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Author: Giuseppe Preziuso Preziuso Publisher: Youcanprint ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 237
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The novel follows the life events of the main character, Pietro Garau, since the years of his enrollment at the University of Urbino till the end of the drammatic and unexpected events, that start at the beginning of the narration in a not-too-distant future.The frame in which Pietro's human and sentimental events unravel, in which Giovanna initially stands out when he was at university and later Yuan does, chinese girl that between Assemini (Cagliari) and Gutturu Mannu will later become his spouse, is the landscape of all the great events that happen in Italy and in the world in those years.In his father's land, located in the Gutturu Mannu valley, Pietro spends some of his time trying to craft a strange sculptural project and one day, in a cave near Monte Lattias, he discovers a strage black stone that, with other he will later become aware of, marks the beginning of a legend that will be crucial to avert the grave danger that looms over humanity
Author: Giuseppe Preziuso Preziuso Publisher: Youcanprint ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 237
Book Description
The novel follows the life events of the main character, Pietro Garau, since the years of his enrollment at the University of Urbino till the end of the drammatic and unexpected events, that start at the beginning of the narration in a not-too-distant future.The frame in which Pietro's human and sentimental events unravel, in which Giovanna initially stands out when he was at university and later Yuan does, chinese girl that between Assemini (Cagliari) and Gutturu Mannu will later become his spouse, is the landscape of all the great events that happen in Italy and in the world in those years.In his father's land, located in the Gutturu Mannu valley, Pietro spends some of his time trying to craft a strange sculptural project and one day, in a cave near Monte Lattias, he discovers a strage black stone that, with other he will later become aware of, marks the beginning of a legend that will be crucial to avert the grave danger that looms over humanity
Author: Michael R Fletcher Publisher: ISBN: 9781658249737 Category : Languages : en Pages : 392
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A broken man, Khraen awakens alone and lost. His stone heart has been shattered, littered across the world. With each piece, he regains some small shard of the man he once was. He follows the trail, fragment by fragment, remembering his terrible past. There was a woman. There was a sword. There was an end to sorrow. Khraen walks the obsidian path.
Author: John S. Strong Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 1400887143 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 409
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The Buddhist monk Upagupta, who preached and taught meditative practices in Northwest India over two thousand years ago, is venerated today by the laity in parts of Burma, Thailand, and Laos as a protective figure endowed with magical powers. In this monumental work John Strong offers a systematic presentation of the Indian and Southeast Asian legends and rituals surrounding this popular saint. Once considered by Buddhist authorities as only marginally important, Upagupta emerges here as a central, ubiquitous figure within the Buddhist world. The author demonstrates the remarkable continuity among traditions focused on Upagupta in ancient Sarvastivadin Sanskrit materials, key Pali texts, medieval Thai and Burmese texts, and contemporary oral traditions and religious rituals in Southeast Asia. In so doing he reflects the orientation of popular Sanskrit Hinayana Buddhism, which allows for new perspectives on such classic questions as the nature of enlightenment, the role of asceticism, the problem of evil, the worship of the Buddha image, the veneration of saints, master-disciple relationships, the treatment of heterodoxy, and the relation of myth and ritual. Originally published in 1992. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author: PT McHugh Publisher: ISBN: 9780981676807 Category : Grandfathers Languages : en Pages : 0
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Awkward in his own skin, shy around girls and worried about anything and everything, Jason Evans is just like a million other teenage boys in high school, with one very large exception: he has been given a gift that allows him to jump through time. A set of stones has fallen into his lap that gives him access to any place - and any time - that he chooses. But along with that gift comes the responsibility of stopping the man who is using those very stones to travel through time and change history for his own purposes. A man who is now holding Jason's grandfather hostage, and threatening the world's very existence. Jumping through time with his best friend and body guard, Jason must enter the world of Medieval England, learn its customs, navigate unimaginable danger, and help Henry VII win the Battle of Bosworth, in the name of finding his grandfather, rescuing a beautiful girl from the clutches of a corrupt church, and destroying the one man who pledges to turn history inside out.
