To Open the Sky

To Open the Sky
Author: Robert Silverberg
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2014-04-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1497632471

This sprawling, episodic novel by the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author is a “tour de force sci-fi outing . . . a wonderful read” (Fantasy Literature). 2077. With Earth reeling from centuries of unregulated population growth and environmental decimation, a new religion has taken root. The Vorsters worship science and the material world over all else, searching for the promise of immortality through new technology and the promise of heaven among the physical stars. But on Venus, a renegade sect has found its home. The Harmonists find the answers to life’s eternal questions in their own spirituality and in their own bodies, which have undergone genetic changes on Venus, giving them paranormal abilities. With humanity’s future at stake, religion becomes a political business, and both groups will have to face their motivations and manipulations when a shocking discovery threatens the balance of power in the universe. “The absorbing story of an overpopulated and economically depressed world clinging to the outcome of a religious schism for its salvation.” —sff180

A Crack in the Sky

A Crack in the Sky
Author: Mark Peter Hughes
Publisher: Yearling
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2011-08-09
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0385737092

Thirteen-year-old Eli Papadapoulous is worried. Even though he's part of in the most powerful family in the world. Even though his grandfather founded InfiniCorp, the massive corporation that runs everything in the bustling dome-cities. Even though InfiniCorp ads and billboards are plastered everywhere, proclaiming: DON'T WORRY! INFINICORP IS TAKING CARE OF EVERYTHING! Recently, Eli noticed there's something wrong with the artificial sky. It keeps shorting out, displaying strange colors and random, pixellated images. And though the Department of Cool and Comfortable Air is working overtime, the dome-city is hotter than it's ever been. Eli has been raised to believe that the dome-cities are safe and comfortable; that the important thing is to keep working, keep consuming; that InfiniCorp knows better than he, and he should leave everything in their hands. But now he begins asking questions.

The Generation Starship in Science Fiction

The Generation Starship in Science Fiction
Author: Simone Caroti
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2014-01-10
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0786485760

This critical history explores the concept of the multi-generational interstellar space voyage in science fiction between 1934, the year of its appearance, into the 21st century. It defines and analyzes what became known as the "generation starship" idea and examines the science and technology behind it, also charting the ways in which generation starships manifest themselves in various SF scenarios. It then traces the history of the generation starship as a reflection of the political, historical, and cultural context of science fiction's development.

The Script: Choose Your Prophetic Story, Change Your Life

The Script: Choose Your Prophetic Story, Change Your Life
Author: Helen Calder
Publisher: Enliven Ministries Ltd
Total Pages: 77
Release: 2016-10-01
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The Script: Choose Your Prophetic Story, Change Your Life Have you ever felt as though your life is stuck in a pattern?Would you like a clear, simple message to help yourself—and others—break free of limitations and live your God-appointed destiny?Are you seeking to understand your prophetic calling? God has a story for your life. It is a prophetic story; the story of an abundant life—full of faith and purpose. Your Father’s story is that He is redeeming things of the past, and that He has a destiny for you to stride confidently into. ‘The script’ is any story-line that is at work in your life, that is not in accordance with God’s Word—and what He says about you A counterfeit script can originate from from past traumas or hurts, or arise from the opinions or actions of others. It can be a generational story-line. It can even arise from a limiting factor in real life - and sound very reasonable until you hold it up against God's Word. But God has a prophetic story for your life, and a calling and destiny that no one else can fulfil. You do not have to put up with that old script any longer! It's time to break out, discover and walk in your prophetic destiny. Signs of a counterfeit script at work include: There is a story you tell yourself (and others) of why you get stuck and do not move forward in some area of your lifeThere is something your life is characterized by, that is not in accordance with God’s wordYou experience a prevailing mood or atmosphere that is not ‘righteousness peace and joy’There are recurring cycles of limitation or failure in your life, or that of your familyYou experience anxiety in the area of your future, relationships, finances, or healthThere are limitations that threaten your ability to live the destiny God has prepared for you In ‘The Script: Choose Your Prophetic Story, Change Your Life’ you will receive clear guidelines to help you identify and break free of every counterfeit storyline and step boldly into God’s prophetic purpose for your life. In ‘The Script: Choose Your Prophetic Story Change Your Life’ you will learn: What a script is, and five ways it can come into operationHow to identify and defeat a counterfeit scriptHow to identify and break a generational storyline (curse)How to replace the script with God’s prophetic story for your lifeKey questions that will help you identify your prophetic calling In ‘The Script: Choose Your Prophetic Story Change Your Life’ Helen shares her own testimonies of breaking free from personal and generational scripts, and encourages you to live a life empowered by the Word of God. Chapter Summary: 1. Jesus, Deliverer 2. The Script 3. Where Does a Script Come from? 4. How to Defeat the Script 5. Replace The Script with God’s Prophetic Story for Your Life 6. Two Script-Breaking Truths 7. How to Identify Your Prophetic Calling 8. It’s Time to Move On Prayer and Declaration

Let the Storm Break

Let the Storm Break
Author: Shannon Messenger
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2014-03-04
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1442450460

