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Lance Morcan
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A belated thank you Phoenix. Hope you enjoy them. More importantly, I hope you get something out of them.
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Into the Americas
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White Spirit
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Silent Fear
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World Odyssey (The World Duology, #1)
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The Dogon Initiative (The Deniables, #1)
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High Country Contract
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Historical recording of Transit of Venus captured in historical adventure novel
This week (on June 3) in 1769, Captain James Cook recorded the Transit of Venus (pictured) when the planet passed directly between Earth and the Sun. Lance Morcan captures this in his bestselling historical adventure New Zealand: A Novel. Historically, the transit was crucial to astronomy because it enabled the first accurate calculation of the distance to the Sun, effectively measuring the siz
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“Manipulating the media is akin to poisoning a nation’s water supply – it affects all of our lives in unimaginable ways.”
― The Orphan Conspiracies: 29 Conspiracy Theories from The Orphan Trilogy
― The Orphan Conspiracies: 29 Conspiracy Theories from The Orphan Trilogy
“If it’s true that nothing is more potent than an idea, then those who control the media can direct minds en masse.”
― The Orphan Conspiracies: 29 Conspiracy Theories from The Orphan Trilogy
― The Orphan Conspiracies: 29 Conspiracy Theories from The Orphan Trilogy
“To understand the Dreamtime, you must understand that we do not own the land. The land is our mother and she owns and nurtures us.”
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“Nine had heard whisperings that the secretive Bilderberg Group was effectively the World Government, undermining democracy by influencing everything from nations' political leaders to the venue for the next war. He recalled persistent rumors and confirmed media reports that the Bilderberg Group had such luminaries as Barack Obama, Prince Charles, Bill Gates, Rupert Murdoch, Tony Blair, Bill and Hillary Clinton, George Bush Sr. and George W. Bush. Other Bilderberg members sprung forth from Nine’s memory bank. They included the founders and CEOs of various multinational corporations like Facebook, BP, Google, Shell and Amazon, as well as almost every major financial institution on the planet.”
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“Democrats and Republicans were essentially the same party with different faces and that was why, no matter how many promises each leader made, significant change rarely transpired.”
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“The purpose of having the orphans study all these diverse fields was not for them to just become geniuses, but to become polymaths – meaning they would be geniuses in a wide variety of fields.”
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“So how can we determine what’s real and what’s not? We can’t. We can just pick and choose what we want to believe and rationalize it as best we can. Reality, after all, is basically a movie projected inside our heads. It’s based on the colors our senses permit us to see, the sounds they permit us to hear and whatever else our brains let slip through the gates. But outside our limited senses, surrounding us, there is, unquestionably, a much greater reality, a universe we live in but cannot see. Well, most of us, anyway. Out there, in the dark, All Things Are Possible.”
― The Orphan Conspiracies: 29 Conspiracy Theories from The Orphan Trilogy
― The Orphan Conspiracies: 29 Conspiracy Theories from The Orphan Trilogy
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Hi Lance :o)How delightful to become reading friends with you! thank you :o)
As for my question.. hmm, I was not aware that I've asked one- but your answer is correct, of that I have no doubt :)
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SusanAhh wrote: "Hey Lance, Good Luck in 2021!"
Same to you Susan. Kia ora and best wishes.
Thanks for your friend request. Greetings from Georgia in the US.
Susan wrote: ""Thank you Susan... all the best for 2019.
Scott wrote: "Merry Christmas"Thanks Scott and same to you.
