The Face Pressed Against A Window

Author : Tim Waterstone
Publisher : Atlantic Books
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781786496317

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The Face Pressed Against a Window by Tim Waterstone Pdf

Chosen as one of the Daily Mail's Memoirs of the Year Tim Waterstone is one of Britain's most successful businessmen, having built the Waterstone's empire that started with one small bookshop in 1982. In this charming and evocative memoir, he recalls the childhood experiences that led him to become an entrepreneur and outlines the business philosophy that allowed Waterstone's to dominate the bookselling business throughout the country. Tim explores his formative years in a small town in rural England at the end of the Second World War, and the troubled relationship he had with his father, before moving on to the epiphany he had while studying at Cambridge, which set him on the road to Waterstone's and gave birth to the creative strategy that made him a high street name. Candid and moving, The Face Pressed Against a Window charts the life of one of our most celebrated business leaders.

Author : United States. Patent Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1160 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:C2539697

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Specifications and Drawings of Patents Issued from the U.S. Patent Office by United States. Patent Office Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 868 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CORNELL:31924057452892

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The Leisure Hour Monthly Library by Anonim Pdf

Author : Great Britain. Patent Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 882 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:C2540867

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Patents for Inventions. Abridgments of Specifications by Great Britain. Patent Office Pdf

Author : Robert William Jameson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600052761

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The Curse of Gold by Robert William Jameson Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 926 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Electronic
ISBN : DMM:057003588897

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Specifications and Drawings of Patents Issued from the United States Patent Office for ... by Anonim Pdf

Author : Susan Warner
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781513277257

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The Wide, Wide World by Susan Warner Pdf

When her father leaves and mother becomes ill, a girl is sent to live with a distant relative where she learns some hard life lessons. The girl encounters both good and bad people, but maintains her Christian values. Ellen Montgomery’s life drastically changes when she’s forced to move in with her estranged Aunt Fortune. The environment is cold and oppressive, a stark comparison to her mother’s comforting home. Despite the changes, Ellen explores her new community making several friends along the way. As the years pass, she experiences sickness, death and eventually love. She uses her faith to guide her through many unexpected trials and tribulations. Ellen’s story is a testament to a person’s ability to stay kind and optimistic no matter the circumstance. The Wide, Wide World was Susan Warner’s first and biggest commercial success. It is considered a fixture in the domestic genre showcasing the growing pains of womanhood. Aside from Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Warner’s was one of the most circulated novels of its time. With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of The Wide, Wide World is both modern and readable.

Author : Pamela Binnings Ewen
Publisher : Blackstone Publishing
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781982546946

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The Queen of Paris by Pamela Binnings Ewen Pdf

Legendary fashion designer Coco Chanel is revered for her sophisticated style—the iconic little black dress—and famed for her intoxicating perfume Chanel No. 5. Yet behind the public persona is a complicated woman of intrigue, shadowed by mysterious rumors. The Queen of Paris, the new novel from award-winning author Pamela Binnings Ewen, is fiction based on facts, some uncovered only within the past few years, and vividly imagines the hidden life of Chanel during the four years of Nazi occupation in Paris in the midst of WWII. Coco Chanel could be cheerful, lighthearted, and generous; she also could be ruthless, manipulative, even cruel. Against the winds of war, with the Wehrmacht marching down the Champs-Élysées, Chanel finds herself residing alongside the Reich’s High Command in the Hotel Ritz. Surrounded by the enemy, Chanel wages a private war of her own to wrestle full control of her perfume company from the hands of her Jewish business partner, Pierre Wertheimer. With anti-Semitism on the rise, he has escaped to the United States with the confidential formula for Chanel No. 5. Distrustful of his intentions to set up production on the outskirts of New York City, Chanel fights to seize ownership. The House of Chanel shall not fall. While Chanel struggles to keep her livelihood intact, Paris sinks under the iron fist of German rule. Chanel—a woman made of sparkling granite—will do anything to survive. She will even agree to collaborate with the Nazis in order to protect her darkest secrets. When she is covertly recruited by Germany to spy for the Reich, she becomes Agent F-7124, code name: Westminster. But why? And to what lengths will she go to keep her stormy past from haunting her future?

