Author: Lee Nichols
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780373895540
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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On the outs with her live-in boyfriend, Eve Crenshaw flees Manhattan for a different kind of island life off the coast of Maine. With the help of her college roommate, Natasha, and her friend Kim, she rents a seaside cottage and waits for her boyfriend to beg her to return. Instead, he gets a new girlfriend. Now Eve's stuck on an island with no cable TV, no Starbucks and no eligible men. Desperate for diversion, the women meet every week for drinks, dubbing themselves the Wednesday Night Witches. One stormy evening, the Witches raid Kim's cellar and find a strange bottle of liqueur. Getting into the spirit, they each make a wish, lift their glasses and...well, no one can quite recall what happens next. But suddenly their wishes start coming true Only, as life gets better and better for the Wednesday Night Witches, everything else on the island starts going to hell.
Author: Kathryn Lasky
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545683114
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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From bestselling and award-winning author Kathryn Lasky comes an explosive adventure following the teen girl fighter pilots who took on Hitler's army . . . and won. 16-year-old Valya knows what it feels like to fly. She's a pilot who's always felt more at home soaring through the sky than down on earth. But since the Germans surrounded Stalingrad, Valya's been forced to stay on the ground and watch her city crumble.When her mother is killed during the siege, Valya is left with one burning desire: to join up with her older sister, a member of the famous and feared Night Witches-a brigade of young female pilots. Using all her wits, Valya manages to get past the German blockade and find the Night Witches' base . . . and that's when the REAL danger starts. The women have been assigned a critical mission. If they succeed, they'll inflict serious damage on the Nazis. If they fail, they'll face death . . . or even worse horrors.Historical fiction master Lasky sheds light on the war's unsung heroes-daredevil girls who took to the skies to fight for their country-in an action-packed thrill ride that'll leave you electrified and breathless.
Author: Montague Summers
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1447480368
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 42
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“Witch Covens and the Grand Masters” is a detailed treatise on the subject of witchcraft written by Montague Summers, exploring in particular their hierarchy, their 'sabbat', and related practices. Augustus Montague Summers (1880 – 1948) was an English clergyman and author most famous for his studies on vampires, witches and werewolves—all of which he believed to be very much real. He also wrote the first English translation of the infamous 15th-century witch hunter's manual, the “Malleus Maleficarum”, in 1928. This vintage book will appeal to those with an interest in the occult and is not to be missed by collectors of Summers' famous work. Other notable works by this author include: “A Popular History of Witchcraft” (1937), “Witchcraft and Black Magic” (1946), and “The Physical Phenomena of Mysticism” (1947). Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author and essay by Caroline Taylor Stewart.
Author: Margaret Murray
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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Margaret Murray's groundbreaking book 'The Witch-Cult in Western Europe' delves into the history and practices of witchcraft across various regions in Europe. Written in a scholarly and detailed manner, Murray explores the origins of the witch-cult beliefs and rituals, shedding light on the persecution and discrimination faced by accused witches. The book's thorough research and analysis provide readers with a comprehensive understanding of how witchcraft was perceived in Western Europe during different historical periods. Murray's literary style is informative and captivating, making this book a seminal work in the study of witchcraft and folklore. The historical context in which the witch-cult beliefs developed is carefully examined, offering insights into the societal attitudes and religious influences of the time. Margaret Murray's expertise in anthropology and folklore shines through in this well-researched and thought-provoking book, making it a must-read for anyone interested in the history of witchcraft and paganism.
Author: Margaret Alice Murray
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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Author: Bram Stoker
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 3685
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The Mystery of Witchcraft is a meticulously assembled collection of books on witchery, witch trials, demonology and spiritualism. The book is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Introduction: The Superstitions of Witchcraft The Devil in Britain and America Witchcraft in Europe: History of Magic and Witchcraft: Magic and Witchcraft Lives of the Necromancers Witch, Warlock, and Magician Irish Witchcraft and Demonology Practitioners of Magic & Witchcraft and Clairvoyance Mary Schweidler, the Amber Witch Sidonia, the Sorceress La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages Tales & Legends: Witchcraft & Second Sight in the Highlands & Islands of Scotland Witch Stories Studies: The Witch Mania The Witch-cult in Western Europe Witchcraft and Superstitious Record in the South-Western District of Scotland Modern Magic Witchcraft in America: Salem Trials: The Wonders of the Invisible World Salem Witchcraft Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather A Short History of the Salem Village Witchcraft Trials An Account of the Witchcraft Delusion at Salem in 1682 House of John Procter, Witchcraft Martyr, 1692 Studies: The Salem Witchcraft, the Planchette Mystery, and Modern Spiritualism The Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial Connecticut (1647-1697) Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism On Witchcraft: Glimpses of the Supernatural – Witchcraft and Necromancy Letters On Demonology And Witchcraft
Author: David D M Osano
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1456832883
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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THE LAST WORDS is a collection of verse, stanzas and poems written for relaxation. With humour and satire, soul searching and comforting prose, love and hope, the collection promises all readers an adventure full of laughter, curiosity and moments of personal thought. The collection also tells of the pride of our soldiers to whom it is dedicated, as they sacrifice their lives in pursuit of peace to the oppressed. The courage and pride of these men and women is told in poetry with highlights of the pride in what they choose to do. The pride that outweighs the risks they face everyday in doing their job.
