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Birdcage Walk

Author : Helen Dunmore
Publisher : Atlantic Monthly Press
ISBN 13 : 0802189229
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Birdcage Walk written by Helen Dunmore and published by Atlantic Monthly Press. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revolutionary turmoil in France threatens to cross the English border—and tear apart an increasingly tense marriage—in this “brilliant” gothic thriller (Publishers Weekly, starred review). It is 1792, and Europe is seized by political unrest. In England, Lizzie Fawkes has grown up among Radicals who’ve followed the French Revolution with eager optimism. But Lizzie has recently married John Diner Tredevant, a developer who is heavily invested in Bristol’s housing boom, and he has everything to lose from social upheaval and the prospect of war. As the strain of financial setbacks and the secrets of his past converge upon him, his grip on what he considers his rightful property—including Lizzie—only grows tighter...From an Orange Prize winner and Whitbread Award finalist, this is a novel with a “charged radiance” (The New York Times) that explores romanticism and disillusionment, terror and love, and the dangerous lines between them. “Dunmore knows how to let a narrative move like an arrow in flight...A man rows from Bristol to a glade where he has left his dead wife overnight. He must bury her fast, where no one will find her. From the start, Birdcage Walk has the command of a thriller as we keep company with John Diner Tredevant, an 18th-century property developer building a magnificent terrace in Clifton, high above the Avon Gorge. Lizzie, his second wife, does not know the details of what happened to his first. Nor do we know as much as we might suppose...The novel’s cast is marvelous and vivid.”—The Guardian “Explores the impact of the French Revolution on 1790s England within the context of a gothic romance set in Bristol...[a] magnificently complex villain.”—Kirkus Reviews

The Mirror of Parliament for the ... Session of the ... Parliament of Great Britain and Ireland

Author : John Henry Barrow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 726 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Mirror of Parliament for the ... Session of the ... Parliament of Great Britain and Ireland written by John Henry Barrow and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Zero

Author : Allen Hemberger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781733008815
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Zero written by Allen Hemberger and published by . This book was released on 2020-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Exposure

Author : Helen Dunmore
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802190413
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Exposure written by Helen Dunmore and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An unconventional thriller [and] a page turner . . . As much a surprising love story as it is a tale of spies” (The New York Times Book Review). In 1960 London, the Cold War is at its height, and a spy may be a friend or neighbor, colleague or lover. Two colleagues, Giles Holloway and Simon Callington, face a terrible dilemma over a missing top-secret file. At the end of a suburban garden, in the pouring rain, Simon’s wife, Lily, buries a briefcase containing the file deep in the earth. She believes that in doing so she is protecting her family. What she will learn is that no one is immune from betrayal or the devastating consequences of exposure. “Dunmore’s strategy, placing a triangle of past and present loves within a spy novel, yields an unexpected dividend. Even the most ordinary elements of life—the lengths to which a mother will go to protect her children, meeting someone special, what remains unsaid within a marriage—become viscerally exciting.” —The New Yorker “Exposure is many things at once—an espionage thriller, a forbidden-love story, an immigrant’s tale . . . A novel you won’t be able to shake.” —Entertainment Weekly “One of those books that you read with your heart in your mouth, your mind fully engaged, and with a sense of desolation as you note the dwindling number of pages left before it comes to an end.” —Chicago Tribune

The Siege

Author : Helen Dunmore
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802139580
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (395 download)

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Download or read book The Siege written by Helen Dunmore and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Called "elegantly, starkly beautiful" by "The New York Times Book Review, The Siege" is Dunmore's masterpiece. Her canvas is monumental--the Nazi's 1941 winter siege on Leningrad that killed 600,000--but her focus is heartrendingly intimate.

After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie

Author : Jean Rhys
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393315479
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie written by Jean Rhys and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1997 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Julia Martin is in Paris and at the end of her rope. Once beautiful, she was taken care of by men. Now after being dropped by her latest lover, she visits London to see her ailing mother and meets up with her distrustful sister, Norah. This is a haunting picture of two desperate women in a desperate predicament.

