Download or read book The Confidant written by Helene Gremillon and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A gripping first novel" (Le Figaro Littéraire) and an award-winning international sensation as haunting and unforgettable as Suite Française Paris, 1975. Camille sifts through letters of condolence after her mother's death when a strange, handwritten missive stops her short. At first she believes she received it by mistake. But then, a new letter arrives each week from a mysterious stranger, Louis, who seems intent on recounting the story of his first love, Annie. They were separated in the years before World War II when Annie befriended a wealthy, barren couple and fell victim to a merciless plot just as German troops arrive in Paris. But also awaiting Camille's discovery is the other side of the story, which will call into question Annie's innocence and reveal the devastating consequences of jealousy and revenge. As Camille reads on, she begins to realize that her own life may be the next chapter in this tragic story.
Download or read book Confidant written by Constantine Sult and published by Brown Paper Publishing. This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Utilizing the framework of the thriller, Constantine Sult's second novel is the story of Timothy Spell, his fiancée Caina, neighbor Julien Servant and Servant's wife, Rachael: four individuals whose lives become immersed in an escalating series of deceptions, betrayals and murder. Distinct in the author's body of work for it's heavy usage of plot and it's investigation of distinct consequence, CONFIDANT, nonetheless, is marked by Sult's removed narrative attention to detail and use of structure as an expressive element of craft. Furthering his theme of the distance between personal identity and the connection to others -either as friend, lover, victimizer or redemptive presence- the novel is a claustrophobic mediation on trust and culpability.
Download or read book Lincoln s Confidant written by Wayne C. Temple and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2019-02-01 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the legendary Lincoln scholar Wayne C. Temple comes the long-awaited full-length biography of Noah Brooks, the influential Illinois journalist who championed Abraham Lincoln in Illinois state politics and became his almost daily companion at the White House. Best remembered as one of the president's few true intimates, Brooks was also a nationally recognized man of letters, who mingled with the likes of Mark Twain and Bret Harte. Temple draws on archives and papers long thought lost to re-create Brooks's colorful life and relationship with Lincoln. Brooks's closeness to the president made him privy to Lincoln's thoughts on everything from literature to spirituality. Their frank conversations contributed to the wealth of journalism and personal observations that would make Brooks's writings a much-quoted source for historians and biographers of Lincoln. A carefully researched and well-documented scholarly resource, Lincoln's Confidant is the story of an extraordinary friendship by one of the luminaries of Lincoln scholarship.
Download or read book Churchill s Confidant written by Richard Steyn and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brought together first as enemies in the Anglo-Boer War, and later as allies in the First World War, the remarkable, and often touching, friendship between Winston Churchill and Jan Smuts is a rich study in contrasts. In youth they occupied very different worlds: Churchill, the rambunctious and thrusting young aristocrat; Smuts, the aesthetic, philosophical Cape farm boy who would go on to Cambridge. Both were men of exceptional talents and achievements and, between them, the pair had to grapple with some of the twentieth century's most intractable issues, not least of which the task of restoring peace and prosperity to Europe after two of mankind's bloodiest wars. Drawing on a maze of archival and secondary sources including letters, telegrams and the voluminous books written about both men, Richard Steyn presents a fascinating account of two remarkable men in war and peace: one the leader of the Empire, the other the leader of a small fractious member of that Empire who nevertheless rose to global prominence.
Download or read book My Confidant written by V. Vaishnavi and published by Writers Corner Publication. This book was released on 2023-07-21 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book “MY CONFIDANT” is a compilation of write-ups from many fantastic co-authors based on the theme ‘Friendship’. Who doesn’t love a friend!? If we tell about our friendship to others even they will get jealous.My Confidant is based on the theme “That one friend you never wanna miss”.That one confidant who gives us confident to face the life and the bond we have with that affinity is really beyond infinity. Hope you’ll enjoy this book from Writers Corner Publication.
