Resultados para "Revival" en Literatura y ficción

Octubre de 1962. En una pequeña localidad de Nueva Inglaterra la sombra de un hombre se cierne sobre un niño que juega ensimismado con sus soldaditos. Cuando Jamie Morton levanta la vista, ve una figura imponente. Se trata de Charles Jacobs, el nuevo pastor, con quien pronto establecerá un estrecho vínculo basado en su fascinación por los experimentos con electricidad.

Der kleine Jamie bewundert den charismatischen Methodistenprediger Charles Jacobs, der seine Gemeinde für den Glauben begeistert - bis er selbst vom Glauben abfällt. In den folgenden Jahren trifft Jamie, inzwischen drogenabhängiger Musiker, immer wieder auf Jacobs, der ihn jedes Mal tiefer in seine dämonische Welt zieht. Als Jamie sich dessen klar wird, gibt es für ihn kein Zurück mehr.

It's been almost a year since Alex Parker left the CIA. Though the agency had repeatedly tried to get her to come back for various missions in that time, she always had the same answer: She wasn't coming back. In her mind, there was only one thing that would ever get her to go back into the field as an agent again. And that was if someone she cared about was in grave danger. Unfortunately for Parker, her worst fears have come true.

Ellen and her two best friends share a mid-life crisis by hatching a plan to renovate an 1860s Greek revival in the nearby historic district of San Antonio. Although Ellen isn’t one to believe in ghosts, she comes face to face with something inexplicable in the attic.

Jedidiah Robbins is a man on a crusade. From town to town, his Gospel train rides the rails of 1920s Appalachia, spreading the Good News with his daughter and a loyal group of roustabouts in tow. But Jedidiah's traveling revival company has a secret: In addition to offering the gifts of the Holy Spirit, it also delivers spirits of another kind. Prohibition is in full swing, but The Sword of the Lord train keeps the speakeasies in the towns it visits in business by providing the best that mountain stills have to offer.

With their marriages as much in need of restoration as the town, Claire and Patsy embark on a mission of mishaps and miscommunication, determined to restore warmth to Chapel Springs and their lives. That is if they can convince their husbands and the town council, led by two curmudgeons who would prefer to see Chapel Springs left in the 50s and closed to traffic.

As the Dane Crown Inn comes back to life, the women of Emerald Bay find that sometimes, in the midst of change, the most precious treasures are the bonds that hold a family together.

What happens when “The show must go on!”meets a global pandemic? In this illuminating four-part podcast, host Faith Salie looks at the lives affected by 2020’s shutdown of Broadway and the subsequent reopening of productions there and across the country.

Stephen King presents “a fresh adrenaline rush of terror” (People) in this electrifying #1 New York Times bestseller! The new minister came to Harlow, Maine, when Jamie Morton was a boy doing battle with his toy army men on the front lawn. The young Reverend Charles Jacobs and his beautiful...

It’s a sick world down there, and it keeps getting darker and more wicked every year! Friends become enemies. Families are ruined. Marriages collapse. Pride, anger, bitterness, and jealousy dwell in human hearts like a perpetual disease. People now live in fear, ready to attack out of defense or pounce on the weak, and are able to stomp on anyone who gets in their way! And that’s where I come in. Alfred Deston. Case worker #296752. I’m one of the managers who work in heaven, and I definitely have my work cut out for me!

“I’m fine. I’m fine,” I say, as if repeating myself might make it true. I adjust my bright green tie in the mirror and pat down my hair, hoping the gel will keep it in place. Sunnie tries to assure me, but I detect a nervous tone in her voice. I hear a faint knock, and then a young man wearing headphones and holding a clipboard opens the door. “Andrew Masterson. You are on in 20.” Sunnie gives my arm a tight squeeze. I hear a loudspeaker announce my name. “And now, ladies and gentlemen, give a round of applause for our next comedian: Mr. Andrew Masterson.”

When helicopter pilot Herb left his family farm, his twin sisters, Irene and Ilene, had no idea it would be the last time they would see him alive. Then Irene and Ilene take the forefront. This part of the book will take the reader from the farm to the war zone of the Middle East. Toward the end of the book, another hero, Dean, comes into play with his sharpshooter ability learned from years of hunting wildlife.

Tammy Henson has been in the fire of trials, battling for freedom from her past and her generational line. It has been a journey of cutting ties, breaking ties in the soul, and renouncing contracts and agreements. It involved going to heaven's court to remove and dismantle powers that had a hold on her mind and her soul and receiving revelation on her ancestor's sins to break the curses that have been in her blood line for generations.

Daniel is at his garage, ready to start the day. He's got more than enough experience with cars to know how to do his job right, and he loves his job. Not to mention the fact that the physical activity has helped him to stay in shape, even as a few grey hairs started popping up. Rachael hasn't been having such a good day. She just wants to go to lunch to forget the morning. Things don't seem to want to go her way today, though. Her car is making strange noises. Not knowing what else to do, she guides her car into the nearest garage.

In his darkest hour, hiding in the depths of the Somerset marshes in AD 878, King Alfred devises a scheme to save his kingdom from the Vikings threatening to overwhelm the country. His spectacular success, beginning with the triumphant battle of Ethandun, involves creating a sense of nation among his subjects.

Welcome to ancient Rome, where the steps of the Forum are peopled by nubile slave girls and a range of outrageous characters including Lurcio’s owner, Ludicrus Sextus the senator, his wife, Ammonia, his son, Nausius, and his daughter, Erotica. Lurcio attempts to deliver his prologue and begin proceedings before he’s quickly caught up in the myriad of sexual liaisons in all quarters of his master’s house.

Madeline Vaughn-Alwin's picture-perfect life fades to gray when her childhood sweetheart perishes in the Great War. The aspiring painter leaves her wealthy New York family behind for Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she's certain she's found her new home amid the striking scenery and inspiring artistic community. To help out around her new adobe cottage, Maddie hires the Anayas, a local Native American family. But when the father is found murdered outside a speakeasy, the police brush off the death as just another inebriated man finding trouble.

The daughter of one of the South’s most famous Baptist preachers discovers a shocking secret about her father that puts her at odds with both her faith and her family in this debut novel. “Spellbinding…Revival Season should be read alongside Alice Walker’s The Color Purple and Chimamanda...

Morgan Brown owns Paradise Resort, a sexy, Caribbean getaway for the sexually adventurous. Painful memories from her past prevent her from enjoying the erotic pleasure to be found at the resort she loves, but she's determined others should be allowed to express themselves freely. Love hurts, literally and figuratively, and she wants no part of either sex or romance. Tony Marino is a freelance reporter assigned to do a story on the resort and its mysterious owner. He finds a gorgeous redhead with a mind for business and a body made for wicked pleasures. She's also hiding something.

Rushing back from the NRU, Megan, Wyatt and their party arrive to find anything but a warm welcome. Their home has been compromised by rogue soldier Neil Spraggat and a small army of men who are using the lodge as a base for a deadly operation. To make matters worse, during the takeover of the lodge Megan’s daughter Caitlin and Wyatt’s mother Rosie were forced to take shelter in the root cellar to avoid capture.