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Hopewell Dreamquest By Alfred D. Byrd
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Gregory, a lucid dreamer, gains the power to travel though dreams to the world of the Hopewell Exchange of central Ohio. He is dreaming of visiting the Native Americans who once lived at the mounds... More > on his family property when he is attacked in his dream by an intruder from the present day. Meeting the intruder, an archaeologist named Dr. Landon, in real life, Gregory learns that he was mistaken for an operative of a rival archaeologist who is using dream-travel to acquire antiquities for the black market. Landon offers Gregory a chance to travel back in time to meet great shamans who have gained powers of mind and body from dreamstones that have fallen from the Upper World onto the site of what Gregory knows as Serpent Mound. Taking the chance, Gregory can help solve a mystery that has baffled archaeologists: how the powerful, peaceful Hopewell Exchange vanished. Gregory seizes the chance, but comes to suspect that the archaeologists who are studying a culture's end may be causing it.< Less
Hopewell Dreamquest By Alfred D. Byrd
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Gregory, a lucid dreamer, gains the power to travel though dreams to the world of the Hopewell Exchange of central Ohio. He is dreaming of visiting the Native Americans who once lived at the mounds... More > on his family property when he is attacked in his dream by an intruder from the present day. Meeting the intruder, an archaeologist named Dr. Landon, in real life, Gregory learns that he was mistaken for an operative of a rival archaeologist who is using dream-travel to acquire antiquities for the black market. Landon offers Gregory a chance to travel back in time to meet great shamans who have gained powers of mind and body from dreamstones that have fallen from the Upper World onto the site of what Gregory knows as Serpent Mound. Taking the chance, Gregory can help solve a mystery that has baffled archaeologists: how the powerful, peaceful Hopewell Exchange vanished. Gregory seizes the chance, but comes to suspect that the archaeologists who are studying a culture's end may be causing it.< Less
At the Brink of War By Alfred D. Byrd
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Heretic, traitor, or prophet "" Timothy Johnston must learn what he is as worlds move towards the start of an invasion of the earth that will leave it in mediaeval darkness. A fugitive from... More > the invaders, the gifted Dhitha and the blood-drinking Veligit, Timothy is carrying plans that, if he delivers them to the earth's authorities in time, may forestall the invasion, but will betray his friends to capture "" possibly even to torture and to death. The voice within him "" the voice that some call prophecy "" seems to be telling him, though, that nothing is how it seems to him. He knows only that, when he chooses, he will send two worlds down a path that will end in fire.< Less
A Convergence at Shiloh By Alfred D. Byrd
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In the second section of An Epic of the American Civil War, the South rides high on its victory at First Bull Run, while the North seeks renewed commitment to the cause of reunion. Lincoln prods... More > reluctant generals to act, with only one success. In the East, a dilatory general-in-chief makes endless plans, but carries out none of them. In the West, a one-time failure turned warlord closes on the enemy. As battles rage across the West, all roads converge on Shiloh, a field of peach trees and a country church in western Tennessee -- a field where more American blood will be shed in two days of combat than had been shed in all of the nation's previous wars.< Less
Between Two Fires By Alfred D. Byrd
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What do you do when the end of the world looks like your best option? Baran, sixth in line to the throne of the Star-Begotten, must answer this question when Olarak, fallen Messenger of the Light,... More > launches a surprise attack on the city of Napas. Prince Baran, aided by an outcast prophet and a lovely archer, must get his people's Oracle-Stones to safety. If Olarak seizes the Stones, he will become master of a world forever cut off from the Light!< Less
Asenath's Tale By Alfred D. Byrd
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When Pharaoh calls young Asenath's family to come live in the palace in Memphis, she tries to rescue an unjustly imprisoned slave named Joseph, who'd once befriended her. Her adventures take her on a... More > voyage up the Nile, on a quest for lost cats, into service to a princess, and into Pharaoh's court itself. When Pharaoh starts to have nightmares that his priests can't understand, Asenath learns that saving Joseph may save Egypt itself!< Less
A Song of the One By Alfred D. Byrd
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A Song of the One is the age-old account of Creatlon, Fall, Redemption, and Glory retold in verse for a new millennium. The major events, characters, and themes of The Story of Salvation appear in a... More > new light in a clear, fast-moving narrative that flows relentlessly from the fires of the first beginning to the fires of a new beginning.< Less
The Stars Bow Down By Alfred D. Byrd
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In THE STARS BOW DOWN: AN EPIC OF JOSEPH, the timeless tale of a favorite son whose brothers sold him into slavery, but whom God raised from a prison to save the known world from famine, appears anew... More > in verse that captures the dignity of the Biblical narrative, but is as fresh and immediate as today's headlines. Share Joseph's thoughts and feelings as he meets betrayal and false accusation, but also vindication and love, on the road to reunion and reconciliation with a family that he once thought lost to him forever.< Less
Asenath's Tale By Alfred D. Byrd
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When Pharaoh calls young Asenath's family to come live in the palace in Memphis, she tries to rescue an unjustly imprisoned slave named Joseph, who'd once befriended her. Her adventures take her on a... More > voyage up the Nile, on a quest for lost cats, into service to a princess, and into Pharaoh's court itself. When Pharaoh starts to have nightmares that his priests can't understand, Asenath learns that saving Joseph may save Egypt itself!< Less
To Dream Atlantis By Alfred D. Byrd
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Obsessed by visions of Atlantis, a wealthy student of the occult is led by prophetic verses from continent to continent in quest of those who can further his knowledge of the foundered land. As he... More > gathers around him a circle of adepts, he learns that his mission is no less than to raise the continent anew and restore to it a brilliant civilization cut off in a single day in its prime. Is he about to achieve the dream of mystics throughout the ages, or repeat what led to Atlantis' fall?< Less