Jacob: 2030 books

A biting, tragicomic fable for our neurotic times, The Doorposts of Your House and on Your Gates conquers Tolstoy’s adage that "every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." Is there any father worse than Abraham? Are there any unhappier families than the first family of Genesis? In...

Goat has always dreamed of having his very own space. But Goat lives in a petting zoo, surrounded by hugs and rubs and grabby little hands. Determined to find his perfect alone space, Goat escapes into the big zoo. But space is not an easy thing to find, in this humorous picture book from Jacob Grant, Through with the Zoo.

The Yom Kippur War pitted Israel against Syria in the north and Egypt in the south in October 1973. Caught by surprise and surrounded by enemies, Israel relied on the flexibility and creative thinking of its senior field commanders. After Israeli forces halted the Egyptian troops on the Sinai Peninsula,...

In het machtsvacuüm na de Japanse bezetting roept Soekarno in 1945 de Republiek Indonesië uit, waarna zijn pemoeda's, met bamboesperen gewapende jonge heethoofden, onder hun strijdkreet Merdeka! (vrijheid) een slachting aanrichten onder Indische Nederlanders. Nederland stuurt 120.000 militairen...

An engrossing meditation on the meaning of faith, Sarah/Sara is the story of a young Orthodox Jewish woman who undertakes a solo kayaking journey across the Arctic Ocean after her parents are killed and she is disfigured by a terrorist bomb in a Jerusalem café. Haunted by her parents' death, and...

A once close-knit family of four is reunited after a long period of estrangement. This time, this time, it must go right. In this touching and comic drama, Stephanie Jacob delves into the turmoil, love and compromises of kinship. Again resets the clock on one family’s history as Tom and Louise...

Königs Erläuterung zu Hans Jacob Christoph von Grimmelshausen: Der abenteuerliche Simplicissimus. - Textanalyse und Interpretation mit ausführlicher Inhaltsangabe und Abituraufgaben. In einem Band bieten dir die neuen Königs Erläuterungen alles, was du zur Vorbereitung auf Referat, Klausur, Abitur...

Zorami is the first historical fiction written by a Mizo writer in English. The novel brings together different strands like the transformation of Mizo identity and culture through 'Christianisation' and the clash between Mizo culture and that sought to be imposed by a domineering subcontinent. Such...

People have been pouring into the city for months. Now it's surrounded by invading armies. Cadiz is the last holdout of an inevitable invasion. As queen, Sarah suspects the end is near, but then as all hope seems lost she encounters someone. Someone whose survival is more important than her city. Who is this person and how could they possibly get out of Cadiz?

Roman hordes gather near the Great Wall. Joshua and his people have allied with the Amazons to ensure the safety of the wall. However, they've sent in an undercover team into the Roman camp to obtain special info. From the wall they track the team's movements until...something deadly happens.

This collection of short stories from new author Jacob Fike includes five gripping tales from the genres of Fantasy, Horror, and Science Fiction. In the main piece, Danger Off Castragas, the Captain Eriloc Roth defends his ship from bloodthirsty pirates. In The Cardinal, a distraught commander finds...

Son, Husband, Father, War Hero, President of the United StatesAt 12:30 p.m. on November 22, 1963, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was assassinated. More than half a century has passed since that fateful moment, yet so many questions remain unanswered. Lone gunman? Conspiracy? And then there is that...

The quest to have a child drove Elvis and his mother Eunice into the hands of fraudsters. Adanna was surpose to be the loser. However, her only weapon was her husband’s wedding ring. How can a woman save her marriage with only a wedding ring? Find out in this breath taking drama.

His second book of poetry, Hunt/Gather confronts the difficulties of growing up rurally poor, imagines a funeral service for the Devil, and features a few poetic forms as well as the expansive free verse Mays is known for. Jacob Mays is a graduate of the Creative Writing: Poetry program of Columbia College Chicago. He lives in Pittsburgh and is a curator at The Night Gallery.