Bøger af Bob Alford

In another part of the galaxy there is an entity of vast intelligence. He is called the Emperor, and his subjects know him only as "Your Highness." He was created by an ancient species to rule the galaxy on their behalf. His mission is to maintain order and to preserve the galaxy for the day they return. He is immortal, and is served by a theocracy that believes their creators are gods and that they rule the galaxy by divine right. They have the means to enforce their will and to destroy entire star systems inhabited by any species that they see as a threat to their mission. He is the Galaxy Keeper and when a team of human explorers stumbles upon a gateway to his galaxy wide teleportation system he learns about the human species. The rescue team sent to retrieve the lost explorers faces enormous challenges as they attempt to stop his plan to exterminate the human race. Visit the Universe of the Galaxy Keeper at http: //www.GalaxyKeeper.com

Our Tree of Life is about family, our family. We live in an exceedingly short window of the historical timeline. We know our parents as adults, our grandparents as older people, our children, and our grandchildren as young people. If we are fortunate, we may get a glimpse of the beginning of the life of a great-grandchild or the end of the life of a great-grandparent. That is only a handful of the many generations that have come before us and the many yet to come. Our Tree of Life is about extending our knowledge of our family to some of those we never met in person, learning who they were, how they lived, and what it was like to live in their world. In this volume, we focus on our Hathaway paternal and maternal ancestors, starting with Nicolas Hathaway, who immigrated to Massachusetts Bay Colony in the 1630s through Isaac Hathaway Junior, Nicolas's great, great, great-grandson, who fought with Washington's Army during the Revolutionary War. Along the way, we will meet twenty-eight couples who were our grandparents and explore history as it really happened, up close and personal. In these pages, family and history come together. Learning about our ancestors broadens our thinking and enriches our lives. Someday we too will be someone's ancestors. Please pass it on.

In another part of the galaxy there is an artificial world called Beltaria. It is inhabited by an entity of vast intelligence, and a cadre of androids and robots that serve him. He is the Galaxy Keeper, and his subjects know him only as The Emperor. He was created by an ancient species that once inhabited the galaxy, to rule on their behalf. His mission is to maintain order and to preserve peace in the galaxy. He is immortal, and is served by a theocracy that believes their creators are gods and that they rule the galaxy by divine right. The Emperor has the power to destroy entire star systems inhabited by any species that he sees as a threat to his mission. The Galactic League has new technology acquired as a result of their earlier encounter with the Emperor. Alpha team fourteen, who went through the Crystal Pyramid and met the Emperor, has a new ship that is much faster than the old one, vastly increasing the extent of space that can be explored. They also have a new mission: to find the other ten species that they learned of when they were on Beltaria. The explorers discover five species inhabiting a region of the galaxy almost 200 light-years from League space. They are shocked to learn that these newly discovered cousins are involved in an interstellar war. They also discover that the war has not gone without notice by the Emperor who has already decided to destroy over a hundred star systems in order to put an end to the war by exterminating the species involved. Amanda, TJ and the rest of the team find themselves in a race against time as they try to establish relations with these newly found cousins, bring an end to this awful war, and prevent the Galaxy Keeper from using his power to end billions of innocent lives.

Immortal Child is the third book, and long awaited conclusion to the Galaxy Keeper Trilogy. Seven years have passed since Alpha Explorer Team Fourteen intervened in the interstellar war between the Castarians and the Axions, being peace and stopping the Galaxy keeper from destroying over one hundred planets. The delicate peace, negotiated with the Emperor by Amanda and Katron, two members of Alpha Team Fourteen, has been maintained for seven years. Now, suddenly, all is at risk, when a small group of human bureaucrats violate the rules of the agreement in an attempt to seize power. The members of Team Fourteen are once again called upon to intervene. They soon discover that the situation is far more complex and dangerous then was initially apparent. The Team Members are shocked when the meet one of their original creators, and learn the true history and current state of affairs of the galaxy, and of the many threats that await the species of the Alliance as they reach for the stars. Amanda, Katron and Kimshee, and the other members of Team Fourteen decide that the status quo is unacceptable. Dangers await them as they set out to change the way the Emperor manages the galaxy, and claim their inheritance left to them by their creators.

Following the devastating raids on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, lightning advances by Japanese forces throughout the Pacific and the Far East, and a desperate battle by the Allied command in the Dutch East Indies, it became evident that an attack on Australia was more a matter of 'when' and not 'if'.On 19 February, just eleven weeks after the attacks on Pearl Harbor and two weeks after the fall of Singapore, the same Japanese battle group that had attacked Hawaii was ordered to attack the ill-prepared and under-defended Australian port of Darwin.Publishing 75 years after this little-known yet devastating attack, this fully illustrated study details what happened on that dramatic day in 1942 with the help of contemporary photographs, maps, and profiles of the commanders and machines involved in the assault.