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Shadow Over Siri

Author : John S. Digianni
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781477459157
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (591 download)

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Download or read book Shadow Over Siri written by John S. Digianni and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dreams can come true. So can nightmares - and no one knows that better than Siri Braddock. Siri has just moved to Wicks End in Salem, Massachusetts. Wicks End is not your average street, and Siri Braddock is not your average teenage girl. She's more curious than most, and the stuff her dreams are made of put her on the trail of Salem's deepest, darkest mystery. Haunted ruins and graveyard stakeouts are all part of Siri's weird, new life on Wicks End. Something strange is happening in Salem. Young people are disappearing, including Siri's best friend, Mallory. A bizarre group has flown into town, and not on planes! In an attic trunk Siri finds an old dress with a mysterious parchment sewn into the hem. What in the world does a dress have to do with stolen Egyptian mummies, a gallows curse, and a haunted insane asylum? Siri is determined to find out! Salem's notorious past reaches out for Siri when a strange, young man sees in her a clue to a three hundred year old puzzle. He's closer than Siri thinks, as close as her own shadow. Wicks End is not average. Neither is Siri's shadow, the one with the glowing green eyes that follows her around. Whoever or whatever he is, he's after the same thing she's after. Somehow Siri needs to find out why she's being followed and how Salem's hidden world of dark secrets ties in with her strange, new life on Wicks End.

In the Shadow of the Light

Author : Todd A. Gipstein
Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN 13 : 145753956X
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (575 download)

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Download or read book In the Shadow of the Light written by Todd A. Gipstein and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-11 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “1:45 am. I’m at the top of the basement stairs. They are very steep. Painted a blood red. There are seven steps down and then they take a sharp turn to the right. I can’t see any further. I can hear the hum of the high voltage transformer. Here I go. Everett Line Fine heads down the rabbit hole. Maybe into Dante’s inferno.” A paranormal investigator spends the night on Ledge Lighthouse and goes mad. Years later, a writer discovers his field kit and decides to unravel the mystery of what really happened. Did the investigator encounter the ghost of "Ernie," who legend says haunts the light? Or did he succumb to the fear created by demons of his own design? To find out, the writer explores the story and spends a night alone on the lighthouse, where the shadows hold secrets. This journey into the darkest realms of the paranormal, the human mind, and the lighthouse itself is one where dreams become real and reality becomes a dream. Keep the lights on and an eye on the shadows as you read this this psycholical thriller written by Todd Gipstein, president of the Ledge Light Foundation, a group restoring this unique lighthouse off the coast of New London, Connecticut.

Zones of Focused Ambiguity in Siri Hustvedt’s Works

Author : Johanna Hartmann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110407760
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Zones of Focused Ambiguity in Siri Hustvedt’s Works written by Johanna Hartmann and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-05-10 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection comprises essays from various interdisciplinary perspectives – e.g. literary scholarship, intermediality, art history, psychoanalysis, philosophy, and medicine – to analyze and interpret the fictional and non-fictional works by Siri Hustvedt, an author whose reputation and public presence have been growing steadily in the 21st century and who is recognized as one of the most widely read and appreciated contemporary American writers. In her significance and stature as a public intellectual, she is not merely an American writer but a transnational, cosmopolitan author, who develops new forms not only of literary narrative but of interdisciplinary thought and writing, bringing together otherwise separated genres and branches of knowledge in a broad spectrum between literature and philosophy, historiography and art, psychoanalysis and neuroscience, narrative and medicine. The present volume is structured into the parts “Literary Creation and Communication,” Psychoanalysis and Philosophy,” “Medicine and Narrative,” “Vision, Perception, and Power,” and “Trauma, Memory, and the Ambiguities of Self” and closes with an interview of Siri Hustvedt by Susanne Becker in which Hustvedt elucidates her personal conception of her own creative processes of writing.

