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The Exiled Earthborn

Author : Paul Tassi
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1940456479
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book The Exiled Earthborn written by Paul Tassi and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this thrilling second book of the Earthborn trilogy, Lucas and Asha have survived the decimation of Earth at the hands of the invading Xalans and seek safe haven with their enemy’s true foes, the Sorans. They find a lush planet inhabited by a civilization far more advanced than their own, waging a seemingly endless war against a constantly evolving enemy. The Sorans call the pair of them the “Earthborn” and they’re welcomed as heroes, almost as gods. To an audience of billions, they swear an oath to avenge their fallen planet by aiding the Sorans in their war against Xala. But soon Lucas and Asha find Sora just as dangerous as apocalyptic Earth when they’re targeted by the Fourth Order, a rebel collective who decries them as false prophets and harbingers of further bloodshed. Their friend and turncoat Xalan scientist Alpha believes he’s located someone who can help them turn the tide of the war for good, stranded on a conquered colony planet. But landing on the new world, Lucas and Asha find themselves hunted by a violent, mysterious beast, known only as the Desecrator, let loose by the Xalans. Escaping Earth was only the beginning. As Lucas and Asha quickly learn, the universe has worlds and creatures far more dangerous than anything their home planet could have offered, and their continued survival hinges on gaining new allies they never could have imagined. Skyhorse Publishing, under our Night Shade and Talos imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of titles for readers interested in science fiction (space opera, time travel, hard SF, alien invasion, near-future dystopia), fantasy (grimdark, sword and sorcery, contemporary urban fantasy, steampunk, alternative history), and horror (zombies, vampires, and the occult and supernatural), and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller, a national bestseller, or a Hugo or Nebula award-winner, we are committed to publishing quality books from a diverse group of authors.

The Sons of Sora

Author : Paul Tassi
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1473232023
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (732 download)

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Download or read book The Sons of Sora written by Paul Tassi and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set sixteen years after the events of The Exiled Earthborn, this explosive conclusion of the Earthborn trilogy tells the story of two brothers, the sons of Lucas and Asha, tasked with surviving the Xalan war to ensure the continued existence of the human race. Noah, an orphan from Earth's last days who, as a child, was smuggled to safety across the stars, is now nearly a man and a leader to the young enclave of Earthborn who reside on Sora. When the tranquility of their settlement is shattered by a shocking assassination attempt, Noah turns to his combative younger brother Erik, Lucas and Asha's only child by blood, for aid. Their journey takes them to the remnants of a dead planet, an outlaw-infested space station, and back to Sora, whose inhabitants are bracing for a final showdown with the bloodthirsty Xalans. They find themselves facing a new evil: the omnipotent Archon, who is somehow controlling the whole of the Xalan horde, and his bloodthirsty lieutenant, the Black Corsair, who has an unmatched taste for brutality. The Archon, so-called God of the Shadows, has unearthed knowledge that could wipe both Sorans and humans alike from the face of existence. The descendants of the Earthborn must uncover the true nature of the Archon and the Xalans before he burns everything they know and love to ashes.

The Earthborn

Author : Paul Collins
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780765341990
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book The Earthborn written by Paul Collins and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-07-11 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the spaceship Colony crash lands on Earth, the Skyborn elders aboard decide to exterminate the Earthborn, whom they believe to be no better than animals, before recolonizing the planet. On a reconnaisance mission, however, fourteen-year-old Welkin Quinn discovers that the "barbarians" possess skills essential to the space travelers' survival. Includes Reader's guide.

