Download or read book The Diamond Family written by Vanetta Mason and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-06-25 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a sexy, crime/drama with a twist! Now that the matriarch of the family has been murdered, who will become the head of the family? The obvious choice would be Harperthe eldest of the three sisters. This is a story of the Diamond Family, a family stapled in Northern California since late 1800s. Old money would be an understatement. The Diamonds owned most of the upscale and prominent businesses in the Bay Area. Jackie Diamond is the mother of three beautiful but lethal daughters: Harper Diamond, Janelle Diamond, and Skye Diamond. Mother wasnt always on the right side of the law; her most lucrative business was the sale of narcotics and other business ventures. Mother Diamond was the biggest queenpin in all California. Her empire is at stake, and her daughters are doing everything in their power to keep it, but during the fight, Harper discovers that someone wants the family business for themselves and will do anything to get it! The eldest sister, Harper, has everything under control, or at least, she thinks she does. While her other sisters are trying to work through losing Mother, she is bringing everyone together to make a major decision. Mother ran a tight ship, and the sisters were bred to see danger coming a mile away. So as they strategize on who did this to Mother and got into beast mode, they start to realize how the world that they once grew up in has changed dramatically! As the sisters go through all kinds of trials and tribulations, Harper finds out just what the true meaning of loyalty means! This story is action-packed and is full of betrayal and revenge!
Download or read book The Family Diamond written by Edward Schwarzschild and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of nine stories explores the lasting influences, good and bad, of our families on our lives, in works that include a man offering advice to his lovesick grandson, a young man trying to repair his relationship with his estranged brother, two siblings unexpectedly reunited at a hospital bedside, and Milly and Charlie Diamond, a long-married couple that mysteriously regains their youth. Original.
Download or read book The Family Diamond written by Moyra Tarling and published by Silhouette. This book was released on 2014-06-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Maura O'Sullivan took a job with Spencer Diamond, she knew getting too close to the handsome and commanding horse rancher might be risky. But she had a bigger goal in mind—to get closer to the father she never knew she had, who happened to live nearby. For that she would do anything…even spend long days in the company of Spencer, a man whose dazzling blue eyes and soft lips she'd never been able to forget…. And then her father walked in the door, and all else was forgotten—almost. Because as she waited to see if he would claim her as his own, Maura remembered Spencer's warm embrace and passionate kisses, and realized how desperately she was in need of both men in her life….
Download or read book Diamond Stories written by Renée Rose Shield and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sequestered within the heart of a cosmopolitan city is an exotic world—a place where diamonds, astronomically priced, are bought and sold on the strength of a handshake, and business disputes are resolved according to ancient Jewish principles of arbitration. Yet it is also a modern industry facing the same fundamental global changes affecting all businesses today.In Diamond Stories, Renée Rose Shield leads us into the unexamined realm of wholesale diamond traders in New York. Related to several well-respected traders, she had unprecedented access to a society normally closed to outside inquiry. Here she deftly blends her personal relationship and her anthropological training to provide an insightful exploration of this tradition-bound industry, the new challenges it faces, and the ways both industry and individuals adapt to and endure change.Shield begins with a fascinating history of diamond mining, combining the story of the De Beers cartel, the role of Jews in the trade, and the part diamonds have played both in war and liberation. Throughout, she incorporates commentary by current diamond traders. Succeeding chapters explore the evolving nature of both the global trade and the New York diamond district. Shield takes a close look at the increasingly complex ethnic makeup of the district, illuminates the rarely documented work done by women, chronicles the resilient system of arbitration, and reveals the ways in which many traders work well into their eighties and nineties. Their long lives of work, cushioned by the trade's social environment, offer hints for successful aging in general.
Download or read book The Global Diamond Industry written by Roman Grynberg and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-09-27 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Global Diamond Industry: Economics and Development brings together a collection of papers covering various aspects of the diamond industry including economics, law, history, sociology and development across two volumes.
