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Book The Lady in the Veil

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  • Author : Leah Fleming
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2015-05-21
  • ISBN : 1471141020
  • Pages : 121 pages

Download or read book The Lady in the Veil written by Leah Fleming and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-05-21 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I found the photograph album by chance when we were clearing out the old coach house. It must have been sitting on the garage shelf for years among all the other family rejects.' When a woman finds a lost photo album in a garage clearout, she is drawn to the images of her ancestors. But one image in particular stands out: a baby sitting in the lap of its mother, both draped from head to toe in a cotton lace curtain or something, completely enveloped and unrecognizable. Who are they and what has happened to them? In a story that moves between 2012 and 1850, the shocking secrets of one family are gradually revealed…

Book The Veiled Lady

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  • Author : Agatha Christie
  • Publisher : Harper Collins
  • Release : 2013-07-02
  • ISBN : 0062298151
  • Pages : 26 pages

Download or read book The Veiled Lady written by Agatha Christie and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-07-02 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previously published in the print anthology Poirot's Early Cases. A woman about to be married is blackmailed by a former flame who threatens to send her fiancé an old love letter she wrote.

Book The Lady in the White Veil

Download or read book The Lady in the White Veil written by Rose Cecil O'Neill and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Removing the Veil

Download or read book Removing the Veil written by Margaret English and published by Bridge Logos Foundation. This book was released on 2008 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Removing the Veil presents God's way for men and women to relate to each other, both in the leadership of Christ's Church and in the family. Through fine exegetical work, Margaret English has uncovered God's true framework for leadership, relationships, and family harmony. Removing the Veil: Helps women realize their gifts and callings, Explores women's roles in the Church's end-times work, Celebrates the gifts and benefits women bring to the Church. "As a young woman and new believer, recently delivered from much," English writes, "I experienced an intense sense of God's call to ministry. Yet, as I sought to find encouragement and support, I discovered only locked doors and insurmountable walls. The Church seemed to be standing over me with folded arms and pinched lips, doubting and rejecting a calling I could not deny. Endlessly, I questioned why? Why would the Lord call me to ministry by His Spirit, only to then surround me with a steel vault of teachings and attitudes that blocked my entrance and denied my gifts? I heard but one reply: 'Study the Scriptures regarding women.'... Each dya, for more than a decade, I sat at my kitchen table and studied the Bible's passages pertaining to women. I began with Proverbs 31. That was merely the first leg of my journey...." Removing the Veil reveals our history, our hearts, and our hope, and calls women of the Church to arise! Book jacket.

Book A Little Girl Dreams of Taking the Veil

Download or read book A Little Girl Dreams of Taking the Veil written by Max Ernst and published by George Braziller. This book was released on 1982 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Lady in the Veil

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  • Author : James O. Hall
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1975
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 10 pages

Download or read book The Lady in the Veil written by James O. Hall and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Face Behind the Veil

Download or read book The Face Behind the Veil written by Donna Gehrke-White and published by Citadel Press. This book was released on 2007-02 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Muslim-American women, in all their diversity, are given the chance to tell their stories in their own voice by award-winning journalist Donna Gehrke-White. The only book of its kind, it tells in extraordinarily moving detail the lives of New Traditionalists, who wear the veil though their forebears did not; Blenders, who do not wear the veil but consider themselves spiritual; and Converts - women from other religious backgrounds who have converted to Islam. A rare, revealing look into the hearts, minds and lives of a misunderstood people.

Book A Companion to Impressionism

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  • Author : André Dombrowski
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • Release : 2021-09-14
  • ISBN : 1119373891
  • Pages : 644 pages

