The Golems Eye

Author : Jonathan Stroud
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 1423141504
Total Pages : 627 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Golem’s Eye written by Jonathan Stroud and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2011-12-13 with total page 627 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second adventure in the Bartimaeus trilogy finds our young apprentice magician Nathaniel working his way up the ranks of the government, when crisis hits. A seemingly invulnerable clay golem is making random attacks on London. Nathaniel and the all-powerful, totally irreverent djinni, Bartimaeus, must travel to Prague to discover the source of the golem's power. In the ensuing chaos, readers will chase a dancing skeleton across London's skyline, encounter the horror of the dreaded Night Police, witness a daring kidnapping, and enter the Machiavellian world of the magician's government. Eventually, Nathaniel and Bartimaeus have to go head to head with the fearsome golem before the surprise identity of his master is finally revealed.

Author : Jonathan Stroud
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 1423141466
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Amulet of Samarkand written by Jonathan Stroud and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2011-12-13 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Be careful what you wish for. Nathaniel is a magician's apprentice, taking his first lessons in the arts of magic. But when a devious hot-shot wizard named Simon Lovelace ruthlessly humiliates Nathaniel in front of his elders, Nathaniel decides to kick up his education a few notches and show Lovelace who's boss. With revenge on his mind, he summons the powerful djinni, Bartimaeus. But summoning Bartimaeus and controlling him are two different things entirely, and when Nathaniel sends the djinni out to steal Lovelace's greatest treasure, the Amulet of Samarkand, he finds himself caught up in a whirlwind of magical espionage, murder, and rebellion.

Author : Jonathan Stroud
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 1423149564
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ring of Solomon: A Bartimaeus Novel written by Jonathan Stroud and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2012-01-24 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bartimaeus, everyone's favorite (wise-cracking) djinni, is back in book four of this best-selling series, now available in paperback. As alluded to in the footnotes throughout the series, Bartimaeus has served hundreds of magicians during his 5,010 year career. Now fans can go back in time with the djinni, to Jerusalem and the court of King Solomon in 950 BCE. Only in this adventure, it seems the great Bartimaeus has finally met his match. He'll have to contend with an unpleasant master and his sinister servant, and he runs into just a "spot" of trouble with King Solomon's magic ring....

Author : James Sturm
Publisher : Drawn & Quarterly
ISBN 13 : 1770465308
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Golem's Mighty Swing written by James Sturm and published by Drawn & Quarterly. This book was released on 2021-04-16 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition of the classic tale of a barnstorming Jewish baseball team during the Great Depression Before penning his acclaimed graphic novel Market Day and founding the Center for Cartoon Studies, James Sturm proved his worth as a master cartoonist with the eloquent graphic novel, The Golem’s Mighty Swing, one of the first breakout graphic novel hits of the twenty-first century. Sturm’s fascination with the invisible America has been the crux of his comics work, exploring the rarely-told or oft-forgotten bits of history that define a country. By reuniting America’s greatest pastime with its hidden history, the graphic novel tells the story of the Stars of David, a barnstorming Jewish baseball team of the depression era. Led by its manager and third baseman, the nomadic team travels from small town to small town providing the thrill of the sport while playing up their religious exoticism as a curio for people to gawk at, heckle, and taunt. When the team’s fortunes fall, the players are presented a plan to get people in the stands. But by placing their fortunes in the hands of a promoter, the Stars of David find themselves fanning the flames of ethnic tensions. Sturm’s nuanced composition is on full display as he deftly builds the climax of the game against the rising anti-semitic fervor of the crowd. Baseball, small towns, racial tensions, and the desperate grasp for the American Dream: The Golem’s Mighty Swing is a classic American novel.

Author : Jonathan Stroud
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780385608084
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Golem's Eye written by Jonathan Stroud and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The young magician Nathaniel is fast rising through the government ranks. His most urgent task is to put an end to the mysterious Resistance, but Kitty and her friends continue to elude him. As the pressure mounts, London is suddenly threatened by a new series of terrifying attacks. Is it the Resistance - or something even more dangerous? Nathaniel is forced to embark on a perilous mission to the enemy city of Prague; and to summon once again the troublesome, enigmatic and quick-witted djinni, Bartimaeus. The thrilling sequel to THE AMULET OF SAMARKAND is a roller-coaster ride of magic, adventure and political skulduggery as the fates of Nathaniel, Bartimaeus and Kitty explosively collide.