Download or read book Hope Diamond written by Richard Kurin and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An entertaining and well-researched history of the Hope diamond Since its discovery in seventeenth-century India, the Hope diamond, a glimmering deep blue gem weighing over 45 carats, has been shrouded in mystery and steeped in intrigue. In this groundbreaking work, Dr. Richard Kurin goes beyond the speculation to reveal the truth behind a legendary stone. Kurin, a cultural anthropologist, spent more than a decade on the trail of the legendary gem. But the 'curse' that surrounds it, which Kurin puts to rest once and for all, is only one small piece of a long and lustrous story that moves between ancient religion and modern magic, royal power and class rivalry, revenge and greed. Richly illustrated, Hope Diamond works in a grand historical tradition: depicting the specific to reveal the universal.
Download or read book The Diamond Project written by Eric D. Hall and published by Syndicate Prime Publishing, LLC . This book was released on 2014-12-10 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Diamond Project is a fascinating book about finding the diamonds within you. How many people go about their way looking for something that they have within themselves. Eric Hall does a great Job explaining and teaching in this first book in the series. By the end of it all, you will have a new perspective on the treasures you hold within yourself.
Download or read book Doctor S and the Great Diamond Escapade written by Mario Cloutier and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More Vinydians coming to Earth!!!! Dear Reader, One week ago, I awakened in the body of a plush toy on Earth. I am a scientist from the planet Vinydia...not a toy! Luckily, I met two young brothers who have helped me explore and have so far managed to keep me a secret. It hasn’t been easy for them, since my enthusiasm led to a few close calls. Now the boys face the possibility of having some of my Vinydian friends join me on Earth in the bodies of other plush toys. This might complicate things. You see, I have a plan to improve the lives of everyone on my home planet. All I need are diamonds. Sounds complicated, I know, but my plan is fool proof. It involves stowaway air travel to Arkansas, camping, clandestine mining, and, of course, good food. Simple really! What could possibly go wrong? Yours truly, Doctor S.
Download or read book The Diamond Bride written by Carole Mortimer and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NANNY WANTED Rufus, tall, dark handsome widower, seeks nanny for daughter, Jessica. Annie, young, pretty, and with experience caring for children, wants position as live-in nanny. Would welcome the chance to be part of a family. Jessica, eight years old, hopes for new wife for her dad. Her nanny, Annie, is just great, and anybody can see how much Daddy likes her—he even kissed her in the library! So why doesn't he make her a Diamond bride? Because silly Daddy's got it wrong and thinks Annie is in love with someone else, that's why….
Download or read book The Eustace Diamonds written by Anthony Trollope and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 938 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Diamond Triangle written by Leonard and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-04-12 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A team of geologists comes to Siberia, 5,000 km east of Moscow, in search of the diamonds, called in Russian, almaz or brilliants. Together with the wealthy patriot-sponsors, they are on the mission to save the economically wracked country from the embezzlement and robbery of valuable resources. And they find itthe Diamond Triangle with 50 carat crystals. At the beginning, the explorers do not suspect that it will be hunted down by other adverse forces. The people in the taiga realize their almost unbearable task in time when it is too late to skip off and run away. They come upon many perilous snares among the snowy terrains and mountains and venture into the wilderness of that remote land, which lies east of the Ural Mountains. They are entrapped all around by all kind of bounty hunters, who viciously compete for the premium prize for their heads, appraised in million dollars. The group of faithful committed people turns into the fugitives in the Siberian taiga because they possess, so rare in the present human world qualitiespatriotism and belief. Then, in a remote corner of Siberia, encircled from all sides by the bounty hunters and very close to a tragic finale, the fugitives hear the battle sounds; help comes from their real friends and brothersthe pomors from the White Sea shores and aboriginal Nenets people, historical owners of the tundra. The sea people pomors, called in the past Ice Vikings, successfully get through that secret century-old route, north of the Arctic Circle, across the Kara Sea and Yamal Peninsula. The route their ancestors once upon a time had traced in deviation of the ruthless tsar guards and Moscows rulers. And now, almost four centuries later, they rediscover the route to freedom and escape from other merciless rulers. Once again, as in the past, the northern people of this enormous country come to help and protect against the dominance of brutal power.
