The Sultan And The Three Thieves

Author : J. Eric Booker
Publisher : B.E. Books
ISBN 13 : 1456577670
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Swords of the Sultan written by J. Eric Booker and published by B.E. Books. This book was released on 2013-01-02 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deep within the heart of an ancient city ruled by a powerful empire, a young orphan named Baltor struggles daily to survive, having to drink from animal troughs and steal food. Pursuant to imperial law, the minimum penalty for thievery means the loss of a hand…the maximum penalty is death! Like what happens to most thieves, the day inevitably comes when Baltor gets caught stealing—this time, a link of sausage. Thankfully he is not caught by a guard, by a beautiful and exotic woman named Lady Lydia, who not only graciously offers the boy some breakfast, yet surprisingly offers him a proposition to become “a master thief” like herself. Having no other choices in life, he agrees. After breakfast, Lydia leads the boy to a “top secret” underground labyrinth located underneath the city, where expert thief-training grounds were built five centuries earlier. Instead of training him however, she unexpectedly hands him off to a man she introduces as Drill Instructor Humonus before disappearing. Right away, this cold-and-cruel man’s hardcore training proves to be hellish and dangerous…will the poor boy even survive DAY 1? And what in the world do the pictured swords have to do with Baltor’s past and future? Read the first book in this Epic Fantasy Trilogy to find out not only these “mysterious answers”…yet many, many more!

Author : Aicha Rahmouni
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900427913X
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Storytelling in Chefchaouen Northern Morocco written by Aicha Rahmouni and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-11-27 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Storytelling in Chefchaouen Northern Morocco includes two sets of tales told by two different storytellers with an annotated study of the oral performance, transliterations and translations. The purpose is to preserve a part of the region’s oral tradition of storytelling in the vernacular language in which it has been transmitted, presenting the original texts with parallel English translation. In addition, the cultural, literary, and linguistic background necessary for understanding this body of oral performance is given. A combination of disciplines (anthropology, philology, sociolinguistics, dialectology, comparative literature, ethnography, typology) is applied to the linguistic and literary features of the present corpus.

Author : Susan Fletcher
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1442446811
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shadow Spinner written by Susan Fletcher and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-10-18 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every night, Shahrazad begins a story. And every morning, the Sultan lets her live another day -- providing the story is interesting enough to capture his attention. After almost one thousand nights, Shahrazad is running out of tales. And that is how Marjan's story begins.... It falls to Marjan to help Shahrazad find new stories -- ones the Sultan has never heard before. To do that, the girl is forced to undertake a dangerous and forbidden mission: sneak from the harem and travel the city, pulling tales from strangers and bringing them back to Shahrazad. But as she searches the city, a wonderful thing happens. From a quiet spinner of tales, Marjan suddenly becomes the center of a more surprising story than she ever could have imagined.

Author : Raymond Smullyan
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307819833
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Riddle of Scheherazade written by Raymond Smullyan and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2012-08-22 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his new book, Raymond Smullyan, grand vizier of the logic puzzle, joins Scheherazade, a charming young woman of “fantastic logical ingenuity,” to give us 1001 hours of brain-teasing fun. Scheherazade, we find, has gotten back into hot water with the king, and is once more in danger of losing her head at down. But, thinking quickly, she tempts the king to stay her execution by posing him the most delightfully devious mathematical and logic puzzle ever invented. They keep him guessing for many more nights until the fatal hour has passed, and she keeps her head. The Riddle of Scheherazade includes several wonderful old chestnuts and many fiendishly original puzzles, 225 in all. There are logic tricks and number games, metapuzzles (puzzles about puzzles), liar/truth-teller exercises, Gödelian brian twisters, baffling paradoxes, and an excursion, under Scheherazade’s expert guidance, into an amusing new field invented by Smullyan, called “coercive” logic, in which the answer to a problem can actually change the fate of the puzzler! An absolute must for all puzzle fans—from the middle-school whiz to the sophisticated mathematician or computer scientist.

Author : Ruud Spruit
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Land of the Sultans written by Ruud Spruit and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Land of the Sultans the author narrates Malaysia's past, drawing not only from Western sources, but also from the colourful Sejarah Melayu - the famous Malay chronicles that are a mixture of classical romance and factual description. The result is a text which provides an accurate historical record, as well as an insight into the country's unique culture and customs.

Author : Alfred Emanuel Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1038 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Outlook written by Alfred Emanuel Smith and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 1038 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1254 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Outlook written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 1254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lyman Abbott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1034 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Outlook written by Lyman Abbott and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 1034 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : W. H. Treacher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.9P/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Borneo written by W. H. Treacher and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 720 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of members in some numbers.