(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Jun-2021, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Tor Books, ISBN-13: 9781250781253)
The Book of the New Sun is unanimously acclaimed as Gene Wolfes most remarkable work, hailed as a masterpiece of science fantasy comparable in importance to the major works of Tolkien and Lewis by Publishers Weekly. Shadow & Claw brings together...Loe edasi...
With eerie illustrations and chilling creepypasta interstitials, The Doomsday Archives: The Wandering Hour by Zack Loran Clark and Nick Eliopulos is the first in a deliciously creepy series, perfect for readers of Jonathan Stroud, Christ...Loe edasi...
AN NPR NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • From the award-winning and bestselling author of Feed comes a raucous, slyly funny, and delightfully queer work of historical fantasy, based on a bizarre but true quest to steal the mystical corpse of a lon...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Jul-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Virginia Press, ISBN-13: 9780813954325)
Winner of the Sixteenth Century Society Gerald Strauss Book Award Shortlisted for the Ecclesiastical History Society Book Award The defense of the cult of saints and relics was an essential element of the Catholic Cou...Loe edasi...
Sari: Italy in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Jun-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9789463723879)
* Examination of the theft of relics and the cult of the saints from a multidisciplinary perspective * Opens the analysis up to a larger conversation about cultural developments in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages * Focus on the rich and over...Loe edasi...
Rebecca Ross, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Divine Rivals, delivers a thrilling new romantasy about a girl who partners with an unlikely ally to save her sister’s life. Perfect for fans of Heartless Hunter,...Loe edasi...
From legendary creator Frank Miller comes a dark, modern-day fairy tale about a teenage girl searching for a perfect world. But all is not what it seems . . .This hardcover edition features the following bonus material:...Loe edasi...
Definir correctement les reliques des saints, leurs restes sur terre, donner un apercu de leur culte, bien les identifier, mais surtout comment sen servir : tels sont les objectifs de ce livre, qui trace aussi des perspectives nouvelles. Des quest...Loe edasi...
“A superb choice for fans of Jonathan Stroud’s Lockwood & Co. series, Tom Booth’s Eerie-on-Sea books, and creepypastas.” ?Booklist, Starred ReviewThe next installment in The Doomsday Archives introduce...Loe edasi...
This book critically examines the often-tense relationship between keramat and authority, both secular and religious, from colonial to modern times.A vital resource for scholars, this work contributes to a peoples history of Singapore, one...Loe edasi...
The year is 1087, and a pox is sweeping through the Italian port city of Bari. When a lowly monk is visited by Saint Nicholas in his dreams, he interprets the vision as a call to action. But his superiors, and the power brokers they serve, have diff...Loe edasi...
New Rotterdam is no place for a kid and thats what Emrys Houtman likes about it. Emrys obsessively documents his towns urban legends and cryptid sightings...Its all in good fun until one day, the trio stumbles upon the Doomsday Archives, a collec...Loe edasi...
Four adorable dogs have picked their characters and favorite dice and are ready to save the day in DnDoggos: Get the Party Started, the middle grade graphic novel debut from online comic creator Scout Underhill. Four adorable dog...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 27-Feb-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: St Martin's Press, ISBN-13: 9781250834355)
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Four adorable dogs are tail-waggingly excited to play their favorite role-playing game in DnDoggos: Get the Party Started, the middle grade graphic novel debut from online comic creator Scout Underhill.Theyve picked their ch...Loe edasi...
Relic explores how a bit of bone, a scrap of rag, a chip of wood - the most prosaic of materials - have often been endowed by faith, tradition, and culture with a sense of the sacred-- Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully des...Loe edasi...
In this electrifying conclusion to the epic trilogy, the prince and the thief must band together one last time to stop the magical imbalance before Sombra regains his full strength once more?—?and to fulfill their prophecy before darkness reigns. Si...Loe edasi...
TOMB WRITER KINGDetermined to get his hands on the powerful Relic within, Jooheon ventures into the first of the Seven Great Tombs. However, even this seasoned raider is helpless before the Relic of Sloth’s scorching flames! Just as he prepares for t...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-Oct-2023, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Virginia Press, ISBN-13: 9780813949949)
This book argues that whole-body saints (intact skeletons) in Bavaria functioned differently than the small, fragmented relics common in the medieval period. By devising and using this innovative relic presentation, early modern Bavarians materially...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Oct-2023, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Tor Books, ISBN-13: 9781250861672)
Before Martha Wells captured the hearts of MILLIONS with her Murderbot series, there was Khat, Sagai, and Elen, and a city risen out of death and decay…The city of Charisat, a tiered monolith of the Ancients’ design, s...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Oct-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: Park Row Books, ISBN-13: 9780778310457)
Follows a young woman who harnesses the strange, ancient magic of gemstones to investigate a series of shocking crimes in plague-stricken Florence, all the while proving she is more physician than witch. A first novel. The premium spe...Loe edasi...
