Evil Returns

DIVDevnee just wants to be beautiful—but is she willing to pay the price?/divDIV Devnee is so excited about having a bedroom in an attic tower. A tower sounds so romantic, like living in a private castle. Devnee hopes her new room will make her romantic—beautiful, popular, and even happy. But the tower feels inexplicably creepy, especially because its windows are tightly shuttered. On Devnee’s very first night in her new room, weird things start to happen. A disembodied hand appears outside her window, with long silver fingernails that Devnee can’t help but long to touch. Devnee’s shadow detaches from her body and starts wandering the edges of her new room by itself. On her first day at her new high school, Devnee finds herself intensely wishing her life were different. And when someone—something—arrives in her tower room to make that wish come true, Devnee’s best intentions at starting a new life take a dark turn./divDIV /divDIVIn the second book in Caroline B. Cooney’s Vampire’s Promise trilogy, evil finds another vulnerable girl . . ./divDIV /divDIVThis ebook features an illustrated biography of Caroline B. Cooney including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection./div

Haiti. In this land of mystery and magic, shadow and superstition, resides the most powerful - and most evil - master of voodoo. His ability to control minds has served him well indeed over the years, so well that his very name chills the blood of those who believe. Many thought him dead following a fiery attempt to destroy him. But magic such ashis is not easily destroyed. He has survived, scarred and deformed, but as powerful and vicious as ever. Now, with the aid of the dark forces at his command, he has set in motion a terrifying plan that will extend his control to unheard of lenghts. Will anyone - or anything - be able to stop him, or will this be the beginning of a reign of unspeakable horror?

Evil returns twofold to Mariah, North Carolina. John Davidson finds himself torn and tormented by his quirky love triangle with Faith Matthews and her twin sister, Hope. What makes his situation so precarious is that their love affair occurs in two different centuries. Even more baffling is that the last time he saw Hope Matthews, she was dead, along with the town's Sheriff Angela Solomon. Mystically returning to Mariah, Hope and Angela convince John to join them on a special quest. They return to the year1867, thrust into post-civil war Mariah, a world of newly emancipated Negroes and angry white southerners. After their miraculous arrival to the past, the three newcomers soon find themselves on the run, falsely accused of murder, kidnapping and witchery. Back in the future, Faith Matthews, with the help of her eccentric family, is chosen to fight the evil gathering in Mariah. All are about to face a battle that spans the centuries, pitting light against dark, and threatening the wholesome way of life in small-town America.

Evil Peeks Through My Tinted Glass Window: A Jamaican Story Bobbie Redstone, an attractive, diminutive, strong-willed, and feisty woman, meets her match when she leaves her high-powered job in Kingston, Jamaica, to start her own business in a small backward seaside town. Not only does she meet her match in the larger-than-life Evil Sorcerer (who is big, bold and loud, yet ugly and attractive in the same sentence), but she gets caught up in a life totally different from anything she ever knew. Bobbie gets ensnared in the lives and bizarre stories of Evil Sorcerer and some prominent townsfolk, including her own father. She is mesmerised by Evil as much as Evil is mesmerised by her. Their worlds collide when she finds Evil peeking through the tinted glass window of her office, and their lives will never be the same, because Evil is intent on terrorising Bobbie, who is bold and unafraid of anyone, and is able to stand up to her and all her wicked wiles.

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The Tragedy of Almightiness encircles the theme of human yearning for omnipotence, as expressed in religion and various ideologies. The central question revolves around the matter of what--in pursuing such an extreme power of the will--man seeks to achieve. While exploring the question, a thought-provoking link is made between religion and atheism; between the Biblical longing for God's promise and the Marxist appeal for man to realize that same promise. Omnipotence must vouch for the fulfilling of the promise, for justice and for man's dream of redemption. However that is not where it ends. The longing for salvation turns out to have a dangerous reverse side to it because it encourages a turning away from the actual world and the all-pervading evil. Omnipotence also facilitates the avenging of such evil. History has shown what this kind of yearning can lead to. The book demonstrates how modernity translates Biblical longings into ideologically justified revengefulness. The description of this process leads to a plea for renewed ethical purpose in life. It is a challenge that also extends to religion. Hence the reason that it is necessary to depart from the idea of omnipotence.

This collection of daily thoughts to nourish the soul from the world’s sacred texts by Leo Tolstoy feature gems of inspiration and wisdom—author Thomas Keneally calls this book “transcendent, and that we are grateful he lived long enough to endow us with his grand inheritance.” This is the first-ever English-language edition of the book Leo Tolstoy considered to be his most important contribution to humanity, the work of his life's last years. Widely read in pre-revolutionary Russia, banned and forgotten under Communism; and recently rediscovered to great excitement, A Calendar of Wisdom is a day-by-day guide that illuminates the path of a life worth living with a brightness undimmed by time. Unjustly censored for nearly a century, it deserves to be placed with the few books in our history that will never cease teaching us the essence of what is important in this world.