A round, luminescent pearl is the simplest and most perfect gem. Columbus sought―and found―this precious jewel coveted by his Spanish sovereigns, sparking popularity throughout Europe. Fashion icons Jacqueline Kennedy, Princess Grace, and Michelle Obama cherished them, making them iconic. And designer Coco Chanel raised them to new heights, bringing pearls― fake and real―to women everywhere. In Tears of Mermaids, Stephen G. Bloom travels 30,000 miles in an effort to trace a single pearl―from the moment a diver off the coast of Australia scoops an oyster containing a single luminescent pearl from the ocean floor to the instant a woman fastens the clasp of a strand containing the same orb. Bloom chronicles the never-before-told saga of the global pearl trade by gaining access to clandestine outposts in China, the Philippines, French Polynesia and Australia. He infiltrates high-tech pearl farms guarded by gun-toting sentries, farms for pearls in rural China, and even goes backstage at Christie's for a fast and furious auction of the most expensive pearl ever sold. Teeming with rogue humor and uncanny intelligence, Tears of Mermaids weaves a nonstop detective story whose main character is the world's most enduring jewel.

Tears of Mermaids

Business & Money

Bloom, Stephen

Industries

St. Martin's: Griffin

Toohey's Medicine for Nurses

Bloom, Arnold

Toohey, Monty

Medical Books

Churchill/Livingstone

Kimball's Landing is a story about truth and fiction, narrated by a young writer who finds himself stranded in 1975 in a small , failing northern town named Port Noble. He spends time in a local tavern where old-time residents hold forth with humorous stories about the town's past. The narrator becomes romantically involved with a graduate Sociology student who listens to the same stories as part of her research into the town. The town's storytellers, however, are uncharacteristically reluctant to talk about a mysterious place known as Kimball's Landing, and warn against pursuing the story. In spite of the warnings, the two young people search for the place and its history, following different paths. As the narrator uncovers the nativist history of the place, he also exposes the reality of his own relationship with the student and the town he has adopted as his home.

Kimball's Landing: a novel

Literature & Fiction

Literary

BloomBooks

Wednesday 25th October 1854; tired, hungry soldiers of Lord Ragan's British expeditionary force awake to a chilly Russian morning only to hear Turkish guns firing down from the Causeway Heights at a massive Russian army advancing upon them and the British port of Balaclava. Five hours later and the British cavalry, under the command of the Earl of Cardigan, careered down the north plain right into the face of the Russian guns and cavalry gathered across the valley. To the astonishment of the Russian army (and no doubt Lord Raglan and his staff) the Light Brigade, despite frightful losses, attacked the guns and fought gallantly against terrible odds before retreating to safety. Had they attacked the wrong guns?

CLEARING CARDIGAN: (Volumes III & IV) (Air Crash Report Series)

History

Europe

Independently published

Ripples On The Water is a collection of works by Maine writers. The anthology includes short stories, excerpts from novels in progress, poetry, non-fiction, and a one-act play.

Ripples On The Water: An Anhology Of Maine Authors

Stone, Nick

Clough, David

Leggett, John

Cole, Regina

Perry, Joan

Library, Falmouth

Crosby, Judy

Matalonis, Bob

Sayre, Marcia

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

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