Write About an Empty Birdcage

Author : Elaina M. Elllis
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1935904299
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Write About an Empty Birdcage written by Elaina M. Elllis and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2010-08-13 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With an ironic swish of the skirt, Elaina M. Ellis has delivered a sweetly strange first collection of poems. Reinventing femininity with each teasing line-break, Ellis pulls sexuality from form, and vulnerability from meter. By turns playful, blunt, and prayerful, Write About an Empty Birdcage documents the painful end of a romantic relationship; revels in the budding of new desire; and ultimately allows hope to climb quietly in through the back window. The poems which explicitly explore identity -- femaleness, Jewishness, queerness -- do so with a critique of power that blends humor, bloodied confession, and a reverence for tension. Ellis is a new poet to watch out for, neither belonging to the full-open swing of spoken word, nor to the inaccessibility of academia: the sonnet is a torch song, the prose poem is a fist. Here you find all the fleshy reveal of the truth, without the ease of nakedness. Write About an Empty Birdcage is a book of poetry that is worth the work of undressing. Elaina M. Ellis has a voice that cuts through wool. Rich in sound and sense, meaning and madness, she signals and signifies. Her imagery comes from a place of truth and her people sweat and breathe. Hers is a talent that can set the world on fire. -Jenny Factor, Antioch University Los Angeles

Mycroft and Sherlock

Author : Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Publisher : Titan Books (US, CA)
ISBN 13 : 1785659278
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (856 download)

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Download or read book Mycroft and Sherlock written by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and published by Titan Books (US, CA). This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new novel by NBA All-Star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, starring brothers Mycroft and Sherlock Holmes. It is 1872, and a series of gruesome murders is the talk of London. Mycroft Holmes--now twenty-six and a force to be reckoned with at the War Office--has no interest in the killings; however, his brother Sherlock has developed a distasteful fascination for the macabre to the detriment of his studies, much to Mycroft's frustration. When a ship carrying cargo belonging to Mycroft's best friend Cyrus Douglas runs aground, Mycroft persuades Sherlock to serve as a tutor at the orphanage that Douglas runs as a charity, so that Douglas might travel to see what can be salvaged. Sherlock finds himself at home among the street urchins, and when a boy dies of a suspected drug overdose, he decides to investigate, following a trail of strange subterranean symbols to the squalid opium dens of the London docks. Meanwhile a meeting with a beautiful Chinese woman leads Mycroft to the very same mystery, one that forces him to examine the underbelly of the opium trade that is enriching his beloved Britain's coffers. As the stakes rise, the brothers find that they need one another's assistance and counsel. But a lifetime of keeping secrets from each other may have catastrophic consequences...

The Lighthouse in the City

Author : Karl Christian Krumpholz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781944829407
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (294 download)

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Download or read book The Lighthouse in the City written by Karl Christian Krumpholz and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Author : Maya Angelou
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 030747772X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings written by Maya Angelou and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-07-21 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local “powhitetrash.” At eight years old and back at her mother’s side in St. Louis, Maya is attacked by a man many times her age—and has to live with the consequences for a lifetime. Years later, in San Francisco, Maya learns that love for herself, the kindness of others, her own strong spirit, and the ideas of great authors (“I met and fell in love with William Shakespeare”) will allow her to be free instead of imprisoned. Poetic and powerful, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings will touch hearts and change minds for as long as people read. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings liberates the reader into life simply because Maya Angelou confronts her own life with such a moving wonder, such a luminous dignity.”—James Baldwin From the Paperback edition.

A Spell of Winter

Author : Helen Dunmore
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802138767
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book A Spell of Winter written by Helen Dunmore and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catherine and her brother, Rob, don't know why they have been abandoned by their parents. Incarcerated in the enormous country house of their grandfather, they create a refuge against their family's dark secrets as the outside world moves towards the First World War. As time passes their sibling love deepens and crosses into forbidden territory.

