The Parchment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Parchment write by Gerald McLaughlin. This book was released on 2005. The Parchment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. It is A.D. 70, and Evardus, a wine merchant from Gaul, has encountered a dying rabbi on a road outside of Jerusalem. With his final breaths, the old man urgently tells Evardus that Jewish priests have spirited sacred objects and records away from Herod's Temple in the hope of keeping them out of the hands of Roman soldiers--who are, at that very moment, attacking Jerusalem and destroying the Jews' most holy site. The merchant learns of a copper scroll hidden beneath the Holy of Holies and a map that leads to the holy objects. A thousand years later, while on a Crusade to Palestine, a descendant of the merchant finally uncovers those secrets below the temple. They include an astonishing parchment that threatens the very foundations of the Church and Christianity. The grand master of the Templars develops a scheme to advance the interests of his order, but the plan has devastating consequences. The parchment survives, however, and for nearly a millennium remains hidden in plain sight. With the dawning of the twenty-first century and pivotal world events, two American professors discover the document while researching a book. Like those before, they are tempted to use it for their own purposes. The course they pursue leads to unforeseen consequences that affect events in the Middle East and a crucial turning point for the Vatican. Gerald McLaughlin shows us a rich, haunting tableau that spans two thousand years. We are given a timely glimpse into the often-disastrous ways that we tend to deal with faith when confronted by fear and ambition, and how moral choices are made in the face of the continuing battle between good and evil--both in ourselves and in the world. Ultimately, the author shines a light of profound hope and faith into the darkest recesses of the human soul, our modern life, and world events.
A Parchment of Leaves
A Parchment of Leaves - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Parchment of Leaves write by Silas House. This book was released on 2002-08-16. A Parchment of Leaves available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When Silas House made his debut with Clay's Quilt last year, it touched a nerve not just in his home state (where it quickly became a bestseller), but all across the country. Glowing reviews-from USA Today (House is letter-perfect with his first novel), to the Philadelphia Inquirer (Compelling. . . . House knows what's important and reminds us of the value of family and home, love and loyalty), to the Mobile Register (Poetic, haunting), and everywhere in between-established him as a writer to watch. His second novel won't disappoint. Set in 1917, A PARCHMENT OF LEAVES tells the story of Vine, a beautiful Cherokee woman who marries a white man, forsaking her family and their homeland to settle in with his people and make a home in the heart of the mountains. Her mother has strange forebodings that all will not go well, and she's right. Vine is viewed as an outsider, treated with contempt by other townspeople. Add to that her brother-in-law's fixation on her, and Vine's life becomes more complicated than she could have ever imagined. In the violent turn of events that ensues, she learns what it means to forgive others and, most important, how to forgive herself. As haunting as an old-time ballad, A PARCHMENT OF LEAVES is filled with the imagery, dialect, music, and thrumming life of the Kentucky mountains. For Silas House, whose great-grandmother was Cherokee, this novel is also a tribute to the family whose spirit formed him.
Parchment, Printing, and Hypermedia
Parchment, Printing, and Hypermedia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Parchment, Printing, and Hypermedia write by Ronald Deibert. This book was released on 2000-01-15. Parchment, Printing, and Hypermedia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Interweaving media theory and historical analysis, this book explores the effect new digital-telecommunication technologies, which Deibert calls hypermedia, will have on the distribution of political power in the next century. Deibert tracks the transf
The Parchment Paper Cookbook
The Parchment Paper Cookbook - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Parchment Paper Cookbook write by Brette Sember. This book was released on 2011-10-15. The Parchment Paper Cookbook available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What if you could whip up healthy, mouthwatering meals that your family loved--without making a mess? Well, it's as easy as parchment paper. You'll find that cooking in parchment paper is akin to cooking in foil--if foil were French, fast, and environmentally friendly. In this cookbook, award-winning author and food writer Brette Sember shows you how parchment paper cooking can revolutionize the way you cook--and save you time and money, not to mention the grief that often accompanies dinnertime. With simple instructions on the art of parchment paper folding and preparation, you'll fold your way to your family's hearts with such nutritious, delicious offerings as: Swedish Meatballs Thai Chicken with Lemongrass and Coconut Rice Stuffed Flank Steak Scallops Coquilles Lamb and Yogurt Wraps Artichoke Pizza Portobellos with Goat Cheese and Spinach Quick Baclava Peach Pie Turnovers You can forget dirty pots and pans. With this cookbook, dinner just got easier, faster, cleaner--and tastier!
Sealed in Parchment
Sealed in Parchment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sealed in Parchment write by Sandra Hindman. This book was released on 1994-10-17. Sealed in Parchment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Chretien de Troyes was France's great medieval poet—inventor of the genre of courtly romance and popularizer of the Arthurian legend. The forty-four surviving manuscripts of his work (ten of them illuminated) pose a number of questions about who used these books and in what way. In Sealed in Parchment, Sandra Hindman scrutinizes both text and images to reveal what the manuscripts can tell us about medieval society and politics.