Author: Yaa Gyasi Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 1101947144 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 321
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INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE'S JOHN LEONARD PRIZE • WINNER OF THE PEN / HEMINGWAY AWARD FOR DEBUT FICTION • Ghana, eighteenth century: two half sisters are born into different villages, each unaware of the other. One will marry an Englishman and lead a life of comfort in the palatial rooms of the Cape Coast Castle. The other will be captured in a raid on her village, imprisoned in the very same castle, and sold into slavery. One of Oprah’s Best Books of the Year, Homegoing follows the parallel paths of these sisters and their descendants through eight generations: from the Gold Coast to the plantations of Mississippi, from the American Civil War to Jazz Age Harlem. Yaa Gyasi’s extraordinary novel illuminates slavery’s troubled legacy both for those who were taken and those who stayed—and shows how the memory of captivity has been inscribed on the soul of our nation.
Author: Terry Goodkind Publisher: RosettaBooks ISBN: 0795346093 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 1280
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The Seeker of Truth embarks on his perilous training in wizardry in the 2nd novel of the #1 New York Timesbestselling author’s epic fantasy series. In Wizard’s First Rule, forest guide Richard Cypher becomes a Seeker of Truth in order to defeat the tyrannical Wizard Darken Rahl—only to discover that he is in fact Darken’s son. Now, with Darken vanquished, Richard and the beautiful Kahlan Amnell head back to the Mud People to be married. But their adventures are far from over. As the wedding day approaches, Richard is visited by three Sisters of Light who insist on bringing him to the Palace of the Prophets to be trained as a Wizard. Meanwhile, the veil to the underworld has been torn, and the Stone of Tears has passed through. According to prophecy, the only person who has a chance at closing the veil is the one bonded to the blade, the one born true.
Author: A. S. Byatt Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0307426637 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 153
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An unforgettable collection of fairy tales for grownups—from the Booker Prize-winning author of Possession. • “A delight.... provoking and alarming, richly yet tautly rendered.... [She] has the sheer narrative skill to raise the hairs on the back of your neck and make your pulse race.” —The New York Times Book Review Like Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm, Isak Dinesen and Angela Carter, A. S. Byatt knows that fairy tales are for adults. And in this ravishing collection she breathes new life into the form. Little Black Book of Stories offers shivers along with magical thrills. Leaves rustle underfoot in a dark wood: two middle-aged women, childhood friends reunited by chance, venture into a dark forest where once, many years before, they saw–or thought they saw–something unspeakable. Another woman, recently bereaved, finds herself slowly but surely turning into stone. A coolly rational ob-gyn has his world pushed off-axis by a waiflike art student with her own ideas about the uses of the body. Spellbinding, witty, lovely, terrifying, the Little Black Book of Stories is Byatt at the height of her craft.
Author: Richard Hammer Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 0765386038 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 272
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The search for the Life Diamonds--the subject of the compelling documentary produced by the History Channel. They were known as Life Diamonds--rough uncut diamonds of high quality bought by Jews in Eastern Europe to use as passports to safety. After 1939 and the Nazi blitzkrieg, after the extermination camps began belching black smoke into the skies and the railroad station at Auschwitz II-Birkenau became the busiest train station in the world, they became Death Diamonds. Blood from a Stone is the amazing story of forty of those diamonds, of their journey across continents and oceans, from the mines of South Africa to the diamond centers in Antwerp and Amsterdam, to the Jews of Eastern Europe, to the Death Camps. . . and to the two American soldiers who liberated them from the SS, finally, and buried them in a forest in Alsace on the border between France and Germany. It is the story of the curse believed to lie over the fabulous wealth of these stones, bringing death and disaster to all who touched them. It is the story of Yaron Svoray, who spent more than a decade in search of one small foxhole somewhere in a thousand square miles of forest...and of his unbelievable success. Blood from a Stone is a unique story, a story unlike any to come out of World War II. Blood from a Stone will more than over a dozen exclusive photos from the two-hour History Channel documentary.
Author: Natalie Y. Moore Publisher: Chicago Review Press ISBN: 1556528450 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 310
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Were the Stones criminals, brainwashed terrorists, victims of their circumstances, or champions of social change? Or were they all of these, their role perceived differently by different races and socioeconomic groups? --
Author: Giuseppe Preziuso Preziuso
Author: Giuseppe Preziuso Preziuso
Author: Michael R Fletcher
Author: John S. Strong
Author: PT McHugh
Author: Yaa Gyasi
Author: Terry Goodkind
Author: A. S. Byatt
Author: Richard Hammer
Author: Natalie Y. Moore
Author: Robert Simmons