Download or read book The Cursed Necklace written by and published by StoryBuddiesPlay. This book was released on 2024-08-17 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the heart of a bygone era, “The Cursed Necklace” unfolds a tale of forbidden love and ancient magic. Evelyn Montgomery, a noblewoman bound by duty, encounters Marcus Blackwood, a notorious thief seeking redemption. Their paths cross under the shadow of a powerful curse linked to an enigmatic necklace. As they delve deeper into the mysteries surrounding the curse, their burgeoning love faces formidable challenges from both supernatural forces and the scheming Lord Ashcroft. Together, Evelyn and Marcus must navigate a treacherous world of hidden councils, dark secrets, and intense passions to break the curse and forge their destinies. This historical romance blends suspense, magic, and heart-stopping adventure, where every choice could be their last. historical romance, cursed necklace, forbidden love, ancient curse, supernatural mystery, historical adventure, romance novel, redemption journey, dark secrets, noblewoman and thief

Download or read book The Curse of the Ruby Necklace written by Jamie Suzanne and published by . This book was released on 1994-01 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twins have small parts in a movie about a mysterious death of a 12 year old.

Download or read book The Cartiers written by Francesca Cartier Brickell and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A dynamic group biography studded with design history and high-society dash . . . [This] elegantly wrought narrative bears the Cartier hallmark.”—The Economist The “astounding” (André Leon Talley) story of the family behind the Cartier empire and the three brothers who turned their grandfather’s humble Parisian jewelry store into a global luxury icon—as told by a great-granddaughter with exclusive access to long-lost family archives “Ms. Cartier Brickell has done her grandfather proud.”—The Wall Street Journal The Cartiers is the revealing tale of a jewelry dynasty—four generations, from revolutionary France to the 1970s. At its heart are the three Cartier brothers whose motto was “Never copy, only create” and who made their family firm internationally famous in the early days of the twentieth century, thanks to their unique and complementary talents: Louis, the visionary designer who created the first men’s wristwatch to help an aviator friend tell the time without taking his hands off the controls of his flying machine; Pierre, the master dealmaker who bought the New York headquarters on Fifth Avenue for a double-stranded natural pearl necklace; and Jacques, the globe-trotting gemstone expert whose travels to India gave Cartier access to the world’s best rubies, emeralds, and sapphires, inspiring the celebrated Tutti Frutti jewelry. Francesca Cartier Brickell, whose great-grandfather was the youngest of the brothers, has traveled the world researching her family’s history, tracking down those connected with her ancestors and discovering long-lost pieces of the puzzle along the way. Now she reveals never-before-told dramas, romances, intrigues, betrayals, and more. The Cartiers also offers a behind-the-scenes look at the firm’s most iconic jewelry—the notoriously cursed Hope Diamond, the Romanov emeralds, the classic panther pieces—and the long line of stars from the worlds of fashion, film, and royalty who wore them, from Indian maharajas and Russian grand duchesses to Wallis Simpson, Coco Chanel, and Elizabeth Taylor. Published in the two-hundredth anniversary year of the birth of the dynasty’s founder, Louis-François Cartier, this book is a magnificent, definitive, epic social history shown through the deeply personal lens of one legendary family.

Download or read book Selena Flowers and the Cursed Ruby Book 1 the Merblood Saga written by Ella English and published by Spider Web Press. This book was released on 2024-06-05 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Little Mermaid meets dark fantasy with magic, zombie mermaids and adventure so thrilling you can dive right in. Get lost in this exhilarating YA fantasy tale of supernatural danger lurking beneath the waves. Beware the mermaid's curse... From the bustling streets of London to the eerie shores of Madderly Bay, Selena Flowers' world turns upside down when a zombie mermaid shatters the calm of her new seaside home. This is no ordinary mermaid, but Faustina, a creature from the depths, cursed with eternal youth and a thirst for companionship in her underwater realm of shadows. As her mother falls victim to Faustina's sinister spell, Selena faces a race against time. The key to salvation? A legendary ruby necklace, lost in the swirling depths, steeped in magic and mystery. With each passing day, her mother's humanity ebbs away, inching closer to a watery doom. Selena must brave the haunted waters of the merkingdom, navigating a world where trust is as fleeting as shadows. In her desperate search for the necklace, she confronts not only the horrors of the deep but the courage within herself. Will Selena retrieve the cursed ruby and save her mother, or will the mermaid's chilling embrace claim them both? Dive into "Selena Flowers and the Cursed Ruby," where the line between hero and legend blurs in the murky waters of Madderly Bay. Book 1 in the Merblood Saga. Book 2 out soon! Watch this space.

