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Shattered Lineage

Author : Dave Walsh

Publisher : DW Science Fiction

Page : 279 pages

File Size : 28,86 MB

Release : 2020-03-31

Category : Young Adult Fiction

ISBN :

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He may be dead but the power of a god lives on. Drake’s life will never be the same again, not after an all-powerful being took root inside his mind. Drake saw Him die with his own eyes, destroyed along with an entire planet. Then why does Drake still hear that voice in the back of his head? Valencia has her own demons to face, her bond with Emma—the Sentinel—left her to mull her own existence and crave the family she never had more than ever. Drake ran off to take care of Bruce and that new guy aboard the Trystero? What a joke. Slowing down isn’t an option, though, not when the enraged son of a fallen Gra’al warlord—the one they killed—has his sights set on the power stirring inside of Drake and exacting his revenge on the galaxy. He’ll stop at nothing to repair his shattered lineage, even if it means the destruction of both the Terran and Gra’als altogether. *** KEYWORDS: scifi, science fiction, science fiction ebooks, space opera, space opera ebooks, alien baby, starships, scifi ebooks, space opera science fiction, colonization scifi, starship aliens, scifi heroine, young adult science fiction adventure, alien baby series, space opera book 1, alien war, lgbtq scifi, young adult scifi, ya scifi, science fiction adventure ebooks, science fiction adventure, lovecraftian scifi, elder gods, elder gods scifi, metaphysical scifi



Family Systems and Life-span Development

Author : Kurt Kreppner

Publisher : Psychology Press

Page : 416 pages

File Size : 11,81 MB

Release : 2013-05-13

Category : Psychology

ISBN : 1134737106

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This interdisciplinary volume presents international research and theories focusing on the development of the individual across the life span. Centering on "family" as the key context influencing, and being influenced by the developing person, the contributors to this volume discuss an array of theoretical models, methodological strategies, and substantive foci linking the study of individual development, the family system, and the broader context of human development. The volume presents continuing empirical research and theories in the realm of individual and family development and features a developmental, contextual view from a process-oriented vantage point.



Tragic Spirits

Author : Manduhai Buyandelger

Publisher : University of Chicago Press

Page : 331 pages

File Size : 46,18 MB

Release : 2013-11

Category : History

ISBN : 0226086550

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The collapse of socialism at the end of the twentieth century brought devastating changes to Mongolia. Economic shock therapy—an immediate liberalization of trade and privatization of publicly owned assets—quickly led to impoverishment, especially in rural parts of the country, where Tragic Spirits takes place. Following the travels of the nomadic Buryats, Manduhai Buyandelger tells a story not only of economic devastation but also a remarkable Buryat response to it—the revival of shamanic practices after decades of socialist suppression. Attributing their current misfortunes to returning ancestral spirits who are vengeful over being abandoned under socialism, the Buryats are now at once trying to appease their ancestors and recover the history of their people through shamanic practice. Thoroughly documenting this process, Buyandelger situates it as part of a global phenomenon, comparing the rise of shamanism in liberalized Mongolia to its similar rise in Africa and Indonesia. In doing so, she offers a sophisticated analysis of the way economics, politics, gender, and other factors influence the spirit world and the crucial workings of cultural memory.



The Trystero Collection: Books 1-3

Author : Dave Walsh

Publisher : DW Science Fiction

Page : 781 pages

File Size : 44,53 MB

Release : 2020-06-19

Category : Young Adult Fiction

ISBN :

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The war between humans and aliens was over, but peace remained elusive. For living life in the DMZ between Terran and Gra'al space, things are mostly uneventful for Drake Rose and Captain Valencia Vasquez. The discovery of an abandoned alien child aboard a derelict freighter with its crew slaughtered changes everything. The fragile peace between two proud people is about to be tested and the ancient secrets hidden within the galaxy are waiting to explode. Drake finds himself the protector of not just the child, but life itself. All while Valencia is thrust into more power and responsibility than any human has ever possessed. The crew of the Trystero are the broken heroes no one expected. It's Firefly meets The Mandalorian in this coming of age space opera series. This bundle includes: Broken Ascension Fractured Sentinel Shattered Lineage *** The Trystero Collection: Books 1 - 3 is a collection of the first three novels in the Trystero science fiction adventure series. This ebook boxed set/collection has dashes of classic space opera scope with the action and adventure modern sci-fi readers love. It’s a book readers have said is parts Mandalorian, Firefly, and Hyperion. Follow Drake as he discovers his place in the galaxy, along with the captain, Valencia, and her crew, as they walk the fine line between aliens and humans always on the verge of war. A semi-finalist in Hugh Howey’s SPSFC, Broken Ascension has been dazzling readers for years now, while Fractured Sentinel and Shattered Lineage expand on the galaxy, characters and dive deeper into the metaphysical and LGBTQ themes. Scott from the YouTube channel Book Invasion had this to say about Broken Ascension: “Walsh crafts some excellent action scenes and tension in a high-stakes world while jugging the yin and yang of the characters.” YouTuber Ramsey Meadows says: “So far this is my favorite of the books I have read for the SPSFC and it was a great grow up fast because he has to book.”