Earthborn

Author : Carl Dennis
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143137018
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Earthborn written by Carl Dennis and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timely new collection that sounds themes about the fragility of life and our duty to respect the planet in a time of climate change, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet whose work “begins in delight and ends in wisdom” (Carrie Fountain) The work of Carl Dennis has won praise for its “integrity, its substance, and its seemingly effortless craft; and for its embodiment of passionate inquiry” (Times Literary Supplement). The title of his new collection, Earthborn, helps to point the way to its two central concerns: how to find meaning, as creatures of the earth, in lives that are short and frail and destined to be forgotten; and how, as stewards of the earth, to address the need to protect our home from ourselves, from the menace to life posed by our own species. The book succeeds in braiding together a recognition of our limits and of our responsibilities in ways that are deeply moving and revealing.

Earthborn

Author : Orson Scott Card
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1429965460
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Earthborn written by Orson Scott Card and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1996-05-15 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earthborn, the fifth volume in Orson Scott Card's space opera Homecoming series High above the earth orbits the starship Basilica. On board the huge vessel is a sleeping woman. Of those who made the journey, Shedemai alone has survived the hundred of years since the Children of Wetchik returned to Earth. She now wears the Cloak of the Starmaster, and the Oversoul wakes her sometimes to watch over her descendants on the planet below. The population has grown rapidly--there are cities and nations now, whole peoples descended from the who followed Nafai or Elemak. But in all the long years of watching and searching, the Oversoul has not found the thing it sought. It has not found the Keeper of the Earth, the central intelligence that also can repair the Oversoul's damaged programming. Homecoming series The Memory of Earth The Call of Earth The Ships of Earth Earthfall Earthborn At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

There Were Giants Upon the Earth

Author : Zecharia Sitchin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1591439574
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book There Were Giants Upon the Earth written by Zecharia Sitchin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-05 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The crowning work of the best-selling Earth Chronicles series • Reveals the existence of physical evidence of alien presence on Earth in the distant past • Identifies and describes the demigods, such as Gilgamesh, descended from these visitors • Outlines the tests of this physical evidence of alien presence that could unlock the secrets of health, longevity, life, and death In whose genetic image were we made? From his first book The 12th Planet on, Zecharia Sitchin has asserted that the Bible’s Elohim who said “Let us fashion The Adam in our image and after our likeness” were the gods of Sumer and Babylon--the Anunnaki who had come to Earth from their planet Nibiru. The Adam, he wrote, was genetically engineered by adding Anunnaki genes to those of an existing hominid, some 300,000 years ago. Then, according to the Bible, intermarriage took place: “There were giants upon the Earth” who took Adam’s female offspring as wives, giving birth to “heroes of renown.” With meticulous detail, Sitchin shows that these were the demigods of Sumerian and Babylonian lore, such as the famed Mesopotamian king Gilgamesh as well as the hero of the Deluge, the Babylonian Utnapishtim. Are we then, all of us, descendants of demigods? In this crowning oeuvre, Zecharia Sitchin proceeds step-by-step through a mass of ancient writings and artifacts, leading the reader to the stunning Royal Tombs of Ur. He reveals a DNA source that could prove the biblical and Sumerian tales true, providing conclusive physical evidence for past alien presence on Earth and an unprecedented scientific opportunity to track down the “Missing Link” in humankind’s evolution, unlocking the secrets of longevity and even the ultimate mystery of life and death.

The Earth Gods

Author : Khalil Gibran
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465574174
Total Pages : 29 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (655 download)

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Download or read book The Earth Gods written by Khalil Gibran and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 1959-01-01 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the night of the twelfth aeon fell, And silence, the high tide of night, swallowed the hills, The three earth-born gods, the Master Titans of life, Appeared upon the mountains. Rivers ran about their feet; The mist floated across their breasts, And their heads rose in majesty above the world. Then they spoke, and like distant thunder Their voices rolled over the plains.