Download or read book A Companion to Impressionism written by André Dombrowski and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 21st century's first major academic reassessment of Impressionism, providing a new generation of scholars with a comprehensive view of critical conversations Presenting an expansive view of the study of Impressionism, this extraordinary volume breaks new thematic ground while also reconsidering established questions surrounding the definition, chronology, and membership of the Impressionist movement. In 34 original essays from established and emerging scholars, this collection considers a diverse range of developing topics and offers new critical approaches to the interpretation of Impressionist art. Focusing on the 1860s to 1890s, this Companion explores artists who are well-represented in Impressionist studies, including Monet, Renoir, Degas, and Cassatt, as well as Morisot, Caillebotte, Bazille, and other significant yet lesser-known artists. The essays cover a wide variety of methodologies in addressing such topics as Impressionism's global predominance at the turn of the 20th century, the relationship between Impressionism and the emergence of new media, the materials and techniques of the Impressionists, and the movement's exhibition and reception history. Part of the acclaimed Wiley Blackwell Companions to Art History series, this important new addition to scholarship in this field: Reevaluates the origins, chronology, and critical reception of French Impressionism Discusses Impressionism's account of modern identity in the contexts of race, nationality, gender, and sexuality Explores the global reach and influence of Impressionism in Europe, the Middle East, East Asia, North Africa, and the Americas Considers Impressionism's relationship to the emergence of film and photography in the 19th century Considers Impressionism's representation of the private sphere as compared to its depictions of public issues such as empire, finance, and environmental change Addresses the Impressionist market and clientele, period criticism, and exhibition displays from the late 19th century to the middle of the 20th century Features original essays by academics, curators, and conservators from around the world, including those from France, Germany, the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, Turkey, and Argentina The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Impressionism is an invaluable text for students and academics studying Impressionism and late 19th century European art, Post-Impressionism, modern art, and modern French cultural history.

Book The William S  Paley Collection

Download or read book The William S Paley Collection written by William Rubin and published by The Museum of Modern Art. This book was released on 2012 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "William S. Paley, founder of CBS, Inc., and a towering figure in the development of entertainment and communications industries, was also a committed collector and patron of modern art. This book catalogues the highly personal collection of paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings, by such artists as [Paul] Cézanne, [Paul] Gauguin, [Henri] Matisse, [Pablo] Picasso, and others, that he bequeathed to the Museum of Modern Art. ..."--Back cover.

Book The Veiled Woman of Achill

Download or read book The Veiled Woman of Achill written by Patricia Byrne and published by Gill & Macmillan Ltd. This book was released on 2012-04-07 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At Valley House on Achill Island in 1894, an English landowner, Agnes MacDonnell, was brutally attacked and her home burnt. James Lynchehaun, her former land agent, was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment. He escaped twice and won a groundbreaking case in the United States successfully resisting extradition. . A Franciscan monk in Achill, Brother Paul Carney, who had befriended and assisted Lynchehaun, wrote up the fugitive's story, and Lynchehaun became a folk hero. John Millington Synge visited Mayo in 1904/1905 and decided to locate The Playboy of the Western World in north Mayo. Lynchehaun was one of Synge's inspirations for constructing the character of Christy Mahon. The crime, the trial and escapes, and the island tensions are unravelled in a gripping account.

Book Behind the Veil

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  • Author : E. J. Dawson
  • Publisher : Literary Wanderlust
  • Release : 2021-10
  • ISBN : 9781942856887
  • Pages : 292 pages

Download or read book Behind the Veil written by E. J. Dawson and published by Literary Wanderlust. This book was released on 2021-10 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1920s Los Angeles, Letitia Hawking inhabits the veil between life and death. Using her scrying bowl to experience the final moments of the deceased, Letitia brings what little closure she can to her clients, allowing them to move on with their lives. Grief-stricken war widows and mourning families find peace when they visit Letitia. She knows no such peace. For Letitia, it's penance.For Alasdair Driscoll, Letitia's abilities offer the chance to save his beloved niece, Finola, from her nightmares and-as he fears-her growing insanity. But when Letitia sees a shadowy figure attached to the Driscoll family, old fears of her unspeakable past in England surface. She refuses to help him, despite his money and insistence. Instead, Letitia finds herself facing a father whose young daughter has been kidnapped-the third girl to have gone missing in as many months. Evading a determined Mr. Driscoll, a man used to getting his way, proves difficult. And as the darkness creeps in, Letitia makes the connection between the missing girls and Finola: the shadows haunting her visions. Letitia thought she could find refuge in a new, burgeoning city, far from her past. But she'll discover that unless she helps Mr. Driscoll rid his niece of her nightmares, the shadows will haunt Letitia-risking not only her newfound sanctuary but also her very sanity.

