Author : David Goodis
Publisher : Hard Crime Case
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,21 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Detective and mystery stories
ISBN : 9780843957716
To save his disintegrating marriage, James Bevan takes his wife to Jamaica--but will the island vacation bring them redemption or death? This lost novel by one of the greatest pulp authors is available for the first time in more than 50 years. Original.
Author : Marlon James
Publisher : Riverhead Books
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 30,34 MB
Release : 2015-09-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1594633940
A tale inspired by the 1976 attempted assassination of Bob Marley spans decades and continents to explore the experiences of journalists, drug dealers, killers, and ghosts against a backdrop of social and political turmoil.
Author : Jacob Onyumbe Wenyi
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 32,44 MB
Release : 2021-06-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1725268310
Piles of Slain, Heaps of Corpses reads the violence in the book of Nahum against the background of the war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and tries to show how this violent book can be therapeutic and transformative for wounded communities. Here Jacob Onyumbe views Nahum through four scholarly lenses: poetic analysis, study of Assyrian iconography related to eighth- and seventh-century Judah, ethnographic research among survivors of war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and modern studies on the impact of war trauma on communities of survivors. He argues that Nahum uses lyric poetry so as to evoke in seventh-century BCE Judahite audiences the memory of war and destruction at the hands of the Assyrians. The prophet uses poetry to evoke (rather than narrate) in order to bring comfort to his audience by revealing the powerful presence of God in the conditions of traumatic violence. Viewed thus, the book of Nahum cannot be dismissed (as has commonly been the case among both scholars and general readers) as irrelevant or merely vindictive. On the contrary, this book—with its depiction of a vengeful God and repulsive war scenes—is essential, especially for traumatized communities.
Author : George V. Wigram
Publisher :
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 50,70 MB
Release : 1874
Category : Aramaic language
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Author : Sevastopol
Publisher :
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 41,61 MB
Release : 1855
Category : Crimean War, 1853-1856
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Author : Drew Gilpin Faust
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 27,96 MB
Release : 2009-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0375703837
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • An "extraordinary ... profoundly moving" history (The New York Times Book Review) of the American Civil War that reveals the ways that death on such a scale changed not only individual lives but the life of the nation. An estiated 750,000 soldiers lost their lives in the American Civil War. An equivalent proportion of today's population would be seven and a half million. In This Republic of Suffering, Drew Gilpin Faust describes how the survivors managed on a practical level and how a deeply religious culture struggled to reconcile the unprecedented carnage with its belief in a benevolent God. Throughout, the voices of soldiers and their families, of statesmen, generals, preachers, poets, surgeons, nurses, northerners and southerners come together to give us a vivid understanding of the Civil War's most fundamental and widely shared reality. With a new introduction by the author, and a new foreword by Mike Mullen, 17th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Author : Word
Publisher :
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 21,48 MB
Release : 1855
Category :
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Author : John Bunyan
Publisher :
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 48,21 MB
Release : 1803
Category :
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Page : 592 pages
File Size : 15,20 MB
Release : 1906
Category : Locomotive engineers
ISBN :
Author : Sarah Sparrow
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 30,73 MB
Release : 2018-03-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0399574549
"In her astonishing thriller, Sarah Sparrow has joined the ranks of Shirley Jackson and Stephen King. A warning: there is no safe place to read this book." –David Cronenberg Terrifying, thoroughly original and hauntingly written, A Guide for Murdered Children is a psychological thriller—and otherworldly surprise. We’ve heard it said that there is no justice in this world. But what if there really was? What if the souls of murdered children were able to briefly return, inhabit adult bodies and wreak revenge on the monstrous killers who stole their lives? Such is the unthinkable mystery confronting ex-NYPD detective Willow Wylde, fresh out of rehab and finally able to find a job running a Cold Case squad in suburban Detroit. When the two rookie cops assigned to him take an obsessive interest in a decades-old disappearance of a brother and sister, Willow begins to suspect something out of the ordinary is afoot. And when he uncovers a series of church basement AA-type meetings made up of the slain innocents, a new way of looking at life, death, murder—and missed opportunities—is revealed to him. Mystical, harrowing and powerfully moving, A Guide for Murdered Children is a genre-busting, mind-bending twist on the fine line between the ordinary… and the unfathomable.
