Download or read book The Dickeyville Grotto written by Susan A. Niles and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book All the Light We Cannot See written by Anthony Doerr and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES—from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti* Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris, and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel. In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the Resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure’s converge. Doerr’s “stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) are dazzling. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, he illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. Ten years in the writing, All the Light We Cannot See is a magnificent, deeply moving novel from a writer “whose sentences never fail to thrill” (Los Angeles Times).
Download or read book Lourdes Diary written by James Martin and published by Loyola Press. This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A charming and touching story that reminds us, with St. Bernadette, that grace is everywhere." —Robert Ellsberg, author, Blessed Among All Women The shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes in southern France appeals to Catholics as few other places do. The famous grotto is a place of healing that attracts some six million pilgrims to Lourdes each year. One of these recent pilgrims was James Martin, an American Jesuit. Fr. Martin went to Lourdes to serve as chaplain for a group of pilgrims sponsored by the Order of Malta, an international Catholic association devoted to charitable works. During his stay, Martin kept an illuminating diary of his trip. His touching and humorous account of the busy and gratifying days that he spent at Lourdes is a vivid description of a place filled with a powerful spiritual presence. "Lourdes is now one of those places where I have met God in a special way," Martin writes. Through this diary, we are able to share in his journey and feel the presence of God that he encountered there.
Download or read book Backyard Visionaries written by Barbara Brackman and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A photographic chronicle of backyard art, with essays that examine various aspects of the work of grassroots artists.
Download or read book Consuming Visions written by Suzanne K. Kaufman and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plastic Madonnas, packaged holy tours, and biblical theme parks can arouse discomfort, laughter, and even revulsion in religious believers and nonbelievers alike. Scholars, too, often see the intermingling of religion and commerce as a corruption of true spirituality. Suzanne K. Kaufman challenges these assumptions in her examination of the Lourdes pilgrimage in late nineteenth-century France.Consuming Visions offers new ways to interpret material forms of worship, female piety, and modern commercial culture. Kaufman argues that the melding of traditional pilgrimage activities with a newly developing mass culture produced fresh expressions of popular faith. For the devout women of humble origins who flocked to the shrine, this intensely exciting commercialized worship offered unprecedented opportunities to connect with the sacred and express their faith in God.New devotional activities at Lourdes transformed the act of pilgrimage: the train became a moving chapel, and popular entertainments such as wax museums offered vivid recreations of visionary events. Using the press and the strategies of a new advertising industry to bring a mass audience to Lourdes, Church authorities remade centuries-old practices of miraculous healing into a modern public spectacle. These innovations made Lourdes one of the most visited holy sites in Catholic Europe.Yet mass pilgrimage also created problems. The development of Lourdes, while making religious practice more democratically accessible, touched off fierce conflicts over the rituals and entertainments provided by the shrine. These conflicts between believers and secularists played out in press scandals across the European continent. By taking the shrine seriously as a site of mass culture, Kaufman not only breaks down the opposition between sacred and profane but also deepens our understanding of commercialized religion as a fundamental feature of modernity itself.
