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Black Diamonds
Author | : Catherine Bailey |
Publsiher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 544 |
Release | : 2008-03-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780141906003 |
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Wentworth is in Yorkshire and was surrounded by 70 collieries employing tens of thousands of men. It is the finest and largest Georgian house in Britain andbelonged to the Fitzwilliam family. It is England's forgotten palace which belonged to Britain's richest aristocrats. Black Diamonds tells the story of its demise: family feuds, forbidden love, class war, and a tragic and violent death played their part. But coal, one of the most emotive issues in twentieth century British politics, lies at its heart. This is the extraordinary story of how the fabric of English society shifted beyond recognition in fifty turbulent years in the twentieth century.
Seven Black Diamonds
Author | : Melissa Marr |
Publsiher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2016-03-01 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780062239211 |
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Melissa Marr, New York Times bestselling author of the Wicked Lovely series, returns to the ethereal and bloodthirsty world of faery in this dramatic story of the precarious space between two worlds—and the people who must thrive there. Lilywhite Abernathy is a criminal—she's half human, half fae, and since the time before she was born her very blood has been illegal. A war has been raging between humans and faeries, and the Queen of Blood and Rage, ruler of the fae courts, wants to avenge the tragic death of her heir due to the actions of reckless humans. Lily's father has always shielded her from the truth, but when she's sent to the prestigious St. Columba's school, she's delivered straight into the arms of a fae Sleeper cell—the Black Diamonds. The Diamonds are planted in the human world as the sons and daughters of the most influential families, and tasked with destroying it from within. Against her will, Lilywhite's been chosen to join them . . . and even the romantic attention of the fae rock singer Creed Morrison isn't enough to keep Lily from wanting to run back to the familiar world she knows. Don’t miss the lush, gripping follow-up, One Blood Ruby!
Black Diamonds
Author | : Mór Jókai |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 494 |
Release | : 1896 |
Genre | : Hungarian fiction |
ISBN | : UOM:39015066229108 |
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Black Diamond Queens
Author | : Maureen Mahon |
Publsiher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2020-10-09 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9781478012771 |
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African American women have played a pivotal part in rock and roll—from laying its foundations and singing chart-topping hits to influencing some of the genre's most iconic acts. Despite this, black women's importance to the music's history has been diminished by narratives of rock as a mostly white male enterprise. In Black Diamond Queens, Maureen Mahon draws on recordings, press coverage, archival materials, and interviews to document the history of African American women in rock and roll between the 1950s and the 1980s. Mahon details the musical contributions and cultural impact of Big Mama Thornton, LaVern Baker, Betty Davis, Tina Turner, Merry Clayton, Labelle, the Shirelles, and others, demonstrating how dominant views of gender, race, sexuality, and genre affected their careers. By uncovering this hidden history of black women in rock and roll, Mahon reveals a powerful sonic legacy that continues to reverberate into the twenty-first century.
Black Diamond
Author | : Zakes Mda |
Publsiher | : Penguin Random House South Africa |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 2012-10-02 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780143027508 |
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Kristin Uys is a tough Roodepoort magistrate who lives alone with her cat. She is on a one-woman crusade to wipe out prostitution in the town for reasons that have personal significance for her. Although she is unable to convict the Visagie Brothers, Stevo and Shortie, on charges of running a brothel, she manages to nail Stevo for contempt of court and gives him a summary six-month sentence. From Diepkloof Prison, the outraged Stevo orchestrates his revenge against the magistrate, aided and abetted by his rather inept brother Shortie and his erstwhile nanny, Aunt Magda, who believes mass action will force the powers that be to release Stevo. Kristin receives menacing phone calls and her home is invaded and vandalised. Even her cat is threatened. The chief magistrate insists on assigning a bodyguard to protect her. To Kristin's consternation, security guard Don Mateza moves into her home and trails her everywhere. Nor does this suit Don's long-time girlfriend Tumi, former model and successful businesswoman, who is intent on turning Don into a Black Diamond sooner rather than later. And Don soon finds that his new assignment has unexpected complications which Tumi simply does not understand. In Black Diamond, Zakes Mda tackles every conceivable South African stereotype, skilfully (and with the lightest touch) turning them upside down and exposing their ironies, often hilariously. This is a clever, quirky novel that captures the essence of contemporary life in Gauteng and will resonate with all South Africans.
Black Diamonds
Author | : Sidney Dyer |
Publsiher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2023-10-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9783368199012 |
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.
Black Diamonds
Author | : Edward A. Pollard |
Publsiher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 126 |
Release | : 2022-10-24 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9783375124755 |
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1859.
Black Diamonds
Author | : Catherine Young |
Publsiher | : Torrey House Press |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2023-09-26 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781948814843 |
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A lyrical literary memoir of Scranton, Pennsylvania, Black Diamonds uncovers layers of history about the place that fueled the nation for over a century. As a girl in the 1960s, Catherine Young lived amid mountains of waste coal above ground and mine fires beneath her feet while longing for the green, lovely scene portrayed in The Lackawanna Valley, George Inness’s 1855 painting. She shows readers the valley through a child's eyes, passing through the immigrant kitchens, relief lines, and soot-stained alleys of a collapsing city—and family love amid lives cut short by coal.