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In Triumph's Wake

Author : Julia P. Gelardi
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1466823682
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book In Triumph's Wake written by Julia P. Gelardi and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2009-12-08 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The powerful and moving story of three royal mothers whose quest for power led to the downfall of their daughters. Queen Isabella of Castile, Empress Maria Theresa of Austria, and Queen Victoria of England were respected and admired rulers whose legacies continue to be felt today. Their daughters—Catherine of Aragon, Queen of England; Queen Marie Antoinette of France; and Vicky, the Empress Frederick of Germany—are equally legendary for the tragedies that befell them, their roles in history surpassed by their triumphant mothers. In Triumph's Wake is the first book to bring together the poignant stories of these mothers and daughters in a single narrative. Isabella of Castile forged a united Spain and presided over the discovery of the New World, Maria Theresa defeated her male rivals to claim the Imperial Crown, and Victoria presided over the British Empire. But, because of their ambition and political machinations, each mother pushed her daughter toward a marital alliance that resulted in disaster. Catherine of Aragon was cruelly abandoned by Henry VIII who cast her aside in search of a male heir and tore England away from the Pope. Marie Antoinette lost her head on the guillotine when France exploded into Revolution and the Reign of Terror. Vicky died grief-stricken, horrified at her inability to prevent her son, Kaiser Wilhelm, from setting Germany on a belligerent trajectory that eventually led to war. Exhaustively researched and utterly compelling, In Triumph's Wake is the story of three unusually strong women and the devastating consequences their decisions had on the lives of their equally extraordinary daughters.

In Triumph's Wake

Author : Julia P. Gelardi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book In Triumph's Wake written by Julia P. Gelardi and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Wake

Author : Paul Kingsnorth
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1555979076
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (559 download)

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Download or read book The Wake written by Paul Kingsnorth and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A work that is as disturbing as it is empathetic, as beautiful as it is riveting." —Eimear McBride, New Statesman In the aftermath of the Norman Invasion of 1066, William the Conqueror was uncompromising and brutal. English society was broken apart, its systems turned on their head. What is little known is that a fractured network of guerrilla fighters took up arms against the French occupiers. In The Wake, a postapocalyptic novel set a thousand years in the past, Paul Kingsnorth brings this dire scenario back to us through the eyes of the unforgettable Buccmaster, a proud landowner bearing witness to the end of his world. Accompanied by a band of like-minded men, Buccmaster is determined to seek revenge on the invaders. But as the men travel across the scorched English landscape, Buccmaster becomes increasingly unhinged by the immensity of his loss, and their path forward becomes increasingly unclear. Written in what the author describes as "a shadow tongue"—a version of Old English updated so as to be understandable to the modern reader—The Wake renders the inner life of an Anglo-Saxon man with an accuracy and immediacy rare in historical fiction. To enter Buccmaster's world is to feel powerfully the sheer strangeness of the past. A tale of lost gods and haunted visions, The Wake is both a sensational, gripping story and a major literary achievement.

In Leah's Wake

Author : Terri Giuliano Long
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780975453391
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (533 download)

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Download or read book In Leah's Wake written by Terri Giuliano Long and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tyler family had the perfect life - until sixteen-year-old Leah decided she didn't want to be perfect anymore.While Leah's parents fight to save their daughter from destroying her brilliant future, Leah's younger sister, Justine, must cope with the damage her out-of-control sibling leaves in her wake. Will this family survive? What happens when love just isn't enough?Jodi Picoult fans will love In Leah's Wake - a heartbreaking, ultimately redemptive story about family, connection and our responsibility to those we love.

