Early 1920s Rural KentuckyBill's life is completely changed after his wife's death and two of their children are murdered. Chaos seems to follow him, but this chaos is an ancient demonic revenant who demands blood revenge. Bill wants to leave the county he was raised in and start a new life. Yet, we can't always escape from our fears.He doesn't want to believe in the old Irish folk heroes or "haints"

Anno Domini 1190-1191Lord Robert de Borron and his companions continue their dangerous adventure. It will transport them from twelfth-century Iberia to an abbey in England.In the first century A D, Saint Joseph flees Jerusalem and departs on a perilous sea voyage to the mysterious isle called Avalon. A serial killer stalks him and his family.Lord Robert is tempted by a widowed Iberian princ...

How could two men from two different families and time periods of twelve hundred years apart possibly have anything in common? While it might seem impossible, yet that is part of the mystery surrounding Joseph of Arimathea and Lord Robert de Borron.Each man is unknowingly drawn into a maelstrom of trained assassins, who stalk both. What does a newly found fifth gospel and a glowing cup have to do with their dangerous adventures? How does a medieval Jewish and Muslim philosopher hel...

How could two men from two different families and time periods of twelve hundred years apart possibly have anything in common? While it might seem impossible, yet that is part of the mystery surrounding Joseph of Arimathea and Lord Robert de Borron.Each man is unknowingly drawn into a maelstrom of trained assassins, who stalk both. Why does a diabolical cardinal want to kidnap a twelfth century writer? One of these men has been tasked with writing a mysterious, long-forgotten book,...

Does the Holy Grail truly exist along with a fifth gospel? Come and discover**.** Read the second book (The Tree of Life) in the Cup of Christ series and find out! Will Lord Robert de Borron find relief and enlightenment in the strange land of Iberia?" He now desires the hidden gospel's kindness and understanding.

Trouble was brewing from the moment Dan Clancy rode into Watts Bend. His chance meeting and early friendship with Lance Roebuck is threatened by Clancy's instant rapport with Lucy Bracken, commonly seen as Roebuck's future wife. When Lucy rejects Roebuck's marriage proposal, Clancy, by definition a drifter, is warned off and slowly spirals into becoming the town drunk. Meanwhile, Roebuck has become the town hardcase with ambitions to control the entire range with the help of hired outlaws....

CONTENTS: ALEXANDER PUSHKIN 1. The Queen of Spades ALGERNON BLACKWOOD: 2. Confession 3. S. O. S. 4. The Wings of Horus ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE 5. B. 24 ARTHUR O. FRIEL: 6. The Spider 7. The Vulture ARTHUR QUILLER-COUCH: 8. Statement of Gabriel Foot, Highwayman 9. The Affair of Bleakirk-on-Sands 10. The Countess of Bellarmine ARTHUR STRINGER: 11. The Adolescence of Number Eighty-Seven 12. The Button Thief 13. The Wire-Tappers ARTHUR TRAIN: 14. Extradition 15. The Baron de Ville 16. The Golden To...

The Psychic Life of Racism in Gay Men’s Communities engages in the necessarily complex task of mapping out the operations of racialized desire as it circulates among gay men. In exploring such desire, the contributors to this collection consider the intersections of privilege and marginalization in the context of gay men’s lives, and in so doing, argue that as much as experiences of discrimination on the basis of sexuality are shared among many gay men, experiences of discrimination within...

Published now for the first time in paperback, My Boy Jack is the extraordinary story of Kipling's search for his son. John Kipling was reported missing in the Battle of Loos on the Western Front in 1915. His father, Rudyard, had pulled strings to get his myopic son into the firing line. Devastated at the loss of his only son, Rudyard undertook the sad mission to find John's grave but tragically never succeeded in his quest.Yet in 1992, 77 years later, the Commonwealth War...

A full account of the tragic life of John "Jack" Kipling, son of Rudyard Kipling, lost in battle during World War I.On September 27, 1915, John Kipling, the only son of Britain's best loved poet, disappeared during the Battle of Loos. His body lay undiscovered for 77 years. Then, in a most unusual move, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) re-marked the grave of an unknown Lieutenant of the Irish Guards, as that of John Kipling. There is considerable eviden...

From plantation performances to minstrel shows of the late nineteenth century, the roots of black theatre in Texas reflect the history of a state where black Texans have continually created powerful cultural emblems that defy the clichés of horses, cattle, and bravado. Drawing on troves of archival materials from numerous statewide sources, Stages of Struggle and Celebration captures the important legacies of the dramatic arts in a historical field that has paid most of its attent...

On his fortieth birthday Jack Manning had his own private pity party until a pixie showed up and he was soon "all jacked up".Jack Manning had carried an image with him all of his adult life of the woman he planned to marry. She'd be every man's ideal-slender with masses of blonde curls and sapphire blue eyes.Darcy O'Connor has been the odd-girl-out all her life. Barely five feet tall, she wears outrageous clothes, styles her short black hair in spikes and has devel...