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The Golem And The Jinni
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Author : Helene Wecker
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2013-04-23
The Golem And The Jinni written by Helene Wecker and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-23 with Fiction categories.
“An intoxicating fusion of fantasy and historical fiction. . . . Wecker’s storytelling skills dazzle." —Entertainment Weekly A marvelous and absorbing debut novel about a chance meeting between two supernatural creatures in turn-of-the-century immigrant New York. Chava is a golem, a creature made of clay by a disgraced rabbi knowledgeable in the ways of dark Kabbalistic magic. She serves as the wife to a Polish merchant who dies at sea on the voyage to America. As the ship arrives in New York in 1899, Chava is unmoored and adrift until a rabbi on the Lower East Side recognizes her for the creature she is and takes her in. Ahmad is a jinni, a being of fire born in the ancient Syrian desert and trapped centuries ago in an old copper flask by a Bedouin wizard. Released by a Syrian tinsmith in a Manhattan shop, Ahmad appears in human form but is still not free. An iron band around his wrist binds him to the wizard and to the physical world. Chava and Ahmad meet accidentally and become friends and soul mates despite their opposing natures. But when the golem’s violent nature overtakes her one evening, their bond is challenged. An even more powerful threat will emerge, however, and bring Chava and Ahmad together again, challenging their very existence and forcing them to make a fateful choice. Compulsively readable, The Golem and the Jinni weaves strands of Yiddish and Middle Eastern literature, historical fiction and magical fable, in a wondrously inventive tale that is mesmerizing and unforgettable.
The Hidden Palace
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Author : Helene Wecker
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2021-06-08
The Hidden Palace written by Helene Wecker and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-08 with Fiction categories.
"Richly nuanced and beautiful. . . . An immersive and magical tale of loneliness, love, and finding hope.” (Buzzfeed) “A layered novel of many complex characters…To keep their worlds safe, Chava and Ahmad must access both their greatest supernatural powers and their deepest human impulses.” (Historical Novels Review) In this enthralling historical epic, set in New York City and the Middle East in the years leading to World War I— the long-awaited follow-up to the acclaimed New York Times bestseller The Golem and the Jinni—Helene Wecker revisits her beloved characters Chava and Ahmad as they confront unexpected new challenges in a rapidly changing human world. Chava is a golem, a woman made of clay, who can hear the thoughts and longings of those around her and feels compelled by her nature to help them. Ahmad is a jinni, a restless creature of fire, once free to roam the desert but now imprisoned in the shape of a man. Fearing they’ll be exposed as monsters, these magical beings hide their true selves and try to pass as human—just two more immigrants in the bustling world of 1900s Manhattan. Brought together under calamitous circumstances, their lives are now entwined—but they’re not yet certain of what they mean to each other. Both Chava and Ahmad have changed the lives of the people around them. Park Avenue heiress Sophia Winston, whose brief encounter with Ahmad left her with a strange illness that makes her shiver with cold, travels to the Middle East to seek a cure. There she meets Dima, a tempestuous female jinni who’s been banished from her tribe. Back in New York, in a tenement on the Lower East Side, a little girl named Kreindel helps her rabbi father build a golem they name Yossele—not knowing that she’s about to be sent to an orphanage uptown, where the hulking Yossele will become her only friend and protector. Spanning the tumultuous years from the turn of the twentieth century to the beginning of World War I, The Hidden Palace follows these lives and others as they collide and interleave. Can Chava and Ahmad find their places in the human world while remaining true to each other? Or will their opposing natures and desires eventually tear them apart—especially once they encounter, thrillingly, other beings like themselves?
The Hidden Palace The Daughters Of War Book 2
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Author : Dinah Jefferies
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2022-08-25
The Hidden Palace The Daughters Of War Book 2 written by Dinah Jefferies and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-25 with Fiction categories.
An island of secrets. A runaway. And a promise...
Daughters Of War The Daughters Of War Book 1
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Author : Dinah Jefferies
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2021-09-16
Daughters Of War The Daughters Of War Book 1 written by Dinah Jefferies and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-16 with Fiction categories.
The first book in the new sweeping historical series from the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author.
The Djinn Falls In Love And Other Stories
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Author : Neil Gaiman
language : en
Publisher: Solaris
Release Date : 2017-03-09
The Djinn Falls In Love And Other Stories written by Neil Gaiman and has been published by Solaris this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-09 with Fiction categories.
Versailles
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Author : Catherine Pegard
language : en
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Release Date : 2017-06-28
Versailles written by Catherine Pegard and has been published by Thames & Hudson this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-28 with categories.
