Download or read book Odette s Secrets written by Maryann Macdonald and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-02-26 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Jews in Nazi-occupied Paris, every day brings new dangers. So when Odette's father is thrown into a work camp and the Nazis suspect her mother of helping the Resistance, Odette is sent to the French countryside until it is safe to return. On the surface, Odette leads the life of a regular girl, going to school, doing chores, even attending Catholic masses with other children. But inside, she is burning with secrets for the life she left behind, and the identity she must hide at all costs. Yet when the war ends, the cost of keeping secrets takes an unexpected toll: can Odette return to Paris as a Jew, or has she changed too much? Inspired by the life of the real Odette Meyer, this moving free-verse novel is a story of triumph over adversity.
Download or read book Odette s Secrets written by Maryann Macdonald and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-02-26 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Odette's father becomes a Nazi prisoner-of-war and the Paris police begin arresting Jews, her mother sends Odette to hide in the Catholic French countryside where she must keep many secrets to survive.
Download or read book Odette written by Penny Starns and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2009-09-25 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Odette Brailly entered the nation's consciousness in the 1950s when her remarkable - and romantic - exploits as an SOE agent first came to light. She had been the first woman to be awarded the GC, as well as the Legion d'Honneur, and in 1950 the release of a film about her life made her the darling of the British popular press. But others openly questioned Odette's personal and professional integrity, even claiming that she had a clandestine affair with her supervisor Capt. Peter Churchill, with whom she had worked undercover in France. Soon she became as controversial as she was celebrated. In the first full biography of this incredible woman for nearly sixty years, historian Penny Starn delves into recently opened SOE personnel files to reveal the true story of this wartime heroine and the officer who posed as her husband. From her life as a French housewife living in Britain and her work undercover with the French Resistance, to her arrest, torture and unlikely survival in Ravensbruck concentration camp, Starns reveals for the first time the truth of Odette's mission and the heart-breaking identity of her real betrayer.
Download or read book Harbored Secrets written by Marie F. Martin and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-02-04 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In May of 1935, Blinny Platt's homestead shack burns to the ground forever leaving her family asunder, scattering them like the embers flew on the Montana wind. She was only eight-years-old, sent away and in charge of her little sister. She could handle that because Platts take care of Platts. However, it is the hidden secrets of her parents smoldering beneath the charred remains that haunts Blinny until 1982. She once again leaves the home place to build a house for herself. As the foundation is poured and the walls go up, each of the hurtful memories are uncovered. Finally the mystery, left in the ashes of the burned home, is revealed.
Download or read book Odette s written by Bridget Finnegan and published by Dawdle Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2020-03-15 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portsmouth, New Hampshire 1854It's been five years since investigator Jessamyn Jakes walked out of Odette's, the finest whorehouse in the seacoast.When Suzanne-her former lover and fellow prostitute-goes missing, Jess is drawn into a mystery that goes beyond the raunchy, shipbuilding town-all the way to the antebellum south even a Spanish shipwreck. Surprising plot twists and endearing characters make this debut novel a must-read.
Download or read book Puck Me Secretly written by Odette Stone and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I've never been in love.I've never had an orgasm, but I've faked plenty.I want to experience love. Real, passionate love.I don't want to die.It's funny what blurts out of your mouth when the plane you're on is going down, and I didn't hold back with my seat mate when my plane decided to crash.My hysterical confessions didn't faze the muscular stranger that sat beside me. In fact, he promised if we survived, he'd give me my first orgasm. We survived.I came.And then he left without telling me who he was.On the first day of my job, I stood in front of the Vancouver Wolves hockey team and called out a number. #33.Imagine my shock when he skated forward.Max is an incredible hockey player, whose wild, out-of-control antics have almost derailed his career. So many secrets shroud his past and continue to threaten his future. Now he's my secret. And that secret could ruin everything. Puck Me SECRETLY. Some secrets are too big to keep.This book is 86,000 words and is a full-length romance intended for adult audiences only.
Download or read book Home Game written by Odette Stone and published by . This book was released on 2019-01-25 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He's a professional hockey player trying to survive on his new team. I'm just trying to survive. I'm down to my last dollar.I live day-to-day in a world that doesn't care.Despite my bad luck, I'm a fighter.I never give up. I never stop trying.Ryan Parker's wealth and generosity, sets him apart from anyone I know.Yet, I don't trust him.It's nothing personal. I trust no one.But when my bad luck takes a turn for the worse, one person shows up.Ryan Parker. I do not understand why he bothered because the guy has enough of his own issues to deal with.But I don't have a choice.I need him. It's a matter of survival.His friendship changed everything.It changed me.I started to believe in myself.I allowed myself to trust. And for the first time, in a long time, I felt my heart beat again.In the game of love, winning is harder than it looks.I don't know the rules.I don't know how to win.But I'll play my heart out until the whistle blows.Home Game: Who's got your back when the puck drops?Read all the Guilty Series Navy SEAL romances:1. My Fiancé's Brother: Book 12. My Fiancé's Brother: Book 23. My Fake Fiancé Book 3, standalone4. My Donut Princess: free novellaRead all the Vancouver Wolves Hockey romances:1. Puck Me Secretly2. Home Game3. Hook My Heart: free novella
Download or read book The White Girl written by Tony Birch and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A searing new novel from leading Indigenous storyteller Tony Birch that explores the lengths we will go to in order to save the people we love.Odette Brown has lived her whole life on the fringes of a small country town. After her daughter disappeared and left her with her granddaughter Sissy to raise on her own, Odette has managed to stay under the radar of the welfare authorities who are removing fair-skinned Aboriginal children from their families. When a new policeman arrives in town, determined to enforce the law, Odette must risk everything to save Sissy and protect everything she loves. In The White Girl, Miles-Franklin-shortlisted author Tony Birch shines a spotlight on the 1960s and the devastating government policy of taking Indigenous children from their families.
