Secrets of Eden

Author: Chris Bohjalian
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1847378358
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 379

Book Description
'There' says Alice Hayward to Reverend Stephen Drew, when she come up out of the water after her baptism. Just a few short hours later, Alice is dead, shot by her abusive husband who turned the gun on himself soon after. Tortured by the cryptic finality of that short utterance, Reverend Drew feels his faith in God slipping away as he tries to unearth the truth behind Alice's death. Only new arrival Heather Laurent -- the enigmatic author of wildly successful books about angels -- seems able to save him from slipping into the depths of despair. Heather has her own story. She survived a childhood that culminated in her own parents' murder-suicide, so she identifies deeply with Alice's daughter, Katie, offering herself as a mentor to the girl and a shoulder for Stephen. But then the state's attorney begins to suspect that Alice's husband may not have killed himself . . . and finds out that Alice had secrets only her minister knew. Related through the eyes of four different narrators, Secrets of Edenis both a haunting literary thriller and a deeply evocative testament to the inner complexities that mark all of our lives. Once again, Chris Bohjalian has given us a riveting page-turner in which nothing is precisely what it seems.

Letters from Eden

Author: Julie Zickefoose
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618573080
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 248

Book Description
A frequent commentator for NPR's "All Things Considered," Zickefoose now presents paintings of scenes from her beloved southern Ohio home, illuminated in well-crafted essays based on her daily walks and observations.

The Doors of Eden

Author: Adrian Tchaikovsky
Publisher: Orbit
ISBN: 0316705780
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 490

Book Description
From the Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning Adrian Tchaikovsky, The Doors of Eden is an extraordinary feat of the imagination and a page-turning adventure about parallel universes and the monsters that they hide. They thought we were safe. They were wrong. Four years ago, two girls went looking for monsters on Bodmin Moor. Only one came back. Lee thought she'd lost Mal, but now she's miraculously returned. But what happened that day on the moors? And where has she been all this time? Mal's reappearance hasn't gone unnoticed by MI5 officers either, and Lee isn't the only one with questions. Julian Sabreur is investigating an attack on top physicist Kay Amal Khan. This leads Julian to clash with agents of an unknown power - and they may or may not be human. His only clue is grainy footage, showing a woman who supposedly died on Bodmin Moor. Dr Khan's research was theoretical; then she found cracks between our world and parallel Earths. Now these cracks are widening, revealing extraordinary creatures. And as the doors crash open, anything could come through. "Tchaikovsky weaves a masterful tale... a suspenseful joyride through the multiverse." (Booklist)

Cage of Eden

Author: Yoshinobu Yamada
Publisher: Kodansha Comics
ISBN: 1612625150
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 196

Book Description

Lie Close To Me

Author: Cynthia Eden
Publisher: Hocus Pocus Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 1942840403
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description

Cage of Eden 15

Author: Yoshinobu Yamada
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 161262264X
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
THE SECRET GARDEN Sengoku and crew evade various pitfalls to venture further into the pyramid. As they finally reach the deepest levels of this structure, they will make their greatest discovery yet and come that much closer to figuring out just what happened on this mysterious island. Meanwhile, Kokonoé and Ohmori hatch a plan to escape their impending execution, but will it be enough to save them from a fiery death?

Cage of Eden 2

Author: Yoshinobu Yamada
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1935429264
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Akira and his classmates are on a plane heading back home after a field trip abroad. Suddenly the plane crashes on a mysterious island. Akira is somehow still alive despite the crash, but soon discovers that he's not exactly safe and sound when enromous supposedly extinct beasts begin chasing him. Akira begins to find other classmates who have also survived the crash. Some work together and some work against each other in an effort to survive on the strange island. FIGHT AND/OR FLIGHT? As if being stranded on a deserted island full of prehistoric beasts wasn’t bad enough, now there’s a killer among the human survivors of the plane crash. Akira Sengoku and his classmates are forced to fight and flee dangerous monsters of a bygone era, all while keeping themselves safe from a hockey-masked madman who seems bent on Akira’s destruction. When the chips are down, can Akira and his ragtag band of survivors defend themselves against both man and beast? Find out in this action-packed second volume of Cage of Eden! Includes special extras after the story!

The Watchers of Eden (The Watchers of Eden Trilogy, Book 1)

Author: Toby Edge
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781311512055
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
In the hot and harsh farming region of Agricola, 16 year old Cyra prepares to be tested to discover what duty she'll hold for life. All school leavers across the regions are in the same position, and few expect anything more than to follow in their parents' footsteps and stay in the region they live in.For Cyra, there was never a choice. With her father dead and brother and sister assigned elsewhere, she's desperate to stay close to her sick mother so she can take care of her.On the day of the Duty Call, however, Cyra's world turns upside down in one stroke. She's to be assigned to Eden, the largest and most powerful sea city and central hub of control. Only the most important live there, and no one from Cyra's town has ever been assigned there in her lifetime.So, she sets off on a journey away from everything she knows, without knowing what her duty will be. Soon, she discovers that she, along with a select group of school leavers from across the regions, has a special power; a gift that will pit her as a secret protector of the nation.Only, it's not a gift, it's really a curse, and before long Cyra will learn that her once small world is filled with a great deal more corruption and injustice than she ever thought possible.

Cage of Eden 14

Author: Yoshinobu Yamada
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1612622631
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
THE DEPTHS OF DARKNESS Sengoku has a plan to infiltrate the mad doctor Nishikiori's camp, but things backfire and Sengoku and his crew are sent on what may be a suicide mission to explore deep inside the mysterious pyramid. As they explore the treacherous depths of the pyramid, they make new discoveries but as always, just as the mysteries of this island begin to reveal themselves, Sengoku and his crew encounter more questions than answers. What incredible and inexplicable things will they find next in the deepest regions of this puzzling pyramid?

Reflections of Eden

Author: Biruté Marija Filomena Galdikas
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780575400023
Category : Orangutan
Languages : en
Pages : 408

Book Description
Since 1971 Birute Galdikas has lived and worked in the forests of Borneo, documenting the lives of the orangutans. This text describes her groundbreaking scientific and conservation work that has been recorded in more than a dozen television documentaries