Touch the Earth

Author : Julian Lennon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1510720847
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Touch the Earth written by Julian Lennon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times bestseller that TODAY calls “beautiful” and “stunning!” Boys and girls can take to the air and learn how precious the Earth and her natural resources are. This interactive book immerses children in a fun and unique journey. Jump aboard the White Feather Flier, a magical plane that can go wherever you want! Just press a button printed on the page, and point the plane up in the air to fly, or down to land it! Fly to the top of a mountain! Send clean water to thirsty people! Dive deep into the ocean (the Flier turns into a submarine!) to pick up pollution and bring back the fish! Explore the planet, meet new people, and help make the world a better place! The Flier's mission is to transport readers around the world, to engage them in helping to save the environment, and to teach one and all to love our planet. An inspiring, lyrical story, rooted in Lennon's life and work, Touch the Earth is filled with beautiful illustrations that bring the faraway world closer to young children. The book includes words to a special poem written by Julian Lennon, specifically for Touch the Earth. The first book of a bestselling trilogy that includes Heal the Earth and Love the Earth. A portion of the proceeds from book sales will go to support the environmental and humanitarian efforts of the White Feather Foundation, the global environmental and humanitarian organization that Lennon founded to promote education, health, conservation, and the protection of indigenous culture.

The Ultimate Biography of Earth

Author : Nick Lund
Publisher : Workman Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1523513594
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (235 download)

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Download or read book The Ultimate Biography of Earth written by Nick Lund and published by Workman Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of planet Earth, its history and how and why it changes over time, for kids 10 and up. Here's Earth's 'biography' through the eras, eons, and ages, including extinction events (sorry, dinosaurs!) and introduction of new species (hello, humans!), told in biography form, with lots of humour, illustrations, and facts.

Open Earth

Author : Sarah Mirk
Publisher : Oni Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Open Earth written by Sarah Mirk and published by Oni Press. This book was released on 2018-09-26 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Calibri; color: #000000} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} Rigo is a young woman of her time: specifically, the time just after the collapse of Earth. After living her whole life on a small space station orbiting the planet, the cultural norms and rules of her Californian parents are just history to her. In between work shifts at the station air farm, Rigo explores her own desires, developing openly polyamorous relationships with her friends and crewmates. When she starts to feel one of those relationships change, however, Rigo must balance her new feelings with the stability of her other relationships, as well as the hard-earned camaraderie of a small crew floating in the vastness of space. But, as the ship motto goes, "Honesty keeps us alive."

The Evaran Chronicles Box Set: Books 1 -3

Author : Adair Hart
Publisher : Quantum Edge Publishing
ISBN 13 : 8826062005
Total Pages : 930 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book The Evaran Chronicles Box Set: Books 1 -3 written by Adair Hart and published by Quantum Edge Publishing. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 930 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reality is sometimes not what it appears to be. Dr. Albert Snowden just wanted to be there for his niece, Emily, after the loss of her father. Being abducted by aliens, and then rescued by a mysterious being known as Evaran, has made that difficult. Despite their situation, they try to make the best of it while traveling through space, time, and beyond with Evaran and V, Evaran’s trusty mobile artificial intelligence. With the use of Evaran’s time-traveling ship, the Torvatta, they will try to maintain timeline integrity while dealing with the challenges that brings. The box set contains the first three books in the Evaran Chronicles. If you like science fiction, time travel, technology, and adventure, then this series is for you.

Heal the Earth

Author : Julian Lennon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1510728554
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Heal the Earth written by Julian Lennon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a journey to help the Earth in the second book of the New York Times bestselling trilogy by Julian Lennon! Jump aboard the White Feather Flier, a magical plane that can go wherever you want. This time, Lennon’s interactive book immerses children in a fun and unique journey where they can: Bring medicine to people in need! Dive below the ocean to bleached coral reefs! Visit the city to cultivate green spaces! Help the rain forest return and give its animals a home! Explore the planet, meet new people, and help make the world a better place! The Flier's mission is to transport readers around the world, to engage them in helping to save the environment, and to teach one and all to love our planet. Just press a button printed on the page, and point the plane up in the air to fly, or down to land it! An inspiring, lyrical story, rooted in Lennon's life and work, Heal the Earth is filled with beautiful illustrations that bring the faraway world closer to young children. The book includes words to a new, special poem written by Julian Lennon, specifically for Heal the Earth. A portion of the proceeds from book sales will go to support the environmental and humanitarian efforts of the White Feather Foundation, the global environmental and humanitarian organization that Lennon founded to promote education, health, conservation, and the protection of indigenous culture.

