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Ariadne

Author : Jennifer Saint
Publisher : Flatiron Books
ISBN 13 : 1250773571
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Ariadne written by Jennifer Saint and published by Flatiron Books. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mesmerizing debut novel for fans of Madeline Miller's Circe. Ariadne, Princess of Crete, grows up greeting the dawn from her beautiful dancing floor and listening to her nursemaid’s stories of gods and heroes. But beneath her golden palace echo the ever-present hoofbeats of her brother, the Minotaur, a monster who demands blood sacrifice. When Theseus, Prince of Athens, arrives to vanquish the beast, Ariadne sees in his green eyes not a threat but an escape. Defying the gods, betraying her family and country, and risking everything for love, Ariadne helps Theseus kill the Minotaur. But will Ariadne’s decision ensure her happy ending? And what of Phaedra, the beloved younger sister she leaves behind? Hypnotic, propulsive, and utterly transporting, Jennifer Saint's Ariadne forges a new epic, one that puts the forgotten women of Greek mythology back at the heart of the story, as they strive for a better world.

Grave Mercy

Author : Robin LaFevers
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 054762834X
Total Pages : 565 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (476 download)

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Download or read book Grave Mercy written by Robin LaFevers and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2012 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the fifteenth-century kingdom of Brittany, seventeen-year-old Ismae escapes from the brutality of an arranged marriage into the sanctuary of the convent of St. Mortain, where she learns that the god of Death has blessed her with dangerous gifts--and a violent destiny.

Golden Legend of Young Saints

Author : Henri Daniel-Rops
Publisher : Sophia Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 193318437X
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (331 download)

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Download or read book Golden Legend of Young Saints written by Henri Daniel-Rops and published by Sophia Institute Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saints both young and bold, The tales of these saints are told here, along with those of many others who, although young, have joined the ranks of the greatest saints: some by dying for their faith, many more by living for it. Their lives of great and simple virtue remind us that "valor does not wait on years," nor does holiness. To live in the love of God, in absolute obedience to His commandments, to practice the noblest Christian virtues, and even to offer our life in sacrifice - we don't have to be grown up.

Queens of Jerusalem

Author : Katherine Pangonis
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 1474614108
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (746 download)

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Download or read book Queens of Jerusalem written by Katherine Pangonis and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2021-02-18 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1187 Saladin's armies besieged the holy city of Jerusalem. He had previously annihilated Jerusalem's army at the battle of Hattin, and behind the city's high walls a last-ditch defence was being led by an unlikely trio - including Sibylla, Queen of Jerusalem. They could not resist Saladin, but, if they were lucky, they could negotiate terms that would save the lives of the city's inhabitants. Queen Sibylla was the last of a line of formidable female rulers in the Crusader States of Outremer. Yet for all the many books written about the Crusades, one aspect is conspicuously absent: the stories of women. Queens and princesses tend to be presented as passive transmitters of land and royal blood. In reality, women ruled, conducted diplomatic negotiations, made military decisions, forged alliances, rebelled, and undertook architectural projects. Sibylla's grandmother Queen Melisende was the first queen to seize real political agency in Jerusalem and rule in her own right. She outmanoeuvred both her husband and son to seize real power in her kingdom, and was a force to be reckoned with in the politics of the medieval Middle East. The lives of her Armenian mother, her three sisters, and their daughters and granddaughters were no less intriguing. The lives of this trailblazing dynasty of royal women, and the crusading Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine, are the focus of Katherine Pangonis's debut book. In QUEENS OF JERUSALEM she explores the role women played in the governing of the Middle East during periods of intense instability, and how they persevered to rule and seize greater power for themselves when the opportunity presented itself.

Legend of Saint Christopher

Author : Margaret Hodges
Publisher : Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 9780802853608
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (536 download)

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Download or read book Legend of Saint Christopher written by Margaret Hodges and published by Eerdmans Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2009-09-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legend of Saint Christopher, first written in the thirteenth century, tells the story of a strong man named Offero, who wants to find the greatest ruler in all the world and to serve him as his bearer. Offero's search is in vain until a mysterious child at a riverside asks Offero to carry him over the river. Only after Offero has carried the child over the river does he discover the child's true identity. Then Offero's name is changed to Christopher. / Author Margaret Hodges retells with power and simplicity this unforgettable tale of the man who became known as the patron saint of travelers. And illustrator Richard Jesse Watson has created hypnopompic paintings that dramatically capture Offero's journey and the brilliance of his discovery of the One he sought. / Based on old nursery rhymes, the poetic text by Newbery Honor winner Kathi Appelt and the beautiful light-filled paintings of Debra Reid Jenkins combine to make this gentle bedtime story a perfect illustration of God s abiding love.

