Jill Gregory

Karen Tintori

This historical suspense thriller, a classic battle of good and evil, mines ancient history and the secrets of the Kabbala. The Zohar claims that the Book of Names, an operating manual for creation, does exist. The Gnoseos, a group of people that want to get rid of mankind and to remake the world are desperately trying to get hold of the Book of Names. But one man stands in their way: David Shepard, a professor who has been haunted by the sacred names in the book since a near-death experience as a child. He must find the book before the Gnoseos do in order to save mankind.

The Book of Names

Having received a mysterious necklace with an evil eye pendant from her sister, museum curator Natalie is shocked by her sister's subsequent murder and pursues a suspicion that the necklace is somehow involved, in a case that draws her into an international battle between powerful religious factions. 30,000 first printing.

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The Illumination

Within each generation, there are thirty-six righteous souls. Their lives hold the key to the fate of the world. Now someone wants them dead. When a childhood tragedy comes back to haunt Professor David Shepherd, he finds himself in possession of knowledge that holds the world in a delicate balance. He uncovers the Book of Names---an ancient text originating with the biblical Adam, and thought lost to history forever. By Kabbalistic tradition, the book contains the names of each generation's thirty-six righteous souls---the Hidden Ones---by whose merits alone the world continues to exist. Legend holds that if all thirty-six Hidden Ones were eliminated, the world would meet its end. When the Hidden Ones start dying of unnatural causes, the world grows increasingly unstable: war in Afghanistan, massive flooding in New York, brutal terrorist attacks in Melbourne, a tanker explosion in Iran. David finds himself battling against the Gnoseos, a secret religious sect whose goal is to destroy the world by eliminating all of the righteous souls. David's involvement quickly turns personal when his stepdaughter's name is discovered to be one of the endangered. With the help of a brilliant and beautiful Israeli ancient texts expert, David races to decipher the traditions of the Kabbalah to save the righteous souls, his stepdaughter, and perhaps the world.

Discovering an ancient text that reveals for every generation thirty-six secret individuals whose lives affect the fate of the world, professor David Shepherd is horrified to learn that all but three of the current generation's Hidden Ones have met unnatural deaths that sparked brutal wars and terror attacks. Reprint.

The granddaughter of a survivor recounts the tragedy that killed 259 miners, describing the fire that devastated a coal mine in Cherry, Illinois, the trial that followed, and the implications for workers' compensation laws.

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