Bijou's War
Bijou's War

Author: Maureen Lander

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2015-08-04

Total Pages: 48

ISBN-13: 1329440617

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Bijou's War is a true WWII story of one French teenager's reckless resistance to her despised occupiers. Born in Cherbourg in 1926, Claire-Marie LeVeel, or Bijou to her family was sent to the relative safety of the Normandy countryside with her mother, sister, grandmothers, and great aunt. Her beloved Papa stayed behind in his job as the harbormaster/chief engineer of Cherbourg harbor, using his favored status to help downed Allied pilots return to England. The story's conversational tone belies the life-threatening forces bearing down on the LeVeel family. Bijou persists in cutting telegraph wires, breaking into barracks, and defying orders even as tensions mount in the events leading up to D-Day. When the hoped-for Allied landing finally happens, Bijou's Papa is cut off from all communication, trapped at the port whose recapture is a prime objective of the Allies. Not knowing what the Germans will do when all is lost, the family comes to fear what they long for most - their liberation.

All Together Once More
All Together Once More

Author: Wilson Rose

Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing

Published: 2012-06

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1457511436

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In 1833, the English family of George Poulton set sail, intent on claiming land in Canada.Their tale of crossing New York on an Erie Canal packet boat ends in tragedy as the father dies in Lockport, leaving a wife and five young children with a claim to land no longer valid. In desperation, the mother places her two youngest children in adoptive homes and enrolls the two eldest in the Emma Willard Academy, Troy, New York. Later, one daughter marries the son of Niagara Falls architect John Latshaw and another marries Judge Thomas Dawkins who, in the waning years of the Confederacy, risks life and fortune to provide sanctuary to the South Carolina government of Andrew Magrath. Leading the family into the turn of the century is George Edward Ladshaw who partners with a brother to found Ladshaw & Ladshaw, a civil and hydraulic engineering firm that rides the wave of the burgeoning Carolina cotton mill industry. Overshadowing this success is the tragic story of the eldest Poulton child who inherits the scourge of bipolar disorder and dies in a South Carolina mental institution. Eventually, the entire family that had sailed from English shores settles in South Carolina and becomes "All Together Once More." This true story of an immigrant family in America is intertwined with a narrative of hope, despair, and success and is based upon letters, a diary and family bible, Emma Willard Academy records, family accounts, and legal documents. The book is generously illustrated and fully annotated.

Bijou's Big Adventure
Bijou's Big Adventure

Author: Frances Ann Ladd

Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 24

ISBN-13: 9780439542357

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Boss would like Bijou to come and play with the other Ham-Hams, but the little white hamster is afraid to leave her cage until Hamtaro and Oxnard come for a visit.

Final Bow at the Bijou
Final Bow at the Bijou

Author: Amy E. Lilly

Publisher: Old Crow Press

Published: 2022-10-04

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13:

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She was a mere stage performer. Until she pulled the disappearing act of a lifetime… Evie Harris knows all about grief and despair. After losing her brother to WWI and her mother to the Spanish Flu, she’s spent the past four years simply getting by, not scared of much but not looking forward to anything either. Enter world-renowned magician and famous escape artist Harry Houdini and his friend Jack Thompson. The two men approach Evie’s father with an unusual request: They want his help to locate Jack’s missing sister, Flora Thompson. A magician’s assistant who just happened to step into the disappearing cabinet and vanish for good. Leaving behind her quiet life, Evie disguises herself and goes undercover, becoming the new magician's assistant of the traveling vaudeville show. She is sure Flora is no runaway. But she’ll have to maneuver her way out of illusion and misdirection to uncover the truth. Can she do that without arousing suspicion, or will the show’s final trick be played on her?

Neiko's Five Land Adventure
Neiko's Five Land Adventure

Author: A.K. Taylor

Publisher: AK Taylor

Published: 2010-09

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 1943326037

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What if the fate of two worlds were in the hands of one person: you? The childhood secret of a troubled teen warrior is used against her by her enemies. It turns out what Neiko imagined is real, and she becomes trapped in the same world she imagined by an otherworldly evil that is worse than the devil. Getting home is the least of her problems. The Indians and the Crackedskulls are locked in the turmoil of a war that has raged for centuries, and it is presently in a stalemate. Her enemies, Raven and Bloodhawk, have come up with a scheme to take her down, but in doing so they inadvertently open the door to another universe and to an otherwordly evil. Neiko later finds out that a land she thought she had only imagined is actually real and the dark being is not a figment of her childhood imagination–he is terrifyingly real and she faces him for the first time. To make matters worse, it is now in her world and he has evil plans especially for her. After several standoffs with the malevolent Ramses the Dark Pharaoh in Hawote, she is trapped in Qari by his strange and powerful magic. Trapped in another universe in a place that is not exactly the way she imagined it, and she must somehow find a way to teleport home. That is easier said than done; the odds are overwhelmingly against her and her scorpion-cobra companion as they must travel to find the answer and help but at the same time avoid Ramses’ allies, traps, and tricks. Can she come back home and turn the tables on her enemies?