Author: Only True Fortune Teller
Publisher:
Published: 1855
Total Pages: 12
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Tarl Warwick
Publisher:
Published: 2019-06-24
Total Pages: 30
ISBN-13: 9781075970931
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The True Fortune Teller is a strange little work fairly obviously adapted from (and partly plagiarized from!) the late 18th century Fortune Teller of Mrs. Bridget. Redacting much of the prior content to introduce a new (and novel) oracle system using the picture of a tree, as well as prognostication by nail shape and color, it is as good as any contemporary fortune telling work, and is presumably dated to around the early 19th century- perhaps the 1830s.It is short, but relatively dense, and speaks of astrological terms and various folk divination.
Author: J. WARD (Writer on Astrology.)
Publisher:
Published: 1804
Total Pages: 56
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Allan Pinkerton
Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand
Published: 2023-11-08
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"The Somnambulist and the Detective" is a work of detective fiction written by Allan Pinkerton, the American detective and founder of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency. The book was first published in 1875. The novel is a collection of detective stories and is known for featuring Pinkerton himself as a detective character. The stories typically involve solving mysteries and crimes, often employing deductive reasoning and investigative techniques. While Pinkerton's real-life detective work influenced many aspects of detective fiction, this work combines his expertise with elements of fiction for an engaging and entertaining narrative. Allan Pinkerton is considered one of the pioneers of modern detective work, and his agency played a significant role in solving many high-profile cases during the 19th century. "The Somnambulist and the Detective" reflects his experiences and skills in the world of detective work and serves as a precursor to the detective genre in literature.
Author: Gwendolyn Womack
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 2017-06-06
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 1250099773
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →NOW A USA TODAY AND LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER From the award-winning author of The Memory Painter comes a sweeping and suspenseful tale of romance, fate, and fortune. Semele Cavnow appraises antiquities for an exclusive Manhattan auction house, deciphering ancient texts—and when she discovers a manuscript written in the time of Cleopatra, she knows it will be the find of her career. Its author tells the story of a priceless tarot deck, now lost to history, but as Semele delves further, she realizes the manuscript is more than it seems. Both a memoir and a prophecy, it appears to be the work of a powerful seer, describing devastating wars and natural disasters in detail thousands of years before they occurred. The more she reads, the more the manuscript begins to affect Semele’s life. But what happened to the tarot deck? As the mystery of her connection to its story deepens, Semele can’t shake the feeling that she’s being followed. Only one person can help her make sense of it all: her client, Theo Bossard. Yet Theo is arrogant and elusive, concealing secrets of his own, and there’s more to Semele’s desire to speak with him than she would like to admit. Can Semele even trust him? The auction date is swiftly approaching, and someone wants to interfere—someone who knows the cards exist, and that the Bossard manuscript is tied to her. Semele realizes it’s up to her to stop them: the manuscript holds the key to a two-thousand-year-old secret, a secret someone will do anything to possess.
Author: Tiziano Terzani
Publisher: Crown
Published: 2010-02-17
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 0307565734
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Warned by a Hong Kong fortune-teller not to risk flying for a whole year, Tiziano Terzani — a vastly experienced Asia correspondent — took what he called “the first step into an unknown world. . . . It turned out to be one of the most extraordinary years I have ever spent: I was marked for death, and instead I was reborn.” Traveling by foot, boat, bus, car, and train, he visited Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, China, Mongolia, Japan, Indonesia, Singapore, and Malaysia. Geography expanded under his feet. He consulted soothsayers, sorcerers, and shamans and received much advice — some wise, some otherwise — about his future. With time to think, he learned to understand, respect, and fear for older ways of life and beliefs now threatened by the crasser forms of Western modernity. He rediscovered a place he had been reporting on for decades. And it reinvigorated him. The result is an immensely engaging, insightful, and idiosyncratic journey, filled with unexpected delights and strange encounters. A bestseller and major prizewinner in Italy, A Fortune-Teller Told Me is a powerful warning against the new missionaries of materialism.