The Pearl

• Author : Anonymous
• Publisher : Ballantine Books
• Release : 24 June 1996

Among the first "Journals of Voluptuous Reading" to be spawned by the Victorians, this novel shows them as vastly different from their public image--beneath the facade of respectability and sexual repression there existed the strongest urge for sexual experimentation and enjoyment. First published in London in July 1879, it provided unrestrained erotica for every taste.

• Author : Eric Van Lustbader
• Publisher : Macmillan
• Release : 01 November 2005

Kundala is Miina's world, created by that Goddess with the help of the dragons. But Miina is missing, and her people have been enslaved by the alien V'ornn. Now a savior has come, the Dar Sala-at, a messiah promised by prophecy yet unlike anyone's expectations: within the body of a beautiful young woman is the mind and spirit of a unique Kundalan female who is joined in mystical partnership with the mind and spirit of Annon Ashera, a V'ornn male,

• Author : Josephine F. Pacheco
• Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
• Release : 15 March 2010

In the spring of 1848 seventy-six slaves from the nation's capital hid aboard a schooner called the Pearl in an attempt to sail down the Potomac River and up the Chesapeake Bay to freedom in Pennsylvania. When inclement weather forced them to anchor for the night, the fugitive slaves and the ship's crew were captured and returned to Washington. Many of the slaves were sold to the Lower South, and two men sailing the Pearl were tried and sentenced to prison.

• Author : Antoinette Leonard Matlins
• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
• Release : 24 June 1996

Practical guide to pearl buying and the avoidance of expensive mistakes. Covers all types of pearls, including imitations.

• Author : Nadia Hashimi
• Publisher : William Morrow
• Release : 06 May 2014

Afghan-American Nadia Hashimi's literary debut novel is a searing tale of powerlessness, fate, and the freedom to control one's own fate that combines the cultural flavor and emotional resonance of the works of Khaled Hosseini, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Lisa See. In Kabul, 2007, with a drug-addicted father and no brothers, Rahima and her sisters can only sporadically attend school, and can rarely leave the house. Their only hope lies in the ancient custom of bacha posh, which allows young Rahima to

• Author : Earl Monroe,Quincy Troupe
• Publisher : Rodale Books
• Release : 23 April 2013

Earl "The Pearl" Monroe is a basketball legend whose impact on the game transcends statistics, a player known as much for his unorthodox, "playground" style of play as his championship pedigree. Observers said that watching him play was like listening to jazz, his moves resembling freefloating improvisations. "I don't know what I'm going to do with the ball," Monroe once admitted, "and if I don't know, I'm quite sure the guy guarding me doesn't know either." Traded to the New

• Author : John Steinbeck
• Publisher : Puffin
• Release : 04 August 2016

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• Author : John Steinbeck
• Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
• Release : 05 May 2020

In this classic novella from Nobel Prize–winner John Steinbeck, Mexican diver Kino is following in his father and grandfather’s footsteps, gathering pearls from the gulf beds that once brought great wealth to the Kings of Spain and now provide Kino’s family with meager substance. But one day, Kino discovers a magnificent pearl—it is as large as a seagull’s egg and as “perfect as the moon”—and with it brings the promise of a better life

• Author : Paul C. Southgate,John S. Lucas
• Publisher : Elsevier Science Limited
• Release : 24 June 2021

Contrary to a generally held view that pearls are found by chance in oysters, almost all are now produced from farms. This book is a comprehensive treatment of all aspects of the biology of pearl oysters, their anatomy, reproduction, genetics, diseases, etc. It considers how they are farmed from spawning and culturing larvae in hatcheries to adults in the ocean; how various environmental factors, including pollution affect them; how modern techniques are successfully producing large numbers of cultured pearls. This

• Author : Elsa T. Aguries
• Publisher : Xulon Press
• Release : 01 December 2009

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the loveliest of them all? What do you see when you look in the mirror? Do you like what you see? What does the mirror reflect? In the midst of life's pressures, disappointments, joys, and pleasures, do you reflect brightness, radiance, and brilliance, or do you reflect dullness, gloominess, and foolishness? Inside of you are hidden treasures waiting to be discovered. Will you allow yourself to be molded, shaped, and transformed into a

• Author : Bridget! Kavanagh
• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
• Release : 24 June 1878

• Author : John Steinbeck
• Publisher : Penguin
• Release : 01 February 1993

“There it lay, the great pearl, perfect as the moon.” Like his father and grandfather before him, Kino is a poor diver, gathering pearls from the gulf beds that once brought great wealth to the Kings of Spain and now provide Kino, Juana, and their infant son with meager subsistence. Then, on a day like any other, Kino emerges from the sea with a pearl as large as a sea gull's egg, as "perfect as the moon." With the pearl

• Author : Maturin M. Ballou
• Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
• Release : 18 July 2020

Reproduction of the original: The Pearl of India by Maturin M. Ballou

• Author : George Frederick Kunz,Charles Hugh Stevenson
• Publisher : Courier Corporation
• Release : 01 January 2001

This monumental, profusely illustrated volume by two noted authorities is probably the largest single collection of data on the subject of pearls. Its enormous amount of detailed information covers their origin and history, structure, and form; the pearl fisheries of Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas; fascinating facts and lore on pearl-culture and pearl-farming; the gem's mystical and medicinal properties; famous pearl collections around the world; and much more. Over 180 illustrations enhance the highly readable text, sure to intrigue any

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
• Release : 24 June 1895