Dixie is the youngest Diamond girl. She & her sisters
- dreamy Martine glamorous Rochelle & tough Jude
- could hardly be more

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This handbook updates jewellery professionals & serious diamond buyers on the new developments in diamond grading treatments synthetic diamonds fancy-colour diamonds & lab certificates. Using close-up photographs it shows how to make visual judgements about clarity transparency cut quality & brilliance. The handbook also discusses how gem labs are incorporating brightness size scintillation & pattern into their cut grades & it provides tips on detecting treatments & man-made diamonds. Topics include: Quality evaluation; Diamond Recutting; Branded diamonds; Antique cuts & jewellery; Diamond treatments; Fancy-colour diamonds; Synthetic diamonds; Light performance; Fluorescence; Lab reports. ...

The jet was a solid eighteen-inch column a pillar of brown mud & yellow gravel & sea water that beat against the steel plates of the hull with a hollow drumming roar. In the few seconds since the explosion the cyclone was already half-filled with a slimy shifting porridge that rushed from wall to wall with the movement of the ship. It was like some monstrous jellyfish which each second gathered weight & strength. The Van Der Byl Diamond Company willed by its founder to his son Benedict his sister Tracey & their estranged foster-brother Johnny Lance turns out to be a bequest of hatred. For it is couched in such terms as to offer Benedict the instrument of destruction of his bitterest rival. Destroy Johnny is the old mans implacable message. & so consumed with envy for Johnny Benedict sets out in ruthless pursuit of this goal -- & Johnny is plunged into a maelstrom of greed vengeance & murder.. . ...

I realized I was writing about getting sober about coming alive about claiming myself & uncovering these gifts that had been obscured by both outside & internal forces about this veil of confusion & dysfunction & addiction being peeled away bit by bit. Shawn Colvin had found her voice. From age ten Shawn Colvin was determined to make a life in music-a decision that influenced every choice she would make. In 1997 two decades after she started she got her big break. Like the troubled would-be arsonist & survivor of her smash hit Sunny Came Home" Colvin knows a thing or two about heartache
- & setting fires. " Diamond in the Rough" recounts this passionate young musicians coming
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- age from prairie small-town South Dakota to bar sets in Austin & New York City to the world stage at the Grammys. " Diamond in the Rough" captures her years touring cross-country in vans full of boys falling in & out of love; making music of all genres with lifelong friends; meeting heroes like Joni Mitchell; becoming addicted & staying sober weathering divorce & raising a daughter-and learning to channel those experiences into song. Through its pages we witness the maturation of a woman finding her voice & learning to care for a child as well as herself. With the rich lyricism wit frankness & deep empathy that have characterized her songs & inspired audiences worldwide Colvins memoir looks back over a rich lifetime of highs & lows with stunning insight & candor."


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Neil Diamond is one of the worlds most successful singer-songwriters & solo performers. His songs are marked out by a combination of a deep sense of isolation & a desire for commitment & love at the same time. This unique poignant mixture has propelled him to the top of the charts world-wide & kept him there for generations of fans. This book covers his early career from being an NYU student writing songs for $50.00 each his first contract with Columbia Records first success with Sunday & Me" & then " Im A Believer" & "A Little Bit me a Little Bit You" sung by the Monkees then followed his own version of " Sweet Caroline" & " Song Song Blue". He has also dueted success fully with other artist including Barbara Streisand with " You Dont Bring Me Flowers Any More" & recently toured to great critical & public acclaim. Illustrated with all manner of mementos collectibles posters memorabilia this book features reviews a full discography producers & musicians & a narrative of Diamonds life drawn from exclusive interviews conducted by the author since 1976. The result is the most complete & captivating portrait of this incomparable artist ever to emerge one that both celebrates & reveals Neil Diamond as both a private man & superstar." ...

With the flair for narrative & the meticulous research that readers have come to expect Andrew Marr turns his attention to the monarch & to the monarchy chronicling the Queens pivotal role at the centre of the state which is largely hidden from the public gaze & making a strong case for the institution itself. Arranged thematically rather than chronologically Marr dissects the Queens political relationships crucially those with her Prime Ministers; he examines her role as Head of the Commonwealth & her deep commitment to that Commonwealth of nations; he looks at the drastic changes in the media since her accession in 1952 & how the monarchy & the monarch have had to change & adapt as a result. Indeed he argues that under her watchful eye the monarchy has been thoroughly modernized & made as fit for purpose in the twenty-first century as it was when she came to the throne & a new Elizabethan age was ushered in. ...