In the Shadow of Ram

Author : Namratha Mogaral
Publisher : Readworthy Publications
ISBN 13 : 9350184362
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book In the Shadow of Ram written by Namratha Mogaral and published by Readworthy Publications. This book was released on with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that the inscription found in the now extinct Babri masjid should be named as Visnu-hare instead of Visnu-hari since this title does not refer to any god but to the three Gahadavala rajas who had it made. It also challenges that the Sanskrit phrase janma bhumi which sparked the Ram debate around the inscription means birth place suggesting that in this language jan means folk rather, referring to Ayodhya as land of folk. The Gahadavala temple there had been renovated from an earlier Chola temple at the spot. It was dedicated to goddess Sri Sundara Amman, the Telugu Jaina goddess of beauty & art and devadasi cult. Further it proposes that the Gahadavala kings during the time of the inscription circa lOth century CE had become intermarried for three generations into the Ghaznavid and Suri-Shahi families who ruled Samarkhand and the Sindh provinces and formed an international elite. The Babri masjid dedicated to sambo shankara and a whole series of masjid- temple complexes at Kashi, Mathura, Prabhasa and elsewhere were the outcome of these interfaith marriages. During the time of the Gahadavala heir Vallabha, who took the title Prithviraj Chauhan Karpura and who had married none other than Padmavati the princess of Sri Lanka, the temples must have become extinct due to Bhakti ages' sectarian politics on the Hindu side, as all these temples had been dedicated to devadasi practice.

The All-Night Sun

Author : Diane Zinna
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 1984854186
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book The All-Night Sun written by Diane Zinna and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lonely young woman gets too close to her charismatic female student in this propulsive debut, culminating in a dangerously debauched Midsommar’s Eve. LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE AND THE VCU CABELL FIRST NOVELIST AWARD • “Memorable and meaningful.”—Claire Messud, New York Times bestselling author of The Burning Girl Lauren Cress teaches writing at a small college outside of Washington, DC. In the classroom, she is poised, smart, and kind, well liked by her students and colleagues. But in her personal life, Lauren is troubled and isolated, still grappling with the sudden death of her parents ten years earlier. She seems to exist at a remove from everyone around her until a new student joins her class: charming, magnetic Siri, who appears to be everything Lauren wishes she could be. They fall headlong into an all-consuming friendship that makes Lauren feel as though she is reclaiming her lost adolescence. When Siri invites her on a trip home to Sweden for the summer, Lauren impulsively accepts, intrigued by how Siri describes it: green, fresh, and new, everything just thawing out. But once there, Lauren finds herself drawn to Siri’s enigmatic, brooding brother, Magnus. Siri is resentful, and Lauren starts to see a new side of her friend: selfish, reckless, self-destructive, even cruel. On their last night together, Lauren accompanies Siri and her friends on a seaside camping trip to celebrate Midsommar’s Eve, a night when no one sleeps, boundaries blur, and under the light of the unsetting sun, things take a dark turn. Ultimately, Lauren must acknowledge the truth of what happened with Siri and come to terms with her own tragic past in this gorgeously written, deeply felt debut about the transformative relationships that often come to us when things feel darkest. Praise for The All-Night Sun “Inventive and luminous . . . Zinna’s intimate debut dazzles with original language, emotional sentience, and Swedish folklore as it plumbs the depths of grief, loss, and friendship . . . Zinna reaches an inspired emotional depth that, as the title signifies, never stops blazing.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

In the Shadow of the Dragon's Back

Author : Rachel Odhner Longstaff
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1683150120
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (831 download)

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Download or read book In the Shadow of the Dragon's Back written by Rachel Odhner Longstaff and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-08-02 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is the story of a young American girl living in South Africa during the early years of Apartheid (1948-1960). One of six children of a Swedenborgian minister who was sent to South Africa to establish a theological school for Africans, the author reaches back into this unique time and place in an effort to rediscover the culture that influenced her own adult attitudes. Rather than following a strictly chronological format, the story is laid out in a series of verbal snapshots, supported by photographs. Family life, experienced through the eyes of a child living in a complex environment, contrasts with the lives of those who were impacted by the institutionalized racism of apartheid. Examples of the Acts of Apartheid at the end of each chapter include news articles, interviews, and commentary. Deep childhood fears of some unnamed threat are represented by home invasions, wildfires, and the cry of a hyena in the mountains. The mountains are dangerous, they present a great barrier, but they can be conquered. After returning permanently to America as a teenager¿through a confusing and sometimes painful process of discussion and observation¿the author uncovers those artifacts of the past that inform her place in the world today.

