Download or read book A Diamond in the Mud written by J B Parker and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-02 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Diamond in the Mud (Short Story) This a story of love, different types of love. Love for God and love for our fellow humans. The enduring love between man and woman. The kind that stands tall and overcomes all trials. Mary is a young, beautiful lady that discovered God and His purpose for her from an early age. She understood God and His ways, learned to trust and love Him at all times. Growing up, she transferred that love for God to other people around her. She always had a willing smile for everyone and went out of her way to talk about God to everyone. She made sure everyone knew God and His infinite love. When Mary meets Tom, a homeless man on her way to the hospital where she works, she is drawn to his presence. No one, not even her best friend Simone, believed it could be the beginning of a love story. Mary perseveres through Tom's initial rejection and tells him of God's true and everlasting love. When both of them eventually fall in love and get engaged, everyone in Mary's life rejects the idea. Not her family members or friends could understand. They waged a war against the couple. But Mary is determined because she has heard from God. No one could change her mind. How will the couple cope with all the rejections thrown their way? What does Tom do with all the pressure? Read this interesting tale of love to find out.

Download or read book Diamonds in the Mud and Other Stories written by Joy Dettman and published by Pan Australia. This book was released on 2007-11-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complete short stories of the bestselling author of Mallawindy and the Woody Creek series "Pure brilliance. This is a book to keep and treasure - you'll want to read it again and again." Sun-Herald At the beginning of her writing journey, Joy Dettman's charming, irascible, melancholy, wisecracking characters appeared in over twenty unique tales, many of which have won awards, many of which have never been published. Now, for the first time, Diamonds in the Mud and Other Stories is the complete collection of Joy Dettman's exquisite short stories. We meet an old coot in a rusty ute who picks up a hitchhiker, a neighbour reaches across the language divide to lend a helping hand, a grave digger might just have saved a young man's life, an exhausted farmer's wife lusts after a china cup, Granny Jordan is losing her marbles and an author is troubled by rats under the floorboards. Since Joy's first novel, Mallawindy, was published in 1998 she has attracted a growing number of readers who are entertained and shocked by her array of unforgettable characters populating the Australian landscape. "Dettman writes compulsively readable stories" The Age Fans of Rosalie Ham's The Dressmaker will love Joy Dettman.

Download or read book Diamonds in the Marsh written by Barbara Brennessel and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2006 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book-length investigation of a fascinating reptile

Download or read book Diamonds are Forever written by Ian Fleming and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Diamonds are Forever" by Ian Fleming. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Download or read book Oh the Glory of It All written by Sean Wilsey and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-04-25 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[An] irreverent and remarkably candid memoir about growing up in wealthy eighties San Francisco . . . rollicking, ruthless . . . ultimately generous-hearted.” —Vogue “A vivid mix of brio, self-awareness and sophistication . . . writing well is indeed the best revenge.” —The New York Times Book Review “A monumental piece of work.” —Kirkus Reviews “In the beginning we were happy. And we were always excessive. So in the beginning we were happy to excess.” With these opening lines Sean Wilsey takes us on an exhilarating tour of life in the strangest, wealthiest, and most grandiose of families. Sean's blond-bombshell mother (one of the thinly veiled characters in Armistead Maupin's bestselling Tales of the City) is a 1980s society-page staple, regularly entertaining Black Panthers and movie stars in her marble and glass penthouse, "eight hundred feet in the air above San Francisco; an apartment at the top of a building at the top of a hill: full of light, full of voices, full of windows full of water and bridges and hills." His enigmatic father uses a jet helicopter to drop Sean off at the video arcade and lectures his son on proper hygiene in public restrooms, "You should wash your hands first, before you use the urinal. Not after. Your penis isn't dirty. But your hands are." When Sean, "the kind of child who sings songs to sick flowers," turns nine years old, his father divorces his mother and marries her best friend. Sean's life blows apart. His mother first invites him to commit suicide with her, then has a "vision" of salvation that requires packing her Louis Vuitton luggage and traveling the globe, a retinue of multiracial children in tow. Her goal: peace on earth (and a Nobel Prize). Sean meets Indira Gandhi, Helmut Kohl, Menachem Begin, and the pope, hoping each one might come back to San Francisco and persuade his father to rejoin the family. Instead, Sean is pushed out of San Francisco and sent spiraling through five high schools, till he finally lands at an unorthodox reform school cum "therapeutic community," in Italy. With its multiplicity of settings and kaleidoscopic mix of preoccupations-sex, Russia, jet helicopters, seismic upheaval, boarding schools, Middle Earth, skinheads, home improvement, suicide, skateboarding, Sovietology, public transportation, massage, Christian fundamentalism, dogs, Texas, global thermonuclear war, truth, evil, masturbation, hope, Bethlehem, CT, eventual salvation (abridged list)—Oh the Glory of It All is memoir as bildungsroman as explosion.