Download or read book Diamond Warriors in Colonial Namibia written by Job Shipululo Amupanda and published by BASLER AFRIKA BIBLIOGRAPHIEN. This book was released on 2022-07-06 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diamond Warriors in Colonial Namibia enters into unchartered scholarly territory of illegal diamond smuggling at the largest diamond mining company in colonial Namibia—De Beers’ Consolidated Diamond Mines of South West Africa (CDM). It details the underground activities of the natives (migrant workers) employed by the CDM and how these illicit activities accounted for rapid development in Owamboland. Beyond this account, the book takes on the deterministic ‘natural resource curse’ theory that equates natural resource endowments to a curse resulting in underdevelopment and sometimes conflict. It is argued and proven herein, from a decolonial standpoint, that such an approach is an oversimplification of the political economy of natural resources in Africa in general and Namibia in particular. The text also provides a contextual account of the contract labour system and details the symbiotic relationship between CDM and the colonial state before highlighting the remaining unanswered questions and areas of further research
Download or read book The Blue Diamond written by Lynn Franklin and published by Lynn Franklin. This book was released on 2012-04-25 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get ready to dive into a thrilling cozy mystery with The Blue Diamond. When thieves target her grandfather's small-town jewelry store, gemologist Kimberley West finds herself caught up in a deadly spree of kidnapping and murder. With a flawless blue diamond in hand and armed only with her standard poodle, Kim races to uncover the diamond's secrets and protect her loved ones. Along the way, she must navigate family drama and unexpected twists and turns. This fast-paced whodunit weaves diamond legend and lore, a feisty heroine and a dash of humor into a captivating mystery that will keep you guessing. Fans of David Rosenfelt, Kate Carlisle, and Kathi Daley will love this award-winning series, which can be read in any order. Kimberley West Gemstone Mystery Series: The Blue Diamond (book #1) The Pirate's Ruby (book #2) The Carolina Emerald (book #3) The Turquoise Treasure (book #4) What readers are saying about the series: “Took me back to that oh-so-delicious time when I couldn’t put a book down." "Wonderful series! Warm, funny and just delightful!" “A perfect whodunit with characters you will love and a plot that keeps you guessing until the end. Could not put it down.” “These are characters so real you want to call them up and visit. And get invited for dinner.” "Perfect reading for these very imperfect times."
Download or read book The Black Diamond written by Joan Smith and published by Belgrave House. This book was released on 2010-09-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sylvia Thompson, using the name Jane Bingham, became nursemaid to Bobby Palin in order to find out what had really happened to her sister, Bobby’s former helper. In no time she found herself in love with her employer, suspicious of his second wife, and horrified by her sister’s fate—which might have been sealed by the infamous black diamond mourning ring. Victorian Gothic by Joan Smith, writing as Jennie Gallant; originally published by Fawcett Crest
Download or read book Diamond written by Janice Starghill Keel and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2018-07-09 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a historical novel that is presented in the form of a memoir. The main focus is on an African American woman Diamond, who was part of the Great Migration in the 1940s. Diamond looks back at her life to share the hopes, dreams and struggles she and her husband Nathaniel had to move their family from the coal mines of West Virginia to the Pacific Northwest and beyond. They were African American pioneers.
Download or read book The Diamond Eye from Siberia written by Coco Max and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-01-28 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In order to establish control over the worlds biggest diamond mines in Siberia, the power struggle must wage on Secret societies, fascinating stories of love and sex, political and criminal assassinations, as well as thrilling encounters with the Russian mafia brutal murders all give life to The Diamond Eye from Siberia. Set after the collapse of the Eastern European and Soviet Communist Union in 1998, this book follows the ruthless conflict of the Russian mafia mobs and C.D.C., a Western diamond conglomerate. Meanwhile, a reputable journalist from The Washington Times follows a number of predictions made by a well-respected clairvoyant. Soon enough, his mission is unveiled. So begins his dangerous undertaking to prevent cold-blooded murders and the assassination of both the Russian and American presidentsa bloody conspiracy to take place during an important meeting over the diamond power struggles. Armed only with his journalistic skills, will he be able to succeed? Read the book to find out!
Download or read book A Study Guide for F Scott Fitzgerald s The Diamond as Big as the Ritz written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
