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The Carpet Makers

Author : Andreas Eschbach

Publisher : Macmillan + ORM

Page : 288 pages

File Size : 14,66 MB

Release : 2013-07-30

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1466850221

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Since the time of pre-history, carpetmakers tie intricate knots to form carpets for the court of the Emperor. These carpets are made from the hairs of wives and daughters; they are so detailed and fragile that each carpetmaker finishes only one single carpet in his entire lifetime. This art descends from father to son, since the beginning of time itself. But one day the empire of the God Emperor vanishes, and strangers begin to arrive from the stars to follow the trace of the hair carpets. What these strangers discover is beyond all belief, more than anything they could have ever imagined... Brought to the attention of Tor Books by Orson Scott Card, this edition of The Carpet Makers contains a special introduction by Orson Scott Card. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.



Sawdust Carpets

Author : Amelia Lau Carling

Publisher :

Page : 40 pages

File Size : 15,49 MB

Release : 2005

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN :

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A Chinese girl learns about Holy Week customs in Guatemala. She and some other children make a sawdust carpet in the path of the religious procession.



The Rugmaker of Mazar-e-Sharif

Author : Najaf Mazari, Robert Hillman

Publisher : Wild Dingo Press

Page : 265 pages

File Size : 13,29 MB

Release : 2011

Category : Afghans

ISBN : 0980757037

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This moving and poignant work gives the reader a rare insight into the contented ‘milk and honey’ life of a simple Afghan family before the civil war ripped their country apart. The lives and centuries-old livelihood of farmers, craftsmen and small business owners were destroyed in just weeks and months. As a member of the Hazara tribe, hated and targeted by the Taliban, Najaf was forced to flee the brutal attacks on his people when the Northern Alliance fell to the advancing Taliban insurgents. His flight to Pakistan, from there to Indonesia, then by boat to Australia, ends with incarceration in Woomera, where the story begins. From the compelling opening sentence to the beautiful final chapter, Najaf’s integrity, his extraordinary optimism and his generosity of spirit will win the hearts and minds of all readers.



The Carpet Wars

Author : Christopher Kremmer

Publisher : HarperCollins Australia

Page : 97 pages

File Size : 44,50 MB

Release : 2011-01-01

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 0732291585

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THE CARPET WARS is foreign correspondent Christopher Kremmer's riveting and timely account of a decade spent living, travelling and reporting from Asia and the Middle East. During his time reporting from Asia and the Middle East he formed an obsession with carpets and the 'perfect rug' - an obsession that saw him trace the threads of the carpet-making trade through the Islamic nations of Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq and the former Soviet republics of Central Asia. Along the way he made lifelong friendships, but he also discovered societies ripped apart by war, religion and fratricide, and ruled over by warlords like 'the Lion of Panjsher' Ahmed Shah Massoud - and terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden. tHE CARPEt WARS tells the story of Kremmer's amazing journey and his fascinating but fraught experiences in one the most ancient, misunderstood and least-touristed parts of the world.



Lord of All Things

Author : Andreas Eschbach

Publisher : Amazon Publishing

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 16,34 MB

Release : 2014

Category : Adventure stories

ISBN : 9781477849811

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Winner of the 2012 Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis They are just children when they first meet: Charlotte, daughter of the French ambassador, and Hiroshi, a laundress's son. One day on the playground, Hiroshi declares that he has an idea that will change the world. An idea that will sweep away all differences between rich and poor. When Hiroshi runs into Charlotte several years later, he is trying to build a brighter future through robotics. Determined to win Charlotte's love, he resurrects his childhood dream, convinced that he can eradicate world poverty by pushing the limits of technology beyond imagination. But as Hiroshi circles ever closer to realizing his vision, he discovers that his utopian dream may contain the seeds of a nightmare--one that could obliterate life as we know it. Crisscrossing the globe, from Tokyo to the hallowed halls of MIT to desolate Arctic islands and Buenos Aires and beyond--far beyond--Lord of All Things explores not only technology's dizzying potential, but also its formidable dangers.



Abraham's Boys

Author : Joe Hill

Publisher : Harper Collins

Page : 49 pages

File Size : 20,6 MB

Release : 2009-02-03

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0061843024

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From the New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 and Horns comes this e-short story—from Joe Hill’s award-winning collection 20th Century Ghosts. Imogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every film ever made. She's also dead and waiting in the Rosebud Theater for Alec Sheldon one afternoon in 1945. . . . Arthur Roth is a lonely kid with big ideas and a gift for attracting abuse. It isn't easy to make friends when you're the only inflatable boy in town. . . . Francis is unhappy. Francis was human once, but that was then. Now he's an eight-foot-tall locust and everyone in Calliphora will tremble when they hear him sing. . . . John Finney is locked in a basement that's stained with the blood of half a dozen other murdered children. In the cellar with him is an antique telephone, long since disconnected, but which rings at night with calls from the dead. . . .



The Carpet Weaver

Author : Nemat Sadat

Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited

Page : 277 pages

File Size : 37,27 MB

Release : 2019-06-25

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 9353055636

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Afghanistan, 1977. Kanishka Nurzada, the son of a leading carpet seller, falls in love with his friend Maihan, with whom he shares his first kiss at the age of sixteen. Their romance must be kept secret in a nation where the death penalty is meted out to those deemed to be kuni, a derogatory term for gay men. And when war comes to Afghanistan, it brings even greater challenges-and danger-for the two lovers. From the cultural melting pot of Kabul to the horrors of an internment camp in Pakistan, Kanishka's arduous journey finally takes him to the USA in the desperate search for a place to call home-and the fervent hope of reuniting with his beloved Maihan. But destiny seems to have different plans in store for him. Intimate and powerful, The Carpet Weaver is a sweeping tale of a young gay man's struggle to come of age and find love in the face of brutal persecution.



Bradley and the Magic Carpet

Author : Julian Hilton

Publisher :

Page : 32 pages

File Size : 30,93 MB

Release : 2019-01-11

Category :

ISBN : 9781916461505

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"It was an old carpet, a bold carpet a usually tied up and rolled carpet. But there it lay, inviting and snug, so Bradley curled up on that old Persian rug..." Join Bradley on a new adventure as he steps out into his back garden and is transported to a far away land when he finds a magic carpet and solves a tasty problem!



The Carpet Boy's Gift

Author : Pegi Deitz Shea

Publisher :

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 43,14 MB

Release : 2006-05

Category : Child abuse

ISBN : 9780884482499

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Yearning for freedom and schooling for himself and the other children who toil in a carpet factory in Pakistan to repay loans from the factory owner to their parents, Nadeem is inspired by a former carpet boy named Iqbal to lead the way.



The Carpet Makers

Author : A.F. Stoddard and Company

Publisher :

Page : 98 pages

File Size : 37,30 MB

Release : 1962

Category : Carpets

ISBN :

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