They Will Be Coming for Us
They Will Be Coming for Us

Author: Kim Catanzarite

Publisher:

Published: 2021-06

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781735952215

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Newlyweds Svetlana and Andrew Jovian live in Kirksberg, Pennsylvania, where a UFO crash-landed more than fifty years ago. But that's not the oddest thing about their town. Andrew's family is strange-and not in a normal-strange kind of way. Owners of Starbright International, the makers of high-powered telescopes, the Jovian family preoccupies itself with only two things: the night sky and carrying on their family lineage. The problem for Svetlana is she's expected to fulfill at least one of their obsessions. Defiant and wanting a career before motherhood, she takes precautions but ends up pregnant anyway. Soon, that becomes the least of her worries, for Svetlana has discovered a truth that will change her fate (and that of her child's) forever. They Will Be Coming for Us is a suspenseful tale of love, loss, courage--and the power of a mother's love.

Weird Astronomy
Weird Astronomy

Author: David A.J. Seargent

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2010-09-24

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 144196424X

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Weird Astronomy appeals to all who are interested in unusual celestial phenomena, whether they be amateur or professional astronomers or science buffs who just enjoy reading of odd coincidences, unexplained observations, and reports from space probes that "don’t quite fit." This book relates a variety of "unusual" astronomical observations – unusual in the sense of refusing to fit easily into accepted thinking, or unusual in the observation having been made under difficult or extreme circumstances. Although some of the topics covered are instances of "bad astronomy," most are not. Some of the observations recorded here have actually turned out to be important scientific breakthroughs. Included are some amusing anecdotes (such as the incident involving "potassium flares" in ordinary stars and the story of Abba 1, the solar system’s own flare star!), but the book’s purpose is not to ridicule those who report anomalous observations, nor is it to challenge scientific orthodoxy. It is more to demonstrate how what's "weird" often turns out to be far more significant than observations of what we expect to see.

Against Jovinianus
Against Jovinianus

Author: St. Jerome

Publisher: Dalcassian Publishing Company

Published: 2019-12-07

Total Pages: 97

ISBN-13: 1987022882

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Jovinianus, about whom little more is known than what is to be found in Jerome's treatise, published a Latin treatise outlining several opinions: That a virgin is no better, as such, than a wife in the sight of God. Abstinence from food is no better than a thankful partaking of food. A person baptized with the Spirit as well as with water cannot sin. All sins are equal. There is but one grade of punishment and one of reward in the future state. In addition to this, he held the birth of Jesus Christ to have been by a "true parturition," and was thus refuting the orthodoxy of the time, according to which, the infant Jesus passed through the walls of the womb as his Resurrection body afterwards did, out of the tomb or through closed doors.

Encyclopedia of Weird War Stories
Encyclopedia of Weird War Stories

Author: Paul Green

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2017-06-14

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1476666725

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Fictional war narratives often employ haunted battlefields, super-soldiers, time travel, the undead and other imaginative elements of science fiction and fantasy. This encyclopedia catalogs appearances of the strange and the supernatural found in the war stories of film, television, novels, short stories, pulp fiction, comic books and video and role-playing games. Categories explore themes of mythology, science fiction, alternative history, superheroes and "Weird War."

Strange Electromagnetic Dimensions
Strange Electromagnetic Dimensions

Author: Louis Proud

Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser

Published: 2014-11-24

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 160163448X

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The author of The Secret Influence of the Moon explores the many strange and unexplained phenomena surrounding electromagnetism. Today, the use of electricity is so pervasive that our environment is permeated by both natural and artificial sources of electromagnetic energy—while we ourselves are electromagnetic beings. As we continue to pollute and thereby alter our electromagnetic environment, we are also altering ourselves. In particular, these changes infringe on the psychic side of our being. In Strange Electromagnetic Dimensions, author Louis Proud demonstrates how all things are connected by a vast electromagnetic web—a natural phenomenon that appears to have supernatural consequences. He examines ESP, poltergeist disturbances, psychokinesis, electric people, UFOs, and other paranormal phenomena from an electromagnetic perspective. He also reveals how the artificial, alien energies we've been introducing into our environment shape the way we experience the paranormal. Strange Electromagnetic Dimensions explores such questions as: Do human beings possess a magnetic sixth sense similar to that of homing pigeons? Are artificial electromagnetic fields, such as those emitted by power lines, gradually destroying our health? Can being struck by lightning or suffering a severe electric shock result in the development of psychic abilities? What do scientists make of the fact that ball lightning can pass through walls, enter rooms by squeezing through keyholes, and display seemingly intelligent behavior?

City
City

Author: Clifford D. Simak

Publisher: S.F. Masterworks

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 9780575105232

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On a far future Earth, mankind's achievements are immense: artificially intelligent robots, genetically uplifted animals, interplanetary travel, genetic modification of the human form itself. But nothing comes without a cost. Humanity is tired, its vigour all but gone. Society is breaking down into smaller communities, dispersing into the countryside and abandoning the great cities of the world. As the human race dwindles and declines, which of its great creations will inherit the Earth? And which will claim the stars?

Rebel with a Clause
Rebel with a Clause

Author: Ellen Jovin

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2022-07-19

Total Pages: 403

ISBN-13: 0358274567

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A Funny Gift for Grammar Lovers NATIONAL BESTSELLER "A fresh and democratic take on language by a gifted teacher." —Mary Norris "[Jovin] never hectors, never finger-points; she enlightens and illuminates. This is lovely work." —Benjamin Dreyer An unconventional guide to the English language drawn from the cross-country adventures of an itinerant grammarian. When Ellen Jovin first walked outside her Manhattan apartment building and set up a folding table with a GRAMMAR TABLE sign, it took about thirty seconds to get her first visitor. Everyone had a question for her. Grammar Table was such a hit—attracting the attention of the New York Times, NPR, and CBS Evening News—that Jovin soon took it on the road, traveling across the US to answer questions from writers, lawyers, editors, businesspeople, students, bickering couples, and anyone else who uses words in this world. In Rebel with a Clause, Jovin tackles what is most on people’s minds, grammatically speaking—from the Oxford comma to the places prepositions can go, the likely lifespan of whom, semicolonphobia, and more. Punctuated with linguistic debates from tiny towns to our largest cities, this grammar romp will delight anyone wishing to polish their prose or revel in our age-old, universal fascination with language.