Bøger af Michael Banister

A group of retired professors from University of Hawaii discover a spherical astrolabe in an attic of a 19th century mansion on Molokai. It had been converted from a device for maritime navigation into a device for navigation through time. Accompanying the astrolabe was a 500-year-old book describing how the astrolabe was converted and what the result was. The professors decided to acquire more of the astrolabes, convert them per the book's instructions, and attempt to travel back to 15th century Mogadishu, Somalia. Trouble was, Chinese Admiral Xheng He's "Treasure Fleet" was in port, and several of the sailors decided to attempt to kidnap the professors and put them to work on the ships.All the professors made it back to the future except one. Horacio Fuente was stranded. He married, raised a daughter, and tasked her with handing the spherical astrolabe to the Great Admiral, Vasco da Gama. But what if the Great Admiral discovers the true function of the device? How will she edit her dad's memoir to describe the astrolabe as nothing more than an ancient marine navigation device? Will her dad's wannabe time-traveling companions find the astrolabe in the future?

Dushan's dreams had always been unusual-sometimes scary, sometimes exhilarating. But ever since he was seven years old his dreams took on another dimension-it was like he was awake inside them. His mother-who he thought had been killed in the Yugoslavian civil war when he was a baby-was talking to him, telling him she was alive and living with his father-who was supposed to have been lost at sea during a fishing expedition in the North Sea. In each of those dreams, Dushan was unable to respond and tell his parents that he was living with his "adopted" family in California and was best friends with his "stepbrother" Danilo. The two stepbrothers were now teenagers and occasionally popped up in one another's dreams, sharing their impressions after waking up. However, the time for dreaming was past-they were about to embark on a desperate attempt to escape their abusive father, the man who arranged to steal Dushan from his real father and plant the lie that his real parents were dead. Their attempt succeeded on one level, but the consequences were completely unexpected.

In the year 1500, Portugal and Spain are competitors in the colonization of the New World and the slave trade in West Africa. Father Martim Rodrigo was appalled when he discovered-upon his return to Portugal at the end of his long career as a parish priest in Africa-how widespread slave trading had become.He was even more anxious about what he knew of the future-as described to him by a former parishioner who had travelled back to Father Rodrigo's time from the distant future. But Rodrigo had an idea. He still possessed the broken time machine used by his late parishioner. Could the machine be repaired? Could he convince the three Gambian sisters who worked for him to use the machine and travel back in time to put a stop to the Europeans? Stay tuned!