The Trumpets

The final book of the Bible, Revelation prophesies the ultimate judgement of mankind in a series of allegorical visions, grisly images and numerological predictions. According to these, empires will fall, the "Beast" will be destroyed and Christ will rule a new Jerusalem. With an introduction by Will Self.

Just as the Trumpets, summer creatures who live in a world of warmth and sunshine, prepare to hibernate, the Grumpets, winter creatures who live in the dark, frozen mountains of the north prepare to take over their land.

Have you ever wondered why so many prophecies of the bible are couched in a veil of mystery? The answer is that they were not meant to be revealed until a specific time in history. There are subtle biblical hints that point us to a time when the Antichrist walks among men. It is at this predetermined moment in history that the biblical mysteries that have intrigued and perplexed mankind are to be unraveled. The moment of revelation is at hand ... I present to you a novel that not only details the apocalyptic, cataclysmic, wonderous, and unimaginable events of biblical prophecy, but pinpoints the exact date of each of these events. Have you ever wondered when Jesus was born or the actual date of his crucifixion? Have you pondered the number 666, the number of the beast, and thought when will this Antichrist come to power? Do you expectantly await the prophesized return of Jesus? Well, wait no more, for ‘The Trumpets’ contain the answer to all of these questions, and many more. ‘The Trumpets’ is a divinely inspired tale. It is not for the faint of heart, for it foretells of a future rife with disasters beyond anything that humanity has encountered.

For Aric Afton, the campus culture becomes increasingly hostile, and an incident threatens his future. But have his accusers gone too far? Adam Afton wants to feel right at home . . . in more ways than one. Although reunited with his family, he realizes that his life is missing an “old friend.” As the world spins into increasing craziness, the old saying, “Be careful what you pray for” has never been truer. From record drought to record rains and snow, southern California now faces its ultimate challenge. And they say that as California goes, so goes the nation. Yet, as Los Angeles goes dark and a new threat arises, a miracle proves that God is still in control.

This fierce fable of childbirth by German Surrealist Unica Zürn was written after she had already given birth to two children and undergone the self-induced abortion of another in Berlin in the 1950s. Beginning in the relatively straightforward, if disturbing, narrative of a young woman in a tower (with a bat in her hair and ravens for company) engaged in a psychic war with the parasitic son in her belly, The Trumpets of Jericho dissolves into a beautiful nightmare of hypnotic obsession and mythical language, stitched together with anagrams and private ruminations. Arguably Zürn's most extreme experiment in prose, and never before translated into English, this novella dramatizes the frontiers of the body--its defensive walls as well as its cavities and thresholds--animating a harrowing and painfully, twistedly honest depiction of motherhood as a breakdown in the distinction between self and other, transposed into the language of darkest fairy tales. Unica Zürn (1916-70) was born in Grünewald, Germany. Toward the end of World War II, she discovered the realities of the Nazi concentration camps--a revelation which was to haunt and unsettle her for the rest of her life. After meeting Hans Bellmer in 1953, she followed him to Paris, where she became acquainted with the Surrealists and developed the body of drawings and writings for which she is best remembered: a series of anagram poems, hallucinatory accounts and literary enactments of the mental breakdowns from which she would suffer until her suicide in 1970.

Stemming from the tradition of rallying troops and frightening enemies, mounted bands played a unique and distinctive role in American military history. Their fascinating story within the U.S. Army unfolds in this latest book from noted music historian and former army musician Bruce P. Gleason. Sound the Trumpet, Beat the Drums follows American horse-mounted bands from the nation's military infancy through its emergence as a world power during World War II and the corresponding shift from horse-powered to mechanized cavalry. Gleason traces these bands to their origins, including the horn-blowing Celtic and Roman cavalries of antiquity and the mounted Middle Eastern musicians whom European Crusaders encountered in the Holy Land. He describes the performance, musical selections, composition, and duties of American mounted bands that have served regular, militia, volunteer, and National Guard regiments in military and civil parades and concerts, in ceremonies, and on the battlefield. Over time the composition of the bands has changed—beginning with trumpets and drums and expanding to full-fledged concert bands on horseback. Woven throughout the book are often-surprising strands of American military history from the War of 1812 through the Civil War, action on the western frontier, and the two world wars. Touching on anthropology, musicology, and the history of the United States and its military, Sound the Trumpet, Beat the Drums is an unparalleled account of mounted military bands and their cultural significance.

Baby and his family make some jazzy music.

What is really going to happen at the End of the Age? This revelatory book will be of great help to understand the hidden meanings in the prophetic books of the Bible, especially the book of the Revelation of Saint John. It will help us to prepare for the days ahead.

"Supremely humane.... Kay leaves us with a broad landscape of sweet tolerance and familial love." —The New York Times Book Review In her starkly beautiful and wholly unexpected tale, Jackie Kay delves into the most intimate workings of the human heart and mind and offers a triumphant tale of loving deception and lasting devotion. The death of legendary jazz trumpeter Joss Moody exposes an extraordinary secret, one that enrages his adopted son, Colman, leading him to collude with a tabloid journalist. Besieged by the press, his widow Millie flees to a remote Scottish village, where she seeks solace in memories of their marriage. The reminiscences of those who knew Joss Moody render a moving portrait of a shared life founded on an intricate lie, one that preserved a rare, unconditional love.