In the Wake of Mercedes Gleitze

Author : Doloranda Pember
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750991100
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book In the Wake of Mercedes Gleitze written by Doloranda Pember and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2019-02-01 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1927, Mercedes Gleitze became the first British woman to swim the English Channel, transforming her from a humble working-class typist into one of the most iconic sportswomen of her age. Fiercely independent and with no financial backing, Mercedes was at the forefront in the struggle to break through the existing prejudices against women taking part in sport. Over a ten-year period and a large number of pioneering, record-setting swims around the world, she achieved celebrity status, helped make Rolex famous, and was regularly in the spotlight of the worldwide press. While pursuing her dream she led by example, showing that women deserved recognition for their sporting achievements – though she herself was very modest about her success, barely talking about it even to her own children. Here, Mercedes' daughter documents the remarkable story of her early life and subsequent swimming career, using Mercedes' personal records and pictures, recollections from acquaintances and newspaper articles of the time.

Born to Rule

Author : Julia P. Gelardi
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1429904550
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Born to Rule written by Julia P. Gelardi and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Julia Gelardi's Born to Rule is an historical tour de force that weaves together the powerful and moving stories of the five royal granddaughters of Queen Victoria. These five women were all married to reigning European monarchs during the early part of the 20th century, and it was their reaction to the First World War that shaped the fate of a continent and the future of the modern world. Here are the stories of Alexandra, whose enduring love story, controversial faith in Rasputin, and tragic end have become the stuff of legend; Marie, the flamboyant and eccentric queen who battled her way through a life of intrigues and was also the mother of two Balkan queens and of the scandalous Carol II of Romania; Victoria Eugenie, Spain's very English queen who, like Alexandra, introduced hemophilia into her husband's family-with devastating consequences for her marriage; Maud, King Edward VII's daughter, who was independent Norway's reluctant queen; and Sophie, Kaiser Wilhelm II's much maligned sister, daughter of an Emperor and herself the mother of no less than three kings and a queen, who ended her days in bitter exile. Born to Rule evokes a world of luxury, wealth, and power in a bygone era, while also recounting the ordeals suffered by a unique group of royal women who at times faced poverty, exile, and death. Praised in their lifetimes for their legendary beauty, many of these women were also lauded-and reviled-for their political influence. Using never before published letters, memoirs, diplomatic documents, secondary sources, and interviews with descendents of the subjects, Julia Gelardi's Born to Rule is an astonishing and memorable work of popular history.

At Face Value

Author : Terry Healey
Publisher : Caveat Press
ISBN 13 : 9781883991982
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (919 download)

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Download or read book At Face Value written by Terry Healey and published by Caveat Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terry Healey was a junior at the University of California at Berkeley. At the age of twenty, his life had been smooth sailing, seldom interrupted with adversity or difficulty. Terry was confident and not concerned much with his appearance. But out of nowhere, a lump formed behind his right nostril. Cancer. He fought it and survived. But after multiple surgeries and radiation treatment, Terry would discover that he hadn't even begun to deal with what would become his greatest struggle for years to come -- the disfigurement that resulted from it.

The Triumph of Light

Author : Charles Augustus Keeler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book The Triumph of Light written by Charles Augustus Keeler and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

When We Wake

Author : Karen Healey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781484424483
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (244 download)

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Download or read book When We Wake written by Karen Healey and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-23 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixteen-year-old Tegan is just like every other girl living in 2027...But on what should have been the best day of Tegan's life, she dies--and wakes up a hundred years in the future, locked in a government facility with no idea what happened.

The Triumph of Love

Author : Ella Dietz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The Triumph of Love written by Ella Dietz and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

November Ever After

Author : Craig T. Greenlee
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1462004032
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book November Ever After written by Craig T. Greenlee and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legacy of the Marshall players who perished transcends wins and losses. Their tragic deaths squashed the likelihood of a bloody race riot on campus. The evening of November 14, 1970 was damp and chilly with a steady drizzle and dense fog. Students at Marshall University had no idea that the nights horrific events would change their lives forever. On this night, a plane crash wiped out most of the schools football team. Unless you were there, you could never fully comprehend the gravity of grief that engulfed Huntington, West Virginia, in the days following the worst aviation disaster in the history of American sports. I know. I was there. Ill never forget. It could have been me on that plane. I played football at MU for two seasons. A year before the tragedy, I left the team for personal reasons. When the school began the daunting task of resurrecting its football program in the spring of 71, it was a no-brainer decision for me to rejoin the team and become part of the rebuilding process. Media projects devoted to the plane crash provide well-deserved notoriety. Still, there are glaring omissions. Now, for the first time, former Marshall defensive back Craig T. Greenlee tells the real story the whole story about Thundering Herd football from back in the day.

