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![]() sortTitle Many Lives and Secret Sorrows of Josephine B Josephine B Trilogy Book 01 crossRefId 20928 series Josephine B. Tags Add tags for 'The many lives & secret sorrows of Josephine B.'. It traces her adjustment to French high society, her love affairs in order to survive the revolution-her husband is guillotined-and her romance with Napoleon. It is Josephine's extraordinary charm, cunning, and will to survive that catapults her to the heart of society, where she meets Napoleon, whose destiny will prove to be irrevocably intertwined with hers. The diary of a Creole beauty from Martinique who became Napoleons wife. By way of fictionalized diary entries, we traverse her early years as she marries her one true love, bears his children, and is left betrayed, widowed, and penniless. The journey from the remote village of her birth to the height of European elegance is long, but Josephine's fortune proves to be true. Passion intertwines with fate in this riveting and historically rich novel about the journey of a woman from poverty to ultimate power in Revolution-era France. ![]() We meet Josephine in the exotic and lush Martinico, where an old island woman predicts that one day she will be queen. In this first of three books inspired by the life of Josephine Bonaparte, Sandra Gulland has created a novel of immense and magical proportions. It traces her adjustment to French high society, her love affairs in order. ![]() MediaType eBook shortDescription Passion intertwines with fate in this riveting and historically rich novel about the journey of a woman from poverty to ultimate power in Revolution-era France. The diary of a Creole beauty from Martinique who became Napoleons wife. IsPublicPerformanceAllowed False languages ![]() OverDrive Product Record readingOrder 1 images ![]() ![]() Just not in the same way that humans might. IT’S TRUE! We always have, ever since the DAWN OF DOG… all the way back to the time of the cavepeople and their saber-toothed terriers… In case you didn’t know, all canines keep diaries. That’s what princesses locked in towers, or grandmoos and grand-paws get up to, right? You may also be wondering why on earth I would be keeping a journal. You’re sitting there, wrinkling up your forehead as we speak, saying “A dog’s diary?” to yourself and picturing my furry little paws typing away at a computer or scribbling in a notebook. ![]() In this book, you’ll find the story of my life so far with my brand-new family, and it’s a HUMDINGER! Yep… shiny-nosed… licky-tongued… floppy- eared… bow-wow-woof-woof… and you’re holding my daily doggy diary in your five fingery digits.Ĭonsider yourself extremely lucky, my person-pal. ![]() If you hadn’t guessed already, I’m a dog. My name is Junior-hello! Or should I say, HERROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW? But for you, my non-furry reader, I’ll make an exception. We usually prefer to take a polite sniff of each other’s butts and-HEY PRESTO!-we’ve got all the information we need. ![]() Us pooches don’t normally bother with things like that. I should probably start this story the way you humans like to, with an introduction. That’s how it was when I met mine, and OH BOY do I have a great pet. The happiest moment of a mutt’s life, when you see your pet human for the first time, and you know instantly that you’re going to be BEST FRIENDS forever. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1951 Virginia became one of the first female officers at the CIA. civilians and the only woman to receive the prestigious honor for service during World War II.” “For her heroic actions in supporting the liberation of France, Virginia was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross. In 1944 she directed nearly 1500 resistance fighters in acts of sabotage. In August 1941 Virginia became the first female SOE agent sent into France. Virginia made her way to London and trained with the British Special Operations Executive (SOE), which was a secret agency coordinating sabotage, rescue, and spying missions in occupied Europe.Īs each episode in Virginia’s life is presented, along with horrific setbacks and obstacles, the author repeats the refrain, “Virginia was Virginia,” accentuating her persistence and valor. She accepted another clerkship in Italy where she was working when World War II started. ![]() Thereafter she wore a wooden prosthetic attached to her thigh. In the 1930s while working as an embassy clerk in Turkey, she lost her left leg below the knee after a hunting accident. In school she excelled in languages and hoped to become a government diplomat. Virginia Hall was born in 1906 on her family’s farm in Baltimore, Maryland. ![]() ![]() ![]() They are simple, two-dimensional folk art works. Winter’s illustrations are the delight of the book. For example, “She woke at dawn and saw them slowly rise from their nests, sit for a spell, then go off to find food.” The text reads more like folksy spoken American English than poetry. However the form does seem to give Winter the licence to begin sentences with conjunctions and end them with prepositions. While written mostly in poetic line form, the work is not particularly poetic. The picture book format and the Grade 3 reading level make this work appropriate for the lower elementary school target audience, children who are beginning to think about what they want to be when they grow up. She tells us in her author’s note at the end of this book that, as a child, she wished that she “could have read about someone like Jane Goodall – a brave woman who wasn’t afraid to do something that had never been done before”. Jeanette Winter is a prolific and award winning American children’s author and illustrator. The Watcher: Jane Goodall's Life with the Chimps. