Download or read book Life and Death on the Euphrates written by Timothy Verity and published by Verity Enterprises. This book was released on 2008 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Verity pens a story about the biblical Noah, his relationships with his family, friends, and enemies that is punctuated with drama, family intrigue, and visits from the Creator who imbues Noah with subtle but demonstrable powers that he calls upon whenever he is confronted with overwhelming opposition.

Download or read book Rise the Euphrates written by Carol Edgarian and published by Random House (NY). This book was released on 1994 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel of the American immigrant experience featuring three generations of Armenian women. The grandmother clings to the past, the daughter rejects it, and all the time they battle for the soul of the granddaughter.

Download or read book Rise the Euphrates written by Carol Edgarian and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An international bestseller, now available in this twentieth-anniversary revised edition, Rise the Euphrates reaches back to 1915, when nine-year-old Casard witnesses the massacre of her family during the Armenian genocide. Casard emigrates to America to put the unspeakable past behind her; yet as the years pass and her only daughter, Araxie, marries outside the clan, making her husband and their children odar-outsiders-the rift between mother and daughter threatens once again to tear the family apart. It falls to Seta, the novel's lyrical narrator and Casard's granddaughter, to alter her family's legacy. "The daughter assumes what is unfinished in her mother's life," Seta learns. Caught between the generations, and between the American and Armenian cultures in her Connecticut town, Seta confronts the fiercest division: the one within herself. The wisdom she gains frees the next generation in Carol Edgarian's stunningly original and groundbreaking novel. PRAISE FOR RISE THE EUPHRATES "This is a book whose generosity of spirit, intelligence, humanity and finally ambition are what literature ought to be and rarely is today - daring, heartbreaking and affirmative, giving order and sense to our random lives." -Washington Post Book World "Edgarian's sumptuous writing and uncommon wisdom about the human spirit and its maiming seep into a reader's heart, refusing to leave. This is a stunning debut, a book that will doubtless haunt its readers as it beguiles them." -The Miami Herald ..".Vivid, chilling...RISE THE EUPHRATES' richly drawn characters and the haunted voice of the narrator will long remain in readers' memories." -ROBERT STONE "How often do you get to read a book that captures you so entirely and deeply that it controls your days, measures them out and defines them by how long it will be before you can get to your next night's reading? RISE THE EUPHRATES is on of these rare treasures: a work of power, grace, beauty and exquisite tenderness. This book goes beyond the reading experience; it reminds you of your own hopes and terrors. RISE THE EUPHRATES will live for a long, long time in the manner of Wallace Stegner's "Angle of Repose" and Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird." -Rick Bass "A novel of extraordinary compassion, it's also a dead-on view of assimilation and the American experience." -Phoenix Gazette "The writing is so good it can raise the hairs on your neck." -Elizabeth Berg, Mademoiselle "To the list of well-wrought generational sagas-John Steinbeck's East of Eden, Alex Haley's Roots, and Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club-add [Carol Edgarian's] powerful first novel, RISE THE EUPHRATES." -Seattle Post-Intelligencer "Few first novels are as deeply felt, yet so clearly communicative, as this one. It touches universals while powerfully evoking the everyday world in which we cope within our families with past, present and future. . . . Edgarian's novel has literary award written on every page." -The San Diego Union-Tribune "RISE THE EUPHRATES is an important, powerful, poignant novel. . . . Carol Edgarian's prodigious talents as a storyteller, her ability to account what there was and was not for these Armenian Americans, should not be missed." -Don Lee, Ploughshares "RISE THE EUPHRATES packs an emotional wallop." -Elle "Where is Armenia today? . . . One could almost say that Armenia persists in Carol Edgarian's prose." -New York Times Book Review "A beautiful and generous book." -Chicago Tribune "One of the summer's Best Reads!" -Vogue

Download or read book Three Stages of Amazement written by Carol Edgarian and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-03-08 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping, richly compassionate novel about marriage, ambition, and the reclaiming of love—by the bestselling novelist and co-founder of Narrative magazine. Many love stories end in marriage; rare is the love story that begins with one— already promised, already worn. Set in San Francisco during the first year of Obama’s presidency, Three Stages of Amazement deftly charts the struggles and triumphs of Lena Rusch and her husband Charlie Pepper, who still believe they can have it all—sex, love, marriage, children, career, brilliance. But life delivers surprises and tests—a stillborn child, an economic crash, a ruthless business rival, and the attentions of an old lover. Touched by tragedy and by ordinary hopes unmet, Lena and Charlie must face, for the first time in their lives, real limitation. Fifteen years after her stunning debut, Rise the Euphrates, Carol Edgarian has created a panoramic and deeply moving story about business and family and the demands of love in our time. Three Stages of Amazement takes readers on a spellbinding journey inside America today, with an unforgettable cast of characters including Cal Rusch, Lena’s uncle, a Silicon Valley titan, and Ivy, his socialite wife, who engender complication in the lives of all the people they touch: their grown children, business partners, friends, the servants and workers upon whom their glamorous life depends—and Lena, whose quest for grace is the pulse of this gorgeous novel. As Lena and Charlie, Ivy and Cal face the temptations of their youth and the fantasy of starting over, they discover that real life is the ultimate challenge. Told with eloquence, wit, and compassion, Three Stages of Amazement is a true thriller of the heart, a riveting story about confronting adversity, gaining wisdom, and finding great love.

Download or read book Revelation written by and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final book of the Bible, Revelation prophesies the ultimate judgement of mankind in a series of allegorical visions, grisly images and numerological predictions. According to these, empires will fall, the "Beast" will be destroyed and Christ will rule a new Jerusalem. With an introduction by Will Self.

