Download or read book The Treasured Thief written by Ryan Foley and published by Campfire. This book was released on 2012-01-17 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient Egypt... In the time of pyramids and pharaohs... A beautiful young princess travels to the grand city of Memphis--home to the legendary pharaoh Rhampsinitus. She intends to merely search the land for a husband, but while meeting with the local men, the princess becomes privy to a secret, sinister tale. The Treasured Thief is a story about desperation, thievery, and murder, but it is also a story about family, sacrifice, and love. As this secret tale is laid bare before her, the princess learns of three feats of impossible brotherhood, ingenuity, and boldness on the part of a man who dared thwart the will of a king.
Download or read book My Perfect One written by Jonathan Kaplan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most studies of the history of interpretation of Song of Songs focus on its interpretation from late antiquity to modernity. In My Perfect One, Jonathan Kaplan examines earlier rabbinic interpretation of this work by investigating an underappreciated collection of works of rabbinic literature from the first few centuries of the Common Era, known as the tannaitic midrashim. In a departure from earlier scholarship that too quickly classified rabbinic interpretation of Song of Songs as allegorical, Kaplan advocates a more nuanced reading of the approach of the early sages, who read Song of Songs through a mode of typological interpretation concerned with the correspondence between Scripture and ideal events in Israel's history. Throughout the book Kaplan explores ways in which this portrayal helped shape a model vision of rabbinic piety as well as of an idealized vision of their beloved, God, in the wake of the destruction, dislocation, and loss the Jewish community experienced in the first two centuries of the Common Era. The archetypal and idealized language of Song of Songs provided, as Kaplan argues, a textual landscape in which to imagine an idyllic construction of Israel's relationship to her beloved, marked by mutual devotion and fidelity. Through this approach to Song of Songs, the Tannaim helped lay the foundations for later Jewish thought of a robust theology of intimacy in God's relationship with the Jewish people.
Download or read book The Porcelain Thief written by Huan Hsu and published by Crown. This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A journalist travels throughout mainland China and Taiwan in search of his family’s hidden treasure and comes to understand his ancestry as he never has before. In 1938, when the Japanese arrived in Huan Hsu’s great-great-grandfather Liu’s Yangtze River hometown of Xingang, Liu was forced to bury his valuables, including a vast collection of prized antique porcelain, and undertake a decades-long trek that would splinter the family over thousands of miles. Many years and upheavals later, Hsu, raised in Salt Lake City and armed only with curiosity, moves to China to work in his uncle’s semiconductor chip business. Once there, a conversation with his grandmother, his last living link to dynastic China, ignites a desire to learn more about not only his lost ancestral heirlooms but also porcelain itself. Mastering the language enough to venture into the countryside, Hsu sets out to separate the layers of fact and fiction that have obscured both China and his heritage and finally complete his family’s long march back home. Melding memoir, travelogue, and social and political history, The Porcelain Thief offers an intimate and unforgettable way to understand the complicated events that have defined China over the past two hundred years and provides a revealing, lively perspective on contemporary Chinese society from the point of view of a Chinese American coming to terms with his hyphenated identity.
Download or read book The Art Thief written by Michael Finkel and published by Knopf Canada. This book was released on 2023-06-27 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • One of the most remarkable true-crime narratives of the twenty-first century: the story of the world’s most prolific art thief, Stéphane Breitwieser. • “The Art Thief, like its title character, has confidence, élan, and a great sense of timing."—The New Yorker "Enthralling." —The Wall Street Journal In this spellbinding portrait of obsession and flawed genius, the best-selling author of The Stranger in the Woods brings us into Breitwieser’s strange world—unlike most thieves, he never stole for money, keeping all his treasures in a single room where he could admire them. For centuries, works of art have been stolen in countless ways from all over the world, but no one has been quite as successful at it as the master thief Stéphane Breitwieser. Carrying out more than two hundred heists over nearly eight years—in museums and cathedrals all over Europe—Breitwieser, along with his girlfriend who worked as his lookout, stole more than three hundred objects, until it all fell apart in spectacular fashion. In The Art Thief, Michael Finkel brings us into Breitwieser’s strange and fascinating world. Unlike most thieves, Breitwieser never stole for money. Instead, he displayed all his treasures in a pair of secret rooms where he could admire them to his heart’s content. Possessed of a remarkable athleticism and an innate ability to circumvent practically any security system, Breitwieser managed to pull off a breathtaking number of audacious thefts. Yet these strange talents bred a growing disregard for risk and an addict’s need to score, leading Breitwieser to ignore his girlfriend’s pleas to stop—until one final act of hubris brought everything crashing down. This is a riveting story of art, crime, love, and an insatiable hunger to possess beauty at any cost.
Download or read book Journal of Discourses written by Brigham Young and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Jewel Thief written by Jeannie Mobley and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-05-26 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lush, slow-burn romance set in 17th century France, and based on the history of the Hope Diamond--The Glittering Court meets Alex and Eliza. Her story begins . . . in Paris. The only daughter of the King's crown jeweler, Juliette marvels at the large, deep-blue diamond Louis XIV has commanded her father to make shine like the sun. But Jean Pitau has never cut a diamond quite like this, and shaping it is a risky endeavor. As Jean spirals into depression, Juliette takes it upon herself to cut the stone, and with every misstep, brings her family closer to ruin. Her story resumes . . . in a cold, dark cell of the Bastille prison. Charged with stealing the King's diamond, Juliette has but one chance to convince him that her motives were pure. If she fails, this night may very well be her last. Though, death wouldn't be her worst fate. Because recording Juliette's confession is René, a court-appointed scribe, and the man she loves. But René holds his own grudge against Juliette, and this is her one and only chance to win back his heart.
