Secret Norwich

Secret Norwich
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Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Total Pages : 150
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ISBN-10 : 9781445676432
ISBN-13 : 1445676435
Rating : 4/5 (32 Downloads)

Synopsis Secret Norwich by : Elizabeth Walne

Secret Norwich explores the lesser-known history of the city of Norwich through a fascinating selection of stories, unusual facts and attractive photographs.

Norwich

Norwich
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 288
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ISBN-10 : 9781501119910
ISBN-13 : 1501119915
Rating : 4/5 (10 Downloads)

Synopsis Norwich by : Karen Crouse

The extraordinary story of the small Vermont town that has likely produced more Olympians per capita than any other place in the country, Norwich gives “parents of young athletes a great gift—a glimpse at another way to raise accomplished and joyous competitors” (The Washington Post). In Norwich, Vermont—a charming town of organic farms and clapboard colonial buildings—a culture has taken root that’s the opposite of the hypercompetitive schoolyard of today’s tiger moms and eagle dads. In Norwich, kids aren’t cut from teams. They don’t specialize in a single sport, and they even root for their rivals. What’s more, their hands-off parents encourage them to simply enjoy themselves. Yet this village of roughly three thousand residents has won three Olympic medals and sent an athlete to almost every Winter Olympics for the past thirty years. Now, New York Times reporter and “gifted storyteller” (The Wall Street Journal) Karen Crouse spills Norwich’s secret to raising not just better athletes than the rest of America but happier, healthier kids. And while these “counterintuitive” (Amy Chua, bestselling author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother) lessons were honed in the New England snow, parents across the country will find that “Crouse’s message applies beyond a particular town or state” (The Wall Street Journal). If you’re looking for answers about how to raise joyful, resilient kids, let Norwich take you to a place that has figured it out.

Medical Record

Medical Record
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 984
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015079963313
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (13 Downloads)

Synopsis Medical Record by : George Frederick Shrady

The Secret of Secrets

The Secret of Secrets
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Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Total Pages : 496
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ISBN-10 : 0472113089
ISBN-13 : 9780472113088
Rating : 4/5 (89 Downloads)

Synopsis The Secret of Secrets by : Steven J. Williams

A compelling study of a "best-seller" from the Middle Ages

Revelations of Divine Love

Revelations of Divine Love
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Publisher : Ixia Press
Total Pages : 259
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ISBN-10 : 9780486836089
ISBN-13 : 0486836088
Rating : 4/5 (89 Downloads)

Synopsis Revelations of Divine Love by : Julian of Norwich

The fourteenth-century anchorite known as Julian of Norwich offered fervent prayers for a deeper understanding of Christ's passion. The holy woman's petitions were answered with a series of divine revelations that she called "shewings." Her mystic visions revealed Christ's sufferings with extreme intensity, but they also confirmed God's constant love for humanity and infinite capacity for forgiveness. Julian of Norwich's Revelations of Divine Love have had a lasting influence on Christian thought. Written in immediate, compelling terms, her experiences remain among the most original and accessible expressions of medieval mysticism. This edition contains both the short text, which is mainly an account of the shewings and Julian's initial analysis of their meaning, and the long text, completed some 20 years later and offering daringly speculative interpretations.

Citizen of London

Citizen of London
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Publisher : Hurst Publishers
Total Pages : 415
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ISBN-10 : 9781787389717
ISBN-13 : 1787389715
Rating : 4/5 (17 Downloads)

Synopsis Citizen of London by : Michael McCarthy

The extraordinary story of Richard Whittington, from his arrival in London as a young boy to his death in 1423, against a backdrop of plague, politics and war; turbulence between Crown, City and Commons; and the unrelenting financial demands of Richard II, Henry IV and Henry V, to whom Whittington was mercer, lender and fixer. A man determined to follow his own path, Whittington was a significant figure in London's ceaseless development. As a banker, Collector of the Wool Custom, King's Council member and four-time mayor, Whittington featured prominently in the rise of the capital's merchant class and powerful livery companies. Civic reformer, enemy of corruption and author of an extraordinary social legacy, he contributed to Henry V's victory at Agincourt and oversaw building works at Westminster Abbey. In London, Whittington found his 'second' family: a mentor, Sir Ivo Fitzwarin, and an inspirational wife in Fitzwarin's daughter Alice. Today's Dick Whittington pantomimes, enjoyed by millions, have a grain of truth in them, but the real story is far more compelling--minus that sadly mythical cat.

