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Book The Colonel s Lady

    Book Details:
  • Author : Laura Frantz
  • Publisher : Revell
  • Release : 2011-08
  • ISBN : 080073341X
  • Pages : 416 pages

Download or read book The Colonel s Lady written by Laura Frantz and published by Revell. This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1779, a search for her father brings Roxanna to the Kentucky frontier--but she discovers instead a young colonel, a dark secret...and a compelling reason to stay.

Book Judy O Grady and the Colonel s Lady

Download or read book Judy O Grady and the Colonel s Lady written by Noel T. St. John Williams and published by Brassey's. This book was released on 1988 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the lives of women connected to the military--an overlooked segment of British Army life. This fresh perspective belongs in women's studies. Good reading. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book The Colonel s Lady

    Book Details:
  • Author : Patricia Oliver
  • Publisher : Signet
  • Release : 1996-05-01
  • ISBN : 9780451187451
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book The Colonel s Lady written by Patricia Oliver and published by Signet. This book was released on 1996-05-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lady Regina Heathercott is torn between two very different brothers--the handsome and passionate Captain Charles Swinburn and Colonel Sir Richard Swinburn, Charles's arrogant and proper elder brother. Original.

Book The Colonel s Lady

Download or read book The Colonel s Lady written by Clifton Adams and published by Sagebrush Large Print. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five years after the Civil War, former Confederate soldier Matt Reardon reenlists - this time, wearing a blue uniform. He's tracking down his former lover - now married to a Colonel...

Book The Colonel s Lady on the Western Frontier

Download or read book The Colonel s Lady on the Western Frontier written by Alice Kirk Grierson and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects the letters of the wife of Civil War major general Benjamin H. Grierson, describing daily life and hardships at frontier posts like Fort Riley, Fort Concho, Fort Davis, and Fort Grant

Book The Colonel s Lady

    Book Details:
  • Author : A. Robert Hill
  • Publisher : iUniverse
  • Release : 2000-09
  • ISBN : 0595130437
  • Pages : 254 pages

Download or read book The Colonel s Lady written by A. Robert Hill and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-09 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Colonel's Lady is the story of an Air Force fighter pilot who became an ace during the Korean War. He returned home to find his high school and college friends married and as a returning veteran finds he is about as popular as a quarterback who threw and interception in a play-off game. Because of his love for flying, he stayed in the Air Force and by an act of the CIA and his commanding officer, he is introduced to a beautiful Russian girl in Arizona. He is ordered to fly her to Alaska where the NVKD, Russian Secret Service will pick her up in exchange for a captured CIA agent. He thinks she is just another broad. She thinks he is just another cocky fighter pilot and turns a cold shoulder to him until they are forced down in the wilds of Canada. After their return to civilization, she is sent back to Russia and an insane NVKD colonel who is threatening her family. He takes a job with a civilian airline. After flying over the world in jet passenger planes, and taking many women, the memory of this girl cannot be suppressed. when the CAB opens Russia for commercial airlines, he is assigned to the first jet service into Moscow, where with a breaking in the Cold War, Russian newspapers carry pictures of their inaugural flight and she sees his handsome face once again.

Book The Colonel s Lady

    Book Details:
  • Author : Laura Frantz
  • Publisher : Revell
  • Release : 2011-08-01
  • ISBN : 1441232648
  • Pages : 416 pages

Download or read book The Colonel s Lady written by Laura Frantz and published by Revell. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1779, when genteel Virginia spinster Roxanna Rowan arrives at the Kentucky fort commanded by Colonel Cassius McLinn, she finds that her officer father has died. Penniless and destitute, Roxanna is forced to take her father's place as scrivener. Before long, it's clear that the colonel himself is attracted to her. But she soon realizes the colonel has grave secrets of his own--some of which have to do with her father's sudden death. Can she ever truly love him? Readers will be enchanted by this powerful story of love, faith, and forgiveness from reader favorite Laura Frantz. Her solid research and deft writing immerse readers in the world of the early frontier while her realistic characters become intimate friends.

