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    Mark Stewart
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    Beyond the Broken Gate
    Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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    Beyond the Broken Gate
    Charles Graybar
    Manufacturer: Serenity Hill Press, Inc.
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    Charles Graybar had all of the trappings of a financially successful existence; literally, living the American dream. As he reached his late 30's he was stunned by the realization that his life felt incredibly empty and seemingly without purpose. While experimenting with a self-designed combination of meditation techniques that he used to escape the stresses of corporate life, he stumbled upon a perceptional gateway of sorts in 1993. Through this gateway Graybar learns that communication with three advanced souls is possible. Beyond the Broken Gate is a chronicle of Graybar's search to find meaning in his discovery and the very purpose of life.

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    5 out of 5 stars A Great Book.......2006-09-06

    Religion and spiritual enlightnement are extremely personal. We each seek answers to the same questions; we differ in what answers we accept. Charles Graybar has some incredible insights that many of us can relate to, that we can incorporate into our own personal system of beliefs. His path to spirituality and understanding was an intersting one. He had everything that most Americans believe they want: wealth and material trappings. He also had power and prestige. When he found his answers, he abandoned the lifestyle that was inconsistant with his spirituality. A braver, more honest man you'll never find. His spiritual journey is shared in this easy to read, easy to understand book. He shares his insights and his discoveries with his readers with candor, honesty and generosity. No matter where you are in your own spiritual journey, no matter what your religious beliefs are, you can incorporate Mr. Grabar's messages into your life.

    1 out of 5 stars Freedom of Religion.......2006-03-03

    That's why I am glad there is one here in America.Everyone is entitled do believe in what or who they choose.After getting as far as chapter 3 I am convinced you can be born again.And as a born again christian I plan to remain that way in Jesus.My reference is john 3:16 NIV
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    2 out of 5 stars We Have to Give Him Credit for Trying.......2005-11-30

    This a painful read. I am not referring to the subject matter. It is Charles Graybar's (Chuck to his Spirit Guides)(the use of this nickname seems to take him by surprise more than once) laborious monolog. Very nearly every single sentence begins with using the given name of each member of the seemingly spontaneous group. "Chuck" Kalista frowned, "You must pay attention now, as this is very important" and "Kalista" came the answer, "I hear you and will listen" and "Ok, then, Chuck", she said. "Here it is in a nutshell." And, again, "Yes Kalista" "I am waiting breathlessly for the explanation." I am not kidding here. I mean he does this with probably 90% of the book. He is almost child-like in his enthusiasm for his newly awakened self, describing every little new idea and then the whole thought process while his guides look on with a "fond, but tolerant smile". I may be really sticking my neck out here, because basically you can't help but like the guy, and appreciate his honesty, but I think he found a long forgotten bag of something tucked under and taped to, the flap of his old college gym bag. His descriptions of reserving his week-ends from early Friday evening to late Sunday, just to be alone and meditate, then the mind-boggling over the top "beyond human description" trips in "Kalista's garden" were just... sad. I ended up actually feeling something very nearly like love for this guy. He apparently had had a horribly abusive childhood (his words)yet came out a winner for breaking the cycle. He deserves applause for that. But it gets pretty darn old rather quickly to go through his agonizingly over simplified concepts such as "the God-Source is in everything" and "the God-Source is everything". Ok, Chuck, we get it. Problem is, we got it already and there is nothing new or different about this book that I can enthusiastically pass on to another reader.

    3 out of 5 stars Not too sure.......2005-08-13

    THe book was pretty far fetched but I did try to keep an open mind. I really hope that his experience was real and he isn't a phoney.
    I guess experiencing it for ONESELF would be the ONLY way to truely believe.
    The book did get my attention and it WAS a good read.

    5 out of 5 stars An Independent Book Reviewer from India writes............2004-08-30

    From: "S.V.Swamy" <swamyreviews@y...>
    Date: Wed Jul 14, 2004 10:35 am
    Subject: Beyond the Broken Gate - A review

    Recently I had the pleasure of reading a beautiful Spiritual/New
    Age/Self-Help book, "Beyond the Broken Gate" by Charles Graybar,
    Chuck to his friends. I am giving below my review of the book.

