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Bartimaeus trilogy volume Prequel
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Fans rejoice-everyone's favorite wise-cracking djinni is back!
Thousands of years before his fateful service to the magician Nathaniel in London, wily Bartimaeus served as djinni to hundreds of masters, from Babylon and Ancient Egypt to the modern Middle East. In this brilliant new installment in the best-selling series, history is revealed as readers travel alongside Bartimaeus to Jerusalem and the court of King Solomon for his most exciting adventure...
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"The latest novel from #1 internationally best-selling author Paulo Coelho is a classic of inspiration and reflection, a meditation on life, love, and the significance of change. A novel of philosophical reflection set in Jerusalem during the time of the Crusades. Here a community of Christians, Arabs, and Jews who have long lived together harmoniously have been warned of an imminent attack and certain destruction. Contemplating their demise, the...
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Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2016.
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338 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Years after William Harrington participates in a 1920s project to redesign Jerusalem by bringing English parks to the desert, his revelations about long-buried secrets transform the life of his former employer's daughter.
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Islam quintet volume 2
Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2015.
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xvi, 367 pages : illustration ; 20 cm.
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"As victories mount and accolades are showered upon the great warrior Saladin, he is nearly deified. He conquers the infidel Franj, or Crusaders, and reclaims the holy city of Jerusalem while remaining true to his senses of honor, justice, and humor. When it comes time for Saladin to record his own story, he turns to a Jewish scribe. In the interlinking stories of The Book of Saladin, the mighty sultan deftly navigates the deep chasms separating Muslims,...
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Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2024.
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106 pages : illustrations, maps (some color) ; 20 cm + 1 map.
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In 2005, a group of construction workers in Jerusalem made an incredible discovery. Underneath the parking lot they were digging up lay an ancient city that was built in the tenth century! Three years later, gold coins from an even earlier century were found at the site. The city of Jerusalem is like a layer cake of history-more than five thousand years of complicated history-all of which author Ellen Morgan explains clearly and objectively in this...
8) Jerusalem
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MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[2015], 2013.
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1 DVD (43 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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An inspiring and eye-opening tour of one of the world's oldest and most enigmatic cities. Destroyed and rebuilt countless times over 5,000 years, the city's enduring appeal remains a mystery. What made it so important to so many different cultures? How did it become the center of the world for three major religions? Why does it still matter to people?
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20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
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2 DVDs (144 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Orlando Bloom stars as Balian, a young Frenchman in Medieval Jerusalem during the Crusades, who, having lost everything, finds redemption in a heroic fight against overwhelming forces to save his people and fulfill his destiny as a knight.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2011
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xi, 418 p. ; 24 cm.
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Traces the evolution of the belief that Jerusalem is the center of the Christian, Jewish, and Muslim religious worlds and argues that this fixation is a main cause of the modern-day Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2021]
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xxxiii, 426 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits, photographs (some color) ; 25 cm
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In 1863, a French senator arrived in Jerusalem hoping to unearth relics dating to biblical times. Digging deep underground, he discovered an ancient grave that, he claimed, belonged to an Old Testament queen. News of his find ricocheted around the world, evoking awe and envy alike, and inspiring others to explore Jerusalem's storied past. In the century and a half since the Frenchman broke ground, Jerusalem has drawn a global cast of fortune seekers...
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2011
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xxxiii, 650 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps, geneal. tables ; 25 cm.
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Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three faiths; it is the prize of empires, the site of Judgment Day and the battlefield of today's clash of civilizations. From King David to Barack Obama, from the birth of Judaism, Christianity and Islam to the Israel-Palestine conflict, this is the epic history of three thousand years of faith, slaughter, fanaticism and coexistence. How did this small, remote town become...
13) City of secrets
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
194 pages ; 24 cm
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"In 1945, Jewish refugees by the thousands set out for Palestine. Those who made it relied on the underground to shelter them; taking false names, they blended with the population, joining the wildly different factions fighting for independence. "City of Secrets" follows one survivor, Brand, as he tries to regain himself after losing everyone he's ever loved. Now driving a taxi provided--like his new identity--by the underground, he navigates the...
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