Download or read book The Blue Rose written by Kate Forsyth and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2019-07-16 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Viviane de Faitaud has grown up alone at the Chateau de Belisama-sur-le-Lac in Brittany. Her father, the Marquis, lives at the court of Louis XVI in Versailles. After a hailstorm destroys the chateau’s orchards, gardens and fields an ambitious young Welshman, David Stronach, accepts the commission to plan the chateau’s new gardens in the hope of making his name as a landscape designer. David and Viviane fall in love, but it is an impossible romance. Her father has betrothed her to a rich duke who she is forced to marry and David is hunted from the property. Viviane goes to court and becomes a maid-in-waiting to Marie-Antoinette and a member of the extended royal family. Angry and embittered, David sails away from England with Lord Macartney, the British ambassador, who hopes to open up trade with Imperial China. In Canton, the British embassy at last receives news from home, including their first reports of the French Revolution. David hears the story of ‘The Blue Rose’, a Chinese fable of impossible love, and discovers the blood-red rose growing in the wintry garden. He realises that he is still in love with Viviane and must find her. Viviane escapes the guillotine and returns to the ruin of Chateau de Belisima to rebuild her life. David carrying a cluster of rosehips finds her there, and together they decide to grow the fabled red rose of China in France.
Download or read book His Wild Blue Rose written by A. J. Downey and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Wild Blue and the Gray written by William Sanders and published by Wildside Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1916, in an alternative world. The independent Confederate States of America has gone to the aid of its old ally Britain, and become bogged down in the stalemate on the Western Front. At a Confederate airfield in France, a new pilot reports for duty: Lieutenant Amos Ninekiller, of the independent Cherokee Nation, comes to see how the white people wage war. He isn't going to like it...A dark antiwar comedy from the author of Journey to Fusang and The Ballad of Billy Badass and the Rose of Turkestan, now in print again in this new edition, specially revised and corrected by the author. The Wild Blue and the Gray is a tragicomic alternate look at the first great catastrophe of the twentieth century. Laughter is often the only way to shield ourselves from pain that would otherwise be intolerable. Sanders understands this well - and also that, the more things change, the more they sometimes look the same. - Harry Turtledove. God damn! I liked Sanders' new book! It pushes all the right buttons for me - a great protagonist, WWI fighter pilots, terrific background, and - mainly - a fine story with really clever twists. satisfying place to stop. The Wild Blue and the Gray is an absolutely captivating story by one of the hottest new talents in the business. Subtle, strong, gutsy, humorous - it's got it all. Watch this man. You won't regret it. - Roger Zelazny.
Download or read book The Wild Rose written by Jennifer Donnelly and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The finale to the sweeping, multi-generational saga that began with THE TEA ROSE and continued with THE WINTER ROSE. London, 1914. World War I looms on the horizon, women are fighting for the right to vote, and explorers are pushing the limits of endurance in the most forbidding corners of the earth. As the last golden days of summer give way to the gathering clouds of war, two men and one woman find their lives forever intertwined in a lethal web of forbidden loves, hidden loyalties, and dangerous lies. With myriad twists and turns, thrilling cliffhangers, and fabulous period detail and atmosphere, tHE WILD ROSE is a highly satisfying conclusion to the sweeping, multi-generational saga that began with the tea Rose and the Winter Rose - an unforgettable trilogy. Praise for the Rose trilogy:'truly seductive, hard to put down, filled with mystery, secret passions, unique locations, and a most engaging heroine ... captivates from the first page to the last' - Barbara taylor Bradford
Download or read book The Wild Blue written by Stephen E. Ambrose and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-08-14 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stephen E. Ambrose, acclaimed author of Band of Brothers and Undaunted Courage, carries us along in the crowded and dangerous B-24s as their crews fought to destroy the German war machine during World War II. The young men who flew the B-24s over Germany in World War II fought against horrific odds, and, in The Wild Blue, Ambrose recounts their extraordinary heroism, skill, daring, and comradeship with vivid detail and affection. Ambrose describes how the Army Air Forces recruited, trained, and selected the elite few who would undertake the most demanding and dangerous jobs in the war. These are the boys—turned pilots, bombardiers, navigators, and gunners of the B-24s—who suffered over fifty percent casualties. With his remarkable gift for bringing alive the action and tension of combat, Ambrose carries us along in the crowded, uncomfortable, and dangerous B-24s as their crews fought to the death through thick black smoke and deadly flak to reach their targets and destroy the German war machine. Twenty-two-year-old George McGovern, who was to become a United States senator and a presidential candidate, flew thirty-five combat missions (all the Army would allow) and won the Distinguished Flying Cross. We meet him and his mates, his co-pilot killed in action, and crews of other planes. Many went down in flames. As Band of Brothers and Citizen Soldiers portrayed the bravery and ultimate victory of the American soldiers from Normandy on to Germany, The Wild Blue illustrates the enormous contribution that these young men of the Army Air Forces made to the Allied victory.
Download or read book A Dream of Blue Roses written by Mrs. Hubert Barclay and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Wild Blue written by Clint Granger and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-03-31 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dave Jackson earned his private pilot’s license at age sixteen, and is enamored with flying - especially an old bi-wing open-cockpit single engine Stearman PT-17, the standard Army Air Corps and Navy primary trainer for World War II. His world, and that of his girlfriend, literally explodes as terrorists strike near their Midwest home. Dave and his young friends are quickly embroiled, and seem to be the only real counter to a nasty terrorist plot. Dave’s flying skills are tested, his friends endangered, and terrorism in the nation’s heart become a reality.
