Download or read book The Gemstone Chronicles Book One The Carnelian written by William L Stuart and published by William L Stuart. This book was released on 2012-08-12 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Aidan and Maggie find a fairy cross while rock-hunting with their grandfather, it's just an oddity. But when they discover there is an elf imprisoned in the stone and set him free, they and their grandparents, Nana and Beebop, are attacked by some other elves and have to flee to the magical world of Celahir. In Celahir, Findecano - the elf the children freed from the fairy cross - leads them on a quest to recover gemstones stolen from the Elven Bow by the Dark Elves. Without the restoration of the gemstones to the Elven Bow, the balance between good and evil in Celahir - and the human world - could tip toward evil.
Download or read book Gemstone Dragons 1 Opal s Time to Shine written by Samantha M. Clark and published by Bloomsbury Children's Books. This book was released on 2022-08-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes excerpt from Ruby's Fiery Mishap.
Download or read book Gemstones written by Cally Hall and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2021-08-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unearth a treasure trove of knowledge on over 130 gemstones from around the world. Learn how gemstones are formed and how to recognize them by their unique qualities and colors. It’s a wonderful book for beginners, students and gemstone-enthusiasts that includes the latest scientific research and specimen classification. Handbook of Gemstones is filled with all you need to know about the fascinating world of gemstones — cut and uncut stones, organic gemstones and precious metals. Inside, you’ll find: • Fast facts for quick reference, including chemical composition, hardness, gravity, luster and reflective value. • Photo close-ups of key details and highlights of distinguishing features. • Illustrations of faceting and shapes popular for each gemstone. • A detailed introduction to everything a beginner gemologist needs to know, including how gemstones form, the different properties, crystal shapes, faceting and the history of gems. Everything you ever wanted to know about gems Delve into the one-of-a-kind characteristics, colors and attributes of more than 130 gemstones with this compact visual guide. For easy classification, each stone’s entry includes annotated photographs to highlight distinguishing features and concise details about the attributes of gems. Designed for beginners and experienced collectors alike, this gemology book explores what gemstones are, how they are classified and how to identify them by their physical and optical properties. It also shows you how they were fashioned and imitated throughout history. Learn the differences between varieties of cut and uncut stones, organic gemstones and precious metals. It includes a glossary for many more technical and scientific terms, and over 800 high-quality photos of gems, making it the ideal gift for any budding gemologist! Love what you’re seeing? Check out other titles in the series! The DK Handbook series is an incredible collection of titles that fascinate curious minds. Other books include Rocks and Minerals, Dinosaurs, and Prehistoric Life, and Stars and Planets.
Download or read book Gemstones written by Marthe Le Van and published by Sterling Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What awesome craftsmanship appears throughout this unique volume--the zenith of an art that marries the world’s most exceptional gems with exquisitely-honed metal designs. Approximately forty of the world’s top jewelers present expertly-fashioned settings that embrace a diversity of styles and techniques, including pav�, channel, invisible, gypsy, wire, and tension. Christoph Kr�henmann’s creations display a fabulous fusion of Swiss artisanship and American ingenuity, old world elegance and contemporary chic. Paula Crevoshay’s jewelry focuses on the way gems make light tangib≤ she is considered by many to be one of the finest colorists today. And Kent Raible finds his inspiration in the opulent, intricate gold work of antiquity. Whether encrusted with diamonds or emphasizing just one glimmering stone, all these bejeweled pieces are simply stunning.
Download or read book The Book of Stones written by Robert Simmons and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in association with North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, California.
Download or read book Gem written by DK and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-03-07 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prepare to be dazzled by this shining and sumptuous visual guide to the world's greatest treasures. Feast your eyes on glittering gemstones, kaleidoscopic minerals, and famous trinkets in this comprehensive exploration of Earth's finest jewels. Following a foreword from Aja Raden, hundreds of pages take a lavish look at precious stones, precious metals, and organic gems in all their natural wonder. From agate to zoisite, everything under the Sun is encapsulated in spectacular photography and accessible text. Trace the history of gemmology and get the inside story on our planet's most famous and fabulous gems, including the mysterious Hope Diamond, the stunning Koh-i-Noor of the Crown Jewels, and exquisite Fabergé eggs. Find out their physical properties, check the price tags, and discover the most remarkable record-breakers. This exceptionally extravagant book is a picture-packed, fact-filled celebration guaranteed to bring sparkle to your life and your library.
