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Terra Ignota volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"It is a world in which near-instantaneous travel from continent to continent is free to all. In which automation now provides for everybody's basic needs. In which nobody living can remember an actual war ... In which nationality is a fading memory, and most people identify instead with their choice of the seven global Hives, distinguished from one another by their different approaches to the big questions of life. And it is a world in which, unknown...
Author
Series
Terra Ignota volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
Mycroft Canner is a convict. For his crimes he is required, as is the custom of the 25th century, to wander the world being as useful as he can to all he meets. Carlyle Foster is a sensayer-a spiritual counselor in a world that has outlawed the public practice of religion, but which also knows that the inner lives of humans cannot be wished away. The world into which Mycroft and Carlyle have been born is as strange to our 21st-century eyes as ours...
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"In the vein of such classic family sagas as Fall on Your Knees, A Reunion of Ghosts is the confessional of three sisters who have decided to kill themselves on the very last day of the 20th century; in it they tell the story of a family haunted by suicide ever since the sisters' great-grandfather, a Nobel Prize-winning chemist, developed the first poison gas used in warfare and also the lethal agent used in the Third Reich's gas chambers--inspired...
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Nothing interesting ever happened in the small, eastern Washington wheat town of Antioch-until now. Without warning, Antioch has suddenly become a gateway for the supernatural-from sightings of angels and messianic images materializing in the sky to a weeping crucifix with the power to heal. Yet these miracles are only the beginning of something much bigger: the return of the Messiah as prophesied in the Bible. Then a self-proclaimed porphet mysteriously...
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Series
Left Behind series. Main series volume 13
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 14
Description
The horrors of the Tribulation are over, and Jesus Christ has set up his perfect kingdom on Earth. Yet evil still lurks in the hearts of the unbelieving. As the Millennium draws to a close, the final generation of the unrepentant prepares to mount a new offensive against the Lord Himself--sparking the final and ultimate conflict from which only one side will emerge the eternal victor.
Author
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Description
A New Age novel on a Vancouver woman who falls into a coma which lasts nearly two decades. The novel traces the impact on her family, especially on her boyfriend and a daughter she gave birth to just before the coma. By the author of Life after God.
9) Hooking up
Author
Pub. Date
[2000]
Description
A collection of essays along with a short story and novella.
10) Fighting disease
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Series
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Discusses the issue of communicable disease as one of the eight Millennium Development Goals identified by the United Nations.
Series
The Zack files volume 18
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
After falling through his computer screen, Zach travels back in time to a school in 999 A.D. where the students believe the world will end in the new millennium.
Author
Pub. Date
1995
Description
A desert hunt for stone tablets given to Moses with the Ten Commandments which foretold the coming of the Messiah. The man who undertakes the hunt is a Pennsylvania professor who learns of the tablets' existence in inheritance papers from his father, an archeologist who found them 50 years earlier before he disappeared.
Author
Series
Left Behind series. Main series volume 13
Pub. Date
2007.
Description
The horrors of the Tribulation are over, and Jesus Christ has set up his perfect kingdom on earth. Believers all around the world enjoy a newly perfected relationship with their Lord, and the earth itself is transformed. Yet evil still lurks in the hearts of the unbelieving. As the Millennium draws to a close, the final generation of the unrepentant prepares to mount a new offensive against the Lord Himself--sparking the final and ultimate conflict...
Author
Pub. Date
1996
Description
A personal religious testimony by the author in which he discusses the links between angels, dreams, near-death experiences, and the coming of the Millennium, showing how interest in these matters is not new, but can be traced back to the religious traditions of ancient and medieval times.