Belle

Author : Paula Byrne
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 006231078X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Belle written by Paula Byrne and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-04-29 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sensational true tale that inspired the major motion picture Belle starring Tom Wilkinson, Miranda Richardson, Emily Watson, Penelope Wilton, and Matthew Goode—a stunning story of the first mixed-race girl introduced to high society England and raised as a lady. The illegitimate daughter of a captain in the Royal Navy and an enslaved African woman, Dido Belle was sent to live with her great-uncle, the Earl of Mansfield, one of the most powerful men of the time and a leading opponent of slavery. Growing up in his lavish estate, Dido was raised as a sister and companion to her white cousin, Elizabeth. When a joint portrait of the girls, commissioned by Mansfield, was unveiled, eighteenth-century England was shocked to see a black woman and white woman depicted as equals. Inspired by the painting, Belle vividly brings to life this extraordinary woman caught between two worlds, and illuminates the great civil rights question of her age: the fight to end slavery. Belle includes 20 pages of black-and-white photos.

Author : Lesley Pearse
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781913099824
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Belle written by Lesley Pearse and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-14 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping historical saga from the internationally best-selling author Lesley Pearse. London, 1910. Though raised in a brothel, fifteen-year-old Belle is still an innocent, carefree girl. That all changes when she witnesses a murder. After seeing a girl strangled by her client, Belle's life is turned upside down. From the brothel to the streets, Belle is sold into the seedy world of sex trafficking and shipped away to New Orleans where she is made a courtesan. With little autonomy and even less hope, Belle is at the mercy of the men she is forced to entertain. With a broken spirit, dreams of her home and family are all that keep Belle going. But if she were to find her freedom, would she have a home to return to? PRAISE FOR LESLEY PEARSE & BELLE 'An atmospheric cracker with lots of twists' - Woman 'Pearse will pull on your heartstrings with this well-crafted story' - Sun 'Storytelling at its very best' - Daily Mail 'Evocative, compelling, told from the heart' - Sunday Express 'Glorious, heart-warming' - Woman & Home 'Intrigue, heart-tugging, beautifully written' - Closer 'Characters it is impossible not to care about' - Daily Mail

Author : Rachel Hawkins
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 110160333X
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rebel Belle written by Rachel Hawkins and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harper Price, peerless Southern belle, was born ready for a Homecoming tiara. But after a strange run-in at the dance imbues her with incredible abilities, Harper's destiny takes a turn for the seriously weird. She becomes a Paladin, one of an ancient line of guardians with agility, super strength and lethal fighting instincts. Just when life can't get any more disastrously crazy, Harper finds out who she's charged to protect: David Stark, school reporter, subject of a mysterious prophecy and possibly Harper's least favorite person. But things get complicated when Harper starts falling for him--and discovers that David's own fate could very well be to destroy Earth. With snappy banter, cotillion dresses, non-stop action and a touch of magic, this new young adult series from bestseller Rachel Hawkins is going to make y'all beg for more. “As surprising as it is delicious.”—BCCB, starred review “Fun with a twist of supernatural and Southern charm.” —VOYA “The romance, coming-of-age aspects, and a well-drawn heroine with a crackling wit will lure in readers.” —Booklist

Author : Maureen Sherry
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501110624
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Opening Belle written by Maureen Sherry and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-02-02 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A self-made, thirty-something Wall Street star juggles the impossible demands of working in sexist environments and raising her children with a deadbeat husband while considering the life she may have had with her former fiancé.

Author : Andrew Vachss
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN 13 : 0375719032
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blue Belle written by Andrew Vachss and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2001-09-25 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Burke is one of the most cold-blooded yet strangely honorable heroes in the history of crime fiction, an outlaw who makes his living by preying on the most vicious of New York City’s bottom-feeders, those who thrive on the suffering of children. In Andrew Vachss’s tautly engrossing novel Burke is given a purse full of dirty money to find the infamous Ghost Van that is cutting a lethal swath among the teenage prostitutes in the ‘hood. He also gets help in the form of a stripper named Belle, whose moves on the runway are outclassed only by what she can do in a getaway car. But not even Burke is prepared for the evil that is behind the Ghost Van or for the sheer menace of its guardian, a cadaverous karate expert who enjoys killing so much that he has named himself after death.

Author : Ellie O'Ryan
Publisher : Chapter Books
ISBN 13 : 9781532141201
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Belle written by Ellie O'Ryan and published by Chapter Books. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Belle's friend Mrs. Potts tells her about an annual winter ball that she used to attend, Belle suggests they plan their own winter dance at the castle. Although Belle's excited, she misses her father, and wishes she had the special charm bracelet that he made for her so she could wear it to the dance.

Author : Catharine H. Murray
Publisher : Gracie Belle
ISBN 13 : 9781617757501
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Now You See the Sky written by Catharine H. Murray and published by Gracie Belle. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This memoir--the first release on best-selling author Ann Hood's Gracie Belle imprint--about the fathomless loss of a beloved child reveals how tragedy can transform us and make us more fully alive.

Author : Beverly Jenkins
Publisher : Kimani Press
ISBN 13 : 1426826249
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Belle written by Beverly Jenkins and published by Kimani Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a grueling escape north, Belle Palmer is free, yet lost and alone. Separated from her father on the harrowing journey, Belle has nowhere to turn until she finds shelter with the Bests, the first free family she's ever known. For the first time in her sixteen years, Belle is able to express herself freely—except where her feelings for a certain dark-eyed young man are concerned. Daniel Best is headed for great things. Educated and handsome, at eighteen he is full of the promise and dreams of his people, and is engaged to the prettiest (if the most spoiled) girl around. So when a bedraggled stranger arrives in his household and turns into a vibrant, lovely young woman, his attraction to her catches him entirely by surprise. While Belle is determined to deny her feelings for him, Daniel is caught between his conscience and his infatuation with her. That the two belong together is undeniable, but that it could ever happen seems impossible.

Author : MC Price
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 149693248X
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book BELLE BREZING written by MC Price and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-10-23 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Somewhere between a paperboy’s first cup of chicory coffee and the memories of the Madam who inspired Belle Watling of Gone With the Wind fame, there lies a story of sex, secrets and spiritual redemption. Interweaving portals to the past with the magic of a Spirit Guide called back to his lover’s deathbed, Belle Brezing is a haunting love story about a loyal paperboy on a high-stakes mission: To guide his former lover to remember the secret that forged her rise to fame but closed her heart to love. Belle Brezing, the novel, takes a look at the woman who died in virtual isolation in 1940, decades after her business was closed by the Army in 1917. Brezing was a nationally known southern Madam whose obituary appeared on the front of the NY Times as well as Time Magazine. (1863-1940) Belle Brezing was a charismatic woman who brought herself out of poverty and an emotionally and physically painful early childhood. Shedding light on the connections of a wounded past and a life lived in quiet desperation, the award-winning novel Belle Brezing exposes the scandals and secrets of this dynamic woman whose life parallels timely issues in the arena of prostitution and sex trafficking.

Author : Elisabeth Israels Perry
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781555534240
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Belle Moskowitz written by Elisabeth Israels Perry and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2000 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available in a new edition, this well-crafted feminist biography restores to history the career of a pioneering activist who achieved unprecedented influence in American politics.