Download or read book Cursed Luck written by Kelley Armstrong and published by KLA Fricke Inc. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Escape into this new urban fantasy by #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Women of the Otherworld… Struggling curse weaver Kennedy Bennett's motto is Carpe Diem. Wealthy luck worker Aiden Connolly has never leapt without looking—usually twice. Forced together on an adventure, they're going to drive each other crazy...in all the best ways. Kennedy Bennett comes from a long line of curse weavers. For centuries, her family has plied their trade in Unstable, Massachusetts, an unconventional small town that’s welcomed paranormal practitioners since the dawn of spiritualism. Kennedy has recently struck out on her own, opening an antiques shop in Boston, where her speciality is uncursing and reselling hexed objects. Then Aiden Connolly walks into her life with an offer she really should refuse. The scion of a wealthy family of luck workers, Aiden has a scheme to get his hands on the most famous cursed object of all: the mythical Necklace of Harmonia. He’s not the only one after the necklace, though. And he’s not the only one looking for a curse weaver to fix it. Kennedy’s sisters are kidnapped, she finds herself plunged into the underbelly of the magical world where even Aiden soon finds himself in over his head. * * * * * Keywords: urban fantasy novel; contemporary fantasy; paranormal romance series; magic; small town; crime caper; opposites attract; first in series; no cliffhangers

Download or read book The Necklace of Pandura written by Reginald Gourlay and published by New York : Broadway. This book was released on 1907 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Anne of Geierstein Or the Maiden of the Mist written by Walter Scott and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Madstone written by Elizabeth Crook and published by Bedford Square Publishers. This book was released on 2024-09-26 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Texas hill country, 1868. As nineteen-year-old Benjamin Shreve tends to business in his workshop, he sees a stagecoach leave a passenger stranded. The man, a treasure hunter, persuades Benjamin to help track down the coach, drawing him into a drama he could never have imagined. On reaching the coach they discover that its passengers include Nell, a pregnant young woman, and her four-year-old son, Tot, who are fleeing Nell's brutal husband and his murderous brothers. Nell is in grave danger. If her husband catches her, he will kill her and take their son. Benjamin offers to deliver Nell and Tot to a distant port on the Gulf of Mexico, where they can board a ship to safety. He is joined in this chivalrous act by two companions: the treasure hunter whose stranding began this endeavour and a restless Black Seminole who has an escape plan of his own. Fraught with jeopardy from the outset, the trek across Texas becomes still more dangerous as buried secrets emerge. And even as Benjamin falls in love with Nell and begins to imagine a life as Tot's father, vengeful pursuers are never far behind.

Download or read book Cursed Dagger written by Dana Wright and published by EBTT YA GENERATIONS BOOKS. This book was released on 2021-06-29 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kissed by the moon… In trouble with her mother, fledgling witch Gabby Stine is sent to visit her Aunt Diana. She discovers a whole new world at Moon Called, an antique shop specializing in cursed objects. When an antiquity lands in the shop and promptly disappears, disturbing events point to a threat that will test her, sideways magic and all. Blood vows and witchcraft may hold the key, but the ultimate power might just be in the darkest recesses of her heart. A werewolf unleashed… Carson Maddox is a wolf on a mission. When two of his friends and then his sister go missing, he is ready to do whatever is necessary to find them. A pending war with the vampires looms in the distance but a blacker danger lies closer to home. Will the alluring teenage witch at the antique shop be his downfall, or his salvation? A triumvirate of blood and fire… Heir to the throne of vampires, Viktor Romany has a problem. Awakened from sleep to discover his father murdered and the current Regent suspect, he finds the family vault is missing an amulet never meant to see the light of day. The treaty with the wolves in tatters, he must act quickly before the girl who haunted his dreams is swept into an ancient curse that will destroy them all.

