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21) Our new home
Author
Publisher
[Hope Brothers, Inc.]
Pub. Date
[1930]
Physical Desc
4 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 14 cm
Language
English
22) Uncut gems
Series
Criterion collection volume 1101
Language
English
Description
This jolt of pure cinematic adrenaline affirmed directors Josh and Benny Safdie as heirs to the gritty, heightened realism of Martin Scorsese and John Cassavetes. Adam Sandler delivers an almost maniacally embodied performance as Howard Ratner, a fast-talking New York jeweler in relentless pursuit of the next big score. When he comes into possession of a rare opal, it seems Howard₂s ship has finally come in as long as he can stay one step ahead...
23) The black life
Author
Series
Publisher
Crème de la Crime
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
1st world ed.
Physical Desc
245 page ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Wealthy jeweller Eliezer Samuel contacts half Greek half Scots PI Alex Mavros after his Uncle Aron is spotted in the streets of Thessaloniki in northern Greece: but that's impossible - Aron Samuel perished in Auschwitz more than sixty years before.
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
408 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Dora Blake is a talented jewelry designer who lives under the thumb of her suspicious and odious uncle, who is running her late parents' beloved shop of antiquities into the ground. When he begins acting erratically after a mysterious Greek vase is delivered and locked in the basement, Dora enlists the help of Edward Lawrence, a young antiquarian scholar, who (unbeknownst to her) sees the vase as an opportunity to unlock his academic future. Dora...
Author
Series
Black swan rising volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
396 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When New York City jewelry designer, Garet James, stumbles into a strange antiques shop in her neighborhood, her life is turned upside down. John Dee, the shopkeeper, offers her a large sum of money, to open a silver box. When she does so, otherworldly things start to happen. Garet learns that she has been pulled in a prophecy that is hundreds of years old, and opening the box unleashes an evil force onto the streets of Manhattan.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"New York, 1910: A city of extravagant balls in Fifth Avenue mansions and poor immigrants crammed into crumbling Lower East Side tenements. A city where the suffrage movement is growing stronger every day, but most women reporters are still delegated to the fashion and lifestyle pages. But Vera Garland is set on making her mark in a man's world of serious journalism. Shortly after the world-famous Hope Diamond is acquired for a record sum, Vera begins...
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