Download or read book The Walls of Orion written by T. D. Fox and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orion City has been on lockdown for ten years. Courtney Spencer, a disillusioned barista doomed to live a "normal" life in a quarantined fishbowl, is certain she'll never see over the Wall again. Until one rainy evening, Courtney unintentionally befriends W, an eccentric customer who leaves a switchblade in the tip jar. The unexpected acquaintance soon opens the door to a frightening string of questions that flips everything she knows upside down. Stumbling into a world of secrets, lies, and disturbing truths, Courtney grapples with a burning temptation to look again at the Wall. Surrounded by citizens trained to ignore its looming shadow, Courtney no longer can. Intrigued and terrified to expand her world, Courtney finds herself toeing a knife's edge between the law and justice, learning quickly that the two are not always compatible. She wants to cling to her morals. She also wants to stay alive. But most of all, she wants to see a certain customer again, despite everything in her whispering W is dangerous. In a gritty urban clash of hope and fear, passion and survival, The Walls of Orion explores the edges of light, dark, and the gray in between.
Download or read book Orion Among the Stars written by Ben Bova and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1996 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than human and less that a god, John O'Ryan is Orion, made by the Creators who rule outside of time. His purpose is to do their bidding. Now, Orion has becomee a key piece in a cosmic game between two of the Creators--Anya, the goddess he loves, and Aten, the god who toys with his destiny.
Download or read book Orion written by Ben Bova and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John O'Ryan is not a god . . . not exactly. He is an eternal warrior destined to combat the Dark Lord through all time for dominion of the Earth. Follow him, servant of a great race, as he battles his enemy down the halls of time, from the caves of our ancestors to the final confrontation under the hammer of nuclear annihilation. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book Black Sabbath written by Mick Wall and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2015-04-14 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decades before reality television was invented, Ozzy Osbourne was subversive and dark. Ozzy was the singer in the heavy metal band Black Sabbath, and they meant business. In an era when rock bands were measured by how 'heavy' they were, no one was weightier than Black Sabbath. All four founding members of the original Black Sabbath grew up within half-a-mile of each other in a tiny Birmingham suburb. Though all shared a deep love of music--The Beatles for Ozzy, the Mothers of Invention for Geezer, the Shadows and Chet Atkins for Iommi, and Gene Kruppa for Ward— they formed their group "as the quickest way out of the slums." This is the story of how they made that dream come true--and how it then turned into a nightmare for all of them. At the height of their fame, Sabbath discovered they'd been so badly ripped off by their managers they didn't even own their own songs. They looked for salvation from Don Arden—an even more notorious gangster figure, who resurrected their career but still left them indebted to him, financially and personally. It finally came to a head when in 1979 they sacked Ozzy: "For being too out of control--even for us," as Bill Ward put it. The next fifteen years were a war between the post-Ozzy Sabbath and Ozzy himself, whose solo career overshadowed Sabbath so much that a reunion was entirely on his terms. Or rather, those of his wife and manager—to add a further bitter twist for Sabbath, daughter of Don Arden —Sharon Osbourne.
Download or read book Watchers on the Walls written by Christopher L. Bennett and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2006-04-25 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For years, many have believed that the rise of superpowered mutants represents a threat to the survival of ordinary humans. The uncanny X-Men have dedicated their lives to proving that peaceful coexistence is possible. When a refugee spacecraft crashes on Earth, hounded by a warship bent on its destruction, the X-Men race to the rescue -- only to learn that it carries beings of an entirely different order whose very existence may jeopardize life as we know it. Now, facing a direct threat to all life on Earth, the X-Men grapple with an impossible moral dilemma -- to defend the aliens whose only crime is being born different . . . or to embrace the methods of those who have long condemned mutantkind, joining forces with their own greatest persecutors to go hunt down their common enemy and end the evolutionary menace, once and for all.
Download or read book Orion s Awakening written by Leon C.M. Joseph and published by Leon C.M. Joseph. This book was released on 2016 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would you do if the life you live has all been a lie? Sixteen-year-old Orion is about to find out, as his world is thrown into turmoil. When he learns that the stars are his home and that he is destined to rule over a kingdom. Leaving everything he knows behind he risks losing himself and his humanity to save magical races he never knew existed. With the help of his newfound companion, Orion must embark on a journey to dangerous new places and take on an unknown evil that seeks to take over his kingdom.
