Download or read book The Woman of the Flask written by Salim Matar and published by American University in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2005-03-01 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Woman of the Flask is a most original novel a blend of grim realism and fantasy. Two Iraqi exiles reach Switzerland, having escaped from Saddam's Iraq. One of them, Adam, has brought with him an old flask found among the possessions of his late father who came from the Marshlands of southern Iraq. He polishes it and opens it: a fabulously beautiful nubile young woman appears. She has, it emerges, been the lover of his ancestors going back five thousand years. The novel weaves together the threads of her memories of Adam's ancestors, his day-to-day life and his work as a computer programmer, his fellow-exile, his Swiss wife, and his coping with the woman of the flask. She is not happy with immortality, and Adam and his friend confront both a European bureaucracy and an alternative world of magic and fantasy. The reader is swept along by a dizzyingly compelling narrative, unsure where the story is going but fascinated by the journey. The novel reflects the complexities of the world of today's Iraqis an unprecedented history, a grimmer recent past, but with prospects that challenge imagination.
Download or read book The Witchling s Girl written by Helena Coggan and published by Hodderscape. This book was released on 2021-01-07 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Coggan invites you to be with characters who, for all the magic and wonder of the world she creates, are entirely relatable - women bound by duty and justice, love and fear, trying to find their own paths in a world not of their making. It gave me hope; it made me cry. It's a fantastically good book.' - Claire North, author of The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August In a quiet street far from the river, with an ancient tree growing through its walls and floors, is the House of the Dead. There lives the witchling: healer, midwife and conduit between the world of the living and the world below. A witchling must give up her family and friends and spend her life alone, tending to the sick and carrying the dead down dark tunnels to the underworld. Haley was born with the gift of death-magic, and at the age of seven her mother abandons her to the witchling to be raised as her successor. But as Haley grows older and learns her craft - as invading armies pass through her town, people are born and die on her floor, and loyalties shift and dissolve around her - she finds it harder and harder to keep her vows and be the perfect and impassive healer. But if she can't, it will be her downfall - and that of everyone she's not supposed to love . . . ************** Further praise for Helena Coggan: 'Vivid and intense. Helena Coggan had me on the edge of my seat' - Amanda Bouchet, bestselling author of The Kingmaker Chronicles 'A phenomenal achievement . . . assured, frightening, action-packed'- Observer 'Tense, exciting, engaging' - Claire North, author of The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August 'A pulsing, labyrinthine, emotionally visceral plot' - Metro 'The plot pulses with action and the characters are beautifully complex. This is a book that sparks with adrenaline and longing, all the way to the final page' - Rebecca Ross, author of The Queen's Rising
Download or read book The Half Pint Flask written by DuBose Heyward and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Removal of flask from grave of negro boy incites voodoo vengeance ending in insane terror.
Download or read book the woman of the flask written by selim matar and published by American Univ in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel is a blend of grim realism and fantasy. Two Iraqi exiles reach Switzerland. One of them has a flask found among the possessions of his late father who came from the Marshlands of southern Iraq. He polishes it and opens it: a fabulously beautiful nubile young woman appears.
Download or read book The Flask written by Nicky Singer and published by HarperCollins Children's Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Twelve-year-old Jess is anxiously awaiting the birth of her twin brothers, when she finds a mysterious glass flask hidden in a desk. The flask is beautiful to Jess, and she's sure she can see something beneath the surface of the glass -- something extraordinary, something magical ... so when the twins are born critically ill, Jess becomes convinced that the mysterious force inside the flask could keep them alive"--Jacket flap. First person recount. Suggested level: intermediate, junior secondary.
Download or read book Commentary on the New Testament written by Robert H. Gundry and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 2399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Verse-by-verse explanations with a literal translation Shouldn't a Bible commentary clarify what God's Word actually says? Going beyond questions of authorship, date, sources, and historicity, respected linguist and teacher Gundry offers a one-volume exposition of the New Testament that focuses on what is most useful for preaching, teaching, and individual study--what the biblical text really means. Providing interpretive observations in a "breezy" style that's easy to read and adaptable for oral use in pulpit or classroom presentations, Gundry directs his book to an evangelical audience. His crisp translation of the New Testament inserts various phrasings of passages in brackets, allowing for smooth transition from original text to alternative and contemporary readings. SAMPLE TEXT OF TRANSLATION JOHN'S PREDICTING A MORE POWERFUL BAPTIZER THAN HE (Mark 1:1-8) 1:1-3: The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, God's Son, according as it's written in Isaiah the prophet, "Behold, I'm sending my messenger before your face [= ahead of you], who'll pave your way [= the road you'll travel], [the messenger who is] the voice of one crying out in the wilderness, 'Prepare the way of the Lord. Make his paths straight.'" Pastors, Sunday school teachers, small-group leaders, and laypeople will welcome Gundry's non-technical explanations and clarifications. And Bible students at all levels will appreciate his sparkling interpretations of the NT Scriptures. A trustworthy guide for anybody wanting to delve deeper into God's Word. SAMPLE TEXT OF COMMENTS "Gospel" means "good news." Jews would associate this good news with Isaiah 52:7. Non-Jews would think of the good news of an emperor's accession to power, birthday, visit to a city, military victory, or bringing of prosperity to the empire. But Mark's good news has to do with the salvation and victory brought by Jesus over evil in all its demonic and physical forms. "The gospel of Jesus Christ" therefore means "the gospel about Jesus Christ" and refers to a proclaimed message ("the voice of one crying out"), not a book (though because books like Mark's contain that proclaimed message, the term came to refer to those books in the capitalized form of "Gospels" to distinguish them from the message, kept uncapitalized as "gospel").
