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The Lacquered Talisman

Author : Laurie Dennis
Publisher : Earnshaw Books Limited
ISBN 13 : 9789888552467
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (524 download)

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Download or read book The Lacquered Talisman written by Laurie Dennis and published by Earnshaw Books Limited. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping coming-of-age epic, The Lacquered Talisman launches the story of one of the most influential figures in Chinese history. He is the son of a bean curd seller and he will found the Ming Dynasty, which ruled China from 1368 to 1644. Known as "Fortune" as a boy, Zhu Yuanzhang is part of a large and doting family who shepherd him through hardship until drought and plague ravage the countryside. Left with nothing but a lacquered necklace from his grandfather, Fortune is deposited in the village temple and is soon wandering the countryside as a begging monk. He encounters pockets of resistance to the ruling Mongol dynasty, studies the stars, and tangles with Daoists as he seeks to understand his destiny. Signs and dreams convince him that he has a special fate. Is he to be the abbot of a monastery? A general? What matters most is that he proves himself to be a filial son. Praise for The Lacquered Talisman: "Historical fiction lovers will delight in The Lacquered Talisman, which gives us a vividly-imagined, brilliantly-told story of a real-life emperor's humble origins. The first part of a biography of the first Ming Emperor, Zhu Yuanzhang, it is a vivid and engaging portrayal of a young man determined to honor the love and sacrifices of his tragedy-stricken family, set against the beautifully-drawn backdrop of 14th century China." --IndieReader "This epic coming of age story is about Fortune, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, as a boy until he reached the age of twenty-three. The author writes in a literary style, and although it is fiction, it reads similar to an account told by a first-person narrator. The style is evocative of the ancient Classic style and suits this lovely novel exactly." --Discovering Diamonds

The Lacquered Talisman

Author : Laurie Dennis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789888552627
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (526 download)

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Download or read book The Lacquered Talisman written by Laurie Dennis and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Shadowland

Author : Peter Straub
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101665505
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Shadowland written by Peter Straub and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “As if Harry Potter was written for grown-ups, Peter Straub’s Shadowland delivers carnage, blood, pain, fairy tales, and flashes of joy and wonder, just like real magic.”—Grady Hendrix You have been there...if you have ever been afraid. Come back. To a dark house deep in the Vermont woods, where two friends are spending a season of horror, apprenticed to a Master Magician. Learning secrets best left unlearned. Entering a world of incalculable evil more ancient than death itself. More terrifying. And more real. Only one of them will make it through.

The Firelight Fairy Book

Author : Henry Beston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Firelight Fairy Book written by Henry Beston and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of thirteen original tales.

Unleashed

Author : Sara Humphreys
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1402258437
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Unleashed written by Sara Humphreys and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the race of shapeshifters, who live secretly among humans, endangered by outside forces, Malcolm searches for a mate and finds her in Samantha, who doesn't know who she really is.

The Cartiers

Author : Francesca Cartier Brickell
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0525621636
Total Pages : 673 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (256 download)

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Download or read book The Cartiers written by Francesca Cartier Brickell and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A dynamic group biography studded with design history and high-society dash . . . [This] elegantly wrought narrative bears the Cartier hallmark.”—The Economist The “astounding” (André Leon Talley) story of the family behind the Cartier empire and the three brothers who turned their grandfather’s humble Parisian jewelry store into a global luxury icon—as told by a great-granddaughter with exclusive access to long-lost family archives “Ms. Cartier Brickell has done her grandfather proud.”—The Wall Street Journal The Cartiers is the revealing tale of a jewelry dynasty—four generations, from revolutionary France to the 1970s. At its heart are the three Cartier brothers whose motto was “Never copy, only create” and who made their family firm internationally famous in the early days of the twentieth century, thanks to their unique and complementary talents: Louis, the visionary designer who created the first men’s wristwatch to help an aviator friend tell the time without taking his hands off the controls of his flying machine; Pierre, the master dealmaker who bought the New York headquarters on Fifth Avenue for a double-stranded natural pearl necklace; and Jacques, the globe-trotting gemstone expert whose travels to India gave Cartier access to the world’s best rubies, emeralds, and sapphires, inspiring the celebrated Tutti Frutti jewelry. Francesca Cartier Brickell, whose great-grandfather was the youngest of the brothers, has traveled the world researching her family’s history, tracking down those connected with her ancestors and discovering long-lost pieces of the puzzle along the way. Now she reveals never-before-told dramas, romances, intrigues, betrayals, and more. The Cartiers also offers a behind-the-scenes look at the firm’s most iconic jewelry—the notoriously cursed Hope Diamond, the Romanov emeralds, the classic panther pieces—and the long line of stars from the worlds of fashion, film, and royalty who wore them, from Indian maharajas and Russian grand duchesses to Wallis Simpson, Coco Chanel, and Elizabeth Taylor. Published in the two-hundredth anniversary year of the birth of the dynasty’s founder, Louis-François Cartier, this book is a magnificent, definitive, epic social history shown through the deeply personal lens of one legendary family.