'The Ch�teau de Versailles is a real photographic challenge because it is so huge: there is an infinite number of possible points of view and they are never the same, depending on the time of day, the weather or the season... There are always new photos to take, to contemplate, to dream of. It is a demanding place that stimulates creativity and encourages you to look at it again and again' Thomas Garnier Versailles is one of the most photographed places in the world, but only four people have the privilege of being the Palace's official photographers. They have uniquely unfettered access to the secrets that lie within, outside and beneath this enormous domain where they spend their days - and sometimes their nights. Now, for the first time, they open their personal albums to offer a wealth of impressions and responses. Two hundred and fifty previously unpublished photographs reveal a plethora of outstanding artworks, the private apartments of Louis XIV, MarieAntoinette and Madame de Pompadour, magnificent galleries, the delightful Orangerie and more, all accompanied by texts that provide a lively introduction to daily life at the Ch�teau and its momentous history. This is a monumental volume on a scale that matches the grandeur of the worldrenowned Palace it celebrates.
The Hidden Palace Adventure
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Author : Ranjit Lal
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-05-10
The Hidden Palace Adventure written by Ranjit Lal and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-10 with Young Adult Fiction categories.
A relevant and stirring story for our times--about who we love and who we help. Umi, Anshu, Lavina, Shiv, Nasreen and Pankaj are typical teenagers living in Delhi. The six love to take off on their all-terrain cycles and explore the city. And one place they frequent is the Delhi Ridge--a forest area filled with all kinds of trees and thorny shrubs and home to half-forgotten monuments. Here, they come across the spooky Malcha Mahal with its strange and sad history. But the children are also getting sucked into another kind of adventure that is unfolding right next door. Their brilliant and pretty tutor, Khushboo Didi is in love with Salim, her childhood friend. Her family is dead opposed to this love story and the children are her only friends and allies. Will love triumph over hate? What dangerous game have the children started when they decide to help Khushboo and Salim? And how will the Ridge, with all its secrets, come to their rescue? Unflinching, exciting and action-packed, The Hidden Palace Adventure is a story for our times--about who we love and who we help, and about bravery that leads people to go places and do things they never thought possible.
The Hidden Palace
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Author : Dinah Jefferies
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023
The Hidden Palace written by Dinah Jefferies and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with Family secrets categories.
An island of secrets. A runaway. And a promise. A rebellious daughter. 1925. Among the ancient honey-coloured walls of the tiny island of Malta, strangers slip into the shadows and anyone can buy a new name. Rosalie Delacroix flees Paris for a dancer's job in the bohemian clubs deep in its winding streets. A sister with a secret. 1944. Running from the brutality of war in France, Florence Baudin faces a new life. But her estranged mother makes a desperate request: to find her vanished sister, who went missing years before. A rift over generations. Betrayals and secrets, lies and silence hang between the sisters. A faded last letter from Rosalie is Florence's only clue, the war an immovable barrier - and time is running out.
The Last Palace
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Author : Norman Eisen
language : en
Publisher: Crown
Release Date : 2018-09-04
The Last Palace written by Norman Eisen and has been published by Crown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-04 with History categories.
A sweeping yet intimate narrative about the last hundred years of turbulent European history, as seen through one of Mitteleuropa’s greatest houses—and the lives of its occupants When Norman Eisen moved into the US ambassador’s residence in Prague, returning to the land his mother had fled after the Holocaust, he was startled to discover swastikas hidden beneath the furniture in his new home. These symbols of Nazi Germany were remnants of the residence’s forgotten history, and evidence that we never live far from the past. From that discovery unspooled the twisting, captivating tale of four of the remarkable people who had called this palace home. Their story is Europe’s, and The Last Palace chronicles the upheavals that transformed the continent over the past century. There was the optimistic Jewish financial baron, Otto Petschek, who built the palace after World War I as a statement of his faith in democracy, only to have that faith shattered; Rudolf Toussaint, the cultured, compromised German general who occupied the palace during World War II, ultimately putting his life at risk to save the house and Prague itself from destruction; Laurence Steinhardt, the first postwar US ambassador whose quixotic struggle to keep the palace out of Communist hands was paired with his pitched efforts to rescue the country from Soviet domination; and Shirley Temple Black, an eyewitness to the crushing of the 1968 Prague Spring by Soviet tanks, who determined to return to Prague and help end totalitarianism—and did just that as US ambassador in 1989. Weaving in the life of Eisen’s own mother to demonstrate how those without power and privilege moved through history, The Last Palace tells the dramatic and surprisingly cyclical tale of the triumph of liberal democracy.
Palace Of Books
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Author : Roger Grenier
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2014-10-08
Palace Of Books written by Roger Grenier and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-08 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
For decades, Roger Grenier has been charming readers with compact, erudite books that draw elegant connections between our lives and our love of the arts. Whether he's turning to literature and philosophy to help us see our canine companions anew in 'The Difficulty of Being a Dog' or mapping a life through cameras and photographers in 'A Box of Photographs', Grenier's books feels like a gift from a lost golden age of belles-lettres. With 'Palace of Books', Grenier invites us to explore the domain of literature, its sweeping vistas and hidden recesses alike.