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The Chai' Cycle

By: Kim Vanover

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Zen Lee is the last survivor of a two-centuries old order referred to in China as the disciples of the Chai. The followers, who are gifted with supernormal abilities, practice a discipline based on the four points of physics: the strong force, the weak force, electromagnetism and gravity. Zen Lee has been living in a self-imposed exile in a small town in Southern California, grieving over the untimely death of his Chai brothers.John Reams is a news reporter on a small newspaper looking for his big break. When that break arrives, Reams is convinced that he has found his ticket to the world of big- time investigative journalism.However, Reams' world turns upside down when an attempt on his life, and an unusual meeting with Zen Lee sends him spiraling into The Chai' Cycle.

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iUniverse

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0595206891

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9780595206896

Zalor

By: Kim VanOver

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Zalor

By: Kim VanOver

Zalor is a world filled with secrets Trapped in the high-tech world of broadcast journalism, news writer Jason McSwain dreams of the good old days when reporters worked on real newspapers. Then his dream comes true. Banentine Inc., the company that owns the twenty-second century broadcast station transfers Jason to the recently purchased Zalor Observer -- a news publication on the Earth colony of planet Zalor. Due to communication restrictions and a lack of support from Earth, Zalor has evolved into a ranching frontier culture. There, the colonists have learned to domesticate indigenous species as livestock, and to farm edible plants. They also have developed their own folklore; such as the four Strangers -- hooded figures who appear as specters and visit only a select few of the colonists. And then there is the Zalor secret, which the locals do not discuss. On Earth, a growing demand for Zalorian solar crystals has created an upswing in the off-world mining industry and a financial boom is expected to follow. But after Jason arrives and begins to adjust to a lifestyle much different than urban Los Angeles, he learns that one mining company is working to establish an illegal cartel. The colonists, divided over property rights issues and the promise of wealth, split into factions. Faced with the threat of civil war on Zalor, and military intervention from Earth, Jason launches an investigation that reveals dangers far more insidious than anything he could have imagined. He needs to get the information to Earth, but the mining interests have blocked his passage. As his fact finding mission continues, Jason discovers that Zalor is a world that hosts many secrets. But will this revelation stop a pending war? Time is running out for Jason McSwain and the colonists on planet Zalor.

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675

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Xlibris Corporation

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1493126458

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9781493126453

The Memory Collectors

A Novel

By: Kim Neville

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The Memory Collectors

A Novel

By: Kim Neville

Perfect for fans of The Scent Keeper and The Keeper of Lost Things, an atmospheric and enchanting debut novel about two women haunted by buried secrets but bound by a shared gift and the power the past holds over our lives. Ev has a mysterious ability, one that she feels is more a curse than a gift. She can feel the emotions people leave behind on objects and believes that most of them need to be handled extremely carefully, and—if at all possible—destroyed. The harmless ones she sells at Vancouver’s Chinatown Night Market to scrape together a living, but even that fills her with trepidation. Meanwhile, in another part of town, Harriet hoards thousands of these treasures and is starting to make her neighbors sick as the overabundance of heightened emotions start seeping through her apartment walls. When the two women meet, Harriet knows that Ev is the only person who can help her make something truly spectacular of her collection. A museum of memory that not only feels warm and inviting but can heal the emotional wounds many people unknowingly carry around. They only know of one other person like them, and they fear the dark effects these objects had on him. Together, they help each other to develop and control their gift, so that what happened to him never happens again. But unbeknownst to them, the same darkness is wrapping itself around another, dragging them down a path that already destroyed Ev’s family once, and threatens to annihilate what little she has left. The Memory Collectors casts the everyday in a new light, speaking volumes to the hold that our past has over us—contained, at times, in seemingly innocuous objects—and uncovering a truth that both women have tried hard to bury with their pasts: not all magpies collect shiny things—sometimes they gather darkness.

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400

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Simon and Schuster

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ISBN 10

1982157593

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9781982157593

Rebirth of the Chai'

By: Kim VanOver

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Rebirth of the Chai'

By: Kim VanOver

Rebirth of the Chai sequel to The Chai Cycle Then News reporter John Reams life has been turned upside down. His fiancee Silvia Bensen was murdered, and John Reams is introduced to the Chai Cycle: a centuries-old Eastern discipline based on the four points of physics; the strong force, the weak force, electromagnetism and gravity. Endowed with powers he did not understand and could not control, Reams set about to avenge Silvia and expose Mayor John Adams and racketeer Norman Paridy. Now Adams and Paridy are in prison, his story has been published and John Reams, still unsure of his new power, wants to get his life back to normal. However, Paridys backers, an ancient Oriental crime syndicate has other ideas. The Sons of the Dragon, longtime enemies of the Chai are determined to exact vengeance for Paridys downfall by killing Lyla McDaniels, the city employee who first lured Reams into the investigation. In addition, the crime group is also planning a takeover of the west coast drug world, and want no further interference from their old nemesis -- the Chai. Zen Lee is mustering his power for a showdown, John and Lyla are running for their lives, but both Chai disciples have the same goal; stop the Sons of the Dragon.

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iUniverse

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1450216404

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Rebirth of the Chai'

By: Kim VanOver

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Bubblegum Music is the Naked Truth

By: Kim Cooper,David Smay

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Bubblegum Music is the Naked Truth

By: Kim Cooper,David Smay

Essays look at the characteristics, development, and artists of the bubblegum pop music genre, from the Archies and the Cowsills in the 1960s to Tiffany in the 1980s and Britney Spears in the 1990s.

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0922915695

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The Chai' Cycle

The Chai' Cycle

Zalor

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The Memory Collectors

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Rebirth of the Chai'

Rebirth of the Chai'

Rebirth of the Chai'

Rebirth of the Chai'

Bubblegum Music is the Naked Truth

Bubblegum Music is the Naked Truth

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