Download or read book Birthright Beacon 1 written by Valerie Parv and published by Pan. This book was released on 2016-03-10 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A threat beyond anything humanity has ever faced is racing toward our solar system. Will those who can stop it learn to work together before it's too late? Adam Desai is a self-made man. From humble and mysterious origins he has built a career as the director of a prestigious space center. He is also a man who knows right from wrong, and something about the impending launch of the shuttle Arrafin seems very wrong. Deputy Governor Shana Akers is used to handling high-stakes situations. But can she believe Adam's suspicions? The launch is worth millions to the local area, and she knows she's not always the most level-headed when it comes to Adam. On the day of the launch, Adam is confronted by a pair of mysterious visitors, and suddenly everything he has ever believed about himself must change. Faced with a danger that threatens the entire planet, Adam and Shana must find the strength to trust not only each other, but the visitors, whose unusual abilities defy explanation. Only united do they stand a chance of averting disaster, and their choices will set them on a path to reclaiming humanity's birthright. This thrilling story of aliens living among us is perfect for fans of A.G. Riddle, Rysa Walker and Linnea Sinclair.

Download or read book Earthbound Beacon 2 written by Valerie Parv and published by Momentum. This book was released on 2016-05-12 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is one thing to find your path, another entirely to walk it. The beacons – Adam, Garrett and Elaine – are cut off from their homeworld. In finding each other they obliterated the first wave of an alien attack on Earth, and together they remain humanity's only chance of salvation. But they are little help to Earth when they are being tracked like prey by a relentless assassin and are unable to tap into the source of their power, their distant planet of origin. When an assassin, sole survivor of the decimated alien attack force, captures Garrett, Elaine must make vital decisions that will change their relationship forever, putting at risk the crucial role they share in keeping Earth safe. Meanwhile, Adam must reforge the severed connection to their distant homeworld before the threat returns. If the beacons are to avert catastrophe, they must rescue Garrett and make a connection with their home planet before the invaders return, but will it be too late? This thrilling story of aliens living among us is perfect for fans of A.G. Riddle, Rysa Walker and Linnea Sinclair.

Download or read book Simply Synopsis written by Michelle Somers and published by Thrasher Publishing. This book was released on 2017-12-06 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A step-by-step guide for crafting a standout synopsis. With special focus on romance, learn how to construct an engaging and fresh synopsis that contains all vital information while hooking the reader, maintaining tension and emotion. The Simply Synopsis strategy will help analyze your story, allowing you to extract the key elements to include, whilst guiding you on how to determine what plot points and events to leave out. It helps formulate the building blocks of the synopsis – the orientation, the major turning points, the resolution and the conclusion – and then demonstrates how to structure these paragraphs before piecing them together in a way that is engaging and exciting for the reader. It covers tone, vocabulary, point of view and pacing. It looks at backstory – how and where does this fit into a synopsis? Secondary characters and secondary plots – yes or no? World-building – how much is enough? The Simply Synopsis strategy is simple and straightforward, a step-by-step process that makes the daunting task of synopsis creation much less daunting.

Download or read book Homeworld Beacon 3 written by Valerie Parv and published by Momentum. This book was released on 2016-06-30 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leaving Earth may be the only way to save it. An alien warship looms over Earth, and the only beings with the power to stand in its way are scattered to the winds. The beacons' messenger, Adam, has mysteriously vanished, and the watcher, Elaine, is a prisoner aboard the alien ship. Only the listener, Garrett, remains, and he must use any means available to reunite the beacons and save the planet. Enlisting the help of celebrity Amelia Takei, Garrett is determined to answer the alien threat, but the warship's captain has demands. Convinced that they played a part in condemning her race to a barren planet, the captain intends to force the beacons to take her to their home planet to seek revenge. The beacons have an impossible choice – surrender to the alien captain's demands, or put their adopted planet at even greater risk by fighting back. In a last-ditch attempt to turn defeat into a chance for the planet's survival, Garrett and Amelia risk a daring raid on their enemy in space, where they make a startling discovery. Sometimes those you trust most can destroy you. This thrilling story of aliens living among us is perfect for fans of A.G. Riddle, Rysa Walker and Linnea Sinclair.