Earthborn

Author : Sylvia Waugh
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448193214
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book Earthborn written by Sylvia Waugh and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-09-30 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gwynns, a pleasant American couple, have lived outside York for the past fourteen years. Nesta, their only child, was born there and attends the local school. They seem ordinary enough and comfortable in their leafy suburb. But they have an astonishing secret unknown even to Nesta. One evening when she sees her father diminish and disappear into a stone lily pad in the garden pond, Nesta has to be told what she really is. Her parents are visitors from the planet Ormingat, sent to Earth to investigate life there. Now they have been ordered to return home. Nesta can`t take it all in, refuses to accept that she is not earthborn and finally runs away with the help of her best school mate, Amy.

The Earthborn

Author : Arlene F. Marks
Publisher : Brain Lag
ISBN 13 : 1928011977
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book The Earthborn written by Arlene F. Marks and published by Brain Lag. This book was released on 2023-05-12 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These aren't the vampires you know. When the Nash'terel were hunted nearly to extinction, they fled to a distant world: Earth. Using their powers of shapeshifting, they blended in with the human population, and with their thirst for life essence, the hunted became the hunters. While the older generation remain in the shadows, associating only with other Nash'terel, their Earthborn offspring are more adventurous. Young Bilyash is tired of hiding and ready to follow his dream into the film industry. He's abandoned the traditional ways of his people and trained as a makeup artist, but two things stand in his way: assassins from the former home world, and Angie Fiore. Angie is unlike any human Bilyash has met, overflowing with the purest life essence he's ever encountered. When assassins on the hunt for Nash'terel catch up with him, both their lives are put in danger, and Bilyash and Angie are forced to run. Bilyash's uncle and his contacts can help them go underground, but it won't stop these killers from tracking them. The only chance Bilyash has to keep himself and Angie safe is to turn the tables. Yet what chance does an inexperienced Earthborn have against centuries-old assassins with nothing to lose?

CANYON CAVES - SECRETS OF THE EARTHBORN

Author : Glenn M. Funkhouser
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 1973699001
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (736 download)

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Download or read book CANYON CAVES - SECRETS OF THE EARTHBORN written by Glenn M. Funkhouser and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2023-07-25 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From eternity past there were emissaries sent by the One who is eternal to watch over the burgeoning planet Earth and its inhabitants. These watchers were created to serve Him and to do His bidding. However, as with all free will agents who have power, that power has the potential to be corrupted. They took their positions just as God had commanded, then used their abilities to take on human form thereby creating a race referred to in Greek Mythology as the Titans. In Genesis Chapter 6 of the Bible they are referred to as the Nephilim or the earthborn. They opposed the will of their creator and for millennia there have been those tasked with hiding any remnants of the earthborn’s existence thereby endeavoring to discount what the Bible states all too clearly. Join Professor Jennings, Professor Drake, Jack McKinney, Lila Harper, Professor Hollingsworth and the rest as they strive to uncover the mysteries of the earthborn hidden by the passage of time waiting to be discovered in... The Canyon Caves.

