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The hidden roof (野屋根, noyane) [note 1] is a type of roof widely used in Japan both at Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines. It is composed of a true roof above and a second roof beneath, [ 1 ] permitting an outer roof of steep pitch to have eaves of shallow pitch, jutting widely from the walls but without overhanging them. [ 2 ]
The House on the Roof is a murder mystery novel written by Mignon G. Eberhart. It was published in the United States by Doubleday, Doran & Co. in 1935. As with many of Eberhart's novels, it was most recently in print through the University of Nebraska Press .
العربية; Azərbaycanca; تۆرکجه; 閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú; Беларуская; Беларуская (тарашкевіца) Boarisch; Чӑвашла
Roof Over Heaven (1953) That Was the Hour (1956) White Moonlight (1957) Husky Be My Guide (1957) – travel book; No Rainbow in the Sky (1959) Press on Regardless (1960) – travel book; Beyond the Rainbow (1961) Destination Spain (1962) – travel book; A Mountain for Monique (1964) Shall Come a Time (1967) Sky Full of Thunder (1968) No Love ...
[The book] is a breathtaking journey into the history, culture, ecology, archaeology and environment of the region." [3] Writing for the Asian Review of Books, Maximillian Morch writes, "This is a wonderfully digressive read, with rich portraits and stories of those who made their careers and fame from Himalaya. Keay has condensed an immense ...
Margaret Gabrielle Vere Long (née Campbell; 1 November 1885 – 23 December 1952), who used the pseudonyms Marjorie Bowen, George R. Preedy, Joseph Shearing, Robert Paye, John Winch, and Margaret Campbell or Mrs. Vere Campbell, [1] was a British author who wrote historical romances and supernatural horror stories, as well as works of popular history and biography.
Stein made his Broadway debut contributing sketches written with Will Glickman to the 1948 revue Lend an Ear. [6] His first book musical came about when Richard Kollmar, husband of columnist Dorothy Kilgallen, asked him to write a musical about Pennsylvania that would promote the state as Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! had its namesake. [4]
Jiří Weil (IPA: [jɪr̝iː vaɪl] ⓘ; 6 August 1900, Praskolesy – 13 December 1959, Prague) was a Czech writer of Jewish origin and Holocaust survivor. [1] His noted works include the two novels Life with a Star (Život s hvězdou), and Mendelssohn Is on the Roof (Na střeše je Mendelssohn), as well as many short stories, and other novels.