Forbidden Sanctuary

Forbidden Sanctuary
Author: Richard Bowker
Publisher: ePublishing Works!
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2012-12-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 161417377X

Father Al Bernardi, S.J., has a problem. He gave sanctuary to the one man all the world wants to see—an alien from Numos. The aliens wanted him back because he alone can reveal the location of their homeworld and the secret of faster-than-light travel. The UN is all for giving him back to prevent a retaliatory alien attack. The world at large wants peace, at any cost. Father Bernardi merely wants to save a life… so he calls his friend at the Vatican. And all hell breaks loose! REVIEWS: "Highly involving… combines a good mystery with the agonies of a well-meaning people." ~Library Journal "The pace and style of a top notch suspense thriller." ~Science Fiction Review "Thought-provoking…" ~Dragon Magazine "Spellbinding… The strengths of this book are many." ~Kliatt OTHER SCIENCE FICTION TITLES by Richard Bowker Replica Dover Beach (The Last P.I. Series, Book 1) The Distance Beacons (The Last P.I. Series, Book 2) OTHER TITLES by Richard Bowker Senator Summit Pontiff Marlborough Street ABOUT RICHARD BOWKER: Critically-acclaimed author Richard Bowker has published a variety of novels including science fiction, mysteries and thrillers. When he isn't writing, Richard enjoys offering thoughts on writing, reading and learning at www.richardbowker.com

Sanctuary and Asylum

Sanctuary and Asylum
Author: Linda Rabben
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2016-09-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0295999144

The practice of sanctuary—giving refuge to the threatened, vulnerable stranger—may be universal among humans. From primate populations to ancient religious traditions to the modern legal institution of asylum, anthropologist Linda Rabben explores the long history of sanctuary and analyzes modern asylum policies in North America, Europe, and elsewhere, contrasting them with the role that courageous individuals and organizations have played in offering refuge to survivors of torture, persecution, and discrimination. Rabben gives close attention to the mid-2010s refugee crisis in Europe and to Central Americans seeking asylum in the United States. This wide-ranging, timely, and carefully documented account draws on Rabben’s experiences as a human rights advocate as well as her training as an anthropologist. Sanctuary and Asylum will help citizens, professionals, and policy makers take informed and compassionate action. A Capell Family Book

Farlander

Farlander
Author: Col Buchanan
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 403
Release: 2011-01-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1429991593

The Heart of the World is a land in strife. For fifty years the Holy Empire of Mann, an empire and religion born from a nihilistic urban cult, has been conquering nation after nation. Their leader, Holy Matriarch Sasheen, ruthlessly maintains control through her Diplomats, priests trained as subtle predators. Ash is a member of an elite group of assassins, the Roshun, who offer protection through the threat of vendetta. Forced by his ailing health to take on an apprentice, he chooses Nico, a young man living in the besieged city of Bar-Khos. At the time, Nico is hungry, desperate, and alone in a city that finds itself teetering on the brink. When the Holy Matriarch's son deliberately murders a woman under the protection of the Roshun; he forces the sect to seek his life in retribution. As Ash and his young apprentice set out to fulfill the Roshun orders, their journey takes them into the heart of the conflict between the Empire and the Free Ports...into bloodshed and death. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Sanctuary and Crime in the Middle Ages, 400-1500

Sanctuary and Crime in the Middle Ages, 400-1500
Author: Karl Shoemaker
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2011
Genre: History
ISBN: 0823232689

Sanctuary law has not received very much scholarly attention. According to the prevailing explanation among earlier generations of legal historians, sanctuary was an impediment to effective criminal law and social control but was made necessary by rampant violence and weak political order in the medieval world. Contrary to the conclusions of the relatively scant literature on the topic, Sanctuary and Crime in the Middle Ages, 400-1500 argues that the practice of sanctuary was not simply an instrumental device intended as a response to weak and splintered medieval political authority. Nor can sanctuary laws be explained as simple ameliorative responses to harsh medieval punishments and the specter of uncontrolled blood-feuds. --

Plans of the Deathless Gods

Plans of the Deathless Gods
Author: John Strang
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 461
Release: 2003-05-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 149319996X

BOOK SUMMARY Plans of the Deathless Gods. The time: the seven years (1785-1792) before the breakup of European order instigated by the French Revolution. The scene: Prussia, South Africa, New Zealand. The characters: Curt Christoph von Allmen, who proposes the plan of a New Zealand sealing station as medium of commerce with China; his twin sister Maria, who composes an epic poem to commemorate its founding; their friend, philosopher Adam Sixtus lEstrange, whose ruminations on the times issue in a surprising discovery. The plot: Curt Christoph, a philhellene, envisions New Zealand as the scene of a restored Apollonianismwhich his sisters epic playfully portrays, and Adam Sixtus philosophical discovery ironically supports.

Dreaming Pemberley

Dreaming Pemberley
Author: Ellen Mary Soule
Publisher: WestBowPress
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2013-09-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1490808752

Who can ever get enough of Jane Austens Pride and Prejudice? Who doesnt dream of strolling through stately shrubberies? Of reveling in Regency lorewhere luxury is silken, manners are refined, and the language reflects exquisite sensitivities and a decorum whose bonds we have managed to escape, yet we still find charmingly quaint? Dreaming Pemberley is a mini-saga composed of four dreams that carry the Bennets, Darcys, Collins, and their friends forward in their lives through two generations. Their journeys are fraught with painful detours and misunderstandings, and they are forced to grapple with character flaws as well as dastardly acquaintances. At one point, a member of the Collins household is deemed a witch! In the fourth dream, the famed equanimity of Pemberley is threatened by a disruptive cat. However, felicity and redemption are persistent threads, and we rejoice when Anne de Bourghs personhood is allowed to blossom, even though Lady Catherine de Bourgh feels strongly abused. Mystery and surprise are found at various twists and turns. Georgianas fate is beyond belief. And the late Mrs. Darcys long-locked tea room engenders a renown that spreads as far as Londonmuch to Mr. Darcys chagrin. Over all, the gracious gentility that pervades Pemberley is a force for good and does much to soothe hearts and hurts.

Exploring the Big Bend Country

Exploring the Big Bend Country
Author: Peter Koch
Publisher: Univ of TX + ORM
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2009-02-17
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0292794959

This collection of writings and images by the legendary Big Bend photographer offers adventure, history, personal musings, and natural beauty. Photographer-naturalist Peter Koch first visited Big Bend National Park in February, 1945, on assignment to take promotional pictures for the National Park Service. He planned to spend a couple of weeks, and ended up staying for the rest of his life. Koch’s magnificent photographs and documentary films introduced the park to people across the United States and remain an invaluable visual record of the first four decades of Big Bend National Park. In this book, Koch’s daughter June Cooper Price draws on her father’s photographs, newspaper columns, and journal entries, as well as short pieces by other family members, to present his vision and many experiences of the Big Bend. The adventure begins with a six-day photographic trip through Santa Elena Canyon on a raft made from agave flower stalks. Koch also describes hiking on mountain trails and driving the scenic loop around Fort Davis; “wax smuggling” and other ways of making a living on the Mexican border; ranching in the Big Bend; collaborating with botanist Barton Warnock; and the history and beauty of Presidio County, the Rio Grande, and the Chihuahuan Desert.