Download or read book The Kremlin s Confidant written by David S Tonge and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2024-07-30 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martin Packard is an extraordinary man who has led an extraordinary life. An idealist and a man of liberal instincts, his enthusiasms resulted in him having an inside track in several major events of recent decades, including the coup and bloody dictatorship in Greece and the unravelling of the Soviet Union. Easy going, warm and generous with his friendship, his life story is a ripping read. – Peter Murtagh, journalist and author of The Rape of Greece (Simon & Schuster, London, 1994) His story needed telling. – Peter Preston, editor of The Guardian 1975-1995 This gripping biography is a classic tale of fact being stranger than fiction. Martin Packard was an incurable romantic who thought he could do ethical business in the chaos of Gorbachev's perestroika Russia, but was constantly thwarted by more ruthless rivals or incompetent partners. He was a Don Quixote of the Cold War. His story is a fascinating, alternative and very personal view on the confrontations of his times, from the cynical US and UK policies towards Greece and Cyprus, to the chaotic collapse of the USSR. His tale suggests that cock-up, not conspiracy, is usually the most plausible explanation of history. - Quentin Peel, former Moscow Correspondent and Foreign Editor of the Financial Times. Wonderful. They don’t make men like that anymore. - Helena Smith, Correspondent of The Guardian for Greece and Cyprus. This biography describes how a British naval officer became a Kremlin favorite and CIA target as Gorbachev’s Kremlin decided to open the Soviet economy to the west. In 1985, Moscow reached out to Martin Packard, a retired British naval commander. He was promised unrivalled access to the hidden riches of the Soviet Empire with a cornucopia spread before him as he traveled this long closed land from the Baltic to the Bering Sea. A harbinger of the technology and foreign exchange needed to halt the Soviet decline, to some Russians he was the most important foreign businessman in the Soviet Union. But, as the Communist Party imploded, this previously-undescribed offer turned into a Faustian bargain, and his life became a captivating saga of rags-to-riches-to-rags. This book describes his rise, the details of his freelancing for Gorbachev – and his fall. A former intelligence analyst at the British Mediterranean command in Malta, Packard’s role as Scarlet Pimpernel of the Greek Colonels saw him forced out of the Royal Navy. He then became one of the largest jeans manufacturers in Europe. In this capacity, the insiders of Gorbachev’s perestroika identified him to help them lift the life of the Soviet peoples, an unlikely partnership of the Kremlin and a quintessential Briton, a scion of Empire, Church and Navy, but a non-conformist in every sense. It is a political tale, where Packard clashes with the British Foreign Office and the CIA in Cyprus and the Colonels’ Greece. Forced out of the Navy, he heads the English Cell of the Greek resistance, shipping printing presses, passports and petards across Europe to Athens. He then becomes an intimate of the wayward but brilliant Dom Mintoff and survives a mysterious poison attempt by ‘Erica’ at a Moscow airport. It is also a deeply human tale, of a charismatic figure who rose so high, mingled with the mighty of East and West, and then lost it all.
Download or read book The Ideal Confidant a Poem written by Anna Maria WINTER and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kissed by My Confidant written by Lion Joseph P. Griggs and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2015-05-08 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rosemary was my confidant, my teacher, my true love. I was her last student, her caretaker, her strength. This book was written to help me remember my past upon coming out of a coma four years ago and dealing with the debilitating West Nile virus I had contracted after Rosemary had gone. Once you finish reading about our journey through life and experiencing happiness as well as hardships, I hope that you value what I have come to understand. With the help of family and friends, you can overcome anything. Rosemary had dreams. Some of those beautiful dreams she strived to make a reality on her own. Her other dreams she enlisted the help of others to make come true. My friends in the Lions Club urged me to write a book about my life. At first I would record my thoughts, and my friend would try to put them to paper; however, my thoughts would wander and were often incoherent. Through sharing my experiences and looking over photo albums, my mind and memory returned, resulting in this book about my life, my Rosemary, my confidant that I now share with you.
Download or read book The Christ Confidant Mindset written by Anthony Benjamin Cosenza Ph.D. and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2022-08-18 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Cosenza’s sixth book, The Christ CONFIDANT MINDSET: Spiritual Consciousness of True Worship, True Word, True Worth, offers a unique pespective on how to be a loving and compassionate confidant with the spiritual mind of Christ. After years of working with individuals and families across spiritual beliefs, levels and religions, Dr. Cosenza has discovered the significance of “mindset” in upholding true and proven values and principles for success in work and love. By exploring three subsets of the Christ Coinfidant Mindset, Dr. Cosenza encourages and enlarges our awareness of what and how we worship in truth. The characteristics and role of the Christ Confidant are provided that inspire compassion and kindness toward others in need. He unfolds poignant principles from the Bible that highlight the importance of God’s Word in bringing the wisdom and consciousness of God’s presence into every situation of need. Spiritual realities concerning worth and value unfold confidence of thought and a precision of action in helping, counseling and loving oneself and others.
Download or read book Hitler s Japanese Confidant written by Carl Boyd and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1940, the US Army Signal Intelligence Service broke the Japanese diplomatic code. In 1975 Oshima Hiroshi, Japan's ambassador to Berlin during World War II, died, never knowing that the hundreds of messages he transmitted to Tokyo had been fully decoded by the Americans and whisked off to Washington, providing a major source of information for the Allies on Nazi activities.
Download or read book Confidant written by Renfu Xiao and published by via tolino media. This book was released on 2024-01-09 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ForQualification Yang tried very hard to accomplish his dream to become an official. He tried with every means available to him, through repeated setbacks, finally his dream came true, he became the chief of the Logistic Department from a driver and then a confidant of a director. When he was riding on the crest of his success, he went to prison for himself and the director for taking bribery. When he was released from prison, he found his wife had already slept with Director ForGood Dong, after thinking the whole thing over, he made up his mind to rip off the sanctimonious cover of ForGood Dong and expose his crime of taking bribery....
