Alfred D Byrd: 15 books

Cover of Biblical Parallels in The Silmarillion
by Alfred D. Byrd
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016

Tolkien's magnificent mythology that began in The Silmarillion and culminated in The Lord of the Rings had its origin in Celtic, Finnish, Greek, and Norse myths that he loved, but also in accounts of the Bible, which he, as a practicing Christian, knew well. Tolkien's tales illustrate, and...
Cover of The Bible's Hidden Years
by Alfred D. Byrd
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2011

When you read the Bible, it's easy for you to get lost in terms of where and when what you're reading is taking place. In particular, when you move from Malachi to Matthew, you cross a gap in which the Biblical world changes almost beyond recognition. How did Romans, Pharisees, Saduccees, Herods,...
Cover of Bloodscribe: The Changer
by Alfred D. Byrd
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011

Graduate student Willis, seeking tales of the supernatural for his studies in anthropology, becomes part of the supernatural when he is changed into a vampire by a vengeful subject of his tales. Consumed by an implacable thirst for blood, Willis must adapt to the life of a vampire, or die. As he struggles...
Cover of Timeless and Pure: Christian Verse on the Light
by Alfred D. Byrd
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016

In the beginning, the One Who is Light created light. This light is our guide leading us to our goal, the Light Above. While we walk in the light, we are free from the dangers of doubt and despair that await us in darkness. Any path but that which leads to the Light Above is empty. Although, both...
Cover of Message of Orion
by Alfred D. Byrd
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015

In the first sequel to Daughter of Orion, fugitive Mira, her life among earth-humans shattered by home-invaders, has rejoined the other teen-aged survivors of her homeworld, Ul. Now, she and they must ready an unbelieving, suspicious earth for the arrival of the Message, a transmission from Ul in...
Cover of To Dream Atlantis
by Alfred D. Byrd
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2018

Obsessed by visions of Atlantis, a wealthy student of the occult is led by prophetic verses from continent to continent in quest of those who can further his knowledge of the foundered land. As he gathers around him a circle of adepts, he learns that his mission is no less than to raise the continent...
Cover of Traitor to the Stars: The Narratives of Bashirezh
by Alfred D. Byrd
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018

An alien among us reveals a conspiracy going back centuries -- a conspiracy in which the course of human history has been warped by exiled members of a galactic migration. Living among us, passing as us through an arduous course of corrective surgery, and controlling us through a gift called "The...
Cover of Mission of Orion
by Alfred D. Byrd
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016

A message from a lost world has failed to bring peace between the humans of the earth and the Tan-i, the lost world's survivors, among them. Still, Mira, Mother of the Tan, must try to make peace with the humans to fulfill the lost world's king's last commands: remember the Homeworld,...
Cover of Wesle's Tale
by Alfred D. Byrd
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2011

An epic of UFO's in Anglo-Saxon times. Wesle the Weakling, a hapless herdsman watching the woman he loves about to become a warrior's wife, seizes a chance for change when star-men come in a shining shield-ship to carry out a cattle-raid. Roswell meets Beowulf? Also contains the short poem, "The Gold's Dragon."Cover composed by Helen E. Davis
Cover of Battle Hymn of the Purist
by Alfred D. Byrd
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016

English is drowning in a sea of bobbles, but some of us are willing to take up arms on the noble tongue's behalf. Bloated sentences, pointless paragraphs, grammatical solecisms of the worst sort -- these are our enemies in our struggle for concision, clarity, and content. If a thing that's...
Cover of Sacred Persons: What the Bible Says about the Priesthoods
by Alfred D. Byrd
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018

In I Peter 2:4-5, we read: "To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious, Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ." From this passage...
Cover of Temple of the Heart and Other Christian Poems
by Alfred D. Byrd
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016

Here is a collection of poems on faith, hope, and charity -- the virtues that we live out when we're rooted in God. Our Creator's story appears in epics of the Bible and in lyrics of doubt and faith emerging into praise of the One Who is Light and Love. Creation takes place, a man of faith...
Cover of Egypt's Light
by Alfred D. Byrd
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2011

Ancient Egypt lives again in simple, but powerful verse that tells the story of a mysterious, magical civilization from the legends of its gods, through the triumphs of its Pharaohs, to its fading into history. Here, in clear, compelling form, is a taste of all that has made the Gift of the Nile great...
Cover of Daughter of Orion
by Alfred D. Byrd
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2011

A refugee from a doomed planet, Mira must learn to be Belle, a normal earth-girl -- or as normal a girl as she can be with powers of body and of mind that she develops as she grows into her teens. It hardly helps things that her ex-military adoptive father sends her on missions against the very nation...
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