Download or read book The Birthright Song of Acadia Book 3 written by Janette Oke and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2001-02-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Thread Binding Them Together As Sisters Is All Too Fragile... The bittersweet reunion of the Robichaud family and the Harrows in the land of the Acadians has brought two mothers and two daughters full circle. They rekindle those early bonds and experience restoration of those lost years, but time and tragedy have left their indelible imprints on all who have endured the decades of separation and uncertainty. Moving forward with their lives now means further farewells--not as devastating as the one long ago, but no less heart wrenching. Their connection, which goes beyond that of "sisters" to best friends, will be tested by the coming Revolution and the lure of England--parted again, the reunited, but for how long...? Can their friendship sustain the startling revelation concerning...The Birthright?

Download or read book The Birthright written by Janette Oke and published by Bethany House. This book was released on 2001-02 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Facing the threat of war, can two families be united in peace amid the heartbreak?

Download or read book Inner Guidance written by Anne Archer Butcher and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Author Anne Archer Butcher's account of getting help in her daily life through divine guidance, dreams, miracles, and spiritual experiences in Eckankar with Sri Harold Klemp, the Mahanta, the Living ECK Master"--Provided by publisher.

Download or read book Continuum Beacon 2 5 written by Valerie Parv and published by Momentum. This book was released on 2016-06-09 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A father's love can change the world. Trey Luken turned from his responsibilities – and his son – long ago. Though he left his homeworld to become a beacon and protect a distant planet called Earth, burdened with great power, Trey vanished into the bottom of a bottle. When Trey's half-human son Garrett is captured and tortured by a nefarious anti-alien syndicate, Trey gets the wake-up call he needed. For years he has held the key to Earth's survival but has lived in the shadows rather than confront his destiny. Now he sees a chance to regain his self-respect and his son's trust, emerging from among the humans to bring justice to the perpetrators. He sees only one way to redeem himself and give his son a fighting chance: killing the man responsible for Garrett's suffering. But will Trey's actions be too little, too late, to save humanity? This thrilling story of aliens living among us is perfect for fans of A.G. Riddle, Rysa Walker and Linnea Sinclair.

Download or read book American by Birth written by Carol Nackenoff and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2022-01-06 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this abridged edition for the Landmark Law Cases and American Society series, American by Birth is now available in a format designed for students and general readers and includes a chronology outlining the key points in the case plus a bibliographical essay. American by Birth explores the history and legacy of Wong Kim Ark and the 1898 Supreme Court case that bears his name, which established the automatic citizenship of individuals born within the geographic boundaries of the United States. In the late nineteenth century, much like the present, the United States was a difficult, and at times threatening, environment for people of color. Chinese immigrants, invited into the United States in the 1850s and 1860s as laborers and merchants, faced a wave of hostility that played out in organized private violence, discriminatory state laws, and increasing congressional efforts to throttle immigration and remove many long-term residents. The federal courts, backed by the Supreme Court, supervised the development of an increasingly restrictive and exclusionary immigration regime that targeted Chinese people. This was the situation faced by Wong Kim Ark, who was born in San Francisco in the 1870s and who earned his living as a cook. Like many members of the Chinese community in the American West he maintained ties to China. He traveled there more than once, carrying required reentry documents, but when he attempted to return to the United States after a journey from 1894 to 1895, he was refused entry and detained. Protesting that he was a citizen and therefore entitled to come home, he challenged the administrative decision in court. Remarkably, the Supreme Court granted him victory. This victory was important for Wong Kim Ark, for the ethnic Chinese community in the United States, and for all immigrant communities then and to this day. because the Supreme Court’s ruling inscribed the principle in constitutional terms and clarified that it extended even to the children of immigrants who were legally barred from becoming citizens.

