Author : Robert Buettner
Publisher : Orbit
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 12,90 MB
Release : 2008-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0316032077
In the bold, second installment of Buettner's military science fiction series that began with Orphanage, 25-year-old General Jason Wander is returning home after long years in space, but to what? Earth is now impoverished following the alien war. The problem -- the first alien invasion was merely Plan A.
Author : S. Daughtry
Publisher :
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 14,54 MB
Release : 2018-03-13
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780997905731
ALL HE WANTED WAS A LITTLE ADVENTURE...BUT WHAT HE GOT WAS EPIC! Tayus is living a pretty boring life--his only escape is through the mythical stories of the Tenians. One fateful day Tayus' world is turned upside down. Tayus is confronted with who he really is, deciding who he can trust, and submitting to the power that he never knew he had.
Author : Ella Leya
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 39,77 MB
Release : 2015-02-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1402298676
Set at the crossroads of Turkish, Persian and Russian cultures under the red flag of Communism in the late 1970s, The Orphan Sky reveals one woman's struggle to reconcile her ideals with the corrupt world around her, and to decide whether to betray her country or her heart. Leila is a young classical pianist who dreams of winning international competitions and bringing awards to her beloved country Azerbaijan. She is also a proud daughter of the Communist Party. When she receives an assignment from her communist mentor to spy on a music shop suspected of traitorous Western influences, she does it eagerly, determined to prove her worth to the Party. But Leila didn't anticipate the complications of meeting Tahir, the rebellious painter who owns the music shop. His jazz recordings, abstract art, and subversive political opinions crack open the veneer of the world she's been living in. Just when she begins to fall in love with both the West and Tahir, her comrades force her to make an impossible choice.
Author : Stephanie Fast
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,95 MB
Release : 2016-11-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780996293839
A war orphan's incredible journey of survival.
Author : John C. Wright
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 29,66 MB
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429915633
John C. Wright burst onto the SF scene with the Golden Age trilogy. His next project was the ambitious fantasy sequence, The Last Guardians of Everness. Wright's new fantasy is a tale about five orphans raised in a strict British boarding school who begin to discover that they may not be human beings. The students at the school do not age, while the world around them does. The children begin to make sinister discoveries about themselves. Amelia is apparently a fourth-dimensional being; Victor is a synthetic man who can control the molecular arrangement of matter around him; Vanity can find secret passageways through solid walls where none had previously been; Colin is a psychic; Quentin is a warlock. Each power comes from a different paradigm or view of the inexplicable universe: and they should not be able to co-exist under the same laws of nature. Why is it that they can? The orphans have been kidnapped from their true parents, robbed of their powers, and raised in ignorance by super-beings no more human than they are: pagan gods or fairy-queens, Cyclopes, sea-monsters, witches, or things even stranger than this. The children must experiment with, and learn to control, their strange abilities in order to escape their captors. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : Al Lacy
Publisher : Multnomah
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 45,55 MB
Release : 2008-12-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307564673
Kearney, Cheyenne, Rawlins. Reno, Sacramento, San Francisco. At each train station, a few lucky orphans from the crowded streets of New York City receive the fulfillment of their dreams: a home and family. This "orphan train" is the vision of Charles Loring Brace, founder of the Children's Aid Society, who cannot bear to see innocent children abandoned in the overpopulated cities of the mid-nineteenth-century. Yet it is not just the orphans whose lives need mending -- follow the train along and watch God's hand restore love and laughter to the right family at the right time!
Author : Aaron Mahnke
Publisher :
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 42,47 MB
Release : 2011-07-14
Category :
ISBN : 9781463724962
Every tale must have a beginning, a birth, a point of departure. Some tales begin long, long ago, while others in a land far away. Some begin with both, and for some, that is where they end as well.It is said that stories give life to people long dead and forgotten. That the mysterious path to immortality is a life worthy of remembrance. Tales can last thousands of years, or vanish with the coming spring. They can be heirlooms, passed from father to son with love and reverence, or trinkets tossed aside like unwanted toys. Some tales birth gods, and some conceal the truth. This tale does not lay claim to the former, but it certainly deals strongly in the latter. For truth is better digested when taken with honey...Orphaned at birth with a mysterious key, Simon Kendrick was raised in the quiet village of Bywood unaware of his true story. But when a traveling knight presents him with the opportunity to search for answers outside his home, Simon jumps at the chance.Now, Simon must undertake an unforgettable journey if he is to discover who he truly is.
Author : Sigmund Brouwer
Publisher : WaterBrook
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 49,98 MB
Release : 2012-07-10
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0307730654
The future of the Immortals is in the hands of an orphan My greatest fear was that they would find us and make of us a sacrifice beneath a full moon. Now you, Thomas, must help us destroy the circle of evil. The last words of a dying woman would change the life of young Thomas. Raised behind monastery walls, he knows nothing of his mysterious past or imminent destiny. But now, in the heart of medieval England, a darkness threatens to strangle truth. An ancient order tightens their ghostly grip on power, creating fear and exiling those who would oppose them. Thomas is determined fulfill his calling and bring light into the mysterious world of the Druids and leaves the monastery on an important quest. Thomas quickly finds himself in unfamiliar territory, as he must put his faith in unusual companions—a cryptic knight, a child thief, and the beautiful, silent woman whom may not be all she seems. From the solitary life of an orphan, Thomas now finds himself tangled in the roots of both comradery and suspicion. Can he trust those who would join his battle…or will his fears force him to go on alone?
Author : Andrew Lees
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 17,19 MB
Release : 2010-02-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0472025104
In her autobiography, the remarkable feminist and social worker Alice Salomon recounts her transition in the 1890s from privileged idleness to energetic engagement in solving social problems. Salomon took the lead in establishing the profession of social work, and built a career as a social reformer, activist, and educator. A prolific author, Salomon also played a key role in the transatlantic dialogue between German and American feminists in the early twentieth century. Her narrative concludes with the account of her expulsion from Germany by the Nazis in 1937. Salomon's formative influence on the field of social work makes her story crucial for the history of the discipline. This work will also appeal to anyone with an interest in the history of the feminist and socialist movements or the political and social history of twentieth-century Germany. The volume also includes several of Salomon's essays on social work and women's issues, along with photographs of Salomon, her students, and her colleagues. Andrew Lees is Professor and Chair of the History Department at Rutgers University, Camden.
Author : Susan Moore
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,12 MB
Release : 2016-06
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 9780857634498
A thrilling action and adventure series set in futuristic Hong Kong with an awesome female hero.