For readers of Homegoing and The Leavers, a compelling and profound debut novel about a Tibetan familys journey through exile.International BestsellerLonglisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Pri...Loe edasi...
The Thirty Pieces of Silver: Coin Relics in Medieval and Modern Europe discusses many interconnected topics relating to the most perfidious monetary transaction in history: the betrayal of Jesus by Judas for thirty pieces of silver. Accor...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Sep-2023, Hardback, Kirjastus: Pennsylvania State University Press, ISBN-13: 9780271095356)
Investigates an incident of holy relic theft in Rome, the lengthy legal case that followed it, and the larger questions that surrounded saints remains in seventeenth-century Catholic Europe--...Loe edasi...
A strip mall heist, a satanic cult, and another lousy shift at a minimum wage job—grab a #2 with fries and settle in for a hilarious thrill ride!Marty Tarantella has been flipping burgers for 15 years. He has no kids, no hobbies, no lo...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Feb-2023, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: First Second, ISBN-13: 9781250793782)
The fifth installment in the #1 New York Times bestselling Adventure Zone graphic novel series, a meta-fictional D&D adventure story based on the smash hit podcast.The Bureau of Balance has located yet another Grand Relic, an...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Feb-2023, Hardback, Kirjastus: First Second, ISBN-13: 9781250793799)
The Bureau of Balance has located yet another Grand Relic, and this time its...time? A small mining town called Refuge has been locked away behind an arcane bubble, and somewhere inside it the Temporal Chalice is causing unknown mayhem. When the to...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 10-Jan-2023, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Pennsylvania Press, ISBN-13: 9781512823776)
Death and the Body in the Eighteenth-Century Novel demonstrates that archives continually speak to the periods rising funeral and mourning culture, as well as the increasing commodification of death and mourning typically associated with nineteenth...Loe edasi...
Mobile Saints examines the central medieval (ca. 950-1150 CE) practice of removing saints relics from rural monasteries in order to take them on out-and-back journeys, particularly within northern France and the Low Countries. ...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Nov-2022, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Margaret K. McElderry Books, ISBN-13: 9781534477124)
An international bestseller! From the New York Times bestselling author of Sorcery of Thorns and An Enchantment of Ravens comes a thrilling, “dark coming-of-age adventure” (Culturess) about a teen girl wi...Loe edasi...
Res sacrae e unespressione che comprende una molteplicita di oggetti legati al culto, cui in ogni religione vengono attribuiti poteri spirituali e poteri materiali di protezione. Questo volume si concentra sui tre principali strumenti della devozion...Loe edasi...
Handheld Press presents a new classic short story anthology, combining the supernatural and archaeology. Never before have so many relics from the past caused such delicious and intriguing shivers down the spine. Archaeological historian Amara Thornt...Loe edasi...
The exhilarating sequel to the #1 Sunday Times and Los Angeles Times bestseller Nocturna, about a face-changing thief and a risk-taking prince who must reunite when a deadly enemy threatens their kingdom’s chance...Loe edasi...
A Celtic warrior defending her people from Viking raiders infiltrates an ancient sect to save her homeland, in this gripping original saga set in the world of Assassins Creed® ValhallaMercia, 878. Witch-war...Loe edasi...
To save her sister from the sadistic king of the Unseelie court, Brie makes a deal to steal three magical relics from the Seelie court and finds herself caught between two dangerous faerie courts and their seductive princes. A ...Loe edasi...
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1906Beth Tremayne has always been drawn to adventure. During her childhood, she fed that desire by exploring every inch of the Isles of Scilly. Now, after stumbling across an old collection of letters and a map buried on her...Loe edasi...
A compelling and profound debut novel about a Tibetan familys journey through exile. In the wake of Chinas 1959 invasion of Tibet, Lhamo and her younger sister, Tenkyi, arrive at a refugee camp in Nepal. They survived the dangerous journey across...Loe edasi...