The Secret Rooms

The Secret Rooms
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 537
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ISBN-10 : 9780143124733
ISBN-13 : 0143124730
Rating : 4/5 (33 Downloads)

Synopsis The Secret Rooms by : Catherine Bailey

For fans of Downton Abbey, this New York Times bestseller is the enthralling true story of family secrets and aristocratic intrigue in the days before WWI After the Ninth Duke of Rutland, one of the wealthiest men in Britain, died alone in a cramped room in the servants’ quarters of Belvoir Castle on April 21, 1940, his son and heir ordered the room, which contained the Rutland family archives, sealed. Sixty years later, Catherine Bailey became the first historian given access. What she discovered was a mystery: The Duke had painstakingly erased three periods of his life from all family records—but why? As Bailey uncovers the answers, she also provides an intimate portrait of the very top of British society in the turbulent days leading up to World War I.

The Lonely Nest

The Lonely Nest
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Publisher : Shetucket River Press
Total Pages : 384
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ISBN-10 : 1736908901
ISBN-13 : 9781736908907
Rating : 4/5 (01 Downloads)

Synopsis The Lonely Nest by : Concetta Falcone-Codding

"It would be some time until the steel encasement sealing my lonely nest cracked. Some might say I was too damaged to know any better, having lived with an abuser so long. The truth is hard to accept and far more egregious when I say, we learn to sacrifice the ones we love in order to survive." The secret you buried thirty years ago comes banging at your door. You refuse to open, as you have a new life and remain speechless whenever someone asks, "How did your mother and sister die?" The events described in The Lonely Nest take place in a small New England town and reveal what hides behind time and shame. With a sense of urgency, Concetta Falcone-Codding takes the reader through her family history, narrating four decades of secrets, deadly betrayals, and harm that destroyed the women in her family. Written from the perspective of her child-self, Falcone-Codding's sensitive prose exposes the translucent line between witnessing abuse and being complicit in it. The Lonely Nest is a story of domestic violence, incest, childhood loss, and courage written for all whose stories have yet to be heard. Concetta Falcone-Codding https: //www.facebook.com/TheLonelyNestSeries/ [email protected]

Ivory Vikings

Ivory Vikings
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Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 290
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ISBN-10 : 9781137279378
ISBN-13 : 1137279370
Rating : 4/5 (78 Downloads)

Synopsis Ivory Vikings by : Nancy Marie Brown

In the early 1800's, on a Hebridean beach in Scotland, the sea exposed an ancient treasure cache: 93 chessmen carved from walrus ivory. Norse netsuke, each face individual, each full of quirks, the Lewis Chessmen are probably the most famous chess pieces in the world. Harry played Wizard's Chess with them in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Housed at the British Museum, they are among its most visited and beloved objects. Questions abounded: Who carved them? Where? Nancy Marie Brown's Ivory Vikings explores these mysteries by connecting medieval Icelandic sagas with modern archaeology, art history, forensics, and the history of board games. In the process, Ivory Vikings presents a vivid history of the 400 years when the Vikings ruled the North Atlantic, and the sea-road connected countries and islands we think of as far apart and culturally distinct: Norway and Scotland, Ireland and Iceland, and Greenland and North America. The story of the Lewis chessmen explains the economic lure behind the Viking voyages to the west in the 800s and 900s. And finally, it brings from the shadows an extraordinarily talented woman artist of the twelfth century: Margret the Adroit of Iceland.

The Athenaeum

The Athenaeum
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 1356
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ISBN-10 : IOWA:31858029267212
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (12 Downloads)

Synopsis The Athenaeum by :