Download or read book The Pink Party written by Maryann Macdonald and published by Marshall Cavendish. This book was released on 2011 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amy and Lisa's friendship is jeopardized by a competition over who can have the most pink things.
Download or read book We Are All the Same in the Dark written by Julia Heaberlin and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2020 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new thriller from the internationally bestselling author of Black-Eyed Susans.
Download or read book Rosa s Animals written by Maryann Macdonald and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Painter and sculptor Rosa Bonheur (1822–1899) led a highly nontraditional life, especially for a woman in the nineteenth century. She kept lions as pets, was awarded the Legion of Honor by Empress Eugénie, and befriended “Buffalo Bill” Cody. She became a painter at a time when women were often only reluctantly educated as artists. Her unconventional artistic work habits, including visiting slaughterhouses to sketch an animal’s anatomy and wearing men’s clothing to gain access to places like a horse fair, where women were not allowed, helped her become one of the most beloved female painters of her time. Among the artworks discussed are The Horse Fair and Ploughing in the Nivernais. Along with her life story are a list of museums that house her work, a bibliography, and an index.
Download or read book The Day the Crayons Quit written by Drew Daywalt and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-06-27 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hilarious, colorful #1 New York Times bestselling phenomenon that every kid wants! Gift a copy to someone you love today. Poor Duncan just wants to color. But when he opens his box of crayons, he finds only letters, all saying the same thing: His crayons have had enough! They quit! Blue crayon needs a break from coloring all those bodies of water. Black crayon wants to be used for more than just outlining. And Orange and Yellow are no longer speaking—each believes he is the true color of the sun. What can Duncan possibly do to appease all of the crayons and get them back to doing what they do best? With giggle-inducing text from Drew Daywalt and bold and bright illustrations from Oliver Jeffers, The Day the Crayons Quit is the perfect gift for new parents, baby showers, back-to-school, or any time of year! Perfect for fans of Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus by Mo Willems and The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by Jon Sciezka and Lane Smith. Praise for The Day the Crayons Quit: Amazon’s 2013 Best Picture Book of the Year A Barnes & Noble Best Book of 2013 Goodreads’ 2013 Best Picture Book of the Year Winner of the E.B. White Read-Aloud Award * “Hilarious . . . Move over, Click, Clack, Moo; we’ve got a new contender for the most successful picture-book strike.” –BCCB, starred review “Jeffers . . . elevates crayon drawing to remarkable heights.” –Booklist “Fresh and funny.” –The Wall Street Journal "This book will have children asking to have it read again and again.” –Library Media Connection * “This colorful title should make for an uproarious storytime.” –School Library Journal, starred review * “These memorable personalities will leave readers glancing apprehensively at their own crayon boxes.” –Publishers Weekly, starred review “Utterly original.” –San Francisco Chronicle
Download or read book The Little Piano Girl written by Ann Ingalls and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2010 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated account of the childhood of jazz pianist, composer, and arranger Mary Lou Williams in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, in the early twentieth century.
Download or read book Hidden A Child s Story of the Holocaust written by Loic Dauvillier and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deeply moving story about a little girl hiding from the Nazis in World War II France.
Download or read book A Darker Shade of Midnight written by Lynn Emery and published by Lynn Emery. This book was released on 2011-05-17 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychic LaShaun Rousselle thought she left her troubles behind when she fled Beau Chene, Louisiana. But when she gets news that her grandmother is dying, LaShaun returns. There she confronts a deadly family feud. Even worse, she quickly realizes that the demon she unwittingly unleashed years ago has been wreaking havoc on her small bayou hometown. With a bloodthirsty loa on the loose, LaShaun fights to stop the killing spree and save the town from destruction. But when she becomes a murder suspect, she teams up with the charming and unlikely ally. Not convinced by local superstition and gossip about LaShaun, Vermilion Parish Deputy Chase Broussard is determined to uncover the true culprit. Together, they battle human evil and the forces of darkness that threaten to consume them both. A Darker Shade of Midnight is a thrilling tale of magic, mystery, and murder.
Download or read book The Doll with the Yellow Star written by Yona Zeldis McDonough and published by Henry Holt and Company BYR Paperbacks. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tender story about the power of love in the face of loss Nine-year-old Claudine doesn't want to leave her much-loved home in France to go live in America, not without her parents. But she knows about the shortages, about the yellow stars Jews must wear, and about Adolf Hitler. And she knows that there are some things she needs to do even when she doesn't want to. It's wartime, and there is much that is different now. There are more things that Claudine will lose to this terrible war. But not everything that is lost must be lost forever. Here is a moving story about lost and found lives, and the healing power of love.
Download or read book Let Sleeping Dogs Lie written by Mirjam Pressler and published by Boyds Mills Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: YA. Age 12-14. When Johanna discovers that her grandfathers company--and her familys wealth--was founded on injustice due to the anti-Semitic laws of the Third Reich during the Nazi regime, she must make a life-altering decision.
