Author: Albert Clarkson
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1418468517
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 598
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A future of designer humans, smart machines, protean technology. Our dwindled descendents exiled to large space stations visit Cleansed Earth occasionally for gravity- and sensory-deprivation therapy. Human longevity, at last attained, ironically creates a Great Plague of Suicidal Despair, Disnovelling, born of the intruding longer prospect of bloody Nature and of the impersonal hurtling cosmic vastitudes. Centwen, a resurrected twentieth century archetype joined by elites and archetypes from other centuries, learns from his tour guides, the superbot, Prodigy, and its human creator, Great Psychodor, about a last-chance project to create not a mythical but a secular, dynamic, intelligent Heaven; and, if it succeeds, whether or not transformed humans and/or their intelligent machines can escape to it.
Author: Wallace Stroby
Publisher: Mulholland Books
ISBN: 0316540617
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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When a young widow witnesses a fatal car accident outside a Jersey Shore motel, she's suddenly thrust into a nightmare of gang violence, guns, and money that she can't outrun in this action-packed novel by "one of the best writers in crime fiction" (Alison Gaylin). Joette Harper's life brings new meaning to the phrase "paycheck to paycheck." Struggling to afford her mother's sky-high medical bills and also keep the lights on in her trailer home, Joette needs a break. So, when she spies a bag full of money amongst the wreckage of a fiery car accident, she knows she can't just let it be. Inside is a bounty better than she could have dreamed—just shy of $300,000 in neatly stacked hundreds and fifties. Enough to pay off her debts, give her mother the care she deserves, and maybe even help out a few of her friends. But, of course, the missing briefcase didn't go unnoticed by its original owner, Travis Clay—a ruthless dealer who'll stop at nothing to get back what's his. Joette is way out of her depth, but can't seem to stop herself from participating in this cat-and-mouse chase. But can she beat Travis at his own game?
Author: harold hester
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557601797
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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Author: Roger Ladd Memmott
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1257656023
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 405
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A Gemstone Book (TRADE PAPERBACK) - 403 pages: **** When Danny Davenport and Nick Nicholson first slug it out on the south end of the football field they are two elementary-school innocents already troubled by the prospect of losing their youth. Then comes Lily Winterspring, binding them together "with all the pain of a splinter sewn through [their] hearts." The bitter flows out of the sweet and the bonds between the two are tested, first by sudden tragedy and then by a monstrous duplicity that slowly comes to the surface. **** Combining the intimacy of family and marital relationships, together with a candid yearning and genuine moments of suspense, HEAVEN'S WAY is a deeply moving story about love, loss, and betrayal - and the redemption only faith and devotion can bring. **** Written in the form of a memoir, with confession at its center, and driven thematically by elements of metafiction, HEAVEN'S WAY stands in a genre of its own.
Author: Janet Sketchley
Publisher: Janet Sketchley
ISBN: 1989581102
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 325
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**Expanded Anniversary Edition** High octane Christian suspense meets women’s fiction in this battle of wits between the prayer warrior and the fallen hero. Ruth Warner is broken. Her adult niece’s violent death at the hands of a serial rapist-murderer leaves her bitter. Tempted to reject her faith, Ruth instead finds healing through praying for the victims’ families. But pray for the predator himself? Never. Until she does—and then a botched kidnapping pegs her as his next victim. He grabbed the wrong woman. Harry Silver is a champion race car driver gone wrong. His crimes destroyed innocent lives and shattered his career. Stuck with this middle-aged captive instead of the girl who fuelled his passions, Harry vows to make Ruth pay. For being the wrong woman—and for being a Christian. Her only hope is his salvation. Harry has no idea he’s stumbled into a battle for his soul—a soul he knows is not worth saving. Ruth has invested too many prayers and tears to give up now. Not when his coming to faith is the only way to save her life. From the pulse-pounding tension to the grief and human drama, Heaven’s Prey will keep you turning pages. Heaven’s Prey is the intense first instalment in Janet Sketchley’s Redemption’s Edge Christian suspense series. The 2013 first edition of this novel was a finalist in The Word Awards (suspense category). Note: This book contains scenes that may be triggering for readers who have experienced or have a strong fear of sexual violence.
Author: James Lee Burke
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451618441
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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James Lee Burke’s second Robicheaux novel takes the detective out of New Orleans and into the bayou as he seeks a quieter life. Vietnam vet Dave Robicheaux has turned in his detective’s badge, is winning his battle against booze, and has left New Orleans with his wife for the tranquil beauty of Louisiana’s bayous. But a plane crash on the Gulf brings a young girl into his life—and with her comes a netherworld of murder, deception, and homegrown crime. Suddenly Robicheaux is confronting Bubba Rocque, a brutal hood he’s known since childhood; Rocque’s hungry Cajun wife; and a Federal agent with more guts than sense. In a backwater world where a swagger and a gun go further than the law, Robicheaux and those he loves are caught on a tide of violence far bigger than them all...
Author: Mitchell A. Kramer
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 9781469791746
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages :
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Poet Mitchell A. Kramer began writing his epic poem, "Her Couch of Silence," as a younglawyer and completed it forty years later. It is the centerpiece of his new poetry collection by the same name. The title poem explores the history of western civilization, experienced in one day. The woman of the couch spends a day in Philadelphia, envisioning life from tribal human sacrifice to the horrors of modern warfare, and from saints to monsters. TV Newscasters Besieged by pictures, words, faces peddling the reconstructed old or the vaguely new, we sit immobile, ensconced in leather watching a skewed or awful world snippets of murder, robbery tales of home invasion, tales of killings fill quiet evenings reality that is faked contests where illiterates demonstrate inadequate education. We live solitary amid visions amid would be leaders, needing sound bites without substance amid pundits spouting nonsense amid calls to overmedicate. How would it report the second coming as a sporting event or as a tale to be ignored?
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Category : Sunday schools
Languages : en
Pages : 220
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Author: Kurt Busiek
Publisher: Marvel Entertainment
ISBN: 1302510657
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 529
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Collects Iron Man (1998) #1-14, Captain America (1998) #8, Quicksilver #10, Avengers (1998) #7, Iron Man/Captain America Annual 1998 And Fantastic Four (1998) #15. Kurt Busiek and Sean Chen return Tony Stark to the Marvel Universe and restore the shine to Iron Man! As Tony rebuilds his corporation from the ground up, enemies old and new remind him his work is never done! With romance, rivalry and robots to keep Tony busy, can he help his Avengers teammate Warbird in her own struggle against his worst enemy the one in a bottle? Plus: Shell-Head must deal with a cold, calculated and very personal attack from his archnemesis the Mandarin! Iron Man teams with Captain America to face the menace of M.O.D.O.K., and joins the Fantastic Four in an adventure to the moon! Guest-starring the Black Widow, and James Rhodes: War Machine!
Author: Burl Horniachek
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1666716847
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 261
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From its very first days, the church has been lifting up its songs and poems from the earth to the heavens, whether in praise, thanksgiving, or lament. Join poets from across Syria, Europe, Armenia, Ethiopia, China, and the Philippines in raising their voices. Learn about these great Christian singers from around the world, many of whom are hardly known at all among English readers, yet who are often considered the greatest poets in their own languages. Explore the many styles and genres which Christians have used to express their faith in song, whether hymn, psalm, dream vision, epic, drama, lyric, or didactic poem. Journey through the lives of biblical characters, through abstract theological and philosophical arguments, through moments of intense personal grief and joy, through the lives of saints and terrible sinners, sometimes even through heaven and hell themselves.
