: The story of Deven: The Seventh Star is a “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” meets “Harry Potter”, splashed with “Percy Jackson” hybrid! Deven, a small town South Dakota kid, discovers a universal secret that he inherits on his thirteenth birthday and Deven's quiet world is about to get dramatically “rocked”. This inheritance includes extraordinary one of a kind powers and will make him the most unique individual alive anywhere in the universe. He will be thrusted into a hidden universal battle that has been taking place since the origin of our being. He will need to learn very quickly how to use his powers to fight a very powerful dark force. Can Deven live up to the new expectations that has been placed on his shoulders? Open your minds and get ready to embark with Deven and his friends, Jordy and Miya, on this globetrotting high octane ride filled with exotic worlds, explosive action, plot twist, romance, and side-cracking humor.

The Seventh Age of Man: Issues, Challenges, and Paradoxes is a collection of academic essays on Old Age. The contributors come from a wide range of fields of expertise, which accounts for the originality of the book. Depending on their respective disciplines, the authors resort to various methodological approaches, from sociological case studies to discourse analysis, and from historical and political theories to media criticism, but they often address similar questions – when are people to be considered as old, what does it mean to be old, how do we deal with ageing – and reach similar conclusions about the paradoxical representations of the elderly, whether in Renaissance Europe or in contemporary China. Although men and women are sometimes treated differently, in most societies, the older generation is alternately perceived as a threat and a burden, or as financial and moral support. If they are often criticized or ridiculed, especially when they try to retain their youthful looks long after their prime, the elderly also trigger a feeling of nostalgia as representatives of a past usually seen as more desirable than the present. Their resilience and independence are regularly emphasized, as well as their wisdom, as a result of their long experience, which helps them to contemplate their ends more serenely and which might turn them into models for their contemporaries.

Close families share everything. Including consequences. When one of the HIO’s premier terralogists refuses a job offer from a wannabe despot the chain of suspicious circumstances which quickly follow scatter his family across the galaxy. Torn apart by space and time, will each survive long enough to be united ever again? This Box Set contains the tetralogy's four volumes: Beyond the Hidden Sky (vol. 1); A Dark of Endless Days (vol. 2); A Psilent Place Below (vol. 3); and its conclusion, Refractions of Frozen Time (vol. 4). Also included is The Star Trails Compendium, which covers terms, definition, weather, political structure, and planetary description of the Cyrarian planetary system as well as a chapter by chapter discussion and lesson plan guide for parents and educators who may want to use the series for extra credit reading in STEM programs.