Download or read book JACOBS CURSE written by Graham Seth Gabitzsch and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-05-23 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a stormy late afternoon in April 1874, Lieutenant Harold Jacobs of the 4th U.S. Cavalry, unknowingly alters his future and that of his descendants when he pulls the trigger of his revolver, ending the life of renegade Apache Wild Bear’s pregnant squaw and her unborn child. Now, he must face the consequences: A curse placed against him and his family for all generations to follow. Seventy-nine years later in a small secluded community built over the fateful battle scene on the West Texas plains, an avenging spirit is about to be reawakened. For ‘Pop’ Jacobs, affable owner of the town’s movie theater and grandson of the Lieutenant, life will never be the same. For as fate would have it, beneath the foundation of the theater rests the avenger. Now, the time is right for the avenging spirit to rise up and seek revenge on the unsuspecting grandson, his brothers and nephew. Now, this supernatural being will have to be destroyed before it can complete its annihilation of the Jacob’s clan. Juan Jose Hernandez, the theater’s custodian, has seen it and knows it must be destroyed. For Juan, there is only one person capable of destroying it, but after five decades is she still alive? He is all too aware that the elderly Curandera would be nearing her one-hundredth year. He must defy the tremendous odds and make the long journey to the mountains of northern Mexico, her last known home if he is to save his best friend and end... ... JACOBS’ Curse

Download or read book The Passions of the Matriarchs written by Shera Aranoff Tuchman and published by KTAV Publishing House, Inc.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bible is spare in its use of dialogue when it comes to the biblical matriarchs--Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel and Leah. The written biblical text records at length, and in minute detail, the religious and national history of the Jewish people. Yet it only affords us a mere glimpse of the private and intimate lives of these strong and prophetic women. On the surface, these women--the biblical matriarchs--lived difficult and flawed lives. They endured childlessness, abduction, wearisome marriages, envy of the other woman, and difficult children. We are left wondering what they thought and how they felt, as they lived their personal lives and built a nation. This book, for the first time ever, answers these questions by drawing extensively upon classical biblical commentaries and Talmudic and Rabbinic writings which reveal the underlying emotions of the matriarchs. The reader enters the world of the matriarchs, experiencing the agony of infertility, the ecstasy of passionate love, and the pain of being unloved. Their thoughts, feelings, words and actions are fleshed out, and the women emerge not as one-dimensional figures, but as complex women possessing an array of universal passions. At the same time, these women remain grounded in Godliness, building the House of Israel as partners with the patriarchs. The Passions of the Matriarchs is a riveting and readable book that tells the story behind the passions that ruled the lives of these laudable women.

Download or read book Like Unto Moses written by James Nohrnberg and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1995-05-22 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This exhaustive and important study of the meaning of Moses in the Bible demonstrates conclusively 'the Mosaicization of the canon'... Nohrnberg possesses a remarkable typological imagination. No summary can do justice to the sheer brilliance of the congruities and disparities he discovers on every page." -- Journal of Religion "LIKE UNTO MOSES proposes a series of challenging perspectives on theprocess of canon-formation in the Bible. James Nohrnberg's ability totrace connections among different elements of the biblical corpus isunflaggingly resourceful, sometimes provocative, and often deeplyinstructive." -- Robert Alter "... an insightful study of the traditions of Moses in the Bible." -- Choice "This is a formidably argued, large book.... It is also certainly the most sophisticated book on Moses and one of the most sophisticated readings of the Bible which I have ever had the pleasure of reading.... I think it is a brilliant achievement and would recommend it to every reader of the Bible." -- R. P. Carroll, The Society for Old Testament Study Book List The Moses of the Bible is a veiled figure who exists both inside and outside the text which describes and defines him. "Moses" is a creation of Israelite literary and scriptural tradition, an ideological construct, a reinvented memory, a projection of what Israel wished to see in Moses. Nohrnberg examines the texts of "Moses" for their representation of the tradition's self-doubt and its revisionary, "deuteronomic" content.

Download or read book The Oracle and the Curse written by Caleb Smith and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caleb Smith explores the confessions, trial reports, maledictions, and martyr narratives that juxtaposed law and conscience in antebellum America’s court of public opinion and shows how writers portrayed struggles for justice as clashes between human law and higher authority, giving voice to a moral protest that transformed American literature.