Download or read book Gemstone Feng Shui written by Sandra Kynes and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2002 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the ancient Chinese art of feng shui, when you change the placement of objects in your living space, you change a corresponding area of your life. With Gemstone Feng Shui, you can affect change by using gemstones according to feng shui principles This book provides an easy-to-understand introduction to feng shui and gemstones, and includes a guide to the uses of sixty-three specific gemstones. Here's a sample of what gemstones can do for you: ·Amber--attracts luck, calms energy, and aids in building vitality ·Cat's-eye--protects against poverty ·Coral--promotes love and harmony, and helps build community ·Diamond--helps build relationships and support longevity ·Garnet--fosters confidence and success ·Jade--aids in remembering dreams and solving problems ·Jet--engenders honor and justice ·Lapis lazuli--strengthens personal expression and intuition Put the natural energy of the earth's treasures to work for you.
Download or read book The Opal Book written by Frank Leechman and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Opal the Phenomenal Gemstone written by Janet Clifford and published by Lithographie LLC. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Precious opal is a rainbow made tangible. Its spectral blaze of color moves, changes, intensifies, fades, or disappears with the slightest change in perspective. Opal?s intriguing play of color and unique atomic arrangement has made it the subject of scientific probing from early optics in the 1850s to high tech photonics today. Equally challenging has been discovering opal?s place in history. Its beauty begs to be enshrined in myth and legend when facts are as scarce as the stone itself.Opal, both precious and common, is found in disparate environments from the unbearable heat of the Australian outback to the higher elevations of the Canadian Rockies, from a centuries old site in Slovakia to a number of little known places in the American west. A unique assortment of characters collect and mine this equally individual stone, of which no two are exactly alike.This blazing gem of chemical simplicity?just silica and water?has ignited a complexity of human emotions: a compulsion to mine, the desire to wear, an urge to fashion, the challenge to imitate, a need to possess. A natural, wearable stone with magical depth, movement, and color, opal is a truly phenomenal gemstone.
Download or read book Opals written by Fred Ward and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the latest in the popular Fred Ward Gem Book Series. The full-color photographs give the buyer and enthusiast all the information needed to understand the various types of opals and the ability to buy them wisely.
Download or read book Gemstones from Heaven written by Michael C. King and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-08-18 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you ready to experience miracles? Do you want to see the impossible become possible? Join us on an exciting journey as we uncover the meaning behind a unique miracle happening around the globe--and how you can have this miracle too! Come see why gems are literally falling from heaven! As you read this book you will discover what God is saying and doing through this miracle, answer your questions, and how you can partner with Angels to have this happen for you! This book doesn't avoid the hard questions but takes them head-on in a no-holds-barred expose of the gemstone manifestation. The only thing you will wonder when you finish reading is "When will I find my first gem?" If you are hungry for a more meaningful spiritual experience or want to engage the supernatural, this book is for you! Here's what you will find in this book: Our Testimony: our family's personal story of how we started finding Gemstones from Heaven What is God Saying?: A look at God's plans and purposes for this miracle Discernment and Deception: Navigating the miracles with wisdom The Price of a Stone: What should we do with these jewels once we find them? Dealing with Feelings: What do we do if the miracle doesn't happen? Tasting the Fruit: stories from others How Can I Have This Happen?: Partnering in prayer with God and angels by faith. A special bonus chapter chronicling two unique manifestations of gems in Coeur D'Alene Idaho and Carolina, Puerto Rico
Download or read book Photoatlas of Inclusions in Gemstones written by Eduard Josef Gübelin and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 829 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Artifact Book 1 of The BRAHM STRA CHRONICLES Rebirth Edition written by Kumar Aditya and published by Blue Hill Publications. This book was released on 2022-09-19 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kaliyuga: 2019 An ancient, secret war, older than humankind, is about to spill out in broad daylight... The Devas in the heavenly abode of Swargam have been gone for over 5000 years; the Primordial Light of the Oorja weakens. The darkness of Andhakar grows, the taint of its corruption spreads, and its demonic creatures—the Asuras—prepare themselves for a global takeover. A retired history professor is gruesomely murdered in Indraprastha and a week later, angels with fire wings are sighted in modern-day India, along with strange reports of strange, cannibalistic children that feel no pain and inhuman corpses that can melt. Tied up in the midst of all this, are: Abhay Rajvardhan, a seemingly ordinary young man who discovers his dead father’s secrets and connection to a clandestine army of Vishwamitra, dating back to the ages before the epic battle of the Mahabharata. Light years away, Dhwani of Swargam, a 600-year-old Angiri Celestial, finds herself embroiled in a web of deceit and intrigue, as she discovers evidence of a traitor among the Angiris, working with the Asuras. Their fates are bound to an artifact of great power that will draw to it both the forces of light and darkness. The Ultimate Weapon of the gods, the Brahmāstra, will make the lines blur between myth and reality, revealing a forgotten history of the world and the rest of the universe…Whoever has it, possesses the weapon to end all other weapons—and the world. The Three shall be unified as the One…