Krishna's Lineage

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Publisher : Oxford University Press

Page : 465 pages

File Size : 12,31 MB

Release : 2019-07-02

Category : Religion

ISBN : 0190279206

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Forming the final part of the Sanskrit Mahabharata, the Harivamsha's main business is to supply narrative details about the great god Vishnu's avatar Krishna Vasudeva, who has been a comparatively minor character in the previous parts of the Mahabharata, despite having taken centre stage in the Bhagavad Gita. Krishna is born in Mathura (some 85 miles south of present-day Delhi). As an infant he is smuggled out of Mathura for his own safety. He and his brother Baladeva grow up among cowherds in the forest, where between them they perform many miraculous deeds and kill many dangerous demons, before returning to Mathura where they kill the evil King Kamsa and his cronies. Thereafter, Krishna is the hero and unofficial leader of his people the Yadava-Vrishnis. When Mathura is besieged by enemies, Krishna leads his people to abandon the town and migrate west, founding the dazzling new city of Dvaraka by the sea. Krishna then repeatedly travels away from that base repeatedly to perform heroic deeds benefitting those in need - including his own people, his more immediate family, and the gods. After narrating the stories of Krishna, the Harivamsha ends by finishing the story of Janamejaya with which the Mahabharata began. The Harivamsha is a powerhouse of Hindu mythology and a classic of world literature. It begins by contextualising Vishnu's appearance as Krishna in several ways, in the process presenting a variety of cosmogonical, cosmological, genealogical, mythological, theological, and karmalogical materials. It then narrates Krishna's birth and adventures in detail. Presenting a wide variety of exciting stories in a poetic register that makes extensive use of natural imagery, the Harivamsha is a neglected literary gem and an ideal starting-point for readers new to Indian literature.



Lethal Lineage

Author : Charlotte Hinger

Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.

Page : 312 pages

File Size : 39,26 MB

Release : 2011-02-07

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1615952829

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A sinister Episcopal Bishop shows up to confirm Lottie and Josie Albright's niece at the new frame church built on the corners of four Western Kansas counties. Suddenly, the Reverend Mary Farnsworth flees to the anteroom after dropping the chalice during communion. Josie, a psychologist, lingers after the service to comfort her, but Lottie orders her sister to leave when they discover Reverend Mary's body. As Deputy Sheriff, Lottie's duty bound to attend to the death. Back at the county-wide picnic, an elderly lady informs Lottie that a man kneeling next to her scared Reverend Mary into a heart attack. Lottie soon learns that the beloved Reverend Mary was a woman without a past, and that the rogue Bishop has unexpected ties to Western Kansas. A sheriff from an adjacent county, unaware that Josie is an FBI consultant, assumes that seizing control of the investigation will be easy and instead arouses the twins' wrath. Forgetting that the past is always present, Lottie's investigation into old documents riles up murderous century-old rivalries....



The Seven Instruction Lineages

Author : Jo Nang Taranatha

Publisher : Library of Tibetan Works and Archives

Page : 181 pages

File Size : 21,75 MB

Release : 2007-01-01

Category : Religion

ISBN : 8186470654

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In the present work, Taranatha paints a miraculous picture of the great Siddhas of India their lives and the lineages which sprang from their teachings. In all, the lives of some 59 Siddhas are related some well known, others more obscure, but all linked by their various lineages and by the instructions handed down from Siddha to disciple. Taranatha’s account of these remarkable lives is especially valuable as he had as his gurus, and as the sources of these accounts, three Indians from the very traditions about which he wrote with such conviction. The lineage accounts are very important for a clear understanding of the Tantric upadesas themselves. In several places Taranatha makes quite sure that his own lineage is irrefutably established so that there is no doubt that he is a participator in the upadesas themselves, not merely a hander down of legends. The accounts were evidently passed on and, due to the special factors involved in the tantric oral tradition, we cannot but understand them as being accurate and reliable.



