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Book Synopsis The Magnificent Ruins by : Nayantara Roy
Download or read book The Magnificent Ruins written by Nayantara Roy and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2024-11-12 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this "rare feast" of a novel, a young Indian American book editor inherits her estranged family’s ancestral home–and their long-buried secrets (Rachel Lyon, author of Self-Portrait With Boy). Lila De is on the verge of a career breakthrough when she gets a call from her mother in Kolkata, informing her that she’s inherited her family’s sprawling estate—so she returns there after a decade of estrangement. Lila's grandmother, aunts, uncles, and cousins still live on different floors of the house, and all of them resent her sudden inheritance. To make matters more complicated, her first boyfriend seeks her out when she arrives, and her star author—and occasional lover— is suddenly determined to make things serious. As Lila come to terms with both past and present, suppressed family secrets emerge, culminating in a shocking act of violence. Lila has no choice but to finally address her family’s inherited custom of keeping everything under the surface. Perfect for fans of Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane and All This Could Be Different by Sarah Thankam Mathews, The Magnificent Ruins is an unforgettable novel about the millennial immigrant experience and the desire for belonging.
Book Synopsis Castles of Scotland by : Martin Coventry
Download or read book Castles of Scotland written by Martin Coventry and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A must for all those who want to visit Scotland's many castles. The book covers all of the coutry's famous strongholds, as well as many lesser-known places, with location, access, visitor facilities, and contact details. There is a map, many photos, a glossary of architectural terms, and a family-name index, allowing the reader to identify any castle associated with their family.
Download or read book Ruins written by Achy Obejas and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1994 Cuba, Usnavy begins to question his loyalty to the Cuban government as his family falls apart amidst rising poverty and he learns a family secret behind his one prize: a Tiffany lamp given to him by his mother.
Download or read book Ghostly Ruins written by Harry Skrdla and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2006-09-28 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With Ghostly Ruins, author Harry Skrdla guides your tour of thirty abandoned locations from around the country - homes and hotels, power plants and prisons, whole neighborhoods and even entire towns. These are the happy memories of your grandparents' and great-grandparents' childhoods, such as the United Artists movie palace in Detroit, the rollercoasters at Chippewa Lake Park in Medina, Ohio, and the Palace of Fine Arts from the Chicago World's Fair." "And then there are the structures that were massive and forbidding even at their peaks, before falling to disrepair: the Bethlehem Steel Mill and Eastern State Penitentiary in Pennsylvania and Bannerman's Castle, a munitions depot stranded on a lonely island in upstate New York. Even the works of some of our nation's most revered architects are not impervious to decay. Witness Albert Kahn's Packard Plant and Philip Johnson's New York State Pavilion." "Perhaps eeriest of all are the ghost towns of Bodie, California and Centralia, Pennsylvania, where a trash fire in a nearby mine exploded into an underground inferno in 1962. The fire still blazes today. Skrdla shows you all this and more, telling the tale of each place in its prime and the story behind its fall, accompanied by more than two hundred photographs depicting these locations at both yesterday's historic heights and today's decrepit depths."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Ruins written by Peter Kuper and published by SelfMadeHero. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2016 Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album Selected as an ALA Top Ten Graphic Novel of 2016 Samantha and George are a couple heading towards a sabbatical year in the quaint Mexican town of Oaxaca. For Samantha, it is the opportunity to revisit her past. For George, it is an unsettling step into the unknown. For both of them, it will be a collision course with political and personal events that will alter their paths and the town of Oaxaca forever. In tandem, the remarkable and arduous journey that a Monarch butterfly endures on its annual migration from Canada to Mexico is woven into Ruins. This creates a parallel picture of the challenges of survival in our ever-changing world. Ruins explores the shadows and light of Mexico through its past and present as encountered by an array of characters. The real and surreal intermingle to paint an unforgettable portrait of life south of the Rio Grande.
Book Synopsis A Fantastic State of Ruin by : David Zurick
Download or read book A Fantastic State of Ruin written by David Zurick and published by Goff Books. This book was released on 2018-08 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book portrays the exquisite beauty that is found amid the ruins of a handful of tiny trading towns located along an ancient trade route in Rajasthan, India.
Download or read book The Ruins written by Phoebe Wynne and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2023-07-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A suspenseful, contemporary Gothic coming-of-age tale with shades of Patricia Highsmith and Atonement, pitched against the sun-soaked backdrop of the French Riviera.
Book Synopsis Handbook for the Ruins and Museums of Rome by : Emil Braun
Download or read book Handbook for the Ruins and Museums of Rome written by Emil Braun and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Ruins and Museums of Rome by : Emil Braun
Download or read book The Ruins and Museums of Rome written by Emil Braun and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Conquest of Ruins by : Julia Hell
Download or read book The Conquest of Ruins written by Julia Hell and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 633 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Roman Empire has been a source of inspiration and a model for imitation for Western empires practically since the moment Rome fell. Yet, as Julia Hell shows in The Conquest of Ruins, what has had the strongest grip on aspiring imperial imaginations isn’t that empire’s glory but its fall—and the haunting monuments left in its wake. Hell examines centuries of European empire-building—from Charles V in the sixteenth century and Napoleon’s campaigns of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries to the atrocities of Mussolini and the Third Reich in the 1930s and ’40s—and sees a similar fascination with recreating the Roman past in the contemporary image. In every case—particularly that of the Nazi regime—the ruins of Rome seem to represent a mystery to be solved: how could an empire so powerful be brought so low? Hell argues that this fascination with the ruins of greatness expresses a need on the part of would-be conquerors to find something to ward off a similar demise for their particular empire.
Download or read book The Geographical Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society, formerly published separately.
Book Synopsis Haydn's Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information Relating to All Ages and Nations by : Joseph Haydn
Download or read book Haydn's Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information Relating to All Ages and Nations written by Joseph Haydn and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 1604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Encyclopaedia Americana by : Francis Lieber
Download or read book Encyclopaedia Americana written by Francis Lieber and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Five Great Monarchies of the Ancient Eastern World Or The History, Geography and Antiquities of Chaldæa, Assyria, Babylon, Media and Persia Collected and Illustrated from Ancient and Modern Sources by George Rawlinson, M. A by :
Download or read book The Five Great Monarchies of the Ancient Eastern World Or The History, Geography and Antiquities of Chaldæa, Assyria, Babylon, Media and Persia Collected and Illustrated from Ancient and Modern Sources by George Rawlinson, M. A written by and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Five Great Monarchies of the Ancient Eastern World by : George Rawlinson
Download or read book The Five Great Monarchies of the Ancient Eastern World written by George Rawlinson and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Five Great Monarchies of the Ancient Eastern World, Or, The History, Geography, and Antiquities of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media and Persia by : George Rawlinson
Download or read book The Five Great Monarchies of the Ancient Eastern World, Or, The History, Geography, and Antiquities of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media and Persia written by George Rawlinson and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
