Download or read book Exodus The Archimedes Engine written by Peter F. Hamilton and published by Random House Worlds. This book was released on 2024-09-17 with total page 929 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore EXODUS, a new sci-fi action-adventure RPG coming soon from Archetype Entertainment featured in this epic novel from legendary author Peter F. Hamilton. Forty thousand years ago, humanity fled a dying Earth. Traveling in massive arkships, these brave pioneers spread out across the galaxy to find a new home. After traveling thousands of light-years, one fleet of arkships arrived at Centauri, a dense cluster of stars with a vast array of potentially habitable planets. The survivors of Earth signaled to the remaining arkships that humanity had finally found its new home among the stars. Thousands of years later, the Centauri Cluster has flourished. The original settlers have evolved into advanced beings known as Celestials and divided themselves into powerful Dominions. One of the most influential is that of the Crown Celestials, an alliance of five great houses that controls vast areas of Centauri. As arkships continue to arrive, the remaining humans and their descendants must fight for survival against overwhelming odds or be forced into serving the Crown Dominion. Among those yearning for a better life is Finn, for whom Earth is not a memory but merely a footnote from humanity’s ancient history. Born on one of the Crown Dominion worlds, Finn has known nothing but the repressive rule of the Celestials, though he dreams of the possibility of boundless space beyond his home. When another arkship from Earth, previously thought lost, unexpectedly arrives, Finn sees his chance to embrace a greater destiny and become a Traveler—one of a group of brave heroes dedicated to ensuring humanity’s future by journeying into the vast unknown of distant space.

Download or read book Vampyrie written by Tina Frisco and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-12-18 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if vampires were not the undead, but rather the dying? What if there were two factions among vampires: the sustained and the unsustainable? And what if those factions were at war with one another over the life of a young woman who promised them a future? Vampyrie brings the myth of the vampire into the realm of possibility. Phoebe Angelina Delaney is a reluctant genius and compassionate hothead. She finds herself in a pitch-dark underground and doesn't remember how she got there. Did she drink too much alcohol and wander off in a stupor, or was she kidnapped by a malicious element determined to make her life a living hell? Sir Michael Alan David is a vampire - an enigma, charismatic and mysterious, who weaves in and out of Phoebe's life. Does he intend to use his title as a ruse to draw her closer to an unearthly fate, or is he a cloak-and-dagger knight in shining armor? Too many secrets have been kept for too long. Phoebe must unravel the mystery in order to survive. Two major characters from the author's first novel, Plateau join forces with Phoebe to battle the demons in Vampyrie.

Download or read book The Lloyd Haynes Story written by Carolyn Haynes and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Superbly written. It is pure magic, just like the photograph! You are a wonderful writer. You pull the reader into the shoes of, Lloyd....Just great." ‬Ty Copeman "The story of Lloyd Haynes is an important one--well beyond his time spent on a beloved TV show. His life was rich, full, and extremely difficult on many levels. And it's a story of the changing--and unchanging--culture of America in the 1960s-1980s. The author, Carolyn Haynes, was the late actor's wife. She is able to bring an inside perspective to the story, but this is more than a memoir. It's a carefully researched biography too. Mr. Haynes deserves nothing less." Canopic Publishing Discover elevating choices actor Lloyd Haynes, star of critically acclaimed 1970s television series Room 222 made through painful, restricting and often dangerous bigotry while influenced by the Mafia, and the KKK. His compelling journey from a "segregated mortuary" to stardom, his mind-plaguing secret, captivating moments with a king, recognition from the United States Senate, the marines, the navy, the aeronautics industry, the film industry, and poignant stories from strangers, prisoners, fans, family, friends, and co-workers. "With all those gorgeous women around, what made his eyes seek-out yours? Or...did you seek-out his?" Alison Bogert

Download or read book Languages Life Lessons written by Afarin Rava and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-10 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir written with humor and heart, Languages & Life Lessons recounts the story of Afarin Rava, the only child of a travel-loving professor of literature with a passion for words and languages - a passion that borders on obsession. Afarin tells anecdotes of the challenges she faces and the lessons she learns as she cruises through languages and explores her journey of linguistic discovery and identity.

Download or read book Laws of Nature written by Jacqui Murray and published by Structured Learning LLC. This book was released on 2021-07-03 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A boy blinded by fire. A woman raised by wolves. An avowed enemy offers help. In this second in the Dawn of Humanity trilogy, the first trilogy in the Man vs. Nature saga, Lucy and her eclectic group escape the treacherous tribe that has been hunting them and find a safe haven in the famous Wonderwerk caves in South Africa, the oldest known occupation of caves by humans. They don't have clothing, fire, or weapons, but the caves keep them warm and food is plentiful. Circumstances make it clear that they can't stay, not with the rest of her tribe enslaved by the treacherous enemy. To free them requires not only the prodigious skills of Lucy's unique group--which includes a proto-wolf and a female raised by the pack--but others who have no reason to assist her and instinct tells Lucy she shouldn't trust. Set 1.8 million years ago in Africa, Lucy and her band of early humans struggle against the harsh reality of a world ruled by nature, where predators stalk them and a violent new species of man threatens to destroy their world. Only by changing can they prevail. If you ever wondered how earliest man survived but couldn't get through the academic discussions, this book is for you. Prepare to see this violent and beautiful world in a way you never imagined.