Download or read book The Four Gospels Harmonized and Translated by Leo Tolstoy written by graf Leo Tolstoy and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Jesus the Messiah the Millennial Edition written by Bible Student. com and published by Lightning Source. This book was released on 2004-06 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this Topical Harmony, Bible Student.com has adapted the Life of Christ college course by Ward R. Williams, Ph. D. University of Minnesota, and related the four Gospels to each other in groups with Historical facts, maps, timelines and illustrations for you to learn vital accurate information about the Life of Jesus . It may also used as a pulpit bible with sermon notes. There is an exam at the end. The answers are to be found in the text, in some cases underlined. "What Does The Future Hold ?" The #1 question of all time. Supermarket Tabloids, movie and television screens have attempted to answer this demand for knowledge about the future. The answers are found in the Special End Times Appendix where Events are listed in the exact order they occur in Bible Prophecy. For many of us, our world revolves around our jobs, our homes, our finances or who wins or loses in the political arena and we fail to see what is happening in World History as it relates to Bible Prophecy. Sir Isaac Newton said" About the Time of the End, a body of men will be raised up who will turn their attention to the prophecies, and insist upon their literal interpretation in the midst of much clamor and opposition" Comments on this powerful book" I received your book on Saturday and haven't put it down since. So far it has been eye-opening and almost overwhelming, thank you again for such a blessing to me and my family" R. Haynes ...... "Maps, diagrams and pictures with historical facts that place you right in the scene itself with that 3-D effect" M. J. Shaw.... My Best wishes to all who have taken the time to give this information to people like us who find it difficult to learn the Word. D.D. Kuwait.... Avaluable resource for any one seeking to understand the Word of God.... Ward R. Williams was given a great gift of Teaching J.G.... I want you to know how much I am enjoying this book. I am gaining a new understanding for a lot that I had just taken for granted. The history and geography add a new depth !
Download or read book The Expository Times written by James Hastings and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Narrative Imagination and Concepts of Fiction in Late Antique Hagiography written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-11-13 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores concepts of fiction in late antique hagiographical narrative in different cultural and literary traditions. It includes Greek, Latin, Syriac, Armenian, Persian and Arabic material. Whereas scholarship in these texts has traditionally focussed on historical questions, this book approaches imaginative narrative as an inherent element of the genre of hagiography that deserves to be studied in its own right. The chapters explore narrative complexities related to fiction, such as invention, authentication, intertextuality, imagination and fictionality. Together, they represent an innovative exploration of how these concepts relate to hagiographical discourses of truth and the religious notion of belief, while paying due attention to the various factors and contexts that impact readers’ responses.
Download or read book The Parasol Protectorate Boxed Set written by Gail Carriger and published by Orbit. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 1429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexia Tarabotti is laboring under a great many social tribulations. First, she has no soul. Second, she's a spinster whose father is both Italian and dead. Third, she was rudely attacked by a vampire, breaking all standards of social etiquette. Where to go from there? From bad to worse apparently, for Alexia accidentally kills the vampire -- and then the appalling Lord Maccon (loud, messy, gorgeous, and werewolf) is sent by Queen Victoria to investigate. With unexpected vampires appearing and expected vampires disappearing, everyone seems to believe Alexia responsible. Can she figure out what is actually happening to London's high society? Will her soulless ability to negate supernatural powers prove useful or just plain embarrassing? Finally, who is the real enemy, and do they have treacle tart? The Parasol Protectorate is a comedy of manners set in Victorian London: full of werewolves, vampires, dirigibles, and tea-drinking. This boxed set includes the whole series: Soulless, Changeless, Blameless, Heartless, and Timeless.
Download or read book Bootleggers and Beer Barons of the Prohibition Era written by J. Anne Funderburg and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-04-30 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is an accurate, wide-ranging, and entertaining account of the illegal liquor traffic during the Prohibition Era (1920 to 1933). Based on FBI files, legal documents, old newspapers and other sources, it offers a coast-to-coast survey of Volstead crime--outrageous stories of America's most notorious liquor lords, including Al Capone and Dutch Schultz. Readers will find the lesser known Volstead outlaws to be as fascinating as their more famous counterparts. The riveting tales of Max Hassel, Waxy Gordon, Roy Olmstead, the Purple Gang, the Havre Bunch, and the Capitol Hill Bootlegger will be new to most readers. Likewise, the exploits of women bootleggers and flying bootleggers are unknown to most Americans. Books about Prohibition usually note that Canadian liquor exporters abetted the U.S. bootleggers, but they fail to go into detail. Bootleggers and Beer Barons examines the major cross-border routes for smuggling liquor from Canada into the U.S.: Quebec to Vermont and New York, Ontario to Michigan, Saskatchewan to Montana, and British Columbia to Washington.
Download or read book Notes on the International Sabbath School Lessons for 1877 written by Congregational Board of Publication and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
