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F. Murry Abraham speaks about Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and performs selections from Shakespeare's work with actress Kathleen Widdoes. The performance is followed by Q&A.

Twin sisters Bibike and Ariyike are enjoying a relatively comfortable life in Lagos in 1996. Then their mother loses her job due to political strife and their father gambles away their home; the siblings are thrust into the reluctant care of their traditional Yoruba grandmother. Inseparable while they had their parents to care for them, the twins' paths diverge once the household shatters: one embracing modernity as the years pass, the other consumed by religion.

Timely and powerfully thought-provoking, Intention finds best-selling author Tom Abrahams (The Traveler Series) return to his roots with this breathtaking novel that brilliantly unpacks a vast, global conspiracy to alter the balance of power.

The ketogenic diet has been gaining in popularity for some time now. Why? Because it simply works. The ketogenic diet allows your body to enter a state called ketosis. It is in this state of ketosis that your body starts to burn fat rapidly. The aim of this book is to simplify the process of the ketogenic diet to make it as easy as possible for you to understand what you have to do and what you should be eating in order to put your body in a state of ketosis.

The Maelstrom conclusion! Explicit adult content. Part eight picks up right where seven left off - in the bedroom with Demetri and Malstrum! When the fun is over, it's time for Malstrum to lead his revolutionaries. Earth tried to lure them into a trap in the Capitol. Now that they know Earth and Bifenggang are working together, Malstrum is running out of allies he can trust. Their last hope - Demetri's cherished General Atmeyer - has decided to betray them, too!

Los Angeles single mother Jessie Shapiro restores paintings for a living, but ever since her divorce from unfaithful musician Pat, she can barely make ends meet. One weekend Pat fails to bring their 10-year-old daughter, Kate, home. When Jessie goes to his Venice Beach house, she hears a disturbing cut-off message on his answering machine and discovers strange foreign words written in big block letters on his kitchen blackboard. Then her life is threatened.

From Abraham Lincoln's First Inaugural Address in 1861 to his brief remarks on the Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, battlefield in 1863 to his Second Inaugural Address given in 1865, America's 16th president, in three key speeches, defined the course of the nation's entry into, through, and out of the Civil War. These three speeches tell the story of a nation's stubborn reluctance to face peacefully the challenge of slavery, disunion, and war among the states.

More than six million Americans have OCD. If you have obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), it is likely that your persistent, obsessive thoughts and time-consuming compulsions prevent you from fully enjoying life. But when you are accustomed to avoiding the things you fear, the thought of facing them head-on can be frightening and overwhelming. Life can be really tough for those suffering from OCD, but here's the good news: With the right knowledge and guidance, you can manage your OCD.

"I must ask you - with greatest respect, Lord Demon...." The general looked up with eyes maddened by fury. "Why do you drape your arm around the divine emperor with such intimate familiarity?" Rodukjo stared down his nose at the general. "Your emperor has but one thing of value to offer in exchange for my fealty. The pleasures of his body."

Let’s face it. No real estate market ever stays the same. The market goes up and down. Anyone can make money in an up market. The trick it to make money on a down market. This book will show you how to not just survive, but thrive in both!

Jackson Quick thought he destroyed the secret formula that could lead to nuclear war. He was wrong. Jackson thought he understood his own past. He was wrong about that too. To get the answers he desperately seeks about who he really is, he embarks on one final mission to find the lone remaining copy of a powerful, earth-changing formula and hand it over to the man he despises most. Somehow he must find his way to the formula - and deliver it without losing control.

Abraham Lincoln delivered his second inaugural address on March 4, 1865, during his second inauguration as president of the United States. At a time when victory over the secessionists in the American Civil War was within days and slavery was near an end, Lincoln spoke of sadness. A mere 703 words, Lincoln's speech did not offer the North a victory speech, nor did he excoriate the South for the sin of slavery. Instead, he called on the entire country's guilt for the bloody war and argued for reconciliation and unity.

"Efter otte måneder i dunkelheden i vores mors skød kom min bror Shiva og jeg til verden sent på eftermiddagen den tyvende september i det herrens år 1954. Vi drog vores første åndedrag i knap to en halv kilometers højde i den tynde luft i Addis Abeba, Etiopiens hovedstad." Tvillingebrødrene Marion og Shiva Stone er frugten af et dramatisk og forbudt kærlighedsforhold mellem en indisk nonne og en britisk kirurg, som begge arbejder på Missing – et hospital drevet af nonner i Addis Abeba.

The Gettysburg Address, delivered by Lincoln on November 19, 1863, in the aftermath of a narrow, bloody Union victory at the Battle of Gettysburg, is considered one of the greatest speeches in American history.

For Nat, a shining all-American boy with blue-collar roots, acceptance to New England's exclusive Inverness College seems like the opportunity of a lifetime. The chilling events that follow are nothing like what he imagined. It begins at Christmas break. Nat, unable to afford going home for the holidays, remains alone on the deserted campus. Alone - until he meets Grace and Izzie Zorn, twin sisters who, although biologically identical, are utterly different.

Through poems of immense emotion, and the use of alluring form, Abraham crafts work that examines what we come to own by existing.

Jim was the guy who did everything “right.” He was a spiritual leader in one of the largest congregations in the Northeast, the go-to guy when others needed advice. Yet he nearly destroyed his marriage by having an affair with one of his wife’s best friends. But Hope Is Where the Heart Is is about much more than the demise of Jim’s marriage and how he and his wife, Shannon, discovered how to put it back together. It is a roadmap for overcoming hardships, for finding strength to face another day.

A retired war pilot is travelling the French countryside. Entranced by the natural beauty of the area when he stops to rest by a lake, he sees visions of beautiful tree women who seek his protection.

The heroes of Lavintia need the mysterious demigod Xenoskar's help, but his price is the submission of one of their most beautiful members. Will it be the sweet and compliant Rin-Timber, his defiant and unnaturally possessive older twin brother Taylen - or both of them?

Ezra Justice and his elite group of special operation soldiers have just helped General William T. Sherman put an end to the Civil War and must go their separate ways . . . but not for long. Scattered to the Ku Klux Klan-ridden South (former slave Nathaniel York), a hostile Midwest Sioux reservation (medicine man Harry Whitecloud), and the rugged goldmine towns of California (the notorious Hawkins twins), these pioneering men face plenty of dangers apart from one another.