[PDF] Star Runner Chronicles Rising Star eBook

Author : James Watson
Publisher :
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 45,37 MB
Release : 2021-11-12
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9780578933283

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Having learned the truth behind her alien origins, 17-year old Aurora hopes for a normal life as a student at Madison High. Her new friends Scott and Kristine protect her secret, while scientists at Vanguard help her to study the strange technology of her parent's spaceship. Unfortunately, a dark force is hunting for her, one that threatens her world with new and imminent danger! She feels this darkness closing in, but has no way of finding or fighting it. It doesn't help that an attractive new girl has arrived on campus, stealing away Scott's attention just when she needs him most! Aurora realizes that knowing her past was the easy part, now she must chart her course forward into an uncertain future!

Author : James Watson
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,85 MB
Release : 2024-08
Category : Young Adult Fiction
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Six months after the alien attack on Vanguard, Aurora and her friends work desperately to keep her special powers a secret. When Scott's father contracts a deadly illness caused by his exposure to her parent's starship, Aurora sets out with Kristine on a rescue mission to a distant proto-planet 440 light years away. She knows time is of the essence, but what she doesn't know is that a powerful Rebellion army has arrived on Earth and will kill her friends unless she returns to save them!

Author : David Garrow
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 2214 pages
File Size : 39,10 MB
Release : 2017-05-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0062641859

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New York Times Bestseller Rising Star is the definitive account of Barack Obama's formative years that made him the man who became the forty-fourth president of the United States—from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Bearing the Cross Barack Obama's speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention instantly catapulted him into the national spotlight and led to his election four years later as America's first African-American president. In this penetrating biography, David J. Garrow delivers an epic work about the life of Barack Obama, creating a rich tapestry of a life little understood, until now. Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama captivatingly describes Barack Obama's tumultuous upbringing as a young black man attending an almost-all-white, elite private school in Honolulu while being raised almost exclusively by his white grandparents. After recounting Obama's college years in California and New York, Garrow charts Obama's time as a Chicago community organizer, working in some of the city's roughest neighborhoods; his years at the top of his Harvard Law School class; and his return to Chicago, where Obama honed his skills as a hard-knuckled politician, first in the state legislature and then as a candidate for the United States Senate. Detailing a scintillating, behind-the-scenes account of Obama's 2004 speech, a moment that labeled him the Democratic Party's "rising star," Garrow also chronicles Obama's four years in the Senate, weighing his stands on various issues against positions he had taken years earlier, and recounts his thrilling run for the White House in 2008. In Rising Star, David J. Garrow has created a vivid portrait that reveals not only the people and forces that shaped the future president but also the ways in which he used those influences to serve his larger aspirations. This is a gripping read about a young man born into uncommon family circumstances, whose faith in his own talents came face-to-face with fantastic ambitions and a desire to do good in the world. Most important, Rising Star is an extraordinary work of biography—tremendous in its research and storytelling, and brilliant in its analysis of the all-too-human struggles of one of the most fascinating politicians of our time.

Author : Sylv Chiang
Publisher : Cross Ups
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,7 MB
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781773213125

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The continuing adventures of Jaden, Cali, and the Cross Ups crew. When Jaden gets a call inviting him to Comic Con to test out a new version of his favorite game, Cross Ups, he is thrilled . . . sort of. He'll get to go with his best friend, Cali, they'll be in New York City, and best of all, he'll meet his idol and the greatest gamer of all time, Yuudai Sato. But he's got no time to practice, and worse, his signature moves no longer work. His trip starts to feel less and less exciting, and more and more like one big problem. Jaden has to come up with some solutions--fast. He looks to some older gamers for guidance, but is JStar willing to change who he is for the sake of a game? With its sharp dialogue and relatable characters, Rising Star, the third book in the Cross Ups series, chronicles the ups and downs of middle school with a relevant, contemporary twist.

Author : Chris d'Lacey
Publisher : Orchard Books
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 44,74 MB
Release : 2011-01-20
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1408314185

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A research trip to the Arctic and a new book - life can't get much better for David Rain. As soon as David finds himself in the icy climes, he starts to write his story of bears, dragons and the mysterious fire star. Soon he realises that his tale is beginning to mirror real life, and that an old adversary is on her way to meet him. Can David thwart her terrible master plan? Or will his world be destroyed for ever?

Author : Mariah Cyphers
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 33,59 MB
Release : 2013-11-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1483649083

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Everyone in the world of Eathriel knows that stars are really human-like beings with super-natural powers, created to guide and protect mankind. They also know the story about how one star rebelled and was cast out of the sky with his followers, becoming the dreaded dark stars. To most, that is all it is - a story. For two young peasant girls, it is about to become so much more. After escaping a mysterious attack on their village, Star and her adopted sister Winter are forced to strike out on their own after learning that Star possesses the unearthly ability to summon and manipulate light, and that she may be the star-child of an ancient prophecy. Is she the one who the dark ones are searching for? The answers Star and Winter seek lay over the mountains in a distant kingdom, where warriors and creatures of legend still dwell, fighting against the evil powers of the Dark One. Will Star let her light shine and become the Rising Star the prophecy foretold, or will the enemy succeed in darkening her? With danger at every turn, the girls are discovering that the battle between good and evil is more real and closer to home than they ever realized.

Author : C.S. Friedman
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 45,15 MB
Release : 1992-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101464321

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Over a millennium ago, Erna, a seismically active yet beautiful world was settled by colonists from far-distant Earth. But the seemingly habitable planet was fraught with perils no one could have foretold. The colonists found themselves caught in a desperate battle for survival against the fae, a terrifying natural force with the power to prey upon the human mind itself, drawing forth a person's worst nightmare images or most treasured dreams and indiscriminately giving them life. Twelve centuries after fate first stranded the colonists on Erna, mankind has achieved an uneasy stalemate, and human sorcerers manipulate the fae for their own profit, little realizing that demonic forces which feed upon such efforts are rapidly gaining in strength. Now, as the hordes of the dark fae multiply, four people—Priest, Adept, Apprentice, and Sorcerer—are about to be drawn inexorably together for a mission which will force them to confront an evil beyond their imagining, in a conflict which will put not only their own lives but the very fate of humankind in jeopardy.

Author : Ray Bradbury
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 35,38 MB
Release : 2012-04-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1451678193

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The tranquility of Mars is disrupted by humans who want to conquer space, colonize the planet, and escape a doomed Earth.