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.

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?

The Doors of Eden

Author: Adrian Tchaikovsky
Publisher: Orbit
ISBN: 0316705780
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 501

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 Souls

Author: Adrian Tchaikovsky
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1788547233
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 637

Book Description
Humanity clings to life on a dying Earth in an epic, far-future science fiction novel from an award-winning author. The sun is bloated, diseased, dying perhaps. Beneath its baneful light, Shadrapar, last of all cities, harbours fewer than 100,000 human souls. Built on the ruins of countless civilisations, Shadrapar is a museum, a midden, an asylum, a prison on a world that is ever more alien to humanity. Bearing witness to the desperate struggle for existence between life old and new is Stefan Advani: rebel, outlaw, prisoner, survivor. This is his testament, an account of the journey that took him into the blazing desolation of the western deserts; that transported him east down the river and imprisoned him in the verdant hell of the jungle's darkest heart; that led him deep into the labyrinths and caverns of the underworld. He will meet with monsters, madman, mutants. The question is, which one of them will inherit this Earth?

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

Cage of Eden

Author: Yoshinobu Yamada
Publisher: Kodansha Comics
ISBN: 1612625169
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 200

Book Description

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?

Caged

Author: Amy Johnson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 496

Book Description
★★★★★ "This is an absolutely superb book! Very well written, the choice of language is well executed and the plot just flows effortlessly."★★★★★ "If you're a fan of Divergent or The Hunger Games this book is easily on the same level. Caged is brilliantly crafted and won't let you put it down."★★★★★ "This book is all that the blurb promises and beyond."In Eden Cavalleri's world, zoos don't exist. The Anthros do: a twisted place where cybernetics come to gawk at humans imprisoned behind glass. The machines have taken over the world above ground, and they intend to exterminate or imprison what's left of the human race. Eden's job as a runner is simple: survive long enough to bring back much needed supplies to the other humans hiding in tunnels beneath the city. But after a botched supply run lands her under the glass domes as a zoo exhibit, her mission changes. Now, she has to learn to save herself instead of everyone else. A prisoner and lab rat, Eden is subjected to nightmarish and excruciating experiments at the hands of the machines. Their end goal is clear: turn her into one of them. Escaping seems impossible, unless she places her trust in the hands of her exhibit mate, a strange boy who was born within the zoo. If the machines succeed, though, Eden will be forced to hunt down other humans--even her own family.She's used to running and hiding from her problems, but when the decision is made to face them head on, Eden learns that pride and confidence aren't always good attributes to have. Trusting others may be her hamartia, and the price she pays for her freedom will be life-altering.

In Search of Eden (The Second Chances Collection Book #2)

Author: Linda Nichols
Publisher: Baker Books
ISBN: 1441260293
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 449

Book Description
More Heart-Gripping Fiction From Bestselling Author Linda Nichols A girl who has never been able to settle down, Miranda begins various adventures, but whenever reality begins to tarnish her dreams, she gives up. As she approaches her twenty-seventh birthday, she determines to reinvent her life. But there's one loose end to tie down first... Joseph Williams, the chief of police in Abingdon, Virginia, always tries to do what is right, to perform his duty and protect those he loves. He becomes suspicious of the new woman in town, and after checking further, he discovers she has no history. Then he finds a baby picture of his niece in her possession... In Search of Eden is a story about law and grace, about forgiveness and redemption, about finding joy and rest in a broken world.