One cold March morning a young woman lay dying of multiple stab wounds on her own driveway. She came through the nightmare that followed laughing. This book describes what happened in detail. Julie Chimes tells of her out-of-body experiences during the crisis as well as the dreams & premonitions leading up to it. She recounts the frenzied attack by a paranoid schizophrenic. She describes what it feels like to die & then unforseeably to live to tell the tale. ...

An evangelistic preacher in paint & self-proclaimed man of visions Reverend Howard Finster became one of the most widely known & prolific self-taught artists producing over 46 000 pieces of art by his death in 2001. Finster often referred to himself as a stranger from another world & Gods last red light on the planet earth. He saw himself as a sacred artist fulfilling his visionary prophesies revealed to him by God through a heavenly outer space world. Thus Finster believed he was to disperse warnings to people to save their souls from the horrors of hell. These experiences were very real to Finster & provided a seemingly limitless variety of images for his art & content for his rapid fire stream-of-consciousness monologues. This book provides an in-depth survey of Finsters career illustrating the variety of themes inherent in his work much of it relating to his visionary experiences including: Visions of Other Worlds Sermons in Paint Historical & Cultural Heroes & The Plant Farm Museum [ Paradise Garden]. Glen C. Davies is an artist muralist lecturer & curator. Other contributors are Phyllis Kind Jim Arient & N. J. Girardot. ...

Keye Street ex-FBI profiler & private detective always looks out for those closest to her. But sometimes looking after herself is quite enough to handle. Shes teetering on the brink not quite sure if shes winning or losing in her battle with herself. But when her cousin Miki Ashton sees a stranger inside her house its time for Keye to lend a h&. Meanwhile Keyes mentor Lieutenant Aaron Rauser is embroiled in a disturbing case. When a dog returns alone from its walk the hunt is on for the missing boy. As the mystery deepens & the bodies pile up Rauser needs Keyes expert profiling skills to unravel the killers bizarre signature
- tears. Battling her demons takes up a lot of Keyes time. But on top of that shes battling the bad guys. If she can ignore the voice from her past that is...
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Magic is not simply a matter of the occult arts but a whole way of thinking of dreaming the impossible. The supreme fiction of magical thinking is the Arabian Nights" with its flying carpets hidden treasure & sudden revelations. As part of her exploration into the prophetic enchantments of the Nights Marina Warner retells some of the most wonderful & lesser-known stories. She explores the figure of the dark magician or magus from Solomon to the wicked uncle in " Aladdin"; the complex vitality of the genies or jinn; & animal metamorphoses. With startling originality & impeccable research this groundbreaking book shows how magic in the deepest sense helped to create the modern world & how profoundly it is still inscribed in the way we think today." ...

He meets women. He gains their trust. He kills them. That's all Maeve Kerrigan knows about the man she is hunting. Three women have been strangled in their homes by the same sadistic killer. With no sign of a break-in every indication shows that they let in their attacker. But the evidence is pointing at a shocking suspect: DCI Josh Derwent Maeve's colleague. Maeve refuses to believe he could be involved but how well does she really know her partner? After all this is hardly the first time Derwent's been accused of murder... ...

In the late summer of 1913 George Sawle brings the charming aristocratic young poet Cecil Valance to his family's modest home. The shared intimacies of this weekend link the Sawle & Valance families irrevocably becoming legendary events in a larger story told & interpreted in different ways over the coming century. Throughout this richly comic history of sexual mores & literary reputation we follow the two families in a series of widely spaced episodes through startling changes in fortune & circumstance. An impeccably nuanced exploration of changing taste class & social etiquette The Strange's Child written in deliciously witty & observant prose is an enthralling novel from one of the finest writers in the English language. ' With The Stranger's Child an already remarkable talent unfurls into something spectacular' Sunday Times 'A remarkable unmissable achievement.. . One leaves the novel with a sense of the truly extraordinary' Independent ' Elegant seductive & extremely enjoyable to read.. . The Stranger's Child will no doubt be one of the best novels published this year' Guardian ...

Once she had got over the initial shock of the young man's nudity Claudia allowed herself to breathe properly again... When Claudia finds a sexy stranger near her home she discovers that he has lost his memory along with his clothes. Having turned her back on relationships since the death of her husband Claudia finds herself scandalising her friends by inviting the stranger into her home & into her bed... From the Sunday Times bestselling author of In Too Deep ...

Sometimes the victims of tragedy are the ones who survive. Annie & Steve are from different worlds. She is a wife & mother he is a wealthy executive with a stream of broken relationships in his wake. They do not know each other exists until one morning on a shopping expedition they becomes victims of a bomb blast thrown together in the debris to fight for their lives. As they lie in the darkness & the rubble the hours slowly tick by. To ward off fear & death they talk: of everything they have to live for of their disappointments loves failures & their hopes. & so a bond is created that binds them deeper than family than friends than lovers. With such strange intimacy such strange trust how can they get through the future without each other? ...

Technology may be different in 2060 New York yet the city is still a place of many cultures & great divides. But as ever some murders receive more attention than others
- especially those in which the victim is a prominent businessman found in his Park Avenue apartment tied to the bed
- & strangled
- with cords of black velvet. It doesnt surprise Lieutenant Eve Dallas that Thomas Anders scandalous death is a source of titillation & speculation to the public
- & of humiliation to his family. But while all those in the city are talking about it people close to Anders arent so anxious to do the same. With some help from her billionaire husband Roarke Eve is soon knocking on doors- or barging through them
- to find answers. But the facts dont add up. Physical evidence suggests that the victim didnt struggle. The security breach in the apartment indicates that the killer was someone connected to the family but everyones alibi checks out. Was this a kinky sex game that turned into a crime of passion
- or a meticulously planned execution? Its up to Dallas to solve a case in which strangers may be connected in unexpected & deadly ways.





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Murder harboured no bigotry no bias. It subscribed to no class system. In its gleeful deadly way murder turned a blind eye. Scandalous death sells papers. But as the media frenzy feeds on the wealthy Thomas Anders strangled to death with black velvet in his plush Park Avenue apartment Lieutenant Eve Dallas grapples with just one question: a crime of passion or a cold extermination? Things don't add up. The victim didn't struggle & everyone has an alibi. & when a throwaway comment opens up a horrifying secret Eve is fighting for far more than justice. ' Keeps you guessing to the end' Sun Book Twenty-Six in the New York Times number one bestselling series ...