Book My Colonel and His Lady

Download or read book My Colonel and His Lady written by Archibald Rutledge and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of Colonel Rutledge and his wife. After the Civil War the Colonel brought his bride to Hampton Hall in South Carolina. The plantation had been in the family since 1686. There they reared six children and kept their home according to the southern code of unquestioning hospitality.

Book Solo

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kwame Alexander
  • Publisher : Clarion Books
  • Release : 2017-08-01
  • ISBN : 0310761905
  • Pages : 460 pages

Download or read book Solo written by Kwame Alexander and published by Clarion Books. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Solo by Kwame Alexander and Mary Rand Hess is a New York Times bestseller! Kirkus Reviews said Solo is, “A contemporary hero’s journey, brilliantly told.” Through the story of a young Black man searching for answers about his life, Solo empowers, engages, and encourages teenagers to move from heartache to healing, burden to blessings, depression to deliverance, and trials to triumphs. Blade never asked for a life of the rich and famous. In fact, he’d give anything not to be the son of Rutherford Morrison, a washed-up rock star and drug addict with delusions of a comeback. Or to no longer be part of a family known most for lost potential, failure, and tragedy, including the loss of his mother. The one true light is his girlfriend, Chapel, but her parents have forbidden their relationship, assuming Blade will become just like his father. In reality, the only thing Blade and Rutherford have in common is the music that lives inside them. And songwriting is all Blade has left after Rutherford, while drunk, crashes his high school graduation speech and effectively rips Chapel away forever. But when a long-held family secret comes to light, the music disappears. In its place is a letter, one that could bring Blade the freedom and love he’s been searching for, or leave him feeling even more adrift. Solo: Is written by New York Times bestselling author and Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Book Award-winner Kwame Alexander Showcases Kwame’s signature intricacy, intimacy, and poetic style, by exploring what it means to finally go home An #OwnVoices novel that features a BIPOC protagonist on a search for his roots and identity Received great reviews from Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, Booklist, and Kirkus. If you enjoy Solo, check out Swing by Kwame Alexander and Mary Rand Hess.

Book Mrs Bixby and the Colonel s Coat  A Roald Dahl Short Story

Download or read book Mrs Bixby and the Colonel s Coat A Roald Dahl Short Story written by Roald Dahl and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-09-13 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mrs Bixby and the Colonel's Coat is a brilliant gem of a short story from Roald Dahl, the master of the sting in the tail. In Mrs Bixby and the Colonel's Coat, Roald Dahl, one of the world's favourite authors, tells a sinister story about the darker side of human nature. Here, a wife pawns her lover's parting gift with unexpected consequences . . . Mrs Bixby and the Colonel's Coat is taken from the short story collection Kiss Kiss, which includes ten other devious and shocking stories, featuring the husband and wife who hit upon a novel way to feed their new baby; the priceless piece of furniture that is the subject of a deceitful bargain; a wronged woman taking revenge on her dead husband, and others. 'Unnerving bedtime stories, subtle, proficient, hair-raising and done to a turn.' (San Francisco Chronicle ) This story is also available as a Penguin digital audio download read by Stephanie Beacham. Roald Dahl, the brilliant and worldwide acclaimed author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, and many more classics for children, also wrote scores of short stories for adults. These delightfully disturbing tales have often been filmed and were most recently the inspiration for the West End play, Roald Dahl's Twisted Tales by Jeremy Dyson. Roald Dahl's stories continue to make readers shiver today.

Book The Colonel s Lady

Download or read book The Colonel s Lady written by Clifton Adams and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Color illustration on front cover of a soldier and a women on horseback, the soldier has his gun drawn.

