Books with title Sanctuarium

Successful photographer Jo Ellen Hathaway thought she had escaped the house long ago. It was where she spent her loneliest years, after her family was shattered by the sudden, unexplained disappearance of her mother. But now, the sprawling resort off the coast of Georgia haunts her dreams. Even more haunting are the pictures that someone is sending her - strange close-ups, candid shots, and finally, the most shocking and heartbreaking portrait of all: a photograph of her long-lost mother. . . naked, beautiful, and dead. Jo realizes that it's time to return to Sanctuary. The island inn, still run by her estranged family, brings back painful memories and the troubled relationships she struggled so hard to escape and forget. But it seems that her stalker can even breach the safety of this tiny island, where everybody knows everybody - or thinks they do. And Sanctuary may be the most dangerous place of all.

An unusual friendshipHe is an alien scout sent to orbit and observe our planet. Just before the end of his mission, thing go horribly wrong. His ship spins out of control and hurtles towards Earth.Keisha is a young indigenous girl living deep in the Amazon forest. One night, she witnesses a star fall from the sky. Keisha is mysteriously drawn to the fallen star. When she sets out to investigate, her life is changed forever.SANCTUARY is the story of an unlikely friendship between a stranded alien pilot and a young girl with special abilities. Someday, their friendship may save the entire tribe from extinction.What readers are saying about SANCTUARY:"Loved, loved, loved this book. When is the next one coming out?""I couldn't put it down""OMG soooo good!"If you enjoy books like 'The Giver' or John Wyndham's classic 'The Chrysalids', you'll love the stories in Chronicles of the Imagination, a series of science fiction and fictional novellas. Each book is a complete and standalone episode that can be read in one afternoon or evening.Pick up SANCTUARY now and enjoy your well deserved escape from reality!

Co-founder of the Women's March makes her YA debut in a near future dystopian where a young girl and her brother must escape a xenophobic government to find sanctuary.It's 2032, and in this near-future America, all citizens are chipped and everyone is tracked--from buses to grocery stores. It's almost impossible to survive as an undocumented immigrant, but that's exactly what sixteen-year-old Vali is doing. She and her family have carved out a stable, happy life in small-town Vermont, but when Vali's mother's counterfeit chip starts malfunctioning and the Deportation Forces raid their town, they are forced to flee. Now on the run, Vali and her family are desperately trying to make it to her tía Luna's in California, a sanctuary state that is currently being walled off from the rest of the country. But when Vali's mother is detained before their journey even really begins, Vali must carry on with her younger brother across the country to make it to safety before it's too late. Gripping and urgent, co-authors Paola Mendoza and Abby Sher have crafted a narrative that is as haunting as it is hopeful in envisioning a future where everyone can find sanctuary.

Alien meets Alexandra Bracken's The Darkest Minds in this thrilling debut novel about prison-guard-in-training Kenzie, who is taken hostage by the superpowered criminal teens of the Sanctuary space station - only to have to band together with them when the station is attacked by mysterious creatures. Kenzie holds one truth above all: The company is everything. As a citizen of Omnistellar Concepts, the most powerful corporation in the solar system, Kenzie has trained her entire life for one goal: to become an elite guard on Sanctuary, Omnistellar's space prison for superpowered teens too dangerous for Earth. As a junior guard, she's excited to prove herself to her company - and that means sacrificing anything that won't propel her forward. But then a routine drill goes sideways, and Kenzie is taken hostage by rioting prisoners. At first she's confident her commanding officer - who also happens to be her mother - will stop at nothing to secure her freedom. Yet it soon becomes clear that her mother is more concerned with sticking to Omnistellar protocol than she is with getting Kenzie out safely. As Kenzie forms her own plan to escape, she doesn't realize there's a more sinister threat looming, something ancient and evil that has clawed its way into Sanctuary from the vacuum of space. And Kenzie might have to team up with her captors to survive - all while beginning to suspect there's a darker side to the Omnistellar she knows.

Co-founder of the Women's March makes her YA debut in a near future dystopian where a young girl and her brother must escape a xenophobic government to find sanctuary.It's 2032, and in this near-future America, all citizens are chipped and everyone is tracked--from buses to grocery stores. It's almost impossible to survive as an undocumented immigrant, but that's exactly what sixteen-year-old Vali is doing. She and her family have carved out a stable, happy life in small-town Vermont, but when Vali's mother's counterfeit chip starts malfunctioning and the Deportation Forces raid their town, they are forced to flee. Now on the run, Vali and her family are desperately trying to make it to her tía Luna's in California, a sanctuary state that is currently being walled off from the rest of the country. But when Vali's mother is detained before their journey even really begins, Vali must carry on with her younger brother across the country to make it to safety before it's too late. Gripping and urgent, co-authors Paola Mendoza and Abby Sher have crafted a narrative that is as haunting as it is hopeful in envisioning a future where everyone can find sanctuary.

Alien meets Alexandra Bracken’s The Darkest Minds in this thrilling debut novel about prison-guard-in-training, Kenzie, who is taken hostage by the superpowered criminal teens of the Sanctuary space station—only to have to band together with them when the station is attacked by mysterious creatures.Kenzie holds one truth above all: the company is everything. As a citizen of Omnistellar Concepts, the most powerful corporation in the solar system, Kenzie has trained her entire life for one goal: to become an elite guard on Sanctuary, Omnistellar’s space prison for superpowered teens too dangerous for Earth. As a junior guard, she’s excited to prove herself to her company—and that means sacrificing anything that won’t propel her forward. But then a routine drill goes sideways and Kenzie is taken hostage by rioting prisoners. At first, she’s confident her commanding officer—who also happens to be her mother—will stop at nothing to secure her freedom. Yet it soon becomes clear that her mother is more concerned with sticking to Omnistellar protocol than she is with getting Kenzie out safely. As Kenzie forms her own plan to escape, she doesn’t realize there’s a more sinister threat looming, something ancient and evil that has clawed its way into Sanctuary from the vacuum of space. And Kenzie might have to team up with her captors to survive—all while beginning to suspect there’s a darker side to the Omnistellar she knows.