Making and Transforming Art

Author : Hélène Dubois
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781909492165
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (921 download)

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Download or read book Making and Transforming Art written by Hélène Dubois and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1. Dioscorides as an art technological source / Mark Clarke. 2. Academy and workshop: medieval transmission of late antique knowledge / Mark Clarke and Arie Wallert. 3. An elusive colorant: availability, preparation and use of anthocyanin colorants in European medieval illuminators' workshops / Sylvie Neven and Jana Sanyova. 4. Paint it red: vermilion manufacture in the Middle Ages / Stefanos Kroustallis and Rocio Bruquetas. 5. Medieval sculptures re-polychromed and re-gilded in the nineteenth century by Adrien Hubert Bressers / Delphine Steyaert. 6. 'This they use in Madrid': the ground layer in paintings on canvas in 17th-century Madrid / Maite Jover de Celis and Dolores Gayo. 7. Van Dyck and de Mayerne: a cautionary note regarding the manuscript / Rica Jones. 8. Materials for painting and gilding used in the Benedictine community of Portugal 1638-1822: other times, other ways / Agnès Le Gac, Paulo Oliveira, Isabel Dias Costa and Maria João Dias Costa. 9. Evolutions and transformations of harpsichords in France in the 17th and 18th centuries / Christine Laloue and Jean-Philippe Echard. 10. Manufacturing techniques and the art of wax modelling: from the sculptor's studio to the anatomical workshop / Alicia Sánchez Ortiz and Sandra Micó Boró. 11. Combining different types of sources for a better understanding of tempera painting around 1900 / Patrick Dietemann and Wibke Neugebauer. 12. Interpretation of documentary sources for the industrial preparation of 'zinc white' in the 19th century / Nicholas Eastaugh, Jilleen Nadolny and Weronika Swiech. 13. Hans Heysen's art materials: an investigation into suppliers, knowledge and choice / Rosemary Diana Heysen and Nicole Andrea Tse. 14. Jean Tinguely's script for Homage to New York (1960) / Reinhard Bek and Christine Frohnert. 15. Recent publications on art technological source research / Ad Stijnman. 16. 'Colour ConText': a database on colour practice and colour knowledge in pre-modern Europe / Sylvie Neven, Karin Leonhard and Sven Dupré. 17. Four paintings from St. Jerome's College, Coimbra, Portugal: conservation, technique and treatises / Vanessa Antunes, Mercês Lorena, Vítor Serrão, Virgínia Gomes, Maria José Oliveira, Luís Dias, António Candeias, Ana Isabel Seruya and João Coroado. 18. Glass and parchment with a view: oil paint and the imitation of (stained) glass windows 1400-1600 / Marjolijn Bol, Henk de Groot and Arie Wallert.

Mycroft and Sherlock: The Empty Birdcage

Author : Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Publisher : Titan Books (US, CA)
ISBN 13 : 1785659316
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (856 download)

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Download or read book Mycroft and Sherlock: The Empty Birdcage written by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and published by Titan Books (US, CA). This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new novel by NBA All-Star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, starring brothers Mycroft and Sherlock Holmes. It is 1873, and as the economies of Europe threaten to crumble, Mycroft Holmes finds himself in service to the Crown once again. A distant relative of Queen Victoria has been slain by the Fire Four Eleven killer, a serial murderer who leaves no mark upon his victims, only a mysterious calling card. Meanwhile, Sherlock has already taken it upon himself to solve the case, as his interest in the criminal mind grows into an obsession. Mycroft begrudgingly allows Sherlock to investigate, as Ai Lin--the woman he is still in love with--needs his aid. Her fiancé has been kidnapped, and the only man who might know his fate is a ruthless arms dealer with a reputation for killing those who cross him. Mycroft persuades his friend Cyrus Douglas to help find the young man, but Douglas himself is put in harm's way. As Sherlock travels the country on the hunt for the Fire Four Eleven murderer, both he and Mycroft will discover that the greed of others is at the root of the evil they are trying to unearth...