Gears of War: The Slab

Author : Karen Traviss
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439184089
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Gears of War: The Slab written by Karen Traviss and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-03-26 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Based on the Xbox 360 video game series from Epic Games/Microsoft Game Studios."

The Mound

Author : Howard Phillips Lovecraft
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book The Mound written by Howard Phillips Lovecraft and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-17 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Mound" by Howard Phillips Lovecraft, Zealia Bishop. Published by DigiCat. DigiCat publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each DigiCat edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Dictionary of the British English Spelling System

Author : Greg Brooks
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1783741074
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (837 download)

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Download or read book Dictionary of the British English Spelling System written by Greg Brooks and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2015-03-30 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will tell all you need to know about British English spelling. It's a reference work intended for anyone interested in the English language, especially those who teach it, whatever the age or mother tongue of their students. It will be particularly useful to those wishing to produce well-designed materials for teaching initial literacy via phonics, for teaching English as a foreign or second language, and for teacher training. English spelling is notoriously complicated and difficult to learn; it is correctly described as much less regular and predictable than any other alphabetic orthography. However, there is more regularity in the English spelling system than is generally appreciated. This book provides, for the first time, a thorough account of the whole complex system. It does so by describing how phonemes relate to graphemes and vice versa. It enables searches for particular words, so that one can easily find, not the meanings or pronunciations of words, but the other words with which those with unusual phoneme-grapheme/grapheme-phoneme correspondences keep company. Other unique features of this book include teacher-friendly lists of correspondences and various regularities not described by previous authorities, for example the strong tendency for the letter-name vowel phonemes (the names of the letters ) to be spelt with those single letters in non-final syllables.

The Eunuch

Author : Jonathan Kos-Read
Publisher : Earnshaw Books Limited
ISBN 13 : 9789888769216
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (692 download)

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Download or read book The Eunuch written by Jonathan Kos-Read and published by Earnshaw Books Limited. This book was released on 2022-01-31 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Emperor has brutally murdered one of his concubines, something which, everyone admits, he has every right to do.... Or did he? In the bitterly cold north China winter of 1153, the Eunuch Gett senses there is more to the murder, but when he is ordered by the Emperor to investigate it, he is trapped. With all clues pointing towards the Emperor himself, Gett knows that any misstep will mean his own death by execution. As he makes his way through the maze of harem sexual politics, ferocious court wars and the seething city beyond the palace walls, he must answer one question: Why frame a man who is above punishment? This gripping novel by Jonathan Kos-Read, China's top foreign actor with over a hundred films to his credit, delves deep into the imperial past, and into sexual customs that remain alive even today. Customs that can kill a woman. Or bring down an Empire....

Nine Stories

Author : J. D. Salinger
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316459984
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book Nine Stories written by J. D. Salinger and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "original, first-rate, serious, and beautiful" short fiction (New York Times Book Review) that introduced J. D. Salinger to American readers in the years after World War II, including "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" and the first appearance of Salinger's fictional Glass family. Nine exceptional stories from one of the great literary voices of the twentieth century. Witty, urbane, and frequently affecting, Nine Stories sits alongside Salinger's very best work--a treasure that will passed down for many generations to come. The stories: A Perfect Day for Bananafish Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut Just Before the War with the Eskimos The Laughing Man Down at the Dinghy For Esmé--with Love and Squalor Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period Teddy

BRIDESHEAD REVISITED;THE SACRED AND PROFANE MEMORIES OF CAPTAIN CHARLES RYDER

Author : Evelyn Waugh
Publisher : Alien Ebooks
ISBN 13 : 1667623680
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (676 download)

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Download or read book BRIDESHEAD REVISITED;THE SACRED AND PROFANE MEMORIES OF CAPTAIN CHARLES RYDER written by Evelyn Waugh and published by Alien Ebooks. This book was released on 2023-06-01 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Sultan and His Subjects