    Beyond the Broken Gate
    by Charles Graybar Published by Serenity Hill Press

    Category: Non-fiction / Self-help
    360 pages; ISBN: 0974062522

    Rating: 8/10
    Reviewer: Swamy

    Review

    "Beyond the Broken Gate - An Ordinary Man's Extraordinary Journey In Learning Who We Are, Why We Live, And Where We're Going" by Charles Graybar is a Spiritual book. The author had questions which trouble many seekers, viz., what is the purpose of life, where are we going spiritually etc., and got answers from advanced spirit guides. In about 360 pages, Charles or Chuck as he is referred to in the book,shares with us his extraordinary journey into some advanced spiritual realms and the answers that he got. Obviously his spiritual encounters have affected his career and personal life very extensively, so that his prsent life is in better tune with the original purpose.

    To many westerners, the ideas presented in the book may be new and may thus challenge their beliefs. To eastern believers, much of what Chuck describes is already known. The Upanishads, The Bhagavad Gita and of course Buddhist teachings (which Chuck is aware of slightly), present similar teachings. However, his attempt at explaining esoteric concepts is laudable and will appeal better to he 'rational' minds. Chauck comes through as an extraordinary man. In fact, since each individual is unique, no one is really ordinary.

    There is an interesting perceptional block in Chuck's understanding. While agreeing that the life on earth plane is similar to a dream and thus all events that take place here, good or bad have no real significance in the higher planes, except for their value as educational lessons, Chuck is still distressed about the negative atmosphere prevailing on earth in his life time. Chuck seems to have missed one important spiritual lesson that life has several cycles and the world too goes through several cycles of war and peace. A great war always cleans up the atmosphere and love, peace etc. start
    growing. But again as the decay keeps piling up, as the negativity keeps building, another war or earthquake, a flood or some other natural disaster comes up. In Hindu philosophy the Trinity of Creator, Preserver and Destroyer are three different aspects of the same Source. Much before the Crusades and the World Wars, two major wars were described in detail in Ramayana and Mahabharatha. But since Chuck's lessons to be learnt include compassion, empathy etc., his feelings are as per the programmed script.

    The book has a fair number of editorial glitches, but thankfully the message comes through quite well. The book is strongly recommended to all spiritual seekers.

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    The Gate of Angels
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    The Gate of Angels
    Penelope Fitzgerald
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    Penelope Fitzgerald wanted to call her 1990 novel Mistakes Made by Scientists. On the other hand, she laughingly likened it to a Harlequin doctor-nurse romance. The truth about The Gate of Angels is somewhere in between. The doctor, Fred Fairly, is indeed a young Cambridge scientist, and the nurse, Daisy Saunders, has been ejected from a London hospital. If Fred is to win her love, he must make an appropriately melodramatic sacrifice--leaving the academic sanctum of St. Angelicus, a college where all females, even pussycats, are banished ("though the starlings couldn't altogether be regulated").

    Daisy, however, suffers from a very non-Harlequin malady, the sort found only in Fitzgerald: "All her life she had been at a great disadvantage in finding it so much more easy to give than to take. Hating to see anyone in want, she would part without a thought with money or possessions, but she could accept only with the caution of a half-tamed animal." Self-protection is certainly not this young woman's strong suit, but we admire her endurance. At one moment, Fred points out that "women like to live on their imagination." Daisy's response? "It's all they can afford, most of them."

    Set in Cambridge and London in 1912, The Gate of Angels, then, is a love story and a novel of ideas. Fred, a rector's son, has abandoned religion for observable truths, whereas the undereducated Daisy is a Christian for whom the truth is entirely relative. The novel's strengths lie in what we have come to expect from Fitzgerald: a blend of the hilarious, the out-of-kilter, and the intellectually and emotionally provocative. She confronts her characters with chaos (theoretical and magical), women's suffrage, and seemingly impossible choices, and we can by no means be assured of a happy outcome. "They looked at each other in despair, and now there seemed to be another law or regulation by which they were obliged to say to each other what they did not mean and to attack what they wished to defend."

