The House Of The Stone

Author : Anthony Shadid
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780547524337

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House of Stone by Anthony Shadid Pdf

“Wonderful . . . One of the finest memoirs I’ve read.” — Philip Caputo, Washington Post In the summer of 2006, racing through Lebanon to report on the Israeli invasion, Anthony Shadid found himself in his family’s ancestral hometown of Marjayoun. There, he discovered his great-grandfather’s once magnificent estate in near ruins, devastated by war. One year later, Shadid returned to Marjayoun, not to chronicle the violence, but to rebuild in its wake. So begins the story of a battle-scarred home and a journalist’s wounded spirit, and of how reconstructing the one came to fortify the other. In this bittersweet and resonant memoir, Shadid creates a mosaic of past and present, tracing the house’s renewal alongside the history of his family’s flight from Lebanon and resettlement in America around the turn of the twentieth century. In the process, he memorializes a lost world and provides profound insights into a shifting Middle East. This paperback edition includes an afterword by the journalist Nada Bakri, Anthony Shadid’s wife, reflecting on his legacy. “A poignant dedication to family, to home, and to history . . . Breathtaking.” — San Francisco Chronicle “Entertaining, informative, and deeply moving . . . House of Stone will stand a long time, for those fortunate enough to read it.” — Telegraph (London)

Author : Amy Ewing
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 87 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-07
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780062385666

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The House of the Stone by Amy Ewing Pdf

In The Jewel, we followed Violet in her servitude under the Duchess of the Lake. Now we'll hear Raven's story and her time as a surrogate for the Countess of the Stone in this digital novella from Amy Ewing. When Raven is bought at the Auction, she knows immediately that things will not go well. And when she arrives at the Countess's palace, Raven quickly discovers that the Countess is much less interested in having a baby than experimenting with Raven's mind and body. Raven can only hope for an escape . . . and to see Violet again, all the while reminding herself that she is Raven Stirling, and she does matter. Epic Reads Impulse is a digital imprint with new releases each month.

Author : Novuyo Rosa Tshuma
Publisher : Atlantic Books
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781786493170

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House of Stone by Novuyo Rosa Tshuma Pdf

Winner of the Edward Stanford Prize for Fiction with a Sense of Place, 2019 Shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize, 2019 Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize, 2019 Longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize, 2019 __________ 'Extraordinary' Guardian __________ Bukhosi has gone missing. His father, Abed, and his mother, Agnes, cling to the hope that he has run away, rather than been murdered by government thugs. Only the lodger seems to have any idea... Zamani has lived in the spare room for years now. Quiet, polite, well-read and well-heeled, he's almost part of the family - but almost isn't quite good enough for Zamani. Cajoling, coaxing and coercing Abed and Agnes into revealing their sometimes tender, often brutal life stories, Zamani aims to steep himself in borrowed family history, so that he can fully inherit and inhabit its uncertain future.

Author : Anthony Doerr
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781476746609

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All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr Pdf

*NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES—from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti* Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris, and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel. In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the Resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure’s converge. Doerr’s “stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) are dazzling. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, he illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. Ten years in the writing, All the Light We Cannot See is a magnificent, deeply moving novel from a writer “whose sentences never fail to thrill” (Los Angeles Times).

Author : Mel Stone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798664414684

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The House That Death Built by Mel Stone Pdf

A would-be spinster. A dashing stranger. And a secret that will bind them forever... Joy Horton is comfortable and content in her job as village seamstress. She lives a simple life with her family and is determined never to marry, for fear of passing on her strange handicap to any offspring. When the brash and impulsive Arthur Marco steps into her little shop for a repair, he immediately brings color and chaos into Joy's ordered life. Their exchanges are spirited and flirtatious, but while Joy hasn't changed her mind about marriage, Arthur is certain she will bring him happiness. Arthur has already lived a life of sorrow. After all, he's already buried a wife under what some consider to be suspicious circumstances. But after so much misery, doesn't a man deserve to be happy? As Arthur's past comes to light, Joy realizes a union could spell disaster for them both. Are his intentions as simple as they seem? Or is Joy unwittingly playing a part in a more sinister plan? It seems Arthur will do anything to keep Joy away from his family's legacy of death. Anything but stay away from her. The House That Death Built is a thrilling fantasy-romance novel that will have readers turning pages at a breathless pace. SCROLL UP AND GRAB YOUR COPY TODAY!

Author : Christina Lamb
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780007323500

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House of Stone: The True Story of a Family Divided in War-Torn Zimbabwe by Christina Lamb Pdf

A powerful and intensely human insight into the civil war in Zimbabwe, focusing on a white farmer and his maid who find themselves on opposing sides.

