Belle

Author : Lesley Pearse
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141964072

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Belle by Lesley Pearse Pdf

Be transported from London to New Orleans and beyond in this powerful, moving historical novel from the international bestseller Lesley Pearse She witnessed a murder - and now her life is in danger . . . Fifteen year-old Belle, though raised in a London brothel, is an innocent young girl. But when she witnesses one of the girls brutally strangled by a client, she is cast into a cruel, heartless world. Snatched from the streets and sold into prostitution, she is made a courtesan in New Orleans. At the mercy of desperate men who crave her beauty and will do anything to keep her, Belle's dreams of home, family and freedom appear futile. Are Belle's courage and spirit strong enough to help her escape? And what will await her at the end of the long, dangerous journey home? Praise for Lesley Pearse 'With characters it is impossible not to care about . . . this is storytelling at its very best' Daily Mail 'Lose yourself in this epic saga' Bella 'Glorious, heartwarming' Woman & Home 'An emotional and moving epic you won't forget in a hurry' Woman's Weekly

Author : Paula Byrne
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780062310781

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Belle by Paula Byrne Pdf

The sensational true tale that inspired the major motion picture Belle starring Tom Wilkinson, Miranda Richardson, Emily Watson, Penelope Wilton, and Matthew Goode—a stunning story of the first mixed-race girl introduced to high society England and raised as a lady. The illegitimate daughter of a captain in the Royal Navy and an enslaved African woman, Dido Belle was sent to live with her great-uncle, the Earl of Mansfield, one of the most powerful men of the time and a leading opponent of slavery. Growing up in his lavish estate, Dido was raised as a sister and companion to her white cousin, Elizabeth. When a joint portrait of the girls, commissioned by Mansfield, was unveiled, eighteenth-century England was shocked to see a black woman and white woman depicted as equals. Inspired by the painting, Belle vividly brings to life this extraordinary woman caught between two worlds, and illuminates the great civil rights question of her age: the fight to end slavery. Belle includes 20 pages of black-and-white photos.

Author : Rachel Hawkins
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781101603338

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Rebel Belle by Rachel Hawkins Pdf

Harper Price, peerless Southern belle, was born ready for a Homecoming tiara. But after a strange run-in at the dance imbues her with incredible abilities, Harper's destiny takes a turn for the seriously weird. She becomes a Paladin, one of an ancient line of guardians with agility, super strength and lethal fighting instincts. Just when life can't get any more disastrously crazy, Harper finds out who she's charged to protect: David Stark, school reporter, subject of a mysterious prophecy and possibly Harper's least favorite person. But things get complicated when Harper starts falling for him--and discovers that David's own fate could very well be to destroy Earth. With snappy banter, cotillion dresses, non-stop action and a touch of magic, this new young adult series from bestseller Rachel Hawkins is going to make y'all beg for more. “As surprising as it is delicious.”—BCCB, starred review “Fun with a twist of supernatural and Southern charm.” —VOYA “The romance, coming-of-age aspects, and a well-drawn heroine with a crackling wit will lure in readers.” —Booklist

Author : Robin McKinley
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-18
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781497673700

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Beauty by Robin McKinley Pdf

The New York Times–bestselling author of Rose Daughter reimagines the classic French fairy tale of Beauty and the Beast. I was the youngest of three daughters. Our literal-minded mother named us Grace, Hope, and Honour. . . . My father still likes to tell the story of how I acquired my odd nickname: I had come to him for further information when I first discovered that our names meant something besides you-come-here. He succeeded in explaining grace and hope, but he had some difficulty trying to make the concept of honour understandable to a five-year-old. . . . I said: ‘Huh! I’d rather be Beauty.’ . . . By the time it was evident that I was going to let the family down by being plain, I’d been called Beauty for over six years. . . . I wasn’t really very fond of my given name, Honour, either . . . as if ‘honourable’ were the best that could be said of me. The sisters’ wealthy father loses all his money when his merchant fleet is drowned in a storm, and the family moves to a village far away. Then the old merchant hears what proves to be a false report that one of his ships had made it safe to harbor at last, and on his sad, disappointed way home again he becomes lost deep in the forest and has a terrifying encounter with a fierce Beast, who walks like a man and lives in a castle. The merchant’s life is forfeit, says the Beast, for trespass and the theft of a rose—but he will spare the old man’s life if he sends one of his daughters: “Your daughter would take no harm from me, nor from anything that lives in my lands.” When Beauty hears this story—for her father had picked the rose to bring to her—her sense of honor demands that she take up the Beast’s offer, for “cannot a Beast be tamed?” This “splendid story” by the Newbery Medal–winning author of The Hero and the Crown has been named an ALA Notable Book and a Phoenix Award Honor Book (Publishers Weekly).

Author : Elisabeth Israels Perry
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1555534244

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Belle Moskowitz by Elisabeth Israels Perry Pdf

Now available in a new edition, this well-crafted feminist biography restores to history the career of a pioneering activist who achieved unprecedented influence in American politics.

Author : Albert Belle
Publisher : ECW Press
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Baseball
ISBN : 9781550223491

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Don't Call Me Joey by Albert Belle Pdf

The comprehensive collection of the wit and wisdom of one of the great hitters in baseball today -- and its biggest jerk: former Cleveland Indian and current Chicago White Sox left fielder Albert (Don't Call Me Joey) Belle.