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Campaigns of Napoleon is a masterful analysis and insightful critique of Napoleon's art of war as he himself developed and perfected it in the major military campaigns of his career. Napoleonic war was nothing if not complex-an ever-shifting kaleidoscope of moves and intentions, which by themselves went a long way towards baffling and dazing his conventionally minded opponents into that state of disconcerting moral disequilibrium which so often resulted in their catastrophic defeat. In this "engrossing," ( The New Yorker) vivid, and intensively researched volume, esteemed Napoleon scholar David Chandler outlines the military strategy that led the famous French emperor to his greatest victories-and to his ultimate downfall. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I even switched my major to music education two years ago. I’ve played the piano for as long as I can remember, and although I’ve never shared it with anyone, I love writing music. Then again, music has always been a passion of mine, so maybe I’m just a little more infatuated with his sound than other people are. I don’t understand how someone could hear these songs and not crave them day after day. I’ve noticed a few other neighbors come out to their balconies when he’s playing, but no one is as loyal as I am. ![]() I tell Tori I come out here to get homework done, because I don’t want to admit that the guitar is the only reason I’m outside every night at eight, like clockwork.įor weeks now, the guy in the apartment across the courtyard has sat on his balcony and played for at least an hour. Almost on cue, the sound of his guitar floats across the courtyard as I take a seat and lean back into the patio lounger. I slide open my balcony door and step outside, thankful that the sun has already dipped behind the building next door, cooling the air to what could pass as a perfect fall temperature. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But although the handsome, guarded agent vows to protect her, someone will keep killing to ensure the truth never rises to the surface Cataloging source Midwest Goddard, Elizabeth Dewey number 813. She only escapes when exdetective Zachary Long, her brothers friendand Olivias first lovecomes to her rescue. Assigned to protect Sadie and connect three complicated cases, Gage risks his life time and again to make sure the woman he once loved survives. Arriving at her secluded cabin to find her brother missing, Olivia Kendricks follows his trail into the woodsuntil two shooters take aim at her. Abducted, drugged and left for dead on a sinking boat, she's barely rescued in time by Coast Guard Investigative Service special agent Gage Sessions, an old friend. Language eng Summary COAST GUARD PROTECTOR Marine biologist Sadie Strand is back in her coastal hometown to prove her best friend was murdered-but searching for evidence almost costs Sadie her life. COAST GUARD PROTECTOR Marine biologist Sadie Strand is back in her coastal hometown to prove her best friend was murderedbut searching for evidence almost costs Sadie her life. ![]() Read millions of eBooks and audiobooks on the web, iPad, iPhone and Android. Label Thread of revenge Title Thread of revenge Statement of responsibility Elizabeth Goddard Creator Thread of Revenge Elizabeth Goddard 4.15 143 ratings33 reviews COAST GUARD PROTECTOR Marine biologist Sadie Strand is back in her coastal hometown to prove her best friend was murderedbut searching for evidence almost costs Sadie her life. Read Thread Of Revenge by Elizabeth Goddard with a free trial. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her perfect husband wouldn't be so moody and ill-mannered, and while Phillip was certainly handsome, he was a large brute of a man, rough and rugged, and totally unlike the London gentlemen vying for her hand. and before she knew it, she was in a hired carriage in the middle of the night, on her way to meet the man she hoped might be her perfect match. and more.ĭid he think she was mad? Eloise Bridgerton couldn't marry a man she had never met! But then she started thinking. The beautiful woman on his doorstep was anything but quiet, and when she stopped talking long enough to close her mouth, all he wanted to do was kiss her. Sir Phillip knew that Eloise Bridgerton was a spinster, and so he'd proposed, figuring that she'd be homely and unassuming, and more than a little desperate for an offer of marriage. From #1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn comes the story of Eloise Bridgerton, in the fifth of her beloved Regency-set novels featuring the charming, powerful Bridgerton family, now a series created by Shondaland for Netflix. ![]() ![]() ![]() The novel opens with Tim Jameison, an ex-cop forced to resign because of an off-duty incident, hitchhiking his way up north to New York, impassively taking odd jobs along the way. It’s filled with traditional “King” tropes (small town, kids with psychic abilities, shady government), but it’s his brilliance as a story-teller that is most apparent. ![]() The Institute, his 61st and most recent novel, is further proof of this notion. He has created some of the most nefarious characters in literature, from the demonic clown of It to the psychotic nurse in Misery. He has been described by many as the “King of Horror”, but to his most loyal readers (his Constant Readers), that name is a gross misconception of King as a writer. ![]() In a career that spans over five decades, Stephen King has been terrifying his readers with his writing. The Institute – Photo taken by Eric Landro ![]() |