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The Curse of the Diamond Hand

Author : Kevin Cantillano
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 9781475946109
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (461 download)

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Download or read book The Curse of the Diamond Hand written by Kevin Cantillano and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-10-17 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is the journey of a princess and a cowboy. The princess, who is destined to become a great queen for her kingdom. A time where many kingdoms fight over an absolute power that lies beneath a cavern filled with dragons. Many have dared to grab that absolute power, but many have failed. She as a child dared to grab this power, a power in the form of a key, and she would gain this absolute power later on as a young woman. However, she takes upon a curse from that absolute power, in the shape of a hand. Through her recklessness and ambitious needs, she uplifts the curse to not only herself, but the curse interwines to the very foundation of the world. Her curse impacts not only her destiny, but the world as well for the next centuries to come. It is until she meets a cowboy many years later, who is living in the sins of his past, that hope is brought upon her. The stranger also has that opportunity, the opportunity to make things right and gain peace within himself with the princess, who can finally end her curse. However, together they also set out to bring an end to the curse that the world is living in.

The Cartiers

Author : Francesca Cartier Brickell
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0525621636
Total Pages : 673 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (256 download)

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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.

Hope Diamond

Author : Richard Kurin
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
ISBN 13 : 1588344193
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)

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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.

All the Light We Cannot See

Author : Anthony Doerr
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476746605
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book All the Light We Cannot See written by Anthony Doerr and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES—from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti* Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris, and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel. In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the Resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure’s converge. Doerr’s “stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) are dazzling. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, he illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. Ten years in the writing, All the Light We Cannot See is a magnificent, deeply moving novel from a writer “whose sentences never fail to thrill” (Los Angeles Times).

The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - The Moonstone's Curse

Author : Sam Siciliano
Publisher : Titan Books (US, CA)
ISBN 13 : 1785652532
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (856 download)

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Download or read book The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - The Moonstone's Curse written by Sam Siciliano and published by Titan Books (US, CA). This book was released on 2017-02-14 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aristocratic Charles Bromley arrives at 221B Baker Street to beg SHERLOCK HOLMES for his help. Bromley believes that his wife is in danger, as she has refused an offer to sell the Moonstone, a fabulous diamond that has been in her family for generations but which is said to be cursed. When a jeweller is found murdered, it seems as if the Moonstone deserves its reputation. Then the diamond is stolen, and Holmes must try to unravel a mystery centuries in the making.

The Curse of Tramp Life

Author : Leon Ray Livingston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book The Curse of Tramp Life written by Leon Ray Livingston and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Hand in the Dark

Author : Arthur J. Rees
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3732672808
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book The Hand in the Dark written by Arthur J. Rees and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Hand in the Dark by Arthur J. Rees

Koh-i-Noor

Author : William Dalrymple
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1635570778
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book Koh-i-Noor written by William Dalrymple and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the internationally acclaimed and bestselling historians William Dalrymple and Anita Anand, the first comprehensive and authoritative history of the Koh-i-Noor diamond, arguably the most celebrated jewel in the world. On March 29, 1849, the ten-year-old leader of the Sikh kingdom of the Punjab was ushered into the magnificent Mirrored Hall at the center of the British fort in Lahore, India. There, in a formal Act of Submission, the frightened but dignified child handed over to the British East India Company swathes of the richest land in India and the single most valuable object in the subcontinent: the celebrated Koh-i-Noor diamond, otherwise known as the Mountain of Light. To celebrate the acquisition, the British East India Company commissioned a history of the diamond woven together from the gossip of the Delhi Bazaars. From that moment forward, the Koh-i-Noor became the most famous and mythological diamond in history, with thousands of people coming to see it at the 1851 Great Exhibition and still more thousands repeating the largely fictitious account of its passage through history. Using original eyewitness accounts and chronicles never before translated into English, Dalrymple and Anand trace the true history of the diamond and disperse the myths and fantastic tales that have long surrounded this awe-inspiring jewel. The resulting history of south and central Asia tells a true tale of greed, conquest, murder, torture, colonialism, and appropriation that shaped a continent and the Koh-i-Noor itself.

