Michael Wolfe
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The Hadj, or sacred journey, is the pilgrimage to the house of God at Mecca that all Muslims are asked to make once in their lifetimes. One of the world's longest-lived religious rites, having continued without break for fourteen hundred years, it is, like all things Islamic, shrouded in mystery for Westerners. In The Hadj, Michael Wolfe, an American who converted to Islam, recounts his own journey a pilgrim, and in doing so brings readers close to...
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On the magical island of fairies, lives the Fairy Princess named Titania. One peaceful evening, the castle's vault is robbed by an evil sorceress bent on world domination. Titania must make unlikely allies and journey through her magical kingdom in order to save her people from absolute cruelty. Along the way, she will discover new things about her land, her worldviews, and even herself.
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This updated and expanded edition of One Thousand Roads to Mecca collects significant works by observant travel writers from the East and West over the last ten centuries-including two new contemporary narratives-creating a comprehensive, multifaceted literary portrait of the enduring tradition. Since its inception in the seventh century, the pilgrimage to Mecca has been the central theme in a large body of Islamic travel literature. Beginning with...
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The past can be the future.
Dr. Albert Snowden enjoys traveling through time, but not when Ziekah, a timeline-traveling foe, sends him into the past against his will. Emily and V encounter Ziekah, as well, leaving Evaran alone to determine where they were sent.
Ziekah is crafty, and she knows temporal mechanics well. She's also ruthless, leaving altered timelines in her wake.
With the gang scattered through time, Evaran calls on old friends Jake...
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Evaran and the gang travel to a galaxy in the Horologium-Reticulum Supercluster in AD 801,699 to deal with not one summons, as they usually do, but two that are related to each other. The retrieval of Dalton Kingston is one summons, and the second is a day ahead to a ship a few light-years away.
The problem is that the summonses lead the gang into the Tenagrin Hegemony, a brutal empire run by the Tenagrins, a snake-like species who have advanced...
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Universal breaches are usually not a good thing. Evaran and the gang deal with an event that changes Earth's history. While investigating it, they come across the mention of a cosmic artifact. No one seems to know where it is or what it does other than it existed at one point. One problem is that the cosmic artifact has been linked to the Gothlics, a brutal group that delights in torturing and killing anything they can get their hands on. They appear...
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