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Imagine a Museum of Lost Art. If this imaginary museum contained just the artwork we knew was lost— whether from theft, purposeful destruction, vandalism, war, or the forces of nature—it would still contain more masterpieces than those in all the world’s current museums combined. Imagine that! In Lost Art: The Stories of Missing Masterpieces, art historian Noah Charney guides you through just such an imaginary museum. In 12 fascinating lectures, you will hear the stories behind the theft and/or destruction of some of the world’s most famous pieces of art.

Marvel’s “Wolverine: The Lost Trail” is an epic quest that takes place in the Louisiana bayou. Following the events of Marvel’s “Wolverine: The Long Night,” Logan (Richard Armitage) returns to New Orleans in search of redemption, only to discover that his ex-lover, Maureen is nowhere to be found. And she's not the only one. Dozens of humans and mutants have gone missing, including the mother of a teenage boy, Marcus Baptiste. With Weapon X in close pursuit, Logan and Marcus must team up and follow a trail of clues that leads them deep into the gothic heart of the bayou, where they ...

Explore the profound themes of temptation, rebellion, and the quest for redemption in a world fraught with moral dilemmas and cosmic battles. This podcast delves into the timeless struggle between good and evil, drawing listeners into narratives that challenge the boundaries of human understanding and divine justice. Each week, a different full-length audiobook is featured, offering diverse perspectives and styles from various time periods that illuminate these eternal conflicts. Whether you seek insight, learning, or a captivating escape into the depths of human nature and its complexities, ...

Brought to you by Penguin. From the creators of the internationally bestselling, award-winning, multi-adapted phenomenon The Lost Words: a dazzling celebration of birdlife in Britain, re-imagining the classic field guide for a new generation of nature lovers A great thinning of the skies is...

Gerald Stanley Lee speaks here-in of books and self in the time of factories, tall buildings and industry and big city making, the effects of modern civilization on the individual. - Summary by Joseph Tabler

'A magnificent book that sings of the romance and mystery that only old maps possess' EDWARD BROOKE-HITCHING 'Astonishingly fresh and insightful ... A triumph' ALICE ROBERTS 'Engaging, deeply satisfying and elegantly designed' SIMON WINCHESTER, SPECTATOR The remarkable story of an overlooked map...

This is the simplest tale in the world. Two people meet and fall in love. But the route which brought Larissa Salmina and Francis Haskell to a backstreet Venetian restaurant in 1962 was anything but straightforward. Larissa was born in northern Russia, the daughter of a Soviet army officer from...

I MUST FIND HER Chapter One 2,134 words (10,098 Total as of 9/12/21) -10:37 pmHer name, Christal Albrecht, has a rhythm when you say it, like the rhythm when she walks. Her last name, Albrecht, means noble. How true! She is a 27-year-old German girl, blonde, about five foot six when stretching. And with a sculpted figure where every inch had a beautiful purpose.Wade Collins, a 30-year-old Army Infantry Captain, met her in May of 1953 while both were working in the small American Tourist and Information building in Berchtesgaden, Germany. It was love at second sight. That is to say, the second ...

http://www.adfreebooks.com - 500+ audiobooks, all ad freeThree little kittens unwisely leave their mittens on the bank of the pond when they go ice-skating one day, and they return to find the mittens have vanished. What follows is the exciting tale of how the kittens finally retrieve their mittens.

Un podcast que transmite las sensaciones capítulo a capítulo de alguien que está viendo Lost por segunda vez. Presentado por Joan Boluda.

This collection of lyric poems evokes the sea in every line, from birth (A Son of the Sea) to death (Outbound). The smells, sights and sounds of the Canada's East Coast feature prominently. (Summary by Sean Michael Hogan)

Two Poets (1837) is the first book in Balzac’s Lost Illusions trilogy, which is part of his sweeping set of novels collectively titled La Comédie Humaine. The story is set in post-Napoleonic France, when the new bourgeoisie was jostling for position alongside the old aristocracy. We meet Lucien Chardon, a young provincial who romantically aspires to be a poet, and his friend David Séchard, who struggles to manage his father’s printing shop and falls in love with Lucien’s sister Ève. The picture of provincial life that emerges is laced with greed, ambition, and duplicity. Balzac’s ...

Ève and David (1843) is the final book in Balzac’s Lost Illusions trilogy, which is part of his sweeping set of novels collectively titled La Comédie Humaine. The story is set in post-Napoleonic France. In the first volume of the trilogy (Two Poets, 1837), we meet Lucien Chardon, an aspiring poet frustrated by the pettiness of provincial life. In the second volume (A Distinguished Provincial at Paris, 1839) Lucien, now using the more aristocratic-sounding surname "de Rubempré," leaves his family in order to seek fame and fortune in the literary world of Paris. By the end of that book, he ...

A Distinguished Provincial at Paris (Un grand homme de province à Paris, 1839) is the second book in Balzac’s Lost Illusions trilogy, which is part of his sweeping set of novels collectively titled La Comédie Humaine. The story is set in post-Napoleonic France, when the new bourgeoisie was jostling for position alongside the old aristocracy. In the first volume of the trilogy (Two Poets, 1837), we met Lucien Chardon, an aspiring poet who feels stymied by the pettiness of provincial life. In the present volume, Lucien, now using the more aristocratic-sounding surname "de Rubempré," leaves ...

Andrew Lang, best beloved for his series of fairy books, has collected here essays on wide ranging topics from golf and shaving to Thackeray’s Drawings and American Humour. These essays provide a glimpse into the world of this Scottish author and his world - Summary by Larry Wilson

Lost The Plot is the podcast where former teen TV actress Shenae Grimes-Beech goes fully off-script and doesn't filter a damn thing. Known for her roles on Degrassi and 90210, Shenae spent her youth playing characters written by others — now she's telling her own story.Each episode unpacks a BTS moment and cracks open the emotional curveballs and hard-won lessons hiding inside every plot twist. No sugar-coating, no PR spin, just the unfiltered truth about what life after fame, motherhood, and 30-something chaos actually looks like.Because somewhere in the messy, the surreal, and the ...

After several people apparently vanish into thin air while walking along the same country road, New York detective Mr Gryce calls on the skills of Miss Amelia Butterworth to help him solve this most puzzling crime. The author of Lost Man’s Lane, Anna Katharine Green, has been described as the first female American writer of detective stories. (summary by Mary Bard)

This collection of lyric poems evokes the sea in every line, from birth (A Son of the Sea) to death (Outbound). The smells, sights and sounds of the Canada's East Coast feature prominently. (Summary by Sean Michael Hogan)

Imagine a strange, tropical place that is almost inaccessible. Time appears to have stood still there. Species of animal and plant life not seen elsewhere on Earth, except in the fossil record, inhabit the place. The lakes heave with the shapes of huge grey bulks moving under the surface. The woods are places where chittering cries move about above your head, as powerful apes move swiftly in the canopy of leaves. Then, a tree splinters nearby, and a dinosaur steps out from his hiding place... and he's eyeing YOU. Jurassic Park? Not quite. The Lost World was an inspiration for Jurassic Park; in...

In this paper, read before the Literary and Historical Society, Quebec, Fletcher demonstrates methodically what he perceives as evidence for the existence of the island of Atlantis. He begins by documenting the historical instances Atlantis is referred to in ancient texts, even if only as a myth (Part 1), continues on to analyze linguistic elements that might indicate an Atlantean origin (Part 2), and also presents a connection between the American and the European fossil flora and amber fauna, suggesting that Atlantis is the missing link (Part 3). At the end, he makes mention of the deep-sea ...