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Circuit of Heaven

Author : Dennis Danvers

Publisher : Speaking Volumes

Page : 322 pages

File Size : 48,31 MB

Release :

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 162815893X

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“A haunting novel that will make readers wonder.”-Orlando Sentinel Nemo's mother and father left him behind to enter "the Bin"—joining twelve billion uploaded personalities who live in crime-free, disease-free and deathless virtual societies. Nemo has come of age on a dangerous, near-deserted planet populated by a handful of stragglers: religious fundamentalists and rebels, the creeps and the crazies. Now he is twenty-one. And on a rare, reluctant visit to the parents who abandoned flesh and son for cyber-utopia, Nemo has met the perfect woman: a new Bin arrival named Justine, a beautiful pop singer who dreams other people's dreams in the virtual night. Now an inconvenient attraction is leading two lovers into a perilous mire of irreversible choice. For Justine has no body to return to. And Nemo the renegade has sworn never to sacrifice his own; to live, age, and die instead in a bleak earthly hell. Because, as an outsider, he may enter the Bin for short periods of time. But if he ever decides to stay...there will be no way out again. “EARTHLY AND SPIRITUAL DELIGHTS AROUND… DENNIS DANVERS'S MOVE TO SF IS A WELCOME ONE."-Washington Post "A wild ride."-Details "Danvers isn't exactly a household name in SF circles... CIRCUIT OF HEAVEN may change that."- Locus



End of Days

Author : Dennis Danvers

Publisher : Avon Books

Page : 392 pages

File Size : 12,81 MB

Release : 1999

Category : Fiction

ISBN :

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On a post-apocalyptic Earth run by religious zealots, a young soldier discovers the Bin, a giant computer with billions of disembodied souls.



City of Heaven

Author : Tom Terry

Publisher : iUniverse

Page : 282 pages

File Size : 23,53 MB

Release : 2008-05

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0595512518

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Fourteen hundred years after the millennial reign of the King, the world has strayed from the principles that led to humankind's greatest era: the Great Generation. The principal system of faith, Royalism, has become a politically oriented belief system. Responding to the growing threat to their beliefs, factions of the Royalist Social Movement seek to restore the principles and former glory of the Great Generation. High above Terra, connected by tethers stretching from the surface to sixty-four thousand kilometers in space, is the civilian space station City of Heaven-home to more than a million citizens. A futuristic Tower of Babel, City of Heaven is humankind's greatest achievement. But, Ar'chaists, a radical sect of Royalism, are determined to force the world to bend its knee, with Ar'chaists assuming the Regency. In a single act of terror, they sever the tethers connecting City of Heaven, killing nearly all of its inhabitants and sending the city on a collision course with Terra, where millions more will surely die. In space and on Terra, survivors battle for control and the polifaith movement reaches a crisis that threatens to unleash a new global faith-cleansing that will rid the world of Royalism once and for all.



Heaven's Reach

Author : David Brin

Publisher : Spectra

Page : 576 pages

File Size : 38,6 MB

Release : 2009-12-30

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0307573508

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Winner of the Nebula and Hugo Awards, David Brin brings his bestselling Uplift series to a magnificent conclusion with his most imaginative and powerful novel to date--the shattering epic of a universe poised on the brink of revelation...or annihilation. The brutal enemy that has relentlessly pursued them for centuries has arrived. Now the fugitive settlers of Jijo--both human and alien--brace for a final confrontation. The Jijoans' only hope is the Earthship Streaker, crewed by uplifted dolphins and commanded by an untested human. Yet more than just the fate of Jijo hangs in the balance. For Streaker carries a cargo of ancient artifacts that may unlock the secret of those who first brought intelligent life to the Galaxies. Many believe a dire prophecy has come to pass: an age of terrifying changes that could end Galactic civilization. As dozens of white dwarf stars stand ready to explode, the survival of sentient life in the universe rests on the most improbable dream of all--that age-old antagonists of different races can at last recognize the unity of all consciousness.



A Circuit Rider's Wife

Author : Corra Harris

Publisher : Legare Street Press

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 19,21 MB

Release : 2022-10-26

Category : Literary Collections

ISBN : 9781015633292

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.



The Four Gates of Heaven

Author : Moshe Mazin

Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing

Page : 299 pages

File Size : 48,76 MB

Release : 2013-05

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1625163177

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The Four Gates of Heaven is a tantalizing sci-fi adventure in which Professor Daniel Johnson and his fiancee, Dr. Helena Edward, embark on an epic journey in search of the staff of Eden, the twelve stones of Joshua, and the lost Ark of the Covenant. Their search leads them to the descendants of the Knights Templar and the modern day Bilderberg Group, the most powerful organization on earth today. This fast-moving story involves Israeli military intelligence, AMAN, and the American national security agency, the NSA, in the plot as the two scientists are joined by Professor Lahav of Hebrew University in Jerusalem to uncover some of the most startling discoveries in modern history. The novel highlights amazing interactions between the Knights Templar, the Order of the Masons, and the Catholic Church over the last nine hundred years, climaxing with a nail-biter ending atop biblical Mount Sinai. Moshe Mazin was born in Baghdad, Iraq, to a Jewish family that dates back to the Babylonian exile of the Jewish people from Jerusalem in 586 B.C. "My family moved to Israel during Operation Nehemiah in 1951 after the establishment of the state of Israel. I grew up in Israel and later moved to the United States to finish my studies. I have three college degrees and forty-eight U.S. patents in integrated circuit technology." He now lives in the Boston area and is currently writing the sequel titled The Gods of Eden. Publisher's website: http: //sbpra.com/MosheMazin