    Fitzgerald's novel also records the onslaught of the modern on traditions and beliefs it will fail to obliterate entirely: women as second-class citizens and a class-ridden society in which the poor suffer deep financial and moral humiliation. The author sees the present pleasures--Cambridge jousts in which debaters must argue not what they believe but its exact opposite--and is often charmed by them. But under the light surface, she proffers an elegant meditation on body and soul, science and imagination, choice and chance. Her characters, as ever, are originals, and even the minor players are memorable: one of Fred's fellows, the deeply incompetent Skippey, is "loved for his anxiety," because he makes others feel comparatively calm.

    Fitzgerald fills all of her period novels with odd, charming, and disturbing facts and descriptions. Some, like the catalog of killing medicines Daisy administers, are strictly researched and wittily conveyed: "Over-prescriptions brought drama to the patients' tedious day. Too much antimony made them faint, too much quinine caused buzzing in the ears, too much salicylic acid brought on delirium..." Others are the product of microscopic observation, that is, imagination. Fred's family home is in hyperfertile Blow Halt, a place where no one thinks to buy vegetables, so free are they for the taking. But within this paradise, his mother and sisters are sewing banners for women's suffrage, and nature launches a quiet threat: "Twigs snapped and dropped from above, sticky threads drifted across from nowhere, there seemed to be something like an assassination, on a small scale, taking place in the tranquil heart of summer." --Kerry Fried

    Book Description

    In 1912, rational Fred Fairly, one of Cambridge's best and brightest, crashes his bike and wakes up in bed with a stranger - fellow casualty Daisy Saunders, a charming, pretty, generous working-class nurse. So begins a series of complications - not only of the heart but also of the head - as Fred and Daisy take up each other's education and turn each other's philosophies upside down.

    Customer Reviews:

    5 out of 5 stars Class differences.......2005-07-04

    Angels was the smallest college in Cambridge. It was built at the beginning of the 15th century. Fairly had a fellowship. St. Angelicus students had to find their own lodgings. Fred Fairly had taken the science tripos and received a first class degree. He came from a rectory and so his material wants were limited. He was used to making do. At the end of his first year as a junior fellow he wanted to tell his father he was no longer a Christian. Fred knew the country was not a place of peace. The Rectory had been built in 1830.

    Daisy Saunders wanted to know how the human body worked and applied for nursing training. She was seventeen and her mother had died recently and she was free to live away from home. Daisy, now known as Saunders, was a probationer during her first year. She was told to keep her eye on James Elder, an attempted suicide via the Thames. It was January 1912. To all the patients, except for the dying, food was of paramount importance. Elder refused to eat. The constable had said he was a gentleman. He asked Daisy if the incident had appeared in the press. For arranging for a notice about Elder's conduct in the newpaper, Daisy was dismissed.

    Fred Fairly and Daisy were in an accident with bicycles. A Good Samaritan thought they were married to each other and put them to bed together in the spare room to regain their health. Fred was enchanted and afterwards he looked everywhere to locate Daisy. The kindness of the Wrayburns, the Samaritans, gave Daisy a place to stay in Cambridge. She would do work in the house in exchange for room and board. She had traveled to Cambridge to find work in a private hospital. Happily Daisy was employed at the mental hospital and Fred found her again at the Wrayburns'. They went for a walk in the country. Fred asked Daisy to marry him. Mr. Wrayburn told Daisy that Fred could not be a junior fellow if he married.

    In the trial, pertaining to the accident, the journalist, who had accompanied Daisy to Cambridge, was able to identify the man who drove the horse cart wildly causing the accident. When the heart is broken, efficiency is impaired. There was some suggestion in the testimony of the journalist that Daisy had been or would have been used, but for the happening of the accident. Daisy had to leave the Wrayburns and Cambridge because of what was disclosed in court. Leaving her lodgings, she was free at last to cry over the hurt she had caused Fred. Daisy and Fred passed each other on her way to the train station. We do not know what action, if any, resulted.

    Both of the young characters are portrayed as having beautiful consciences. The writing is elegant.