Download or read book Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 1142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Capsule for the Day written by Francis M. Afu and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Capsule for the Day is a daily devotional that offers healing words in our world—a world created by God that is good but broken and wounded. Each capsule tells a story that gives voice to our own stories. It celebrates our joys and victories. It reveals the beauty lurking in our brokenness and the message in our mess. The capsule calls us to faith and to respond to God’s gift of himself. It inspires hope. It challenges us to cooperate with God in rough times and even in the midst of evil, to be expectant, and to wait for the birth of that which at a given moment is shrouded in mystery. It summons us to keep a steady relationship with God through prayer. It reminds us that we are loved by the Father and called to love him and our neighbours. Capsule for the Day seeks to strengthen us as we journey through life. It is a guide that enables us to navigate our way in the world to seek God, to gather around him, and to find our purpose. It asks the question, what do you live for? And day by day, it leads us to Christ in whom we find answers to our ultimate questions.

Download or read book Bulletin written by United States. Bureau of Mines and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Diamond Hunters written by Wilbur Smith and published by Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An action-packed thriller of family, business and betrayal - perfect for fans of Succession - by global sensation Wilbur Smith. 'A master storyteller' - Sunday Times 'Wilbur Smith is one of those benchmarks against whom others are compared' - The Times 'No one does adventure quite like Smith' - Daily Mirror Some people will never have enough . . . Johnny Lance was taken in by the Van Der Byls when he was an orphaned boy, and his life has been dedicated to making his adoptive father proud. But his efforts have been in vain, his father loathes him and, in his dying breath, makes one final demand of his biological son, the jealous and vengeful Benedict: to destroy his half-brother. When Johnny is tricked by Benedict into losing his entire fortune to the Van Der Byls company, he becomes a laughingstock. Benedict's sister, the smart and beautiful Tracey, loves Johnny and buys him a concession in the diamond rich seabeds of the South-West African Coast. But the obsessive Benedict has been shaped at his father's hand and will do anything to finish what he started. Even if it means destroying everything . . .

Download or read book Children Are Diamonds written by Edward Hoagland and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is not the Africa of Isak Dinesen, nor the Africa of Joy Adamson. This is the Africa of civil wars and tribal massacres, where the Lord’s Resistance Army recruits child-soldiers after forcing them to kill their parents and eat their hearts. The aid workers who voluntarily subject themselves to life here are a breed of their own. Meet Hickey, an American school teacher in his late thirties, an American school teacher who burns his bridges with the school board and goes to Africa as an aid worker. Working for an agency in Nairobi, one of his jobs is to drive food and medical supplies to Southern Sudan to an aid station run by Ruth, a middle-aged woman, who acts as nurse, doctor, hospice worker, feeder of starving children, and witness. Ruth is gruff but efficient, and Hickey, who is usually drawn to youth and beauty, is struck by her devotion. Returning to Nairobi, he can’t forget what he has seen. When the violence and chaos in the region increase to a fever pitch and aid workers are being slaughtered or evacuated, Hickey is asked to save Ruth overland by Jeep. What happens to them and the children that have joined their journey is the searing climax of this novel. Hoagland paints an unflinching portrait of a living hell at its worst, and yet amid that suffering there is hope in the form of humility, sacrifice, and life-affirming friendship.

Download or read book Diamonds written by Sam North and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2004 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When two Kentucky prospectors, John Slack and Philip Arnold arrived penniless and near starving in San Francisco to deposit raw 'American' diamonds in the Bank of California, it caused quite a stir. Rumors flew across the city. This was going to be bigger than Kimberley and everyone wanted a piece of the action. But Slack and Arnold would be hard men to woo. This is a true story. What begins as a trickle in the Colorado mountains would grow into the great rush of 1872 and ruin the lives of almost everyone it touched.

Download or read book From Crust to Core written by Simon Mitton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating historical account of the emergence and development of the new interdisciplinary field of deep carbon science.