Download or read book Orion Rising written by Leonard O’Neill and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the remote past, evidence was left behind, documented, written down, painted on cave walls and in paintings throughout time. Evidence that was ignored by the mainstream academics. Some would see this evidence and ask about it, only to be ridiculed for it. Let me put this idea into perspective for you. Socrates, a philosopher of great stature even to this day, was forced to drink poison and take his own life because he openly said that the earth was not flat! It was and had to be round! He was put to death for this way of thinking, let alone outright saying it. So you see, it is not just something so small as to say aliens are real at any time in history on this planet! One could be put to death for much less. The motto of most military pilots, some commercial to this day, is If you talk about UFOs or say UFO, the only thing you will be flying is a desk! So this, as you can see, has kept many people from saying anything. In fact, if you asked the average American in 1975 if they believed in UFOs, the percent was 10 percent. It has taken until now in 2016 to get that number up to 58 percent, in large part thanks to the men and women that have dedicated there lives to this cause. Do you believe in aliens or not? I ask this to everyone. What if it is true? What if it all was true? What if aliens did come to Earth? What if they are still here? What if a couple of people stumbled on it?
Download or read book Finding Orion written by John David Anderson and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed author of Ms. Bixby’s Last Day and Posted returns with an unforgettable tale of love and laughter, of fathers and sons, of what family truly means, and of the ways in which we sometimes need to lose something in order to find ourselves. Celebrate dads and Father's Day year-round with this warm and witty novel for tweens. Rion Kwirk comes from a rather odd family. His mother named him and his sisters after her favorite constellations, and his father makes funky-flavored jellybeans for a living. One sister acts as if she’s always on stage, and the other is a walking dictionary. But no one in the family is more odd than Rion’s grandfather, Papa Kwirk. He’s the kind of guy who shows up on his motorcycle only on holidays handing out crossbows and stuffed squirrels as presents. Rion has always been fascinated by Papa Kwirk, especially as his son—Rion’s father—is the complete opposite. Where Dad is predictable, nerdy, and reassuringly boring, Papa Kwirk is mysterious, dangerous, and cool. Which is why, when Rion and his family learn of Papa Kwirk’s death and pile into the car to attend his funeral and pay their respects, Rion can’t help but feel that that’s not the end of his story. That there’s so much more to Papa Kwirk to discover. He doesn’t know how right he is.
Download or read book Up the Walls of the World written by James Tiptree and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first novel from the award-winning author of Brightness Falls from the Air, a writer “known for gender-bending, boundary-pushing work” (Tor.com). Up the Walls of the World is the 1978 debut novel of Alice Sheldon, who had built her reputation with the acclaimed short stories she published under the name James Tiptree Jr. A singular representation of American science fiction in its prime, Tiptree’s first novel expanded on the themes she addressed in her short fiction. “From telepathy to cosmology, from densely conceived psychological narrative to the broadest of sense-of-wonder revelations, the novel is something of a tour de force” (The Science Fiction Encyclopedia). Known as the Destroyer, a self-aware leviathan roams through space gobbling up star systems. In its path is the planet Tyree, populated by telepathic wind-dwelling aliens who are facing extinction. Meanwhile on Earth, people burdened with psi powers are part of a secret military experiment run by a drug-addicted doctor struggling with his own grief. These vulnerable humans soon become the target of the Tyrenni, whose only hope of survival is to take over their bodies and minds—an unspeakable crime in any other period of the aliens’ history . . . Praise for James Tiptree Jr. “[Tiptree] can show you the human in the alien and the alien in the human and make both utterly real.” —The Washington Post “Novels that deal with the mental gymnastics of superminds, or with concepts like eternity and infinity, are doomed to fall short of the mark. But Tiptree’s misses are more exciting than the bulls‐eyes of less ambitious authors.” —The New York Times
Download or read book Within the Walls written by Justin Adam Bretz and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06-26 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Orion Nicholson passes through Winston, Kentucky, he finds a house that seems to draw him in. Immediately he falls in love with the building. When he finally moves to Winston, he realizes his new home is not all what it seems to be. The town residents are hiding secrets that they have kept for nearly fifty years. A rich man is seeking answers to the mystery. Another is running an illegal business. All Orion has is his longtime best friend, Howard. But when the nightmares begin and the voices start, Orion realizes it¿s not the town residents he has to worry about. There¿s something trying to get to him, from inside his own home. Something from within the walls.
Download or read book Lost Found written by Brooke Davis and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 international bestselling debut novel about the wisdom of the very young, the mischief of the very old, and the magic that happens along the way Millie Bird, seven years old and ever hopeful, always wears red gumboots to match her curly hair. Her struggling mother, grieving the death of Millie's father, leaves her in the big ladies' underwear department of a local store and never returns. United at this fateful moment with two octogenarians seekers, she embarks with them upon a road trip to find Millie's mother. Together they will discover that old age is not the same as death, that the young can be wise, and that letting yourself feel sad once in a while just might be the key to a happy life.