Download or read book Before Blake Mortimer Volume 2 The Fiery Arrow written by Jean Van Hamme and published by Cinebook. This book was released on 2023-12-14T00:00:00+01:00 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Marduk expedition has returned victorious to Norlandia, bearing a precious sample of Uradium. Now the professor can test his revolutionary U Ray’s potency when combined with the miracle ore. But Austradia, the old enemy, won’t take this lying down. So the dastardly Captain Dagon didn’t succeed in stopping Marduk from finding the Uradium deposit? No matter! The Imperial Austradian Army will simply take possession of it in a military operation – and who cares if that’s where Prince Nazca’s people live? The eminent Professor Marduk is tasked by the High Council of Norlandia with militarising a major scientific discovery: the U Ray. However, doing so will require finding a deposit of Uradium, the ore needed to power the ray. And the only known deposit is in an unexplored volcanic archipelago. An expedition is quickly put together, but in the shadows, the Austradian intelligence services are waiting for the moment to act ...

Download or read book Blake Mortimer Volume 11 The Gondwana Shrine written by Yves Sente and published by Cinebook. This book was released on 2012-12-17T00:00:00+01:00 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Several months after their adventures in Antarctica, Blake and Mortimer are back in England. Still somewhat shaken after his ordeal, the professor is ordered by his doctor to get some rest. In typical Mortimer fashion, he decides to spend his holidays in Africa... looking for a lost civilisation! Accompanied by Nastasia Wardynska and an old flame of his, he begins tracking down a culture that is older than any ever recorded—but someone is dogging their every step...

Download or read book Blake Mortimer Volume 18 The Oath of the Five Lords written by Yves Sente and published by Cinebook. This book was released on 2014-06-27T00:00:00+02:00 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1919. Colonel Lawrence – Lawrence of Arabia – has an unpleasant meeting with an MI5 agent who confiscates his manuscript of The Seven Pillars of Wisdom. 35 years later, Oxford is shaken by a series of burglaries at the Ashmolean Museum, at the same time as Blake learns of the death of an old friend. The captain begins an investigation, while Mortimer looks into the thefts... But what dark connection does all of this have with Lawrence or Blake’s own past?

Download or read book Blake Mortimer Volume 20 The Septimus Wave written by Jean Dufaux and published by Cinebook. This book was released on 2015-05-08T00:00:00+02:00 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s been several months since the events of The Yellow M, but the evil of Professor Septimus still echoes around London. Important figures of the capital’s jet set come together around the questionable values the mad scientist defended. Olrik is forced to resort to opium in order to forget he was guinea pig. As for Mortimer, he too is trying, albeit for more humanist reasons, to revive certain aspects of Septimus’s work – to Blake’s extreme concern...

Download or read book Blake Mortimer Volume 26 The Valley of the immortals Part 2 written by Yves Sente and published by Cinebook. This book was released on 2020-01-17T00:00:00+01:00 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mortimer is brought to the camp of General Li Hsi, the Chinese warlord, where he is reunited with a seriously injured Nasir. The professor was kidnapped in order to recover the archaeological proof of the general’s imperial lineage, but also to repair the Red Wing, a formidable combat aircraft Olrik unwittingly delivered. While Blake moves heaven and earth to find him and protect Hong Kong, Mortimer escapes to go in search of the only thing that can save Nasir: a legendary pearl ...

Download or read book Jacob S Ten Great Attitudes for Getting to the Top written by Philip U. Nkwocha and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-12-21 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did Jacob inherit the Abrahamic covenant (despite being disadvantaged by order of birth) and become father of the patriarchs? How did he become stupendously wealthy and prominent twenty years after he ran away from home with just a staff? The top is open to all, but not everyone will reach the top. This is a bitter but truthful pill to swallow. Factors like background, environment, education, exposure, connection, ability, etc., may contribute to this, but attitudewhich is the missing most essential attributeis what this book tries to address. You can learn and unlearn your attitudes. Through this book, youll get to know the ten attitudes that lead to greatness and those that surely culminate in failure, attitudes approved and disapproved of God, attitudes that worked against Esau, and those that worked for Jacob. Indeed, the top is for people with great and positive attitudes. And you can be one of them if you cultivate and practice the attitudes described in this book.

