Author: John Kendrick Bangs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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Author: R.G. Hendrickson
Publisher: JMS Books LLC
ISBN: 1646569709
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 365

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Since humanity’s first steps in the Stone Age, Methuselah has harbored an ancient secret. Cursed by the shaman to witness the end of days, he searches in vain for a home, place to place, clan to clan, yearning to belong. First in prehistoric Africa and lately disillusioned with love for a hundred years in the New World, he learns all too well to guard his heart and hide his story. That changes when a car crash lands him in the hospital with a fractured skull. Doctors discover strange stem cells in his blood, promising cures and a fountain of youth. Methuselah faces choices of life and death. Forced on the run again, he comforts himself by reliving a happier time, when he and Arrow, his first love, raft across the paleo-lake Makgadikgadi, which rested in those days on the vast Kalahari. In their age-old journey, the cavemen lovers find a place to call home and learn what it means to belong. While Arrow’s enlightened sensibilities get the two of them in trouble and challenge Methuselah’s judgment, their adventures in an untamed world bring them together. When Methuselah’s enduring youth reveals itself through the passing seasons, he and Arrow bravely face a dire reality. From the distant past that lives inside Methuselah, Arrow’s spirit reaches out, providing guidance for our threatened times. He gives Methuselah the strength to do the right thing and the courage to live his true self in the modern world. Arrow’s memory opens Methuselah’s heart and renews for him a hope of redemption in the arms of a caring man today. If only Methuselah permits himself to love once more.

Author: Barbara Walker
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 164214455X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180

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Marigold "Goldie" Robbins is a vivacious and energetic sixty-six-year-old. Recently widowed and plagued with loneliness, she yearns for the companionship and romanticism she experienced as a younger woman. One day, while working out at her fitness center, Goldie meets a handsome, charismatic man who makes her feel young and desirable again. Despite the difference in their ages, Goldie quickly succumbs to his seductive charm and throws caution to the winds. She leaves the fitness center in the co

Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374529108
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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Nobel Prize-winner Singer's 10th collection of short stories demonstrates "the same vigor that he has shown throughout his long career" (New York Times) and reaffirms his place as an extremely popular and enduring author.

Author: Bernard Shaw
Publisher: London Constable 1922.
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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Five linked plays that expound Shaw's philosophy of creative evolution in an extended dramatic parable that progresses through time from the Garden of Edesn to AD 31,920. Cf Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Author: Jonathan Lowe
Publisher: Crossroad Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 383

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Meet Alan Dyson, a research scientist experimenting with the longevity effects of a newly discovered bristlecone pine tree gene. He thinks he's being watched and followed. He's right. When his secret formula is stolen, and all notes are wiped from his computer, his friend--the firm’s computer programmer--secretly tracks the thief to a P.O. Box in Zion, Iowa. Under suspicion, and with his project canceled due to a bizarre death, Alan visits Zion to discover that he’s not the only stranger in town, and that someone has been using the residents as guinea pigs in a chilling medical experiment. In a dangerous gambit to expose whoever is hiding the truth, he solicits help from the police, and is arrested instead. Now, only a young woman hiding there under the Witness Protection Program can help him escape. But can he convince her to join forces to uncover this conspiracy of silence involving the potential for immortality? Because whoever is behind it all has made an astonishing discovery of Biblical proportions, and is murdering everyone to cover their tracks.

Author: Austin Baxter
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781539509134
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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Most people don't believe me when I tell them that I am familiar with what the world has known as space aliens. While I wouldn't class them as friends, I do know them and have spent quite some time with them. It is hard to realize that I am being interviewed on the day of my birthday. At this point, I seemed to be the oldest living person on the face of the planet at 200 years of age. There are going to be more people following me that the world currently doesn't know about them. I will be one of those, who will be coming along after me. People scoffed and ridiculed me a long time ago when I told them that I had been the surprise visitor of what were then known as other world aliens. I had been lying in bed one night, and using a technology that we haven't been able to master, I was removed from my bed and transported to another place. My clothes all remained on, but there was a light shining in that room that altered my body making it healthy and vibrant. The changes went down to the DNA level and modified it so that I would age much slower, unperceptively slow. This process only lasted for a few minutes, and then I was released and returned to my bed. As time has passed, I have visited them numerous times and have had several procedures done by them, being fully aware of what the changes were supposed to do to my body. It seems that they were getting my consent to do whatever procedure they were attempting at the time. This is my story and how I am dealing with the events and changes that are happening to me. While some of the changes have been unexpected, like the first time they took me to their place, most have been good and others I am still trying to understand. Angelica, my wife of several hundred years, and I have decided that it is time for us to move on to whatever is next. While we hope that we will be together in our next life, there is, by now, means any certainty of that. It is merely a hope on our part. During our lives, we have loved each other for a very long time, and along the path, we have loved many others. We have taught many students along the way and have positively affected many. We have been able to add to the ranks of the Methuselah Group and have made it stronger in the process. We have protected Simon and then Calvin and would have done so with our lives if necessary. We have known them for centuries and have come to respect their mission on this world. We have done all that we could to further that mission and ensure that it continues well into the future. Together, Angelica and I have lived well over 3,000 years and have seen this world change from bad to worse and eventually made it to good. Our hope is that we get aided in some way to the changes that have occurred to make the world a better place. We know that the world is much better now than when we came here. We are leaving this life content that we have done well in our lives and have contributed to a better world.

Author: Edward Einhorn
Publisher: Theater 61 Press
ISBN: 0977019705
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 201

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Edward Einhorn blends absurdist humor with philosophy in these critically acclaimed plays about legendary Jewish figures. Golem Stories retells an old Kabalistic legend. It's a ghost story and a love story, about a childlike clay man who may be a demon inside. In The Living Methuselah, the oldest living man survives every disaster is human history, with the help of his wife Serach, the oldest living woman. But when a doctor tells him he will only live until the end of the play, will this be his final curtain? To find the title character of A Shylock, Jacob Levy interrogates every character in The Merchant of Venice, but oddly Hamlet may know the most-although this Hamlet is a woman. And in One-Eyed Moses and the Churning Red Sea, Rabbi Tzipporah Finestein dreams Moses is a pirate captain, but what do the dreams mean? Two congregants hold the key.

Author: `
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 410

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Author: Karen Marie Humphreys
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1039155731
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 227

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The Mission of Maya and Methuselah guides readers through a practical and well-researched program that will prepare them for their final fifteen to twenty years of life. Geared to people in their forties and older, the preparation focuses on fitness, functionality, and financial health. Dr. Karen Humphreys is an engaging, knowledgeable partner on your journey to better health in your senior years. Her rich background in the medical field positions her to speak with credibility on issues surrounding geriatric care, preventative healthcare, financial planning, and even end-of-life care. She takes a holistic approach, balancing physical wellbeing with the need for financial and social health. Dr. Humphreys has witnessed the devastating impact of frailty on individuals and the healthcare system, and she understands that openings in long-term care and assisted living homes won’t keep up with the demand over the next twenty years. Now more than ever, it’s critical that our aging population remains strong, healthy, and independent. Full of clear instructions, objective advice, and meaningful encouragement, The Mission of Maya and Methuselah is a must-read for everyone who wants to remain healthy and self-sufficient for as long as possible..