In AD 458, a Roman general falls victim to the dark myths and legends of Europe. During his campaign in Germania, Nikoli Fenchetti is bitten by an unknown being, granting him immortality and dark gifts. In time, his sickness is revealed to him, unmasking the deep, raw truth. As he becomes educated on who and what he truly became, Nosferatu, Fenchetti utilizes his dark, undead talent, questing across Europe and the Middle East in search for his reasoning with life. It was an inner torment that drives him to the brink of insanity. While crossing the vast continents in the mid-ages, Nikoli meets two cursed Romans who crucified Christ, Maximus and Titus. Their journey through the years will bring them to the church, the Vatican, and its secrets. Only the dark gift Nikoli possesses is useful to the black pope and his allies. Only his immortal skills are needed to find the Second Coming of Christ. But when the unborn child is discovered, so undo the lies and deceit.
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El Dorado County, California, 1969Nineteen steps below their darkened room a battle raged. Before the night was over, the lives of two brothers would be changed forever.Thirty years later, prominent San Francisco attorney Dominic Graves sits in his office overlooking the Bay and scowls at a greeting card with primitive Mayan art on its cover. He flips it open. Below the printed words “Feliz cumpleaños” is a familiar scrawl:“Happy birthday, brother. Love, Ted.”He tosses it into the trash can and stares out the window at the bustling city. His hand trembles as he lifts a glass of scotch and takes another sip.Two thousand miles away, Ted Graves strolls through the bountiful Veracruz marketplace. Around him, people crowd the roadside displays while festive guitar music fills the tropical air. He spots a man in a Pontiac watching him and, still clutching his bag of produce, darts through the marketplace to escape.At the end of a street, he meets a dead end. Cornered and out of breath, Ted turns and faces his pursuer.The past has returned.
This is the story of a girl who lived but was not alive... Carrie Anne is desperately unhappy. Tangled in a web of abuse, she seeks solace in the cemetery that backs onto her garden. But something creeps between the gravestones. Carrie Anne is not alone... ...and a boy who was dead, but could not die.
The catalogue of the exhibition held from the 2nd to the 28th of February at the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno in Florence gathers about thirty works of the artist, from drawings to paintings. Graves was born in 1949 in Rochester, New York, and was formed between the United States and Florence. He created a style of oil painting that marries the Florentine tradition of Nerina Simi and Pietro Annigoni with the graphic art of the French artist Charles Bargue.
This translation of the "Registrum epistularum" of Gregory the Great, the first complete version in English, will provide all medievalists access to one of the most important documentary collections to have survived from the period. All fourteen books of the letters are presented in three volumes, each with a preface of its own but sharing the introduction found in the first volume.
This book presents 37 letters of Gregory of Nyssa (c. 335-379) translated into English and equipped with scholarly notes. It includes a biography, testimonia from Basil and Gregory Nazianzen, 30 letters established by G. Pasquali and seven additional letters reassigned to Gregory.
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