Download or read book Addicted to Dimes Confessions of a Liar and a Cheat written by Catherine Townsend-Lyon and published by Kodel Group. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a true story, told in the author's own words, without polish or prose, a haunting tale of addiction and....

Download or read book Yellow Hair written by Andrew Joyce and published by . This book was released on 2016-09-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-year-old Jacob Ariesen is uprooted from his home in Concord, Massachusetts in the year 1850. His father is hell-bent on getting to the California gold fields after hearing about the strike at Sutter's Mill.While on the California-Oregon Trail, his family is killed and he is left for dead.The eighteen-year-old daughter of a Dakota war chief, acting on a Vision that had shown Jacob to be her destiny, saves his life and through her, he is adopted into a band of the Mdewakanton Dakota, putting into play events that will lead Jacob, now known as Yellow Hair, to go to war against the United States of America.Yellow Hair knows the Dakota cannot win against the Americans; nonetheless he is obliged to fight. Where will he find himself when the conflict is over and what repercussions will he face for his part in the war?Yellow Hair documents the injustices done to the Sioux Nation from their first treaty with the United States in 1805 through Wounded Knee in 1890. Every death, murder, battle, and outrage written about actually took place. The historical figures that play a role in this fact-based tale of fiction were real people and the author uses their real names. Yellow Hair is an epic tale of adventure, family, love, and hate that spans most of the 19th century.

Download or read book Murder Is A Family Affair written by Donalie Beltran and published by . This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER! 2015 INTERNATIONAL GOLD MEDAL FOR TRUE CRIME! CAN EVIL BE INHERITED? FOLLOW ONE FAMILY WHO BELIEVES IT'S POSSIBLE! Some stories just have to be told and so it is with the Tuxhorn family. Murder Is A Family Affair follows August Tuxhorn to America in the mid 1850s where Charles was born in Illinois. The boy grew up with a beautiful face and a stone heart. Evil set in motion by his grandfather and then his father, Charles carries on the family's violent temper and disregard for human life. Did he inherit these traits shared by others? More important, did he pass them on? Follow their lives and watch the carnage they leave behind. Many lives were lost or destroyed in their wake. After particularly gruesome murders, Charles Tuxhorn disappeared into thin air. How? Pinkerton looked for him around the world, but couldn't find him. Where did he go? Is this the last of the evil? OR IS IT THE BEGINNING?

Download or read book Go You written by Annette Rochelle Aben and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-02-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From time to time, everyone can use some encouragement to keep going. What we don't always have is someone right there to give us the words we may need to hear. This book has page after page of thoughts you can say to yourself or someone else. Each statement is designed to remind you of how much you really DO have going for you. YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL! YOU MAKE GREAT CHOICES! YOU ARE LOVED! GO YOU!!

Download or read book The Roux in the Gumbo written by Kim Robinson and published by Neshee Publications/ In the light. This book was released on 2008-12 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Roux in the Gumbo is emotional and inspirational, telling the story of a Louisana family spanning the generations from the era of slavery to the present day. You will read of the romances, challenges and adventures they experience as their lives are intertwined by one common goal - basic survival during the reconstruction era in Louisiana.

Download or read book Wake Robin Ridge written by Marcia Meara and published by . This book was released on 2013-12-06 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A phone ringing at 2:00 A.M. never means anything good. Calls at 2:00 A.M. are bad news . . . Someone has died. Someone is hurt. Or someone needs help." On a bitter cold January night in 1965, death came calling at an isolated little cabin on Wake-Robin Ridge. Now, nearly 50 years later, librarian Sarah Gray has quit her job and moved into the same cabin, hoping the peace and quiet of her woodland retreat will allow her to concentrate on writing her first novel. Instead she finds herself distracted by her only neighbor, the reclusive MacKenzie Cole, who lives on top of the mountain with his Irish wolfhound as his sole companion. As their tentative friendship grows, Sarah learns the truth about the heartbreaking secret causing Mac to hide from the world. But before the two can sort out their feelings for each other, they find themselves plunged into a night of terror neither could have anticipated, and they discover that the only thing stronger than a hatred that will not die is a heart willing to sacrifice everything for another.

