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Author: Amy Green
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Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781593174323
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDespite his crippled leg, 15-year-old Jesse befriends a band of young warriors and risks his life to find a cure for the poisoned Parvel.
Author: Victoria Finlay
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 2006-08-15
Total Pages: 456
ISBN-13: 0345493354
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThroughout 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.
Author: Keith D. McSwain
Publisher: Xlibris
Published: 2014-11-14
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781499070811
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDare to enter a hidden world where the powers of nature and the supernatural are forced to coexist. Where the whale and the elephant are not the largest creatures on earth, and cadaverous shadows can assume any physical form! Come and share the startling adventures of three extraordinary children: a powerful warrior, a master of sorcery, and a beautiful princess, predestined from birth to exonerate their king, their country, and the entire world against Gath, the most powerful troll in all creation! Stolen from their cribs as babies by an iniquitous dwarf and flogged into bondage to a hideous hag, the youngsters escaped only to be found and raised by a host of Cavern Elves. Young Hemlock and Gomorrah were thoroughly trained to undertake an epic confrontation in which all life upon the earth hanged in the balance! With the princess kidnapped and only seven days remaining to rescue her, the two friends, with the aid of their amazing pets Goliath the dragon and Scurge the tarantula, must embark a desperate and perilous crusade to find the one weapon they must possess to slay that roaring beast from the world underground--the Scorpion's Claws!
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Katarina
Publisher: Kodansha America LLC
Published: 2022-09-13
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 1684914272
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSunraku, aiming to bring the ruins of Wethermon back to life, tackles a new dungeon in order to upgrade his friend Bilac into a full-fledged Ancient Craftsman! Teaming up with OiCazzo and Pencilgon once more, they plunge deep into the heart of SLF! Meanwhile, top players from across the game are swarming around Sunraku, looking for info on taking down a Unique Monster. Can the fledgling Wolf-Gang clan hold its own in a conference full of wily competitors?
Author: Victoria Finlay
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Published: 2006
Total Pages: 482
ISBN-13: 9780340830130
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn intrepid journey to uncover the secret histories of precious stones. Victoria's search takes her to Egypt to find the lost emerald mines of Cleopatra, to the Australian opal fields with their underground towns, to Burma where she is spied on by the military junta, and to a secret location to meet the world's best diamond cutter. She reveals the wealth of human stories behind gemstones, and discovers, with the advent of synthetics, an industry on the brink of crisis.
Author: Nancy Farmer
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2013-09-26
Total Pages: 395
ISBN-13: 1471118304
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMatt has always been nothing but a clone - an exact replica, grown from a strip of old El Patron's skin. Now, age fourteen, Matt suddenly finds himself thrust into the position of ruling over his own country, Opium, on the one-time border between the US and Mexico, stretching from the ruins of San Diego to the ruins of Matamoros. But while Opium thrives, the rest of the world has been devastated by ecological disaster… and hidden somewhere in Opium is the cure. And that isn't all that's hidden within the depths of Opium. Matt is haunted by the ubiquitous army of eejits, zombie-like workers harnessed to the old El Patron's sinister system of drug growing... people stripped of the very qualities which once made them human. Matt wants to use his newfound power to help stop the suffering, but he can't even find a way to smuggle his childhood love Maria across the border and into Opium. Instead, his every move hits a roadblock - both from the traitors that surround him and from a voice within himself. For who is Matt really but the clone of an evil, murderous dictator?
Author: Jane Campbell
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Published: 2004-05-26
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1554580765
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA.S. Byatt’s novel Possession: A Romance attracted international acclaim in 1990, winning both the Booker Prize and the Irish Times/Aer Lingus International Fiction Prize. In her long and eminent career, Byatt has steadily published both fiction and non-fiction, the latest of which has not, until now, been given full critical consideration. Enter Jane Campbell’s new book, A.S. Byatt and the Heliotropic Imagination, a comprehensive critical reading of Byatt’s fiction from The Shadow of the Sun and The Game, published in the 1960s, to A Whistling Woman (2002). The book begins with an overview of Byatt’s writing and, drawing on her interviews and essays, sets forth the critical principles that inform the novelist’s work. Following this introduction, a chronologically structured account of the novels and short stories traces Byatt’s literary development. As well as exploring the ways in which Byatt has successfully negotiated a path between twentieth-century realism and postmodern experiment, Campbell employs a critical perspective appropriate to the author’s individualistic feminist stance, stressing the breadth of Byatt’s intellectual concerns and her insistence on placing her female characters in a living, changing context of ideas and experience, especially in their search for creative voice.