Subversive Genealogy

Author : Michael Rogin

Publisher : Univ of California Press

Page : 374 pages

File Size : 48,50 MB

Release : 1985-04-18

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 9780520051782

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This book makes several claims which ought to be stated at the outset: that Herman Melville is a recorder and interpreter of American society whose work is comparable to that of the great nineteenth-century European realists; that there was crisis of bourgeois society at midcentury on both continents, but that in America it entered politics by way of slavery and race rather than class; that the crisis called into question the ideal realm of liberal political freedom, and also that Melville was particularly sensitive to the American crisis because of the political importance of his clan and the political history of his family



The Wisdom of a Broken Heart

Author : Susan Piver

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 240 pages

File Size : 38,48 MB

Release : 2010-12-28

Category : Family & Relationships

ISBN : 1416593160

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When a relationship ends, for many, the devastating, obsessive nature of a broken heart is a complete surprise. You feel like something has been physically shattered, right in the middle of your chest. The whole world mirrors your sorrow and there is nowhere to hide. The anguish and disappointment of a broken heart is devastating, but Susan Piver, the author of "The Hard Questions" and "How Not to Be Afraid of Your Own Life," reveals in these pages that heartbreak's overwhelming pain also creates an opportunity for genuine spiritual transformation, enabling you to emerge on the other side stronger, softer, and capable of loving even more deeply than before.



Sci-Fi Alien Abduction Romance Boxed Set - The Quasar Lineage Series Books 1 to 5.5

Author : Pearl Tate

Publisher : Steamy Media LLC

Page : 1108 pages

File Size : 45,29 MB

Release :

Category : Fiction

ISBN :

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Start the hot and steamy alien abduction romance series The Quasar Lineage. The women are abducted from Earth and given new lives with their fated mates. Discover the instalove in this complete action and adventure boxset containing the following six sci-fi alien abduction romances: BREN’S BLESSING I enjoy my job, so when things go sideways and aliens board my lab, I try to stay positive and make sure that I just observe and stay alive. But I’m immediately grabbed and taken to their ship. It appears that I’m now the property of the alien that grabbed me. He’s big, possessive and seems to want to get to know me a lot better... MATTHIAS’S MIRACLE I wake from my abduction while being separated from my friends. Sore and groggy, I’m tied to a bed before I realize what’s going on. As the circumstances start to sink in, I fight until I hear a roar of rage. At first, my rescuer scares me as much as my captors, but when I realize he’s helping me, he becomes my new best friend... AMARI’S ADORED Before I even wake up from my abduction, I’m “rescued” from the shuttle that crashed here on their prison planet. But as I’m coming to terms with everything around me, I become a pawn in a tug-of-war between my new rescuer and a group of unhappy aliens. They’re determined to break away from their prison, taking everything of value with them… and that includes me! DEVLIN’S DARLING Aliens stole me from Earth, from everything that made my life safe. Beautiful tattoos have surfaced on my body… mating marks… marks that tie me to one of the aliens on the prison planet. I’m intrigued—and a little bit scared. The prisoner whose marks match mine, well, he’s really big, and feared by the other aliens. Will he even like me? I’m not sure what to expect, but I believe in destiny. I’m hoping he won’t turn me away. He’s all I have now. CALLIM’S CHALLENGE Abducted from Earth, contracting a deadly disease, getting matched up to an alien I’ve never met… welcome to the chaos that’s my life. Now, I’m on a spaceship traveling to Quasar to get the vaccine I need to survive and meet my future mate. I don’t believe in fate and being told my perfect match is waiting for me sounds like complete idiocy. There’s no other choice now, though. It’s either that or die a debilitating death. FOROHN’S FATED I’m dying. You’d think the worst thing that happened to me was being abducted from college by aliens. But no. The icing on the cake is I’ve contracted a debilitating disease, and I’ll be dead in the next couple of months. Unless I get the vaccine. It won’t do me any good to convince the Quasar aliens to take me home to Earth. I’d just end of giving the virus to everyone there… Don’t miss out on these fated mate alien romances guaranteed to have you wanting an Quasar alien all for yourself!



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