Download or read book A Suitcase Full of Opals written by Fil Bufalo and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2023-12-08 with total page 711 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you are ever lucky enough to receive an invitation to a wedding in Poland, make sure you RSVP... ASAP. It happened to me. I was invited and travelled to Poland along with 50 other Aussie guests. I knew nothing about Poland. Nothing save the fact that every Polish name seemed to end in ski, ska, or sko. Australia’s highest mountain – Mount Kosciusko, was named after a Polish explorer. If you’d like to find out more about the natural wonders of Poland, the heritage sites, the beautiful, wide landscape, and why so many travellers choose to go to the land of zloty and pierogi, then this book has been bookmarked for you. The laughs, the landscape, the characters, the sheer beauty of it all. Come travel with me and find out for yourself what all the fuss is about.

Download or read book A Suitcase Full of Pink Pearls written by Fil Bufalo and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2024-03-28 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of course, I’d shied away from traveling to Croatia! Why embrace the unknown with Venice, Nice, Rome, and Constantinople calling? I’d heard whisperings of a city dubbed the ‘Pearl of the Adriatic’ but had little idea where that soul-stirring nirvana might have been located. You can imagine my surprise and delight, when I was invited to accompany five friends and their two young sons to Dubrovnik, Croatia, for a five-day stint in the scorching Balkan sun. Words cannot express that first glimpsing of the red-roofed, white-walled, brilliant-blue -sea-skirted city when our sleek, silver, chauffeur-driven van tumbled into town from the brooding, cobalt-crusted Dubrovnik mountains. Lord Byron had it right: Heaven on Earth! The following five days for our ‘party of eight’ included beaches, swimming pools, ‘Old Town’ treasures, Wall-walks, Croatian food to die for, and best of all – a delightful ‘Game of Thrones’ tour, which had two little boys searching every nook and cranny on the ‘Kings landing’ for that elusive Iron Throne. Who’s never wanted to play kings or queens? So you’ll be joining us on this pink-pearler tour in one of the world’s most Instagram-able spots? Thought so!

Download or read book Opal Eggs of Fire written by James Calderwood and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-05-18 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The drought in South Australia was really biting hard, especially for the people in the marginal rainfall regions . The Nickols family at Kimba on the Eyre Peninsula were having a hard time after three bad drought years. Bank interest had sky-rocketed and all of the off-farm income as shearing or harvest work had dried up also, as the sheep and grain numbers had vanished. The bank is threatening to sell the farm to recover the debt. Neighbours of the Nickols Two bachelors Bert and Harry Kelly had been opal mining at Coober Pedy and had paid off the bank overdraft. John and Tony Nickols travel to Coober Pedy and drill onto a seam of good opal. The men find a nest of opal dinosaur eggs worth a lot of money .What ensues is some cunning thieves trying to rob them of their money and opal . These men are killed in an accident in a very strange way which makes world news and the opal eggs very famous.

Download or read book Opal Moonbaby Opal Moonbaby and the Best Friend Project written by Maudie Smith and published by Orion Children's Books. This book was released on 2015-05-14 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published as Opal Moonbaby, this is the first in a funny, warm-hearted series about friendship - and aliens! If you love Jacqueline Wilson, Cathy Cassidy or Liz Kessler, you'll love reading about Opal Moonbaby. Martha's decided that friends are stupid. Especially if they're anything like Colette and Chloe. She never wants another friend. Ever. But it's the first day of the summer holidays, and there's not that much to do ... until she spots a strange little furry creature who leads her to Opal Moonbaby. Opal's been sent down from her planet with a special mission: she needs to work out what on earth people are (and my goodness - people are strange) and make a friend. Can Martha help Opal make the Best Friend Project a success?

Download or read book Explore Your World Weirdest Creatures in Time written by Tim Flannery and published by Hardie Grant Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-27 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get ready to go on a journey through time with real-life explorer and scientist, Professor Tim Flannery. You’re about to meet the weirdest, wildest and most amazing animals that have ever lived – and died! Could you outrun a T-rex? Can mushrooms talk to each other? Which dinosaur had a second brain near its butt? Did the Earth used to be a giant snowball? What do human-sized scorpions eat? Do scientists play pranks on each other? Fire up the time machine – you’re about to find out! From the author of the best-selling Explore Your World: Weird, Wild, Amazing! and Explore Your World: Deep Dive into Deep Sea! comes a brand-new compendium to enthral and enlighten readers. Each page is packed with vibrant illustrations and bursting with bizarre facts about the incredible creatures that once roamed the Earth – prepare to gasp, laugh and squirm in disgust!

