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For six centuries, the world has worshipped Jan van Eyck’s Ghent altarpiece. Few know that the painter hid something inside it. Fewer still know he killed to protect it.When a fragment of a lost Nazi diary surfaces in Ghent, young art historian Sophia Rossi stumbles onto a trail long dismissed as myth—a trail leading to the missing panel of the altarpiece, stolen in 1934 and never recovered. The diary hints at something far older buried within the painting’s creati...

Two Halloween enthusiasts get their hands on an ancient grimoire and decide to use the recipes within to make seasonal pies for trick-or-treaters. People die.

New and Improved - Revisit Five Simple Principles and Engage With Every FamilyWhy haven’t we been more successful in engaging every family in the educational lives of their children? Why do we still struggle with the notion of engaging every family as a conduit to improved student learning?This book outlines a pathway and process to engage every family, including those families that have been traditionally disengaged or disenfranchised. Updates to ...

After a family tragedy rocks Yitzhak's Jewish faith to its core, he undertakes a journey into the desert of Arabia, with his Muslim friend Yusuf, in search of the sacred mountain where God appeared to Moses and the Israelites thousands of years earlier.What starts off as a quest for answers leads the two friends into an encounter that changes both their lives forever.Does God still meet with man face to face?Does God still care about those of us struggling to find an...

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A modern take on Washington Irving's classic, The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow.Set three years after the Y2K panic in 1999, history teacher Ian Crane, is hunted by a ghost — a spectral demon hellbent on reaping souls on Halloween night — and behind the wheel of a midnight-black, 1969 Mustang Mach 1.

The Times Art Book of the Year 2021 FINALIST FOR THE PLUTARCH AWARD 2022‘Must surely be the definitive life of Francis Bacon … A biography that no Bacon fan – or indeed foe – can afford to overlook … Mesmerising’ THE TIMES‘A magnificent triumph … I was captivated by every line’ OBSERVERA decade in the making, based upon hundreds of interviews and extensive new material, Pulitzer Prize winners Mark Stevens and Annaly...

A tasty world tour—with savory sauces!Take your next entrée further than it's ever been before. The World Sauces Cookbook is here to help you top off your meals with 60 sumptuous sauces from all four corners of the globe—including Satay, Adobo, Creole Remoulade and Comeback Sauce, Baba Ghanoush, and Pesto Della Zia.In addition to helpful prep tips and storage instructions, each sauce recipe comes complete with a flavor profile, spiciness index, and...

Splatter Capital shows how a popular subgenre of cinematic horror has developed a uniquely sensitive perspective on the cycles of capitalism. It argues that the emphatically messy brand of horror mobilized in gore or "splatter" films is extremely responsive to the internal contradictions that threaten the future sustainability of capitalist accumulation. And, while responding to the prospect of that end, splatter promotes an extant truth: capitalist accumulation is and always has been a ni...

In this sweeping history, Steven Marks tells the fascinating story of how Russian figures, ideas, and movements changed our world in dramatic but often unattributed ways.On Europe's periphery, Russia was an early modernizing nation whose troubles stimulated intellectuals to develop radical and utopian alternatives to Western models of modernity. These provocative ideas gave rise to cultural and political innovations that were exported and adopted worldwide. Wherever there was disco...

Bellweather, 1994. Chrissy Trapper is twenty-two, bored out of her mind, and very good at running Video City—when she isn't arguing with inanimate objects, sketching strange handmade dolls, eating Burger Bunker with the clerk next door, or finding new ways to irritate Future Video's self-appointed executive.Then a battered old VHS tape moves when it shouldn't.One of Chrissy's regular customers begins wasting away after repeatedly watching an obscure horror movie called ...

The dead have unfinished business, but that does not mean they have good judgment.In The Haunted Car: A Collection of Odd Tales, restless spirits return to settle old arguments, correct inconvenient lies, protect what belongs to them, and offer directions no sensible person should follow. Blending supernatural horror with dry humor, unexpected heart, and ghosts who are far more troublesome than terrifying, these three strange tales prove that death may end a life—but it ra...