Birdcage Walk

Author : Helen Dunmore
Publisher : Atlantic Monthly Press
ISBN 13 : 0802189229
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Birdcage Walk written by Helen Dunmore and published by Atlantic Monthly Press. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revolutionary turmoil in France threatens to cross the English border—and tear apart an increasingly tense marriage—in this “brilliant” gothic thriller (Publishers Weekly, starred review). It is 1792, and Europe is seized by political unrest. In England, Lizzie Fawkes has grown up among Radicals who’ve followed the French Revolution with eager optimism. But Lizzie has recently married John Diner Tredevant, a developer who is heavily invested in Bristol’s housing boom, and he has everything to lose from social upheaval and the prospect of war. As the strain of financial setbacks and the secrets of his past converge upon him, his grip on what he considers his rightful property—including Lizzie—only grows tighter...From an Orange Prize winner and Whitbread Award finalist, this is a novel with a “charged radiance” (The New York Times) that explores romanticism and disillusionment, terror and love, and the dangerous lines between them. “Dunmore knows how to let a narrative move like an arrow in flight...A man rows from Bristol to a glade where he has left his dead wife overnight. He must bury her fast, where no one will find her. From the start, Birdcage Walk has the command of a thriller as we keep company with John Diner Tredevant, an 18th-century property developer building a magnificent terrace in Clifton, high above the Avon Gorge. Lizzie, his second wife, does not know the details of what happened to his first. Nor do we know as much as we might suppose...The novel’s cast is marvelous and vivid.”—The Guardian “Explores the impact of the French Revolution on 1790s England within the context of a gothic romance set in Bristol...[a] magnificently complex villain.”—Kirkus Reviews

Author : Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Publisher : Titan Books (US, CA)
ISBN 13 : 1785659278
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mycroft and Sherlock written by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and published by Titan Books (US, CA). This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new novel by NBA All-Star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, starring brothers Mycroft and Sherlock Holmes. It is 1872, and a series of gruesome murders is the talk of London. Mycroft Holmes--now twenty-six and a force to be reckoned with at the War Office--has no interest in the killings; however, his brother Sherlock has developed a distasteful fascination for the macabre to the detriment of his studies, much to Mycroft's frustration. When a ship carrying cargo belonging to Mycroft's best friend Cyrus Douglas runs aground, Mycroft persuades Sherlock to serve as a tutor at the orphanage that Douglas runs as a charity, so that Douglas might travel to see what can be salvaged. Sherlock finds himself at home among the street urchins, and when a boy dies of a suspected drug overdose, he decides to investigate, following a trail of strange subterranean symbols to the squalid opium dens of the London docks. Meanwhile a meeting with a beautiful Chinese woman leads Mycroft to the very same mystery, one that forces him to examine the underbelly of the opium trade that is enriching his beloved Britain's coffers. As the stakes rise, the brothers find that they need one another's assistance and counsel. But a lifetime of keeping secrets from each other may have catastrophic consequences...

Author : Maya Angelou
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 030747772X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings written by Maya Angelou and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-07-21 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local “powhitetrash.” At eight years old and back at her mother’s side in St. Louis, Maya is attacked by a man many times her age—and has to live with the consequences for a lifetime. Years later, in San Francisco, Maya learns that love for herself, the kindness of others, her own strong spirit, and the ideas of great authors (“I met and fell in love with William Shakespeare”) will allow her to be free instead of imprisoned. Poetic and powerful, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings will touch hearts and change minds for as long as people read. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings liberates the reader into life simply because Maya Angelou confronts her own life with such a moving wonder, such a luminous dignity.”—James Baldwin From the Paperback edition.

Author : Allen Hemberger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781733008815
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Zero written by Allen Hemberger and published by . This book was released on 2020-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Henry Barrow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 726 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mirror of Parliament for the ... Session of the ... Parliament of Great Britain and Ireland written by John Henry Barrow and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Helen Dunmore
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802139580
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Siege written by Helen Dunmore and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Called "elegantly, starkly beautiful" by "The New York Times Book Review, The Siege" is Dunmore's masterpiece. Her canvas is monumental--the Nazi's 1941 winter siege on Leningrad that killed 600,000--but her focus is heartrendingly intimate.

Author : Karl Christian Krumpholz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781944829407
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lighthouse in the City written by Karl Christian Krumpholz and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hélène Dubois
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781909492165
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making and Transforming Art written by Hélène Dubois and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1. Dioscorides as an art technological source / Mark Clarke. 2. Academy and workshop: medieval transmission of late antique knowledge / Mark Clarke and Arie Wallert. 3. An elusive colorant: availability, preparation and use of anthocyanin colorants in European medieval illuminators' workshops / Sylvie Neven and Jana Sanyova. 4. Paint it red: vermilion manufacture in the Middle Ages / Stefanos Kroustallis and Rocio Bruquetas. 5. Medieval sculptures re-polychromed and re-gilded in the nineteenth century by Adrien Hubert Bressers / Delphine Steyaert. 6. 'This they use in Madrid': the ground layer in paintings on canvas in 17th-century Madrid / Maite Jover de Celis and Dolores Gayo. 7. Van Dyck and de Mayerne: a cautionary note regarding the manuscript / Rica Jones. 8. Materials for painting and gilding used in the Benedictine community of Portugal 1638-1822: other times, other ways / Agnès Le Gac, Paulo Oliveira, Isabel Dias Costa and Maria João Dias Costa. 9. Evolutions and transformations of harpsichords in France in the 17th and 18th centuries / Christine Laloue and Jean-Philippe Echard. 10. Manufacturing techniques and the art of wax modelling: from the sculptor's studio to the anatomical workshop / Alicia Sánchez Ortiz and Sandra Micó Boró. 11. Combining different types of sources for a better understanding of tempera painting around 1900 / Patrick Dietemann and Wibke Neugebauer. 12. Interpretation of documentary sources for the industrial preparation of 'zinc white' in the 19th century / Nicholas Eastaugh, Jilleen Nadolny and Weronika Swiech. 13. Hans Heysen's art materials: an investigation into suppliers, knowledge and choice / Rosemary Diana Heysen and Nicole Andrea Tse. 14. Jean Tinguely's script for Homage to New York (1960) / Reinhard Bek and Christine Frohnert. 15. Recent publications on art technological source research / Ad Stijnman. 16. 'Colour ConText': a database on colour practice and colour knowledge in pre-modern Europe / Sylvie Neven, Karin Leonhard and Sven Dupré. 17. Four paintings from St. Jerome's College, Coimbra, Portugal: conservation, technique and treatises / Vanessa Antunes, Mercês Lorena, Vítor Serrão, Virgínia Gomes, Maria José Oliveira, Luís Dias, António Candeias, Ana Isabel Seruya and João Coroado. 18. Glass and parchment with a view: oil paint and the imitation of (stained) glass windows 1400-1600 / Marjolijn Bol, Henk de Groot and Arie Wallert.

Author : Stephen P. Koob
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conservation and Care of Glass Objects written by Stephen P. Koob and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written from the many lectures, discussions and laboratory demonstrations hosted by the author, this book provides an understanding of the proper materials and techniques to be used in the conservation and restoration of glass objects.

Author : Frank M. Meddens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781909492059
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inca Sacred Space written by Frank M. Meddens and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of conference papers which present the principles and functions of ushnus, Inca sacred spaces, through history, archaeology and anthropology.