Da Silva's Widow
Author: Lucas Malet
Publisher:
Published: 1922
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13:
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The Black Widow
Author: Carolyn Keene
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2014-05-20
Total Pages: 108
ISBN-13: 1481424009
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNancy uncovers a mystery while cruising to Rio de Janeiro when a drawing of a black widow spider with a coded message is slipped under Nancy’s door.
Graceful Woman Warrior
Author: Terri Luanna da Silva
Publisher: Bookbaby
Published: 2018-12-09
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781543948851
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGraceful Woman Warrior is a gutsy, thought-provoking and deeply moving posthumous memoir about mindfully living and dying with cancer. Forced to take an honest look at her own mortality after a Stage 4 metastatic breast cancer diagnosis, Terri Luanna da Silva started a blog about her journey. Reeling from the recent death of her mother to cancer, visionary Canadian artist, Jeanne Robinson, Terri asked the big questions in her quest to understand the grace lessons contained in the suffering.
The Black Widow
Author: Daniel Silva
Publisher:
Published: 2017-06-19
Total Pages: 544
ISBN-13: 9780732298982
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNo. 1 New York Times bestselling author Daniel Silva delivers another spellbinding international thriller - one that finds the legendary Gabriel Allon grappling with an ISIS mastermind. Legendary spy and art restorer Gabriel Allon is poised to become the chief of Israel's secret intelligence service. But on the eve of his promotion, events conspire to lure him into the field for one final operation. ISIS has detonated a massive bomb in the Marais district of Paris, and a desperate French government wants Gabriel to eliminate the man responsible before he can strike again. They call him Saladin ... He is a terrorist mastermind whose ambition is as grandiose as his nom de guerre, a man so elusive that even his nationality is not known. Shielded by sophisticated encryption software, his network communicates in total secrecy, leaving the West blind to his planning - and leaving Gabriel no choice but to insert an agent into the most dangerous terrorist group the world has ever known. Natalie Mizrahi is an extraordinary young doctor as brave as she is beautiful. At Gabriel's behest, she will pose as an ISIS recruit in waiting, a ticking time bomb, a black widow out for blood. 'Literate, top-notch action' Kirkus Reviews 'If you like Jason Bourne and Jack Reacher, get to know Gabriel Allon' Australian Women's Weekly 'Allon is a great political operative, but Silva is an even greater writer' Huffington Post
Poverty and Welfare Among the Portuguese Jews in Early Modern Amsterdam
Author: Tirtsah Levie Bernfeld
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 2012-07-05
Total Pages: 609
ISBN-13: 1786949830
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe reputed wealth and benevolence of the Portuguese Jews of early modern Amsterdam attracted many impoverished people to the city, both ex-Conversos from the Iberian peninsula and Jews from many other countries. In describing the consequences of that migration in terms of demography, admission policy, charitable institutions—public and private—philanthropy and daily life, and the dynamics of the relationship between the rich and the poor, Tirtsah Levie Bernfeld adds a nuanced new dimension to the understanding of Jewish life in the early modern period.
Lucas Malet, Dissident Pilgrim
Author: Jane Ford
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-02-06
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 042962770X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPopular novelist, female aesthete, Victorian radical and proto-modernist, Lucas Malet (Mary St. Leger Harrison, 1852-1931) was one of the most successful writers of her day, yet few of her remarkable novels remain in print. Malet was a daughter of the ‘broad church’ priest and well-known Victorian author Charles Kingsley; her sister Rose, uncle, Henry Kingsley and her cousin Mary Henrietta Kingsley were also published authors. Malet was part of a creative dynasty from which she drew inspiration but against which she rebelled both in her personal life and her published work. This collection brings together for the first time a selection of scholarly essays on Malet’s life and writing, foregrounding her contributions to nineteenth- and twentieth-century discourses surrounding disability, psychology, religion, sexuality, the New Woman, and decadent, aesthetic and modernist cultural movements. The essays contained in this volume explore Malet’s authorial experience—from both within the mainstream of the British literary tradition and, curiously, from outside it—supplementing and nuancing current debates about fin-de-siècle women’s writing. The collection asks the question ‘who was Lucas Malet?’ and ‘how—despite its popularity—did her courageous, unique and fascinating writing disappear from view for so long?’
The Professional Literary Agent in Britain, 1880-1920
Author: Mary Ann Gillies
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2007-01-01
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 0802091474
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBreaking new ground in the study of British literary culture during an important, transitional period, this new work by Mary Ann Gillies focuses on the professional literary agent whose emergence in Britain around 1880 coincided with, and accelerated, the transformation of both publishing and authorship. Like other recent studies in book and print culture, The Professional Literary Agent in Britain, 1880-1920 starts from the central premise that the business of authorship is inextricably linked with the aesthetics of literary praxis. Rather than provide a broad overview of the period, however, Gillies focuses on a specific figure, the professional literary agent. She then traces the influence of two prominent agents - A. P. Watt (generally acknowledged as the first professional literary agent) and J. B. Pinker (the leading figure in the second wave of agents) - focusing on their respective relationships with two key clients. The case studies not only provide insight into the business dynamics of the literary world at this time, but also illustrate the shifting definition of literature itself during the period.
Bookseller and Stationer
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Publisher:
Published: 1922
Total Pages: 554
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Sephardim of England
Author: Albert M. Hyamson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-04-03
Total Pages: 506
ISBN-13: 1000043843
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published in 1951, this book explores the development in England of the Sephardi branch of the Jewish community, the co-heirs, with their kinsmen in Holland, in Italy, in North America and in the Middle East, of the Golden Age of Jewish history in Spain. Based on archival history from within the community, it was the first full-length history of the Sephardi community in England and describes how this little Jewish community, the first in England since the Middle Ages, grew, prospered and contributed the wealth and influence of London, and eventually producing in Disraeli one of England’s greatest Prime Ministers.
