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Author: Lucy Zeh Publisher: Eclipse Press ISBN: Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 228
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A fascinating historical tour of 475 Thoroughbred memorials commemorating legendary Thoroughbred racehorses buried in Central Kentucky. The memorials, dating from the 1870s to present day, range from simple markers to elaborate and ornate cemeteries. Zeh brings to life the names carved in granite, from Domino, the great 19th Century champion, to Secretariat and Mr. Prospector. Richly illustrated with over 100 photographs.
Author: Lucy Zeh Publisher: Eclipse Press ISBN: Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 228
Book Description
A fascinating historical tour of 475 Thoroughbred memorials commemorating legendary Thoroughbred racehorses buried in Central Kentucky. The memorials, dating from the 1870s to present day, range from simple markers to elaborate and ornate cemeteries. Zeh brings to life the names carved in granite, from Domino, the great 19th Century champion, to Secretariat and Mr. Prospector. Richly illustrated with over 100 photographs.
Author: Ryan Coonerty Publisher: National Geographic Books ISBN: 9781426200267 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 200
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Full-color, illustrated photographs that describe fifty inscribed monuments from across America that pays tribute to events and people throughout the nation's history, including the Lincoln Memorial, World War II, Korean, and Vietnam memorials, the Murrah Federal Building display in Oklahoma City, and September 11 memorials.
Author: Amila Buturovic Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317169565 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 359
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Despite the recent history of violence and destruction, Bosnia-Herzegovina holds a positive place in history, marked by a continuous interweaving of different religious cultures. The most expansive period in that regard is the Ottoman rule that lasted here nearly five centuries. As many Bosnians accepted Islam, the process of Islamization took on different directions and meanings, only some of which are recorded in the official documents. This book underscores the importance of material culture, specifically gravestones, funerary inscriptions and images, in tracing and understanding more subtle changes in Bosnia’s religious landscape and the complex cultural shifts and exchange between Christianity and Islam in this area. Gravestones are seen as cultural spaces that inscribe memory, history, and heritage in addition to being texts that display, in image and word, first-hand information about the deceased. In tackling these topics and ideas, the study is situated within several contextual, theoretical, and methodological frameworks. Raising questions about religious identity, history, and memory, the study unpacks the cultural and historical value of gravestones and other funerary markers and bolsters their importance in understanding the region’s complexity and improving its visibility in global discussions around multiculturalism and religious pluralism. Drawing upon several disciplinary methods, the book has much to offer anyone looking for a better understanding of the intersection of Christianity and Islam, as well as those with an interest in death studies.
Author: Teresa Toten Publisher: Penguin Group ISBN: 0385678355 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 221
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Two-time Governor General's Award nominee Teresa Toten is back with a compulsively readable new book for teens! When Adam meets Robyn at a support group for kids coping with obsessive-compulsive disorder, he is drawn to her almost before he can take a breath. He's determined to protect and defend her--to play Batman to her Robyn--whatever the cost. But when you're fourteen and the everyday problems of dealing with divorced parents and step-siblings are supplemented by the challenges of OCD, it's hard to imagine yourself falling in love. How can you have a "normal" relationship when your life is so fraught with problems? And that's not even to mention the small matter of those threatening letters Adam's mother has started to receive . . . Teresa Toten sets some tough and topical issues against the backdrop of a traditional whodunit in this engaging new novel that readers will find hard to put down.
Author: Dimitri Eann Publisher: ImaJinn Books ISBN: 9781893896123 Category : Egypt Languages : en Pages : 0
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From childhood, archaeologist Jayna Monroe has been obsessed with all things Egyptian. Joining an archaeological dig in search of a mysterious Egyptian pharaoh, Jayna discovers the Great King Amony's tomb. But the thrill of her discovery is short lived as Jayna becomes trapped inside the four-thousand-year-old burial chamber. As she lay dying, Jayna reads the hieroglyphs and realizes Amony was brutally murdered by his green-eyed Queen. What had Amony done to cause his wife to kill him? Death claims Jayna before she can find an answer in the ancient pictures. Only Jayna hasn't died. She's been swept back in time to Ancient Egypt where she learns she not only inhabits the murderous, green-eyed Queen's body, but, unlike the Queen, Jayna's both physically and emotionally drawn to Amony. But does she dare use the Queen's body to satisfy her own desires, even if by doing so she can save Amony's life? Caught up in the Queen's search for vengeance and court treachery, Jayna soon wonders if there's more going on than she'd first suspected. Has she really been thrown back in time? Or has she been drawn back to a previous life to kill the man she'll love forever? As Jayna searches for the answers, she finds herself fighting for her own life as well as Amony's. But can she change a past that for four thousand years has been...Etched in Stone.
Author: Abraham Verghese Publisher: Random House India ISBN: 8184001754 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 560
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Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon. Orphaned by their mother’s death and their father’s disappearance and bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution. Moving from Addis Ababa to New York City and back again, Cutting for Stone is an unforgettable story of love and betrayal, medicine and ordinary miracles—and two brothers whose fates are forever intertwined.
Author: Sean B. Carroll Publisher: HMH ISBN: 0547526148 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 357
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National Book Award Finalist: A biologist’s “thoroughly enjoyable” account of the expeditions that unearthed the history of life on our planet (Publishers Weekly). Not so long ago, most of our world was an unexplored wilderness. Our sense of its age was vague and vastly off the mark, and much of the knowledge of our own species’ history was a set of fantastic myths and fairy tales. But scientists were about to embark on an amazing new era of understanding. From the New York Times–bestselling author of The Big Picture, this book leads us on a rousing voyage that recounts the most important discoveries in two centuries of natural history: from Darwin’s trip around the world to Charles Walcott’s discovery of pre-Cambrian life in the Grand Canyon; from Louis and Mary Leakey’s investigation of our deepest past in East Africa to the trailblazers in modern laboratories who have located a time clock in our DNA. Filled with the same sense of adventure that spurred on these extraordinary men and women, Remarkable Creatures is a “stirring introduction to the wonder of evolutionary biology” (Kirkus Reviews). “Charming and enlightening.” —San Francisco Chronicle “As fast-paced as a detective story.” —Nature
Author: Mj Pettengill Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781503027961 Category : Abenaki women Languages : en Pages : 0
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"I smiled when I thought about him lyin' alone in that field with his bones picked clean. Live free or die... I finally understood." The year is 1872. The Civil War has ended,leaving behind a nation torn and economically depressed. "Etched in Granite" is a harrowing account of life and death on a rural New England Poor Farm - a tragic, yet triumphant novel that tells a story of courage, survival, and secrets surrounding lost love. The story is narrated by the three principal characters: Abigail, a young woman facing unimaginable hardship when agonizing circumstances and betrayal lead to life on the Poor Farm; Nellie, an Abenaki elder and healer enduring great loss while exhibiting resilience during a time of social, racial, and religious intolerance; and Silas, a spirited farm boss illuminating the conflicts of balancing a position of authority with his personal life while navigating small town politics. Their unforgettable stories are carefully woven together to reveal a hidden part of America's somber past. The novel was inspired by the author's discovery of a pauper cemetery in New Hampshire where there are 298 numbered graves. It is her mission to give voices to those silenced, to evoke images where they have been erased, and to replace the numbers with names.ETCHED IN GRANITE Historical Fiction Series BOOK ONE
Author: Lucy Zeh
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