Download or read book Opal written by Cynthia Woolf and published by Firehouse Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-28 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opal McGinty is a mail-order bride and she has a secret. If her prospective husband finds out he won’t marry her and she must marry. Arthur “Red” Redmond wants a wife. Someone to share his life with but he has conditions he hasn’t told his mail-order bride. Will she still want to marry him if she finds them out? Can these two lonely people come together and find happiness despite their fears?

Download or read book Opal written by Patricia Wolf and published by Embla Books. This book was released on 2024-09-30 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A small mining town. A brutal double murder. A killer among them. DS Lucas Walker is out bush with his little sister Grace from Boston. They're fetching his cousin Blair, who's been mining boulder opal in Kanpara. The town is tense with rumours of a big opal find, and Blair wants out. But Kanpara is in Channel Country, and when the three try to leave the next day, they find themselves completely cut off. A deluge far north has flooded the rivers overnight, making the roads impassable. Then Blair receives a shocking phone call. Two bodies have been found, brutally murdered. Trapped, with a killer in their midst, Walker is in a race to uncover the murderer before the water recedes. And when Blair is arrested by local police, the stakes couldn't be higher. With all his focus on clearing his cousin's name, will Walker see how much danger his sister is in before it's too late? The third thrilling instalment in the gripping and bestselling DS Lucas Walker series is full of breathtaking twists and dark turns - for fans of Jane Harper, Cara Hunter and Chris Whitaker. Praise for Patricia Wolf : 'Tense, gripping and atmospheric' CHRIS WHITAKER 'I highly recommend it' LYNDA LA PLANTE

Download or read book Opal s Journey written by Lionel Gambill and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-06-06 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Refusing to give up their ancestral land and be driven into the newly established reservation, several Nez Perce bands led by Chief Joseph, White Bird, and Looking Glass embarked on a fighting retreat covering four states: Washington, Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana, with an attempt to reach safety in Canada. Along the way the native warriors outwitted the U.S. Cavalry again and again, but eventually surrendered some 40 miles from the Canadian border where Chief Joseph made his famous I will fight no more forever speech. About 750 men, women, children, and elderly set out on the march; over 100 died in battles and extreme hardship. Based on historical facts mostly the story was told through the eyes of a fictitious nine-year-old white girl, Opal, who befriends the Nez Perce and goes through the war with them. The oppression of the Native Americans was one of the darkest pages in the U.S. history, yet the spirit of these proud people could never be destroyed even in the face of death and exile and material impoverishment. Also the spirit of reconciliation prevailed as the peacemaker Chief Joseph eloquently summed up: Whenever the white man treats the Indians as they treat each other, then we shall have no more wars. We shall be all alike brothers of one father and one mother, with one sky above us and one country around us, and one government for us all. Then the Great Spirit Chief who rules above will smile upon this land, and send rain to wash out the bloody spots made by brothers hands upon the face of the earth. For this time Indian race is waiting and praying. I hope that no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above, and that all people may be one people.

Download or read book Instincts and Impostors Amplifier 5 written by Meghan Ciana Doidge and published by Old Man in the CrossWalk. This book was released on 2022-09-10 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I’d led a deadly squad of genetically enhanced, uber-powerful magic wielders through life-threatening missions multiple times in the first twenty-one years of my life. When marked for death, I’d led the escape from those who’d bred us, controlled us. Utterly annihilating the Collective’s compound, and destroying everything that had gone into creating us — the Five. I found Christopher and Paisley a home, a safe haven. Then, despite being bred and raised to be a sociopath, I learned to love. And even some of the nuances of the act of loving. To protect the life I’d built, I’d faced off against black witches. Survived demons. Held powerful dark sorcerers at bay. I had thwarted an immortal entity. And despite all that, I was nervous. About attending a coven retreat. About revealing any part of myself to witches of the light. Witches who could hurt me without a lick of magic or a single sharp blade. Just by denying Opal the future she wanted. Because of me. And everything I could no longer hide. Or hide from. Instincts and Impostors is the fifth book in the Amplifier Series, which is set in the same universe as the Dowser, Oracle, Reconstructionist, Archivist, and Misfits of the Adept Universe series. Reading Order · The Amplifier Protocol (Amplifier 0) · Close to Home (Amplifier 0.5) (bundled with A0) · Demons and DNA (Amplifier 1) · Bonds and Broken Dreams (Amplifier 2) · Mystics and Mental Blocks (Amplifier 3) · Idols and Enemies (Amplifier 4) · The Music Box (Amplifier 4.5) (bundled with A4) · Instincts and Impostors (Amplifier 5) · Recon Mission: Bee (Amplifier 5.5)