Circe

Author : Madeline Miller
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316556335
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Circe written by Madeline Miller and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This #1 New York Times bestseller is a "bold and subversive retelling of the goddess's story" that brilliantly reimagines the life of Circe, formidable sorceress of The Odyssey (Alexandra Alter, TheNew York Times). In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child -- not powerful, like her father, nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, she discovers that she does possess power -- the power of witchcraft, which can transform rivals into monsters and menace the gods themselves. Threatened, Zeus banishes her to a deserted island, where she hones her occult craft, tames wild beasts and crosses paths with many of the most famous figures in all of mythology, including the Minotaur, Daedalus and his doomed son Icarus, the murderous Medea, and, of course, wily Odysseus. But there is danger, too, for a woman who stands alone, and Circe unwittingly draws the wrath of both men and gods, ultimately finding herself pitted against one of the most terrifying and vengeful of the Olympians. To protect what she loves most, Circe must summon all her strength and choose, once and for all, whether she belongs with the gods she is born from, or the mortals she has come to love. With unforgettably vivid characters, mesmerizing language, and page-turning suspense, Circe is a triumph of storytelling, an intoxicating epic of family rivalry, palace intrigue, love and loss, as well as a celebration of indomitable female strength in a man's world. #1 New York Times Bestseller -- named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR, the Washington Post, People, Time, Amazon, Entertainment Weekly, Bustle, Newsweek, the A.V. Club, Christian Science Monitor, Refinery 29, Buzzfeed, Paste, Audible, Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, Thrillist, NYPL, Self, Real Simple, Goodreads, Boston Globe, Electric Literature, BookPage, the Guardian, Book Riot, Seattle Times, and Business Insider.

Elektra

Author : Jennifer Saint
Publisher : Flatiron Books
ISBN 13 : 1250773601
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Elektra written by Jennifer Saint and published by Flatiron Books. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A spellbinding reimagining of the story of Elektra, one of Greek mythology’s most infamous heroines, from Jennifer Saint, the author of the beloved international bestseller, Ariadne. Three women, tangled in an ancient curse. When Clytemnestra marries Agamemnon, she ignores the insidious whispers about his family line, the House of Atreus. But when, on the eve of the Trojan War, Agamemnon betrays Clytemnestra in the most unimaginable way, she must confront the curse that has long ravaged their family. In Troy, Princess Cassandra has the gift of prophecy, but carries a curse of her own: no one will ever believe what she sees. When she is shown what will happen to her beloved city when Agamemnon and his army arrives, she is powerless to stop the tragedy from unfolding. Elektra, Clytemnestra and Agamemnon’s youngest daughter, wants only for her beloved father to return home from war. But can she escape her family’s bloody history, or is her destiny bound by violence, too?

The Myth of Persecution

Author : Candida Moss
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062104543
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (621 download)

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Download or read book The Myth of Persecution written by Candida Moss and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An expert on early Christianity reveals how the early church invented stories of Christian martyrs—and how this persecution myth persists today. According to church tradition and popular belief, early Christians were systematically persecuted by a brutal Roman Empire intent on their destruction. As the story goes, vast numbers of believers were thrown to the lions, tortured, or burned alive because they refused to renounce Christ. But as Candida Moss reveals in The Myth of Persecution, the “Age of Martyrs” is a fiction. There was no sustained 300-year-long effort by the Romans to persecute Christians. Instead, these stories were pious exaggerations; highly stylized rewritings of Jewish, Greek, and Roman noble death traditions; and even forgeries designed to marginalize heretics, inspire the faithful, and fund churches. The traditional story of persecution is still invoked by church leaders, politicians, and media pundits who insist that Christians were—and always will be—persecuted by a hostile, secular world. While violence against Christians does occur in select parts of the world today, the rhetoric of persecution is both misleading and rooted in an inaccurate history of the early church. By shedding light on the historical record, Moss urges modern Christians to abandon the conspiratorial assumption that the world is out to get them.

Elektra

Author : Jennifer Saint
Publisher : Wildfire
ISBN 13 : 9781472273956
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (739 download)

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Download or read book Elektra written by Jennifer Saint and published by Wildfire. This book was released on 2023-01-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The House of Atreus is cursed. A bloodline tainted by a generational cycle of violence and vengeance. This is the story of three women, their fates inextricably tied to this curse, and the fickle nature of men and gods.

