trials and tribulations in Homesick for Kenya: An Expat's Memoir.

It's been 15 years since the world fell apart under the onslaught of a vampire horde. Nothing is the same. The suckers own the night, and survivors of the apocalypse move about only by day. Earth has been reduced to ashes as evil has taken it over piece by piece. Few have been able to stand against the onslaught. Except for a rare breed of warriors seeking to eradicate the scourge that plagues Earth.

Oscar Felix (1893-1980) was born in the Ukraine, in the shtetl of Brailov where the only doctor doubled as the town barber. His father died six months before Oscar was born, which left his mother with enough debts that she couldn't afford to buy straw to heat the room. The poverty he describes is unimaginable. Going to bed hungry characterized Oscar's childhood and that of his mom and six siblings. By the age of 20, he had taken the most important decision of his life thanks to a "box" Thomas Edison had invented in a far away land called America.

During World War II, the Japanese invaded a Dutch colony located in South East Asia called the Dutch East Indies (today known as the Republic of Indonesia).This story follows the trials and tribulations of a Dutch family while living on the idyllic island of Java. This pertinent story of innocent lives caught up in world politics illustrates how a happy and carefree childhood changed overnight into a seemingly never-ending nightmare.

Deep within the Balou mountains lies a small rural town populated by disabled people. Blind, deaf and disfigured, the 197 citizens of the village of Liven have until now enjoyed a peaceful, mutually supportive life out of sight and mind of the government. But when an unseasonal snowstorm wipes out that year’s crops, a county official dreams up a scheme that will raise money for the district and boost his career.

Professor Darkk and Miss Shadow are drawn to a haunted house on an abandoned street. They must enter the eerie home and locate the source of the evil that has taken over this section of suburbia. But can they overcome the many horrors awaiting them? Or will they be the next victims to be slaughtered to death by this nightmare of a home?

Sometimes lovers enter a relationship with the best of intentions but wind up in a place far from love. Sometimes poets attempt love poems, simple and pure, but.... Over breakfast, a husband trying to deny creeping out on his wife the previous night can't help but give hints about the creepy things he really did. On a beach, a man minding his own business is accosted by a pretty woman before a strong tide embarrasses them both. A tone-deaf proposal for marriage ends in murder. A traditionally arranged marriage spins into a deranged and surreal nightmare. These aren't anti-love poems. These are poems born and burned out of love.

When Michael Mulligan and Maria Burke flee Ireland during the famine, she leaves her tyrannical husband, Nathaniel Burke, and Mulligan abandons a secret society of Irish freedom fighters. Maria dies of ship fever on Grosse Isle, Quebec. Years laster, Michael Mulligan, 80, blind, and reconciled with his son, finally returns to Ireland to buy the rotting Burke mansion and burn it to the ground. Nathaniel Burke's son and aging Irish assassins await his arrival.

Wayne is a silver-tongued master of the dating game, one who knows how to deliver just the right words in just the right way in order to transform any woman he wants into candy in his hands, to be devoured, savored, and forgotten at his pleasure. When he goes out on a blind date with the mysterious Nayantara, however, he will learn there are no such things as sweet nothings.

After World War II, some 30 years later, when A. Venger lived in Israel, he returned to his native Germany on business. As an adult back in Germany, he serendipitously crossed paths with the policeman responsible for deporting his family to concentration camp Auschwitz, which resulted in their death. A. Venger's troubled past turned into an obsession, that led him on a path of revenge. Meticulously planned, he took justice into his own hands. He committed the perfect murder.

Imagine a world where everyone lives in harmony. A world where square miles of farmland are given to settlers in exchange for them agreeing to move there. A world of freedom, laws, and opportunity. That world is Canada, then and now. Unknown to the world and its citizens, that same government waged a genocidal war against its Indigenous peoples - never granting them ownership of land they freely gave to European settlers.

When a young, pretty woman interviews for the cashier position at his tackle shop, Trevor Dawber rethinks his prayer request. Mae was not what he had in mind when he asked four elderly women to pray for him in hiring his first employee. She was just the kind of lure he didn't need in his fishing store.

Something is living in the Earth's core, and it is kept trapped inside by the Earth's own magnetic field. It was trapped there billions of years ago before life existed on the planet. But now, as the magnetic field is failing, and the creature held inside it is threatening to escape. If it does, it can wreak havoc across the galaxy. The planet must be destroyed for the good of the galaxy. But how can one condone the destruction of the Earth if it means the genocide of the human race?

In contrast to Marlowe and Goethe, Deschauer presents a cosmology and existence that is both individual and whole, flesh and soul. Free will clashes with destiny, mortal with immortal. It aims to justify the ways of God to humankind in an existence devoid of God. Yet the inescapable construct of God, anti-God and myth are embraced by humanity in its search to find meaning within our reality.

Here are some of the contributions that this book will make towards your current level of game knowledge. You will learn the differences between the bad, average and exceptionally good ADC players. In other words, you will see the areas which you need to target to improve massively. You will understand the three subtypes of Bot lane compositions and how to play in/against each of them. I have included a ton of details and specifics that cover every possible scenario in the Bot lane.

This book sets out the secret of being content and happy. It sets out the meaning of life. It sets out the infinite possibilities available to all of us. This book is written in a way that everyone can understand without reference to people alive or dead nor requiring years of philosophical or theological study. It presents ideas that transcend social, economic and academic barriers.