Böcker utgivna av Tom Bruno Author

In a world of magic and modernity, fates are about to collide.Angelina Donati has come to New York to kill a man. She holds the magician Eli Leventhal responsible for killing her friend, and as the gifted problem child of a House of magical assassins, she does not expect that Leventhal's vast age, wealth and power will save him.But Eli Leventhal is gathering great forces to fight a far larger war against his long-time magician foe -- Riley, the recently elected Mayor of New York. On opposing ends of Manhattan Island, the world's two last remaining Grand Magisters are preparing for an epic showdown, with the Earth, and its possible destruction, as their prize.In the middle, deciding the balance, is Angelina. In a world where the magical classes draw power from one of twelve Realms, Angelina's powers are wild and strange. Most Realms are living, while one lies dormant. But it is prophecised that from the Dead Realm, old horrors shall rise...

The former Alt House is preserved today on its original site in Glover Garden, a historic theme park located in the Minamiyamate neighborhood of the former Nagasaki Foreign Settlement. A National Important Cultural Property, the house is the oldest Western-style building of stone construction in Japan. Completed in 1867, it evokes the style of a bungalow in British India, with sandstone walls and a row of Tuscan pillars marching along the front of a wide stone-paved veranda, and all the nostalgic nuances of the elegant if incongruous European colonial presence in East Asia. Yet despite the well-preserved physical condition of the building, the interior suggests that the decorators had scant information about the original position of furniture and ornaments or the function of individual rooms. Similarly, most of the pamphlets and books available on the subject of Glover Garden emphasize architectural features and gloss over stories of the buildings and the people who once lived there. For the first time in any language, the present work introduces former inhabitants and functions of the building and outlines the events that crisscrossed there from the year that Japan awakened from a long slumber and opened its doors to international engagement, until the postwar period when Nagasaki cleared the rubble of wartime destruction and chose tourism as a step to recovery.