Download or read book The Necklace written by Claire McMillan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-07-04 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this “glittering, Gatsby-esque” (Publishers Weekly) novel, two generations of Quincy women—a bewitching Jazz Age beauty and a young lawyer—are bound by a spectacular and mysterious Indian necklace. Always the black sheep of the tight-knit Quincy clan, Nell is cautious when she’s summoned to the elegantly shabby family manor after her great-aunt Loulou’s death. A cold reception from the family grows chillier when they learn Loulou has left Nell a fantastically valuable heirloom: an ornate necklace from India that Nell finds stashed in a Crown Royal whiskey bag in the back of a dresser. As predatory relatives circle and art experts begin to question the necklace’s provenance, Nell turns to the only person she thinks she can trust—the attractive and ambitious estate lawyer who definitely is not part of the old-money crowd. More than just a piece of jewelry, the necklace links Nell to a long-buried family secret involving Ambrose Quincy, who brought the necklace home from India in the 1920s as a dramatic gift for May, the woman he intended to marry. Upon his return, he discovered that May had married his brother Ethan, the “good” Quincy, devoted to their father. As a gesture of friendship, Ambrose gave May the necklace anyway. Crisp as a gin martini, fresh as a twist of lime, The Necklace is the charming and intoxicating story “written with wit, compassion, and a meticulous attention to period and cultural detail” (Kirkus Reviews) of long-simmering family resentments and a young woman who inherits a secret much more valuable than a legendary necklace.

Download or read book Discover Your Inner Hermit Crab written by Jim Toomey and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2010-08-03 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The comic strip Sherman’s Lagoon appears in more than 200 newspapers in 30 countries and in six languages. Toomey’s wonderful strip combines the upbeat tone of under-the-sea fun, with a real-life look that enlightens and entertains. Jim Toomey's environmentally aware comic strip, Sherman's Lagoon, appears in 150 newspapers in 30 countries and in 6 languages. Inside this latest cartoon collection, Discover Your Inner Hermit Crab, more than 42 weeks of Sherman's Lagoon stand ready to transport readers to an imaginary lagoon near the South Pacific island of Kapupu in the Palauan archipelago of Micronesia, where a cast of coral-reef critters battles the encroachment of the hairless beach apes with their so-called civilized human ways. Inhabitants of this nautical neighborhood include Sherman, an always-hungry-but-otherwise-typical great white shark; his witty, pearl-wearing wife, Megan; friendly Fillmore the turtle; geeky fish Ernest; macho hermit crab Hawthorne; and salty old Captain Quigley, who remains vengeful having lost his leg to Sherman. Lauded for promoting marine conservation, Toomey has been described as a "breath of fresh water" by the Washington Post and designated as an Environmental Hero by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in recognition of his efforts to protect and preserve the nation's environment.

Download or read book Sinners on Sunset written by Debra Dunbar and published by Debra Dunbar. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tax demons want their pound of flesh. Or fifty-two thousand dollars. Unable to pay what she owes, Eden is forced to fight a never-ending stream of bounty hunters while she tries to clear her name and find the cop who set her up. But demons are not known for their patience, and the new mercenary hired to bring Eden in dead or alive has magical abilities of his own—magical abilities oddly similar to Eden’s. Desperate, she turns to a friend for help, but Detective Juke demands a favor in return— help to find the demon or mage responsible for a killing spree that leaves victims dead and boneless and she’ll investigate Eden’s claims. But time is running out for Eden. The mage-mercenary is closing in. Her owed “favors” to demons are stacking up. And her debt to the enigmatic Bishop is beginning to rival what the tax office believes she owes. Eden will need to rely on her pistol, her wits, and her magic to save herself. And if that isn’t enough, she may need to bargain away her soul.

