Unholy Empire (Chronicles of the Host, Book 2) by D Brian Shafer

By D Brian Shafer

The prophetic clock is ticking. Lucifer and his military of 'imps' seek frantically for the prophetic "Seed of the woman". The reminiscence of God's promise that this seed could get up and overwhelm the serpent's head stirs them to shadowy demonic task. Unholy Empire chronicles the duel among God and the fallen angels as either concentration their awareness at the Seed. The devils look forward to any and each signal of the Seed in an all out attempt to prevent, hold up, compromise, or in a different way damage this imminent prophetic nightmare. in the event that they fail they're all doomed. the second one booklet within the "Chronicles of the Host Series", Unholy Empire uncovers the main subject matters protecting the Seed and the folk of covenant in addition to Lucifer's all-out conflict opposed to them. It sheds new gentle on dramatic encounters among Cain and Abel, Moses and Pharaoh, David and Goliath, and others.

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Poisoned Secrets by Margaret Daley

By Margaret Daley

Maggie Ridgeway has spent years trying to find her start mom. And now, due to an nameless tip, she's eventually discovered her. Taking the residence around the corridor from her mother's kin, Maggie is set to not go away until eventually she will get a few questions replied. who's her father? Why did her mom and dad abandon her? And what merchandise in her new condominium is upsetting a number of burglaries? After an interrupted break-in leaves Maggie subconscious, the building's proprietor, Kane McDowell, provides to guard her. yet then he learns who she relatively is. whilst the earlier is unveiled, the surprising disclosures may possibly tear Maggie and Kane aside.

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Sephardic-American Voices: Two Hundred Years of a Literary by Diane Matza

By Diane Matza

Those choices, many on hand for the 1st time, span approximately 3 centuries and view subject matters resembling the centrality of relatives lifestyles, the soreness of uprooting from demonstrated groups, collision among culture and assimilation, roles and relationships of guys and girls, and the toxicity of self-hatred. educated through resources starting from biblical literature to old occasions, oral traditions, classical poetics, the beat iteration, and post-modern ironies, those works introduce a literature that, "though small on an absolute scale and little recognized, forces us to take a brand new serious viewpoint on Jewish American writing."

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Death Comes for the Archbishop (Willa Cather Scholarly by Willa Cather

By Willa Cather

Loss of life Comes for the Archbishop sprang from Willa Cather’s love for the land and cultures of the yankee Southwest. released in 1927 to either compliment and perplexity, it has due to the fact claimed for itself a tremendous position in twentieth-century literature. When Cather first visited the yank Southwest in 1912, she discovered a brand new global to visualize and shortly got here to consider that "the tale of the Catholic Church in [the Southwest] was once the main attention-grabbing of all its stories." The narrative follows Bishop Jean Latour and Father Joseph Vaillant, pals because their adolescence in France, as they set up the recent Roman Catholic diocese of Santa Fe next to the Mexican battle. whereas looking to revive the church and construct a cathedral within the wilderness, the clerics, like their old prototypes, Bishop Jean Lamy and Father Joseph Machebeuf, face non secular corruption, ordinary adversity, and the loneliness of dwelling in an odd and unforgiving land. The Willa Cather Scholarly version provides groundbreaking examine, developing a brand new textual content that displays Cather’s lengthy and deep involvement along with her tale. The old essay strains the creative and religious improvement that resulted in its writing. The broad-ranging explanatory notes light up the weather of French, Mexican, Hispanic, and local American cultures that meet through the narrative; additionally they clarify the half performed by way of the land and its people—their background, faith, artwork, and languages. The textual essay and equipment exhibit Cather’s inventive method and let the reader to stick to the complicated heritage of the textual content.

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Forsaken Canyon by Margaret Daley

By Margaret Daley

I'm going to arrest you.So threatens the tribal leader of police if equipment Sinclair dares input Desolation Canyon on my own. Hawke Lonechief insists it is too risky. He misplaced his spouse to the treacherous canyon. He is aware the traditional ruins package seeks are usually not worthy her lifestyles. yet equipment is bound all that mountain climbing and looking may help positioned her annoying prior at the back of her. while she dangers Hawke's wrath by means of going on my own, he eventually is of the same opinion to steer her. On his phrases. most unlikely. simply because another person is following their each circulate. gazing them develop toward threat with each step

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Waiting for Daybreak by Kathryn Cushman

By Kathryn Cushman

Paige Woodward is a girl with no offerings. Her destitute mother's purely desire for a healing is not coated by means of assurance. whilst a dream chance arises at a brand-new pharmacy, Paige is keen to maintain quiet approximately her previous to ensure she lands the task. For Clarissa Richardson, the dream of operating her personal pharmacy involves a screeching halt while her grandfather hires a too-perfect new woman who appears to be like hiding whatever. How a ways will they visit guard their desires for the next day? what's going to take place whilst one woman's final desire ability ruining one other woman's maximum dream?

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Still life by Charles, Victoria

By Charles, Victoria

Cézanne reworked a teacup into whatever alive, elevating still-life to the purpose that it ceased to be inanimate. Wassily Kandinsky stated concerning the French artist: "He painted these items as people simply because he was once endowed with the present of divining the interior existence in everything." as well as these of Cézanne, this e-book is dedicated to still-life work by means of artists corresponding to Van Gogh, Matisse, Chardin and  Read more...

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Der Geschmack des Wassers: Der Hexenprozess von Dillenburg by Ingrid Kretz

By Ingrid Kretz

Dillenburg, sixteen. Jahrhundert: Schon einmal wurden Barbara Weitzel und ihre Schwester Lena in einem Hexenprozess freigesprochen, während drei Frauen brannten. Doch nun machen erneut Gerüchte die Runde ... Wieder werden die unschuldigen Frauen eingekerkert, gefoltert und vor Gericht gestellt. Doch der Prozess nimmt einen für die Zeit einmaligen Verlauf ... Eine packende Geschichte, basierend auf einem wahren Prozess.

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Fields of Grace by Kim Vogel Sawyer

By Kim Vogel Sawyer

With their eldest son approximately to the age whilst he'll be drafted into army carrier, Reinhardt and Lillian Vogt choose to immigrate to the USA, the land of liberty, with their 3 sons and Reinhardt's followed brother, Eli. but if tragedy moves in the course of the voyage, Lillian and Eli are pressured into an contract neither wants. made up our minds to satisfy his legal responsibility to Reinhardt, Eli plans to work out Lillian and her sons thoroughly settled on their Kansas homestead--and he is both decided that the lads should be reared within the Mennonie religion. What he does not count on is his transforming into affection for Lillian--and the deep wish to be a part of a kin.

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A Tapestry of Hope by Tracie Peterson

By Tracie Peterson

Lighting of Lowell publication 1. Tapestry of wish weaves jointly the heartrending and hope-building tales of 2 younger women. Jasmine Wainwright is the sheltered daughter of a Mississippi plantation proprietor. whilst her father moves a deal to promote his cotton to Lowell generators via businessman Bradley Houston, he throws an prepared marriage with Jasmine into the cut price. Kiara O'Neill and her brother get away hunger in eire via touring to the US as Bradley Houston's indentured servants. yet Bradley has extra in brain for Kiara than she desires to think. either ladies endure in the house of this unloving husband and cruel grasp. Will God one way or the other carry wish to their lives?

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