Download or read book Angela Finds Harmony written by Krissyann Granger and published by Tug Hill Publishing Company. This book was released on 2023-02-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Angela Brown's captivity is finally over, but true freedom remains just out of reach. Her once-bright music career is in ruins, and her reputation is shattered. When a handsome Maxwell man rescues her, leading her out of her nightmare, she clings to him as her only lifeline in a world that has turned hostile. Policeman Paul Cannon is fed up with fighting a losing battle against corruption and prisoner abuse. Desperate for a fresh start, he dreams of finding a place where he can truly make a difference. Drawn to the silent, enigmatic woman he saved, Paul is captivated by Angela's strength and vulnerability. But the gulf between their worlds is vast—Angela comes from wealth and privilege, and her powerful father, Wallace Brown, would never approve of their union. As Paul and Angela's connection deepens, they face relentless challenges. Just when it seems Paul has overcome Wallace Brown's opposition and won Angela's heart, her extraordinary musical talent resurfaces, threatening to tear them apart. With her music holding the power to both unite and divide, the stakes have never been higher. Can Angela reclaim her voice and her future, or will the secrets and dangers of her past destroy her chance at happiness with Paul? Immerse yourself in a world of passion, peril, and redemption in this gripping tale that will leave you desperate to uncover Angela's story. Note: This series includes mature themes, steamy encounters, and explicit language, intended for mature readers.

Download or read book Sacrificed to the Sea Lord A Merman Shifter Fated Mates Romance written by Starla Night and published by Wendy Lynn Clark Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enjoy this HOT merman shifter romance by USA Today Bestselling paranormal romance author Starla Night! Tattooed warriors are climbing out of the secret depths to claim their soul mates and save their race! Steadfast mer King Kadir has endured ridicule, banishment, and undersea prison for insisting that modern human women will save their dwindling race. Freed to found a city of mermen shifters who share his beliefs, he sets out to the surface to woo his bride. And sweet, sensual Elyssa is his. Elyssa can’t even match her socks. How can she rule an undersea kingdom? But when King Kadir holds her in his bulging, silver-tattooed arms and claims her as his soul mate, deep down the shy introvert holds big dreams. Maybe his magical elixir will transform her into more than just a mousy, water-breathing version of herself. Maybe it will make her into an exceptional woman worthy to be a queen. All is not well in the fragile new city, and it will take every ounce of Elyssa’s bright courage and Kadir’s unshakeable faith to prove humans and mer shifters can live in harmony. Someone will stop at nothing to end this forbidden love experiment. And they have deadly allies... Sacrificed to the Sea Lord is a complete, standalone novel in the bestselling Lords of Atlantis series with a happy ending! For fans of Ruby Dixon, Ursa Dax, and Ava Ross, it features steamy mer shifter love scenes, exciting shark attacks, and a crotchety giant cephalopod named Octopus Kong. Fall in love with these warriors of the sea!