My Time in Heaven

Author : Richard Sigmund

Publisher : Whitaker House

Page : 161 pages

File Size : 43,52 MB

Release : 2009-12-14

Category : Religion

ISBN : 1603743502

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Is there life after death? After a tragic accident, doctors pronounced Richard Sigmund legally dead. Eight hours later, God miraculously brought him back to life on the way to the morgue. During those hours, God allowed him to experience the glorious beauty, heavenly sounds, sweet aromas, and boundless joys of heaven that await every believer. God then returned him back to earth with a mission to tell the world what he saw. You will thrill to Sigmund’s eyewitness accounts of strolling down heaven’s streets of gold, seeing angels playing with children, talking with Jesus, meeting with people from the Bible, as well as departed family and friends, seeing the mansions, and much more! Through Sigmund’s testimony, God restored sight to the blind, hearing to the deaf, and even raised several people from the dead. Also, glimpse into the horrifying reality of “the other place”—a place where no one wants to go.



The Sword of Heaven

Author : Mikkel Aaland

Publisher : Travelers' Tales

Page : 279 pages

File Size : 50,38 MB

Release : 2010-07-31

Category : Travel

ISBN : 1609520076

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“Any attempt at peace must be attended by a knowledge of self,” discovers writer and photographer Mikkel Aaland, who grew up with a bomb shelter for a bedroom, in terror of nuclear war. At the height of the Cold War, Aaland finds himself drawn into a mysterious Shinto priest’s plan to save the world. Traveling from Norway to the Philippines, Iceland to South Africa, he places pieces of a sacred Shinto sword in key power spots around the world. Along the way, he comes face to face with his deepest childhood fears of war and destruction, encounters the compelling and mysterious Shinto religion, struggles with the uncertainties of love, and learns to face life with an open heart. The Sword of Heaven tells the extraordinary true story of a journey in which all boundaries are pushed—geographical, cultural, and personal—and in which the healing of the world and the healing of one man appear to be inextricably linked.



Why I Love the Apostle Paul

Author : John Piper

Publisher : Crossway

Page : 178 pages

File Size : 32,52 MB

Release : 2019-01-17

Category : Religion

ISBN : 1433565072

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"Besides Jesus, no one has kept me from despair, or taken me deeper into the mysteries of the gospel, than the apostle Paul." —John Piper No one has had a greater impact on the world for eternal good than the apostle Paul—except Jesus himself. For John Piper, this impact is very personal. He does not just admire and trust Paul. He loves him. Piper gives us thirty glimpses into why his heart and mind respond this way. Can a Christian-killer really endure 195 lashes from a heart of love? Can a mystic who thinks he was caught up into heaven be a model of lucid rationality? Can an ethnocentric Jew write the most beautiful call to reconciliation? Can a person who lives with the unceasing anguish of empathy be always rejoicing? Can a man's description of the horrors of human sin be exceeded by his delight in human splendor? Can a man with a backbone of steel be as tender as a nursing mother? If we know this man—if we see what Piper sees—we too will love him. Paul's testimony is a matter of life and death. Piper invites you into his relationship with Paul in the hope that you will know life, forever.



The Circuit

Author : Rowan Ricardo Phillips

Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Page : 257 pages

File Size : 43,32 MB

Release : 2018-11-20

Category : Sports & Recreation

ISBN : 0374718679

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Winner of the 2019 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing “The Circuit is the best sports book I've read in years, maybe ever.” —Rich Cohen, author of The Chicago Cubs and Monsters “As sports writing goes, The Circuit is unusual in the very best way. Rowan Ricardo Phillips writes with such fluidity, and packs the book with bursts of brilliance. This is a compulsively readable guide to one truly Homeric year of professional tennis.” —John Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars An energetic, lyrical, genre-defying account of the 2017 tennis season. In The Circuit: A Tennis Odyssey, the award-winning poet—and Paris Review sports columnist—Rowan Ricardo Phillips chronicles 2017 as seen through the unique prism of its pivotal, revelatory, and historic tennis season. The annual tennis schedule is a rarity in professional sports in that it encapsulates the calendar year. And like the year, it’s divided into four seasons, each marked by a final tournament: the Grand Slams. Phillips charts the year from winter’s Australian Open, where Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal renewed their rivalry in a match for the ages, to fall’s U.S. Open. Along the way, Phillips paints a new, vibrant portrait of tennis, one that captures not only the emotions, nerves, and ruthless tactics of the point-by-point game but also the quicksilver movement of victory and defeat on the tour, placing that sense of upheaval within a broader cultural and social context. Tennis has long been thought of as an escapist spectacle: a bucolic, separate bauble of life. The Circuit will convince you that you don’t leave the world behind as you watch tennis—you bring it with you.