Author: Hakan Nesser Publisher: Pan Macmillan ISBN: 0230766153 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 478
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A community is left reeling after teacher Arnold Maager is convicted of murdering his female pupil. It seems the girl had been pregnant with Maager's child. Years later, his daughter finally learns the terrible truth about her father. Desperate for answers, Mikaela travels to the institution at Lejnice, where Maager has been held since his trial. But soon afterwards she inexplicably vanishes.
Author: Joe Hayes Publisher: Cinco Puntos Press ISBN: 0938317865 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : es Pages : 34
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A retelling, in parallel English and Spanish text, of the traditional tale told in the Southwest and in Mexico of how the beautiful Maria became a ghost.
Author: Kathleen Anastasia Publisher: Bookbaby ISBN: 9781098369446 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 370
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"Secrets of the Weeping Willow" is a gripping tale of romance, suspense, manipulation, and self-discovery. The book tells the story of a girl named Elizabeth, who at the age of twelve wakes up bruised and bloodied with no memory of herself or the troubled woman who claims to be her mother. Nine years later, while watching a documentary on New Orleans, Elizabeth gets flashes of Deja vu. Elizabeth starts to believe that things might have been hidden from her by her eccentric mother, who claimed they had never been to New Orleans. Elizabeth secretly plans a trip to New Orleans with a good friend, with a cautiously optimistic belief that her lost memories are linked to this city. Unaware, of the pandora's box she is on the verge of opening. When Elizabeth arrives in New Orleans for Mardi Gras, her lost memories start to assault her confirming her gut instinct that the origin of her lost memories are far from what she had been told, unaware that an ominous presence has discovered her return to New Orleans. Along the way, Elizabeth comes across influential people and embarks on a journey of finding herself, while corruption sits on the fringe of Elizabeth awakening memories. The book is filled with suspense, romance, and evil as Elizabeth's journey uncovers a troubling past of dark truths that reveal a life lost and deceptions that kept her childhood years in the dark. As everything becomes clearer, Elizabeth's life intensifies, as she struggles to accept what has been done to her, as her memories return to reveal a hazardous past. While a current danger escalates. The answers to Elizabeth's past, bring her and a sadistic con artist closer together as the secrets long buried illuminate the true nature of evil and the sacrifice and love of the woman who brought her into this world.
Author: Maria DeBlassie Publisher: ISBN: 9780692926895 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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A compelling gothic fairytale by bruja and award-winning writer Maria DeBlassie.The women of Sueño, New Mexico don't know how to live a life without sorrows. That's La Llorona's doing. She roams the waterways looking for the next generation of girls to baptize, filling them with more tears than any woman should have to hold. And there's not much they can do about the Weeping Woman except to avoid walking along the riverbank at night and to try to keep their sadness in check. That's what attracts her to them: the pain and heartache that gets passed down from one generation of women to the next.Mercy knows this, probably better than anyone. She lost her best friend to La Llorona and almost found a watery grave herself. But she survived. Only she didn't come back quite right and she knows La Llorona won't be satisfied until she drags the one soul that got away back to the bottom of the river.In a battle for her life, Mercy fights to break the chains of generational trauma and reclaim her soul free from ancestral hauntings by turning to the only things that she knows can save her: plant medicine, pulp books, and the promise of a love so strong not even La Llorona can stop it from happening. What unfolds is a stunning tale of one woman's journey into magic, healing, and rebirth.
Author: Arturo Gudio Publisher: Trafford Publishing ISBN: 1426932723 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 297
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This book can be read forwards or backwards, either from A to Z or from Z to A; thus you will realize that the micro world described in this text is a wheel of fortune and a magical sphere. Fortune is changeable and magic sometimes reverses its spells against us. In whatever way you choose to read these pages, you will find more questions than answers concerning the human zoo described within. The unnatural environment of the cities shows us that men and women are capable of the most admirable, as well as the most horrible behaviours. Here you will find an example of how, under both predictable and unpredictable circumstances, the love of a woman can transform itself into hatred, leading her to commit unthinkable actions.
Author: Felicia Luna Lemus Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 0374278563 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 262
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This fiction debut is "a warm tale of 'princess dyke' life in L.A. What they lack in resources, they make up for in their celebration of familia, love and unapologetic sexual configurations" (Ana Castillo).
