Author : Ejike Aneke
Publisher : Abic Books
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0221581006
Eyes Like Diamond
Ejike Aneke
Eyes Like Diamond
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Eyes Like Diamond
Ejike Aneke
Author : Ejike Aneke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780221581
Eyes Like Diamond by Ejike Aneke Pdf
The Diamond Eye
Kate Quinn
Author : Kate Quinn
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062943521
The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn Pdf
New York Times Bestseller The bestselling author of The Rose Code returns with an unforgettable World War II tale of a quiet bookworm who becomes history’s deadliest female sniper. Based on a true story. In 1937 in the snowbound city of Kyiv, wry and bookish history student Mila Pavlichenko organizes her life around her library job and her young son—but Hitler’s invasion of Ukraine and Russia sends her on a different path. Given a rifle and sent to join the fight, Mila must forge herself from studious girl to deadly sniper—a lethal hunter of Nazis known as Lady Death. When news of her three hundredth kill makes her a national heroine, Mila finds herself torn from the bloody battlefields of the eastern front and sent to America on a goodwill tour. Still reeling from war wounds and devastated by loss, Mila finds herself isolated and lonely in the glittering world of Washington, DC—until an unexpected friendship with First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and an even more unexpected connection with a silent fellow sniper offer the possibility of happiness. But when an old enemy from Mila’s past joins forces with a deadly new foe lurking in the shadows, Lady Death finds herself battling her own demons and enemy bullets in the deadliest duel of her life. Based on a true story, The Diamond Eye is a haunting novel of heroism born of desperation, of a mother who became a soldier, of a woman who found her place in the world and changed the course of history forever.
Diamond Willow
Helen Frost
Author : Helen Frost
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781466896345
Diamond Willow by Helen Frost Pdf
There's more to me than most people see. Twelve-year-old Willow would rather blend in than stick out. But she still wants to be seen for who she is. She wants her parents to notice that she is growing up. She wants her best friend to like her better than she likes a certain boy. She wants, more than anything, to mush the dogs out to her grandparents' house, by herself, with Roxy in the lead. But sometimes when it's just you, one mistake can have frightening consequences . . . And when Willow stumbles, it takes a surprising group of friends to help her make things right again. Using diamond-shaped poems inspired by forms found in polished diamond willow sticks, Helen Frost tells the moving story of Willow and her family. Hidden messages within each diamond carry the reader further, into feelings Willow doesn't reveal even to herself. Diamond Willow is a 2009 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.
Diamond and the Eye
Peter Lovesey
Author : Peter Lovesey
Publisher : Soho Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781641293136
Diamond and the Eye by Peter Lovesey Pdf
A Bath antiques dealer has disappeared, and detective Peter Diamond has been saddled with the "help" of a hardboiled Philip Marlowe wannabe private investigator in cracking the case. MWA Grand Master Peter Lovesey's 20th installment in the award-winning series will have readers laughing from the first page. If there's one thing detective Bath Peter Diamond has no patience for, it's a dumb git trying to get involved in one of his investigations—for example, a Philip Marlowe-wannabee private investigator like the self-styled Johnny Getz (his card claims he Getz results). But fate has saddled Diamond with this trial. A Bath antiques dealer, Septimus "Seppy" Hubbard, has disappeared without a trace, and his daughter, Ruby, has hired Johnny Getz to find him. When a dead body is discovered in Seppy's locked-up store, the missing persons case becomes a murder investigation, and now Diamond has to collaborate with the insufferable private eye.
All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr
Author : Anthony Doerr
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781476746609
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr Pdf
*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 House of New Beginnings
Lucy Diamond
Author : Lucy Diamond
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781447299134
The House of New Beginnings by Lucy Diamond Pdf
The House of New Beginnings is a moving and uplifting novel from bestselling author Lucy Diamond. One life-changing summer . . . In an elegant Regency house near the Brighton seafront, three tenants have more in common than they know. A shocking revelation has led Rosa to start over as a sous chef. The work is gruelling but it’s a distraction . . . until she comes up against the stroppy teenager next door who challenges her lifestyle choices. What if Rosa’s passion for food could lead her to more interesting places? Having followed her childhood sweetheart down south, Georgie is busily carving out a new career in journalism. Throwing herself into the city’s delights is fun, but before she knows it she’s sliding headlong into all kinds of trouble . . . Nursing a devastating loss, Charlotte just wants to keep her head down. But Margot, the glamorous older lady on the top floor, has other ideas. Like it or not, Charlotte must confront the outside world, and the possibilities it still holds. As the women find each other, hope surfaces, friendships blossom and a whole new chapter unfolds for them all.