Prayers to Broken Stones

Author : Dan Simmons
Publisher : Spectra
ISBN 13 : 0307781879
Total Pages : 493 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Prayers to Broken Stones written by Dan Simmons and published by Spectra. This book was released on 2011-04-13 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a ghostly Civil War battlefield to a combat theme park in Vietnam, from the omnipotent brain of an autistic boy to a shocking story of psychic vampires, journey into a world of fear and mystery, a chilling twilight zone of the mind. A woman returns from the dead with disastrous results for the family who loves her. . . . An old-fashioned barbershop is the site of a medieval ritual of bloody terror. . . . During a post-apocalyptic Christmas celebration, a messenger from the South brings tidings of great horror. . . . Includes the following stories: “The River Styx Runs Upstream” “Eyes I Dare Not Meet in Dreams” “Vanni Fucci Is Alive and Well and Living in Hell” “Vexed to Nightmare by a Rocking Cradle” “Remembering Siri” “Metastasis” “The Offering” “E-Ticket to 'Namland” “Iverson's Pits” “Shave and a Haircut, Two Bites” “The Death of the Centaur” “Two Minutes and Forty-Five Seconds” “Carrion Comfort”

The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle

Author : Dan Simmons
Publisher : Spectra
ISBN 13 : 080418058X
Total Pages : 2950 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle written by Dan Simmons and published by Spectra. This book was released on 2014-08-05 with total page 2950 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed as “one of the finest achievements of modern science fiction” by The New York Times Book Review, The Hyperion Cantos is a triumphant odyssey into the heart of space and time. Through four riveting novels, Dan Simmons masterfully weaves such influences as classical mythology, romantic poetry, and far-future philosophy into an ambitiously conceived and unfailingly entertaining epic. Now, for the first time, this entire masterpiece of the imagination is available in one extraordinary eBook bundle: HYPERION THE FALL OF HYPERION ENDYMION THE RISE OF ENDYMION On the planet Hyperion, beyond the reach of galactic law, waits a creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it. And there are those who have vowed to destroy it. On the eve of Armageddon, with the known universe at war, seven pilgrims set forth on a final voyage to Hyperion seeking the answers to the unsolved riddles of existence. As the Shrike anticipates their mission, each traveler nurtures a desperate hope—and harbors a terrible secret. And one may hold the fate of humanity in his or her hands. Praise for The Hyperion Cantos “For vastness of scope, clarity of detail and seriousness of purpose, Simmons’s epic narrative is on a par with Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series, Frank Herbert’s Dune books, Gene Wolfe’s multipart Book of the New Sun and Brian Aldiss’s Helliconia trilogy.”—The New York Times Book Review “Dan Simmons has brilliantly conceptualized a future 700 years distant. In sheer scope and complexity it matches, and perhaps even surpasses, those of Isaac Asimov and James Blish.”—The Washington Post Book World “State of the art science fiction . . . This work will be that against which all future works will have to be measured, in the same way, in their time, that Asimov’s Foundation series and Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness set new standards.”—Asimov’s “Simmons’ own genius transforms space opera into a new kind of poetry.”—The Denver Post “A major work . . . Simmons doesn’t just promise; he delivers.”—Science Fiction Chronicle

Bitter Angels

Author : C. L. Anderson
Publisher : Spectra
ISBN 13 : 0553906712
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (539 download)

