Download or read book Maiden s Grave written by Kevan T. Hunt and published by Local Pocket Guides . This book was released on 2019-09-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in northern California’s Amador County, evil waits for opportunity among the quaint Gold Country mining towns, rolling vineyards, and wilderness of the Sierra Nevada mountain range. MAIDEN’S GRAVE introduces Sidney Dietrich, an ambitious young attorney at the top of her game fired from her San Francisco law firm when her father goes to prison for real-estate fraud. Sidney accepts a job in a small-town legal practice in the remote Sierra foothills, with little hope of finding meaning to her life in an isolated existence. Sidney’s godfather, Jack McGlynn introduces her to Maude Hill, the wealthy, widowed owner of Quarry Hill Vineyard, who asks for Sidney’s help in taking another look at the long-ago suicide of her brother, renowned artist Joshua Morgan. Sidney’s efforts to uncover the truth about Joshua’s suicide become complicated when the teenaged daughter of Quarry Hill’s foreman is found strangled at MAIDEN’S GRAVE, a lonely mountain vista in the high Sierras. Defending Maude’s son Jeremy unravels a dangerous web of family hatred, deceit, and revenge that has Sidney facing a cunning murderer who has killed before and if not stopped, will surely kill again.
Download or read book A Maiden s Grave written by Jeffery Deaver and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bus full of children is taken hostage in this “screaming hit” (The New York Times Book Review) from the author of The Never Game and The Bone Collector. Along a windswept Kansas road, eight vulnerable girls and their helpless teachers are forced off a school bus and held hostage in an abandoned slaughterhouse. The madman who has them at gunpoint has a simple plan: One hostage an hour will die unless the demands are met. Called to the scene is Arthur Potter, the FBI’s best hostage negotiator. He has a plan. But so does one of the hostages—a beautiful teacher who’s willing to do anything to save the lives of her students. Now the clock is ticking as a chilling game of cat and mouse begins.
Download or read book The Maiden of Ludmir written by Nathaniel Deutsch and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-10-06 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hannah Rochel Verbermacher, a Hasidic holy woman known as the Maiden of Ludmir, was born in early-nineteenth-century Russia and became famous as the only woman in the three-hundred-year history of Hasidism to function as a rebbe—or charismatic leader—in her own right. Nathaniel Deutsch follows the traces left by the Maiden in both history and legend to fully explore her fascinating story for the first time. The Maiden of Ludmir offers powerful insights into the Jewish mystical tradition, into the Maiden’s place within it, and into the remarkable Jewish community of Ludmir. Her biography ultimately becomes a provocative meditation on the complex relationships between history and memory, Judaism and modernity. History first finds the Maiden in the eastern European town of Ludmir, venerated by her followers as a master of the Kabbalah, teacher, and visionary, and accused by her detractors of being possessed by a dybbuk, or evil spirit. Deutsch traces the Maiden’s steps from Ludmir to Ottoman Palestine, where she eventually immigrated and re-established herself as a holy woman. While the Maiden’s story—including her adamant refusal to marry—recalls the lives of holy women in other traditions, it also brings to light the largely unwritten history of early-modern Jewish women. To this day, her transgressive behavior, a challenge to traditional Jewish views of gender and sexuality, continues to inspire debate and, sometimes, censorship within the Jewish community.
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Download or read book The Classical Poetry of the Japanese written by Basil Hall Chamberlain and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 2000, The Classical Poetry of the Japanese is a valuable contribution to the field of Asian Studies.
Download or read book Japanese Poetry written by Basil Hall Chamberlain and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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