Book The Colonel s Spinster

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  • Author : Audrey Harrison
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-10-29
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 236 pages

Download or read book The Colonel s Spinster written by Audrey Harrison and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He needs a rich wife. A pity that he's falling for the wrong woman... She's looking to find out more about her past. She was expecting to find her future..... Colonel Fitzwilliam is a second son, often overshadowed by his titled, older brother and his cousin, Mr Darcy. Returning from Waterloo he knows it is time to find a wife with a healthy dowry, but he longs for a love match. Unfortunately for Fitzwilliam, love doesn't put food on the table. Miss Prudence Bamber has never known her mother's family. A woman with her own mind and full life, she indulges her father's wish to visit her long-lost relations. Mr Bamber hopes his daughter will find a husband; she wishes nothing more than to find out more about her mother's history. It turns out to be a trip she won't forget in a hurry. Two people looking for love, but challenged by pride, secrets and prejudice. Will they be able to overcome the odds to find their own happy ever after? Or, are they destined to remain separated by the constraints of society? Complex characters brought together in this gripping Regency Romance. The Colonel's Spinster is a Regency romance and Pride and Prejudice variation (JAFF), topped with a generous dose of humour, action, and tears. If you like simmering chemistry, fast-paced adventures, and strong characters, then you'll love Audrey Harrison's Regency tale. Buy The Colonel's Spinster to find out if Colonel Fitzwilliam finds love after all!

Book The Colonel and I

Download or read book The Colonel and I written by Daad Sharab and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2021-12-31 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insider’s view of Libya’s fallen dictator by the woman who served as his longtime troubleshooter and confidante. For almost half of Muammar Gaddafi’s forty-two-year reign, Daad Sharab was his trusted confidante—the only outsider to be admitted to his inner circle. Down the years many have written about Gaddafi, but none have been so close. Now, years after the violent death of “the Colonel,” she gives a unique insight into the character of a man of many contradictions: tyrant, hero, terrorist, freedom fighter, womanizer, father figure. Her account is packed with fascinating anecdotes and revelations that show Gaddafi in a surprising new light. Daad witnessed the ruthlessness of a flawed leader who is blamed for ordering the Lockerbie bombing, and she became the go-between for the only man convicted of the atrocity. She does not seek to sugar-coat Gaddafi’s legacy, preferring readers to judge for themselves, but also observed a hidden, more humane side. The leader was a troubled father and compassionate statesman who kept sight of his humble Bedouin roots, and was capable of great acts of generosity. The author also pulls no punches about how Western politicians such as Tony Blair, George Bush, and Hillary Clinton shamelessly wooed his oil-rich regime. Despite her warnings the dictator was ultimately consumed by megalomania, and Daad was caught up in his dramatic fall. Falsely accused by Gaddafi’s notorious secret service of being both the Colonel’s mistress and a spy, she faced betrayal and imprisonment—and, caught up in the Arab Spring uprising, she also faced a fight for her life as bombs rained down on Libya.