The Earthborn Box Set: Books 1-3

Author : Adair Hart
Publisher : Quantum Edge Publishing
ISBN 13 : 883537832X
Total Pages : 915 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (353 download)

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Download or read book The Earthborn Box Set: Books 1-3 written by Adair Hart and published by Quantum Edge Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-22 with total page 915 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earthborn don’t mess around. Blake Brown and crew set out on missions to deal with an unknown threat that seems to grow bigger the more they investigate. From the ecumenopolis of Zakara Prime to rimworlds, Blake and crew will need to adapt to evolving situations. This box set contains the first, second, and third books in the Earthborn series. If you like science fiction, technology, and gritty space opera adventures, then this series is for you Earthborn—Book 1 of the Earthborn Don’t discount those from Earth Two years of freelancing in the galactic bounty system has taken its toll on Blake Brown, a four-hundred-plus-year-old vampire exiled from Earth. Along with his partner in crime, Seth Williams, Blake decides to call it quits. However, a new opportunity arises, one that comes from the highest authority of Fredoria, the home world of human refugees that were abducted from Earth. Forming a team to rise to this new challenge is one hurdle. Figuring out how to capture and retrieve Delkis, a known criminal, is another. To make matters worse, Delkis has a powerful crime syndicate backing him. Blake and crew will show the galactic community what an Earthborn team can do when given the resources to do it. Biogenesis—Book 2 of the Earthborn There is always something scarier out there After a successful first mission and a month off, Blake Brown and crew head out on a new mission to the remote Zolidack system. A classified research facility has been sighted with the presence of illegal cargo that relates to what they found on their previous mission. The problem is the system is controlled by the Fredorian Defense Force, a group who dislikes Earthborn of any stripe. The facility is operated by the Dorostatic Initiatives Corporation, which is recovering from a genetic engineering scandal and hates any government intrusion, Earthborn or not. Getting to the facility is one challenge. Dealing with a new crew problem while doing it is another. To make matters worse, brutal, bug-like Rogundan mercenary slavers have been spotted in the system. Blake and crew will do all they can to investigate the facility while navigating both internal and external threats. If there’s one thing Earthborn can do well, it’s adapt, and Blake and crew will show everyone how it’s done. Rimworlds—Book 3 of the Earthborn Never assume Earthborn are easy prey. Citizens of rim world cities have gone missing, and no one knows why. Blake and his crew are assigned to discover what is going on and who is behind the disappearances. Like previous missions, this will lead them to dangerous locations as they gather information and encounter new allies and enemies. The Saskarin threat has escalated since Blake and the crew’s second mission at Hadrassus and the bounties on each crew member have gone up significantly. Blake and his crew must navigate those dangers while trying to not only find the missing citizens but also to stop whoever is abducting them. Being Earthborn is not easy, and Blake and his crew will show what happens when you mess with them.

The Last Exodus

Author : Paul Tassi
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1940456487
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book The Last Exodus written by Paul Tassi and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Earth lies in ruins in the aftermath of an extraterrestrial invasion, the land devastated by a desperate war with no winners between mankind and a race of vicious, intelligent creatures. The seas are drying up while the atmosphere corrodes and slowly cooks any life remaining on the now desolate rock. Food is scarce, trust even more so, and the only people left alive all have done horrific things to stay that way. Among the few survivors is Lucas, an ordinary man hardened by the last few years after the world’s end. He’s fought off bandits, murderers, and stranded creatures on his long trek across the country in search of his family, the one thing that drives him to outlive his dying planet. What he finds instead is hope, something thought to be lost in the world. There’s a ship buried in a crater wall. One of theirs. One that works. To fly it, Lucas must join forces with a traitorous alien scientist and a captured, merciless raider named Asha. But unless they find common ground, all will die, stranded on a ruined Earth. Combining gritty post-apocalyptic survival and epic space opera, The Last Exodus is the beginning of a new action-packed science fiction adventure where the future of the human race depends on its survivors leaving the past behind. Skyhorse Publishing, under our Night Shade and Talos imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of titles for readers interested in science fiction (space opera, time travel, hard SF, alien invasion, near-future dystopia), fantasy (grimdark, sword and sorcery, contemporary urban fantasy, steampunk, alternative history), and horror (zombies, vampires, and the occult and supernatural), and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller, a national bestseller, or a Hugo or Nebula award-winner, we are committed to publishing quality books from a diverse group of authors.