With the flair for narrative & the meticulous research that readers have come to expect Andrew Marr turns his attention to the monarch -- & to the monarchy chronicling the Queens pivotal role at the centre of the state which is largely hidden from the public gaze & making a strong case for the institution itself. Arranged thematically rather than chronologically Marr dissects the Queens political relationships crucially those with her Prime Ministers; he examines her role as Head of the Commonwealth & her deep commitment to that Commonwealth of nations; he looks at the drastic changes in the media since her accession in 1952 & how the monarchy -- & the monarch -- have had to change & adapt as a result. Indeed he argues that under her watchful eye the monarchy has been thoroughly modernized & made as fit for purpose in the twenty-first century as it was when she came to the throne & a new Elizabethan age was ushered in. ...

Hatton Garden is one of the most secret streets in England home for two centuries to a deeply private working community of diamond & jewellery dealers. Intimately connected to the area both personally (her family run a jewellery business there) & professionally (as an artist archivist of London's streets) Rachel Lichtenstein is uniquely placed to explore the extraordinary history of this mysterious quarter with its ancient burial sites diamond workshops underground vaults subterranean rivers monastic dynasties & forgotten palaces. Moving beyond the street itself into parts of Clerkenwell Holborn & Farringdon Rachel follows the ancient perimeter of the original Hatton Garden estate which once bordered the lost River Fleet. Guided on her walks by archaeologists sewer flushers artists goldsmiths geologists & visionaries of the city such as Iain Sinclair she crosses the same territory repeatedly gathering new layers of the story with each journey. The result is a brilliantly immersive & multi-layered portrait; both a documentary & a secret history of a vanishing world. ...

Diamond Street is Rachel Lichtenstein's fascinating account of London's Hatton Garden. Enter Hatton Garden one of London's most mysterious streets. Home to ancient burial sites diamond workshops underground vaults monastic dynasties subterranean rivers & forgotten palaces. Here you'll meet sewer flushers artists goldsmiths geologists & visionaries as Rachel Lichtenstein uncovers the history secrets & stories that bring this vibrant Clerkenwell street & its environs to life. Praise for Diamond Street: Diamond Street is a brilliant & moving book intricate in its form & fabulous in its curiosity. It is poised somewhere between deep history archaeological dig archive-quest & contemporary documentary & it is suffused throughout with Rachel Lichtenstein's fascination with people & place
- a fascination which approaches a moral quality really in its tenderness diligence & cultural openness". (Robert Macfarlane author of The Old Ways). " Fascinating. The great joy of Lichtenstein's books is that she encourages us to look again at the places we take for granted". (Daily Telegraph). " Vivid & amusing containing so many sparkling things elegantly organized. Lichtenstein consulted a whole gang of glorious characters collecting tales history & lore on her way. An overwhelming trove of stories with a multiplicity of facets to intrigue". (Observer). " Engrossing a superb oral historian. Lichtenstein proves to be an indefatigable explorer". (Sunday Times). " Lichtenstein is an artist writer local historian & archivist & her multi-faceted approach makes fascinating reading. She makes us look with a fresh eye at familiar urban spaces". (Independent on Sunday). " Lichtenstein has brought alive something of London.. .how one street can be a kind of Tardis a portal to another world of parallel commerce codes rituals history. A heartfelt book full of curiosity & love". (The Times). "A lively & rewarding addition to the capital's rich history". (Independent). Rachel Lichtenstein is an artist & writer. She is the co-author with Iain Sinclair of Rodinsky's Room & the author most recently of On Brick Lane."
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New cover reissue of Book One of the classic ELENIUM series introducing the Pandion Knight Sparhawk & his horse Faron a sleeping queen & a jewel that can save her! After a long spell of exile Sparhawk Pandion Knight & the Queens champion returns to his native land to find it overrun with evil & intrigue -- & his young Queen grievously ill. Indeed Ehlana lies magically entombed within a block of crystal doomed to die unless a cure can be found within a year. But as Sparhawk & his allies -- who include Sephrenia the ageless sorceress & Flute the strange & powerful girl-child -- seek to save Ehlana & the land they discover that the evil is even greater & more pervasive than they feared! Truly a gem of epic fantasy from the modern master of the genre THE DIAMOND THRONE is a must for Eddings fans -- & an excellent introduction for those who have yet to discover the delights of his work. ...