Download or read book Asta in the Wings written by Jan Elizabeth Watson and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2009-02-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poignant and often darkly funny story narrated by seven-year-old Asta Hewitt. In their isolated house in rural Maine, Asta, her bookish older brother, and their delusional mother construct fanciful, theatrical worlds of their own. Asta in the Wings is a poignant and often darkly funny story narrated by Asta Hewitt, a resourceful seven-year-old growing up in an isolated house in Bond Brook, Maine. Shut off from the outside world and restricted to the company of a delusional mother and a bookish older brother, Asta is content to be part of a "society of three," constructing fanciful, theatrical worlds of their own. When circumstances push her into a strange outside world—with all of its discontents—Asta must find a way to assimilate while remaining true to herself and her fractured family.
Download or read book Orion s Web written by Alexandra Manfield and published by Spindle Press. This book was released on 2022-02-17 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A captivating and immersive near-future fantasy adventure set against a backdrop of the Australian landscape. How far will a mother go to save her child? In a world where humanity is confined to climate-controlled domes, Outdwellers, Anna and Gardner must make it across the New Desert to find treatment for their daughter who is about to undergo her very first Change. Faulk Parker is trying to stop them. He has never missed a target, but this family is proving his most challenging yet. From a vast landscape to the glittering confines of the city, Faulk, Anna and Gardner become more than hunter and hunted, and find themselves challenged to question their own most deeply held truths. Order and wildness are on a collision course, and time for Anna and her family is fast running out...
Download or read book Orion Shall Rise written by Poul Anderson and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Centuries after a worldwide nuclear war has decimated Earth's population and devastated the land, four opposing pockets of civilisation vie for control of the planet - and of the precious resources that survived the destruction. Nothing less than the future of Mankind is at stake . . . A novel of politics and people, adventure and passion, of worlds real and imagined, ORION SHALL RISE is a powerful and utterly enthralling speculation on our global destiny - and a gripping story as only Poul Anderson could write it.
Download or read book A Forever Home written by Pamela J. Roe and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-11-30 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alessandra Petrovich is forced to leave her home in Kosovo, as a teenager, caught in the struggle between ethnic groups and terrified of the father she loves. She and her mother hide among thousands of refugees seeking asylum in other countries. Their journey leads them to a small Midwestern town in the United States, where they find solace and create a home for themselves. After fifteen years, Alessandra finds out her father is desperate to find her. She is forced to flee, once again, this time without her mother. Orion Grey returns to the small community of Hideaway Canyon, Colorado, near his family, to recuperate from his last mission. Understanding the sacrifices required of his job, he struggles to rectify his idealistic childhood. Orion does what any man would, after finding an unconscious woman along the roadside during a winter storm. Alessandra becomes unwittingly dependent upon Orion and his family as her memory returns, and her past is discovered. Will Orion be able to help Alessandra find out where she came from? Does she really want to know? What kind of dangers will the woman bring to the peaceful mountain village? Can two people who have survived dubious pasts, find love? Everyone deserves their happily ever after and a place to call their forever home. A place filled with love and a sense of security. A Forever Home: Grey’s Ranch Trilogy represents hope for people who live on the margins of society and an opportunity to open the hearts of those of us who have our happily ever after and forever home, to those who don’t.
Download or read book The Breached Wall written by Anita Burgh and published by Orion Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008-01 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third novel in a historical series set in Devon in the early 20th century, following the fortunes of a large aristocratic family before, during and after the First World War.
Download or read book Children of Orion written by Ryan Musgrave-Evans and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-21 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is another race of people inhabiting our world. They are not identical to us - although we are closely enough related to interbreed. They go largely unseen and unknown - although occasionally there are reports from a select few eyewitnesses of encounters with them; or observations of their advanced craft and technologies; or half-remembered interactions at night in homes across the world by the general public, that are usually scrambled or unclear in the mind's eye. They have been here co-existing with us for millennia; influencing our spirituality, folklore and religious, philosophical and even political systems. They wield a sophisticated set of technological 'toys' that bedazzle and mesmerize us, confuse our senses and our recollective powers, allow them to walk through walls, become invisible at will and float soundlessly through the air.This book is an investigation into the long-term presence of a race of humanoid beings - different and yet disturbingly similar to us; that walk unchecked through our houses and gardens at night, lurk in our woodlandsand remote places... andwho move beneath our oceans and govern our dreams.We move though historical accounts of non-humanoid beings - from the Fairy Faith of Celtic lands, to the earliest accounts of 'aliens' and 'ETs' in the modern era, all the way to the contemporary casesof Charles Hall's Millennial Hospitality and Christopher Bledsoe's Fayetteville Incident- meditating on the similarities and apparent identical natures of these non-human entities throughout history and time.The Children of Orion are here... and with them come the answers to our past, to our present and to our future selves.