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Civil engineering
ISBN : UCSD:31822020630554

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Technical Report by Anonim Pdf

Author : Chen Huiqin
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295806020

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Daughter of Good Fortune by Chen Huiqin Pdf

Daughter of Good Fortune tells the story of Chen Huiqin and her family through the tumultuous 20th century in China. She witnessed the Japanese occupation during World War II, the Communist Revolution in 1949 and its ensuing Land Reform, the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, and the Reform Era. Chen was born into a subsistence farming family, became a factory worker, and lived through her village’s relocation to make way for economic development. Her family’s story of urbanization is representative of hundreds of millions of rural Chinese.

Author : Dallas Lore Sharp
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:4057664577764

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A Watcher in The Woods by Dallas Lore Sharp Pdf

The storm grew fiercer; the wind roared through the big pines by the side of the house and swept hoarsely on across the fields; the pines shivered and groaned, and their long limbs scraped over the shingles above me as if feeling with frozen fingers for a way in; the windows rattled, the cracks and corners of the old farm-house shrieked, and a long, thin line of snow sifted in from beneath the window across the garret floor.

Author : Alexandre Dumas
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-19
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780241397398

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The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas Pdf

One of the best-loved adventures of all time. When young D'Artagnan comes to Paris to seek his fortune, he is challenged to a duel with not one, but three of the king's Musketeers. But Athos, Porthos and Aramis become his trusted friends as he tries to prove himself worthy of becoming a fourth Musketeer.

Author : Marina Adair
Publisher : Entangled: Amara
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781649374851

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You've Got Male by Marina Adair Pdf

She has zero time for a relationship. A fake one will have to do—in New York Times bestselling author Marina Adair’s new romance that brings the humor and the heart... Evie Granger’s life is one crisis away from a complete meltdown. Between single-parenting a sixteen-going-on-forty daughter, managing a mom living her best life way out loud, caring for an ailing father, and keeping the family’s struggling coffee shop afloat, Evie hasn’t looked after herself in far too long. So naturally her best friend chooses this moment to post a video of Evie describing the ideal man...and sends it stratospherically viral. Now Evie’s an overnight social media sensation and every eligible (and otherwise) guy in a five-state radius is turning up with his “I’m the one” credentials. But Evie can’t bring herself to let any Prince Charming into a life that’s barely holding together. A life she doesn’t even recognize as hers. So she strikes a bargain with her sexy—if equally overwhelmed—neighbor to convince America she’s taken. But can a faux fairytale start to feel real...or is it just as doomed from the start? Marina Adair’s clever, uproarious story captures the utter chaos and irrepressible joy of balancing kids, parents, love, and finding a spare minute for yourself—while the whole world watches every disastrous minute.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433081756177

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Ballou's Monthly Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Victor Hugo
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781513210742

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The History of a Crime by Victor Hugo Pdf

The History of a Crime (1877) is a book-length essay by Victor Hugo. While Hugo is famous today for his status as a leading French poet and novelist of the nineteenth century, he was also a gifted historian and memoirist who served on the National Assembly of the Second Republic. Following the coup d’état of Napoleon III in 1851, Hugo was among the insurrectionists who revolted against military forces on the streets of Paris. Despite their efforts, the coup was successful, leading to Hugo’s exile until 1870. “To outrage Right, to suppress the Assembly, to abolish the Constitution, to strangle the Republic, to overthrow the Nation, to sully the Flag, to dishonor the Army, to suborn the Clergy and the Magistracy, to succeed, to triumph, to govern, to administer, to exile, to banish, to transport, to ruin, to assassinate, to reign, with such complicities that the law at last resembles a foul bed of corruption. What! All these enormities were to be committed! And by whom?” The French Second Republic was already in danger when Napoleon III was elected President of France in 1848. A populist, he was in constant conflict with the National Assembly and, nearing the end of his term, sought to seek reelection through constitutional change. When this avenue was denied, he began preparations for Operation Rubicon, a secret plan to conduct a coup d’état with the help of the Army and other high-ranking officials. On December 2nd, 1851, the anniversary of his uncle Napoleon Bonaparte’s coronation and victory at Austerlitz, the coup took place. Hugo, a National Assembly member, took to the streets of Paris with thousands of his fellow insurrectionaries, many of whom were beaten, arrested, and murdered for their actions. Despite their efforts, the coup was successful, leading to the reestablishment of the French Empire in 1852. Hugo’s essay—part history, part memoir—is a brilliant retelling of one of democracy’s darkest moments. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Victor Hugo’s The History of a Crime is a classic work of French literature reimagined for modern readers.