    3 out of 5 stars Heavy on the versimilitude.......2003-02-23

    I can't remember where I first heard of Fitzgerald, although I suspect it was from one of the well-read subscribers to Rondua, the Jonathan Carroll mailing list. She is not a magic realist or fantasy author (as far as I can tell from reviews of her work and the present volume), although the book in question could be considered a ghost story it one wanted to interpret it that way. Of the authors of my acquaintance, she most resembles Robertson Davies in style and form. I don't think that I am creating a relationship based on subject material, although I must admit that Davies also wrote a couple of novels of love and the university, as well as a collection of ghost stories.

    The year is 1912. Fred Fairly is a Young Fellow at Cambridge's St. Angelicus College, which has fairly strict ideas on the proper conduct of its members, including a requirement of non-marriage. While biking, Fairly collides with an unlit cart and is injured. Upon regaining consciousness, he finds himself in a bed with a fellow victim, who, by circumstance and a gold ring on her fourth finger, is mistaken as his wife. Fred finds the prospect not displeasing.

    In other hands--say P. G. Wodehouse or Thorne Smith--such a plot would be filled with spirited high jinx, including mistaken identities and timing difficulties. Fitzgerald's humor is not of that sort. Like Davies, it derives less from exaggeration and more from verisimilitude. This is not to say that there are not amusing passages. I especially enjoyed Fred's family: his suffragette mother and two younger sisters and his put-upon father, the Rector.

    This is Fitzgerald's eighth novel, and her ability in story and sentence construction is masterful. Although I found this book to be a little dry for my particular taste, I expect I will try a different vintage of hers at some later date.

    4 out of 5 stars ýI donýt say I wonýt Fredý.......2000-10-12

    That declarative double negative is about as definitive as the various parts of this story ever seem to be. When I reviewed "The Blue Flower" I said Ms. Fitzgerald didn't hand the story to you. In "The Gate Of Angels" I'm still trying to decide what the reader was supposed to find, what resolution we were supposed to arrive at. One Commercial Review suggested the end was left for us to decide, and while that may sound like an easy out from a wraith like ending, it is quite reasonable.

    Ms. Fitzgerald is meticulous in what she writes, or perhaps what she only implies in this story. A portion of the story centers on debating, with the participants arguing that position which they personally do not believe. Good deeds are punished, perception though erroneous, too is punished, and when one character falls ill and while being helped exclaims "Surely it can't be...?" again it is a negative, not because the help is proffered, but because of the makeup of the individual who has walked on the grass.

    I believe as with "The Bookshop" Ms. Fitzgerald unfolds her story much as it would happen were it true. Sometimes we fear a confrontation, only to find it existed in our minds only. Family that we feel we should know better than all others can surprise and shock. Her books are not all neatly tied up with contrivance like most, not everything is resolved, mistakes and wrongs remain, and all is not fixed.

    For anyone who has not yet had the pleasure of reading one of this lady's works, a clarification is important. Comparing anything she writes to commercial supermarket checkout romance novels is patently absurd. This Authoress writes at a level that is universally admired by her peers and Professional Critics alike. To make the earlier comparison of her work can be described most charitably, by hoping that someone who never opened one of this lady's books made the comment. Were this to appear at the cinema it would be a stretch to get much past PG. This lady is a writer of distinction, not a purveyor of mindless trash.

    4 out of 5 stars There are more things in heaven and earth..........2000-07-25

    This is a lovely book. Penelope Fitzgerald was a subtle writer. She had a marvellous gift for conveying character and setting with the minimum of fuss. Consequently, her novels are quite short and easy to read. `The Gate of Angels' gives us England at the beginning of the 20th Century. The advances of Rutherford and Mach (among others) were being disseminated. Scientific rationalism was to the fore. This is chiefly represented in Fitzgerald's central character, Fred Fairly, a junior fellow at a Cambridge College. However, his chance meeting with Daisy Saunders begins to challenge his view. While Fitzgerald never explicitly says so, the implication is clear: even in a world where science is thought to explain everything, there are some aspects of that world which will not bow. Some may find the lack of resolution frustrating. However, enough has been said to reasonably leave any further consequences to the readers' imagination.

