Jimmy T Murakami
Author
Pub. Date
1998
Description
Ben, his wife Helena, and their band of adopted children face the full fury of the Roman emperor Nero as he tightens his brutal grip on the city. A daring escape leads them to shelter in the catacombs, where Ben's stories of the last days of Jesus and his resurrection give new hope and strength.
Pub. Date
2003, c2001
Description
Scrooge is a cynical old man whose greatest concern is money. On Christmas Eve, he is visited by the ghost of Jacob Marley, his former business partner, who arranges for Scrooge to be visited by three spirits. Begins with a sequence set in 1857, the site of a live reading by the renowned Dickens. As he begins his story a woman screams because she has seen a mouse and Dickens points out that his story begins with a mouse. Dickens explains that the...