Breathtaking action and romance continue in the sequel to the epic Let the Sky Fall, from the author of the New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling Keeper of the Lost Cities series. Vane Weston is haunted. By the searing pull of his bond to Audra. By the lies he’s told to cover for her disappearance. By the treacherous winds that slip into his mind, trying to trap him in his worst nightmares. And as his enemies grow stronger, Vane doesn’t know how much longer he can last on his own. But Audra’s still running. From her past. From the Gales. Even from Vane, who she doesn’t believe she deserves. And the farther she flees, the more danger she finds. She possesses the secret power her enemy craves, and protecting it might be more than she can handle—especially when she discovers Raiden’s newest weapon. With the Gale Force weakened by recent attacks, and the power of four collapsing, Vane and Audra are forced to make a choice: keep trusting the failing winds, or turn to the people who’ve betrayed them before. But even if they survive the storms sent to destroy them, will they have anything left to hold on to?

Jesus Freak

Jesus Freak
Author: Sara Miles
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 139
Release: 2009-12-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0470588136

"I came late to Christianity," writes Sara Miles, "knocked upside down by a mid-life conversion centered around eating a literal chunk of bread. I hadn't decided to profess an article of doctrine, but discovered a force blowing uncontrollably through the world." In this new book, Sara Miles tells what happened when she decided to follow the flesh and blood Jesus by doing something real. For everyone afraid to feed hungry strangers, love the unlovable, or go to dark places to bless and heal, she offers hope. She holds out the promise of a God who gave a bunch of housewives and fishermen authority to forgive sins and raise the dead, and who continues to call us to action. And she tells, in vivid, heartbreakingly honest stories, how the ordinary people around her are transformed by taking up God's work in the world. Sara Miles offers a fresh, fully embodied faith that sweeps away the anxious formulas of religion to reveal the scandalous power of eating with sinners, embracing the unclean, and loving the wrong people. Jesus Freak: Feeding Healing Raising the Dead is her inspiring book for undomesticated Christians who still believe, as she writes, "that Jesus has given us the power to be Jesus."

Earth Tales from around the World

Earth Tales from around the World
Author: Michael J. Caduto
Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2016-11-29
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1682751295

Stories come from around the world, but they grow from the very earth upon which they are first told. Michael J. Caduto invites readers to listen while the Earth tells these stories through his lyrical retellings of tales such as "Hare Rescues the Sun" and "The Coming of Fire."

Memory in Fragments

Memory in Fragments
Author: Megan E. O'Neil
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2024-07-02
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1477329390

"Here in the US, we're having difficult discussions about who we should monumentalize, the political implications of our statues, or what to do with monuments that no longer reflect our ideals. In a way, this book looks at how the Maya dealt with these and related issues. The author explores how the ancient Maya engaged with their history by using, reusing, altering, and burying stone sculptures. O'Neil shows, for example, how the ancient Maya repurposed stelae that were damaged by their enemies. In some cases, they would break the stelae to signify a change in their status, and bury them with others so that the buried monuments connected with those still standing in specific sacred sites. Infused with agency, the sculptures retained ceremonial meaning. O'Neil explores how those breakages and other, different human interactions, amidst unstable religious, political, and historical contexts, changed the sculptures' "lives.""--

Healing Justice Lineages

Healing Justice Lineages
Author: Cara Page
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2023-02-07
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1623177154

A profound offering and call to action—collective stories, testimonials, and incantations for renewing political and spiritual liberation grounded in Black, Indigenous, People of Color, and Queer and Trans healing justice lineages We reclaim the power, resilience, and innovation of our ancestors through this book. To embody their wisdom across centuries and generations is to continue their legacy of liberation and healing. In this anthology, Black Queer Feminist editors Cara Page and Erica Woodland guide readers through the history, legacies, and liberatory practices of healing justice—a political strategy of collective care and safety that intervenes on generational trauma from systemic violence and oppression. They call forth the ancestral medicines and healing practices that have sustained communities who have survived genocide and oppression, while radically imagining what comes next. Anti-capitalist, Black feminist, and abolitionist, Healing Justice Lineages is a profound and urgent call to embrace community and survivor-led care strategies as models that push beyond commodified self-care, the policing of the medical industrial complex, and the surveillance of the public health system. Centering disability, reproductive, environmental, and transformative justice and harm reduction, this collection elevates and archives an ongoing tradition of liberation and survival—one that has been largely left out of our history books, but continues to this day. In the first section, “Past: Reckoning with Roots and Lineage,” Page and Woodland remember and reclaim generations-long healing justice and community care work, asking critical questions like: How did our ancestors transform trauma and violence in their liberation work? What were our ancestors reckoning with—and what did they imagine? The next sections, “Origins of Healing Justice” and “Alchemy: Theory + Praxis,” explore regional stories of healing justice in response to the current political and cultural landscape. The last section, “Political + Spiritual Imperatives for the Future,” imagines a future rooted in lessons of the past; addresses the ways healing justice is being co-opted and commodified; and uplifts emergent work that’s building infrastructure for care, safety, healing, and political liberation.

Open Sky

Open Sky
Author: Eric Nisenson
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2000
Genre: Jazz musicians
ISBN: 0312253303

Now in paperback: The first-ever biography of one of the legends of modern jazz, written with his full cooperation