Wake

Author : Elizabeth Knox
Publisher : Victoria University Press
ISBN 13 : 0864739583
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (647 download)

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Download or read book Wake written by Elizabeth Knox and published by Victoria University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One sunny spring morning the Tasman Bay settlement of Kahukura is overwhelmed by a mysterious mass insanity. A handful of survivors find themselves cut off from the world, and surrounded by the dead. As they try to take care of one another, and survive in ever more difficult circumstances, it becomes apparent that this isn't the first time that this has happened, and that they aren't all survivors and victims—two of them are something quite other. And, it seems, they are trapped with something. Something unseen is picking at the loose threads of their characters, corrupting, provoking, and haunting them. Wake is a novel about what it really means to try to do one's best, about the choices and sacrifices people face in order to keep a promise like "I will take care of you." It is a novel that asks: What are the last things left when the worst has happened? and about extreme events, ordinary people, heroic compassion—and invisible monsters. An invisible monster is what one can't see coming; with an invisible monster one never knows when they're in danger and when they're safe—if they retreat to their fortress they can't be sure they haven't locked it in with them.

Triumph of Good Will

Author : John Drescher
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496801695
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book Triumph of Good Will written by John Drescher and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2010-01-06 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spring of 1960 two talented, capable men, each with great passion and conviction, opposed each other in a pivotal governor's race that was to shake North Carolina and change southern politics forever. Both Terry Sanford and I. Beverly Lake were Democrats in the one-party South of that era. Yet they were different in almost every other way. Lake, a middle-aged law professor, was committed to segregation. Sanford, an ambitious young politician and lawyer, believed in expanding opportunities for all citizens. In their run-off Lake wanted the contest to be a referendum on preserving segregation. Sanford's platform rested on the improvement of public schools. It was a heated struggle that would bind them together for the rest of their lives. With unparalleled access to both sides and an objective correspondent's hindsight view, John Drescher has written the biography of a campaign that set the winning strategy for many who followed, and of a winning candidate, a governor rated as one of the finest of the twentieth century. Sanford, the moderate, won, and his victory is an oddity, for in the civil rights period from 1957 to 1973 only twice in the South did racial moderates defeat strong segregationists in a governor's race. In a gamble that almost cost Sanford the election, he became the first major politician in the Bible Belt to endorse the Catholic John F. Kennedy for president. In the November vote he defeated his Republican opponent in what was then the closest North Carolina governor's race of the century. His win validated his belief in the triumph of good will among North Carolina's people. Sanford became a bold, aggressive governor of unusual energy and creativity. His school program added teachers and dramatically raised teacher pay. He helped establish a statewide system of community colleges and started an anti-poverty fund later emulated by LBJ as a model for the War on Poverty. He was the first southern governor to call for employment without regard to race or creed. Sanford became the model for other southern governors who stressed education and a moderate stand on race relations. He influenced other gubernatorial candidates across Dixie -- Jim Hunt in his own state, William Winter in Mississippi, Dick Riley in South Carolina, Bill Clinton in Arkansas. The effects of that 1960 race continue to be felt in North Carolina, in the South, and across the nation.

