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- proper noun A
pastoral afterlife inWicca and similar religions.
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* On Books*: Paul Di Filippo All Summerland in a Day Lovers of fantasy, young and old, should all hail the appearance of Michael Chabon's _Summerland_ (Hyperion, hardcover, $22.95, 500 pages, ISBN 0-7868-0877-2).
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Thor Wignutt in Summerland has no formal diagnosis, but I immediately thought of "Aspie" kids when I read Michael Chabon's description of the character.
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Thor Wignutt in Summerland has no formal diagnosis, but I immediately thought of "Aspie" kids when I read Michael Chabon's description of the character.
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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Summerland is imperfect, occasionally cliched, and contains the line "Even in the Summerlands certain laws held true, and she fell very fast, at a rate of thirty-two feet per second squared" (Yes, Virginia, even Pulitzer Prize-winners need editors.)
May 24th, 2004 2004
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Millions of enfranchised souls pass from earth life and find the spirit world -- the "Summerland" -- a Heaven, and stay therein for vast lengths of time.
Insights and Heresies Pertaining to the Evolution of the Soul Anna Bishop Scofield
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L.B. Graham’s first book, Beyond the Summerland, is a magnificent work.
Book Review: Beyond the Summerland by L. B. Graham – Grasping for the Wind 2005
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For example, one week I was sent to cover a fire at an amusement center, known as Summerland, on the Isle of Man, in which fifty people had died because of chained exit doors and other lapses.
American Sketches Walter Isaacson 2009
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Just finished Michael Chabon's juvenile fantasy novel Summerland, which is a novel of the myth of baseball owing something of course to Malamud's The Natural.
Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2004
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I finished it, again with Mary's help, in California in Summerland, which is right near Santa Barbara.
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In 2008 a proposed green burial site in eastern Macon, Ga., called Summerland Natural Cemetery was blocked when the county board of commissioners voted on a new ordinance that banned green cemeteries.
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