    4 out of 5 stars The most Jane Austen-like late Fitzgerald novel.......2000-05-29

    This seems to me the Fitzgerald novel that is most akin to Jane Austen. The reader wants the right pair to couple (I'm not convinced the couple in _Innocence_ is the right pair; in many other Fitzgerald novels there is no right pair, and the one here is open to question). The irony and syntax seem Austenian, though the epistemological status of atomic physics is not directly addressed in anything by Jane Austen. Certainly, there are unaffluent clergymen aplenty in Austen, and damsels who don't recognize the match the reader recognizes. In Austen there are also plenty of unmarried males who are also slow to recognize their appropriate partner. Daisy is not socially appropriate (if they wed, he'll be marrying down), but Fred Fairly is certain he must have her.

    There is a plot, including a court case (also a ghost story), so The Gate of Angels is more like _The Bookshop_ than the other three late Fitzgerald novels (the four not seemingly based to some extent on her experience of particular times and places). Fitzgerald had a phenomenal gift for sketching characters. She was able to develop characters more fully than she did any in The Gate of Angels. I'd like to know how Fred's sisters got on, for instance. Or something of the "private life" of Professor Flowerdew. Sometimes less is not more! Even for someone who was a genius of concision.
    The Bookshop, The Gate of Angels, The Blue Flower (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
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      The Bookshop, The Gate of Angels, The Blue Flower (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
      Penelope Fitzgerald
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      Release Date: 2003-09-23

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      Penelope Fitzgerald, who died in 2000, emerged late in life as one of the most remarkable English writers of the last century. She began her writing career in 1975 at the age of fifty-nine, and over the next two decades she published three biographies, nine novels, and a collection of short stories. Now three of her acclaimed novels are gathered here in one volume.

      The Bookshop is a postwar tragicomedy of manners, set in an isolated seaside town where an enterprising woman opens a bookstore only to find it beset by poltergeists, weather, and hostile townsfolk. The Gate of Angels is an Edwardian romance within a novel of ideas: a young doctor devoted to science and to his all-male Cambridge college finds his life and views disrupted by a nurse named Daisy. The Blue Flower, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, revitalizes historical drama through the story of Novalis, an eighteenth-century German romantic poet and visionary genius, and his unlikely love affair with a simple child-woman.

      These three novels all display Fitzgerald’s characteristic wit, intellectual breadth, and narrative brilliance, applied to an array of traditional forms into which she breathed new life.
      Getting Lucky: How One Special Dog Found Love and a Second Chance at Angel's Gate
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      Getting Lucky: How One Special Dog Found Love and a Second Chance at Angel's Gate
      Susan Marino , and Denise Flaim
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      Brutus, a Rottweiler who had suffered a lesion in his vertebrae, was barely able to move when he was brought to Angel's Gate hospice and rehabilitation center. Now, after months of hydro- and physical therapy, he enjoys daily walks. Thanks to Susan Marino, who runs the center in her Long Island home, more than 150 animals, from dogs and cats to horses and birds, are given the kind of hospice care usually reserved for people. Some recover from their life-threatening injuries or illnesses, while others are given refuge through their final days.

      Getting Lucky tells the story of Lucky-a dog who's sent to Angel's Gate to die but instead finds a whole new way of living-and 20 other animals at the hospice. But it's also the story of a woman with a mission. Marino, a former pediatric nurse, started Angel's Gate 12 years ago in the belief that even critically ill and abandoned animals deserved to die with dignity and respect, and her work has made her a genuine hero. She speaks to veterinary groups across the country about her groundbreaking approach to animal care. This important book is a testament to the difference one person can make. AUTHOR BIO: Susan Marino was an intensive-care pediatrics nurse for 30 years, working with terminally ill children. She founded the nonprofit Angel's Gate hospice 12 years ago in her home on Long Island and continues to run the center with her husband. This is her first book. Denise Flaim is the author of The Holistic Dog Book and a staff writer and pet columnist for Newsday. She is the owner of champion Rhodesian ridgebacks.

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      5 out of 5 stars Great read.......2007-01-04

      Once you open the book, you can't put it down. My husband picked it up to
      read the first couple of pages and did not put it down till he was done.
      I did the same. Since I did some volunteer work at Angel's Gate during the summer, I was really able to connect with some of the animals and was able to see how much they are loved and cared for.