Download or read book MW written by Osamu Tezuka and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2010-03-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comics god Osamu Tezuka's darkest work, MW is a chilling picaresque of evil. Steering clear of the supernatural as well as the cuddly designs and slapstick humor that enliven many of Tezuka's better-known works, MW explores a stark modern reality where neither divine nor secular justice seems to prevail. This willfully "anti-Tezuka" achievement from the master's own pen nevertheless pulsates with his unique genius. Michio Yuki has it all: looks, intelligence, a pedigree as the scion of a famous Kabuki family, a promising career at a major bank, legions of female admirers. But underneath the sheen of perfection lurks a secret with the power to shake the world to its foundations. During a boyhood excursion to one of the southern archipelagos near Okinawa, Yuki barely survived exposure to a poison gas stored at a foreign military facility. The leakage annihilated all of the island's inhabitants but was promptly covered up by the authorities, leaving Yuki as an unacknowledged witness--one whose sense of right and wrong, however, the potent nerve agent managed to obliterate. Now, fifteen years later, Yuki is a social climber of Balzacian proportions, infiltrating the worlds of finance and politics by day while brutally murdering children and women by night--perversely using his Kabuki-honed skills as a female impersonator to pass himself off as the women he's killed. His drive, however, will not be satiated with a promotion here and a rape there. Michio Yuki has a far more ominous objective: obtaining MW, the ultimate weapon that spared his life but robbed him of all conscience. There are only two men with any hope of stopping him: one, a brilliant public prosecutor who struggles to build a case against the psychopath; the other, a tormented Catholic priest, Iwao Garai, who shares Yuki's past--and frequently his bed. Serialized beginning in 1976 in Big Comic magazine, where Tezuka's trailblazing medical thriller Ode to Kirihito had appeared a few years earlier, MW probes the complexities of homoeroticism as well as the reality of extensive U.S. military presence in Japan. The result is as bracing today as it was thirty years ago. “Darker than you think—than you want to think […] MW took on the stuff of today’s headlines some thirty years ago.” —The Agony Column “MW is the newest of those masterpieces to be translated into English, and like everything else with [Tezuka’s] name on it, you are cheating yourself out of one of the best graphic novels out right now if you don’t read it.” —Advanced Media Network “Tezuka spins an entertaining, slightly preposterous yarn, serving up more plot twists, car chases, and gender-bending costume changes than Dressed to Kill and The Manchurian Candidate combined.” —popcultureshock “You’ll stare at the page, eyes popping and muttering, ‘I cannot believe I just read that.’ But you did, and it worked, and you turn the page.” —David Welsh, Comic World News

Download or read book Conflicted Hearts written by D. G. Kaye and published by D.G. Kaye. This book was released on 2013-12-25 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "D.G. Kaye writes with an emotional, powerful voice. Her inspirational stories captivate with a unique blend of style and substance."-J. Thorn, Author of The Portal Arcane series Somehow I believed it was my obligation to try to do the right thing by her because she had given birth to me. Burdened with constant worry for her father and the guilt caused by her mother's narcissism, D.G. Kaye had a short childhood. When she moved away from home at age eighteen, she began to grow into herself, overcoming her lack of guidance and her insecurities. Her life experiences became her teachers, and she learned from the mistakes and choices she made along the way, plagued by the guilt she carried for her mother. Conflicted Hearts is a heartfelt journey of self-discovery and acceptance, an exploration of the quest for solace from emotional guilt.

Download or read book A Day Like This written by Kelley McNeil and published by Lake Union Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if everything you've ever loved, ever known, ever believed to be true...just disappeared? Annie Beyers has everything--a beautiful house, a loving husband, and an adorable daughter. It's a day like any other when she takes Hannah to the pediatrician...until she wakes hours later from a car accident. When she asks for her daughter, confused doctors tell Annie that Hannah never existed. In fact, nothing after waking from the crash is the same as Annie remembers. Five happy years of her life apparently never happened. Annie's marriage is coming to an end. Now a successful artist living in Manhattan, she's no longer home in their beloved upstate farmhouse. Her long-estranged sister is more like a best friend, and her recently deceased dog is alive and well. With each passing day, Annie's remembered past and unfamiliar present begin to blur. Haunted by visions of Hannah, and with knowledge of things she can't explain, Annie wonders...is everyone lying to her? The search for answers leads Annie down an illuminating path far from home, to reconcile the memories with reality and to discover the truth about the life she's living.

Download or read book Father Daddy Dad written by Natasha Sayles and published by Tate Publishing & Enterprises. This book was released on 2016-11-22 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up is hard enough, but imagine growing up in a world full of chaos. In Father, Daddy, Dad, Natalie struggles to find her place in this world, all the while desiring the love of the father she never knew. Follow her on her journey as she battles with cerebral palsy, low self-esteem, and attempts to overcome the obstacle of growing up in a home full of domestic violence.