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Earthborn

by Orson Scott Card, Sylvia Waugh

High above the earth orbits the starship Basilica . On board the huge vessel is a sleeping woman. Of those who made the journey, Shedemai alone has survived the hundred of years since the Children of Wetchik returned to Earth. She now wears the Cloak of the Starmaster, and the Oversoul wakes her sometimes to watch over her descendants on the planet below. The population has grown rapidly--there are cities and... (more)

Homecoming Saga: Book 4

Earthfall

by Orson Scott Card

The Oversoul of the colony planet Harmony selected the family of Wetchik to carry it back to long-lost Earth. Now grown to a tribe in the years of their journey to Harmony's hidden starport, they are ready at last to take a ship to the stars. But from the beginning there has been bitter dispute between Nafai and Elemak, Wetchick's youngest son and his oldest. On board the starship Bailica , the children of the... (more)

Homecoming Saga: Book 1

The Memory of Earth

by Orson Scott Card

High above the planet Harmony, the Oversoul watches. Its task, programmed so many millennia ago, is to guard the human settlement on this planet--to protect this fragile remnant of Earth from all threats. To protect them, most of all, from themselves. The Oversoul has done its job well. There is no war on Harmony. There are no weapons of mass destruction. There is no technology that could lead to weapons of war.... (more)

Homecoming Saga: Book 3

The Ships of Earth

by Orson Scott Card

The City of Basilica has fallen. Now Wetchik, Nafai, and all their family must brave the desert wastes, and cross the wide continents to where Harmony's hidden spaceport lies silent, abandoned, waiting for the command to make the great interstellar ships ready for flight again. But of these sixteen people, only a few have chosen their exile. The others, Rasa's spiteful daughters and their husbands; Wetchik's... (more)

Homecoming Saga: Book 2

The Call of Earth

by Orson Scott Card

As Harmony's Oversoul grows weaker, a great warrior has arisen to challenge its bans. His name is Moozh, and he has won control of an army using forbidden technology. now he is aiming his soldiers at the city of Basilica, that strong fortress above the Plain. Basilica remains in turmoil. Wetchik and his sons are not strong enough to stop a army. Can Rasa and her allies defeat him through intrigue, or will Moozh... (more)

Daisy's Back in Town

by Rachel Gibson

Daisy Lee Monroe thought she'd brushed the dust of Lovett, Texas, off her high-heeled shoes years ago, but she's come back home only to find that little has changed. Her sister is still crazy, and her mom still has pink plastic flamingos in her front yard. And Jackson Lamott Parrish, the bad boy she'd left behind, is still so sexy it hurts. She'd like nothing better than to avoid this particular man, but she... (more)

The DANCE (FINAL FRIENDS 2): THE DANCE (Final Friends, Book 2)

The DANCE (FINAL FRIENDS 2): THE DANCE (Final Friends, Book 2)

by Christopher Pike

For Jessica Hart and Michael Olsen, the homecoming dance will end just like the party--in horror. The murderer will walk through another wall.

Homecoming

by Bernhard Schlink, Michael Henry Heim

The first novel by Bernhard Schlink since his international best seller The Reader, Homecoming is the story of one man's odyssey and another man's pursuit. A child of World War II, Peter Debauer grew up with his mother and scant memories of his father, a victim of war. Now an adult, Peter embarks upon a search for the truth surrounding his mother's unwavering--but shaky--history and the possibility of finding... (more)

Farther Shore

by Christie Golden

When an unstoppable Borg plague breaks out upon Earth, blame quickly falls on the newly returned crew of the Starship Voyage ™ . Did Kathryn Janeway and the others unknowingly carry this insidious infection back with them? Many in Starfleet think so, and Seven of Nine, in particular, falls under a cloud of suspicion. Now, with a little help from the Starship Enterprise ™ , Admiral Janeway must reunite her... (more)

Bleachers

by John Grisham

High school all-American Neely Crenshaw was probably the best quarterback ever to play for the legendary Messina Spartans. Fifteen years have gone by since those glory days, and Neely has come home to Messina to bury Coach Eddie Rake, the man who molded the Spartans into an unbeatable football dynasty. Now, as Coach Rake’s “boys” sit in the bleachers waiting for the dimming field lights to signal his passing,... (more)

Names My Sisters Call Me

by Megan Crane

Courtney, Norah, and Raine Cassel are as different as three sisters can be. Norah, the oldest, is a type A obsessive who hasn't forgiven Raine, the middle sister, for ruining her wedding day six years ago. Raine is Norah's opposite, a wild child/performance artist/follow-your-bliss hippie chick who ran off to California . The only thing the two have in common is their ability to drive Courtney, their youngest... (more)

Measure of the Heart: A Father's Alzheimer's, A Daughter's Return

Measure of the Heart: A Father's Alzheimer's, A Daughter's Return

by Mary Ellen Geist

Mary Ellen Geist decided to leave her job as a CBS Radio anchor to return home to Michigan when her father's Alzheimer's got to be too much for her mother to shoulder alone. She chose to live her life by a different set of priorities: to be guided by her heart, not by outside accomplishment and recognition. The New York Times wrote a front page story on Mary Ellen on Thanksgiving 2005. It was one of the most... (more)

A Few Good Men (Harlequin Blaze)

by Tori Carrington

Corporal Eric Armstrong is finally going to meet his sexy new pen pal in the flesh. Only, Eric already knows her...very, very well! Corporal Eddie Cash has a reputation for living on the edge. Still, even he's worried about his next adventure--fatherhood. Lieutenant Matt Guerrero has always been proud to serve his country. Only, this time it might cost him his marriage.... Captain Brian Justice loves being a... (more)

Earthborn - Homecoming Volume 5

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Memory of Earth :Homecoming 1

by Orson Scott Card

The Odyssey of Homer

by Homer, Richmond Lattimore

The most eloquent translation of Homer's Odyssey into modern English.

Homecoming

by Christie Golden

After seven long years in the Delta Quadrant, the crew of the Starship Voyager ™ now confront the strangest world of all: home. For Admiral Kathryn Janeway and her stalwart officers, Voyager 's miraculous return brings new honors and responsibilities, reunions with long-lost loved ones, and for some, such as the Doctor and Seven of Nine, the challenge of forging new lives in a Federation that seems to hold... (more)

Demon Envy

by Erin Lynn

Being a teenager can be hell-especially when you're friends with someone who was born there. Kenzie Sutcliffe woke up to another normal morning-until a demon popped up in her shower. While trying to get rid of a monster zit, she dropped her acne lotion in the tub. And when fifty bucks' worth of it swirled down the drain, it freed a demon from his prison portal. A mysteriously geeky-looking demon. So now... (more)

Buffalo Spirits

by Elizabeth Black

A tale of loss, of longing for home and the connections that bind two peoples to a single land-and to one another.

Seen It All and Done the Rest: A Novel

by Pearl Cleage

For Josephine Evans, home was on the stages of the world where she spent thirty years establishing herself as one of the finest actresses of her generation. Josephine was the toast of Europe, and her fabulous apartment in Amsterdam’s theater district was a popular gathering place for an international community of artists, actors, and expatriates who considered themselves true citizens of the world. Josephine lived... (more)

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by Orson Scott Card, Sylvia Waugh

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