Bøger af Kenn Grimes

Two thousand years ago, a crucifixion took place on a hill outside Jerusalem. The question is: who, exactly, died on that cross?This fast-paced thriller will keep you on the edge of your seat and leave you questioning everything you know about the most famous story in history.

When thirteen-year-old Carter McGlone removes a medal from around the neck of a skeleton he stumbles across in 1912, he has no idea that fifteen years later that same medal will take him on a journey back in time to 1863, where he meets and falls in love with Helen Jones; comes face to face with seventeen-year-old Kiernan O?Doherty who, some sixty years in the future, will be involved in the murder of Carter's girlfriend, Emmaline; and gets caught up in a minor battle of the Civil War. Take this incredible trip with Carter ?a wild ride through time, war, and romance.

In 1847, at the Tipsy Toad Saloon in Camptown, Kentucky, Will Van Pelt shined the shoes of Abraham Lincoln and received for his efforts an> Over the next 150 years, the residents of this fictional, yet familiar Midwest area, encounter other famous people such as Stephen Foster and John L. Sullivan. But those encounters share the stage with entanglements of smalltown commonfolk: George Freeman, a young slave boy who won his freedom riding a bobtailed nag named Lucy to victory in a horse race; "Woolly" Wanda Listerman, the bearded lady; Merle Goodman, a Baptist preacher who let his desire for a young girl get the best of him; and Paul Parmele, whose family experienced a miracle when angels appeared in their> Camptown Races presents the presidential and the provincial, the renowned and the rustic, the champs and the churls, with the same unflinching honesty and humor. The sum of the sketches adds up to a portrait of the character of America's heartland and of our human heart.