Christopher Bailey – författare

On Allie Bennett's thirteenth birthday, one special gift will unlock the gateway to an adventure that will span the galaxy, and throw her into a war decades in the making. Abandoned by her parents and adopted at a young age, Allie was working hard at living a normal life, until one special birthday gift from her missing mother changed everything and left her stranded, lost and alone on the wrong side of the galaxy.

Fighting to survive in an alien world, Allie desperately hopes for rescue from her best friend Dav. When she learns the truth behind Dav's real purpose however, she finds that even the closest of friends can be far more, or less, than they seem. Betrayed at every turn, tangled in a web of secrets drawing ever tighter around her, hunted by a brutal tyrant, Allie holds in her hands the key to saving not only her own world, but the entire galaxy.

All Allie wants is to go home. That and pass Algebra, though that might be too much to hope for. Instead, she must become something thought lost forever; a hero with an ancient legacy... a Starjumper.

On a mission to rescue Allie's mother, Allie and her friends seek out the Resistance hidden in a dangerous region of the galaxy known as The Shift. All anyone knows about The Shift is that no one has ever been seen again once they crossed its borders. The Resistance themselves may no longer exist, leaving Allie and her friends as the only ones standing between the Highlord and complete dominion over the galaxy. But the Highlord has his own plans to eliminate the Starjumper and her allies, sending one of the most destructive forces in the galaxy to hunt them down, his network of spies betraying their every move. Meanwhile, Highlord Tyren completes work on a new weapon, with power beyond anything the galaxy has ever seen before. While Allie and her friends form a plan to fight back, the Highlord musters all his forces to pursue and destroy the Starjumper, the only person who can stop him from his ultimate goal. A goal the Highlord has kept secret even from his closest advisors. A secret that could mean the end of all life in the galaxy.

Oremus allows Catholics to experience anew—or for the first time—the beauty and rich spiritual heritage of the language used for almost two-thousand years in the scriptures, liturgy, and prayers of the Church. Traditional Latin prayers such as the Ave Maria, Sancte Michael, and Tantum Ergo are presented side-by-side with their literal English translations in this extraordinary collection.

Pope Francis’s Twitter account in Latin has grown from 100,000 followers in 2013 to more than almost a million in 2020; and there is a growing interest by Catholics to learn traditional prayers in Latin.

Oremus is a collection of cherished prayers in Latin—the exact words prayed by many of the saints over the centuries—including:

Oremus includes an introduction, ecclesiastical Latin pronunciation guide, index, and accent markings throughout the text. It can be used as a prayer book for individuals, classrooms, families, and small groups.

Something has given children all over the city new and amazing powers. Some decide to use their powers for good. Others for evil.

A new superteam must rise to battle the coming villains. A team with amazing powers, trained by a secret organization to protect the city. A team known as The Alpha Squad.

This is not their story.

Rejects from the Alpha Squad Project must band together on their own to make a stand against the coming evil. Together, they must learn to control their unusual gifts.

They must become Sub-Heroes. The entire city depends on it.

The Sub-Heroes, a team of superpowered fourth graders, have already saved the city once. Since that day, they've been training harder than ever to be ready for the day another supervillain rises. That day has come, and they are not ready.

Investigating a robbery at a local school, the team learns the theft was part of something much more sinister. Even their incredible powers may not be enough to battle the entire team of supervillains known as The Nightwatch.

All hope may already be lost.

They are Sub-Heroes. They must succeed. The entire city depends on it.

The Highlord had been defeated. Allie and her friends could all return home and pursue lives of peace at long last. Dav and Artus could return to rule the Sy’hli Empire, Tic could return to the jungles of Ayaran, and Allie and Imber could reunite with their families. Even Raith could, for the first time in his life, pursue whatever life he chose. 

But before peace could become more than just a happy thought for tomorrow, the Highlord’s final act once more brings pain and terror to the galaxy. A devastating virus had been unleashed, capable of destroying all life in the galaxy and beyond. Threatening to tear the group apart, sabotage from within undermines the very foundation of their friendship, and brings the galaxy to the brink of another interstellar war. And behind it all, an enemy they all thought gone forever. 

With the Coalition divided, the Resistance broken, deadly assassins that even the Maruck fear in close pursuit, an unstoppable virus spreading across the galaxy and all life hanging in the balance, Allie faces her greatest fear as her new-found power begins to fall under the control of a being beyond anything she could possibly imagine.

The galaxy’s last hope rests with the Starjumper, who must accept that for all life to survive, one of her friends must die.

Jackson Holt had it all. A beautiful girlfriend, a starting position on the school’s football team, a stable family and a comfortable life. And then the whispers started. At first that’s all it was. Gentle whispers around him, though nobody was there. Then the visions started. Visions of a girl, of captivity, suffering, and of torture. With the visions came the seizures, and with the seizures came the doctors. Diagnosed schizophrenic and institutionalized for treatment, everyone reassures him that his condition is treatable. There’s only one problem; Jackson believes the girl who speaks to him is real, and desperately needs his help. With his world unraveling around him and time running out, Jackson must risk everything to rescue a girl who may not even exist.