Author | : Jewell P. Rhodes |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780312119317 |
The story of Marie Laveau, a legendary nineteenth-century New Orleans voodoo queen.
Author | : Jewell P. Rhodes |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780312119317 |
The story of Marie Laveau, a legendary nineteenth-century New Orleans voodoo queen.
Author | : Jewell Parker Rhodes |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2005-08-30 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1416510370 |
Jewell Parker Rhodes, who has earned legions of fans with her masterful fiction, launched her career as an award-winning novelist with Voodoo Dreams, based on the legend of New Orleans's most famous voodoo priestess, Marie Laveau. Voodoo Season, Rhodes's fourth novel, revisits the mystical landscape of Louisiana, but now, for the first time, the celebrated author of historical fiction presents a mystery set in the here and now. This is the story of Marie Levant, a great-great granddaughter of Marie Laveau and a medical doctor compelled by unseen forces to relocate from Chicago to her family's native home. This is New Orleans, where the slave-holding past merges with the twenty-first century, a place where women of color are still being abused, raped, and -- even more horrifying -- rendered "un-dead," zombie-like Sleeping Beauties. The Quadroon Balls of yesterday are a present reality and only Marie Levant can untangle the medical mystery. A smart modern-day heroine, unafraid of her sexuality, Marie Levant extends the Laveau legacy of spiritual empowerment, prophetic vision, and voodoo possession. Voodoo Season is a fresh and original work of fiction that is a magical womanist tale of mystery and power.
Author | : Larry Niven |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2010-05-11 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1429935359 |
The beginning of a hard sci-fi series, Deam Park is a visionary science fiction classic from Larry Niven and Steven Barnes A group of pretend adventurers suit up for a campaign called "The South Seas Treasure Game." As in the early Role Playing Games, there are Dungeon Masters, warriors, magicians, and thieves. The difference? At Dream Park, a futuristic fantasy theme park full of holographic attractions and the latest in VR technology, they play in an artificial enclosure that has been enhanced with special effects, holograms, actors, and a clever storyline. The players get as close as possible to truly living their adventure. All's fun and games until a Park security guard is murdered, a valuable research property is stolen, and all evidence points to someone inside the game. The park's head of security, Alex Griffin, joins the game to find the killer, but finds new meaning in the games he helps keep alive. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author | : Megan Boudreaux |
Publisher | : HarperChristian + ORM |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2015-01-20 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0529110954 |
"It took months of God waking me up in the middle of the night before I realized I was the one He was calling to leave my comfortable American life and move to Haiti." Miracle on Voodoo Mountain is the inspirational memoir of an accomplished and driven 24-year old who quit her job, sold everything, and moved to Haiti, by herself—all without a clear plan of action. Megan Boudreaux had visited Haiti on a few humanitarian trips but each trip multiplied the sense that someone needed to address the devastation—especially with the children, many of whom were kept as household slaves on the poverty-stricken and earthquake-devastated Caribbean island. God guided her every step as she moved blindly to a foreign land without knowing the language, the people, or the future. From becoming the adoptive mother of former child slaves, to receiving the divine gift of the Haitian Creole language, to starting, building, and running a school for more than 500 children, "the amazingness of what God did after I made the choice to be obedient is incredible," said Megan. Three years later, six acres on Bellevue Mountain in Gressier is the home of the nonprofit Respire Haiti at the former site of voodoo worship, and in the area that many still come to make animal sacrifices, Megan and her staff of nearly 200 are transforming this community as they educate, feed, and address the needs.
Author | : Jewell Parker Rhodes |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2011-04-12 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 143918741X |
In the stunning conclusion to award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes’s mystery trilogy begun in Voodoo Dreams and Moon, Dr. Marie Lavant, descendent of Voodoo queen Marie Laveau, must confront a murderous evil in New Orleans. Dr. Marie Levant aka Leveau, great-great granddaughter of Marie Laveau, has achieved fame and notoriety for saving New Orleans from the wrath of a vampire. Now she’s taking a break from the city, heading up the highway to DeLaire. She doesn’t know this backwater town, but an elderly woman called Nana has been expecting Marie to arrive and save her and others in this God-forsaken place from sickness and death. Yet all of Marie’s powers can’t bring life back to the corpses she finds in a house by the road. Nor can she force those who know how they died to say so or to confess. Were the crimes committed by shape-shifters, vampires, and ghosts—or by living men and women? And even as Marie searches for answers, a hurricane threatens to break the levees of Louisiana and cause unimaginable destruction. Jewell Parker Rhodes blends magic and man-made evil and weaves New Orleans’s past and present into a spine-tingling mystery that is masterfully crafted and deeply haunting.
Author | : Kathleen Charlotte |
Publisher | : Llewellyn Worldwide |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 0738709948 |
A perfect blend of practical magic and inspiring, down-to-earth advice, this one-of-a-kind book includes magic rituals, charms, aphrodisiacs, and spells, as well as helpful relationship tips regarding communication, self-esteem, intimacy, sex, breakups, and forgiveness--written by a relationship counselor and voodoo initiate.
Author | : Talia Felix |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 46 |
Release | : 2016-04-30 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781532991424 |
In this simple, compact booklet you'll find the traditional hoodoo techniques for knowing the future by dreams, discovering lucky numbers, and the true methods that have succeeded in gaining occult knowledge.
Author | : Larry Niven |
Publisher | : Del Rey |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Dream Park, the ultimate in amusement parks, was about to embark on the greatest Game ever: the California Voodoo Game. Across the world bets were being placed; fortunes and reputations hung in the balance. Gaming careers would be made--or destroyed. And the most advanced software package ever invented was going to be tested. But one of the players was a murderer--and worse. Only Alex Griffin, head of Dream Park Security, and Game Master Tony McWhirter guessed the extent of the treachery tainting the Game. Somehow, they had to catch the killer--but above all, the Game must go on....
Author | : Brandon Massey |
Publisher | : Dafina Books |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780758207531 |
A collection of short fiction explores the dark imaginations and experiences of the human mind in tales of horror and duspense by Zane, Tanarive Due, Stephen Barnes, Robert Fleming, and other African-American authors.