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Download or read book You Are Not American written by Amanda Frost and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the Mark Lynton History Prize Citizenship is invaluable, yet our status as citizens is always at risk—even for those born on US soil. Over the last two centuries, the US government has revoked citizenship to cast out its unwanted, suppress dissent, and deny civil rights to all considered “un-American”—whether due to their race, ethnicity, marriage partner, or beliefs. Drawing on the narratives of those who have struggled to be treated as full members of “We the People,” law professor Amanda Frost exposes a hidden history of discrimination and xenophobia that continues to this day. The Supreme Court’s rejection of Black citizenship in Dred Scott was among the first and most notorious examples of citizenship stripping, but the phenomenon did not end there. Women who married noncitizens, persecuted racial groups, labor leaders, and political activists were all denied their citizenship, and sometimes deported, by a government that wanted to redefine the meaning of “American.” Today, US citizens living near the southern border are regularly denied passports, thousands are detained and deported by mistake, and the Trump administration is investigating the citizenship of 700,000 naturalized citizens. Even elected leaders such as Barack Obama and Kamala Harris are not immune from false claims that they are not citizens eligible to hold office. You Are Not American grapples with what it means to be American and the issues surrounding membership, identity, belonging, and exclusion that still occupy and divide the nation in the twenty-first century.

Download or read book Birthright The Origin of the Man of Steel written by Mark Waid and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2005-10-01 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in single magazine form as Superman birthright 1-1212.

Download or read book The Diablo The Sin War 1 Birthright written by Richard A. Knaak and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-05-01 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the beginning of time, the angelic forces of the High Heavens and the demonic hordes of the Burning Hells have been locked in an eternal conflict for the fate of all Creation. That struggle has now spilled over into Sanctuary -- the world of men. Determined to win mankind over to their respective causes, the forces of good and evil wage a secret war for mortal souls. This is the tale of the Sin War -- the conflict that would forever change the destiny of man. Three thousand years before the darkening of Tristram, Uldyssian, son of Diomedes, was a simple farmer from the village of Seram. Content with his quiet, idyllic life, Uldyssian is shocked as dark events rapidly unfold around him. Mistakenly blamed for the grisly murders of two traveling missionaries, Uldyssian is forced to flee his homeland and set out on a perilous quest to redeem his good name. To his horror, he has begun to manifest strange new powers -- powers no mortal man has ever dreamed of. Now, Uldyssian must grapple with the energies building within him -- lest they consume the last vestiges of his humanity.

Download or read book Darkest Fear written by Cate Tiernan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "After the death of her parents, Vivi reunites with her long-lost family and learns more about her heritage as a haguara--a person who can shapeshift into a jaguar"--

Download or read book Beacons of Liberty written by Elena K. Abbott and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-22 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating story of how free African Americans and runaway slaves crossed international borders to fight for freedom and racial justice.

Download or read book The Christian s Daily Treasury Edited by J H assisted by eminent contributors One hundred and thirty eighth edition of The Altar of the Household With illustrations written by John Harris and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 956 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Boyz n the Void written by G'Ra Asim and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing to his brother, G’Ra Asim reflects on building his own identity while navigating Blackness, masculinity, and young adulthood—all through wry social commentary and music/pop culture critique How does one approach Blackness, masculinity, otherness, and the perils of young adulthood? For G’Ra Asim, punk music offers an outlet to express himself freely. As his younger brother, Gyasi, grapples with finding his footing in the world, G’Ra gifts him with a survival guide for tackling the sometimes treacherous cultural terrain particular to being young, Black, brainy, and weird in the form of a mixtape. Boyz n the Void: a mixtape to my brother blends music and cultural criticism and personal essay to explore race, gender, class, and sexuality as they pertain to punk rock and straight edge culture. Using totemic punk rock songs on a mixtape to anchor each chapter, the book documents an intergenerational conversation between a Millennial in his 30s and his zoomer teenage brother. Author, punk musician, and straight edge kid, G’Ra Asim weaves together memoir and cultural commentary, diving into the depths of everything from theory to comic strips, to poetry to pizza commercials to mapping the predicament of the Black creative intellectual. With each chapter dedicated to a particular song and placed within the context of a fraternal bond, Asim presents his brother with a roadmap to self-actualization in the form of a Doc Martened foot to the behind and a sweaty, circle-pit-side-armed hug. Listen to the author’s playlist while you read! Access the playlist here: https://sptfy.com/a18b