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First Chapter, First Paragraph

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  "Married and widowed at thirteen, a mother and childless at fifteen. Ain't nobody should have to learn life like I did. No soul should have to claw their way back from the bowels of hell, scared and scraped up like I was. I hate these memories." http://bibliophilebythesea.blogspot.com  

Teaser Tuesday

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"Thea wondered if she had already been given a sedative. Was her head injury worse than they first thought? How could something like this happen to the gentlest woman in town? Of course, no one knew what had happened to Mary-Alice. Perhaps she became light-headed and fell. Or tripped over a rug. Thea knew a bit about such a scenario and flexed her toe, regretting it immediately." http://shouldbereading.wordpress.com

Oven Baked Secrets by Tyora Moody

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"I was really curious what restaurant Amos chose. I could see we were heading towards Charleston's waterfront....Five minutes later we pulled up in front of Fleet Landing. It was hard to believe the chic restaurant used to be a place for sailors back in World War II. fleetlanding.net/dinner-menu

Easter is Coming~

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When I awoke this morning, I had a thought. It was about Easter. I suppose the thought came to me because of all the Easter decorations already up in a craft store. My thought was about the stone rolled away from Jesus'  grave. For a few moments, I meditated on the wonder of Jesus' resurrection. I thought of the Angels removing the stone. I thought of Christ rising from his temporary resting place. I imagined Him folding the napkin and lying it neatly down. Then, walking from the tomb. Each footstep He took must have been a Praise step. Thanks to His Father that He was the Firstborn of many Born Again Christians who would experience  the forgiveness of sin and a resurrection too. "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life."

The Babylon Contingency by Clifford Longley

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"When I'm alone in the house I play contnuous Liszt on the stereo. My passion. My mother was a bit of a pianist. For her fifty-fifth birthday my  half-sister and I took her to a Liszt concert at the Wigmore Hall. I loved every note. I got a book out of the library on him, and was hooked, even joined the Liszt Society . The man was a genius, and a bit of a fruitcake."bach-cantatas.com/Lib/Liszt-Franz,

Teaser Tuesday

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'"Most of the trouble in the world is caused by all this irrational superstition,"' I said heatedly. '"It just really annoys me. I haven't been inside a church half a dozen times in my life. The idea of the Nativity doesn't seem much different from Snow White and the Seven dwarfs to me. I am as interested in religion as I was in Scandinvavian ice hockey."' http://shouldbereading.wordpress.com

Wondrous Words

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http://bermudaonion.wordpress.com Phaetos Disks The disc of Phaistos is the most important example of hieroglyphic inscription from Crete and was discovered in 1903 in a small room near the depositories of the "archive chamber", in the north - east apartments of the palace, together with a Linear A tablet and pottery dated to the beginning of the Neo-palatial period (1700- 1600 B.C.).