The Night Battles

Author : Carlo Ginzburg
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421409933
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book The Night Battles written by Carlo Ginzburg and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A remarkable tale of witchcraft, folk culture, and persuasion in early modern Europe. Based on research in the Inquisitorial archives of Northern Italy, The Night Battles recounts the story of a peasant fertility cult centered on the benandanti, literally, "good walkers." These men and women described fighting extraordinary ritual battles against witches and wizards in order to protect their harvests. While their bodies slept, the souls of the benandanti were able to fly into the night sky to engage in epic spiritual combat for the good of the village. Carlo Ginzburg looks at how the Inquisition's officers interpreted these tales to support their world view that the peasants were in fact practicing sorcery. The result of this cultural clash, which lasted for more than a century, was the slow metamorphosis of the benandanti into the Inquisition's mortal enemies—witches. Relying upon this exceptionally well-documented case study, Ginzburg argues that a similar transformation of attitudes—perceiving folk beliefs as diabolical witchcraft—took place all over Europe and spread to the New World. In his new preface, Ginzburg reflects on the interplay of chance and discovery, as well as on the relationship between anomalous cases and historical generalizations.

Zeus Is a Dick

Author : Susie Donkin
Publisher : Hodder Studio
ISBN 13 : 9781529348965
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (489 download)

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Download or read book Zeus Is a Dick written by Susie Donkin and published by Hodder Studio. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Saint Legend

Author : Andy Seto
Publisher : ComicsOne Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781588992130
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (921 download)

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Download or read book Saint Legend written by Andy Seto and published by ComicsOne Corporation. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Apex and his two generals have invaded the Nandina Carrier. By order of the Jade Emperor himself, they are to arrest Pig and Iron Crutch Li. However, the Monkey King, General Han and Magistrate Guo say otherwise. On the other side of the planet, Master Lu, Azure and Vivi battle against the all powerful Hades!

The Comte de St Germain

Author : Isabel Cooper Oakley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Comte de St Germain written by Isabel Cooper Oakley and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

(Dis)embodying Myths in Ancien Régime Opera

Author : Bruno Forment
Publisher : Leuven University Press
ISBN 13 : 9058679004
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (586 download)

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Download or read book (Dis)embodying Myths in Ancien Régime Opera written by Bruno Forment and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Will appeal to all music, literature, and art lovers seeking to deepen their knowledge of an increasingly popular repertoire.

Saints, Heroes, Myths, and Rites

Author : Marcel Mauss
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317252608
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Saints, Heroes, Myths, and Rites written by Marcel Mauss and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-01-08 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classical Durkheimian Studies of Myth and the Sacred presents English translations of several important essays, some never before translated, by members of the famous Annee sociologique group around Emile Durkheim. These works by Marcel Mauss, Henri Hubert, and Robert Hertz are key contributions to today's growing interest in and reinterpretation of Durkheimian thought on culture, religion, and symbolism. The central thrust in this new interpretive effort uses the Durkheimian theory of the sacred to understand the symbolism and meanings of cultural structures and narratives more generally. This book is vital to any contemporary collection emphasizing social theory.

The Giant Dark

Author : Sarvat Hasin
Publisher : Dialogue Books
ISBN 13 : 0349701725
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (497 download)

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Download or read book The Giant Dark written by Sarvat Hasin and published by Dialogue Books. This book was released on 2021-07-08 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Heartbreaking, beautiful, epic. I loved it' KIRAN MILLWOOD HARGRAVE Author of The Mercies 'Blindingly brilliant . . . I cannot wait to read everything she writes' DAISY JOHNSON Author of Everything Under and Sisters She was never meant to be an ordinary woman, reading out her history as if it belonged to us. She was more than that. She was the way of learning the world. It was the last time most of us would see her but we didn't know that then. Aida is the defining rock star of her age; her every move observed, examined and owned by a devoted, cultish fanbase. When she disappears without a trace into a complicated love affair they are determined to find her, uncover her truths and own her once more. Aida and Ehsan reconnect after a decade apart, hoping to recapture the innocent, lost love of their youth. Before long, their connection is strained by secrets and jealousies and the past begins to blur with their present as they follow in the footsteps of mythic lovers before them. The Giant Dark is an award-winning debut novel about love and fame. Inspired by the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, it explores the consuming and devastating effects of using a lover as a muse. 'Rich and immersive . . . A book to lose yourself in' JULIA ARMFIELD Author of Salt Slow 'A brilliant, intoxicating reimagining. A heady brew of art, love and its cataclysmic impact' IRENOSEN OKOJIE Author of Nudibranch

101 Orthodox Saints

Author : Alexandra Schmalzbach
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781944967888
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (678 download)

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Download or read book 101 Orthodox Saints written by Alexandra Schmalzbach and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-20 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you know there was a saint who used a dogsled for transportation? Or a saint who turned down a marriage proposal from the Roman emperor? How about the saint who jumped from building to building during a siege to bring the Eucharist to his parishioners? Discover all of these stories and more in 101 Orthodox Saints. Written for children and those with a childlike curiosity, this visual encyclopedia will enhance your family's understanding and celebration of the saints of the Church. Each page is filled with illustrations, icons, graphics, and fascinating facts about the martyrs, monks, and mothers who boldly lived out their Faith to the glory of God.From Ancient Faith Publishing, your source for books on Orthodox Christianity.