Author : Carolyn Keene
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 43,69 MB
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1481409522
When her friend’s cat, Purrfect, is kidnapped after entering a River Heights cat show, Nancy Drew investigates the case of the missing feline and uncovers a devious scam.
Author : Porochista Khakpour
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 44,98 MB
Release : 2014-05-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1620403048
A kaleidoscopic tale inspired by a legend from the medieval Persian epic "Book of Kings" follows the coming-of-age of a feral Middle Eastern youth in New York City on the eve of the September 11 attacks. By the award-winning author of Sons and Other Flammable Objects. 25,000 first printing.
Author : Tom Holland
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 19,83 MB
Release : 2007-06-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0307386988
A "fresh...thrilling" (The Guardian) account of the Graeco-Persian Wars. In the fifth century B.C., a global superpower was determined to bring truth and order to what it regarded as two terrorist states. The superpower was Persia, incomparably rich in ambition, gold, and men. The terrorist states were Athens and Sparta, eccentric cities in a poor and mountainous backwater: Greece. The story of how their citizens took on the Great King of Persia, and thereby saved not only themselves but Western civilization as well, is as heart-stopping and fateful as any episode in history. Tom Holland’s brilliant study of these critical Persian Wars skillfully examines a conflict of critical importance to both ancient and modern history.
Author : Carolyn Keene
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 43,94 MB
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1481409530
Nancy, Bess, and George are heading up the youth campaign to save the recently fire-gutted River Heights recreation center. Nancy suspects foul play and discovers missing insurance payments. Then someone begins sabatoging the fundraising and threatening the campaign leader, Mary McGregor. As Nancy tries to figure out whose to blame for the suspicious fire, she discovers danger smoldering in the ashes.
Author : Carolyn Keene
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 11,49 MB
Release : 2013-01-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1439114471
Nancy goes to Connecticut to visit George’s Aunt Elizabeth—and lands right in the middle of a controversy. George’s aunt, among others, proposes a bicycle path instead of widening a dangerously winding country road, in order to save a rare species of bat. But a threatening phone call, a sinister warning hanging in the doorway, and a sabotaged car convince Nancy that much more than the bats are at stake.
Author : Carolyn Keene
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 35,48 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 0671505009
There is a epidemic of crime. Some of the deliveries from the pharmacy have proved disastrous. Nancy is convinced that foul play is involved ...
Author : Sheila Canby
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 28,66 MB
Release : 2014-04-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300194544
"The publication of this book commemorates the one thousandth anniversary of the completion of the Shahnama, the Persian national epic, which was written down in more than 50,000 couplets by the poet Firdausi. It also celebrates the most lavishly illustrated version of this text, a manuscript produced for the Safavid Shah Tahmasp, who ruled Iran from 1524 to 1576"--Director's Foreword, p. 7.
Author : Bob Becking
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 27,52 MB
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : History
ISBN : 164602074X
In this book, Bob Becking provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the origins, lives, and eventual fate of the Yehudites, or Judeans, at Elephantine, framed within the greater history of the rise and fall of the Persian Empire. The Yehudites were among those mercenaries recruited by the Persians to defend the southwestern border of the empire in the fifth century BCE. Becking argues that this group, whom some label as the first “Jews,” lived on the island of Elephantine in relative peace with other ethnic groups under the aegis of the pax persica. Drawing on Aramaic and Demotic texts discovered during excavations on the island and at Syene on the adjacent shore of the Nile, Becking finds evidence of intermarriage, trade cooperation, and even a limited acceptance of one another’s gods between the various ethnic groups at Elephantine. His analysis of the Elephantine Yehudites’ unorthodox form of Yahwism provides valuable insight into the group’s religious beliefs and practices. An important contribution to the study of Yehudite life in the diaspora, this accessibly written and sweeping history enhances our understanding of the varieties of early Jewish life and how these contributed to the construction of Judaism.
Author : Porochista Khakpour
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 45,18 MB
Release : 2008-11-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1555848591
The Iranian-American author’s award-winning debut examines an immigrant’s coming of age with “punchy conversation, vivid detail [and] sharp humor” (The New York Times Book Review). Growing up in the United States, Xerxes Adam’s understanding of his Iranian heritage vacillates from typical teenage embarrassment to something so tragic it can barely be spoken. His father, Darius, is obsessed with his own exile, and fantasizes about a nonexistent daughter he can relate to better than his living son. His mother changes her name and tries to make friends. But neither of them helps Xerxes make sense of the terrifying, violent last moments in a homeland he barely remembers. As Xerxes grows up and moves to New York City, his major goal in life is to completely separate from his parents. But after the attacks of September 11th change New York forever, and Xerxes meets a beautiful half-Iranian girl on the roof of his building, he begins to realize that his heritage will never let him go. Winner of the California Book Award Silver Medal in First Fiction, Sons and Other Flammable Objects is a sweeping, lyrical tale of suffering, redemption, and the role of memory in making peace with our worlds. A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice
Author : Carolyn Keene
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 49,99 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 0671007513
Nancy investigates a shocking crime at the White House.
