Download or read book Shower of Jewels written by Richard Teh-fu Tan and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shower of Jewels written by and published by . This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shower of Jewels written by Richard Teh-Fu Tan and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jewels written by Victoria Finlay and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2007-08-14 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history, precious stones have inspired passions and poetry, quests and curses, sacred writings and unsacred actions. In this scintillating book, journalist Victoria Finlay embarks on her own globe-circling search for the real stories behind some of the gems we prize most. Blending adventure travel, geology, exciting new research, and her own irresistible charm, Finlay has fashioned a treasure hunt for some of the most valuable, glamorous, and mysterious substances on earth. With the same intense curiosity and narrative flair she displayed in her widely-praised book Color, Finlay journeys from the underground opal churches of outback Australia to the once pearl-rich rivers of Scotland; from the peridot mines on an Apache reservation in Arizona to the remote ruby mines in the mountains of northern Burma. She risks confronting scorpions to crawl through Cleopatra’s long-deserted emerald mines, tries her hand at gem cutting in the dusty Sri Lankan city where Marco Polo bartered for sapphires, and investigates a rumor that fifty years ago most of the world’s amber was mined by prisoners in a Soviet gulag. Jewels is a unique and often exhilarating voyage through history, across cultures, deep into the earth’s mantle, and up to the glittering heights of fame, power, and wealth. From the fabled curse of the Hope Diamond, to the disturbing truths about how pearls are cultured, to the peasants who were once executed for carrying amber to the centuries-old quest by magicians and scientists to make a perfect diamond, Jewels tells dazzling stories with a wonderment and brilliance truly worthy of its subjects.
Download or read book Working Girls written by Katt and published by Urban Books. This book was released on 2016-07-26 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteen-year-old Jewels is one of the Midwest‘s most wanted. The daughter of one of the baddest prostitutes to ever work the streets of St. Louis and a high end call girl herself, she attracts nothing but the elite. She has caught the eye of twenty-two-year-old Rome, a dope boy who quickly makes a name for himself in the Loo. One uneventful night, their worlds collide when Jewels is caught with a violent and deranged client, while Rome is laying low at the same hotel because of a drug beef. After that evening, life for Jewels and Rome will never be the same. Together, they climb to the top, but Jewels is the one responsible for getting them there. Sex, money, and murder are the outcome as the world of prostitution collides with the drug game. Bodies begin to drop, and the streets are littered with corpses as an all-out war is launched. The Midwest heats up and things become even more complicated when Jewels is put in the line of fire and becomes the target.
Download or read book An Ocean of Jewels written by Judy Andrews and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Imani Jewel Henderson's mysterious father dies on her 29th birthday, Christmas day, 1999, she begins a journey toward self-love, and faces many challenges. Can she unravel the secrets of her family's disturbing past when she was a foster child? Why did her mother commit suicide and leave her all alone? Why did her father keep notes about a holy river, an Orphan Train, and a murder in 1901? How will she battle depression and alcohol addiction? Will Imani heal from two abusive relationships with married men? How can she repair what she destroyed when she slept with her best friend's husband? Will she ever find the love that will connect her to her Gullah/Geechee heritage? Imani discovers that the answers are hidden in the rich details of her African American family traditions of quilts, folklore, Eva Creek Island, and the affluent town of Jewel Park, New York.
Download or read book Magical Jewels written by Dominique L. S. Da Silva and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-01-27 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: July 16 2008, the day after the graduates of Bismarck boarding school graduated and had their prom night. They day that the students would leave the school with their belongings and go to their homes for three months of summer break. Early in the morning, about 08h30 the students would be locking their dormitories and would be coming down to leave. Cars and taxies were parked in front of the school lawn waiting for students to arrive. They waited and waited until, suddenly; the first student came from the doors and then was followed by more. Most of the students ran to the cars and taxies whilst the graduates and maybe some of the juniors walked towards the parking lot. But most of the graduates were running a little late on their packing but the others walked on towards the parking lot. But thats only the start of trouble.
Download or read book The Magic Chant written by MEERA UGRA and published by Amar Chitra Katha Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 1971-04-01 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A word of caution to all those who enjoy being greedy or arrogant – you are on the road to eventual unhappiness. These Jataka tales make an undeniable case for the Buddhist ideal of right thinking and right living. They also advise against idle gossip and impatience. When such wise teachings are accompanied by rollicking humour and exciting yarns, the popularity of these tales over two millennia is hardly surprising!