Shout of Triumph

Author : Sharon Lantis
Publisher : Xulon Press
ISBN 13 : 1607915618
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book Shout of Triumph written by Sharon Lantis and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHOUT OF TRIUMPH Blessed are the people who know the joyful sound! Psalm 89:15 Do you know the joyful sound of the shout of triumph! The Apostle Paul used the picture of a Roman general leading his troops in triumph to help the early church understand the celebration of Christ's victory. In this book you can learn what it means to follow Christ in triumph with a joyful shout in your heart. You can learn what it means to wear the victory crown and robe, wave banners, lift up the scepter, and operate in the gifts of triumph. Only as the church is fully confident of its position in triumph will it effectively carry out the work of Christ in the earth. Our Lord wants all of His followers to be more than conquerors! Sharon Lantis, MD is a retired physician. She serves as an elder on the staff of Lighthouse Church on the Rock in Madison, WI. She has led Bible studies and been a speaker at Christian women's meetings. Dr. Lantis has been married to her husband Dr. Larry Lantis for 42 years. They make their home in Madison.

Triumph in the Pacific; The Navy’s Struggle Against Japan

Author : E. B. Potter
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787200132
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (872 download)

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Download or read book Triumph in the Pacific; The Navy’s Struggle Against Japan written by E. B. Potter and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2016-07-26 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here in a single volume is one of the most authoritative, thoroughly documented accounts of the U.S. Navy’s war against Japan. This is the story of the achievements, defeats, and victories of both the American and the Japanese navies as they met and battled in the greatest naval war of all time. This dramatic narrative brings to life both the glorious and the infamous—the decisive encounters at Midway...Guadalcanal...the Philippine Sea...Leyte Gulf...Iwo Jima...Okinawa...and the other points in the Pacific where history was made from 1941 to 1945. The information for TRIUMPH IN THE PACIFIC was gathered by historians at the Naval Academy at Annapolis under the direction of E. B. Potter, the Academy’s Chairman of Naval History, and Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz who, as Commander in Chief Pacific Fleet and Pacific Ocean Areas, was a principal figure in the conflict. The book is marked by authenticity, conciseness, objectivity, and the accuracy of years of painstaking research and preparation.

The Wake of the Wind

Author : J. California Cooper
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385487053
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (854 download)

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Download or read book The Wake of the Wind written by J. California Cooper and published by Anchor. This book was released on 1999-12-28 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dramatic and thought-provoking novel of one family's triumph in the face of the hardships and challenges of the post-Civil War South. The Wake of the Wind, J. California Cooper's third novel, is her most penetrating look yet at the challenges that generations of African Americans have had to overcome in order to carve out a home for themselves and their families. Set in Texas in the waning years of the Civil War, the novel tells the dramatic story of a remarkable heroine, Lifee, and her husband, Mor. When Emancipation finally comes to Texas, Mor, Lifee, and the extended family they create from other slaves who are also looking for a home and a future, set out in search of a piece of land they can call their own. In the face of constant threats, they manage not only to survive but to succeed--their crops grow, their children thrive, they educate themselves and others. Lifee and Mor pass their intelligence, determination, and talents along to their children, the next generation to surge forward. At once tragic and triumphant, this is an epic story that captures with extraordinary authenticity the most important struggle of the last hundred years.

Resilience

Author : Alonzo Mourning
Publisher : ESPN
ISBN 13 : 0345507509
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (455 download)

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Download or read book Resilience written by Alonzo Mourning and published by ESPN. This book was released on 2009-09-29 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2000, Alonzo Mourning was on top of the world: He had a fat new NBA contract, an Olympic gold medal, and a second beautiful child–plus the fame and wealth he had earned playing the game he loved. But in September of that year he was diagnosed with a rare and fatal kidney disease. Over the next couple of years, as his health faltered, he retired, unretired, and retired again–and sought to make sense of what remained of his life. Finally in 2003, after a frantic search for a donor match, Mourning had a new kidney and a new outlook. He vowed to make this second chance count by dedicating his life to others. By sharing his experiences of the chasms and peaks of illness and recovery, Mourning delivers a message of faith and fire, trust and triumph. Resilience is a story of both meaningful everyday lessons and the things, great and small, that truly matter in life.