Portals in a Northern Sky

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PORTALS IN A NORTHERN SKY: A NOVEL THAT TRANSCENDS CATEGORIES
Is it historical fiction, thriller, adventure, or science fiction? Unforgettable characters:

Bob Thornton, Wall Street whiz who throws it all away Sara Spencer Peek, 19th century pioneer who faces unimaginable grief, Vince Terrell, inner-city cop who steals both the money and the...
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Overview

PORTALS IN A NORTHERN SKY: A NOVEL THAT TRANSCENDS CATEGORIES
Is it historical fiction, thriller, adventure, or science fiction? Unforgettable characters:

Bob Thornton, Wall Street whiz who throws it all away Sara Spencer Peek, 19th century pioneer who faces unimaginable grief, Vince Terrell, inner-city cop who steals both the money and the dope in a mega-drug deal Adam Whitehead, scientist who disappears off the surface of the earth just as the President needs him

Get caught up in the intricate plot. Discover important new insights about philosophy and education. Why do so many people finish PORTALS and reach for Moby-Dick?


Acclaimed as a masterpiece, a work of genius, a mystery, a meditation on fate, a love letter to Alaska, and a thinking person’s novel.
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Charles Douglas Hayes, self-taught philosopher and self-help book author (Beyond the American Dream), combines several genres-thriller, historical, SF-in his ambitious first novel, Portals in a Northern Sky, in which the U.S. president is set to reveal a new technology capable of showing the past in real time. Literary allusions to everyone from Herman Melville to Ayn Rand abound.
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Charles Douglas Hayes, self-taught philosopher and self-help book author (Beyond the American Dream), combines several genres-thriller, historical, SF-in his ambitious first novel, Portals in a Northern Sky, in which the U.S. president is set to reveal a new technology capable of showing the past in real time. Literary allusions to everyone from Herman Melville to Ayn Rand abound.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780962197956
  • Publisher: Autodidactic Press
  • Publication date: 2/28/2003
  • Pages: 378
  • Product dimensions: 6.38 (w) x 9.33 (h) x 1.40 (d)

Meet the Author

Charles D. Hayes is a self-taught philosopher and one of America’s strongest voices in support of lifelong learning. Promoting the idea that education should be thought of not as something you get but as something you take, his work has been honored by the American Library Association and featured in USA Today, in the UTNE Reader, and on National Public Radio’s Talk of the Nation. Hayes’ September University: Summoning Passion for an Unfinished Life has been described as a “must read” for anyone aspiring to a better world. His previous book, The Rapture of Maturity: A Legacy of Lifelong Learning, upholds the importance of seeking truth and serving others to achieve our full potential as human beings. Hayes spent his youth in Texas, and then served as a U.S. Marine and a police officer before embarking on a career in the oil industry. Alaska has been his home for more than 30 years.
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