Download or read book Phoenix Rising Collected Papers on Harry Potter 17 21 May 2007 written by Sharon K. Goetz and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-04-01 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phoenix Rising was a five-day conference devoted to all things Harry Potter held 17-21 May in New Orleans, Louisiana. The conference featured educational and academic programming presented by scholars, teachers, business and industry professionals, artists, librarians, fans, and others with an interest in the Harry Potter novels, films, and phenomenon. Narrate Conferences, Inc., a 501(c)(3) charitable organization, produces dynamic, innovative educational events for scholars, students, professionals and fans. Phoenix Rising was produced by Narrate Conferences, Inc., and was not endorsed, sanctioned or any other way supported, directly or indirectly, by Warner Bros. Entertainment, the Harry Potter book publishers, or J. K. Rowling and her representatives.

Download or read book You Call That Service Vol 2 light novel written by Kisetsu Morita and published by Yen Press LLC. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nothing like a little sibling rivalry!Women want him! Men want to beat him! And Ryouta just wants two minutes to himself...But there’s little chance of that happening while he’s cursed to be irresistible to the opposite sex—especially when two of the girls fighting over him are Ouka, the ruler of the Sacred Blood Empire, and her little sister, Shiren! What ever happened to the Sacred Blooded being immune to the curse?! ...And why is Shiren such a terrible student? While she’s busy trying to improve her grades, Ouka has no trouble swooping in and snatching Ryouta away! Is Shiren in danger of losing her minion to his childhood crush?!

Download or read book The Unofficial Harry Potter Character Compendium written by The Editors of MuggleNet and published by Media Lab Books. This book was released on 2020-06-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compendium showcases EVERY character ever mentioned in the Harry Potter books, films and play: the good, the bad and the misunderstood. With more than 700 entries, this book is packed from cover to cover! J.K. Rowling’s collection of mystical multitudes is what makes the wizarding world so enchanting. To dive into Harry’s story is to immerse yourself in the richness of a magical universe filled with wizarding history, culture and lore. A world of witches, wizards, owls, elves, non- magical people, anti-non-magical-people people, folks who can talk to snakes and snakes who used to be folks. There are mind-readers, shape-shifters, centaurs, giants, ghosts (nearly headless and fully formed) and one enormous, extremely ill- tempered tree. This massive tome details every character created by J.K. Rowling and appearing in the official Harry Potter canon of books, movies and plays. Each entry highlights one character, where you will find details of when the character was first mentioned, appearance, wizard school, house, patronus, wand, related family members, skills and achievements, personal history and more. The Compendium also include genealogical charts and family trees for the major characters, world maps detailing important locations, homes and schools, as well as charts detailing alliances between characters.

Download or read book Women and War in Roman Epic written by Elina Pyy and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-11-04 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Women and War in Roman Epic, Elina Pyy discusses the narrative and ideological functions of gender in the works of Virgil, Lucan, Statius, Silius Italicus and Valerius Flaccus. By examining the themes of violence, death, guilt, grief, and anger in their epics, she offers an account of the intertextual tradition of the genre and its socio-political background. Through a combination of classical narratology and Julia Kristeva’s subjectivity theory, Pyy scrutinises how gendered marginality is constructed in the genre and how it contributes to the fashioning of Roman imperial identity. Focusing on the ambiguous elements of epic, the study looks beyond the binary oppositions between the Self and the Other, male and female, and Roman and barbarian.

Download or read book Adaptation in Young Adult Novels written by Dana E. Lawrence and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-09-03 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adaptation in Young Adult Novels argues that adapting classic and canonical literature and historical places engages young adult readers with their cultural past and encourages them to see how that past can be rewritten. The textual afterlives of classic texts raise questions for new readers: What can be changed? What benefits from change? How can you, too, be agents of change? The contributors to this volume draw on a wide range of contemporary novels – from Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson series and Megan Shepherd's Madman's Daughter trilogy to Jesmyn Ward's Salvage the Bones – adapted from mythology, fairy tales, historical places, and the literary classics of Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, among others. Unpacking the new perspectives and critiques of gender, sexuality, and the cultural values of adolescents inherent to each adaptation, the essays in this volume make the case that literary adaptations are just as valuable as original works and demonstrate how the texts studied empower young readers to become more culturally, historically, and socially aware through the lens of literary diversity.