Judith Riley Merkle Libros

"En un ambiente medieval de guerra, hambre y maldad, una mujer trata de encontrar a su amado"--Cover.

A 17th century tale of sorcery based on Paris police records. the heroine is Genèvieve Pasquier, a fortune teller who uses her powers to manipulate the liveds of the famous at the court of Louis XIV, the Sun King.

In 1355, Margaret of Ashbury depends on renegade friar Brother Gregory to record her life story and state of Mystic Union, and he is forced to accept the state of grace of this "mere woman"

Set in the treacherous court of Henry VIII, the story follows Susanna Dallet, a widow who becomes a miniature-portrait painter after her husband's murder. As she rises in status and navigates the intrigues surrounding Princess Mary, she discovers an inherited manuscript linked to an ancient mystery. With danger closing in, she partners with Robert Ashton, secretary to Archbishop Wolsey, to confront a sinister society intertwined with supernatural elements. This tale blends action, humor, romance, and suspense in a deadly game of survival.

"Do not neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you through prophecy with the laying of hands by the council of elders" (1Tim. 4:14). Members of the church today can comprehend Paul's sentiment to Timothy. While not all ordained, all baptized Christians have experienced the laying on of hands in baptism. They have been touched by that mysterious mix of charism, initiated into the Body of Christ through the Holy Spirit, as well as launched into life with Christ through the institution of the Church with all its concreteness, ambiguity, sinfulness and goodness. Through the lens of Christian theology, along with the sociology of Max Weber in his study of charism and institution in modern society, Judith A. Merkle analyzes the interaction and tautness between the concept of powerful grace through baptism and the institution in the life of the modern church.Weber asserts that freedom and creativity in modern society only become manifest within social relations. Since these highly valued modern experiences do not exist outside the institutional framework, they exist in tension with the constrictive and creative aspects of the institution. Judith A. Merkle offers the reader perspective on this contemporary experience in the church.

Nostradamus, a ruthless queen, and a young poet find themselves in the fight of their lives...Lady Sibille never goes looking for trouble, but trouble always seems to find her. When she inadvertently becomes the master of an ancient cursed head of Menander the Magus-the Master of All Desires-she suddenly has the power to grant any wish, at a steep price.Queen Catherine de Medici is trying to obtain the power of the Master in order to get rid of her husband's mistress. But she does not understand that the Master is malic itself, twisting the wishes that he grants to bring destruction.But only Nostradamus knows that evil befalls all who wish upon this accursed object. Can he stop these determined women before they unwittingly destroy the entire kingdom of France?

Im Paris des 16. Jahrhunderts blüht das Geschäft der Wahrsager und Horoskop-Ersteller, der Alchimisten und Giftmischer. Auch Katharina von Medici, die Gemahlin König Heinrichs II., hat sich der schwarzen Magie verschrieben, um ihrer erbitterten Rivalin, der Mätresse des Königs, endlich die Macht zu entreißen. Helfen soll ihr dabei eine zauberkräftige Schatulle. Durch Zufall jedoch gerät diese in die Hände der jungen Dichterin Sibille, die nicht um die unheimliche Kraft des Kästchens weiß. Bald fühlt sich Sibille verfolgt, und ein mysteriöses Ereignis jagt das nächste. Einzig der Prophet Nostradamus ahnt, wie er weiteres Unheil verhindern kann. Und er spürt, daß Sibilles Horoskop ein Geheimnis birgt, das den Fluch der Schatulle zu brechen vermag...

SPISEK NAJZUCHWALSZYCH KOBIET W PARYŻU, WRÓŻBITÓW, CZAROWNIC, TRUCICIELI Akcja powieści rozgrywa się w siedemnastowiecznym Paryżu, a jej fabuła oparta jest na dokumentach sądowych ze śledztwa, które prowadzono po aresztowaniu zawodowej wiedźmy i trucicielki, Marie Bosse. Dochodzenie ujawniło istnienie potężnej tajnej organizacji płatnych morderczyń, na której czele stała Katarzyna Montvoisin, wróżka wyższych sfer. Kiedy Ludwik XIV dowiedział się, iż jego kochanka, markiza de Montespan, kupowała od paryskich wiedźm zaklęcia, afrodyzjaki i trucizny, zatuszował sprawę i śledztwo przerwano. Powieść rozpoczyna się w okresie, gdy ta niezwykła kobieca 'mafia' znajduje się u szczytu władzy. Zawiązany zostaje wówczas spisek, w którym idzie o życie króla.