Download or read book The Thief Who Sang Storms written by Sophie Anderson and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2023-05-02 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary tale of unity and friendship from the award-winning, internationally-bestselling author of The House With Chicken Legs The Island of Morovia is shaped like a broken heart. The humans live on one side of the island, and the alkonosts -- the bird-people -- live on the other. But it wasn't always this way... Linnet wishes she could sing magic, like her father, Nightingale -- and bring the two sides of her island together again. For her land has been divided by a terrible tragedy, and Linnet has been banished with her father to the deepest swamps, leaving behind her best friends, Hero and Silver. So when her father is captured, Linnet must be brave and embark on a treacherous journey. Through alligator pools and sinking sands, she finds new friends. Yet without her singing magic, Linnet discovers something even more powerful. Something that could save her father, and heal the broken heart of her island once more...
Download or read book Yes I Will written by Abby Ranes and published by Covenant Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-04-08 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you feel you have gifts, talents, and dreams that are being lost in the shuffle of daily life? God is calling you to a place of obedience. He has gifted you with skills only you possess. The question is, are you willing to say "Yes, I will" to him? Yes, I Will not only challenges you to uncover what God is calling you to but also demands you to make the intentional choice of obedience to what God is calling you to. God is calling you to something greater than you could ever imagine; you just have to be willing to say, "Yes, I will."
Download or read book The Eagle written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 940 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Journal of Discourses written by and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proceedings written by Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of members in nos. 1, 6-
Download or read book The House of the Vestals written by Steven Saylor and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-01-05 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nine crime stories featuring Gordianus the Finder, a detective in ancient Rome who marries his slave. Part mystery, part a social history of the period from the end of Sulla's dictatorship to the Spartacan slave revolt.
Download or read book The Insider written by Pamela Barber and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just imagine if you could actually see the Holy Spirit. What would it be like when you invite him into your heart if your heart was really a house? And what if you and he could go from room to room, exploring everything in your life, each room representing something different about you: your work, your hobbies, what you do to relax, your thoughts, and everything else that makes you who you are. How would you like going on adventures and traveling to places you've only dreamed about accompanied by Jesus and all within the vastness of your own heart? Think how exciting it would be to talk to people who are in the Bible, like Moses, or wouldn't you enjoy going fishing with Peter? And how would you like to learn lessons from his word by passing unusual tests, some fun, some not so fun. This is a story about a young man named Josh who experiences all of those things and more. It explores the possibility of giving Jesus endless room to show us who he really is, God Almighty who created everything, our best friend and Savior who loves us dearly and wants to be a part of every "room" in our heart.
Download or read book Authorizing the Shogunate written by Vyjayanthi R. Selinger and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-07-11 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Genpei War of 1180-1185 signaled a crucial shift in Japanese history because it gave birth to the shogunate, or government run by warriors. How was the emergence of this new polity following a contentious civil war explained in literary texts? This book argues that political authority is made visible in the variant texts of the Heike monogatari corpus through rituals that map the ideal social-cosmic order, overwriting untidy historical realities. Artifacts of material culture likewise provide the social and political codes to authenticate warrior power and manage its violence. Through its focus on ritual and material practices, this book offers a new perspective on how texts from fourteenth century Japan harnessed symbolic understandings of authority to evoke order and contain rupture. Equally significant is its analysis of the Genpei jōsuiki a Heike monogatari variant that played a critical role in the retrospection of medieval Japan through the early modern period.
Download or read book The Legacy written by Marcella Denise Spencer and published by Hamitic Press. This book was released on with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series includes three short stories: Stolen, Lost, and Restored. Stolen - Hagar, an Egyptian maidservant was granted a divine promise. Through her son, Ishmael, her descendants would number in the multitudes. When twelve sons are born to Ishmael, a bust sculpted in Hagar’s likeness was adorned to commemorate the legacy. After a caravan from Ur visits Ishmael’s camp, the treasured bust disappears. The thief takes it to where he presumes the Ishmaelites would never find it – 1812 AD. London 1812 Eleanor Griffin, housemaid to Lord Bureyton is thought to have witnessed a crime. The theft of his lordships newly acquired bust. But all she saw was a man vanish - right before her eyes. Bureyton begins punishing Eleanor for his loss. She fears that the daily lashings will end her life, and decides to run away, disappear like that man had. But that man had time traveled, and when Eleanor follows suit, she ends up in twenty-first century London. Lost - High school teacher Adriana Fletcher has a secret, one she would be content to keep. An odd circumstance surrounds her birth. The blessed event occurred two thousand years ago. Adriana has no idea who she really is. After a futile search for her birth parents, she wonders whether her best friend Amelia Whitford is right, maybe she was born in ancient times. Restored - Asabi Rose, a new servant, joins the Whitford household and becomes friends with the master's niece, Amelia. When Asabi reveals her noble status, Amelia sets out to return the servant to her home in an unconventional way.
Download or read book Hitler s Art Thief written by Susan Ronald and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-09-22 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sensational story of a cache of masterpieces not seen since they vanished during the Nazi terror—a bizarre tale of a father and aged son, of secret deals, treachery and the search for truth.
Download or read book Journal of discourses By B Young and others Reported by G D Watt and others written by George D Watt and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
