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Dr. Kenneth Maxwell believed he had landed the job of a lifetime when he accepted a position on the staff of the Vengtman Home for the Emotionally Disturbed. He saw a chance to hone his psychotherapeutic skills under the tutelage of the country's foremost expert in psychology and to make a name for himself. What he found instead was a cesspool of mystery, intrigue, and inexplicable events. He also found Melissa Waterman, a teenaged girl with compelling...
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Lancaster, Northwest England, the naked body of a woman is found lying across a railway line in the middle of the night. The site is near a spot where couples go for casual sex at night, and it is in the vicinity of a large mental hospital. Police are totally unable to identify the victim, and there are no clues as to exactly what happened.
Eventually a report of a missing woman leads to an identification, but there are still remarkably few details...
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In The Mind's Eye comprises four groups of poems through each of which run traditional themes of time and memory. In the first two groups, the themes are developed in personal terms, grounded in a strong sense of place, growing up in Sheffield and, latterly, living in Denmark. Groups three and four widen the perspective, first through exploring the relationship between poetry and the visual arts, and then by facing up to major issues in the contemporary...
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This book takes you on the minimalistic approach to not only get rid of stuff, but also other things that take space in our lives, stuff in a physical sense and non physical sense. This book touches the subjects of why having less possessions and clutter in our lives make us happier, make us breath easier and have less stress, worries, and pressures. Once we get rid of some of the junk we become free of possessions we can live a more meaningful life....
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Voices in the Mind is a miscellany of thirteen stories on a wide diversity of themes, each representing a separate voice in the mind of the author. The first half of the book comprises twelve pieces of typical short story length. These lead into the second half, which is taken up by the novella Then there was Harvey. This is a saga about a rather wicked but ultimately lovable schoolboy who finds himself possessed of a unique kind of power that enables...
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Footprints in the Mind is a collection of short stories in two parts. I was tempted to call the stories Footprints in the Sand, but on reflection I realized that footprints in sand do not last very long whereas the "footprints" I wish to describe are embedded in my mind. I hasten to add, however, that the stories are fictional. I probably have met some people like those in the stories and perhaps at some subconscious level they are real but my stories...
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Jean Carper Productions
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2016.
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Bold, brilliant, original, upbeat, award-winning, unlike any other documentary on Alzheimer’s, it reveals the exaggerated fear, untruths and misconceptions that trap us into believing that dementia is a genetically driven epidemic that we can do little to avoid.. Proving that belief wrong is the core message of this brutally honest, entertaining, even funny, inspiring, and visionary documentary. You will never see Alzheimer’s the same way after...
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A victim engulfed in flames. A psychic series of clues. Can a PhD with incredible mental powers stop a real-life firestarter?
Years after a tragic car accident claimed his fiancée, Dr. Leonard "Len" Wise is just coming to terms with his demons. Now sober, the countless drunken nights helped him cope with the pain while he studied his newly-acquired psychic abilities. When a friend enlists him to deliver a lecture on parapsychology, he never expected...
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Dr. Leonard Wise, now an associate professor of parapsychology at Garden State University, is requested by a pair of grieving parents to examine the case of their deceased grown son.
Harold Stoller was depressed and had thrown himself from the roof of his palatial home. Was it due to his unhappiness, or was he seduced by a female spirit, a succubus, that tempted him to his doom? As Leonard seeks answers, he comes in conflict with Dr. Anika Vanya,...
10) All in the Mind
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The alive, super-intelligent brain having no body, surpasses his friend, the canny scientist who destroyed his body. The brain wants revenge and finds possible ones since his hatred and bitterness are in his mind. This science fiction short story that explores the intersection of technology, the human mind, and the nature of consciousness.
Overall, "All in the Mind" is a haunting and fascinating exploration of the possibilities and dangers of technology,...
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What is it about the human mind that accounts for the fact that we can speak and understand a language? Why can't other creatures do the same? And what does this tell us about the rest of human abilities? Recent dramatic discoveries in linguistics and psychology provide intriguing answers to these age-old mysteries. In this fascinating book, Ray Jackendoff emphasizes the grammatical commonalities across languages, both spoken and signed, and discusses...
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Charlotte Anne Mattas longs to turn back the clock. Before her husband, Sam, went to serve his country in the war, he was the man everyone could rely on-responsible, intelligent, and loving. But the person who's come back to their family farm is very different from the protector Annie remembers. Sam's experience in the Pacific theater has left him broken in ways no one can understand-but that everyone is learning to fear.
Tongues start wagging after...
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Sweet, sassy, and sour——the 3 S's most girls between the ages of seven to sixteen years old have been called or accused of being at least once. My name is Laylah Tyrell and I would have the honor of mastering all three before turning the ripe age of thirteen. Not bragging on anything negative of course, because those who knew me understood me and those who think they knew me, ended up labeling me as a troublemaker or the black sheep of the family....
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When Violet Cruz accused U.S. Representative Alan Barclay of being "the spawn of a Martian whore" and took a shot at him, everyone agreed that she was delusional. It was just another conspiracy theory in Washington, DC, where such bizarre claims had become all too common.
Tiring of the media harassing the family, however, Cruz's cousin brought the case to Private Investigator Rebecca Marte. She figured that the public was probably right. Rebecca...
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A Parasite in the Mind is the second volume in the acclaimed Eat the Evidence trilogy by John C. Espy, which follows the story of a violent serial pedophile and murderer, Nathaneal Bar Jonah, from birth to death on a torrent of pedophilic and homicidal mayhem. It does not attempt to take the reader inside the mind of a serial killer, rather it attempts to take the serial perpetrator into the psyche of the reader. This allows the reader to experience...
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On 1 October 1939, Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty and soon to be the UK's wartime leader, described Russia as 'a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma'. The same can certainly be said of Stalin. How can this paradox of a man, who on the one hand had once exhibited great tenderness and kindness to his daughter Svetlana, and on the other sent millions, including members of his own family, to their deaths, be explained?
It is...
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The book is a true story about what went through the author's mind, as he was growing up from a baby of just 6-months-old and the traumatic effects it all had through his childhood and through his life.
Losing his own children later in life and experiencing being homeless, broken marriages, and fighting cancer.
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Slim Spurling was an inventor, researcher, and internationally recognized dowser. He developed the Light-Life (tm)Ring in 1991, which became the prototype of a cutting edge tensor technology. The science represented in the Light-Life (tm) Technology is both ancient and modern. Quantum physics has shown us that ultimately everything is light and energy. This has been demonstrated with the Light-Life (tm) Tools in the energizing of food and water, cleaning...
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