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Download or read book Bitter Angels written by C. L. Anderson and published by Spectra. This book was released on 2009-08-25 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Imploding Star System. A Murdered Galactic Spy. A Woman Seeking the Truth—and Finding the Unbelievable… The Erasmus System is a sprawling realm of slavery, smugglers, spies—and constant, creeping decrepitude. Here everyone who is not part of the ruling Four Families is a slave of one kind or another. But the Guardians, a special-forces branch inside the United World Government for Earth, have deemed Erasmus a “hot spot.” Somehow, it is believed, this failing colony intends to launch a war upon the solar system. Ex-Field Commander Terese Drajeske, now a mother of three, has been called back to active duty and sent to Erasmus, ostensibly to investigate the murder of her colleague—and friend—Bianca Fayette. At first blush, the death defies explanation: Bianca was immortal. But beneath that single murder lies a twisted foundation of deceptions. Suddenly Terese is plunged into a vortex of shattered lives, endemic deceit, and one dreadful secret. In this society without hope, someone has put into motion a plan that will cast humanity into chaos. And Terese, who has given up her family and her sanity to prevent war, may be asked to make the ultimate sacrifice….

Englishwoman in Francen

Author : Wendy Robertson
Publisher : Severn House Publishers Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1780103379
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Englishwoman in Francen written by Wendy Robertson and published by Severn House Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An absorbing paranormal novel - Stella is pretty relaxed about her gift of second sight, but her happy-go-lucky attitude to her gift screeches to a halt when Siri, her twelve-year-old daughter, is savagely murdered and Stella can find her daughter nowhere, in this world or the next. Then, in the old French town of Agde, she meets Louis, a clever, mysterious man, and a young boy who is always near him. These two lead her to a new place and a time where her search for Siri takes on a new meaning.

Drawn Blades

Author : Kelly McCullough
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101638222
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Drawn Blades written by Kelly McCullough and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aral Kingslayer's past is never more than a shadow's breadth away in this Fallen Blade novel from Kelly McCullough. Once one of the world’s greatest assassins, Aral Kingslayer has finally reclaimed his swords and his soul. But the forces that destroyed his patron Namara twelve years ago are still there, waiting... In the days before the fall of his goddess, only one other rivaled Aral’s skills, Siri the Mythkiller—a woman who ruthlessly earned the title First Blade. As a friend, Aral owes her his loyalty. As a former lover, he owes her part of his heart. As a Blade, he owes her anything she asks, including his life. When Siri seeks Aral’s aid, he knows he must go. But as they journey towards the ancient Sylvani Empire, only time will reveal whether Aral can save the former First Blade, or if he will simply fall with her…

The Universal Library

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 634 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Universal Library written by and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Magickal Tale

Author : Midas Sienna
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book A Magickal Tale written by Midas Sienna and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2023-12-05 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes when you want desperately to wake from a dream, you are reminded that it is in fact reality. Magick is something we're taught to forget as we morph into the lost adults we become through the raging sea of reality. If magick through warped perception damages the balance, who is responsible? He who commits the deed, or the devil on his shoulder? Are the two even mutually exclusive? Through centuries of shades of gray, an ordinary modern girl finds herself at the behest of a prophecy that dares not slow down for her own adjustment. Vikings knock on the door of her family's mausoleum, threading the line between salvation and destruction. But what if something has to be destroyed so the world may be saved? Will she rise like the phoenix or become a casualty like her parents before her?

A Companion to Modern Art

Author : Pam Meecham
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118639847
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (186 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Modern Art written by Pam Meecham and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Modern Art presents a series of original essays by international and interdisciplinary authors who offer a comprehensive overview of the origins and evolution of artistic works, movements, approaches, influences, and legacies of Modern Art. Presents a contemporary debate and dialogue rather than a seamless consensus on Modern Art Aims for reader accessibility by highlighting a plurality of approaches and voices in the field Presents Modern Art’s foundational philosophic ideas and practices, as well as the complexities of key artists such as Cezanne and Picasso, and those who straddled the modern and contemporary Looks at the historical reception of Modern Art, in addition to the latest insights of art historians, curators, and critics to artists, educators, and more

The Country in the City

Author : Richard A. Walker
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295989734
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (959 download)

