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Category : Jainism
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
“The” Kathákoça
Author: The Snake Catcher's Daughter
Author: Michael PearcePublisher:
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Category : Cairo (Egypt)
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Someone is trying to discredit Cairo's senior police officials, putting Owen in a delicate position as he tries to investigate.
The Snake-Catcher's Daughter
Author: Michael PearcePublisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 9780008259433
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Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
In this engrossing murder mystery set in the Egypt of the 1900s, the Mamur Zapt finds himself under threat from a campaign to discredit Cairo's senior policemen. Cairo in the 1900s. The Mamur Zapt, Head of Cairo's secret police, finds himself in a compromising position. The city's senior policemen are the subject of a smear campaign, a stinging attack which raises uncomfortable questions about their integrity. The Mamur Zapt himself is suspected, but is he above suspicion? Owen's investigation takes him into hitherto uncharted territory: the underworld of Cairo and the dangerous profession of snake-catching...
The Nizam's Daughters (The Matthew Hervey Adventures: 2)
Author: Allan MallinsonPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 1407068601
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Another riveting Matthew Hervey adventure from the Sunday Times bestselling author Allan Mallinson, combining hero, history and drama to perfection. If you like Patrick O'Brian and Sharpe, you'll love this! "A marvellous read, paced like a well-balanced symphony ... This is more than a ripping yarn..." - The Times "This is an engaging work...The attention to detail is admirable" -- Daily Express "I strongly recommend this book (and the series) to any lover of this genre. FIVE STARS" - ***** Reader review. ************************************************************************* 1816: Fresh from the field at Waterloo, and leaving behind his fiancée Lady Henrietta Lindsey, Matthew Hervey is dispatched to India on a secret mission. The state of Chintal is threatened by both intrigue from within and military might from without. Hervey finds he is once more destined for the battlefield. In a land at once alien, exotic and beguiling, Matthew Hervey's mettle will be tested to the limit... Have you read A Close Run Thing - the first Matthew Hervey adventure? The Nizam's Daughters is the second book in Allan Mallinson's Matthew Hervey series. His adventures continue in A Regimental Affair.
Kali and the Rat Snake
Author: Zai WhitakerPublisher: Kane/Miller Book Publishers, Inc.
ISBN: 1933605103
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 19
Book Description
Kali's father is a snake catcher - the best in the village. Kali knows that is really something to be proud of, but at school he sometimes gets embarrassed. The other children seem to think there is something very strange about having a snake catcher for a father and eating things like fried termites for a snack. Plus, Kali is the teacher's pet. How will he ever make friends?
The Kathákoça, or treasury of stories, tr by C.H. Tawney, with notes by E. Leumann
Author: KathākośaPublications
Author: Oriental Translation FundPublisher:
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Category : Oriental literature
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Daughters unto Devils
Author: Amy LukavicsPublisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1460399064
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
God bless the little children When sixteen-year-old Amanda Verner’s family decides to move from their small mountain cabin to the vast prairie, she hopes it is her chance for a fresh start. She can leave behind the memory of the past winter; of her sickly Ma giving birth to a baby sister who cries endlessly; of the terrifying visions she saw as her sanity began to slip, the victim of cabin fever; and most of all, the memories of the boy she has been secretly meeting with as a distraction from her pain. The boy whose baby she now carries. When the Verners arrive at their new home, a large cabin abandoned by its previous owners, they discover the inside covered in blood. And as the days pass, it is obvious to Amanda that something isn’t right on the prairie. She’s heard stories of lands being tainted by evil, of men losing their minds and killing their families, and there is something strange about the doctor and his son who live in the woods on the edge of the prairie. But with the guilt and shame of her sins weighing on her, Amanda can’t be sure if the true evil lies in the land, or deep within her soul.
Betal Panchabinsati
Author: Amrit Ranjan AcharyaPublisher: Sajal Giri Goswami
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Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
“ Betal Panchabinsati ” is a collection of tales and legends within a frame story, from India.It was originally written in Sanskrit.One of its oldest recensions is found in the 12th Book of the Kathasaritsagara ("Ocean of the Streams of Story"), a work in Sanskrit compiled in the 11th century by Somadeva, but based on yet older materials, now lost.“ Betal Panchabinsati ” comprises in fact twenty-five tales. It is not only a story book but a book of moral instruction also. It is an Ethics.
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