      5 out of 5 stars Great heart breaking book!.......2006-04-27

      This book is one that has to be read just to see what people go through when they lose a pet. I never thought I would be the one that was so attached to a pet. But I did for 13 years. Then when it was time. I made sure everything was is place for a pet funeral and made a great headstone for him. He was a loyal friend and I miss him dearly. I know that there are Angels Gates in heaven.

      5 out of 5 stars Getting Lucky is a 5 star read!.......2006-04-01

      Getting Lucky is for all of us who share our hearts and lives with our animals. This book will make you laugh and cry, sometimes both at once. Beautifully written, with humor,love and sadness that just pulls at your heart. You won't be able to put it down. Angel's Gate is truly a place where "Angels" go to be loved and let go. I dedicate this review to my own angel, Jakob M. who passed on only 1 year ago. I'm grateful that places like Angel's Gate exist and that there are people out there who know just how special these creatures are.

      5 out of 5 stars Love, Love, Love IT!.......2006-03-24

      This book is awesome! I recently lost my beloved Black Lab, Molson, who was 11 years old. I felt like I was there with all the pets in this book. I wish I lived near Angel's Gate... I would be there to volunteer in a minute! How wonderful these people are to take on such a heartfelt approach to helping these precious animals. I found myself smiling from ear to ear throughout the whole story! A must for all animal lovers to read!

      5 out of 5 stars LOVE IT!!.......2006-03-14

      Even if you dont have a pet but like animals this is a must read...

      I dont have a pet now but have had them growing up as a child. Absolutely Love this book and the touching stories...I laughed and cried and sometimes at the same time... The only bad thing about this book, is that I finished it. I wanted it to go on and on and to read more of the wonder of these wonderful animals...I feel that animals are a gift we can learn so much from them. I agree with Susan Marino the Author. Our pets have souls. They show it daily. I need for there to be a second book and on and on. The love you feel when you read about these animals (pets) is so tangible. Its not so sad as you would think but I came away reading it with feeling uplifted and it truly touched my spirit...I almost didnt buy this book I thought it was about just one dog but its soooooo much more then that and its woven richly with other pets this family and volunteer"s have helped see to there end days. What an honor to read this gem of a book. Thank you Sincerely yours Diane

      Atlas: ABC's for Superheroes (Atlas (Angel Gate))
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        Darren Davis
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        AWARD WINNER! Seal of Excellence - Creative Child Magazine. Join the superpowered hero ATLAS, as he recites the Supreme Code of Superhero ABC's in this funny and unique board book for superkids.
        Atlas: Guide to the Planets (Atlas (Angel Gate))
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          Atlas: Guide to the Planets (Atlas (Angel Gate))
          Darren Davis
          Manufacturer: Angel Gate
          ProductGroup: Book
          Binding: Board book

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          ASIN: 1595591036

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          Atlas takes a superpowered tour of our solar system.
          5 Books by V.C. ANDREWS 1 Shipping Charge (CASTEEL SERIES, Heaven, Dark Angel, Fallen Hearts, Gates of Paradise, Web of Dreams)
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            5 Books by V.C. ANDREWS 1 Shipping Charge (CASTEEL SERIES, Heaven, Dark Angel, Fallen Hearts, Gates of Paradise, Web of Dreams)
            V.C. ANDREWS
            Manufacturer: Pocket Books/Simon & Schuster
            ProductGroup: Book
            Binding: Mass Market Paperback
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            ASIN: B000PSPVGA
            ABC's of Angels
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              ABC's of Angels
              Donna S. Gates
              Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
              ProductGroup: Book
              Binding: Paperback

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              ASIN: 0345382277
              Release Date: 1992-09-08

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              Welcome to a wonderful world, where angels gently whsiper in our ear, showing us the extraordinary powers of laughter and healing, and inspiration and wisdom, unity and peace. THE ABCs of ANGELS is for both children and adults, a tender reminder that the smallest joys in life can lead to great fulfillment. Take a moment and remember. And if you're having trouble, ask an angel to guide the way....
              Angel at the Gate
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                Angel at the Gate
                Wilson Harris
                Manufacturer: Faber & Faber
                ProductGroup: Book
                Binding: Hardcover

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                ASIN: 0571119298

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