Like a Diamond in the Sky
Elizabeth Brown
Author : Elizabeth Brown
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781547604289
Like a Diamond in the Sky by Elizabeth Brown Pdf
The story behind the classic and universally recognized rhyme! This luminous picture book biography shines a light on the little-known poet and author of the beloved lullaby. Twinkle, twinkle, little star, how I wonder what you are. Did you ever wonder who wrote that famous verse? In the days when most girls were brought up to run a home, Jane Taylor had a different kind of education in the English countryside, where she was inspired by nature and the stars, and dreamed of becoming a writer. But in the late 1700s, it was not considered proper for women to be writers. Jane and other female poets were shunned, unable to use their own names when published.But Jane did write, and she never forgot her love for the beauty of nature and the glow of stars, or her desire to write for children. Her published poetry became universally known for generations to come: Twinkle, twinkle little star. This lyrical and luminous biography shines a light on the unsung poet who wrote the words of our most enduring lullaby, and features stunning artwork reflecting the world, the stars, and the story behind the poem that we all know so well.
Blood Diamonds
Greg Campbell
Author : Greg Campbell
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780465029921
Blood Diamonds by Greg Campbell Pdf
First discovered in 1930, the diamonds of Sierra Leone have funded one of the most savage rebel campaigns in modern history. These "blood diamonds" are smuggled out of West Africa and sold to legitimate diamond merchants in London, Antwerp, and New York, often with the complicity of the international diamond industry. Eventually, these very diamonds find their way into the rings and necklaces of brides and spouses the world over. Blood Diamonds is the gripping tale of how the diamond smuggling works, how the rebel war has effectively destroyed Sierra Leone and its people, and how the policies of the diamond industry - institutionalized in the 1880s by the De Beers cartel - have allowed it to happen. Award-winning journalist Greg Campbell traces the deadly trail of these diamonds, many of which are brought to the world market by fanatical enemies. These repercussions of diamond smuggling are felt far beyond the borders of the poor and war-ridden country of Sierra Leone, and the consequences of overlooking this African tragedy are both shockingly deadly and unquestionably global. Updated with a new epilogue.
The Jātaka
Edward Byles Cowell
Author : Edward Byles Cowell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Buddhas
ISBN : HARVARD:FL2D94
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The Blood Diamond
John Creasey
Author : John Creasey
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780755134922
The Blood Diamond by John Creasey Pdf
John Mannering (aka ‘The Baron’) had purchased the Adalgo diamond out of curiosity as it was known as the ‘Blood Diamond’, because violent death had overtaken previous owners. Soon after he was robbed, his wife kidnapped and a friend brutally murdered. Just what was the truth behind the legend and could Mannering solve the various mysteries?
Red Diamond Eyes
Jason Calderwood
Author : Jason Calderwood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1707059977
Red Diamond Eyes by Jason Calderwood Pdf
Dark, hypnotic, mesmerizing...There is an ancient and widespread superstition known throughout history as the evil eye, also known as the envious eye. Like Medusa's gaze that had the power to turn a man to stone, people have cast an evil eye on others in hopes of "fascination" or bending someone else's will to their own over the power of a dark stare.Just as people, objects can also be the focus of an evil eye. There is probably no item more prone to catch a jealous, lustful gaze than true red diamonds. It is only natural that those who possess them look upon them with great desire, lust, and greed; and it is only a matter a time before these diamonds begin to trap the energy of those desires and emotions.Over time, a curse grows within.Vic Abelson is a young thief who made a name for himself as someone who gets things done. A new job may push his limits for he is sent to work with Jones, a veteran thief known to be ruthless and cunning. Together they have been tasked to complete a job another failed, to find a pair of matching red diamonds called the Red Diamond Eyes.Vic and Jones find this may be the most difficult job of their lives for the diamonds are hidden in an old abandoned house that is said to be haunted, and the diamonds exert a curse that has already taken many lives. Will Vic and Jones succeed, or will they become another soul snared by the Red Diamond Eyes?