Download or read book The Jain Saga Part 1 written by Kalikaal Sarvagya Hemchandrasuriswarji and published by Multy Graphics. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 733 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jainism has divided the rotations of the wheel of time in two on the basic of their outcome. During the utsarpini period the Joys increase gradually and during avasarpini the woe multiply. Sixty-three men who influence the life on this planet are born during both utsarpini and avasarpini. They are called Tirthankars Chakravarties Vasudevas and Prativasudevas. In this saga the life and times of the distinguished sixteen that were born during the present avasarpini times is described vividly.
Download or read book Guide to the Bodhisattva s Way of Life Volume 2 written by and published by Jewel Heart. This book was released on with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Crown Jewels written by Henry Davenport Northrop and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Handy Pocket Guide to Asian Gemstones written by Carol Clark and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn the essentials of Asian gemstones with this useful and portable reference book. Gemstones, both mythical and real, are deeply embedded in the arts, religions and cultures of Asia. This handy pocket guide provides an excellent introduction to the full range of superb gemstones mined and processed in the region, their physical characteristics, historical importance and countries of origin. Stunning color photographs and informative text by noted writer on gemstones Carol Clark, will delight both gem collectors and lovers of fine jewelry alike. Periplus Handy Pocket Guides are practical field guides, useful for identifying various natural objects ranging from plants and animals to gemstones and seashells. Each page of each title throughout the series is filled with clear, precise photographs and informative text. Scientific and local language names are given.
Download or read book As You Lie There Sleeping written by I. Miles Terry I. Miles and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lafouchfeye County, Mississippi, and the entire Mississippi Gulf Coast were still reeling from the double murder in August of 1987 of a distinguished Judge and his wife, when a week before Christmas of the same year, the newlywed couple of recently elected District Attorney Wendell Matthew Holmes, Jr. of Warren County, Mississippi, and his wife Emma, are discovered dead in a refrigerator car in the Lafouchfeye County railroad yard. Percy (Teaspoon) Dinwiddle was found guilty of the Holmes' murders and sentenced to thirty years in prison. The first case went unsolved, Sheriff Travis died of a heart attack and after the first of the year, his son, Jim Travis was elected Sheriff on January 6, 1988. Twenty years later a young lawyer named Taylor L. Lipton, was researching both sets of homicides. New evidence through DNA was introduced concerning Percy Dinwiddle and Percy was set free February 1, 2009. Greed, revenge, and deception erupt like a volcano, throwing Jim, Bea and Aunt Jewels into a whirlwind of chaos.
Download or read book The Goddess of Atvatabar written by William Richard Bradshaw and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-07-20 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a fantasy novel in which the author creates a hidden world within our existing world. In the story, this hidden world, Atvatabar, is not only discovered but conquered by those who find it. At the centre of this amazing world is the Goddess, a fantastically beautiful woman in human form. The story moves along at a gripping pace and the adventure of the encounter is vividly described.
Download or read book Love Always but Not Forever written by Debi Herren and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-03-20 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jewels Jones believed herself to be dull and unattractive. Living in the shadows of her empty life, where she was comfortable. Never wanting for attention and certainly never receiving it. Love didnt fit in the lonely and isolated world she created for herself. Until she received a special gift from her parents a two week European vacation. In a smoke filled pub, Jewels meets the perfect English gentleman, the strikingly handsome Kyle Edwards. While Kyle is on a Mini Holiday from his second home in California, he offers Jewels a personal tour around his home town, London. One weekend of sightseeing was all it took to change her life forever. The story begins During a romantic Valentines Day dinner, Kyle shares with Jewels his feelings of wanting her to move from New Mexico to California to live with him. Jewels tries to understand the unconditional love Kyle has for her, but a secret from the past has left her timid, doubtful that she could be loved for who she really is. After deciding to leave the small town she grew up in and move to Los Angeles, Jewels learns the meaning of true love in a relationship full of passion and desire. But the classic Hollywood plot of boy-meets-girl is too good to be true. Megan Scott, a sensuous beauty is hired as Kyles Assistant to help with the demanding needs of his thriving career. When Kyle fails to respond to her advances, to be more than his assistant, Megans pursuit to win him over begins. And she will stop at nothing, to get what she wants. The following thoughts horrified Jewels. Would this nightmare ever end? Or would she continue to live in fear, not knowing what might happen next
Download or read book Java Gems written by Dwight Deugo and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-02-13 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The support of Java Report by the pioneers of the language has always made it the source for Java development. From the very beginnings of Java, Java Report was there, examining each new aspect of the language with a clear independent eye. Now, Dwight Deugo, the editor of Java Report, has gathered the most important articles from the first year of the magazine. Written by a savvy Who's Who of industry experts, Java Gems covers today's most important aspects of Java development. Top writers and developers walk you through the topic areas that are essential to today's Java developers, including multitasking, design patterns, class libraries, persistence, distributed computing, and Java vs C++.
