From Rubble To Champagne

Author : Vivianne Knebel
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-24
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781647017033

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From Rubble To Champagne by Vivianne Knebel Pdf

Vivianne Knebel was born illegitimate in 1943 in the epicenter of Nazi power, Berlin, Germany. Her free-spirited and strong-willed mother, Marija, fought to keep her alive among falling bombs and Soviet attacks. After the end of World War II, with much of Berlin razed to the ground, Vivianne came to know poverty and constant hunger. As a teenager, she immigrated to Canada, but in her new homeland, times became so desperate that she had to beg for money to eat. After dropping out of school to find work, Vivianne became the victim of sexual harassment. Spiraling into depression, she attempted to take her life, but was miraculously saved by a six-year-old child. Falling in love with a fellow German immigrant, Wiland, proved a pivotal turning point for Vivianne. He saw a wellspring of potential in her and believed that she could become more than she had ever imagined. They married and moved to the United States. In the land where so many immigrant dreams are built, Wiland encouraged Vivianne to pursue endeavors that would test her mettle, including piloting a plane, running a marathon, and taking on a key role in supporting his business enterprise. Vivianne's journey of personal growth later gave her the courage to battle cancer and embrace a spiritual life.

Author : Renee Ryan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1867256878

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The Widows of Champagne by Renee Ryan Pdf

In this captivating story of resilience, three generations of women battle to save their family's vineyard from the ravages of WWII. Champagne, 1939 Gabrielle Leblanc Dupree is taking her family's future into her hands. While she should be preparing for a lavish party to celebrate two centuries of champagne making, she secretly hides Chateau Fouché-Leblanc's most precious vintages behind a fake wall in the cellar in preparation for the looming war. But when she joins the resistance, the coveted champagne isn't the most dangerous secret her cellar must conceal... A former Parisian socialite, Gabrielle's mother, Hélène, lost her husband to another war. Now her home has been requisitioned by the Germans, who pillage vineyards to satisfy the Third Reich's thirst for the finest champagne. There's even more at stake than Hélène dares admit. She has kept her heritage a secret...and no one is safe in Nazi-occupied France. Josephine, the family matriarch, watches as her beloved vineyard faces its most difficult harvest yet. As her daughter-in-law and granddaughters contend with the enemies and unexpected allies in their midst, Josephine's deep faith leads to her own path of resistance. Across years and continents, the Leblanc women will draw on their courage and wits, determined against all odds to preserve their lives, their freedom and their legacy...

Author : Katherine Cole
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-09
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781647001780

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Sparkling Wine Anytime by Katherine Cole Pdf

A vibrantly illustrated, authoritative guide to sparkling wine from James Beard Award winner Katherine Cole in the follow-up to her popular Rosé All Day Sparkling Wine Anytime introduces readers to every style of sparkling wine, from Champagne and Prosecco to Cava, Lambrusco, Pét-Nat, and more. Wine expert Katherine Cole digs deep into sparkling wine’s compelling history, role in culture today, and the unique process by which it is made, explicating the most complicated concepts with light, bubbly prose. Organized by region, this comprehensive guide includes producer profiles, tasting notes, cocktail recipes, food pairings, and bottle recommendations for any budget. Filled with playful illustrations and infographics, Sparkling Wine Anytime is an effervescent exploration of all things sparkling.

Author : Jeff Byles
Publisher : Crown
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780307421548

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Rubble by Jeff Byles Pdf

From the straight boulevards that smashed their way through rambling old Paris to create the city we know today to the televised implosion of Las Vegas casinos to make room for America’s ever grander desert of dreams, demolition has long played an ambiguous role in our lives. In lively, colorful prose, Rubble rides the wrecking ball through key episodes in the world of demolition. Stretching over more than five hundred years of razing and toppling, this story looks back to London’s Great Fire of 1666, where self-deputized wreckers artfully blew houses apart with barrels of gunpowder to halt the furious blaze, and spotlights the advent of dynamite—courtesy of demolition’s patron saint, Alfred Nobel—that would later fuel epochal feats of unbuilding such as the implosion of the infamous Pruitt-Igoe housing complex in St. Louis. Rubble also delves beyond these bravura blasts to survey the world-jarring invention of the wrecking ball; the oddly stirring ruin of New York’s old Pennsylvania Station, that potent symbol of the wrecker run amok; and the ever busy bulldozers in places as diverse as Detroit, Berlin, and the British countryside. Rich with stories of demolition’s quirky impresarios—including Mark Loizeaux, the world-famous engineer of destruction who brought Seattle’s Kingdome to the ground in mere seconds—this account makes first-hand forays to implosion sites and digs extensively into wrecking’s little-known historical record. Rubble is also an exploration of what happens when buildings fall, when monuments topple into memory, and when “destructive creativity” tears down to build again. It unearths the world of demolition for the first time and, along the way, throws a penetrating light on the role that destruction must play in our lives as a necessary prelude to renewal. Told with arresting detail and energy, this tale goes to the heart of the scientific, social, economic, and personal meaning of how we unbuild our world. Rubble is the first-ever biography of the wrecking trade, a riveting, character-filled narrative of how the black art of demolition grew to become a multibillion-dollar business, an extreme spectator sport, and a touchstone for what we value, what we disdain, who we were, and what we wish to become.

