Books with author Peter King

The alien infiltration was almost perfect. Most people went about their lives believing the news, and that wars, child abuse, white supremacy, genocide and pandemics were the happenstance of their imperfect world. There is only one obscure clue. In 2009 a house fire in far off New Zealand where twenty people considered UFO freaks by their neighbours, are missing, presumed dead. Only one teenager has apparently survived and he is being interviewed by police. They need him contained. Quietly. This is his story.Sam Kahu is the New Zealand Maori teenager, and he is not talking. To lesbian Detective Constable Sue Williams from youth aid he seems both strangely together and strangely worried by something that has nothing to do with him becoming an orphan. And how does he seem to know more about her than she really likes. Is Sam mad, or can he prove his claims?Initiation is the first book of Changels Genesis: Origins of Resistance, a single story in six parts. This is the origin story of the Changels: six teens with remarkable powers and technology engaged in a bitter struggle for the peaceful multicultural future of the earth. Some may call it fantasy, others science fiction. Some might call it superheroes. There are elements too of coming-of-age, travel, romance, mystery, spiritual, and large dollops of fact. This is a story that dodges in and out of the truth in its exploration of themes surrounding our understanding of genetic inheritance. A story about racism, pandemics and globalisation in a time of racism, pandemics and globalisation.

After the shock of her UFO encounter DC Sue Williams wants to understand what Sam is involved in. Sam tells Sue how he came to Renwick House carefully leading her from the shallows of Earth's strangeness, with stories of how his friends from around the world came to New Zealand, into the depths, and the story of how Dr Prosperov's science experiments shook two worlds.Part Two of Changels Genesis (ASIN: B00BUZN08I)Follows from Initiation (ASIN: B00DCFR3B4)Hiding from deadly alien infiltrators Sam tells detective Sue Williams how six minority families, all needing refuge, and all with one psychic teenager ended up coming to live and work for the mysterious Russian financier Dr Gennady Prosperov at haunted Renwick House. Then how Dr Prosperov's amazing experiment in the abandoned lighthouse shocked two worlds.Like a traditional Maori cloak The Weaving tells how the stories of the Changels; the beautiful but troubled Iranian Baha'i, Tahira; the hunted black Louisianian, Ashley; the calm white Zimbabwean, Scotty; the pretty Vietnamese, Cam; and the enigmatic Russian, Dr Gennady Prosperov were woven together. But it was only when Dr Prosperov's physics experiments broke between dimensions that the truly strange extent of his conspiracy became clear.

A restored mansion on remote Aotea Island off Auckland, New Zealand has burned down. Twenty people are missing but only one, 14-year-old Sam Kahu, has been found. Detective Sue Williams soon discovers Sam is unusual. He tells her he's psychic. Then, by saving her life, he proves it. But he also tells her he has his own UFO... A gritty and compelling story about an apparent orphan with a troubled past who meets a young lesbian police-woman in crisis. The two abandoned souls draw strength from each other to explore the mystery of why Renwick House burned down, but only Sam knows how deep and incredible that mystery goes. For Sam is not the only psychic teen who lived at Renwick House. There was also the beautiful but troubled Iranian Baha', Tahira; the hunted black Louisianian, Ashley; the calm white Zimbabwean, Scotty; the pretty Vietnamese, Cam; and the enigmatic Russian, Dr Gennady Prosperov. But it was only when Dr Prosperov's experiments transported Tabika from the safety of her own world that the extent of his conspiracy became clear.

The concept of genius intrigues us. Artistic geniuses have something other people don't have. In some cases that something seems to be a remarkable kind of inspiration that permits the artist to exceed his own abilities. It is as if the artist is suddenly possessed, as if some outside force flows through them at the moment of creation. In other cases genius seems best explained as a natural gift. The artist is the possessor of an extra talent that enables the production of masterpiece after masterpiece. This book explores the concept of artistic genius and how it came to be symbolised by three great composers of the modern era: Handel, Mozart, and Beethoven.

Whale watching is one of the most popular vacation and nature activities in many parts of the world. To see these beautiful creatures in all their glory provides an experience one is not likely to forget.Their sheer size and grace is truly a sight to be experienced by anyone at any age. It is truly nature at its very best!"Best Whale Watching" gives you the information and tips you need to get the most out of your whale watch experience. From when to go to where to sit to how to take awesome pictures, "Best Whale Watching" gives you everything you need to have the most fun, see the most whales, and to create a lifetime of wonderful memories.Over 60 pages of pure information, we let you know how to find the best whale watch, how to save money and even get whale watches for free, and some really cool "tricks" to get the very best pictures possible."Best Whale Watching" is pure practical information. There is no "filler material" like "History of the Whale" or similar content. Instead we show you exactly the best way to get the most from your whale watch experience.This information is available nowhere else and has been gathered over the last 10 years of serious whale watching. This is the book you need to get the best experience and the results for your whale watch.

The concept of genius intrigues us. Artistic geniuses have something other people don't have. In some cases that something seems to be a remarkable kind of inspiration that permits the artist to exceed his own abilities. It is as if the artist is suddenly possessed, as if some outside force flows through him at the moment of creation. In other cases genius seems best explained as a natural gift. The artist is the possessor of an extra talent that enables the production of masterpiece after masterpiece. This book explores the concept of artistic genius and how it came to be symbolized by three great composers of the modern era: Handel, Mozart, and Beethoven. Peter Kivy, a leading thinker in musical aesthetics, delineates the two concepts of genius that were already well formed in the ancient world. Kivy then develops the argument that these concepts have alternately held sway in Western thought since the beginning of the eighteenth century. He explores why this pendulum swing from the concept of the possessor to the concept of the possessed has occurred and how the concepts were given philosophical reformulations as views toward Handel, Mozart, and Beethoven as geniuses changed in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries.