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A mother considers the unthinkable to stop a war. A husband may lose everything to watch over a world. A scrivener learns the terrible risk in the words she's translating. The power of many sacrificing as one. These and more are the stories collected in this volume. Stories of people. Stories of war and sacrifice and friendship. They help weave the rich fabric of Orullian's epic fantasy series, The Vault of Heaven, deepening the resonance of the world...
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Most people know the story of Joseph and Mary, but what about the others who came to the manger? What are their stories? What gifts did they bear? At the Manger: The Stories of Those Who Were There is a collection of fictional tales that captures the spirit of charity and humility the birth of Christ is meant to teach. These stores share the gentle reminder that giving is an act of love and ennobles us most when it is a gift of self."Rarely has [the...
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After the death of his wife, Robert Mallen finds the only way to cope is to crawl into a mindless routine. As empty years go by, he finds he is not really living anymore, until a revolutionary new procedure offers him the chance to offload the routines and trivialities of life, freeing his mind to explore deeper questions and ideas. And what he finds in his deep-mind may either save him … or drive him mad.
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The second title in the Vault of Heaven series, Peter Orullian's Trial of Intentions is a mesmerizing fantasy epic that turns the conventions of the genre on its head
The gods who created this world have abandoned it. In their mercy, however, they chained the rogue god-and the monstrous creatures he created to plague mortalkind, in the vast and inhospitable wasteland of the Bourne. The magical Veil that contains them has protected humankind for millennia...
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Nicholas Santori has had troubling dreams all his life. With the anniversary of his daughter's death, those dreams have gotten worse, threatening the stability of his family and perhaps his own safety. After receiving cryptic messages about his dreams from his clairvoyant son, Nicholas seeks help from an eccentric hypnotherapist. During regression Nicholas learns that in a former life he was a girl named Victoria Page, that she was murdered, and that...
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Two men. One old. One young. Both possess a gift. A gift of music with the power to change things. Even destroy. The younger is called back to his homeland. To war. The other embarks on an inward journey into his past, as he sets to repair a broken viola. An instrument with meaning to him. A resonant kind. The music each man will make will have an absolute quality. And it will change them both.
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In wartime, what price honor, when the odds are against you, the enemy is remorseless, and it is the eleventh hour? A Sheason who lives to help his people faces a terrible choice on the battlefield when all defenses have failed and the only choice seems to be to do the one thing that separates him from his most hated adversary.
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10) The Hell of It
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Some heroes don't carry blades or go to war. Some heroes are fathers desperately trying not to fail their sons.
11) Beats of Seven
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From ancient myths to future battlefields, from youthful games to a confession booth, from morality plays to women of the evening, from the old west to an intergalactic saloon, Beats of Seven is an eclectic collection of Peter Orullian's short fiction that moves from note to note with the unpredictable delight of a great jazz tune.
12) The Astonishing
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BASED ON THE HIT ALBUM BY PROGRESSIVE METAL GIANTS DREAM THEATERIn a not so distant future, our world has returned to the ugliness of feudalism. Only this time, those in power control the servant class with the very thing that once inspired men to rise up and take back their lives-music. But it is not the music of old. That music is forgotten. No, this new music is engineered entirely by machines. This music suppresses that part of humanity which...