Download or read book The Rain Is Liquid Silver and There Are Diamonds in the Mud written by Tanya Hallgren and published by Publishers Circulation Corporation. This book was released on 1997-09 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The History of Mining written by Michael Coulson and published by Harriman House Limited. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE INDUSTRY THAT FORGED THE MODERN WORLD Throughout history metals and raw materials have underpinned human activity. So it is that the industry responsible for extracting these materials from the ground - mining - has been ever present throughout the history of civilisation, from the ancient world of the Egyptians and Romans, to the industrial revolution and the British Empire, and through to the present day, with mining firms well represented on the world's most important stock indexes including the FTSE100. This book traces the history of mining from those early moments when man first started using tools to the present day where metals continue to underpin economic activity in the post industrial age. In doing so, the history of mining methods, important events, technological developments, the important firms and the sparkling personalities that built the industry are examined in detail. At every stage, as the history of mining is traced from 40,000BC to the present day, the level of detail increases in accordance with the greater social and industrial developments that have played out as time has progressed. This means that a particular focus is given to the period since the industrial revolution and especially the 20th century. A look is also taken into the future in an effort to chart the direction this great industry might take in years to come. Many books have been written about mining; the majority have focused on a particular metal, geographical area, mining event or mining personality, but 'The History of Mining' has a broader scope and covers all of these essential and fascinating areas in one definitive volume.

Download or read book Hatari written by Ernie Palamarek and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jambo! Experience deepest, darkest Africa! It's the beautiful but dangerous setting for this shocking saga of one Sudanese family's staggering adversity that mirrors present-day Africa. Decimated and put into iron-clad slavery, the family is split apart and sold to the highest bidders in West Africa. Rune Erikson becomes infatuated with a beautiful South African UN worker. The seductress pulls him into a vortex of slavery and blood diamonds. Hatari, the fifth novel in a series, features the somewhat-jaded-but-dashing Rune Erikson, who desperately searches through diamond fields from Canada's frozen Arctic to steaming equatorial Africa. Rune rides camels through the shifting sands of Timbuktu, then treks through the muddy diamond pits of Congo, the beautiful port of Cape Town, the wild bushveldt of Johannesburg, the zealotry of Zimbabwe, the intrigue of Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar, and Mombasa, the nonsentient streets of Nairobi, and is initiated into the ways of the colourful warriors of the Masai Mara. Braving marauding lions, snorting hippos, stomping elephants, and soul-sapping jungle humidity, Rune fights African warlords and diamond smugglers in his quest for justice. Coloured by romance and spiced with eroticism, this adventure lures Rune off his sailing ketch, Valhalla, in Victoria's Fisherman's Wharf into the soft arms of a sizzling South African Dutch enchantress, becoming embedded in the myths and legends of tribal Africa. "Ernie Palamarek's Thundersea is an exciting debut from an author who obviously knows a thing or three about adventure." - Chapters.ca The Secret Temple of Kintamani: "I couldn't put it down!" "It was a good read!" - Reader's Domain Along Came A Swagman: "He sure has a way of using words to paint a picture." - WAMC New York's Environment Show. Amazonia: "I liked it . . . I liked it a lot!" - Reader's Domain

Download or read book Diamonds and Pearl written by K'wan and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From # 1 Essence best-selling Crime Novelist K'Wan comes a tale of forbidden love, high stakes murder and the robbery gone bad that set it all in motion, Diamonds and Pearl. They say that good girls like bad boys, and this was especially true for Pearl Stone. A child born of privilege to a drug baron and reputed killer known in the streets as Big Stone. Although the flashy, fast-paced nature of the streets calls to Pearl, she’s been brought up to look but not touch. But when a young hustler named Diamonds crawls up from the swamps of Louisiana and sets up shop in New York City, everything Pearl was taught flies out the window. Raised in the wild and schooled on the mean streets of New Orleans, Diamonds is no stranger to hard times and is willing to do whatever it takes to stay above the poverty line, including kill. When a robbery turned mass murder goes wrong, Diamonds is forced to flee New Orleans and lands in New York where he meets Pearl, and for the first time finds something he craves more than wealth and power...love. As the stakes get higher, Diamonds has to push away his past if he’s to grab hold of his future—but by doing so, will he show Pearl that all that glitters isn’t gold?

Download or read book Diamonds in the Mud written by Jill Sanders and published by Grayton Press. This book was released on 2024-07-02 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Rayne becomes the lead detective in a high-profile murder case, she's thrown into a world of danger and deception. With the killer on the loose and all eyes on her, she's forced to navigate treacherous waters and stay one step ahead of the game. But when a mysterious stranger comes to town, she finds herself drawn to him despite her better judgment. Jameson is a seasoned undercover cop who's seen it all, or so he thought. When he's assigned to a small town to take down a major drug ring, he never expected to get caught up in a deadly game of cat and mouse. And he certainly didn't expect to fall for Rayne, the tough-as-nails detective who's leading the charge. As they work together to bring down the criminals who threaten their town, Rayne and Jameson can't deny the sparks that fly between them. But with danger lurking around every corner, can they risk opening their hearts to each other? Find out in this thrilling mystery romance about two people who find love in the midst of chaos and danger.