Download or read book Dead Lake Book One of Tricky s Tales a dark parnormal fantasy series written by Miranda Kate and published by Purple Queen Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-26 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eviction. A stolen object. A hidden network. Will retrieving her precious gemstone get Tricky killed? Tricky returns to her cottage to find it turned upside down. An action that means she has three days to leave or face punishment. Randolf Carter, head of the district, is spreading lies and suspicion about her kind, making life difficult. But it wasn’t just an ordinary ransacking – they were searching for something. Using her gifts, Tricky traces the energy left by the men and spies another creature’s among it: a jackdaw. Swift and wily, it’s pinched her precious gemstone, a piece of black obsidian. But at whose bidding? Communicating with birds is a rare ability and she knows all who possess it. Tricky wants her stone back, but coming up against Carter and his corrupt network won’t be easy, especially when he’s got one of her kind in his employ. But she’ll handle it, oh yes she will. She'll just have to be careful and a little bit tricky. Good thing she is then, isn’t it? Tricky is lured into something bigger than ownership of a gemstone, unearthing her mother’s murderers and putting her own life at risk. To survive she’s going to have to remember that sometimes it pays to be a little bit tricky. Dead Lake is the first book in a new thrilling paranormal fantasy series, set a few hundred years from now in a post-apocalyptic world. For fans of new-age witches, strong female characters and dark dealings in a dystopian world, Tricky’s high-pace adventures will capture the imagination. "Miranda Kate has crafted a thoroughly believable magical world, and a protagonist that you'll want to be your best mate." Michael Wombat, Author of The Raven's Wing "You'll be bewitched and beguiled by Tricky and left wanting to spend more time with her. An elemental, paranormal fantasy with bite and attitude. I can't wait for more." Lisa Shambrook, Author of The Seren Stone Chronicles
Download or read book Of Spirits and Superstition Sister Witches of Raven Falls Mystery Series Book 4 written by Nyx Halliwell and published by Beach Path Publishing, LLC.. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I see dead people…but I’m in big trouble when I become a ghost myself! I’m Winter Whitethorne, psychic medium, and I find it easier to get along with the dead than the living. I’ve perfected invisibility spells so I can ‘ghost’ those I don’t like. Haunted by spirits who refuse to cross over, I struggle to act “normal” and not give in to the bad luck that clings to me as deftly as my ghostly hitchhikers. When my boyfriend, Ronan, is attacked three days before Yule, leaving him in a magickal coma, I accidentally discover my destiny is far bigger than talking to dead people. Not only can I reach across the veil and communicate with them, I have the ability to raise them and change the very fabric of the world. There’s no invisibility spell that’s going to solve that problem. With my ghost cat familiar, Shade, as well as Persephone, a snarky new spirit guide who has a thing for ‘70s sitcoms, I embark on a journey to return Ronan’s spirit to his body and stop a magickal disaster prophesied to take place on Yule. But can I save my one true love and fix magick when I, too, end up a ghost?
Download or read book Oathborne Year One Book 1 of the Oathborne Series written by Morgan Rice and published by Morgan Rice. This book was released on 2024-08-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A spirited fantasy ….Only the beginning of what promises to be an epic young adult series.” --Midwest Book Review (re A Quest of Heroes) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ From #1 bestseller Morgan Rice comes the debut of a spectacular new fantasy series, ideal for fans of Rebecca Yarros and George R.R. Martin. From USA Today and #1 bestseller Morgan Rice, author of A Quest of Heroes (over 5,000 five star ratings) comes the long-awaited debut of a thrilling new romantasy series. Street urchin Kaela Reign receives a mysterious invitation to a secret institute where recruits learn the art of espionage and ancient magic. Within the labyrinthine passages of Stonegarden, Kaela will find new friends, make powerful enemies, and gain powers beyond her own imagination. But her most formidable challenge may be love, as she finds herself attracted to both the fiery charm of Erik Emberflame, and the aloof Valerin Frost. The OATHBORNE series will thrust you into an exhilarating fantasy world teeming with love and danger, a place where fate is woven tightly with romance and magic. With a narrative full of thrilling unpredictability and tension that keeps you on the edge of your seat, the series will immerse you in its savage yet enchanting realm. Captivating both adult and young adult readers alike, OATHBORNE offers a fresh spin on fantasy. Future books in the series are also available! “The beginnings of something remarkable are there.” --San Francisco Book Review (re A Quest of Heroes) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “Has all the ingredients for an instant success: plots, counterplots, mystery, valiant knights, and blossoming relationships replete with broken hearts, deception and betrayal. It will keep you entertained for hours, and will satisfy all ages. Recommended for the permanent library of all fantasy readers.” --Books and Movie Reviews, Roberto Mattos (re The Sorcerer’s Ring) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “Action-packed …. Rice's writing is solid and the premise intriguing.” --Publishers Weekly (re A Quest of Heroes) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