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GENeration eXtraTERrestrial

GENeration eXtraTERrestrial

Aurelio O'Brien

Bad Attitude Books
2014
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Dr. Grace Brown, a government research scientist at ELF (The Extraterrestrial Life Forms Lab), is forced to investigate a number of alleged abductees who claim they have been probed and impregnated by aliens. To punish her boss for this unwanted assignment, Grace brings these "nut cookies" back to ELF for "further study," but the joke is on her when each gives birth to physically varied and undeniably non-human offspring. This new Generation eXtraterrestrial is as eccentric as their diverse Earth parents and initially causes pandemonium in the government, the courts, and the churches, as all try to cope and sort out how to deal with this unexpected new reality. Grace bonds with and adopts a tiny and brilliant alien boy, Charlie, whose mother died in childbirth. The others return home with their Earth parents and try to grow up as normally as an alien can. Nature and nurture collide as these children and their Earth families face issues of race, religion, vegetarianism, politics, social equality, adoption, gender-identity, alcoholism, love, divorce, sexuality, drug addiction, abandonment, and fame. These ultimate outsiders must cope with parental love, sibling rivalries, peer pressure, and try to fit in, stand out, and make their way in the world, a world that is not really theirs. All the while one question is never far from their thoughts: will their absent and negligent space-parents return for them someday? Charlie makes it his personal mission to find out.
Eve

Eve

Aurelio O'Brien

Bad Attitude Books
2016
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The robot Pentser is the last of his kind. Technology is obsolete. It only exists in museums and the collections of oddballs like Govil. Govil is a 19th Century Romantic living in a 31st Century utopia, a Garden of Eden manufactured by GenieCorp(TM) that meets Mankind's every need, whim, and fancy with biological Creature Comforts(TM). Illness, war, poverty, famine, and death are gone. And so are love, parents, children, and families. A world where everyone is eternally happy, healthy, and wealthy; everyone but Govil. Like any other decent 19th Century Romantic hero, Govil needs to discover a great love, a great cause, and Pentser is game to help. Man and robot team up to do the unthinkable, create a deliberately average, normal woman, Eve. In the conflict which ensues, Govil, Pentser, Eve, and GenieCorp(TM) each in turn experience the same eternal law: beware of what you wish for, it may come true. EVE is Aurelio O'Brien's vividly original, sharp, sweet, and satirical tale of Govil's adventure. Part Swift, part Shelley, and a little Shaw, EVE takes place in a future that is both stunning and silly, beautiful and earthy, but at all times grounded in the obscure psychology of human desire.
I Was a Teenage Cheerleader

I Was a Teenage Cheerleader

Aurelio O'Brien

Bad Attitude Books
2018
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High school senior Rhonda Glock's life is about to change. After being attacked and bitten by a disgruntled, soon-to-be-ex-cheerleader, the heretofore invisible high school "brainy girl" periodically and eerily transmutes into Ronnie, the most popular cheerleader at Lawrence Talbot High. No longer awkward and ignored as Ronnie, Rhonda grapples with both fearing and embracing her new, unwanted persona. She experiences a new status high and her first academic failures. She confronts family dramas-including the shenanigans of her two mischievous younger brothers and meeting the expectations of her super-achiever mother. She endures interactions with a spooky lady janitor and her creepy pet Chihuahua (who thinks it is a cat), and the high school milieu, all the while navigating her unrequited love for Bud, her childhood best-friend and the school's favorite football hero. Hocus-pocus and hijinks abound as Rhonda discovers what it is like to be her own nemesis and romantic rival. Can Rhonda and Bud both learn the truth about the mysteries of real life and true love before the end of the prom? One thing is certain: by the end of this book-you will believe in magic
Family Trees

Family Trees

Aurelio O'Brien

Bad Attitude Books
2020
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In the tradition of tales like, "It's A Wonderful Life," "Miracle on 34th Street," and, "A Christmas Story," Aurelio O'Brien's, "Family Trees," seems destined to become another perennial favorite. The place is mid-1960s American suburbia. The time is the after the end-of-year holidays. The Benjamin family of eight provides their block's social hub, until that hub is disrupted by the loss of their mother, Ellen Benjamin. Six now motherless kids between the ages of 6 to 17 are left on their own. Challenging this adversity, many hijinks and much out-of-the-box thinking goes into continuing without her-to the great frustration of their semi-absent father, Ed Benjamin, neighbors, and school officials. Dovetailed by Christmases, "Family Trees" explores this peculiar family, what they learn from each other and their parents, present and past, to discover the true definition of family. Loosely based on the single-parent period of the author's life, names were changed to protect the guilty, and although many of the incidences and events are heavily based in reality-he chose to create legend rather than print the facts. Christmas will never be the same for the Benjamins and Christmas may never be the same for you after you read their story.
Risorgimento o Rivolgimento?: Ciò che non raccontano i libri di scuola

