The Blue Stone

The Blue Stone
Author: Jimmy Liao
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2008-04-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0316032034

From internationally renowned author and illustrator Jimmy Liao comes a new enchanting and evocative journey. Breathtaking illustrations and a haunting story take readers on a wondrous voyage around the world. A large, beautiful blue stone is discovered in a forest. It is cut in half, and one half stays in the forest while the other starts on a long and mystical journey through many places, many owners, and many transformations. It begins as a statue of an elephant, admired by museum goers, and then becomes a carved bird residing in an elderly woman's garden. It becomes a moon, a cat, a necklace, and more, until it finally returns to the forest. The Blue Stone is a powerful tale of different life paths and possibilities, a longing for home, and love.

Sky Blue Stone

Sky Blue Stone
Author: Arash Khazeni
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2014-05-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520279077

This book traces the journeys of a stone across the world. From its remote point of origin in the city of Nishapur in eastern Iran, turquoise was traded through India, Central Asia, and the Near East, becoming an object of imperial exchange between the Safavid, Mughal, and Ottoman empires. Along this trail unfolds the story of turquoise--a phosphate of aluminum and copper formed in rocks below the surface of the earth--and its discovery and export as a global commodity. In the material culture and imperial regalia of early modern Islamic tributary empires moving from the steppe to the sown, turquoise was a sacred stone and a potent symbol of power projected in vivid color displays. From the empires of Islamic Eurasia, the turquoise trade reached Europe, where the stone was collected as an exotic object from the East. The Eurasian trade lasted into the nineteenth century, when the oldest mines in Iran collapsed and lost Aztec mines in the Americas reopened, unearthing more accessible sources of the stone to rival the Persian blue. Sky Blue Stone recounts the origins, trade, and circulation of a natural object in the context of the history of Islamic Eurasia and global encounters between empire and nature.

The Blue Ghost

The Blue Ghost
Author: Marion Dane Bauer
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 98
Release: 2006-08-08
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0375833390

Liz is staying with her grandmother in her old house in the woods of northern Minnesota when one night a noise awakens her. It is someone calling her name, calling for Elizabeth. Liz opens her eyes. There is a blue ghost in her room! What does the ghost want from her? This exciting mystery by Newbery Honor writer Marion Dane Bauer is perfect for first chapter-book readers.

Rooted on Blue Stone Hill

Rooted on Blue Stone Hill
Author: Nancy Bondurant Jones
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2004
Genre: Education
ISBN:

"In association with the Community Foundation of Harrisonburg and Rockingham County."

Hype

Hype
Author: Gabrielle Bluestone
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2021-04-06
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1488059128

"Hype is the best kind of nonfiction: juicy, sharp, savage and wildly entertaining, with a celebrity behaving badly on every page. What more could you want?” -Cat Marnell, New York Times-bestselling author of How to Murder Your Life From former Vice journalist and executive producer of hit Netflix documentary Fyre comes an eye-opening look at the con artists, grifters and snake oil salesmen of the digital age—and why we can’t stop falling for them. We live in an age where scams are the new normal. A charismatic entrepreneur sells thousands of tickets to a festival that never happened. Respected investors pour millions into a start-up centered around fake blood tests. Reviewers and celebrities flock to London’s top-rated restaurant that’s little more than a backyard shed. These unsettling stories of today’s viral grifters have risen to fame and hit the front-page headlines, yet the curious conundrum remains: Why do these scams happen? Drawing from scientific research, marketing campaigns, and exclusive documents and interviews, former Vice reporter Gabrielle Bluestone delves into the irresistible hype that fuels our social media ecosystem, whether it’s from the trusted influencers that peddled Fyre or the consumer reviews that sold Juicero. A cultural examination that is as revelatory as it is relevant, Hype pulls back the curtain on the manipulation game behind the never-ending scam season—and how we as consumers can stop getting played.

Romeo Blue

Romeo Blue
Author: Phoebe Stone
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2013-05-28
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0545520703

The eagerly anticipated follow-up to Phoebe Stone's instant classic, The Romeo and Juliet Code. When Flissy Bathburn's parents first dropped her off in Bottlebay, Maine, she hated everything about it. She hated the big gloomy house she was to live in. She hated meeting her long-lost and highly eccentric relatives. And most of all, she hated knowing that she was safe in America while her parents faced the guns of WWII in Europe.But a year has passed now, and Flissy has grown to love her life in Bottlebay -- and especially Derek, the boy the Bathburns have adopted. Then a man claiming to be Derek's true father arrives, and soon he's asking all sorts of strange questions. Flissy has a nose for trouble. Has Derek's new father come to take him away . . . or is there something even more sinister happening in Bottlebay, Maine?

Bluestone

Bluestone
Author: James Lasdun
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2015-05-05
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0374220557

"A selection of poems spanning the career of noted British poet James Lasdun"--

The Modern Antiquarian

The Modern Antiquarian
Author: Julian Cope
Publisher: HarperThorsons
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1998
Genre: Antiquities, Prehistoric
ISBN: 9780722535998

In this unique guide to Britain's megalithic culture, rock n' roller Julian Cope provides an inspired fusion of travel, history, poetry, maps, field notes, and pure passion.

The Bluestone Enigma

The Bluestone Enigma
Author: Brian John
Publisher:
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN:

A book focusing on the mysterious bluestones of Stonehenge, which originated in Wales and which have been the cause of much debate. Where did they come from, and how did they get there? The author argues that many fondly-held beliefs are sentimental, unscientific and unnecessary, and he supports his case with spectacular and previously unpublished research discoveries.