Author : Judith Stacy
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781459231733

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The Hired Husband by Judith Stacy Pdf

HIRED HELP? With her father's business empire crumbling around her, Miss Rachel Branford will try anything to save her family's name. Even if it means offering handsome financial consultant Mitch Kincade a room in her house—and four times his usual fee! OR HIRED HUSBAND? Abandoned at an orphanage, Mitch has struggled to gain wealth and power. But all that changes when he finds himself tempted by Rachel's money…then Rachel herself. Especially when drawn into a contract of marriage…

Author : Fiona McIntosh
Publisher : Random House Australia
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780143795469

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Champagne War, The by Fiona McIntosh Pdf

Author : Adam Falkner
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781943735761

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The Willies by Adam Falkner Pdf

2021 Midwest Book Awards - Poetry Debut Gold Medal Winner 2020 Forewords Reviews INDIES Awards - Poetry Gold Medal Winner “Prophetic in bleak times” —DR. CORNEL WEST The Willies, Adam Falkner's first full-length poetry collection, offers a sharp and vulnerable portrait of the journey into queerhood in America. In a voice that Dr. Cornel West heralds as “prophetic in bleak times,” Falkner departs from a more familiar coming out narrative to center the stories of dueling selves. Masquerading white boy. Child of an addict. Closeted varsity athlete. Drifting seamlessly between the scholarly and conversational, Falkner's poems showcase a versatility of language and a courageous hunger, unafraid of depicting the costumes we use to hide legacies of toxic masculinity. Through snapshots both tragic and humorous, merciless and humane, Falkner offers powerful new ways of understanding the intersectional linkage that binds queer shame to cultural appropriation. At its core, The Willies asks us to consider who we will become if we do not grapple with what scares us most. Advance praise for The Willies Adam Falkner has heard what hums at the marrow of men who deceive themselves in order to survive America. — SAEED JONES This is truth that changes the air it reaches. This is poetry that, damn it, you can't shake. — PATRICIA SMITH In these urgent and sometimes mysterious poems, Falkner traces questions of identity, family, love and the self. His language is angular and surprising, his content intimate and profound. — ANDREW SOLOMON Adam Falkner is a poet with a heart of gold and a spine of steel. We need his prophetic voice in these bleak times. —DR. CORNEL WEST I am thankful for the incisive mind and eye of Adam Falkner. In the poems, the work of balancing several selves at once is done gently, deftly, and with the brilliance of someone curious about how limitless they can become. ― HANIF ABDURRAQIB

Author : Canada. Parliament
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1824 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Canada
ISBN : UCAL:B2888423

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Sessional Papers of the Dominion of Canada by Canada. Parliament Pdf

"Report of the Dominion fishery commission on the fisheries of the province of Ontario, 1893", issued as vol. 26, no. 7, supplement.

Author : Markus Zusak
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780307433848

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The Book Thief by Markus Zusak Pdf

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE’S 100 BEST YA BOOKS OF ALL TIME The extraordinary, beloved novel about the ability of books to feed the soul even in the darkest of times. When Death has a story to tell, you listen. It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still. Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside of Munich, who scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can’t resist–books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement. In superbly crafted writing that burns with intensity, award-winning author Markus Zusak, author of I Am the Messenger, has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time. “The kind of book that can be life-changing.” —The New York Times “Deserves a place on the same shelf with The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank.” —USA Today DON’T MISS BRIDGE OF CLAY, MARKUS ZUSAK’S FIRST NOVEL SINCE THE BOOK THIEF.