Be Like the Fox: Machiavelli In His World

Author : Erica Benner
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393609731
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Be Like the Fox: Machiavelli In His World written by Erica Benner and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2017-05-09 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Remarkable, engaging.… Be Like the Fox can be read with pleasure by anyone interested in the craft of politics and the life of ideas.”—New York Times Book Review In the five hundred years since he wrote The Prince, Machiavelli’s name has been linked to tyranny and the doctrine that “the ends justify the means.” But that is not what he stood for. In Be Like the Fox, Erica Benner takes us back to Renaissance Florence, where newly liberated citizens fought to build a free republic after the Medici princes were exiled. Machiavelli dedicated his life to this struggle for freedom. But despite his heroic efforts, the Medici soon swept back into power. Forced out of politics and prevented from speaking freely, Machiavelli had to use his skills of foxlike dissimulation to defend democracy in an era of tyrannical princes. Drawing on his letters, political writings, hard-hitting satirical dramas, and conversations with kings and popes, Be Like the Fox reveals Machiavelli as an unlikely hero for our times.

From a Clear Blue Sky

Author : Timothy Knatchbull
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504089324
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book From a Clear Blue Sky written by Timothy Knatchbull and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2023-12-19 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The prize-winning, “exceptionally moving” memoir of a family boat trip, an IRA bombing, and a teenager’s loss of his twin brother (The Telegraph). Christopher Ewart-Biggs Literary Award Winner and PEN/JR Ackerley Prize Nominee On an August weekend in 1979, fourteen-year-old Timothy Knatchbull joined his family on a boat trip off the shore of Mullaghmore in County Sligo, Ireland. By noon, an Irish Republican Army bomb had destroyed the boat, leaving four dead. The author survived, but his grandparents, family friend, and twin brother did not. Lord Mountbatten, his grandfather, was the target, and became one of the IRA’s most high-profile assassinations. Knatchbull and his parents were too badly injured to attend the funerals of those killed, which only intensified their profound sense of loss. Telling this story decades later, Knatchbull not only revisits these terrible events but also writes an intensely personal account of human triumph over tragedy—a story of recovery not just from physical wounds but deep emotional trauma. From a Clear Blue Sky takes place in Ireland at the height of the Troubles and gives compelling insight into that period of Irish history. But more importantly, it brings home that while calamity can strike at any moment, the human spirit is able to forgive, to heal, and to move on. “A minute by minute story of what happened that day, and what happened afterwards.” —Daily Mail “This is an extremely moving book. Beyond providing a phenomenally detailed evocation of his own family’s trauma, Knatchbull has lots of wise things to say about how we survive horrors—of all kinds—in our lives.” — Zoë Heller, author of the Booker Prize finalist Notes on a Scandal “A very poignant, clearsighted, heartbreaking but ultimately positive account.” —Hugh Bonneville, The New York Times

The Birdcage

Author : Marcia Willett
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1409009971
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The Birdcage written by Marcia Willett and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was Felix who named it The Birdcage: the tall house in Bristol where Miss Pidgeon lived with her tenant, the beautiful and talented actress Angel, and Angel's daughter, Lizzie. It was Felix whom they all adored and who was so in love with Angel, but while Lizzie longed for a father, Felix had other commitments: to his insecure, possessive wife Marina and to their son Piers, both living at beautiful, mellow Michaelgarth, the family home on the edge of Exmoor. Many years later, when Lizzie comes at last to Michaelgarth and meets Piers for the first time, she finds a family in trouble - and which, miraculously, needs her to help them to heal. Praise for Marcia Willett 'A genuine voice of our times' The Times 'Riveting, moving and utterly feel-good' Daily Mail

Conservation and Care of Glass Objects

Author : Stephen P. Koob
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Conservation and Care of Glass Objects written by Stephen P. Koob and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written from the many lectures, discussions and laboratory demonstrations hosted by the author, this book provides an understanding of the proper materials and techniques to be used in the conservation and restoration of glass objects.