Author: Rowland GreyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Jacob's Letter, and Other Stories
Author: Rowland GreyThe Curse of Jacob Tracy
Author: Holly MessingerPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1466834315
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
St. Louis in 1880 is full of ghosts, and Jacob Tracy can see them all. Ever since he nearly died on the battlefield at Antietam, Trace has been haunted by the country's restless dead. The curse cost him his family, his calling to the church, and damn near his sanity. He stays out of ghost-populated areas as much as possible these days, guiding wagon trains West from St. Louis, with his pragmatic and skeptical partner, Boz. During the spring work lull, Trace gets an unusual job offer. Miss Fairweather, a wealthy English bluestocking, needs someone to retrieve a dead friend's legacy from a nearby town, and she specifically wants Trace to do it. However, the errand proves to be far more sinister than advertised. When confronted, Miss Fairweather admits to knowing about Trace's curse, and suggests she might help him learn to control it—in exchange for a few more odd jobs. Trace has no interest in being her pet psychic, but he's been looking twenty years for a way to control his power, and Miss Fairweather's knowledge of the spirit world is too valuable to ignore. As she steers him into one macabre situation after another, his powers flourish, and Trace begins to realize some good might be done with this curse of his. But Miss Fairweather is harboring some dark secrets of her own, and her meddling has brought Trace to the attention of something much older and more dangerous than any ghost in this electrifying and inventive debut.
The Mysteries of London
Author: George William MacArthur ReynoldsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
The mysteries of London
Author: George William M. ReynoldsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 942
Book Description
Tracking the White Salamander
Author: Jerald TannerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Book of Mormon
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Jacob's Woes
Author: D. Thomas GochenourPublisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
It is spring 1620 in Zurich, and the entire German world is in turmoil. War between the Catholic Hapsburgs, the traditional enemy of the Swiss, and the German Protestant states is about to break out. The young man Joggli (Jacob) is in town to pay family taxes in kind. He is fascinated by the appeal of a recruiter, and he signs up to go off to protect the newly crowned Protestant king in Prague. His trip, which ends in ignominious defeat at the battle of White Mountain in early winter, nearly costs him his life. And when he finally is one of the very few to make it back home, his family denounces him as a sinner for giving an oath to a sovereign power. To win salvation, Joggli must repent, study the Scriptures, and get adult baptism to enter into the faith. But the reformed church in Zurich condemns him as a heretic Anabaptist and calls him to recant and threatens him with imprisonment, expulsion, or even execution unless he repents. Joggli keeps to his faith and even preaches it among his neighbors. He is thrown into prison, and his children are taken from him and distributed to reformed families. And he, with other Brethren, languish and suffer for several years in a dank, unheated prison in Zurich, constantly threatened with death and hunger. His faith holds firm and enables him to survive, until finally, the Zurich authorities expel all the Swiss Brethren from the canton. Released and able to collect his family, he begins his second large trip, this time leading a large collective of the Brethren out of Switzerland and into permanent exile in Alsace, a land desolated by the Thirty Years' War. Through prayer and study, they persevere and multiply and give thanks to Jesus, their Savior.
The Search for Jacob's Pillow
Author: H. David BrownPublisher: Author House
ISBN: 1463423055
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
This Scottish Historical Novel is based on well known historical events and the author's personal experiences. The novel's main characters include three unrelated native born Scots. Tracy, a lady Royal Navy fighter pilot operating from her ship, H.M.S. Ark Royal, above the South China seas off Hong Kong; Alan, a Royal Bank of Scotland manager employed in the bank's Hong Kong office also acting as a volunteer Auxiliary Marine Police Inspector operating in Hong Kong waters: and Grant, an almost destitute professional golfer playing his last sponsored professional golf tournament in China. These three characters, albeit during unusual circumstances, each receive separate "signs"in the form of mysteriously engraved coins or tokens. These "tokens", when compared with similar "tokens" found after worldwide searches by Archeology Professor Angus Ogilvy, bring all five characters together in a common cause. This cause, namely finding the much sought after ancient Scottish artifact; the "Stone of Destiny" also known as "Jacob's Pillow", creates the intriguing theme of this novel. Since the year 847 AD, thirty one Scottish kings were crowned sitting upon the ancient "Stone of Destiny" it having originated in the Holy Land and brought to Scotland during the fourth century. In the year 1296 AD, King Edward 1st of England, more commonly known as"Longshanks" of the film Braveheart fame , plundered Scotland, took the "Stone of Destiny" to London and had it placed under the English monarchy coronation throne in Westminster Abbey. There it remained almost continuously for over seven hundred years. In 1951, four Scottish University students successfully heisted that Stone and returned with it to Scotland. However, after being hidden for four months it was found in Arbroath Abbey, and shortly after returned to Westminster Abbey and replaced under the Englis coronation chair.
Adventure
Author: A Mysterious Affliction
Author: Aarti S. VasanPublisher: Aarti S. Vasan
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
It was a cold winter of 1980 in Bologna, Italy. Amara Barrows stumbles upon a perplexing enigma of her own life, when she and her Detective husband, Jacob Barrows are in the middle of investigating Mr. Lombardi's case of his missing daughter. Multiple tête-à-têtes urge them to get into roots of the truth behind her mother's untimely and mysterious death. They decide to delve into a 20 year old cold case. Jacob who is exceedingly observant finally reveals the strange affliction that killed Amara's mother.
Secular World and Social Economist
Author: George Jacob HolyoakePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Secularism
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
"The History of the Fleet Street House": 20 p. at the end of v. 18.