Author : Richard Davey
Publisher : London : Chapman and Hall, Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Sultan and His Subjects written by Richard Davey and published by London : Chapman and Hall, Limited. This book was released on 1897 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tao Magic

Author : Ireneus László Legeza
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Tao Magic written by Ireneus László Legeza and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 1975 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Five Continents of Theatre

Author : Eugenio Barba
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004392939
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book The Five Continents of Theatre written by Eugenio Barba and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-02-11 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Five Continents of Theatre undertakes the exploration of the material culture of the actor, which involves the actors’ pragmatic relations and technical functionality, their behaviour, the norms and conventions that interact with those of the audience and the society in which actors and spectators equally take part.

Islands of Protest

Author : Davinder L. Bhowmik
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824858263
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Islands of Protest written by Davinder L. Bhowmik and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2016-01-31 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literature is an important vehicle to further knowledge of other cultures, and English translations of Okinawan literary works have had a major impact on the field of Okinawan studies. Yet the riches of Okinawa's literature have yet to be adequately mined. Islands of Protest attempts to address this lacuna with this new selection of critically acclaimed modern and contemporary works in English. The anthology includes poetry, fiction, and drama, drawing on Okinawa's distinct culture and subtropical natural environment to convey the emotions and tensions present in everyday life. Tōma Hiroko's poem "Backbone" juxtaposes the natural environment of aquamarine beaches and subtropical flora and fauna with the built environment of America's military bases. Stories by two of Okinawa's most dynamic contemporary authors display wide breadth, from the preservation of island dances and burial practices in Sakiyama Tami's "Island Confinement" and "Come Swaying, Come Swinging" to the bold, disquieting themes of violence and comfort women in Medoruma Shun's "Hope," "Taiwan Woman," and "Tree of Butterflies." The crown jewel of the anthology, Chinen Seishin's play The Human Pavilion, is based on an infamous historical incident in which Okinawans were put on display during a 1903 industrial exhibition in Osaka. In his 1978 masterpiece, Chinen depicts the relentless pressure on Okinawans to become more Japanese. Given the controversial presence of U.S. military forces in Okinawa, this book is particularly timely. Disputes between the United States and Japanese governments over construction of a new marine airbase at Henoko have led to the resignation of Japan's prime minister, the election of an anti-base governor, and repeated protests. Islands of Protest offers a compelling entrée into a complex culture, one marked by wartime decimation, relentless discrimination, and fierce resistance, yet often overshadowed by the clichéd notion of a gentle Okinawa so ceaselessly depicted in Japan's mass media.

Wicked

Author : Gregory Maguire
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061792942
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (617 download)

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Download or read book Wicked written by Gregory Maguire and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestseller and basis for the Tony-winning hit musical, soon to be a major motion picture starring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande With millions of copies in print around the world, Gregory Maguire’s Wicked is established not only as a commentary on our time but as a novel to revisit for years to come. Wicked relishes the inspired inventions of L. Frank Baum’s 1900 novel, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, while playing sleight of hand with our collective memories of the 1939 MGM film starring Margaret Hamilton (and Judy Garland). In this fast-paced, fantastically real, and supremely entertaining novel, Maguire has populated the largely unknown world of Oz with the power of his own imagination. Years before Dorothy and her dog crash-land, another little girl makes her presence known in Oz. This girl, Elphaba, is born with emerald-green skin—no easy burden in a land as mean and poor as Oz, where superstition and magic are not strong enough to explain or overcome the natural disasters of flood and famine. Still, Elphaba is smart, and by the time she enters Shiz University, she becomes a member of a charmed circle of Oz’s most promising young citizens. But Elphaba’s Oz is no utopia. The Wizard’s secret police are everywhere. Animals—those creatures with voices, souls, and minds—are threatened with exile. Young Elphaba, green and wild and misunderstood, is determined to protect the Animals—even if it means combating the mysterious Wizard, even if it means risking her single chance at romance. Ever wiser in guilt and sorrow, she can find herself grateful when the world declares her a witch. And she can even make herself glad for that young girl from Kansas. Recognized as an iconoclastic tour de force on its initial publication, the novel has inspired the blockbuster musical of the same name—one of the longest-running plays in Broadway history. Popular, indeed. But while the novel’s distant cousins hail from the traditions of magical realism, mythopoeic fantasy, and sprawling nineteenth-century sagas of moral urgency, Maguire’s Wicked is as unique as its green-skinned witch.