Author : Jonathan Stroud
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 1423141415
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ptolemy's Gate written by Jonathan Stroud and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2011-12-13 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the third book of the series, Bartimaeus, Nathaniel, and Kitty must test the limits of this world, question the deepest parts of themselves -- and trust one another if they hope to survive. Includes a preview chapter from The Ring of Solomon, a Bartimaeus novel.

Author : Jonathan Stroud
Publisher : Doubleday Children's
ISBN 13 : 9780385606158
Total Pages : 569 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Golem's Eye written by Jonathan Stroud and published by Doubleday Children's. This book was released on 2004 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In their continuing adventures, magician's apprentice Nathaniel, now fourteen years old, and the djinni Bartimaeus travel to Prague to locate the source of a golem's power before it destroys London.

Author : Helene Wecker
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062110853
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Golem and the Jinni written by Helene Wecker and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-04-23 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An intoxicating fusion of fantasy and historical fiction. . . . Wecker’s storytelling skills dazzle." —Entertainment Weekly A marvelous and absorbing debut novel about a chance meeting between two supernatural creatures in turn-of-the-century immigrant New York. Chava is a golem, a creature made of clay by a disgraced rabbi knowledgeable in the ways of dark Kabbalistic magic. She serves as the wife to a Polish merchant who dies at sea on the voyage to America. As the ship arrives in New York in 1899, Chava is unmoored and adrift until a rabbi on the Lower East Side recognizes her for the creature she is and takes her in. Ahmad is a jinni, a being of fire born in the ancient Syrian desert and trapped centuries ago in an old copper flask by a Bedouin wizard. Released by a Syrian tinsmith in a Manhattan shop, Ahmad appears in human form but is still not free. An iron band around his wrist binds him to the wizard and to the physical world. Chava and Ahmad meet accidentally and become friends and soul mates despite their opposing natures. But when the golem’s violent nature overtakes her one evening, their bond is challenged. An even more powerful threat will emerge, however, and bring Chava and Ahmad together again, challenging their very existence and forcing them to make a fateful choice. Compulsively readable, The Golem and the Jinni weaves strands of Yiddish and Middle Eastern literature, historical fiction and magical fable, in a wondrously inventive tale that is mesmerizing and unforgettable.

Author : Jonathan Stroud
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0316706949
Total Pages : 1304 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bartimaeus Sequence Gift Set written by Jonathan Stroud and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2020-05-26 with total page 1304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fall into New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Stroud's Bartimaeus Sequence in this complete e-book edition that includes: The Amulet of Samarkland, The Golem's Eye, Ptolemy's Gate, and The Ring of Solomon. Nathaniel is a young magician's apprentice, taking his first lessons in the arts of magic. But after a devious hotshot wizard named Simon Lovelace ruthlessly humiliates him in front of everyone he knows, Nathaniel seeks his revenge through magic. He pores over texts and works to perfect his skills to summon the 5,000 year old djinni Bartimaeus-but Nathaniel may have bitten off more than he can chew, and soon finds himself in a situation more dangerous and deadly than he could have ever imagined. These four spellbinding tales -- The Amulet of Samarkland, The Golem's Eye, Ptolemy's Gate, and The Ring of Solomon -- invite readers into a brilliantly imagined world that they'll never want to leave.

Author : Harry M. Collins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521645508
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Golem written by Harry M. Collins and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-09-17 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the golem? In Jewish mythology the Golem is an effigy or image brought to life. While not evil, it is a strong, clumsy and incomplete servant. Through a series of case studies, ranging from relativity and cold fusion to memory in worms and the sex lives of lizards, Harry Collins and Trevor Pinch debunk the traditional view that science is the straightforward result of competent theorization, observation and experimentation. Scientific certainty is the interpretation of ambiguous results. The very well received first edition generated much debate, reflected in a substantial new Afterword in this new edition, which seeks to place the book in what have become known as 'the science wars'.