Solzanna of Lansheer was Sorceress Advisor and Protectress of Imperial Peace in the vast Lansheean Empire. Although Feraco the Great held an uneasy throne, the threat of Solzanna’s power discouraged many a would-be rebellion. But the winds of change were blowing, and a dastardly plot was brewing in the Imperial City. Jago the Dalo was spoiling for trouble when he stumbled across it. Bored to death in somber Lansheer, he readily agreed to pit himself against the empire’s great sorceress. But as the challenge unfolds, he begins to suspect that the gods were meddling again, and perhaps he had bitten off more than he could chew.
A sapphic Little Mermaid retelling perfect for fans of To Kill a Kingdom and The Shadows Between Us. Out in the open sea, it's kill or be killed. No one knows that better than Kaelyn. For the past year, Princess Kaelyn of Avalon has disguised herself as a man, Captain Kae, and led her crew into tumultuous waters to eradicate sirens on a journey fueled by revenge for the death of her brother. When they return home and experience a fatal siren attack on Avalon's harbor, Kae sets sail again to destroy the sea demons once and for all. Aqeara is a siren warrior of Meyrial, an underwater kingdom hidden from humans. When her negligence during the Avalon harbor attack causes the death of Meyrial's princess, she accepts the help of a sea witch to overturn her banishment. Aqeara is given a human body and has until the next full moon to carve out Captain Kae's heart in exchange for a spell to bring the dead princess back to life. When Kae's and Aqeara's paths cross, they fall into a whirlwind romance, complicating their respective plans. Kae must decide whether her desire for revenge against sirens overrides her feelings for the woman she's falling for, and Aqeara must choose between resurrecting the dead princess or sparing Kae's life.
In The Trail of Gold and Silver, historian Duane A. Smith details Colorado's mining saga - a story that stretches from the beginning of the gold and silver mining rush in the mid-nineteenth century into the twenty-first century. Gold and silver mining laid the foundation for Colorado's economy, and 1859 marked the beginning of a fever for these precious metals. Mining changed the state and its people forever, affecting settlement, territorial status, statehood, publicity, development, investment, economy, jobs both in and outside the industry, transportation, tourism, advances in mining and smelting technology, and urbanization. Moreover, the first generation of Colorado mining brought a fascinating collection of people and a new era to the region. Written in a lively manner by one of Colorado's preeminent historians, this book honors the 2009 sesquicentennial of Colorado's gold rush. Smith's narrative will appeal to anybody with an interest in the state's fascinating mining history over the past 150 years.
One morning in Singapore a respected, Chinese patriarch, head of a large household of three wives and many children, takes a walk by a cemetery. There, a young village egg-seller, Silver Frond, is amusing herself with a comic song-and-dance act about him. The meeting instantly changes their lives.
Mother Trigedgo is one of the old Cornish clairvoyants that tell fortunes by cards and by pouring water in your hand and going into a trance. Her prophecy says that a man will take a long journey out West where he will find two treasures, one of Silver and the other of Gold. He must choose carefully or he'll lose them both. He will fall in love with a beautiful lady, but must be aware or she'll go with another man. Finally she predicts that a man will meet his death by the hand of a dear friend. Driven by this prophecy, a young westerner called Denver Russell heads off to Arizona and by the occurrence of strange circumstances he finds a place known as the Apache Leap where some of the fortune teller's words begin to make sense.
This is the story of survival of two girlssisters who were born into a family of immigrant parents. They were loved and cherished for the first seven years of their lives. It was after the death of their father that everything changed. Displayed are authentic images of papers and photographs, most of which were taken over ninety years ago. Although many are not legible, they are nonetheless original. There are a few pictures of the girls when they were young and as they were growing up into adulthood. Read about their attempts at various jobs, where at times, they meet interesting people, along with perplexing and stressful circumstances. Several of the employments involved intense struggles along with near-impossible situations. The creative side of Rosemary and Diane was evident early in their adult lives. Rosemary is an accomplished artist with many spectacular oil paintings throughout her lovely home in California. She has written poetry for years, with a chapter of her beautiful poems at the conclusion of this book. Diane also has painted numerous pieces, many of which have been sold in her daughters design shop. She is the author of four storybooks, each written about her travel adventures and comically narrated by a rabbit. The stories appear to transport the reader to Paris, Egypt, Mackinac Island, and finally, a cruise to Hawaii. The books are filled with her personal photographs and images of her artwork along with poems. You will be drawn into the difficulties and challenges they faced and how they overcame so much heartache, heartbreak, and verbal abuse, somehow managing to survive all. That they are now in their eighth decade in life and are living a normal and peaceful existence is in itself one of Gods small miracles.
A thousand-year history of how China’s obsession with silver influenced the country’s financial well-being, global standing, and political stability This revelatory account of the ways silver shaped Chinese history shows how an obsession with “white metal” held China back from financial modernization. First used as currency during the Song dynasty in around 900 CE, silver gradually became central to China’s economic framework and was officially monetized in the middle of the Ming dynasty during the sixteenth century. However, due to the early adoption of paper money in China, silver was not formed into coins but became a cumbersome “weighing currency,” for which ingots had to be constantly examined for weight and purity—an unwieldy practice that lasted for centuries. While China’s interest in silver spurred new avenues of trade and helped increase the country’s global economic footprint, Jin Xu argues that, in the long run, silver played a key role in the struggles and entanglements that led to the decline of the Chinese empire.
Mother Trigedgo is one of the old Cornish clairvoyants that tell fortunes by cards and by pouring water in your hand and going into a trance. Her prophecy says that a man will take a long journey out West where he will find two treasures, one of Silver and the other of Gold. He must choose carefully or he'll lose them both. He will fall in love with a beautiful lady, but must be aware or she'll go with another man. Finally she predicts that a man will meet his death by the hand of a dear friend. Driven by this prophecy, a young westerner called Denver Russell heads off to Arizona and by the occurrence of strange circumstances he finds a place known as the Apache Leap where some of the fortune teller's words begin to make sense.