Book The House in the Hollow

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  • Author : Allie Cresswell
  • Publisher : Allie Cresswell
  • Release : 2020-10-20
  • ISBN : 9781916072039
  • Pages : 390 pages

Download or read book The House in the Hollow written by Allie Cresswell and published by Allie Cresswell. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **The new novel by the best-selling author Allie Cresswell****A prequel to the award-winning Tall Chimneys**The Talbots are wealthy. But their wealth is from 'trade'. With neither ancient lineage nor title, they struggle for entrance into elite Regency society. Finally, aided by an impecunious viscount, they gain access to the drawing rooms of England's most illustrious houses.Mrs Talbot intends her daughter Jocelyn to marry well, to eliminate the stain of the family's ignoble beginnings. But the young men Jocelyn meets are vacuous, seeing Jocelyn as merely a substantial dowry. Only Lieutenant Barnaby Willow sees the real Jocelyn, but he is deployed to war. The hypocrisy of fashionable society repulses Jocelyn-beneath the courtly manners she finds deceit, dissipation and vice. She stumbles upon and then is embroiled in a sordid scandal which threatens utter disgrace for the Talbot family. Humiliated and dishonoured, she is sent to a remote house hidden in a hollow of the Yorkshire moors, irrevocably separated from family, friends and any hope of hearing about the lieutenant's fate.

Book Aphrodite s Tortoise

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  • Author : Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
  • Publisher : Classical Press of Wales
  • Release : 2003-12-31
  • ISBN : 1910589896
  • Pages : 369 pages

Download or read book Aphrodite s Tortoise written by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones and published by Classical Press of Wales. This book was released on 2003-12-31 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greek women routinely wore the veil. That is the unexpected finding of this meticulous study, one with interesting implications for the origins of Western civilisation. The Greeks, popularly (and rightly) credited with the invention of civic openness, are revealed as also part of a more Eastern tradition of seclusion. Llewellyn-Jones' work proceeds from literary and, notably, from iconographic evidence. In sculpture and vase painting it demonstrates the presence of the veil, often covering the head, but also more unobtrusively folded back onto the shoulders. This discreet fashion not only gave a priviledged view of the face to the ancient art consumer, but also, incidentally, allowed the veil to escape the notice of traditional modern scholarship. From Greek literary sources, the author shows that full veiling of the head and face was commonplace. He analyses the elaborate Greek vocabulary for veiling and explores what the veil meant to achieve. He shows that the veil was a conscious extension of the house and was often referred to as `tegidion', literally `a little roof'. Veiling was thus an ingeneous compromise; it allowed women to circulate in public while mainting the ideal of a house-bound existence. Alert to the different types of veil used, the author uses Greek and more modern evidence (mostly from the Arab world) to show how women could exploit and subvert the veil as a means of eloquent, sometimes emotional, communication. First published in 2003 and reissued as a paperback in 2010, Llewellyn-Jones' book has established itself as a central - and inspiring - text for the study of ancient women.

Book Washington Through a Purple Veil

Download or read book Washington Through a Purple Veil written by Lindy Boggs and published by Niagara. This book was released on 1995-12 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At twenty-four, Lindy Boggs came to Washington, D.C., from Louisiana with her newly elected husband, Democratic Congressman Hale Boggs. FDR was starting his third term, Europe was at war, and Pearl Harbor was around the corner. She has been there ever since, playing an integral role in the key events of the last half century. Now, in Washington Through a Purple Veil, Congresswoman Lindy Boggs shares the triumphs as well as the trials of living a life of public service. In this intimate memoir - rich with anecdotes about "official" and "unofficial" Washington and illustrated with over thirty photographs from her personal collection - Lindy Boggs speaks about her congressional tenure, her family life, the faith that has sustained her through the disappearance of her husband and the death of her daughter, and all that is meaningful to her.

Book Rage Against the Veil

Download or read book Rage Against the Veil written by Parvin Darabi and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2010-10-04 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mother and son recall a childhood of limited resources, tensions, and religiously advocated child abuse during the politically tempestuous '50s and '60s in Iran. Photos.

Book The Lady in the Veil  A Novel of West and East

Download or read book The Lady in the Veil A Novel of West and East written by Nādir Khān Aḣmad ʻAbd Allāh (al-Idrīsī al-Durrānī.) and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Beyond the Veil

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  • Author : Pran Nevile
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 152 pages

Download or read book Beyond the Veil written by Pran Nevile and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: