A King's Book of Kings
Title | A King's Book of Kings PDF eBook |
Author | Stuart Cary Welch |
Publisher | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Total Pages | 201 |
Release | 1972 |
Genre | Art, Iranian |
ISBN | 0870990284 |
Portrayals of Economic Exchange in the Book of Kings
Title | Portrayals of Economic Exchange in the Book of Kings PDF eBook |
Author | Roger S. Nam |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 237 |
Release | 2012-02-17 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9004223932 |
Drawing on the Polanyian categories of reciprocity, redistribution and market trade, this book examines the exchange narratives within 1 and 2 Kings in an effort to clarify the nature of the economic structures behind the biblical text.
Yorkshire
Title | Yorkshire PDF eBook |
Author | James Hobson Aveling |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 268 |
Release | 1870 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN |
Record Series
Title | Record Series PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 280 |
Release | 1924 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The Sport of Kings
Title | The Sport of Kings PDF eBook |
Author | C. E. Morgan |
Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | 561 |
Release | 2016-05-03 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0374715173 |
A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize Winner of the Kirkus Prize for Fiction • A Recipient of the Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction • A Finalist for the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction • A Finalist for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction • A Finalist for the Rathbones Folio Prize • Longlisted for an Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence • One of New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Book Named a Best Book of the Year by Entertainment Weekly • GQ • The New York Times (Selected by Dwight Garner) • NPR • The Wall Street Journal • San Francisco Chronicle • Refinery29 • Booklist • Kirkus Reviews • Commonweal Magazine "In its poetic splendor and moral seriousness, The Sport of Kings bears the traces of Faulkner, Morrison, and McCarthy. . . . It is a contemporary masterpiece."—San Francisco Chronicle Hailed by The New Yorker for its “remarkable achievements,” The Sport of Kings is an American tale centered on a horse and two families: one white, a Southern dynasty whose forefathers were among the founders of Kentucky; the other African-American, the descendants of their slaves. It is a dauntless narrative that stretches from the fields of the Virginia piedmont to the abundant pastures of the Bluegrass, and across the dark waters of the Ohio River; from the final shots of the Revolutionary War to the resounding clang of the starting bell at Churchill Downs. As C. E. Morgan unspools a fabric of shared histories, past and present converge in a Thoroughbred named Hellsmouth, heir to Secretariat and a contender for the Triple Crown. Newly confronted with one another in the quest for victory, the two families must face the consequences of their ambitions, as each is driven---and haunted---by the same, enduring question: How far away from your father can you run? A sweeping narrative of wealth and poverty, racism and rage, The Sport of Kings is an unflinching portrait of lives cast in the shadow of slavery and a moral epic for our time.
The Gift of the Magi
Title | The Gift of the Magi PDF eBook |
Author | O. Henry |
Publisher | Amila Jay |
Total Pages | 11 |
Release | 2021-12-22 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 3986779213 |
"The Gift of the Magi" is a short story by O. Henry first published in 1905. The story tells of a young husband and wife and how they deal with the challenge of buying secret Christmas gifts for each other with very little money. As a sentimental story with a moral lesson about gift-giving, it has been popular for adaptation, especially for presentation at Christmas time.
The Way of Kings
Title | The Way of Kings PDF eBook |
Author | Brandon Sanderson |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Total Pages | 1013 |
Release | 2014-03-04 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0765376679 |
A new epic fantasy series from the New York Times bestselling author chosen to complete Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time® Series