Download or read book DUMAS The Greatest Works of the Father and the Son written by Alexandre Dumas and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-13 with total page 7958 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat presents the revolutionary works of French literature, the popular and influential classics of various genres and themes – action-adventures, historical thrillers, revealing the hypocrisy of the society, and the questioning of morals and beliefs through its main characters, all relatable until this day. This is the legacy of the French literary giants - Alexandre Dumas elder, and his son Alexandre Dumas younger: Alexandre Dumas pere: The D'Artagnan Romances The Three Musketeers Twenty Years After The Vicomte of Bragelonne Ten Years Later Louise de la Valliere The Man in the Iron Mask The Valois Trilogy: Marguerite de Valois (La Reine Margot) Chicot the Jester (La Dame de Monsoreau) The Forty-Five Guardsmen The Memoirs of a Physician Series: Joseph Balsamo (The Magician) The Mesmerist's Victim (Andrea de Taverney) The Queen's Necklace Taking the Bastille (Ange Pitou) The Countess de Charny (The Execution of King Louis XVI) Other Novels: The Count of Monte Cristo The Conspirators (The Chevalier d'Harmental) The Regent's Daughter (A Sequel to The Conspirators) The Hero of the People The Royal Life Guard (The Flight of the Royal Family) Captain Paul The Sicilian Bandit The Corsican Brothers The Companions of Jehu The Wolf Leader The Black Tulip The Last Vendee (The She-Wolves of Machecoul) The Prussian Terror (A Dramatic Memories) Short Stories: A Masked Ball Solange Other Works: Celebrated Crimes The Borgias The Cenci Massacres of the South Mary Stuart Karl-Ludwig Sand Urbain Grandier Nisida Derues La Constantin Joan of Naples The Man in the Iron Mask (An Essay) Martin Guerre Ali Pacha The Countess De Saint-Geran Murat The Marquise De Brinvilliers Vaninka The Marquise De Gange Alexandre Dumas fils: The Lady with the Camellias The Son of Clemenceau The Princess of Bagdad
Download or read book The Miracle written by Irving Wallace and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-07-10 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vatican Announces that the Virgin Mary will return to Lourdes this year to Perform A Miracle Cure! Will It Be A Miracle? Or Will It Be A Fraud? Precious lives, loves, and happiness are at stake: Ken Clayton: the young American who abandons medical treatment for the chance of miracle Edith Moore: the Englishwoman whose miracle cure has made her famous against her will Gisele Dupree, the French girl whose desperation to escape Lourdes will lead to violence Liz Finch: the hard-bitten journalist who wants to "expose" Lourdes and its miracles At the climax comes a surprise twist that only master storyteller Irving Wallace could pull off. First published in 1984 The Miracle has everything we expect from Wallace at his best: rich, authentic detail, fast-paced plotting, suspense, and vivid characters.
Download or read book The Dark Fae written by Terry Spear and published by Terry Spear. This book was released on 2011-05-13 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alicia has planned a vacation at South Padre Island with her girlfriend Cassie in forever. But just as they're enjoying a day on the beach, here comes a dark fae to spoil their holiday, except only she can see what he truly is. Alicia has no idea how upside down her world can turn with a chance meeting with one of the dark fae from the royal house of the Denkar. Alicia's always known she's different--that she can recognize the mischievous fae when they show up to "play" with the humans. Only now she's faced with one highly annoyed dark fae and she's certain he knows the truth about her. She can see him, which means her life is forfeit. Add to that, his sister arrives, who wants to play, too. And their mother, the queen of the Denkar, will want Alicia's head, once she learns what Alicia can do. And all because Alicia was attempting to rescue her friend, Cassie, on their beach excursion at South Padre Island, from the wicked fae. Now, Alicia has really gone and done it--and she's thinking she should have let the fae have his fun. Her friend's broken heart would be a lot easier to deal with, than Alicia losing her life. But it is too late for regrets. As soon as she threw the soda at the dark fae's chest, she had declared war on the fae. And he is happy to take up the challenge.
Download or read book The Virgin of Clan Sinclair written by Karen Ranney and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third sizzling romance in New York Times bestselling author Karen Ranney's Clan Sinclair series Ellice Traylor has a secret. Beneath her innocent exterior beats an incredibly passionate and imaginative heart. She has been pouring all of her frustrated virginal fantasies into a scandalous manuscript. But when her plans for her future are about to be derailed by her mother's matrimonial designs, she takes matters into her own hands. Ross Forster, the Earl of Gladsden, has spent his life creating order out of chaos. He expects discipline and calm from those around him. What he does not expect is a beautiful, thoroughly maddening stowaway in his carriage. But when Ross discovers Ellice's secret book, he finds he can't stop thinking about what other fantasies the disarming virgin can dream up. He has the chance to learn when a compromising position forces them to wed. But can the uptight Earl survive a life with his surprising new wife? And how will the hero of Ellice's fantasies compare to the husband of her reality?