Author : MC Price
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781496932488

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Belle Brezing by MC Price Pdf

Somewhere between a paperboys first cup of chicory coffee and the memories of the Madam who inspired Belle Watling of Gone With the Wind fame, there lies a story of sex, secrets and spiritual redemption. Interweaving portals to the past with the magic of a Spirit Guide called back to his lovers deathbed, Belle Brezing is a haunting love story about a loyal paperboy on a high-stakes mission: To guide his former lover to remember the secret that forged her rise to fame but closed her heart to love. Belle Brezing, the novel, takes a look at the woman who died in virtual isolation in 1940, decades after her business was closed by the Army in 1917. Brezing was a nationally known southern Madam whose obituary appeared on the front of the NY Times as well as Time Magazine. (1863-1940) Belle Brezing was a charismatic woman who brought herself out of poverty and an emotionally and physically painful early childhood. Shedding light on the connections of a wounded past and a life lived in quiet desperation, the award-winning novel Belle Brezing exposes the scandals and secrets of this dynamic woman whose life parallels timely issues in the arena of prostitution and sex trafficking.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Coal leases
ISBN : HARVARD:32044031886740

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Proposed Plan of Mining and Reclamation, Belle Ayr South Mine, Amax Coal Company, Coal Lease W-0317682, Campbell County, Wyoming by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mary Craig Sinclair
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1578061520

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Southern Belle by Mary Craig Sinclair Pdf

This is a new edition of the autobiography of Mary Craig Kimbrough Sinclair (1883-1961). She started life innocently and happily on her father's Mississippi Delta plantation but went on to know deprivation and danger when she married Upton Sinclair, the crusading social activist. As she joined him in his struggles to rescue the disinherited of the earth, collaborating with him in writing a shelf of books, she gave up the moonlight and magnolias but not her grace. After her death, Sinclair recalled her as the loveliest woman I have ever known. She moved North with him and began an exhilarating new life. He was a Socialist and the celebrated muckraker whose novel The Jungle (1906) was an exposé of the meatpacking industry. Later, in 1943, he would win the Pulitzer Prize for his novel Dragon's Teeth. Through him she became involved in social causes and came to know many of America's intellectuals including such eminent figures in the literary and political worlds as Walter Lippman, Sinclair Lewis, Max Eastman, Floyd Dell, and Art Young. With her husband she traveled throughout the United States and Europe. Her story is filled with many great names--including Albert Einstein, Bertrand Russell, George Bernard Shaw, Theodore Dreiser, H. L. Mencken, Charlie Chaplin, and Douglas Fairbanks--whom she and Sinclair counted among their friends. As a child she once sat on Jefferson Davis's knee. In her girlhood she was instructed in the southern graces. Later she would be immersed in the world of demonstrations, distress, and political pamphleteering for the liberal causes she and her husband espoused. Their marriage of forty-eight years was extraordinary and happy. Sinclair recalled her as the helpmeet of a man who set out to help in the ending of poverty and war in the world. . . . It required many crusades in which he bankrupted himself and her as well. It required a year-long entanglement in a bitter political campaign [for the California governorship]. She helped him to write and publish three million books and pamphlets. Of her book he said, This is the story of a southern belle, told by a real one.

Author : Shirley Kennedy
Publisher : Lyrical Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781516104390

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Bay City Belle by Shirley Kennedy Pdf

Before the war, Belle Ainsworth led a life of pleasure and privilege in the deep South. Five years after losing her fiancé at the Battle of Gettysburg, she is still alone, with no prospects for marriage among the remaining men of her acquaintance. But out west, there are possibilities. And when Belle answers an ad for a mail-order bride and boards a train to San Francisco to meet wealthy restaurateur Robert Romano, it’s with the hope of at last making her dreams of family come true. When the train is robbed, Yancy McLeish, a disillusioned Union Army hero, rescues Belle from her attackers—and lays claim to her heart. But Belle has pledged her troth to Romano and intends to honor that commitment. It’s a decision she soon regrets, for her groom-to-be is nothing like his letters. As she plots a course to escape Romano, Belle prays that road can lead her back to the safety of Yancy’s arms, where she believes she was always destined to be... Praise for Shirley Kennedy and her novels “The historical details are vivid and realistic and should appeal to fans of the historical romance genre. The characters are interesting, the story is engaging, and the romance is slow-building and sweet. River Queen Rose is a great start in what looks to be a promising historical series by Kennedy.” —RT Book Reviews, 4 Stars “Shirley Kennedy spins a tale sure to pull at the heartstrings of her readers.” —RT Book Reviews on Three Wishes for Miss Winthrop, 4 stars

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Cedar Creek and Belle Grove National Historical Park (Va.)
ISBN : MINN:31951D02246321N

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Cedar Creek and Belle Grove National Historical Park Act by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources Pdf

Author : Mamoru Hosoda
Publisher : Yen Press LLC
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781975350963

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Studio Chizu's BELLE by Mamoru Hosoda Pdf

Suzu, a seventeen-year-old high school student living in rural Kochi Prefecture, has kept the world at arm’s length ever since her mother’s death years ago. But at a friend’s urging, she decides to dip her toes into another world: U, the largest online community in history. As her avatar, Belle, Suzu reveals her hidden singing talent and instantly becomes a global internet sensation, leading her to cross paths with a mysterious beast known as the Dragon. Who is this ferocious yet lonely stranger, and what will come of their fateful encounter...?

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1943
Category : Belle Fourche River
ISBN : LOC:00141330421

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Belle Fourche River Compact by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation Pdf

Author : Philippe Jullian
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Clothing and dress
ISBN : 9780870993299

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La Belle Epoque by Philippe Jullian Pdf

Author : Jacqueline Guest,June Lawrason
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2004-09
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781551434544

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Belle of Batoche by Jacqueline Guest,June Lawrason Pdf

Belle, an 11-year-old Metis girl, and Sarah both want the coveted job of church bell ringer. An embroidery contest is held to award the position, and Sarah cheats. Before Belle can expose her, the two are caught up in the advancing forces of General Middleton and his troops as they surround Batoche in the 1885 Riel Rebellion. The church bell disappeared that day and remains missing to this day.