The Snake Stone

Author: Jason Goodwin
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571267505
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 318

Book Description
Lefèvre, a French archaeologist, has arrived in Istanbul determined to uncover a lost Byzantine treasure. Yashim is commissioned to find out more about him. But when Lefèvre's mutilated body is discovered outside the French embassy, it turns out that there is only one suspect: Yashim himself. Once again, Yashim finds himself in a race against time to find the startling truth behind a shadowy secret society dedicated to the revival of the Byzantine Empire, caught in a deadly game deep beneath the city streets, a place where the stakes are high - and betrayal is death.

The Snake-stone

Author: Berlie Doherty
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780582317642
Category : Adopted children
Languages : en
Pages : 180

Book Description
It was the first time in my life that I'd ever felt that I didn't actually belong to anybody... I started thinking about my mother and whether she had wanted me when I was born. I didn't even know her name. Using an address on a torn envelope, James decides to find out who he is.

Snake Camp

Author: George Edward Stanley
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0307546802
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 51

Book Description
Stevie Marsh is off for the summer to learn about computers at Camp Viper. He’s not happy about being in the woods with all the bugs and poison ivy and—yuck!—snakes. But how bad can computer camp be? Then Stevie finds out Camp Viper isn’t a computer camp at all. The vipers at this camp are the kind that slither!

Snake Stone

Author: Berlie Doherty
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780582434554
Category : Adoption
Languages : en
Pages : 200

Book Description
Using an address on a torn envelope, James decides to find out who is mother, and indeed he, really

The Snake Stone

Author: Jason Goodwin
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571267505
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 318

The Snake-Stone

Author: Berlie Doherty
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780780781467
Category : Adoption
Languages : en
Pages : 166

Book Description
While searching for his birthmother, fifteen-year-old James, a championship diver, discovers who his real parents are and where his real home is.

The Snake-stone

Author: Berlie Doherty
Publisher: Puffin
ISBN: 9780140383928
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180

Book Description
While searching for his birthmother, fifteen-year-old James, a championship diver, discovers who his real parents are and where his real home is.

Sisters of the Snake

Author: Sasha Nanua
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062985612
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 434

Book Description
A lost princess. A mysterious puppet master. And a race against time—before all is lost. Princess Rani longs for a chance to escape her gilded cage and prove herself. Ria is a street urchin, stealing just to keep herself alive. When these two lives collide, everything turns on its head: because Ria and Rani, orphan and royal, are unmistakably identical. A deal is struck to switch places—but danger lurks in both worlds, and to save their home, thief and princess must work together. Or watch it all fall into ruin. Deadly magic, hidden temples, and dark prophecies: Sisters of the Snake is an action-packed, immersive fantasy that will thrill fans of The Wrath & the Dawn and The Tiger at Midnight.

When God Was A Woman

Author: Merlin Stone
Publisher: Doubleday
ISBN: 0307816850
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 379

Book Description
Here, archaeologically documented,is the story of the religion of the Goddess. Under her, women’s roles were far more prominent than in patriarchal Judeo-Christian cultures. Stone describes this ancient system and, with its disintegration, the decline in women’s status.

The Great Snake Swindle

Author: Jürgen Banscherus
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 9781598893403
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 78

Book Description
While celebrating his eleventh birthday with his mother and his friend Olga, Klooz relates the case that started his detective career, which involved magic balls, and a boy named Snake who was his best friend.