The Ministry Of Ghosts

When they ring the bell at the house with the dusty windows and tarnished nameplate to inquire about the advertised “Saturday Person,” Thruppence and Tim don’t know what they’re getting themselves into. A Saturday job sounds ideal! But had that nameplate been properly cleaned, Thruppence and Tim might not have been so keen to enter . . . Pressured by the stern Minister Beeston from the Department of Economies, the Ministry of Ghosts has been given three months to prove the existence or nonexistence of ghosts, or else it will be shut down! As it seems that children are particularly magnetic to ghosts and supernatural beings, Thruppence and Tim are hired to join the ministry’s ghost-catching team. And although neither of them is scared by talk of ghosts or monsters, they are unprepared for what they’re about discover! Filled with fun, humor, and twists and turns, this is the perfect book for anyone who loved Harry Potter and who is looking for something similar to Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book—just not quite as scary.

THIS BOOK CONTAINS PRAYERS, INSTRUCTIONS FOR HOUSE BLESSINGS, AND A SECTION OF PHOTOGRAPHS. INTENSE READING ABOUT REAL EXORCISMS AND EXTREME PARANORMAL CASES. Descended from a long line of Spiritual Warriors, Reverend Shawn P. Whittington shares his background, knowledge, and most chilling and life-changing moments. An ordained exorcist and deliverance minister, Shawn and his wife, Sharon (also a minister) have over 40 years of experience with ghosts and demons. They reside in Las Vegas, Nevada. NOTHING IS MORE FRIGHTENING THAN THE TRUTH. Table of Contents 1. Warriors for Christ 2. Catholicism and Spirituality 3. A Calling 4. Never Too Young 5. All Grown Up 6. Vegas Supernatural 7. Home Is Where The Heart Is 8. They Run In A Pack 9. Man With No Face 10. The Holy Spirit 11. Black Dogs And Beasts 12. Paranormal Ministry 13. The Final Chapter Part I and Part II - (Exorcism by Distance) 14. Prayers 15. Photo Gallery

THIS BOOK CONTAINS PRAYERS, INSTRUCTIONS FOR HOUSE BLESSINGS, AND A SECTION OF PHOTOGRAPHS. INTENSE READING ABOUT REAL EXORCISMS AND EXTREME PARANORMAL CASES. Descended from a long line of Spiritual Warriors, Reverend Shawn P. Whittington shares his background, knowledge, and most chilling and life-changing moments. An ordained exorcist and deliverance minister, Shawn and his wife, Sharon (also a minister) have over 40 years of experience with ghosts and demons. They reside in Las Vegas, Nevada. NOTHING IS MORE FRIGHTENING THAN THE TRUTH. Table of Contents 1. Warriors for Christ 2. Catholicism and Spirituality 3. A Calling 4. Never Too Young 5. All Grown Up 6. Vegas Supernatural 7. Home Is Where The Heart Is 8. They Run In A Pack 9. Man With No Face 10. The Holy Spirit 11. Black Dogs And Beasts 12. Paranormal Ministry 13. The Final Chapter Part I and Part II - (Exorcism by Distance) 14. Prayers 15. Photo Gallery

Discover a new spooky middle grade adventure for fans of Neil Gaiman and Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow about a cursed boy who embarks on a journey into a magical city of ghosts to find out who he really is. Oscar Grimstone is a normal kid—aside from his secret Curse. Whenever he touches something living, like a flower or his classroom goldfish, they always seem to die. But then Oscar discovers an even bigger secret: even though he is very much alive, he has the ability to transform into a ghost. Just when he thinks things can't get any stranger two ghosts show up at his home in a skeleton carriage and he winds up joining them on a journey beyond the real world to a place he never knew existed—the city of ghosts. There Oscar will discover a place where people go once they die, before they aboard a ship to the The Other Side. But will he find out who he really is? "Hauntingly entertaining."—BCCB, starred review

This award-winning novel about a woman facing her past introduces Terranova to English-speaking audiences. Translated by Ann Goldstein, translator of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan quartet. Finalist, Premio Strega, 2019 | Winner, Premio Alassio Centolibri | Selected among the 10 Best Italian Books of 2018 by Corriere della Sera Ida is a married woman in her late thirties, who lives in Rome and works at a radio station. Her mother wants to renovate the family apartment in Messina, to put it up for sale and asks her daughter to sort through her things--to decide what to keep and what to throw away. Surrounded by the objects of her past, Ida is forced to deal with the trauma she experienced as a girl, twenty-three years earlier, when her father left one morning, never to return. The fierce silences between mother and daughter, the unbalanced friendships that leave her emotionally drained, the sense of an identity based on anomaly, even the relationship with her husband, everything revolves around the figure of her absent father. Mirroring herself in that absence, Ida has grown up into a woman dominated by fear, suspicious of any form of desire. However, as her childhood home besieges her with its ghosts, Ida will have to find a way to break the spiral and let go of her father finally. Beautifully translated by Ann Goldstein, who also translated Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan quartet, Farewell, Ghosts is a poetic and intimate novel about what it means to build one's own identity.

Germany, which brutalized its neighbors in Europe for centuries, has mostly escaped the ghosts of the past, while Japan remains haunted in Asia. The most common explanation for this difference is that Germany knows better how to apologize; Japan is viewed as “impenitent.” Walter F. Hatch rejects the conventional wisdom and argues that Germany has achieved reconciliation with neighbors by showing that it can be a trustworthy partner in regional institutions like the European Union and NATO; Japan has never been given that opportunity (by its dominant partner, the U.S.) to demonstrate such an ability to cooperate. This book rigorously defends the argument that political cooperation—not discourse or economic exchange—best explains Germany’s relative success and Japan’s relative failure in achieving reconciliation with neighbors brutalized by each regional power in the past. It uses paired case studies (Germany-France and Japan-South Korea; Germany-Poland and Japan-China) to gauge the effect of these competing variables on public opinion over time. With numerous charts, each of the four empirical chapters illustrates the powerful causal relationship between institution building and interstate reconciliation.

Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts in the Enlightenment argues for the centrality of magical practices and ideas throughout the long eighteenth century. Although the hunt for witches in Europe declined precipitously after 1650, and the intellectual justification for natural magic came under fire by 1700, belief in magic among the general population did not come to a sudden stop. The philosophes continued to take aim at magical practices, alongside religion, as examples of superstitions that an enlightened age needed to put behind them. In addition to a continuity of beliefs and practices, the eighteenth century also saw improvement and innovation in magical ideas, the understanding of ghosts, and attitudes toward witchcraft. The volume takes a broad geographical approach and includes essays focusing on Great Britain (England and Ireland), France, Germany, and Hungary. It also takes a wide approach to the subject and includes essays on astrology, alchemy, witchcraft, cunning folk, ghosts, treasure hunters, and purveyors of magic. With a broad chronological scope that ranges from the end of the seventeenth century to the early nineteenth century, this volume is useful for undergraduates, postgraduates, scholars, and those with a general interest in magic, witchcraft, and spirits in the Enlightenment.