Download or read book Lords of Atlantis Boxed Set written by Starla Night and published by Wendy Lynn Clark Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-25 with total page 1256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tattooed mer-shifters are climbing out of the secret depths to claim their soul mates and save their race! Mer and human. Human and mer. Like two sides of a drachma, our races were one. Then, disaster. A Great Catastrophe sank ancient Atlantis and plunged us into fiery war. Escaping into the depths, the mer lost their females. They had to forge a covenant with secret, sacred island brides to continue their race. A thousand years passed. Humans forgot. The mer never did. They existed only in our legends. Until now. Take the plunge and dive in to the USA Today bestselling series! Four breathtaking paranormal romances filled with yummy alpha warrior, daring heroines, friendly giant octopi, and lush underwater kingdoms. For a limited time, this set contains the first four novels plus bonus epilogues plus an exclusive deleted scene. Happy reading! ~ Starla NightSEDUCED BY THE SEA LORD Determined warlord Torun cannot wait to claim Lucy, who mistook him for a shipwreck survivor and pulled his injured body from the ocean. He insists her destiny is to become a mermaid queen and mother to his future children. The one thing “destiny” forgot to mention was that Lucy’s a broke divorcee who can’t even have a child. It’s really too bad, because his gorgeous lips are all too kissable, and she’d love to see his iridescent gold tattoos moving as he flexed those broad, hard pectorals under the water... SACRIFICED TO THE SEA LORD Steadfast mer king Kadir sets out to the surface to woo his bride, and sweet, sensual Elyssa is his. When King Kadir holds her in his bulging, silver-tattooed arms and claims her as his soul mate, deep down the shy introvert holds big dreams. Maybe his magical elixir will transform her into more than just a mousy, water-breathing version of herself. Maybe it will make her into an exceptional woman worthy to be a queen. ENSLAVED BY THE SEA LORD Hardened mer warrior Soren is no great catch. Disgraced, battle-scarred, and with a temper as black as the tattoos slashing his skin, the First Lieutenant of rebel city Atlantis prefers to protect the other warriors’ brides rather than seek his own to repopulate their dwindling race. But he can’t control his cravings for haughty, elegant Aya. "SOREN’S DARK NIGHT" Sink into the darkness with an exclusive scene linking damaged warrior Soren to his betrayal of the warrior he most respected... STOLEN BY THE SEA LORD Zara almost died the night she was forced to the surface. Shattered memories are all that remain in her broken heart. Suddenly, her mer husband, Elan stands on the shore before her like a mirage. Heart-stopping, mouth-watering, and all hers. He even escaped with her son. And a deadly secret… Every complete novel contains a happy ending filled steamy mer-shifter love scenes, underwater battles, and friendly giant octopi. Fall in love with these men of the sea! Tropes - Shifter, warrior, protective hero, fated mates, soulmates, psychic connection, superpowers, forbidden love, woman in peril, fish out of water, whole new world, different worlds, forced proximity, instalust, she saves him right back, the ordinary one becomes the boss, special powers that only she can sense, virgin hero, adventure, anthology, boxed set, royalty, shapeshifter, damaged hero, strong woman, second chance

Download or read book Mabel Opal Pear and the Rules for Spying written by Amanda Hosch and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2017-10-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young spy gets entangled in an action-filled, whodunit mystery! When Mabel's parents leave town without warning, she isn't worried. They're spies, after all. But when her beloved Aunt Gertie is arrested for leading a smuggling ring, then her obnoxious Uncle Frank and Aunt Stella show up, demanding to be let into the family's private museum,_things begin to look fishy. Especially since Mabel hasn�t heard from her parents in days. Tackling a mystery like this one is what she has been training for her whole, short life. Using her self-authored spy handbook, will Mabel be able to find her parents and unmask the real criminal before it's too late? Rife with quirky characters, zany twists, and an unflinching look at the difficulty of learning to trust, Amanda Hosch's debut is sure to capture the hearts of secret-keepers, sleuths, and everyone in-between.

Download or read book The Prisoner in the Opal written by Alfred Edward Woodley Mason and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mysterious events surrounding a secret magical society, the Black Mass and a house-party near Bordeaux.

Download or read book The Ratters of Lightning Ridge written by Richard W. Holmes and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This adventure centers around two leading characters: Rusty a 40-year-old opal miner, and Kate, a 60-year-old, tough-as-nails woman who raises sheep and cattle when she is not mining opal. This story captures a sense of intrigue and calamity that continues to happen between opal miners, "ratters" (people who steal opal), and animals of the Outback area of Lightning Ridge, Australia.

Download or read book The Prisoner in the Opal written by A. E. W. Mason and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2009-01-02 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Englishwoman is brutally murdered in the South of France and an American goes missing. With the discovery of a body, a severed hand and an opal bracelet, Inspector Hanaud of the Sureté is called in to investigate. It's not long before allegations of devil worship begin to arise. Inspector Hanaud must race against time before a second violent murder is committed.

Download or read book Vignettes of the Sea written by Felix Riesenberg and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: