Books with title The Last Sunrise

The Last SunriseIn 2012 it has been one hundred years since Reverend Richard Collins sauntered into vampire Dr. Charles Stark’s office but the decisions made in that office that day reverberate still.Now, 17-year old Sarah Barker is grieving the loss of her father and struggling to deal with an insane, cruel aunt; bullies who play spin the bottle on the grave of a teenager who suffered a massive stake through the heart; the torment of imaginary vampires; convoluted murder schemes and . . . a mystery man claiming to be a 42-year-old teenager.If she can keep herself alive and sane she might find that people and things are not always as bad as they seem . . . they’re usually worse. Excerpts:They looked at her like she had just asked them to volunteer to give foot massages at an old folk's home. Then, they looked at each other just as vacantly."Surprised? I'm not surprised you're surprised. Yeah, that's right. I know all about it. I figured it all out and I got all the stupid little clues, too. The fangs were pretty cheesy. I already told that fat slob I can play vampires, too. And now I'm telling you the same thing. I'm not going down without a fight and taking a few-""What were you expecting me to do with them?" he asked.She shook her head and mumbled, "I didn't think anything." "Are you sure you aren't surprised by what I did?" he asked. She shook her head.Sarah stood up, walked to where he lay and looked down at him. Satisfied that he was not going to grab her, she cautiously knelt down beside him and placed the crowbar over his heart. She raised the hammer high above it.

This is a true story of a nine-year old boy who found himself hunted for no reason other than born Jewish and living on the wrong continent at the wrong t ime. Little by little, he found himself devoid of friends and relatives-- the Nazi took them all. Imprisoned but not defeated he grew up in Nazi concentration camps as a political prisoner maked for death, as on enemy of the state, and lived to tell his story. This is not a book of a defeated person seeking sympathy; rather it is to demonstrate to others that despite adverse living conditions, deprived of a childhood and education for more than four and a half years imprisonment in Nazi concentration camps, one can prevail and live to tell his story. It is not the intention of the author to describe the event of World War Two in great detail and with accuracy. Neither is it intended to blame the German people for the atrocities that the Nazis committed against the Jewish people and others who or suffered during those war years. "Born in the year 1930 in Grodno Poland and condemned to DEATH at the tender age of nine by Hitler and his Nazis. To be gassed and burned in the gas chambers and crematoriums of such Death Camps as Auschwitz, Dachau, and others. That little boy was me more than 70 years ago. I feel compelled to tell my story for all who died at the hands of the Nazis and who can speak no more. I hope to show an example to others that one can prevail and live a productive life even though one suffered and has been ruthlessly abused at the hands of others. Already at the Open Gates of the Gas Chamber of Auschwitz, only a few feet away from the final doors of no return of the undressing room, when the Sword of Death was lifted from my throat by the Greatest Power we all know and call God".

Dynah looked at her twin brother Sol in shock. Did he say that they would soon fry?! A vision of Sol in a cooking pan appeared before her eyes! A billion years from now, the Sun has grown bright enough to heat up the Earth and boil away the seas. People have fled to a new star. The twins' village is the last to go. But the day before, the old jelly-brain computer needed for the voyage has crashed. Starr, the twins' friend and the main computer Keeper, has vanished. Has he really joined the rebel group that refuses to leave Earth? The twins set out on a desperate quest to find him. With the help of a rusty sailor-robot and an old Sun Scholar (and ice-cream), they escape bullies, storms, fire, and a tower to reach the rebel island with its mysterious playground. But will Starr help them? Or are they all indeed doomed to fry under the Sun's fierce gaze?!