Uncovering the Unknown

Author : Jim Stephens
Publisher : RWG Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book Uncovering the Unknown written by Jim Stephens and published by RWG Publishing. This book was released on 2023-02-24 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Uncovering the Unknown: Tales of Mysterious Discoveries" is a riveting exploration into some of the world's most intriguing enigmas. This book delves into the secrets of ancient civilizations, unsolved mysteries, paranormal phenomena, and much more. From the lost city of Atlantis to the Bermuda Triangle, the Nazca Lines to the Tunguska Event, readers will be drawn into a world of fascinating puzzles that have long captivated scientists, researchers, and adventurers alike. Each chapter offers a unique glimpse into these mysteries, unraveling their history and the various theories that have been proposed to explain them. The book covers a wide range of topics, including strange creatures that haunt the skies, eerie ghost ships that drift aimlessly through the seas, and legendary curses that have struck down those who dared to cross them. Through meticulous research and expert analysis, the book offers readers a glimpse into the world of archaeology, history, science, exploration, and adventure. With captivating storytelling and engaging writing, "Uncovering the Unknown: Tales of Mysterious Discoveries" will satisfy anyone who has ever been fascinated by the unknown, the unexplained, and the cryptic. This book will appeal to readers of all ages who are drawn to the thrill of adventure and the intrigue of unraveling a good mystery. Whether you are an armchair adventurer or a seasoned explorer, this book will leave you captivated and wondering about the mysteries that still remain unsolved. So pick up your copy today and prepare to be transported into a world of ancient secrets and modern discoveries!

Detective Colwyn: The Shrieking Pit & The Hand in the Dark

Author : Arthur J. Rees
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 : 8027248930
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Detective Colwyn: The Shrieking Pit & The Hand in the Dark written by Arthur J. Rees and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2018-12-21 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. "The Shrieking Pit" – American detective Grant Colwyn is spending his holiday in England when it is brought to his attention the strange behavior of a fellow guest. A well known doctor, Sir Henry Durwood, claims that the young man is suffering from a rare form of epilepsy and may soon present a danger to other hotel guests. The strange young man leaves hotel the next day and finds a lodgings in a nearby inn, but soon after that a murder is committed in a neighboring town, and the same young man is the only suspect. Although all the evidence points to him as the murderer, Grant Colwyn believes in his innocence and sets out to prove it."The Hand in the Dark" – Mrs. Meredith has invited all her friends from her freer, wilder life in London to meet with her at her husband's family home in rural Sussex. However, she is seemingly taken ill and can't accompany the party on their final jaunt to a neighbor's house after dinner. Her husband, step-sister and friends sit down for dinner just before departing when they hear a scream from Mrs. Meredith's room, shortly followed by the gun shot. The household ascends the stairs to find the young wife murdered, shot from close range. The case is being investigated by a duo of Scotland Yard inspectors who meet a dead end, and the famous private detective Colwyn will have to offer his point of view.

The Deathless Pirate King

Author : Dan Jerris
Publisher : Lothian Children's Books
ISBN 13 : 073441238X
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book The Deathless Pirate King written by Dan Jerris and published by Lothian Children's Books. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Princess Haree of Ruby Island has been kidnapped by an evil pirate named Razor Toe, and it's up to Al and Owen to rescue her. But there's a lot more to Razor Toe than meets the eye? Can the boys survive a battle with a deathless pirate king? Just try to resist the action-packed Dragon Blood Pirates series - and the lure of adventure and mystery on the high seas.

Blood Cursed

Author : Erica Hayes
Publisher : St. Martin's Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 9781429986588
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (865 download)

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Download or read book Blood Cursed written by Erica Hayes and published by St. Martin's Paperbacks. This book was released on 2011-08-02 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To a vampire, nothing is sweeter than bloodfairy essence—and Ember is the most sought-after fairy on the underworld circuit. Selling her blood to the highest bidder—and robbing her clients in the process—Ember has unwittingly become a target of dark and dangerous forces. Her enemies are everywhere. And if she hopes to survive, she needs protection... Diamond is a glassfairy who, for better or worse, knows his way around the vampire underworld. Smooth as silk and tougher than trolls, Diamond is Ember's only chance to keep her magical blood inside her body, where it belongs. But he also poses a threat to Ember, a strange kind of danger she's never experienced before: She's falling in love with him... Blood Cursed is the fourth book in Erica Hayes' thrilling paranormal fantasy series the Shadowfae Chronicles.

Mysticons: The Diamond Curse

Author : Liz Marsham
Publisher : Imprint
ISBN 13 : 1250195594
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Mysticons: The Diamond Curse written by Liz Marsham and published by Imprint. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A middle grade original story based on the Mysticons animated tv show, in which four girls transform into legendary warriors to save their realm from an evil, undead queen. Mysticon Dragon Mage Arkayna is looking forward to a ride on the fanciest train in Gemina with her team members. Adding to the mystique: the train is also carrying a famous diamond—with its own famous curse. But when a villain from the Mysticons’ past tries to steal the diamond, the curse unleashes an ancient evil. Now trapped on a runaway train, the Mysticons have to band together even as forces of darkness become determined to tear them apart. This original novel is based on the hit new show Mysticons, and tells a brand-new adventure for our heroes! An Imprint Book

