The Oma Sagas: The Return

The Oma Sagas: The Return
Author: Rob Vadurro
Publisher: Speakers Live Inc
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2011
Genre: Paleontology
ISBN: 0979358019

The Oma are a gentle, intelligent clan of the early Pleistocene era who have discovered a system of manipulating organic material to cut, combine, grow, shrink and mutate plant and animal tissues into whatever form is desired. Flight becomes their most enticing goal. Eventually, they develop a craft large enough they can all live within. The body of this vessel is based on a cicada. They configure it to include a respiration system, food producers, waste treatment, photosynthesis energy gatherers and a propulsion system capable of near light speed in the vacuum of space. Threatened by extinction from a large tribe of mythically obsessed fanatics, the Oma escape into the sky and soon discover the stars naked in the eternal night of space. Their legends tell them that the stars are the souls of their departed loved ones, and they embark on a voyage to see if this is so. They travel for forty years to the center of the Galaxy and back, through globular clusters, open gobs of stars, gaseous nebulae, the giant black hole at the Galaxy's center and even a visit to a young earthlike planet. Recording their voyage on chameleon skins, they retrace their journey back to Earth of the present day, now 114,000 years in their future. Come join them as they discover humanity in the 21st century future.--

The Worldbreaker Saga Omnibus

The Worldbreaker Saga Omnibus
Author: Kameron Hurley
Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
Total Pages: 1786
Release: 2021-04-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 085766915X

Collecting The Mirror Empire, Empire Ascendant, and The Broken Heavens together for the first time in one digital edition with bonus content from the author. The Mirror Empire: When a shadowy force threatens their world, an orphan blood mage, novice fighter, and illegitimate ruler must unite fractured nations – and confront their own darker natures. Empire Ascendant: In this devastating sequel to The Mirror Empire, Kameron Hurley transports us back to a land of blood mages and sentient plants, dark magic, and warfare on a scale that spans worlds. The Broken Heavens: With more refugees from ravaged lands passing through the soft seams between worlds every day, time is running out for the Tai Mora and the last of the Dhai. Only one ruler, one nation, one world can survive. Who will be saved, and who will be sacrificed, when the heavens finally break?

The Saga of Blue Morpho

The Saga of Blue Morpho
Author: DHANESH KATTARATHIL
Publisher: Blue Rose Publishers
Total Pages: 341
Release: 2023-05-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

The Saga of Blue Morpho, a novel written by Dhanesh Kattarathil, is an eventful triangle and advanced romantic thriller. The locations of the happenings are Kannur, the most politically sensitive area in the Indian state of Kerala, and Aachen in Germany. The novel also deals with social and political scenarios of the entire Kerala state deeply with Viviya Bhoothan’s lower cast family but extraordinary with mysteries. The story develops with an investigation by Chilka, the lady secret agent of Interworld. She finds how Viv reaches Kannur coast, and how he grows as the eldest son of a crematorium keeper without knowing his existence. While the inquiry progresses, Chilka’s romantic jealousy grows toward Viv’s fiancée, Vineeta. The findings of Chilka create lots of international diplomatic issues. Later, Viv realizes the whole secret of his existence and becomes the sole owner of a German-based Jewish bank, along with developing his modern, adventurous, and bloodless revenge against two political icons of Kerala. Finally, Viv’s children, Kalki Siblings, who are celibate, turn into the most powerful humans in the world through their sublime, divine, and selfless services.

Obama's Political Saga

Obama's Political Saga
Author: Mary L. Rucker
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2013-07-11
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0739182919

Many conservative extremists have argued that Obama was advancing a socialist agenda, immersing himself in African-American radicalism, and pushing big government liberal policies during his first term. The Republican Party, we once knew, has been pushed to the extreme right and has rendered itself unwilling to compromise with the first African American president in order to credit him with any degree of success. The Party’s chief goal was to take back the White House in the 2012 presidential election by any means necessary to push their radical agenda, as some have boldly stated. With the help of Republican governors in certain swing states, the Republican Party knew it had a chance to win the White House by passing voter suppression ID laws. Consequently, from white church pulpits to the political arena, conservative radicals have divided the American electorate and have played on the irrational apocalyptic fears of many that Obama will destroy the exceptional nature of America. Conservative radicals have shaped our national debate and have driven our discourse with eliminationist and racialized rhetoric against the Obama presidency. Consequently, many anti-Obama narratives have hit the bookstores and have consumed the intellectual life of an overly suspicious, low information general public where many lack the critical and political thought about ways they need to know to emancipate themselves from destructive prevailing ideologies. Obama’s Political Saga serves as a counter-narrative to the paranoid politics of anti-intellectual and anti-science radicals and hopefully provides a reasonable discussion about Obama’s political saga in his first term. These anti-Obama narratives have resurrected themselves from the Jim Crow era, influencing a segment of the conservative base to believe that equal rights for African Americans, other Americans of color, and women would threaten the social order by diminishing white (male) privilege. Therefore, we need counter-narratives to help us engage in genuine political and intellectual debate about the first African American president and his legacy.

