San Antonio, Texas, 1800s: In room 207 at the Longhorn Saloon, in the long shadow of the Alamo, a woman was brutally murdered. Her killer was never found. One year ago: In that same historic room, another woman vanished without a trace. In the past months, San Antonio has become a dumping ground for battered bodies. When Texas Ranger Logan Raintree is approached to lead a group of elite paranormal investigators working the case, he accepts the challenge. And with it, his powerful ability to commune with the dead. In Logan's new team is U.S. Marshal Kelsey O'Brien. Kelsey has been waiting all her life to work with someone who can understand her ability to "see" the past. Now she has her chance. Together, Kelsey and Logan follow their instincts to the Alamo and to the newly reopened Longhorn, which once tempted heroes with drink, cards and women. If the spirits of those long-dead Texans are really appearing to the victims before their deaths, only Kelsey and Logan have the skills to find out why….
Shortlisted for the 2017 International Man Booker Prize • Shortlisted for the 2018 International Dublin Literary Award • "Even by his high standards, his magnificent new novel The Unseen is Jacobsen's finest to date, as blunt as it ...
This is a powerful and gripping novel: a rare evocation of the intensity of commitment, the passion of politics.
Feeling angry and out-of-place in her large family, twelve-year-old Xandra finds a magical key to a world of ghostly, sometimes frightening, phantoms that help her see herself and her siblings more clearly.
“Occult happenings, romantic passion, and murder disrupt the peace of a Berkshire village in 1911 in this hauntingly good novel.” —Marie Claire (UK) Katherine Webb’s debut novel, The Legacy, was an international bestseller—and her ...
Two days later at dusk, a clutch of kids rushes to the eastern side of the ninth floor and squeezes into the room of Kelly Armendariz, a tall, sensitive piano prodigy and math whiz from Carlsbad, New Mexico.
The book is clear and well done, treating many ideas and themes that often go unseen themselves. With this book, such themes will no longer be neglected, so read it and discover a new realm for reflection about what Scripture teaches.
From the New York Times bestselling author of Long Bright River: The moving story of a daughter’s quest to discover the truth about her beloved father’s hidden past.
7 That we so often miss them reveals that we're also missing beauty in His truest form: Jesus. Whether or not we are in a hidden season, whether or not we are in a busy season, we have to pause long enough to look.
I know this, as it has happened to me in the process of completing this book and the development of the processes of Advent5™. Remember, it all begins when you Discover the Unseen…
This book will show you his plans and tactics, and teach you where he is likely to strike next and how to fight him.