A vivid (and improbable) account of aliens among us.
A woman recalls her encounters with extraterrestrials—and the ramifications for life on Earth—in this debut memoir.
In her wide-ranging book, Star jumps right into the meat of the matter: In the 1980s, she was contacted by the “Ultraterrestrials” who form the High Spiritual Council and the Galactic Star Federation, congregations of superadvanced aliens. They asked her to become an ambassador to the “Star Kin,” who had separated from their Earth Kin more than 10,000 years ago. The author recalls that she was requested to work with a select band of likewise mentally advanced humans in order to prevent disasters on Earth. The Galactic Earth Council was born in 2010, comprising the only people on the planet who know what Star calls “the Truth of Truths”: that humans are not alone in the universe and that the cosmos is in fact teeming with life. This group also recognizes that the Star Kin seek an “Awakening” so that they and their Earth Kin can be reunited. “We are one humanity, in relation to each other,” she writes, “each with a gift from the Creator to be respected by all present.” The work includes testimonials from other members of the galactic council as well as the author’s many recollections of dealing with the Star Kin here on Earth, including moments when the vast armada of the Federation’s spacecraft paused overhead in the sky, “allowing us to see the glory of their amazing ships in many different sizes and shapes.” Star’s evocative book is enthusiastically written and will appeal to fans of UFO literature. But other readers will hit the wall of credulity almost immediately since the author opens her memoir by describing how the Star Kin helped cap the leaking BP–operated Macondo Prospect during the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe of 2010. Every moment of the disaster, including its end, was completely documented and filmed and showed no alien involvement. Likewise, no alien armadas have recently entered Earth’s atmosphere and loitered in plain view. But such things will hardly be obstacles to devotees of this kind of vibrant galactic narrative.
A vivid (and improbable) account of aliens among us.Pub Date: N/A
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: 253
Publisher: Time Tunnel Media
Review Posted Online: March 21, 2019
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
Dogged original research and superb narrative skills come together in this gripping account of pitiless evil.
Greed, depravity, and serial murder in 1920s Oklahoma.
During that time, enrolled members of the Osage Indian nation were among the wealthiest people per capita in the world. The rich oil fields beneath their reservation brought millions of dollars into the tribe annually, distributed to tribal members holding "headrights" that could not be bought or sold but only inherited. This vast wealth attracted the attention of unscrupulous whites who found ways to divert it to themselves by marrying Osage women or by having Osage declared legally incompetent so the whites could fleece them through the administration of their estates. For some, however, these deceptive tactics were not enough, and a plague of violent death—by shooting, poison, orchestrated automobile accident, and bombing—began to decimate the Osage in what they came to call the "Reign of Terror." Corrupt and incompetent law enforcement and judicial systems ensured that the perpetrators were never found or punished until the young J. Edgar Hoover saw cracking these cases as a means of burnishing the reputation of the newly professionalized FBI. Bestselling New Yorkerstaff writer Grann (The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsession, 2010, etc.) follows Special Agent Tom White and his assistants as they track the killers of one extended Osage family through a closed local culture of greed, bigotry, and lies in pursuit of protection for the survivors and justice for the dead. But he doesn't stop there; relying almost entirely on primary and unpublished sources, the author goes on to expose a web of conspiracy and corruption that extended far wider than even the FBI ever suspected. This page-turner surges forward with the pacing of a true-crime thriller, elevated by Grann's crisp and evocative prose and enhanced by dozens of period photographs.
Dogged original research and superb narrative skills come together in this gripping account of pitiless evil.Pub Date: April 18, 2017
ISBN: 978-0-385-53424-6
Page Count: 352
Publisher: Doubleday
Review Posted Online: Feb. 1, 2017
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 15, 2017
BOOK TO SCREEN
BOOK TO SCREEN
BOOK TO SCREEN
The author's youthfulness helps to assure the inevitable comparison with the Anne Frank diary although over and above the...
Elie Wiesel spent his early years in a small Transylvanian town as one of four children.
He was the only one of the family to survive what Francois Maurois, in his introduction, calls the "human holocaust" of the persecution of the Jews, which began with the restrictions, the singularization of the yellow star, the enclosure within the ghetto, and went on to the mass deportations to the ovens of Auschwitz and Buchenwald. There are unforgettable and horrifying scenes here in this spare and sombre memoir of this experience of the hanging of a child, of his first farewell with his father who leaves him an inheritance of a knife and a spoon, and of his last goodbye at Buchenwald his father's corpse is already cold let alone the long months of survival under unconscionable conditions.
Pub Date: Jan. 16, 2006
ISBN: 0374500010
Page Count: 120
Publisher: Hill & Wang
Review Posted Online: Oct. 7, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Jan. 15, 2006
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