Book Self Defense for Gentlemen and Ladies

Download or read book Self Defense for Gentlemen and Ladies written by Colonel Thomas Hoyer Monstery and published by Blue Snake Books. This book was released on 2015-04-21 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 19th-century self-defense manual—written by a master swordsman—will appeal to fencers and martial artists as well as fans of Victorian-era culture, steampunk, and American history Colonel Thomas Hoyer Monstery was a master swordsman who participated in more than fifty duels, fought under twelve flags, battled gangsters, and was constantly involved in the great conflicts and upheavals of his time. In the 1870s, he began writing his magnum opus—a series of newspaper articles that are now collected here for the first time in Self-Defense for Gentleman and Ladies. In this book, Colonel Monstery presents a unique look into the Victorian-era fighting world. He describes styles such as British “purring” (shin-kicking), Welsh jump-kicking, and American rough-and-tumble fighting, in addition to providing illustrated instruction in the art of gentlemanly self-defense with a cane, staff, or one’s bare hands. Fifty rare drawings and photographs from the period illuminate Monstery’s world, while an extensive glossary of terms and an introductory biography of Colonel Monstery—including fascinating details of his many duels as well as his groundbreaking devotion to teaching fencing and self-defense skills to women—update his text to make it accessible and useful to gentlemen and ladies of any era. Contents Colonel Thomas Hoyer Monstery: The Unknown American Martial Arts Master I. Introduction. II. The Logic of Boxing. III. Standing and Striking. IV. Advancing to Strike and Feinting. V. Simple Parries in Boxing. VI. Parries with Returns. VII. Effective or Counter Parries in Boxing. VIII. Offence and Defense by Evasions. IX. Trips, Grips, and Back-Falls. X. Rules for a Set-to with Gloves. XI. Observations on Natural Weapons. XII. The Use of the Cane. XIII. The Use of the Cane (continued). XIV. The Use of the Staff. XV. The Use of the Staff (continued). Appendix: Monstery's Rules for Contests of Sparring and Fencing Glossary

Book Three Times Lucky

Download or read book Three Times Lucky written by Sheila Turnage and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-05-10 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newbery honor winner, New York Times bestseller, Edgar Award Finalist, and E.B. White Read-Aloud Honor book. A hilarious Southern debut with the kind of characters you meet once in a lifetime Rising sixth grader Miss Moses LoBeau lives in the small town of Tupelo Landing, NC, where everyone's business is fair game and no secret is sacred. She washed ashore in a hurricane eleven years ago, and she's been making waves ever since. Although Mo hopes someday to find her "upstream mother," she's found a home with the Colonel--a café owner with a forgotten past of his own--and Miss Lana, the fabulous café hostess. She will protect those she loves with every bit of her strong will and tough attitude. So when a lawman comes to town asking about a murder, Mo and her best friend, Dale Earnhardt Johnson III, set out to uncover the truth in hopes of saving the only family Mo has ever known. Full of wisdom, humor, and grit, this timeless yarn will melt the heart of even the sternest Yankee.

Book The Colonel s Lady

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anne Odom
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2017-10-02
  • ISBN : 9781977901941
  • Pages : 448 pages

Download or read book The Colonel s Lady written by Anne Odom and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diana, The Duchess of Bristol, continues her adventures in the fairly new country of America. There she reignites a forbidden passion which is no longer forbidden. She finds her soul mate and they debark on a life adventure filled with passionate love, a large loving family, and an intriguing group of friends.

Book The Colonel and Hug

Download or read book The Colonel and Hug written by Steve Steinberg and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the team’s inception in 1903, the New York Yankees were a floundering group that played as second-class citizens to the New York Giants. With four winning seasons to date, the team was purchased in 1915 by Jacob Ruppert and his partner, Cap “Til” Huston. Three years later, when Ruppert hired Miller Huggins as manager, the unlikely partnership of the two figures began, one that set into motion the Yankees’ run as the dominant baseball franchise of the 1920s and the rest of the twentieth century, capturing six American League pennants with Huggins at the helm and four more during Ruppert’s lifetime. The Yankees’ success was driven by Ruppert’s executive style and enduring financial commitment, combined with Huggins’s philosophy of continual improvement and personnel development. While Ruppert and Huggins had more than a little help from one of baseball’s greats, Babe Ruth, their close relationship has been overlooked in the Yankees’ rise to dominance. Though both were small of stature, the two men nonetheless became giants of the game with unassailable mutual trust and loyalty. The Colonel and Hug tells the story of how these two men transformed the Yankees. It also tells the larger story about baseball primarily in the tumultuous period from 1918 to 1929—with the end of the Deadball Era and the rise of the Lively Ball Era, a gambling scandal, and the collapse of baseball’s governing structure—and the significant role the Yankees played in it all. While the hitting of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig won many games for New York, Ruppert and Huggins institutionalized winning for the Yankees.