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Download or read book The Country in the City written by Richard A. Walker and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2009-11-23 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Western History Association's 2009 Hal K. Rothman Award Finalist in the Western Writers of America Spur Award for the Western Nonfiction Contemporary category (2008). The San Francisco Bay Area is one of the world's most beautiful cities. Despite a population of 7 million people, it is more greensward than asphalt jungle, more open space than hardscape. A vast quilt of countryside is tucked into the folds of the metropolis, stitched from fields, farms and woodlands, mines, creeks, and wetlands. In The Country in the City, Richard Walker tells the story of how the jigsaw geography of this greenbelt has been set into place. The Bay Area’s civic landscape has been fought over acre by acre, an arduous process requiring popular mobilization, political will, and hard work. Its most cherished environments--Mount Tamalpais, Napa Valley, San Francisco Bay, Point Reyes, Mount Diablo, the Pacific coast--have engendered some of the fiercest environmental battles in the country and have made the region a leader in green ideas and organizations. This book tells how the Bay Area got its green grove: from the stirrings of conservation in the time of John Muir to origins of the recreational parks and coastal preserves in the early twentieth century, from the fight to stop bay fill and control suburban growth after the Second World War to securing conservation easements and stopping toxic pollution in our times. Here, modern environmentalism first became a mass political movement in the 1960s, with the sudden blooming of the Sierra Club and Save the Bay, and it remains a global center of environmentalism to this day. Green values have been a pillar of Bay Area life and politics for more than a century. It is an environmentalism grounded in local places and personal concerns, close to the heart of the city. Yet this vision of what a city should be has always been informed by liberal, even utopian, ideas of nature, planning, government, and democracy. In the end, green is one of the primary colors in the flag of the Left Coast, where green enthusiasms, like open space, are built into the fabric of urban life. Written in a lively and accessible style, The Country in the City will be of interest to general readers and environmental activists. At the same time, it speaks to fundamental debates in environmental history, urban planning, and geography.

Thirty-Three Teeth

Author : Colin Cotterill
Publisher : Soho Press
ISBN 13 : 1616959924
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (169 download)

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Download or read book Thirty-Three Teeth written by Colin Cotterill and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2017-11-14 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Siri Paiboun, one of the last doctors left in Laos after the Communist takeover, has been drafted to be national coroner. He is untrained for the job, but this independent seventy-two-year-old has an outstanding qualification for the role: curiosity. And he does not mind incurring the wrath of the party’s hierarchy as he unravels mysterious murders, because the spirits of the dead are on his side—and a little too close for comfort. Dr. Siri performs autopsies and begins to solve the mysteries relating to a series of deaths by what seem to be bear bites, to explain why a government official ran at full speed through a seventh-story window and fell to his death, and to discover the origins of the two charred bodies from the crashed helicopter in the temple at Luang Prabang. As it turns out, not surprisingly, not all is peaceful and calm in the new Communist paradise of Laos.

Heirs of the Fisherman

Author : John-Peter Pham
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195346351
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Heirs of the Fisherman written by John-Peter Pham and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-11-30 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The death of Pope John Paul II and consequent election of Pope Benedict XVI has shed light on a political process that the world has not been privy to for almost twenty-six years. People from around the world gathered in St. Peter's Square, wondering who the next Vatican leader would be and how the election process really worked, while everyone from international news correspondents to local priests added their own opinions to the debate. In Heirs of the Fisherman, former Vatican insider John-Peter Pham presents a candid portrait of the modern Vatican, the only account to reveal the striking changes to papal succession procedures made by John Paul II. Blending political and ecclesiastical history, Pham goes beyond a mere description of the complex rituals to offer rare insight into the dramatic shifts inside the College of Cardinals, whose 100 members now hail from 50 nations around the globe. He takes us into the secret conclave, where the electors were kept under lock and key, until they had selected a new pope. He also includes a chapter devoted to the intrigues of the 20th century where the first conclave had an emperor's veto and the last was won by the first non-Italian in four centuries becauase the Italians were bitterly divided. With a new Preface, Afterword, and appendices that include an English translation of the last will and testament of Pope John Paul II, Heirs of the Fisherman is an illuminating history and must-have guide to this vitally important world event. It will continue to be an indispensable reference to observers of future Catholic Church politics.