Author : Richard W. Cutler
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781612342894

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Counterspy by Richard W. Cutler Pdf

During World War II and the beginning of the Cold War, Richard W. Cutler was an officer with the elite X-2 counterintelligence branch of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and with its successor, the Strategic Services Unit (SSU). Counterspy offers a rare firsthand account of the secret war against Hitler and the postwar competition with the Soviets for German intelligence assets.While with X-2, Cutler analyzed the super-secret Ultra intercepts and vetted agents about to be sent into Nazi Germany. Cutler provides an insightful overview of OSS operations during the war and their contribution to the Alliesa victory. This is also one of the few books to describe the role of the OSS and the SSU in the postwar occupation of Germany. Cutleras first job after the German surrender was to vet all of Allen Dullesas wartime sources inside Germany, who were aptly nicknamed the Crown Jewels. Just as the OSS was reorganized into the SSU, Cutler moved to Berlin, where his first task was to collect intelligence from former Nazis. Soon he became chief of counterespionage in Berlin. Soviet intelligence had already begun recruiting former German intelligence officers to spy on Americans, so Cutleras top priority was to uncover Soviet objectives and either neutralize or double their agents. Cutler reveals previously unpublished case histories of double agents against Soviet intelligence and details agentsa recruitment, missions, methods of operation, successes and failures, and fates. All of these events are recounted against the fascinating background of postwar Germany. He provides a vivid picture of the mood of the German people, how they rationalized war guilt, and how they coped with the devastation throughout the country. With photographs and a foreword by bestselling author Joseph E. Persico (Rooseveltas Secret War: FDR and World War II Espionage), Counterspy is a unique account of espionage during the momentous years of World War II and the beginning of the Cold War."

Author : Lorna Arnold
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780983702900

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My Short Century by Lorna Arnold Pdf

Lorna Arnold, OBE, is a noted British nuclear historian who worked for the UK Atomic Energy Authority for nearly 40 years. She has written seminal books on the Windscale accident, nuclear weapons tests in Australia, and Britain's H-Bomb programme. After a childhood of rural poverty in the south of England, she studied at the University of London and at Cambridge. Her work at the War Office and the Foreign Office during World War II led to postings to Berlin and Washington. A decade later, a chance encounter resulted in her joining the UKAEA, where she worked with many of the scientists and leaders who established Britain's nuclear agenda.

Author : Robert Joseph
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005-12-19
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780756672966

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French Wine by Robert Joseph Pdf

An essential guide to the key wine and wine-producing regions of France, this unpretentious and informative reference brings each wine and region to life with detailed maps and photographs to help you discover the best wines and where they are produced. Includes more than 200 major appellations and best vintages Regional resources show where to eat, stay, drink and buy wine Appeals to both the novice and the connoisseur

Author : Leo Cookman
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781789043402

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Time's Lie by Leo Cookman Pdf

Why are facts and statistics disparaged and dismissed, now more than ever? Why do people trust fake news? If we have 'had enough of experts' who should we listen to? Rather than the possible collapse of modern society, could this be an opportunity to look at not just society but our own lives in a different way? Whoever controls the narrative is the one who is in control. Time’s Lie analyses the history, the science and the philosophy behind the creation of linear stories, or ‘Narrativisation’ as this book dubs it.

Author : Elizabeth Adler
Publisher : Dell
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307574992

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Peach by Elizabeth Adler Pdf

Beautiful, brilliant, independent, she had it all—until she met the one man who couldn’t play by her rules Peach de Courmont—Wild child, teenage temptress, exquisite woman. The adored granddaughter of Leonie and heiress to the de Courmont dynasty, she grew up in luxury, used to having life—and love—on her own terms. Noel Maddox—Raised in an Iowa orphanage, used to the mean streets of Detroit, he fought his way from the assembly line the pinnacle of power. Peach —and the automobile empire she commanded—were part of the dream he meant to have . . . at any price. From wartime Paris to the dazzling Cote d’Azue . . . from the frenetic boardrooms of Detroit and the palatial homes of Grosse Pointe to the stately English countryside, their indomitable wills collide in a saga of consuming passion and raw power played out against the backdrop of a rich and reckless world.

Author : Craig Downey
Publisher : Booktango
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781468914719

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The Blue Bird Flower by Craig Downey Pdf

This book is a collection of interesting characters that inhabit letters written to Mrs. Ainsworth by an unidentified character named Chuck. Chuck uses a clever trick by pawning his stories off on letters to Mrs. Ainsworth. Come and read about the boy who found infinity, invented 3D paint and a perpetual motion machine! Meet Drummond the Runt dog and see what the Brass Rat is all about and what about Light'nin' an Ringtail, odd names for dogs. What in the world is a Reciprocity Machine and how does it work? The Shrouded Monk so mysterious, and what was it about him that gave him an age of over 200 years? Why was there one squirrel too many, and did a wound to Jessie's throat really end the Civil War?