Risorgimento o Rivolgimento?: Ciò che non raccontano i libri di scuola

Aurelio Vento

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2017
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La storia viene sempre scritta dai vincitori. La verit storica ben altro. Cos stato per l'invasione per bottino e conquista compiuta dai Sabaudi in severa bancarotta delle terre e delle richezze del Reame borbonico delle Due Sicilie. Vuole essere questa una esplorazione disincantata operata da un siciliano amante della Sicilia con il machete di documenti non letti dai molti e dai molti messi da parte, usato per sbrogliare il groviglio di falsit storiche che ancora sopravvivono soffocanti un intero popolo. L'AUTORE VENTO Aurelio, nasce a Milazzo nell'aprile del 1948, quarto figlio di un ferroviere. Si forma e studia a Palermo, ma lavora e vive tutt'ora a Catania con la sua famiglia. Gentiluomo, libero pensatore, cittadino del mondo in un mondo che vuole senza barriere e preconcetti, generoso seminatore di idee e provocazioni, vive, ama, studia, scrive, come se non dovesse morire mai.
O tempo e as rosas

O tempo e as rosas

Aurelio Nunes Caldeira

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2016
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O drama intenso de uma Hist ria Humana vivida em duas pocas separadas por um s culo. Um romance proibido ocorrido numa poca em que o menor desvio de comportamento drasticamente condenado. Uma ajuda preciosa chega do futuro para usurpar a (id)entidade espiritual de Tom s Campelo, o fiel amigo de Mariano, um desditoso prior de aldeia, e fervoroso admirador de Marta, a fogosa irm do p roco...
O tempo e as almas

O tempo e as almas

Aurelio Nunes Caldeira

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2017
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O "TEMPO E AS ALMAS" um livro para uma leitura tranquila sobre a hist ria de uma fam lia que vive sob a influ ncia de um drama intenso que teima em regressar do passado para lhes ensombrar o presente at culminar com um desfecho totalmente inesperado. Embora uma sequela do trabalho anterior a que o autor deu o t tulo "O TEMPO E AS ROSAS," do qual depende em natureza, "O TEMPO E AS ALMAS" surge com a invulgar isen o de uma obra que se imp e pela sua not vel atualidade.
O tempo e as lagrimas

O tempo e as lagrimas

Aurelio Nunes Caldeira

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2018
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O livro "O tempo e as Rosas" transporta-nos a uma aventura vivida por Alberto Morais, que protagoniza uma liga o fant stica entre o presente e o passado quando, investido da identidade de Tom s Campelo, tenta conciliar um romance imposs vel...O livro "O tempo e as almas" leva-nos a sentir o latejar de uma fam lia atormentada por mem rias dolorosas, reflexo de traumas que o passado insiste em trazer-lhes na forma de desafios verdadeiramente dram ticos...O presente livro, o terceiro da trilogia "O TEMPO", "O tempo e as l grimas" , realmente, a descri o de um tempo de l grimas e sofrimento. Atrav s da sua leitura, entramos na descri o apaixonante de percursos existenciais de fam lias que se entrecruzam pelo espa o temporal de quase um s culo, em que o protagonista Alberto Morais interpreta v rios pap is fundamentais para o reescrever da hist ria do seu tempo...
O Ifro e a sustentabilidade no território cone sul de Rondônia

O Ifro e a sustentabilidade no território cone sul de Rondônia

Aurélio Ferreira Borges; Renato F Menegazzo; Jana Koefender

Novas Edicoes Academicas
2018
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O objetivo da obra caracterizar conceitos de desenvolvimento territorial e desenvolvimento end geno, por consider -los complementares, pois estrat gias de desenvolvimento local seriam representadas por respostas dos atores locais aos desafios da competitividade. O desenvolvimento territorial end geno fomentado por meio de atividades n o agr colas realizadas no meio rural. S o atividades alocadas na ind stria de transforma o, constru o civil, com rcio de mercadorias e servi os sociais. Trata-se de fen meno de profiss es m ltiplas e fontes de renda diversificadas, decorrente da diminui o do peso das atividades agr colas na empregabilidade e na composi o da renda das pessoas e das fam lias residentes no meio rural. Por outro lado, o desenvolvimento territorial end geno tamb m pode ser estimulado pelo fortalecimento das propriedades rurais, principalmente as de natureza familiar, pela diversifica o de suas culturas. Op o para gerar ganhos financeiros diretos e indiretos vinculados, a diversifica o proporciona redu o dos custos de produ o, obten o de vantagens ambientais e redu o do impacto econ mico oriundo de diversas crises no setor rural.
O Planeta Marte

O Planeta Marte

Marco Aurélio Riesemberg Hundsdorfer

Novas Edicoes Academicas
2018
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Existem algumas hip teses sobre a forma o dos Vales Marineris em Marte. Hip teses sobre vulcanismo (somente) ou tectonismo h bilh es de anos no passado, s o as mais aceitas. Este hip tese se baseia nas ltimas descobertas sobre o planeta, n o pretendendo ser um verdade absoluta, mas apenas uma ideia fora do padr o normal aceito nos c rculos acad micos que explora uma possibilidade vi vel e interessante. Pensar e questionar preciso e necess rio.