Author : Haiko Hörnig
Publisher : Graphic Universe& 8482
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1728420148

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The Winter of Walking Stone by Haiko Hörnig Pdf

"After saving her house and her friends from a magical flood, Henrietta Achilles settles in for the winter. But as her allies depart the manor, a strange army of walking statues begins heading her way"--

Author : Dan Poblocki
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780545645584

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The House on Stone's Throw Island by Dan Poblocki Pdf

A remote island is haunted by wedding crashers from beyond the grave. Dan Poblocki is back with a new spooky ghost story perfect for fans of Mary Downing Hahn and John Bellairs.There is an island, far off the coast of Maine, where the ghosts of the past are restless.Josie Sandoval and Eli Barker are strangers when they board the ferry to Stone's Throw, traveling to the isolated island for a wedding. Then an immense storm blows in, and the wedding party is left stranded with no way to contact the mainland... and no idea that they have been targeted for revenge by the undead. The only clues to the danger they're in are a scrap of an old Nazi uniform -- and an unfamiliar voice, crying out for help in German... Josie and Eli soon realize there's much more to worry about than guest lists and flowers. It's up to them to uncover the chilling history of Stone's Throw Island and put its ghosts to rest -- or this dream wedding will become an absolute nightmare.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Building, Stone
ISBN : 0473148218

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Stone House by Anonim Pdf

Have you ever dreamed of building or at least living in a beautiful stone house? For more than five years Stonefield Publishing's Stone House: A Guide to Self-Building with Slipforms has been the prime source for information on a unique method of stone masonry that affords everyone, regardless of their level of building experience, the opportunity to create walls and even homes of stone. "The technique has been around for a long time," says author Tomm Stanley, "but it's not that well known. Add to that the mystique that surrounds the traditional craft of stonemasonry and there's no wonder that stone houses are not all that common, even in areas where stone is abundant". The book has now been revised and is being re-released with two new chapters, digital enhancement to the original images and new photographs. Stonefield Publishing's Marketing Manager Brad Andersen notes, "We've received a lot of great feedback from readers over the years but one consistent issue was the image quality. We took those comments to heart and with technology that wasn't available to us back in 2003 have just brought the photos to life". Tomm says that writing the new chapters and preparing the revised edition for print allowed him to finally complete his original vision of the book. "One of the new chapters, called Reflections, could only have been written after the passage of time. It's about looking back and thinking about what could have been done differently, what worked very well and also speculating on potential targets for future alteration. It really finished the story for me and makes it more complete for readers." Stone House focuses on the story of Tomm Stanley's own experience of building his house with the slipform method. This book is certainly not your average "how-to" offering; it is more like a tapestry of information and entertainment interwoven with technical advice, diagrams and pictures, tales of the owner builder experience and as the title implies, plenty of guidance on how to build your own stone house using the slipform method of construction. It makes great reading for those that are on the way to becoming self-builders as well as the rest of us that dream of such adventures.

Author : William Seale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1931917779

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Built for the Ages by William Seale Pdf

Author : Gayle Friesen
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1550747827

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Men of Stone by Gayle Friesen Pdf

In Gayle Friesen's powerful novel, 15-year-old Ben can't make sense of his life. He lives in a house full of women, yet he can't talk to girls. He tries to be a jock, but can't even make the co-ed volleyball team. And ridicule from the guys has driven Ben to give up the one thing at which he truly excels -- dance. Now, he's being bullied by a thug named Claude, who's found out about Ben's ballet classes. Ben feels his anger and frustration grow with each passing day. Then Great-Aunt Frieda comes to visit and Ben learns about the old woman's life in Russia. He's surprised at how Frieda dealt with the Men of Stone -- Stalin's agents who terrorized her community and family. As Frieda tells her powerful story, Ben begins to understand who he is and what kind of person he wants to be. But first he must get past the rage that has taken control of his life.

Author : Gina French
Publisher : VISION Paperbacks
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2007-08-01
Category : Abused wives
ISBN : 1904132804

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For a House Made of Stone by Gina French Pdf

Gina was a young woman from the Phillipine mountains who just wanted to help her family but ended up on trial for murder in the UK. Her story is a uniquely inspiring journey of love, loss, survival and hope.

Author : Tony Abbott
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0606105816

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The Red House by Tony Abbott Pdf

Derek didn't ask for this. It's bad enough that his brother's body is hosting a dead soul. Then there's that whole business of the evil dead waging war. And don't even get him started on all the weird voices rattling around inside his head. But like

Author : Patrick Ness,A. K. Benedict
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780062666192

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Class: The Stone House by Patrick Ness,A. K. Benedict Pdf

Can't get enough of Class on BBC America? This thrilling companion novel to the new Doctor Who spin-off features the group of extraordinary humans (and aliens) from the show, facing down an wholly original threat. Created by New York Times bestselling novelist Patrick Ness, author of The Rest of Us Just Live Here and A Monster Calls. Don't go near the house, whatever you do. It wants the lonely, the lost, the vulnerable. It wants you. Tanya keeps having bad dreams about the old stone house around the corner from Coal Hill School—and a girl trapped there, screaming and terrified. When Tanya and her friends go to investigate the strange house covered in cobwebs, they stumble onto their own worst nightmares come to life. But there is a presence haunting the house that is even more powerful than their individual horrors. A presence that may not want to let them go... In spite of the danger, Tanya is determined to free the mysterious girl in the house. But they are running out of time—the house is scheduled for demolition. With the help of their teacher Miss Quill, Tanya and three other kids prepare to fight their nightmares, and whatever other monsters they hear scuttling around in the walls. But how can they fight against monsters that are supposed to exist only in their dreams?

Author : Yara Hawari
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1914221044

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The Stone House by Yara Hawari Pdf