Download or read book The Blue Roses of Texas written by Makayla Durfey and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-07-08 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Riley Tomlinson has been through hell and worst of all, lived to tell the story. When she returned to England with wretched news of her dear brother Jack, she learns that she and her mother will be going to Texas to visit her Uncle for the summer. Little did she know, there were quite a few people expecting her arrivalA dark stranger, a mysterious murderer, a secret that is dangerous to everyones welfare if found in the wrong hands, and a treacherous man who is set on revenge. Now with no one but her to run the family ranch, Riley must struggle to save the ranch, protect whats left of her family, and protect her own heart that she so carefully kept hidden from suitors for so long. Follow Rileys story filled with surprises, betrayal, happiness, tears, learning to heal from a desolate past, and how she learned to love again. Can she survive this torrent on her fragile heart long enough to find that fairy-tale ending she always had longed for?
Download or read book Into the Wild Blue written by H.E. Grove and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2024-05-24 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do you do in a world that no longer has a place for you? Where do you go? A lone man standing on the precipice of his own end wrestles with this on his long journey home through a world moving on from the shackles of human existence. His fears are made material and his regrets made apparent through his journey through the remnants of a world he was now excluded from; and the internal turmoil he has no choice but to reconcile. His world is over, and he is now observer to the heirs of the mutilated beauty of an Earth after people. He faces the consequences of the folly of man along with the void left by their virtues. Join our friend, the Traveler, as he faces the three perils that existence has to offer: Life, Death, and the Unknown.
Download or read book Spearing the Wild Blue Boar written by Frederick Keller and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-06-29 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is William Shakespeare of Stratford-Upon-Avon the true author of the poems and plays attributed to him? This book once and for all silences those critics who say he isn't. It takes particular aim at those who champion Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford, whose crest was a wild blue boar. Who are these heretics who would strip Shakespeare of his laurels and drape them on a "nobler" brow? Foremost are John Thomas Looney, the Charlton Ogburn family and the latter-day anti-Stratfordians Richard Whalen, John Michell, David McCullough, Lewis H. Lapham, Mark Anderson and others. Using their own words against them, this book meticulously examines the claims of these Naysayers and destroys them. In addition, you'll learn about Shakespeare's early decline and fall as a literary giant; why so little is known of Shakespeare's life; and why his closest colleagues, Ben Jonson and the Shakespeare Folio editors, Heminges and Condell, have been branded fools or liars. Whether you are a teacher, student or simply someone interested in one of the foremost literary questions of the day, it's important to read Spearing the Wild Blue Boar.
Download or read book Beyond the Wild Blue written by Walter J. Boyne and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1998-06-15 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the most important leaders and the most courageous victories to the earliest machines of flight and the most advanced Stealth technology, this book presents a fascinating look at 50 turbulent years of Air Force history. Three 8-page photo inserts, one in color.
Download or read book Blue roses or Helen Malinofska s marriage by the author of Vera written by Charlotte Louisa H. Dempster and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Tales from the Wild Blue Yonder LIVING DANGEROUSLY written by John Q. Olson and published by Dust Devil Press. This book was released on 2007-12 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Off I Went Into the Wild Blue Yonder written by John James Knudsen and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 2010-09-23 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One Army Air Corps soldier's ordeals during World War II. Written in the personable voice of someone reflecting honestly on his life's journey, this autobiography is full of anecdotes of a Depression-era Montana boyhood and culminates with the author's training for service as a B-17 pilot and subsequent role as a flight instructor.
Download or read book Tales From The Wild Blue Yonder TAKING MEXICO FLYING written by John Quinn Olson and published by Dust Devil Press. This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the adventures and misadventures from a quarter century of hang gliding and travel. Huck yourself off cliffs, soar into the Wild Blue, and land where no human has landed before, all from the comfort and safety of your easy chair. Visit exotic lands and foreign skies, experience the thrill of foot-launched human flight and never even risk your neck. Come along with a wild cast of characters, who fly like their lives depend upon it. Realize mankind's most ancient dream, FLY WITH THE BIRDS!
Download or read book Backpacks and Blue Roses written by Kendrick Sims and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-11-23 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To everything there is a beginning. A story which must be told. There are secrets which have not yet been heard. There are mysteries which must be unsealed. For at the very least this much is true. In the forgotten darkness of yesterday lay the hope of tomorrow. In that twilight dawn a blossom will spread its shadow. Seeds will be planted. Indwelled and nurturing, a toy man will look at the moon and prophesize before tears will fall. Wings will be spread as the moon sheds her light and time, for a moment will shatter for the mistress in red. For the sake of friendship, for the riddles of time and for one unseen a record must be played. He who dances with the rose, his name is Lazar Lion. He dances with a blue rose and with the one who has placed it in his paw. Standing aside and watching events play out is Lazar's cousin Jingles. He watches, waits, and helps when possible. Above all else, Jingles hopes. He hopes for a future where fear is cast aside and blue roses bloom free.
