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Author : Ransom Sabin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Home Treasure written by Ransom Sabin and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charlotte Brewer
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300124293
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (242 download)
Download or read book Treasure-house of the Language written by Charlotte Brewer and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legendary Oxford English Dictionary today contains over 600,000 words and a staggering 2,500,000 quotations to illuminate the meaning and history of those words. A glorious, bursting treasure-house, the OED serves as a guardian of the literary jewels of the past, a testament to the richness of the English language today, and a guarantor of future understanding of the language. In this book, Charlotte Brewer begins her account of the OED at the point where others have stopped--the publication of the final installment of the first edition in 1928--and carries it through to the metamorphosis of the dictionary into a twenty-first-century electronic medium. Brewer describes the difficulties of keeping the OED up to date over time and recounts the recurring debates over finances, treatment of contentious words, public vs. scholarly expectations, proper sources of quotations, and changing editorial practices. With humor and empathy, she portrays the predilections and personalities of the editors, publishers, and assistants who undertook the Sisyphean task of keeping apace with the modern explosion of vocabulary. Utilizing rich archives in Oxford as well as new electronic resources, the author uncovers a history no less complex and fascinating than the Oxford English Dictionary itself.
Author : Kita Mitchell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780702303555
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (35 download)
Download or read book The House of Secret Treasure written by Kita Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-09 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hilarious, swashbuckling adventure for siblings everywhere! George isn't good at anything much. In fact, he's pretty average. That doesn't mean he doesn't have BIGambitions, they are just harder to achieve when your big sister, Jess, is brilliant at everything! Then George inherits a mansion from dear old Mrs Smallbone. Except Hogweed Hall isn't your average mansion. It's BRILLIANT, and full of fascinating tenants like Boris the dog, an unusual pastry chef who lives in the basement, a mysterious scientist who works in the attic, and lots and lots of chickens! But Mrs Smallbone's sistersaren't at all happy about the situation, and invite themselves to stay. They're after something, and don't intend to leave without it. Can George stop them before it's too late? Perfect for fans of Pamela Butchart, Sam Copeland and David Solomons. Beautifully illustrated and brought to life by illustrator Isabelle Follath.
Author : Mary G. Tuttiett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The House of Hidden Treasure written by Mary G. Tuttiett and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Melissa Margaret Schneider
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1612346944
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (123 download)
Download or read book The Ugly Wife Is a Treasure at Home written by Melissa Margaret Schneider and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The ugly wife is a treasure at home" is not just an idle expression in China. For centuries, Chinese marriage involved matchmakers, child brides, dowries, and concubines, until the People's Republic of China was established by Mao Zedong and his Communist Party in 1949. Initially encouraging citizens to reject traditional arranged marriages and instead wed for love, the party soon spurned "the sin of putting love first," fearful that romantic love would distract good Communists from selflessly carrying out the State's agenda. Under Mao the party established the power to approve or reject proposed marriages, dictate where couples would live, and even determine if spouses would live together. By the 1960s and 1970s romantic love became a counterrevolutionary act punishable by "struggle sessions" or even imprisonment. The importance of Chinese sons, however, did not wane during Mao's thirty-year regime. As such, in a world where nobody spoke of love, 99 percent of young women still married. The Ugly Wife Is a Treasure at Home draws the reader into the world of love in Communist China through the personal memories of those who endured the Cultural Revolution and the generations that followed. This collection of intimate and remarkable stories gives readers a rare view of Chinese history, social customs, and Communism from the perspective of today's ordinary citizens.
Author : Byron Preiss
Publisher : ibooks
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Secret written by Byron Preiss and published by ibooks. This book was released on 2016-10-05 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tale begins over three-hundred years ago, when the Fair People—the goblins, fairies, dragons, and other fabled and fantastic creatures of a dozen lands—fled the Old World for the New, seeking haven from the ways of Man. With them came their precious jewels: diamonds, rubies, emeralds, pearls... But then the Fair People vanished, taking with them their twelve fabulous treasures. And they remained hidden until now... Across North America, these twelve treasures, over ten-thousand dollars in precious jewels, are buried. The key to finding each can be found within the twelve full color paintings and verses of The Secret. Yet The Secret is much more than that. At long last, you can learn not only the whereabouts of the Fair People's treasure, but also the modern forms and hiding places of their descendants: the Toll Trolls, Maitre D'eamons, Elf Alphas, Tupperwerewolves, Freudian Sylphs, Culture Vultures, West Ghosts and other delightful creatures in the world around us. The Secret is a field guide to them all. Many "armchair treasure hunt" books have been published over the years, most notably Masquerade (1979) by British artist Kit Williams. Masquerade promised a jewel-encrusted golden hare to the first person to unravel the riddle that Williams cleverly hid in his art. In 1982, while everyone in Britain was still madly digging up hedgerows and pastures in search of the golden hare, The Secret: A Treasure Hunt was published in America. The previous year, author and publisher Byron Preiss had traveled to 12 locations in the continental U.S. (and possibly Canada) to secretly bury a dozen ceramic casques. Each casque contained a small key that could be redeemed for one of 12 jewels Preiss kept in a safe deposit box in New York. The key to finding the casques was to match one of 12 paintings to one of 12 poetic verses, solve the resulting riddle, and start digging. Since 1982, only two of the 12 casques have been recovered. The first was located in Grant Park, Chicago, in 1984 by a group of students. The second was unearthed in 2004 in Cleveland by two members of the Quest4Treasure forum. Preiss was killed in an auto accident in the summer of 2005, but the hunt for his casques continues.