Download or read book Kitchen Confidant written by Chronicle Books and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The go-to adulting book for food and beverages—from pasta shapes, to beer styles, to basic knife techniques, and much, much more. This handy reference is the perfect partner for anyone who loves to bake, cook, or whip up a cocktail. Armed with the wealth of helpful reference material in this invaluable guide—including weight-to-volume conversions, the basics of stocking a baker’s tool kit, tips on where to store things in the fridge, and more—home cooks will learn to be more confident, competent, and efficient in the kitchen. Featuring separate sections for baking, drinking, and cooking, this is a must-have resource for both seasoned chefs and new cooks.
Download or read book Boundaries of Privacy written by Sandra Petronio and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2002-10-10 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores new ways to think about privacy and disclosure.
Download or read book The Captain s Confidant written by Ashtyn Newbold and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accidental letter, a long-lost love, and a slew of secrets. For as long as Bridget Northcott can remember, she has loved her brother's closest friend, Colin Foster. She loved him long before he grew up, became Captain Foster, and long before he left her behind for a life at sea. Although she knows her feelings will never be returned, Bridget cannot help but turn away every suitor in the hopes that one day Colin will come back to Larkhall and see her for what she has grown up to be-refined, elegant, and the precise opposite of the silly girl he once knew. When family circumstances bring Colin's unexpected return, he too has changed. Once carefree, he is now cold, hard, and distant. Determined to unravel the mysteries of Captain Foster, Bridget writes her thoughts in a note, one she never meant to send. As a hesitant friendship grows between them through their letters, Bridget determines to keep her heart uninvolved. But when her facade begins to break, she realizes the childhood silliness she abandoned might just be precisely what is needed to pull him back to shore. Faced with a choice between loyalty and selfishness, love and letting go, Bridget must find the strength to confide her own feelings in Captain Foster before the man she loved is lost forever. But there is only so much she can do when she discovers a match between them is what she has always feared-forbidden. The Captain's Confidant is a sweet and clean standalone regency romance novel, book two in the Larkhall Letters series. Other books in the Larkhall Letters series: Book 1: The Ace of Hearts Book 2: The Captain's Confidant Book 3: With Love, Louisa
Download or read book Victoria Abdul Movie Tie In written by Shrabani Basu and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2017-08-29 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soon to be a Major Motion Picture starring Dame Judi Dench from director Stephen Frears, releasing September 22, 2017. History’s most unlikely friendship—this is the astonishing story of Queen Victoria and her dearestcompanion, the young Indian Munshi Abdul Karim. In the twilight years of her reign, after the devastating deaths of hertwo great loves—Prince Albert and John Brown—Queen Victoria meets tall and handsome Abdul Karim, a humble servant from Agra waiting tables at her Golden Jubilee. The two form an unlikely bond and within a year Abdul becomes a powerful figure at court, the Queen’s teacher, her counsel on Urdu and Indian affairs, and a friend close to her heart. This marked the beginning of the most scandalous decade in Queen Victoria’s long reign. As the royal household roiled with resentment, Victoria and Abdul’s devotion grew in defiance. Drawn from secrets closely guarded for more than a century, Victoria & Abdul is an extraordinary and intimate history of the last years of the nineteenth-century English court and an unforgettable view onto the passions of an aging Queen.
Download or read book Organizational Behaviour A Modern Approach written by Kumar Arun & Meenakshi N. and published by Vikas Publishing House. This book was released on 2009-11-01 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organizational Behaviour As A Management Discipline Is A Fascinating Subject And Is Becoming Increasingly Important As People With Diverse Backgrounds And Cultural Values Have To Work Together Effectively And Efficiently. This Book Addresses All The Issues That Come In To Play In An Organization In Today S Global Economy. It Has A Novel Orientation And Its Primary Aim Is To Let Practitioners And Students Know The Latest And Best Trends In Organizational Behaviour. This Book Prescribes Methods To Manage Employees And Suggests That The Management Takes Responsibility For Everything That Might Adversely Affect An Employee S Capacity To Work Creatively And Intelligently, Irrespective Of The Place Inside The Organization Or Outside It. The Focus Of The Book Is On Holistic Development Of The Individual. Peeping Into The Human Mind, It Shows How Organizations Can Tap The Passions And Fears Of Their Employees To Make Them More Creative And Productive. The Book Prescribes A Democratic And Inclusive Management Stye. A Special Feature Of This Book Is That There Is An Innovative Integration Of Chapter Objectives And Summaries Leading To Analysis Through Caselets. Every Point In The Objectives Has Corresponding Text And Is Supplemented By A Case. Going Through This Book Will Be A Personally Fulfilling Experience And Maybe It Succeeds To Make The Readers Better Human Beings, Better Teachers, Better Friends And May Be Even Better Managers.
Download or read book The Tragic Heroines of Pierre Corneille written by Charles Carlton Ayer and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