Conversations with Friends
Sally Rooney
Author : Sally Rooney
Publisher : Crown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780451499059
Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney Pdf
NOW A HULU ORIGINAL SERIES • From the New York Times bestselling author of Normal People . . . “[A] cult-hit . . . [a] sharply realistic comedy of adultery and friendship.”—Entertainment Weekly SALLY ROONEY NAMED TO THE TIME 100 NEXT LIST • WINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES (UK) YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD • ONE OF BUZZFEED’S BEST BOOKS OF THE DECADE • ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Vogue, Slate • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Elle Frances is a coolheaded and darkly observant young woman, vaguely pursuing a career in writing while studying in Dublin. Her best friend is the beautiful and endlessly self-possessed Bobbi. At a local poetry performance one night, they meet a well-known photographer, and as the girls are then gradually drawn into her world, Frances is reluctantly impressed by the older woman’s sophisticated home and handsome husband, Nick. But however amusing Frances and Nick’s flirtation seems at first, it begins to give way to a strange—and then painful—intimacy. Written with gemlike precision and marked by a sly sense of humor, Conversations with Friends is wonderfully alive to the pleasures and dangers of youth, and the messy edges of female friendship. SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD “Sharp, funny, thought-provoking . . . a really great portrait of two young women as they’re figuring out how to be adults.”—Celeste Ng, Late Night with Seth Meyers Podcast “The dialogue is superb, as are the insights about communicating in the age of electronic devices. Rooney has a magical ability to write scenes of such verisimilitude that even when little happens they’re suspenseful.”—Curtis Sittenfeld, The Week “Rooney has the gift of imbuing everyday life with a sense of high stakes . . . a novel of delicious frictions.”—New York “A writer of rare confidence, with a lucid, exacting style . . . One wonderful aspect of Rooney’s consistently wonderful novel is the fierce clarity with which she examines the self-delusion that so often festers alongside presumed self-knowledge. . . . But Rooney’s natural power is as a psychological portraitist. She is acute and sophisticated about the workings of innocence; the protagonist of this novel about growing up has no idea just how much of it she has left to do.”—Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker “This book. This book. I read it in one day. I hear I’m not alone.”—Sarah Jessica Parker (Instagram)
The Diamond of Darkhold
Jeanne DuPrau
Author : Jeanne DuPrau
Publisher : Yearling
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010-03-23
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780375855726
The Diamond of Darkhold by Jeanne DuPrau Pdf
Lina and Doon are returning to the city of Ember, but what awaits them in the dark? This highly acclaimed adventure series is a modern-day classic—with over 4 MILLION copies sold! Lina and Doon escaped the dying city of Ember and led their people to the town of Sparks. But it’s winter now, and the harsh realities of their new world have begun to set in. When Doon finds a book that hints at an important, long-lost device, it doesn’t take much for him to convince Lina to join him for one last adventure in the place they used to call home. But will this mysterious technology be enough to help their people? And what— and who—will they find when they return? Praise for the City of Ember books: Nominated to 28 State Award Lists! An American Library Association Notable Children’s Book A New York Public Library 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing Selection A Kirkus Reviews Editors’ Choice A Child Magazine Best Children’s Book A Mark Twain Award Winner A William Allen White Children’s Book Award Winner “A realistic post-apocalyptic world. DuPrau’s book leaves Doon and Lina on the verge of undiscovered country and readers wanting more.” —USA Today “An electric debut.” —Publishers Weekly, Starred “While Ember is colorless and dark, the book itself is rich with description.” —VOYA, Starred “A harrowing journey into the unknown, and cryptic messages for readers to decipher.” —Kirkus Reviews, Starred
