A Novel About Passion And Betrayal It Is 1871, Fourteen Years After The Indian Sepoy Mutiny. Olivia O Rourke And Jai Raventhorne, Survivors Of Scandal, Who Had Married And Had Two Children, Are No Longer Together. Jai Vanished During The Mutiny, Believed To Have Been Executed By The British For Masterminding The Notorious Bibighar Massacre. But Olivia, Who Has Refused To Accept That Jai Could Be Guilty Of Such A Heinous Crime, Is Obsessed With Proving His Innocence. Amos And Maya, Their Children, Resent The Father They Scarcely Knew. While Amos Is Ambitious And Busy Building His Business In Northern India, Maya Is Troubled By Her Inherited Notoriety And Mixed Parentage. When Christian Pendlebury, The Aristocratic Son Of Sir Jasper Pendlebury, A High-Ranking English Civil Servant, Falls In Love With Maya, Olivia Fears For Her Daughter, Having Herself Experienced The Brutal Consequences Of A Forbidden Love. But Maya, Stubborn And Defiant, Ignores Her Mother S Warnings. Maya And Christian S Budding Romance Attracts The Attention Of Kyle Hawkesworth, A Secretive, Charismatic Eurasian Journalist Admired By Some And Feared By Many. Their Relationship Is Further Threatened By The Arrival In Calcutta Of Christian S Parents. Hawkesworth S Agenda And Sir Jasper S Power Combine To Unleash A Chain Of Events That Lead Inexorably To The Past And To The Secrets Buried There& The Compelling Sequel To Olivia And Jai, Ryman S Best-Selling Novel, The Veil Of Illusion Draws The Reader Into Another World And Time.

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Newly-widowed Caitlin Saunders is drawn into a web of secrets and betrayal. but once she resolves her grief with the help of past life experiences, her heart is open to a new love.

Doug Michael's latest book comes to us at an especially challenging time in this pivotal moment of civilization. Now with the technology available the powers that be (the Consortium) is pulling the greatest sleight of hand trick in the history of mankind. Doug fearlessly explores this treacherous moment. Take up this book and see the very real dangers that face us. But fear not, with truth and knowledge comes power. And this power is available to you in these pages as Doug tackles these issues: -Why is the truth being hidden from us?-What is the plan that the Consortium plots behind these lies?-What are the consequences of inaction at this pivotal moment in history?-What are the final goals of the Consortium in this age of deception?-Having learned the sinister truth of this fallen world, what kind of a difference can I make in the name of the deeper truth of what we truly are and the limitlessness of our potential?

An Arab and a Jew open a restaurant together across the street from the United Nations.... It sounds like the beginning of an ethnic joke, but it's the axis around which spins this gutsy, fun-loving, and alarmingly provocative novel, in which a bean can philosophizes, a dessert spoon mystifies, a young waitress takes on the New York art world, and a rowdy redneck welder discovers the lost god of Palestine--while the illusions that obscure humanity's view of the true universe fall away, one by one, like Salome's veils. Skinny Legs and All deals with today's most sensitive issues: race, politics, marriage, art, religion, money, and lust. It weaves lyrically through what some call the "end days" of our planet. Refusing to avert its gaze from the horrors of the apocalypse, it also refuses to let the alleged end of the world spoil its mood. And its mood is defiantly upbeat. In the gloriously inventive Tom Robbins style, here are characters, phrases, stories, and ideas that dance together on the page, wild and sexy, like Salome herself. Or was it Jezebel?

A specialist in visual perception, Ninio (Centre National des Recherches Scientifiques, Paris) presents many classic and new illusions, explains the underlying logic of the various types, and suggests their value for neurological and physiological research. He does not provide an index. La Science des Illusions was published in 1998 by Editions Odile Jacob. Philip has translated widely from the French, including an autobiography of Francois Jacob. c. Book News Inc.

LeeZa Donatella is an American Author and International Inspirational Speaker. LeeZa expresses her creative side in The Awakening. as she provides an introduction gateway to new spiritual concepts including: Tantric sex, meditation, chakras, auras, soul mates, past lives, higher-self connections, Kundalini awakenings, intuitiveness, vortices, out-of-body experiences and inter-dimensional travel. Follow Mia after the end of a relationship to Sedona, AZ where she moves to reconnect to her spiritual roots. It would prove to be a journey of spiritual growth and awakenings, helping her rediscover herself, her strength and a love that transcended space and time, as she traveled beyond the veil of illusion.

The Illusion of Doubt confronts one of the most important questions in philosophy: what can we know? The radical sceptic's answer is 'not very much' if we cannot prove that we are not subject to (permanent) deception. This book shows that the radical sceptical problem is an illusion created by a mistaken picture of our evidential situation.

“The uncanny beauty of Van Booy’s prose, and his ability to knife straight to the depths of a character’s heart, fill a reader with wonder.” — San Francisco Chronicle Award-winning author Simon Van Booy tells a harrowing and enchanting story of how one man’s act of mercy during World War II changed the lives of strangers, and how they each discover the astonishing truth of their connection. The characters in Van Booy's The Illusion of Separateness discover at their darkest moments of fear and isolation that they are not alone, that they were never alone, that every human being is a link in a chain we cannot see. This gripping novel—inspired by true events—tells the interwoven stories of a deformed German infantryman; a lonely British film director; a young, blind museum curator; two Jewish American newlyweds separated by war; and a caretaker at a retirement home for actors in Santa Monica. They move through the same world but fail to perceive their connections until, through seemingly random acts of selflessness, a veil is lifted to reveal the vital parts they have played in one another's lives, and the illusion of their separateness.