Description: Long before Moses wrote Genesis, the world's first astronomers invented star signs to illustrate a prophecy: a God-man would come to repair the breach between us and the Creator. Those starry figures were pirated, however, and used to advance a false religion which spread all over the world. Faithful men from Noah to the magi of the Christ child stood against that error, yet the true star signs all but vanished for millennia. Adam's Astronomy lays out the original signs, introduces the linguist who recovered them, and explains how she did it. The last chapter describes many deep...

Shyla Harris knows that adults are hiding something from kids-something frightening. The Special Protection Act forbids anyone to tell children under 18 about this secret, and the law is enforced by the ASP, an agency with unlimited powers of censorship, surveillance, and enforced use of secrecy products. Shy's brother Jeffrey has learned the secret and is searching for an answer. She is torn between learning the secret in order to help Jeffrey or ignoring it for her own peace of mind. The secret comes closer when her grandfather "goes" never to return, she hears pitiful wailing but cannot...

Ninth grader Shyla Harris has already experienced the tactics of the powerful Agency for Special Protection (ASP) which wants to snuff out "singers." Her brother was badly beaten, and Shy's father has forbidden her to speak of any of the things that have brought trouble to the family. Now a new leader has come to Seaview to teach singers how to escape the notice of the ASP. Is the training helping or hurting? Is the new leader an impostor? Shy remains silent, but when disaster threatens, she must find a way to warn the others. Set in the SW Washington State, this contemporary fantasy for...