Download or read book True Devotion to Mary With Preparation for Total Consecration written by Catholic Way Publishing and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-10-16 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Treatise on the True Devotion on the Blessed Virgin or True Devotion to Mary is considered the greatest book on the Blessed Virgin Mary ever written and has been recommended and practiced by eight Popes. This is the original "scrupulously faithful" translation by Father Frederick William Faber. The great Marian Pope, Blessed Pope John Paul II practiced this Devotion to Mary, in his Letter to the Monfort Fathers he says: "A work destined to become a classic of Marian spirituality was published 160 years ago. St. Louis Marie Grignion de Montfort wrote the Treatise on True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin at the beginning of the 1700s, but the manuscript remained practically unknown for more than a century. When, almost by chance, it was at last discovered in 1842 and published in 1843, the work was an instant success, proving extraordinarily effective in spreading the "true devotion" to the Most Holy Virgin. "When we praise her, love her, honor her or give anything to her, it is God who is praised, God who is loved, God who is glorified, and it is to God that we give, through Mary and in Mary (Treatise on True Devotion, n. 225)." Included is a supplementary 33-Day Preparation for Total Consecration. Paintings are by Bartolome Esteban Murillo.

Download or read book Politics and Affect in Black Women s Fiction written by Kathy Glass and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring literary possibilities, Politics and Affect reads black women’s text—in particular Frances Harper’s “The Two Offers” (1859), Julia Collins’s The Curse of Caste (1865), Nella Larsen’s Quicksand (1928), and Danzy Senna’s Caucasia (1998)—as richly creative documents saturated with sociopolitical value. Interested in how African American women writers from the nineteenth century to the present have mined the politics of affect and emotion to document love, shame, and suffering in environments shaped by race, Kathy Glass gives sustained attention to the impact of racist affect on the black body, and examines how black women writers deploy emotional states to engender sociopolitical change.

Download or read book Blake Mortimer Volume 24 The Testament of William S written by Yves Sente and published by Cinebook. This book was released on 2017-01-13T00:00:00+01:00 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Venice, a boating accident leads to the discovery of a 400 year old text bearing the signature ‘W.S.’ and promising the truth about the ‘Shakespeare mystery’. That very night, someone tries unsuccessfully to steal the precious document. The discoverer, Marquis Stefano Da Spiri, decides to send a copy of the document to a specialist of the Bard in London for stylistic authentication. As for the original, he entrusts it to an old comrade in arms from WW2: Captain Francis Blake...

Download or read book Blake Mortimer 25 The Valley of the Immortals written by Yves Sente and published by Cinebook. This book was released on 2019-03-20T00:00:00+01:00 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World War Three is over. Basam Damdu has been defeated. England can breathe and begin the rebuilding process ... or so it thinks. In China, unfortunately, Mao’s Communists keep bowling over Chiang Kai-shek’s troops, and are threatening Hong Kong. And General Xi-Lee, a ruthless warlord, has dreams of becoming the new Qin Shi Huang – first Emperor of China. When a relic of that very emperor is discovered by an acquaintance of Mortimer, things take a turn for the worst ...

Download or read book THE TONGUE TRAP written by Dr. D. K. Olukoya and published by The Battle Cry Christian Ministries. This book was released on 2015-11-30 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tongue can be very destructive and unless you learn how to control it, the little organ of your body can set your life on fire. You are no longer a master of words once the words are spoken out. The tongue has caused us more trouble than any other organ in the body. What has taken years to build can be destroyed by the tongue in a few seconds. There are demons operating on the tongue. this powerful book will teach you amazing secrets that would release tongues that are under bondage and propel tongues into prosperity and life.

Download or read book Haunted Winston Salem written by Michael Bricker and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-14 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Double your chills by delving into the dual heritage of this North Carolina city—stories of haints, witches, ghosts, and beyond . . . Whether it was Winston, Salem, or Winston-Salem, the city has a rich history in the strange, unusual, and ghostly. Colonial Salem was once visited by George Washington, and accounts tell of the president entering the cave of three witches. Locals still see an old tobacco wagon rolling around the streets of Winston in the early morning, harkening back to the days when tobacco was king. Elaborate systems of tunnels and pipes once existed beneath the city that many believe were home to groups of chanting monks. Join author and historian Michael Bricker as he vividly retells these stories and more in a historically haunted guide to Winton-Salem. Includes photos!

Download or read book The Adventurers and the Cursed Castle written by Jemma Hatt and published by Elmside Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Adventurers and The Cursed Castle is the first book in The Adventurers Series: exciting adventure stories for children aged 8-12. A mysterious curse has stricken Kexley Castle for generations ever since Egyptian treasure was transported to Cornwall by a 19th Century explorer. Can four young adventurers reveal the secrets that have been hidden for over a hundred years? Join Lara, Rufus, Tom and Barney in their first exciting adventure together as they unravel the mystery and race to find Captain Jack Kexley’s hiding place. To succeed, they must discover and solve a series of clues left by their ancestor, ahead of two unwelcome visitors from the British Museum who are determined to get there first!