Download or read book Grotto Stories written by and published by . This book was released on 1996-05 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Tablet written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Yehoshua Nazir written by Otoman Zar-Adusht Haʼnish and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sublime Spaces and Visionary Worlds written by Leslie Umberger and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2007-10-04 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The need to personalize our surroundings is a defining human characteristic. For some this need becomes a compulsion to transform their personal surroundings into works of art. The John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, has undertaken the mission to preserve these environments, which are presented for the first time in Sublime Spaces and Visionary Worlds. This colorful and inspiring book features the work of twenty-two vernacular artists whose locales, personal histories, and reasons for art-making vary widely but who all share a powerful connection to the home as art. Featured projects range from art environments that remain intact, such as Simon Rodia's Watts Towers in California, tosites lost over the years such as Emery Blagdon's six hundred elaborate "Healing Machines," made of copper, aluminum, tinfoil, magnets, ribbons, farm-machinery parts, painted light bulbs, beads, coffee-can lids, and more. Sublime Spaces and Visionary Worlds is the first book to explore these spectacularly offbeat spaces in detail.From "Original Rhinestone Cowboy" Loy Bowlin's wall-to-wall glitter-and-foil living room to the concrete bestiary of "witch of Fox Point" Mary Nohl, each artist and project is described in detail through a wealth of visuals and text. Sublime Spaces and Visionary Worlds reminds us that our decorative choices tell the world not just what we like but who we are.
Download or read book The Big Book of Classic Fantasy written by Ann Vandermeer and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-07-02 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A FINALIST FOR THE 2020 WORLD FANTASY AWARD • Unearth the enchanting origins of fantasy fiction with a collection of tales as vast as the tallest tower and as mysterious as the dark depths of the forest. Fantasy stories have always been with us. They illuminate the odd and the uncanny, the wondrous and the fantastic: all the things we know are lurking just out of sight—on the other side of the looking-glass, beyond the music of the impossibly haunting violin, through the twisted trees of the ancient woods. Other worlds, talking animals, fairies, goblins, demons, tricksters, and mystics: these are the elements that populate a rich literary tradition that spans the globe. A work composed both of careful scholarship and fantastic fun, The Big Book of Classic Fantasy is essential reading for anyone who’s never forgotten the stories that first inspired feelings of astonishment and wonder. INCLUDING: *Stories by pillars of the genre like the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, Mary Shelley, Christina Rossetti, L. Frank Baum, Robert E. Howard, and J. R. R. Tolkien *Fantastical offerings from literary giants including Edith Wharton, Leo Tolstoy, Willa Cather, Zora Neale Hurston, Vladimir Nabokov, Hermann Hesse, and W.E.B. Du Bois *Rare treasures from Asian, Eastern European, Scandinavian, and Native American traditions *New translations, including fourteen stories never before in English PLUS: *Beautifully Bizarre Creatures! *Strange New Worlds Just Beyond the Garden Path! *Fairy Folk and Their Dark Mischief! *Seriously Be Careful—Do Not Trust Those Fairies!
Download or read book Topsy and Tim Meet Father Christmas written by Jean Adamson and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2013-10-03 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join Topsy and Tim on a new adventure as they meet Father Christmas in this Ladybird festive ebook. Topsy and Tim are just like you! Their adventures are the perfect stories to reassure young children as they go through similar experiences themselves. In Topsy and Tim Meet Father Christmas the family are off to the local garden centre to choose a Christmas tree, and while they are there the twins meet a very special person. Inside Santa's Grotto is none other than Father Christmas himself! Topsy and Tim promise that they have been good all year, so Father Christmas gives them both a special present to take home. A trusted and well-loved pair who can help guide parents and children through 'first experiences', Topsy and Tim's stories have been beautifully updated with contemporary artwork. Topsy & Tim remain instantly recognisable to parents while in a fresh style that will appeal to a new generation of fans. Other titles are Topsy and Tim The New Baby, Topsy and Tim Have a Birthday party, Topsy and Tim Go on an Aeroplane, Topsy and Tim Play football, Topsy and Tim Go on a train, Topsy and Tim Learn to swim, Topsy and Tim Start school, Topsy and Tim Go camping, Topsy and Tim Go to hospital, Topsy and Tim Go to the zoo, Topsy and Tim Go to the dentist, Topsy and Tim At the farm, Topsy and Tim Go to the doctor, Topsy and Tim Have itchy heads, Topsy and Tim Meet the firefighters, Topsy and Tim Meet the police, Topsy and Tim Safety First, Topsy and Tim Go for gold, Topsy and Tim Visit London