Author: John Battish Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1465323864 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 161
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A rich blend of stories and poems can be found within the pages of this compilation. These stories are dramatic and comedic in nature. Tales such as the The Chai Pot allow the customs of the West to confront traditions of the East when a European physician brings modern medicine to a village in India. The reader will then be entertained by other exciting tales. Two poor children dream of escaping to a rich land in Yaguine and Fode. However, their journey is fraught with danger. In The Family Nest, a young man is about to leave for college. But, he soon finds out in a humorous way that it is not easy to leave home. In Woman,You Are Mine!, a man tries to find the ultimate love in his life but instead finds something completely different. In the story The Eclipse, a family deals with the loss of a loved one in the September 11, 2001 tragedy. Finally, the poem The Soul Tree takes us to a place between night and day. It is a place that shows us the ultimate theme that binds the stories within this book. It is a theme of humanity and the value of life.
Author: Mike Goyette Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1665560495 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 297
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The Ancient City of USA is Book 1 in the Standing Up For America Series. A pointed and humorous look at today’s cultural and political environment offering an alternative message to the woke, Leftist ideology being trumpeted daily. Will people in the future look back in history and laugh at the behavior of their ancient ancestors? Will they wonder why a free people relinquished their freedom for tyranny? Will they even know that their ancestors were free for a time? Will they be so different in the future? Will they have learned the lessons of the past, the lessons offered by the failure of others? Have we? Will human nature ever change? Join Guy, Jon, Candace and Gabriel, four college students, as they attend a mostly peaceful protest which draws them down a path at odds with the radical Left. Battling the self-described 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse and a mysterious girl who personifies evil, they fight to find the truth in a dystopian society. They find themselves fighting against forces seemingly bent on creating an upside down world; forces that include the FBI, Corporate America, the leftist media, their own government and an unhinged, cultish mob, all following the twisted, anti-American, anti-family, anti-God ideology promoted by the young, power hungry hustlers that comprise the 4 Horsemen.
Author: Connie Hall-Scott Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 162584655X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 148
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Meet the supernatural spirits that haunt this Southern town . . . photos included! Nestled in the foothills of the picturesque North Georgia mountains, Dalton is a city steeped in history and legend. The Cherokees called it their “Enchanted Land” before they were driven out through an American tragedy remembered as the Trail of Tears. As the gateway to the Civil War, Whitfield County hosted bloody battles and sacrificed many of its own. It is home to an array of spirits that, for reasons of their own, refuse to leave. The laughter of ghost children still echoes through the halls of the historic Wink Theatre. From the weeping girl of the former Hotel Dalton to long-dead marching ghost soldiers and beyond, Dalton abounds in paranormal activity. Join author Connie Hall-Scott on a journey through a host of spectral things that go bump in the night.
Author: Fenella Cannell Publisher: Duke University Press ISBN: 0822388154 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 385
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This collection provides vivid ethnographic explorations of particular, local Christianities as they are experienced by different groups around the world. At the same time, the contributors, all anthropologists, rethink the vexed relationship between anthropology and Christianity. As Fenella Cannell contends in her powerful introduction, Christianity is the critical “repressed” of anthropology. To a great extent, anthropology first defined itself as a rational, empirically based enterprise quite different from theology. The theology it repudiated was, for the most part, Christian. Cannell asserts that anthropological theory carries within it ideas profoundly shaped by this rejection. Because of this, anthropology has been less successful in considering Christianity as an ethnographic object than it has in considering other religions. This collection is designed to advance a more subtle and less self-limiting anthropological study of Christianity. The contributors examine the contours of Christianity among diverse groups: Catholics in India, the Philippines, and Bolivia, and Seventh-Day Adventists in Madagascar; the Swedish branch of Word of Life, a charismatic church based in the United States; and Protestants in Amazonia, Melanesia, and Indonesia. Highlighting the wide variation in what it means to be Christian, the contributors reveal vastly different understandings and valuations of conversion, orthodoxy, Scripture, the inspired word, ritual, gifts, and the concept of heaven. In the process they bring to light how local Christian practices and beliefs are affected by encounters with colonialism and modernity, by the opposition between Catholicism and Protestantism, and by the proximity of other religions and belief systems. Together the contributors show that it not sufficient for anthropologists to assume that they know in advance what the Christian experience is; each local variation must be encountered on its own terms. Contributors. Cecilia Busby, Fenella Cannell, Simon Coleman, Peter Gow, Olivia Harris, Webb Keane, Eva Keller, David Mosse, Danilyn Rutherford, Christina Toren, Harvey Whitehouse
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