Author : Linda Newbery
Publisher : Orion Children's Books
ISBN 13 : 1444005731
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (44 download)
Download or read book The Treasure House written by Linda Newbery and published by Orion Children's Books. This book was released on 2012-05-05 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Nina's mother, Miranda, mysteriously disappears, Nina's father goes to look for her, leaving Nina with her two eccentric aunts who run a charity shop in town. Nina soon discovers that working in the shop can be funny, intriguing and rewarding as she takes in weird and wonderful donations, makes new friends and uncovers strange secrets! But Nina is determined to solve the mysteries that have taken over her life - where has her mother gone? Why did she leave so suddenly? And just what is the secret she's been hiding? Award-winning author Linda Newbery grips and entertains readers in her usual mesmerising way with this intriguing new mystery.
Author : Evan Connell
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1619026910
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Aztec Treasure House written by Evan Connell and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are tales of fabulous advances made in anthropology, archaeology, astronomy, and linguistics, stories of the Anasazi, the "old ones" of the southwestern desert, of the great explorers, eccentrics, dreamers, scientists, cranks, and geniuses. "There's no end to the list, of course," Connell says, "because gradually it descends from such legendary individuals to ourselves when, as children, obsessed by that same urge, we got permission to sleep in the backyard."
Author : Edward Carey
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 1443424242
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (434 download)
Download or read book Heap House (Iremonger #1) written by Edward Carey and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part one of an unusual and astonishing new fantasy trilogy that blends fine literary fare with a terrific romp through the reimagined outskirts of Victorian-era London In the imaginary borough of Filching, the extensive Iremonger family (“kings of mildew, moguls of mould”) have made a fortune from junk, building a dark and sprawling mansion from salvage scrap. Heap House is surrounded by the dangerous, noxious, shifting Heaps that stretch beyond its bounds. And within its walls, certain objects begin to display strange signs of life. Young Clod Iremonger is about to be "trousered" and betrothed (unwillingly) to his cousin Pinalippy when he meets the plucky orphan servant Lucy Pennant, with whose help he begins to uncover the dark secrets of his family’s empire. Mystery, romance and the perils of the Heaps await! Gorgeously (and ghoulishly) illustrated by the author, Heap House is peopled with unforgettable characters with delightfully skewed names--anxious, animal-loving Tummis with his pet seagull; menacing cousin Moorcus; dreadful Aunt Rosamud and more. As Carey writes, “Every life is thick with rubbish, but the Iremongers did it with a difference.”
Author : John Bibee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780830819119
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (191 download)
Download or read book The Mystery of the Homeless Treasure written by John Bibee and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Billy and his friends find a gold cup that has been missing for over thirty years, the Home School Detectives are thrown into their first cae.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 630 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Home Missionary written by and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No. 3 of each volume contains the annual report and minutes of the annual meeting.
Author : Janet Anderson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101176768
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)
Download or read book The Last Treasure written by Janet Anderson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-11-18 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For thirteen-year-old Ellsworth, family has always been just him and his dad. That’s all Ellsworth thought he wanted. But then the dreams start. Dreams of houses surrounding a beautiful green square. Suddenly a letter arrives, inviting Ellsworth to a home he doesn’t remember: the Square in Smith Mills, New York. A home with a hidden treasure only a child can uncover—the last treasure of John Matthew Smith, the family’s eccentric patriarch. But there are other things hidden in the Square. Can Ellsworth set these ghosts to rest and uncover the family’s last treasure—or will the secrets of the past haunt him forever?
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Zion's Home Monthly written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George A. Thompson
Publisher : Dream Garden Press
ISBN 13 : 9780942688894
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (888 download)
Download or read book Treasure Mountain Home written by George A. Thompson and published by Dream Garden Press. This book was released on 1993-12 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Home World written by and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rosemary Wells
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101997079
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Max and Ruby's Treasure Hunt written by Rosemary Wells and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow the clues and find the treasure with Max and Ruby! Oh no! A thunderstorm has ruined the picnic that Max and Ruby and their friends, Louise and Lily, have planned. Now the four friends have nothing to do. But Grandma saves the day with an ingenious treasure hunt. The clues are Mother Goose rhymes and jump-rope rhymes, and a missing word in each one leads the bunnies to the next clue, until they reach the prize, a treasure chest of gold-foil-wrapped chocolate coins. This interactive picture book with lift-the-flap clues will keep fans of the bunny siblings entertained for many readings. Max and Ruby star in their own popular show on Nick Jr.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book House & Garden written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
