by Paula Fox (2005)
The author describes her movements across Europe's scrambled post-war borders--trips to empty castles and ruined cathedrals, a stint in bombed out Warsaw in the midst of the Communist takeover, and nights spent in apartments with distant relatives, friends of friends, and in shabby pensions with little heat, each place echoing with the horrors of war.
Paula Fox
The author describes her movements across Europe's scrambled post-war borders--trips to empty castles and ruined cathedrals, a stint in bombed out Warsaw in the midst of the Communist takeover, and nights spent in apartments with distant relatives, friends of friends, and in shabby pensions with little heat, each place echoing with the horrors of war.
Jewell Parker Rhodes
"En Louisiane, tout le monde croit aux esprits. Lanesha, elle, a le don de les voir. "Tu es comme moi, ma chérie, tu as un don de double vue ", lui a expliqué Mama Ya-Ya, la sage-femme qui l'a recueillie à sa naissance. Mama Ya-Ya savait qu'un ouragan approchait, bien avant que la radio et la télévision n'en parlent. Les dégâts seront incommensurables, répète le présentateur. Tous les habitants de La Nouvelle-Orléans doivent quitter la ville. Mama Ya-Ya est très âgée, et ne possède pas de voiture, alors Lanesha a fait des provisions d'eau et de nourriture, et a cloué des planches sur les fenêtres. Elle ne sait pas ce qui l'attend, mais elle se prépare de toutes ses forces à survivre. Avec TaShon, le fils des voisins, avec le chien Spot, qu'ils viennent d'adopter ensemble. Avec le fantôme silencieux de sa mère, qui est venu pour l'aider. Avec l'amour de Mama Ya-Ya, qui est incommensurable."--
Roger J. Morneau
"Face it, Morneau, you're not your own master. I wish you were, but you're not. The spirits own you in your entirety, and the sooner you acknowledge that,… The better off you'll be." Roland began pacing the floor, wringing his hands. "What I'm about to say to you I'd rather tell my enemies, instead of a longtime friend." By then Roland was perspiring profusely, although it wasn't warm in the room. "Your days are numbered––along with those of the young couple responsible for leading you away from the master. "Come with me to see the high priest right now. He will restore you to the spirits favor, and all will be well. This way no one gets hurt." Roland again had to pause for a couple of seconds to use his handkerchief. "One thing in particular the high priest wants you to realize––no one has ever gotten out of our secret society alive. The spirits brought you and me into it, were to be in subjection to them, not they to us." The experiences and questions of childhood in wartime had turned Roger Morneau away from God until he hated him. After the war a friend led Roger into demon worship. Then Morneau discover the good news of a loving God and wanted to break away from devil worship. But could he? Here is Roger Morneau's own story of divine rescue from the terrifying world of Satanism.
Anya Parrish
After their bus crashes while on a school field trip, fifteen-year-old Dani and seventeen-year-old Jesse discover that for years they have both been stalked by unexplainable and evil beings trying to harm them, and their further investigations reveal the depth of the horrors they continue to experience.