Wilkie Collins, Medicine and the Gothic

Author : Laurence Talairach-Vielmas
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 1783163739
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (831 download)

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Download or read book Wilkie Collins, Medicine and the Gothic written by Laurence Talairach-Vielmas and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how Wilkie Collins’s interest in medical matters developed in his writing through exploration of his revisions of the late eighteenth-century Gothic novel from his first sensation novels to his last novels of the 1880s. Throughout his career, Collins made changes in the prototypical Gothic scenario. The aristocratic villains, victimized maidens and medieval castles of classic Gothic tales were reworked and adapted to thrill his Victorian readership. With the advances of neuroscience and the development of criminology as a significant backdrop to most of his novels, Collins drew upon contemporary anxieties and increasingly used the medical to propel his criminal plots. While the prototypical castles were turned into modern medical institutions, his heroines no longer feared ghosts but the scientist’s knife. This study hence underlines the way in which Collins’s Gothic revisions increasingly tackled medical questions, using the medical terrain to capitalize on the readers’ fears. It also demonstrates how Wilkie Collins’s fiction reworks Gothic themes and presents them through the prism of contemporary scientific, medical and psychological discourses, from debates revolving around mental physiology to those dealing with heredity and transmission. The book’s structure is chronological covering a selection of texts in each chapter, with a balance between discussion of the more canonical of Collins’s texts such as The Woman in White, The Moonstone and Armadale and some of his more neglected writings.

Mysticons: The Diamond Curse

Author : Liz Marsham
Publisher : Imprint
ISBN 13 : 1250195586
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Mysticons: The Diamond Curse written by Liz Marsham and published by Imprint. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mysticon Dragon Mage Arkayna is looking forward to a ride on the fanciest train in Gemina with her team members. Adding to the mystique: the train is also carrying a famous diamond—with its own famous curse. But when a villain from the Mysticons’ past tries to steal the diamond, the curse unleashes an ancient evil. Now trapped on a runaway train, the Mysticons have to band together even as forces of darkness become determined to tear them apart. This original novel is based on the hit new show Mysticons, and tells a brand-new adventure for our heroes! An Imprint Book

Cursed Objects

Author : J. W. Ocker
Publisher : Quirk Books
ISBN 13 : 1683692373
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (836 download)

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Download or read book Cursed Objects written by J. W. Ocker and published by Quirk Books. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beware...this book is cursed! These strange but true stories of the world’s most infamous items will appeal to true believers as well as history buffs, horror fans, and anyone who loves a good spine-tingling tale. They’re lurking in museums, graveyards, and private homes. Their often tragic and always bizarre stories have inspired countless horror movies, reality TV shows, novels, and campfire tales. They’re cursed objects, and all they need to unleash a wave of misfortune is . . . you. Many of these unfortunate items have intersected with some of the most notable events and people in history, leaving death and destruction in their wake. But never before have the true stories of these eerie oddities been compiled into a fascinating and chilling volume. Inside, readers will learn about: • Annabelle the Doll, a Raggedy Ann doll that featured in the horror franchise The Conjuring • The Unlucky Mummy, which is rumored to have sunk the Titanic and kick-started World War I • The Dybbuk box, which was sold on eBay and spawned the horror film The Possession • The Conjured Chest, which has been blamed for fifteen deaths within a single family • The Ring of Silvianus, a Roman artifact believed to have inspired J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit • And many more!

The Ring of Death

Author : Roland Boike
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1984542044
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (845 download)

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Download or read book The Ring of Death written by Roland Boike and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-07-23 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1868, Jarmon, a young African boy, and his sisters Kindra and Karla struggle to live after the death of their parents. Jarmon, in his spare time and in order to supplement his wages as a thirteen-year-old working in the African diamond mines, hunts for diamonds along the Orange River in Africa. One morning, while hunting diamonds, Jarmon finds he is accosted by the mine owner and is knocked unconscious. The following day the mine owner fires Jarmon, kidnaps his sisters, and plans to take them back to Holland. Finding that he is unable to get his sisters back, Jarmon seeks out a local witch doctor to have a curse placed on the stolen diamonds. In a fit of anger Jarmon seeks out the aid of an African native inyanga to place a curse on the diamonds. It is believed that the curse has caused numerous mysterious deaths of the previous owners of the diamonds. One hundred years later, Grant Powers purchases the diamonds to have made into a thirty-fifth wedding anniversary gift for his wife. In order to save the political life of Grant Powerss brother, Grant and Marianne Powers agree to adopt and raise the illegitimate child of Grants brother. While vacationing the diamond ring is stolen, and the Powers are killed in an automobile accident. The caregiver simply keeps the child and raises her as her own. The true identity of the child and the eventual recovery of the stolen diamond leads to the final removal of the curse.