The Complete Parsina Saga

The Complete Parsina Saga
Author: Stephen Goldin
Publisher: Parsina Press
Total Pages: 3553
Release: 2015-12-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

The Parsina Saga is an Arabian Nights-style epic fantasy tale, weaving romance and adventure through a world of djinni, undersea cities, flying carpets, and demons. It comprises four complete novels: Shrine of the Desert Mage, The Storyteller and the Jann, Crystals of Air and Water, and Treachery of the Demon King. Now all four of these novels are gathered together in a single boxed set, priced to provide a considerable savings over buying each of the books separately. The complete story appears, unexpurgated, in this one volume. Impoverished storyteller Jafar al-Sharif is mistaken for the thief of a holy urn. He and his daughter Selima escape capture by impersonating mighty wizards--but this imposture brings them into further danger, and sets them on a journey around the world to recapture a lost relic. Meanwhile, the real thief of the urn is in league with the king of the demons to enslave the world under the power of evil. The Parsina Saga is a gripping journey through an exotic world that will keep you on the edge of your seat.

Return of the Exiled

Return of the Exiled
Author: Max Buchdahl
Publisher:
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2014-04
Genre: Exiles
ISBN: 9780615950860

In Return of the Exiled, Max Buchdahl details the passage of his family throughout Germany in the years prior to their immigration to the United States. Return of the Exiled parallels the past, as Max's family attempts to get out of Nazi Germany, with the present, as Max travels with his family to Germany to re-trace his ancestors' steps. Through careful thought and observation, Return of the Exiled takes the reader into the mind of a 17 year-old as he reflects upon his family's past before he embarks on his own future. "In gathering up the damaged threads of his family's gripping emergence from Hitler's Germany, teen author Max Buchdahl has woven an unforgettable narrative of what it's like to stare into the abyss and to return more alive for it. Part family memoir and part modern reckoning, Return of the Exiled goes well beyond the Holocaust accounts that remind us to never forget. With this searing opus, Buchdahl pays a debt to those who have made his life possible, while also urging his unborn heirs to live, live and live." -Ramsey Flynn, author of Cry From the Deep "Via a narrative that gracefully, sometimes exhaustively, spins between Nazi-era history, a family's grim-but-ennobling tale, and a young man's quest for his community's past, Return of the Exiled takes the reader on a compelling journey. Max Buchdahl's voice is earnest and genuine, his observations sharp and true." -Michael Anft, journalist and critic

The Broken Heavens

The Broken Heavens
Author: Kameron Hurley
Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
Total Pages: 519
Release: 2020-01-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0857665634

The bloodsoaked conclusion to Kameron Hurley’s epic fantasy masterpiece – the Worldbreaker Saga – is unleashed. The Dhai nation has broken apart under the onslaught of the Tai Kao, invaders from a parallel world. With the Dhai in retreat, Kirana, leader of the Tai Kao, establishes a base in Oma’s temple and instructs her astrologers to discover how they can use the ancient holy place to close the way between worlds. With all the connected worlds ravaged by war and Oma failing, only one world can survive. Who will be sacrificed, and what will the desperate people of these worlds do to protect themselves? File Under: Fantasy [ Parallel Lives | Ruined Mothers | Zodiac War | Ultimate Sacrifice ]

Breaking Dawn

Breaking Dawn
Author: Stephenie Meyer
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 596
Release: 2008-08-02
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0316032832

In the explosive finale to the epic romantic saga, Bella has one final choice to make. Should she stay mortal and strengthen her connection to the werewolves, or leave it all behind to become a vampire? When you loved the one who was killing you, it left you no options. How could you run, how could you fight, when doing so would hurt that beloved one? If your life was all you had to give, how could you not give it? If it was someone you truly loved? To be irrevocably in love with a vampire is both fantasy and nightmare woven into a dangerously heightened reality for Bella Swan. Pulled in one direction by her intense passion for Edward Cullen, and in another by her profound connection to werewolf Jacob Black, a tumultuous year of temptation, loss, and strife have led her to the ultimate turning point. Her imminent choice to either join the dark but seductive world of immortals or to pursue a fully human life has become the thread from which the fates of two tribes hangs. This astonishing, breathlessly anticipated conclusion to the Twilight Saga illuminates the secrets and mysteries of this spellbinding romantic epic. It's here! #1 bestselling author Stephenie Meyer makes a triumphant return to the world of Twilight with the highly anticipated companion, Midnight Sun: the iconic love story of Bella and Edward told from the vampire's point of view. "People do not want to just read Meyer's books; they want to climb inside them and live there." -- Time "A literary phenomenon." -- The New York Times

Empire Ascendant

Empire Ascendant
Author: Kameron Hurley
Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
Total Pages: 567
Release: 2015-10-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 085766560X

A “completely original and inventive” epic fantasy set in a land of blood mages and sentiment plants, dark magic, and warfare on a scale that spans worlds (Locus) Loyalties are tested when worlds collide… Every two thousand years, the dark star Oma appears in the sky, bringing with it a tide of death and destruction. And those who survive must contend with friends and enemies newly imbued with violent powers. The kingdom of Saiduan already lies in ruin, decimated by invaders from another world who share the faces of those they seek to destroy. Now the nation of Dhai is under siege by the same force. Their only hope for survival lies in the hands of an illegitimate ruler and a scullery maid with a powerful—but unpredictable—magic. As the foreign Empire spreads across the world like a disease, one of their former allies takes up her Empress’s sword again to unseat them, and two enslaved scholars begin a treacherous journey home with a long-lost secret that they hope is the key to the Empire’s undoing. But when the enemy shares your own face, who can be trusted? As the convergence between the two worlds strengthens, alliances are made and broken, magic and mayhem abound—and before it’s all done, at least one world will be shattered and broken.