Download or read book The Far Euphrates written by Aryeh Lev Stollman and published by Berkley. This book was released on 1998 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Jewish boy's coming of age in the shadow of the Holocaust. Alexander, 16, of Windsor, Ontario, is tormented by stories of death camps recounted by his family and desperately tries to find meaning.

Download or read book The Ancient Euphrates written by Charnan Simon and published by . This book was released on 2004-08 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the geography and wildlife of the Euphrates River and its surrounding lands.

Download or read book Enemy on the Euphrates written by Ian Rutledge and published by Saqi. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1920 an Arab revolt came perilously close to inflicting a shattering defeat upon the British Empire's forces occupying Iraq after the Great War. A huge peasant army besieged British garrisons and bombarded them with captured artillery. British columns and armoured trains were ambushed and destroyed, and gunboats were captured or sunk. Britain's quest for oil was one of the principal reasons for its continuing occupation of Iraq. However, with around 131,000 Arabs in arms at the height of the conflict, the British were very nearly driven out. Only a massive infusion of Indian troops prevented a humiliating rout. Enemy on the Euphrates is the definitive account of the most serious armed uprising against British rule in the twentieth century. Bringing central players such as Winston Churchill, T. E. Lawrence and Gertrude Bell vividly to life, Ian Rutledge's masterful account is a powerful reminder of how Britain's imperial objectives sowed the seeds of Iraq's tragic history.

Download or read book Euphrates Or The Waters of the East written by Eugenius Philalethes and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Narrative of the Euphrates Expedition written by Francis Rawdon Chesney and published by London, Longmans. This book was released on 1868 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Narrative of the Euphrates expedition 1835 1836 and 1837 written by Francis Rawdon Chesney and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Euphrates and the Tigris written by Euphrates river and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Prophecy Proof Insights of the End Times written by Wayne Croley and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-04 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in a time when false religious teachings are on the rise, including in the area of Bible prophecy. Prophecy Proof Insights of the End Times aims to provide you the truth about key end time events, including the Rapture and the great tribulation. Learn the truth about the end times, so you will not be led astray when the end times arrive.

Download or read book The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers written by Earle Rice and published by Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-09-30 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are few rivers in the world which can boast a history as long and as colorful as the Tigris and Eurphrates. Known in ancient times as Mesopotamia, the region between the two rivers and surrounding them is called the “Cradle of Civilization.” Sumer, the world’s first major civilization, originated and grew up on the banks of the two rivers because of the fertile soil the rivers helped to produce. Several other important civilizations, such as Babylonia and Assyria, followed Sumer in succeeding centuries. Many of the world’s most important inventions, such as writing, originated here. But all is not well with the rivers today. Several countries compete for the previous, life–giving water of the Tigris and Euphrates. Climate change threatens to reduce the amount of this water.

Download or read book The Expedition for the Survey of the Rivers Euphrates and Tigris written by Francis Rawdon Chesney and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 956 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Queit Euphrates written by Kahtan Mandwee and published by Al Manhal. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 807 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: `` The Quiet Euphrates depicts the epic tragedies of the Iraqis and their savagely brutalized country. The major protagonist, Reema Al-Fazaa, the wealthiest, most beautiful, and influential woman in the Middle East, finds herself not only a prisoner of her opulent palace on the Euphrates, built of the blood money amassed by her tyrannical father, Sheikh Jessas Al-Fazaa, but also a victim of her own heritage, a stoic code of tribal honor, and the rigid, unforgiving social and religious environment in which she becomes a woman. The Quiet Euphrates traces the harsh circumstances which first bring Reema to wealth and power, and eventually lead to her demise and downfall from grace, and the loss of her most precious virtues, her honor for which she killed three times. From a princess to a prostitute, the novel takes the reader to the Arabic-Islamic way of life and discusses honor-killing, arranged marriages, vengeance, and other calamities of the Arab society. While Reema is a unique lady in the history of the Middle East, her horrific fate is emblematic of the same violence that has destroyed Iraq. The Quiet Euphrates is as much a story about Iraq and the Iraqis as it is about Reema Al-Fazaa, exposing the tragedies and triumphs that dominated Iraqi politics, society, and above all tradition. Thus, the themes of this book ````the Quiet Euphrates`````` Descriptor(s): FICTION | ENGLISH NOVELS | HISTORICAL STORIES | LITERARY FORMS | LITERARY TEXTS | MODERN AGE

Download or read book Crossing the Euphrates written by Shoghagat Sharon Aroian and published by . This book was released on 2015-12-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CROSSING THE EUPHRATES is a wonderfully readable and moving historical novel, bringing to life a too often forgotten, century old story with vivid immediacy. It tells the harrowing escape and survival of a man who lost everyone and everything during the first genocide of the 20th century, inflicted on ethnic Armenians by the fading Ottoman Empire in 1915. It is also a story about the love and deep bond between a beloved grandfather and his granddaughter who had been entrusted to care for his diaries only upon his death. His shocking sudden death along with her inconsolable grief catapulted her into uncovering the true horrors of what he endured yet never spoke about. This discovery brought her to terms with her own unspoken ghosts that had always haunted her every move and even led her to a profession in Family Mental Health and becoming a Child Development Specialist. The importance of this story to the author herself is underscored by the unusual approach she takes, addressing her main character directly as she attempts to understand the enormity of the terrible events he lived through, while she herself finally is able to stop the forces that shadowed her all her life by becoming able to lay down the dead she had never known she was carrying.