Roman Riddle

Author : Eleanor Hawken
Publisher : Quercus Children's Books
ISBN 13 : 1848668155
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Roman Riddle written by Eleanor Hawken and published by Quercus Children's Books. This book was released on 2015-09-03 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to build an accidental time machine: 1. Activate your homemade particle accelerator 2. Fail to supervise your pet chameleon 3. Watch in horror as he kicks a quartz rock in front of the particle ray ... and BAM! Let the adventures begin! Join Felix Frost, secret boy genius, his chameleon Einstein and his classmate Missy as they travel back in time to Ancient Rome, where terrifying danger and embarrassing togas await. But can they solve the riddle of a mysterious gladiator skeleton without getting themselves skewered in the gladiator arena? Funny, fast-paced and full of you-won't-believe-it facts, Felix Frost: Time Detective will have readers hooked on history and sold on science!

Author : Mike Nicholson
Publisher : Floris Books
ISBN 13 : 178250396X
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Museum Mystery Squad and the Case of the Roman Riddle written by Mike Nicholson and published by Floris Books. This book was released on 2018-04-26 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some people think that museums are boring places full of glass cases, dust and stuff no one cares about: wrong! In a hidden headquarters below the exhibits there's a gang ready to handle dangerous, spooky or just plain weird problems: the Museum Mystery Squad. Techie-genius Nabster, mile-a-minute Kennedy and sharp-eyed Laurie (along with Colin the hamster!) tackle the surprising conundrums happening at the museum. From pre-historic creatures that move and secret Egyptian codes to missing treasure and strange messages from the past, there's no brain-twisting, totally improbable puzzle the Squad can't solve. --------------- Strange lights, eerie sounds -- something spooky is happening at the museum. The ghostly goings-on centre on a dented Roman helmet. Could it be haunted? The Squad aren't convinced but what better place is there for a ghost to hide than in a museum full of seriously old and rather dead things? -------------------- In the Case of the Roman Riddle, the Squad investigate ancient treasure, mystery mosaics and suspicious centurions to try to solve their latest mystery. Young readers will love the riddles, red herrings and big reveals jam-packed into this fun-filled series of mystery stories by Mike Nicholson. The enjoyable extras like wacky facts and activities, as well as zany illustrations by Mike Phillips, will keep amateur detectives entertained for hours.

Author : Steven Saylor
Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 1429908629
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catilina's Riddle written by Steven Saylor and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Saylor rivals Robert Graves in his knack for making the classical world come alive." --(ortland) Oregonian "Engrossing...Ironic and satisfying." -- San Francisco Chronicle The third in Saylor's Roma Sub Rosa novels featuring Gordianus the Finder. Gordianus, disillusioned by the corruption of Rome circa 63 B.C., has fled the city with his family to live on a farm in the Etruscan countryside. But this bucolic life is disrupted by the machinations and murderous plots of two politicians: Roman consul Cicero, Gordianus's longtime patron, and populist senator Catilina, Cicero's political rival and a candidate to replace him in the annual elections for consul. Claiming that Catilina plans an uprising if he loses the race, Cicero asks Gordianus to keep a watchful eye on the radical. Although he distrusts both men, Gordianus is forced into the center of the power struggle when his six-year-old daughter Diana finds a headless corpse in their stable. Shrewdly depicting deadly political maneuverings, this addictive mystery also displays the author's firm grasp of history and human character. On first publication back in 1994, Catilina's Riddle was a finalist for the Hammet Award.

Author : Eleanor Hawken
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781848665606
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Felix Frost Time Detective: Roman Riddle written by Eleanor Hawken and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to build an accidental time machine: 1. Prepare to activate your home-made particle accelerator; 2. Fail to supervise your pet chameleon Einstein; 3. Watch in horror as he kicks a quartz rock into the path of the particle ray - and BAM! Let the adventures begin... Join Felix Frost, secret boy genius, his sidekick Einstein and his history-whizz friend Missy as they travel back in time to ancient Rome where terrifying danger and embarrassing togas await. Can they solve the riddle of the mysterious gladiator skeleton without getting skewered themselves in the gladiator arena? Funny, fast-paced and full of facts, Felix Frost: Time Detective will have readers hooked on history and sold on science!

Author : Dieter Bitterli
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 0802093523
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Say what I Am Called written by Dieter Bitterli and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps the most enigmatic cultural artifacts that survive from the Anglo-Saxon period are the Old English riddle poems that were preserved in the tenth century Exeter Book manuscript. Clever, challenging, and notoriously obscure, the riddles have fascinated readers for centuries and provided crucial insight into the period. In Say What I Am Called, Dieter Bitterli takes a fresh look at the riddles by examining them in the context of earlier Anglo-Latin riddles. Bitterli argues that there is a vigorous common tradition between Anglo-Latin and Old English riddles and details how the contents of the Exeter Book emulate and reassess their Latin predecessors while also expanding their literary and formal conventions. The book also considers the ways in which convention and content relate to writing in a vernacular language. A rich and illuminating work that is as intriguing as the riddles themselves, Say What I Am Called is a rewarding study of some of the most interesting works from the Anglo-Saxon period.

Author : Eleanor Hawken
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Roman Riddle written by Eleanor Hawken and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to build an accidental time machine: 1. Activate your homemade particle accelerator 2. Fail to supervise your pet chameleon 3. Watch in horror as he kicks a quartz rock in front of the particle ray ...and BAM! Let the adventures begin! Join Felix Frost, secret boy genius, his chameleon Einstein and his classmate Missy as they travel back in time to Ancient Rome, where terrifying danger and embarrassing togas await. But can they solve the riddle of a mysterious gladiator skeleton without getting themselves skewered in the gladiator arena? Funny, fast-paced and full of you-won't-believe-it facts, Felix Frost: Time Detective will have readers hooked on history and sold on science!

Author : Lily Prior
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061882194
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cabaret written by Lily Prior and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: struggling mortician in working-class Rome, Freda only married her repulsive ventriloquist husband, Alberto, because it was prophesied that she'd do so. Now that he's vanished mysteriously along with his equally abhorrent dummy (who Freda suspects is actually a midget), she'd like them both to stay missing -- though she's devastated by the simultaneous disappearance of her soul mate, Pierino, her beloved talking parrot. While the police investigate this series of possible crimes, Freda will continue embalming by day, unleashing her caged passions at night in a seedy cabaret (until a tragic fire leaves the proprietor with a tuba stuck on his head), trying to make do with a talking hamster in lieu of dear Pierino . . . and recalling the vagaries of life that led her to this unfortunate juncture.

Author : Lily Prior
Publisher : Harper Perennial
ISBN 13 : 9780060772581
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cabaret written by Lily Prior and published by Harper Perennial. This book was released on 2006-06-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: struggling mortician in working-class Rome, Freda only married her repulsive ventriloquist husband, Alberto, because it was prophesied that she'd do so. Now that he's vanished mysteriously along with his equally abhorrent dummy (who Freda suspects is actually a midget), she'd like them both to stay missing -- though she's devastated by the simultaneous disappearance of her soul mate, Pierino, her beloved talking parrot. While the police investigate this series of possible crimes, Freda will continue embalming by day, unleashing her caged passions at night in a seedy cabaret (until a tragic fire leaves the proprietor with a tuba stuck on his head), trying to make do with a talking hamster in lieu of dear Pierino . . . and recalling the vagaries of life that led her to this unfortunate juncture.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1482 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bibliography of the History of Medicine written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 1482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Frederick Lawrence Rawson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 816 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life Understood from a Scientific and Religious Point of View written by Frederick Lawrence Rawson and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: