Best Selling Books by Michael SHEPHERD

A biblical, and historical defense against the doctrines of five point Calvinism.

The stories you are about to read are not inventions. They are drawn from the words of visitors, locals, and caretakers who swore to me what they saw, what they heard, and what followed them long after they left New Orleans. Some showed me photographs. Others carried objects they should not have had. Many simply carried the look in their eyes - that particular exhaustion you only see in someone who has spent the night with something they cannot explain. I have walked the streets with them. I have stood in the very rooms where they shook as they spoke. And though the details change - the year, the name, the reason they were here - the shape of the story remains the same. The French Quarter does not forget. Yes, I have arranged these tales into chapters, chosen the order, given them space and breath. But they are not fiction. They are memories, retold as faithfully as I was given them. In New Orleans, ghosts are not a story you tell to frighten children. They are neighbors. They are companions. They are part of the city''s pulse. So read these pages with an open mind. Let the words take you down Chartres, Bourbon, Royal, St. Peter, and back again. And if you find the shadows growing colder around you as you read, if you hear footsteps in the hall though you are alone - take comfort. It only means the Quarter has noticed you. And once it has... it rarely lets go. - Michael Shepherd

Eighteen essays re examine Ficino''s life and work focusing on three essential aspects: his significance in his own times, his spreading influence throughout Europe and over subsequent centuries in many areas of thought and creativity, and his enduring relevance today. Translation of his major works from Latin enables a new generation to rediscover and share Ficino''s vision of human potential.