Sanctuary is a novel by the American author William Faulkner about the rape and abduction of a well-bred Mississippi college girl, Temple Drake, during the Prohibition era. It is considered one of his more controversial works, given its theme of rape. First published in 1931, it was Faulkner's commercial and critical breakthrough, establishing his literary reputation. It is said Faulkner claimed it was a "potboiler", written purely for profit, but this has been debated by scholars and Faulkner's own friends.The novel provided the basis for the films The Story of Temple Drake (1933) and Sanctuary (1961). It also inspired the novel No Orchids for Miss Blandish as well as the film of the same title and The Grissom Gang, which derived from No Orchids for Miss Blandish. It also inspired Cargo 200 (2007). Author Details:- Faulkner is one of the most celebrated writers in American literature generally and Southern literature specifically. Though his work was published as early as 1919 and largely during the 1920s and 1930s, Faulkner's renown reached its peak upon the publication of Malcolm Cowley's The Portable Faulkner and his 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the only Mississippi-born Nobel winner. Two of his works, A Fable (1954) and his last novel The Reivers (1962), each won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.[4] In 1998, the Modern Library ranked his 1929 novel The Sound and the Fury sixth on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century; also on the list were As I Lay Dying (1930) and Light in August (1932). Absalom, Absalom! (1936) appears on similar lists.

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts comes a seductive and suspenseful novel of dangerous liaisons and family betrayals…Photographer Jo Ellen Hathaway thought she'd escaped the house called Sanctuary long ago. She'd spent her loneliest years there, after the sudden, unexplained disappearance of her mother. Yet the sprawling inn on an island off the Georgia coast continues to haunt her dreams. And now, even more haunting are the pictures someone is sending her: strange close-ups and candids, culminating in the most shocking portrait of all—a photo of her mother—naked, beautiful, and dead.Now Jo must return to the island, and to her bitterly estranged family. With the help of Nathan Delaney—who was on the island the summer her mother disappeared—Jo hopes to learn the truth about the tragic past. But Sanctuary may be the most dangerous place of all.

A half-blood by birth. Anissa Garnet is half-fae, half-vampire. And she’s not the daughter of just any fae, she’s the daughter of Gregor, the leader of the fae. Except now she’s made the mistake of walking away from her fae kind. As if that wasn’t bad enough, she left her mother’s kind—vampires—behind. Now this half-breed has gone rogue, but she hasn’t done it alone.Vampire clan leader no more. Jonah Bourke not only stepped down from being a clan leader, he also left behind his entire clan, the one he was destined to rule. All to merge his fate with Anissa, the slayer that had been sent to kill him. New Alliances, old foes.The Sanctum provides more than sanctuary. It provides answers, which sometimes leads to more questions, and then even more threats.

JESS MASTRIANI Knew she wasn't going to be able to hide her psychic powers from the U.S. government forever. But she never thought that she and Dr. Krantz, the special agent brought in to convince Jess to join his elite team of "specially gifted" crime solvers, would have something in common. When a local boy's disappearance is attributed to a backwoods militia group, it turns out that Jess and Dr. Krantz have the same goal. Suddenly Jess finds herself collaborating with one enemy in order to stop a far worse one. In an atmosphere of hate and fear, Jess and Dr. Krantz must work together to unite a community and save a life...without loosing their own.

Rinn's home is the Sanctuarium, Latin for sanctuary. She and the rest of the citizens go about their daily lives carrying out complex mathematical tasks in hopes of raising their Value so that they can consume more goods. They live in a world of always on social networking which tracks their every movement and they are immersed in the latest pop culture scandal of the day for entertainment. This all changes for Rinn when sees a mysterious figure in shadows. A ghost who shouldn't exist but will change her life forever. Excerpt: “Hello,” he said softly, his voice as smooth and silky as any mental projection. She had an emotional response to hearing his voice that she did not understand. Perhaps Rinn was thinking about the way he spoke to her because verbal speech was so rare. Its rarity made it elicit unique feelings in her. That was the only logical response. People were attracted to things that they did not hear often. He also had a very nice verbal voice, something that was rare and contributed to the fact that people rarely used their voices. “Please do not be scared,” he added, awkwardly. He then returned to mental projections, which made her feel far more comfortable, at ease with herself and the world around her. My name is Ryan. I’m afraid that you saw me earlier and we have to talk. I need your help and I think that, because you saw me, you may need mine. Can you please come with me? Rinn stepped forward and stared at him. He was hard to see in the shadows, but everything about him drew her in. She looked at his clothes. He was wearing the same exact clothing that he had been wearing earlier. He wore what looked like a red sweatshirt and loose-fitting jeans. Both items were worn and tattered and looked at least a decade old. Why was he dressed like that? She almost recoiled in disgust when he reached out and touched her. Rinn stopped herself, however, for politeness’ sake. The boy took her hand and clasped it tightly. The gesture sent tingles down her spine. I know you’re scared, but it’s something that you must do. For both of our sakes, please.