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by Sandra R. Eubank, RN
illustrated by Anne Bell
foreword by Ralph Roberts

Partings, eerie, happenings,phantoms, shades of past lives... Just another normal night at a big hospital.

The fictional hospital in these stories resembles so many real ones. It has its own rumor mill among the employees, efficiently broadcasting the best gossip, setting up the eerie legends and tales that arise as a natural result of long night shifts and of events unexplainable. Do ghosts really exist? Sandra Eubank expertly weaves a good case in the stories of Room 409. Why can some ethereal beings take physical form when they haunt a certain place? Do their surroundings, somehow, absorb their energy at the time of their death?

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Foreword by Ralph Roberts, Publisher There are
things you can collect in these old, old mountains that have greater age than
antiques. Far greater age. Eons old, and these treasures lie beneath your feet,
in the ground, the ancient ground.

Rick Jacquot has knowledge of these vastly old
artifacts of the earth's creation and its growing pains through millions of long
years, now gone. He has searched over mountain and through bramble-choked glen
to find the best places, those hallowed, secretive locations yielding the best
in specimens of rock, mineral, and--oh yes!--sparkling gemstones. Some of these
specimens can be valuable, others precious in the learning of geological lore
they impart. All have a story to tell.

Often hunters of rocks maintain their secrets
as closely as any fisherman protecting that piece of stream where the big trout
grab for any hook that comes near the water. Rick does not, he shares it here
with you, even to giving GPS coordinates!

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Ask Hugo- and Nebula-winning science fiction writer Mike Resnick which works out of his scores of novels and hundreds of award-winning shorter pieces does he feel represents his best work. He has two answers, "the next one" (all writers say that) and, more reflectively, he answers "Paradise, Purgatory, and Inferno." Ask any reviewer familiar with Mr. Resnick's astounding and significant additions to the classic literature of speculative fiction over the past 40 years and you get the same two answers--"his next" (because new Resnick books are always eagerly awaited) and, taking your question more seriously, "Paradise, Purgatory, and Inferno." These three novels both entertain and provoke thought on various levels. First and foremost, you'll find satisfying adventure on distant and unique worlds. But are they so different and unique? If you know anything of the history of Africa (and Resnick is an acknowledged expert) you'll find parallels provoking thought and providing understanding. If you know nothing of Africa, you will. ...

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