Cursed at birth, the beautiful and ruthless young Erzebet becomes obsessed with achieving eternal youth and begins to bathe in the blood of virgin girls in order to preserve her beauty. Based on the life of the "Blood Countess," who lived in Hungary in the 1500s.

Erzebet is young, beautiful, rich, and imprisoned in her castle, waiting to be sentenced for murder. In a brilliant fiction debut, Alisa M. Libby resurrects the real-life Erzebet Bathory, a seventeenth-century countess who believed that bathing in human blood would preserve her looks forever. The jailed countess tells her story from her birth, which was overshadowed by a bad omen, to her mother's mental deterioration, Erzebet's own love for a mysterious figure, and the crimes she committed in pursuit of eternal life. This gripping novel combines gothic horror and romance as it explores the connection between beauty and power.

Not control his amorous and pugilistic inclinations and so left for the West. According to his "Confession," he seduced countless women in the U.S. and Mexico, never missed a fandango, fought gallantly against Mexican guerrillas, and rode with the 1st Dragoons into the Battle of Buena Vista. His remarkable story is pure melodrama; but Goetzmann has proven by his painstaking research that much of it is true. In extensive annotation, the editor has been able to separate.

School teacher Vincent Vespers accepts an offer he can't really refuse--to help mafia boss Carmine Tucci write his memoirs from his deathbed. But hell is about to break loose, and Vepers gets trapped in its searing center. "Engaging and impressive".--Publishers Weekly. Optioned for film by Larry Bresner, producer of Dead Poets Society.

"The Art of Confession tells the history of this cultural shift and of the movement it created in American art: confessionalism. Like realism or romanticism, confessionalism began in one art form, but soon pervaded them all: poetry and comedy in the 1950s and '60s, performance art in the '70s, theater in the '80s, television in the '90s, and online video and social media in the 2000s. Everywhere confessionalism went, it stood against autobiography, the art of the closed book. Instead of just publishing, these artists performed--with, around, and against the text of their lives." --

Confession is a word we have heard often but not truly had a biblical understanding of it. Confession has been associated with religion where we confess our sin or has been likened to a declaration. Brother Gery Malanda (Apostle and Leader of House Of Prayer For All Nations-Europe and Teacher on TBN’s Voice of Healing UK) gives a biblical teaching on what is confession. He explores what the bible teaches on confession of sin and the power of the blood of Jesus in cleaning ALL sins. Brother Gery highlights the power of exposing the works of darkness by confessing our secret sin using biblical examples as well as sharing from his own personal experiences. Through the word of God, he demystifies what God meant in forgiving of sin. In this book, he presents the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross as a salvation package that provides for our salvation, healing, deliverance and prosperity. Finally, Brother Gery explores the importance of confessing the word of God in one’s life highlighting it’s advantages. The three components that are involved in a true confession and the power of the tongue in framing the world around you. Through this succinct teaching Brother Gery demonstrates the importance of thinking as God thinks, saying only what God is saying and doing only what is doing according to His word in transforming yourself and the world around you.