Author: David L. Robbins
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0307418189
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 560
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One nation taking a desperate gamble of war. Another fighting for survival. Two armies locked in a bloody cataclysm that will decide history. . . David L. Robbins has won widespread acclaim for his powerful and splendidly researched novels of World War II. Now he casts his brilliant vision on one of the most terrifying--and most crucial--battles of the war: the Battle of Kursk, Hitler’s desperate gamble to defeat Russia, in the final German offensive on the eastern front. Last Citadel Spring 1943. In the west, Germany strengthens its choke hold on France. To the south, an Allied invasion looms imminent. But the greatest threat to Hitler’s dream of a Thousand Year Reich lies east, where his forces are pitted in a death match with a Russian enemy willing to pay any price to defend the motherland. Hitler rolls the dice, hurling his best SS forces and his fearsome new weapon, the Mark VI Tiger tank, in a last-ditch summer offensive, code-named Citadel. The Red Army around Kursk is a sprawling array of infantry, armor, fighter planes, and bombers. Among them is an intrepid group of women flying antiquated biplanes; they swoop over the Germans in the dark, earning their nickname, “Night Witches.” On the ground, Private Dimitri Berko gallops his tank, the Red Army’s lithe little T-34, like a Cossack steed. In the turret above Dimitri rides his son, Valya, a Communist sergeant who issues his father orders while the war widens the gulf between them. In the skies, Dimitri’s daughter, Katya, flies with the Night Witches, until she joins a ferocious band of partisans in the forests around Kursk. Like Russia itself, the Berko family is suffering the fury and devastation of history’s most titanic tank battle while fighting to preserve what is sacred–their land, their lives, and each other–as Hitler flings against them his most potent armed force. Inexorable and devastating, a company of Mark VI Tiger tanks is commanded by one extraordinary SS officer, a Spaniard known as la Daga, the Dagger. He’d suffered a terrible wound at the hands of the Russians: now he has returned with a cold fury to exact his revenge. And above it all, one quiet man makes his own plan to bring Citadel crashing down and reshape the fate of the world. A remarkable story of men and arms, loyalty and betrayal, Last Citadel propels us into the claustrophobic confines of a tank in combat, into the tension of guerrilla tactics, and across the smoking charnel of one of history’s greatest battlefields. Panoramic, authentic, and unforgettable, it reverberates long after the last cannon sounds.
Author: Yoram Kaniuk
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 1555848389
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 528
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“A layered, sweeping panorama of 20th Century Jewish life and identity.” —Publishers Weekly Yoram Kaniuk has been hailed as “one of the most innovative, brilliant novelists in the Western World,” and The Last Jew is his exhilarating masterwork (The New York Times). Like Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Last Jew is a sweeping saga that captures the troubled history and culture of an entire people through the prism of one family. From the chilling opening scene of a soldier returning home in a fog of battle trauma, the novel moves backward through time and across continents until Kaniuk has succeeded in bringing to life the twentieth century’s most unsettling legacy: the anxieties of modern Europe, which begat the Holocaust, and in turn the birth of Israel and the swirling cauldron that is the Middle East. With the unforgettable character of Ebenezer Schneerson—the eponymous last Jew—at its center, Kaniuk weaves an ingenious tapestry of Jewish identity that is alternately tragic, absurd, enigmatic, and heartbreaking. “A true work of art, free from emotional manipulations.” —The Washington Post
Author: Sinister Saints Press
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1326497510
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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That moment when disaster strikes... a plane crash, a sinking ship, an avalanche, a raging fire, an earthquake, an out of control spaceship... and the main protagonist is caught in the middle of it. Who or what caused the disaster? How does the main character react to the unfolding disaster, and what are the consequences of their actions?