Download or read book Delphi Complete Works of Emile Zola Illustrated written by Émile Zola and published by Delphi Classics. This book was released on 2013-10-20 with total page 11763 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Émile Zola was the most prominent French novelist of the late nineteenth century. He was noted for his theories of naturalism, which permeate his monumental 20-novel series ‘Les Rougon-Macquart’. Recognised in his lifetime as one of the greatest novelists of his era, Zola was also as a man of action, a defender of truth and justice, and a champion of the poor and persecuted. For the first time in publishing history, this eBook presents Zola’s complete works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 3) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Zola’s life and works * Concise introductions to the novels and other works * The complete Rougon-Macquart cycle, as well as all the other novels and series * Images of how the books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * The complete short stores * Includes Zola's famous 'J'accuse!', with explanatory introduction * Special criticism section, with essays by famous writers such as Henry James and James Joyce, evaluating Zola's contribution to literature * Features two bonus biographies by Zola's English translator * Special resources section, with the detailed listing of the Rougon-Macquart family tree, as well as an index of the main characters and locations in the twenty-novel series * Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres * UPDATED with improved texts and Vizetelly’s seminal biography CONTENTS: The Early Novels Claude’s Confession (1865) The Dead Woman’s Wish (1866) The Mystery of Marseille (1867) Therese Raquin (1867) Madeleine Ferat (1868) The Rougon-Macquart Cycle The Fortune of the Rougons (1871) The Rush for the Spoil (1871) The Fat and the Thin (1873) The Conquest of Plassans (1874) Abbe Mouret’s Transgression (1875) His Excellency Eugene Rougon (1876) The Dram Shop (1877) A Love Episode (1878) Nana (1880) Piping Hot (1882) The Ladies’ Paradise (1883) The Joy of Life (1884) Germinal (1885) His Masterpiece (1886) The Soil (1887) The Dream (1888) The Monomaniac (1890) Money (1891) The Downfall (1892) Doctor Pascal (1893) The Three Cities Lourdes (1894) Rome (1896) Paris (1898) The Four Gospels Fruitfulness (1899) Work (1901) Truth (1903) The Short Stories Stories for Ninon (1864) New Stories for Ninon (1874) The Attack on the Mill (1880) Miscellaneous Stories J’Accuse ! I Accuse...! (1898) The Criticism M. Zola (1892) by Arthur Quiller-Couch An Extract from ‘My Literary Passions’ (1895) by William Dean Howells Zola (1898) by Henryk Sienkiewicz Émile Zola (1902) by William Dean Howells Borlase and Son (1903) by James Joyce Émile Zola (1903) by Henry James The Zola Controversy (1915) by G. K. Chesterton The Biographies With Zola in England (1899) by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly Émile Zola: Novelist and Reformer (1904) by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly Resources The Rougon-Macquart Family Tree Index of Characters in the Rougon-Macquart Series Index of Locations in the Rougon-Macquart Series
Download or read book The Horizontal Oak written by Polly Pullar and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2022-07-21 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Peppered with humour, empathy and kindness' - Sunday Post Ever since her pet sheep Lulu accompanied her to school at the age of seven, animals and nature have been at the heart of Polly Pullar's world. Growing up in a remote corner of the Scottish West Highlands, she roamed freely through the spectacular countryside and met her first otters, seals, eagles and wildcats. But an otherwise idyllic childhood was marred by family secrets which ultimately turned to tragedy. Following the suicide of her alcoholic father and the deterioration of her relationship with her mother, as well as the break-up of her own marriage, Polly rebuilt her life, earning a reputation as a wildlife expert and rehabilitator, journalist and photographer. This is her extraordinary, inspirational story. Written with compassion, humour and optimism, Polly reflects on how her love of the natural world has helped her find the strength to forgive and understand her parents, and to find an equilibrium.
