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Author: Burton Egbert Stevenson Publisher: Good Press ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 194
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The story begins in the back streets of Paris, where the author (who writes in the first person) is contemplating his less than wonderful first week in Paris and missing his previous residence near the Loire. He is stopped by a mysterious but courteous stranger who enquires if he is lost. On asking for directions, the author is then requested to hand over his purse to the stranger - Cartouche.
Author: Burton Egbert Stevenson Publisher: Good Press ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 194
Book Description
The story begins in the back streets of Paris, where the author (who writes in the first person) is contemplating his less than wonderful first week in Paris and missing his previous residence near the Loire. He is stopped by a mysterious but courteous stranger who enquires if he is lost. On asking for directions, the author is then requested to hand over his purse to the stranger - Cartouche.
Author: Guida M. Jackson Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1469113538 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 347
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Women Leaders of Africa, Asia, Middle East, and Pacific presents biographical sketches of hundreds of women leaders from earliest recorded history down to the present time. It is the first of two volumes giving data on women leaders from every continent and island in the world; the second volume deals with Europe and countries of the Western Hemisphere. Each book is divided into two sections. Part I of this volume deals with African women leaders; Part II with Asian, Middle East and Pacific women. Within each section, which is introduced by an essay overview, entries are arranged alphabetically. Suggestions for further reading on the subject appear at the end of each entry. Not all entries are merely recitations of facts. Some womens lives do not lend themselves to being reduced to statistics. Many were much too colorful, or lusty, or bloodthirsty to fit into a neat categorical description. How do you easily characterize the rule of the African queen who hacked her servant to death after she was through using him as a chairjust to intimidate her new Portuguese overlord? Who kept as many as thirty slaves as sexual partners, supposedly killing them off when she had finished with them? How do you gloss over the actions of the newly enthroned Persian queen who ordered her stepbrother strangled, then had gold and silver coins struck bearing her new title: Purity of the earthly world and of the faith? How do you describe nicely the actions of the Chinese queen who chopped off her own hand to make a point to a man she had just condemned to death? How do you ascribe feminine traits to a grandmother who tried to kill her own grandson to keep him from succeeding her on the throne she herself had stolen? On the other hand, how do you do justice to the Queen of Tonga without mention of her commanding sizesix feet two inchesor her forty-seven-year devotion to matters far beyond mere governance but of more importance to her subjects: like establishing handicraft outlets to market the wares of her people? Or to the Queen of Thailand who acted as Regent while the King, a devout Buddhist, performed his meditations and duties as a monk? She directed much more than affairs of state; her concern for the common people led her to promote the export of hand-woven Thai silk and to establish a chain of shops selling native crafts. She also organized the Thai Red Cross for aid to refugees, orphans, wounded soldiers, and flood victims. These and dozens of stories like them make African, Asian, Middle East, and Pacific Women Leaders a unique treasure that is hard to put down. Although most of the entries in this volume deal with women rulers, a portion of the book is devoted to women in leadership roles other than those of queen, empress, prime minister, or chieftainess. Of these additional entries, the majority deals with contemporary women judges, secretaries of state, cabinet members, or legislators of unusual influence and power.
Author: Shi ChaHuaMeng Publisher: Funstory ISBN: 1649201761 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 881
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After saving Yu Lingjing from the cold wind, Qi Wan County was given a marriage to Yu Lingxuan as the adopted daughter of the Minister of the Left, but after seven years, she was chased out of the mansion by Yu Lingjing because of Princess Ping's framing and after bringing her daughter Yu Ruyi back to the mansion, Yu Hanfeng and Shangguan Yao assassinated her and poisoned her many times. After the danger was averted, Yu Lingxi's purple clothes colluded with the barbarians.
Author: Steve Bein Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0451465199 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 546
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A MASK OF DESTRUCTION Detective Sergeant Mariko Oshiro has been promoted to Japan's elite Narcotics unit--and with this promotion comes a new partner, a new case, and new danger. The underboss of a powerful yakuza crime syndicate has put a price on her head, and he'll lift the bounty only if she retrieves an ancient iron demon mask that was stolen from him in a daring raid. However, Mariko has no idea of the tumultuous past carried within the mask--or of its deadly link with the famed Inazuma blade she wields. The secret of this mask originated hundreds of years before Mariko was born, and over time the mask's power has evolved to bend its owner toward destruction, stopping at nothing to obtain Inazuma steel. Mariko's fallen sensei knew much of the mask's hypnotic power and of its mysterious link to a murderous cult. Now Mariko must use his notes to find the mask before the cult can bring Tokyo to its knees--and before the underboss decides her time is up....
Author: Joel Garden Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1496976673 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 767
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Host is a historical drama which covers the journey not of one set of characters but of a whole nation, the Kingdom of Tizlius. Within these pages are the stories of Tizlius monarchs and nobles, usurpers and Chancellors, clans and generals, its alliance with its co-religionists against their common enemy, years of plague and unrest, political conspiracies, regicide and civil war.
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