AMELIA LAREDO: UNE TRAGEDIE PORTUGAISE Ils sont jeunes et beaux; ils s'aiment et veulent se marier. Mais nous sommes en 1905 et rien ne semble possible entre eux: Am lia Lared est la petite-fille d' migrants juifs marocains qui ont fait durement fortune en Amazonie; Louis-Philippe de Bragance est le prince h ritier du Portugal, et son p re veut le marier une princesse anglaise. Le Portugal est au bord de la faillite. Paralys s par le client lisme et la corruption, les gouvernements d'alternance sont incapables de r sorber une dette publique abyssale. Le roi Charles Ier tente de prendre les choses en main, au grand dam de certains capitalistes internationaux qui profite la crise, tandis que l'opinion publique le critique durement, la fois sur sa politique et sur sa vie priv e, et que les complots foisonnent. L'enfant du prince et d'Am lia na t en secret, au mois de mars 1907. Le Roi, pour viter un scandale, ordonne la s paration temporaire des amants, promettant de r gulariser la situation plus tard. La famille Lared s'exile en Espagne et Louis-Philippe est envoy en tourn e d'inspection des possessions africaines du Portugal. Moins d'un an plus tard, le 1er f vrier 1908, le roi et le prince h ritier sont tous deux assassin s Lisbonne, au coin d'une rue. C'est une trag die historique; c'est aussi la trag die d'Amelia Laredo, dont le secret ne pourra jamais tre r v l . Une traduction de ce roman en portugais A tragedia da rua do Arsenal a t publi e par les ditions PLANETA MANUSCRITO de Lisbonne, en 1910, pour marquer le centenaire de la R publique Portugaise. Jean Pailler est l'auteur de la premi re biographie moderne et quilibr e du roi Charles Ier, qui, traduite par Julio Conrado, a remport un grand succ s au Portugal. Il a ainsi d couvert l'histoire d'Am lia Laredo et la vie tonnante de sa fille, sur laquelle il a soigneusement et longuement enqu t . Dans ce roman, il essaie de donner une r ponse logique des questions relatives deux v nements, dont l'interpr tation historique me semble pr senter des incoh rences: - L'assassinat simultan du Roi et du Prince H ritier, le 1er f vrier 1908. - La naissance, le 13 mars 1907, d'une enfant qui jusqu' la fin de ses jours s'est affirm e de sang royal. Il a imagin une explication de ces faits qui respecte la m moire des morts et correspond ce qu'on sait de leur personnalit
In 1985 Amelia Davis is brutally murdered in the woods outside of Laurel Hill. Her killer is never caught. Thirty years later, David Jenson comes to town on what he calls "personal business", though he won't tell anyone what that business is. Could he have some connection to the town's most infamous cold case? Sarah Hathaway has just returned to her hometown in the wake of a failed acting career. When she meets David she is immediately drawn to him, but it is the mystery of what exactly brought him to Laurel Hill that keeps her up at night. Determined to find the answer, she embarks on a journey into the unknown that will change her life forever. Along the way she discovers truths about Amelia's death that prove more sinister than anyone ever could have imagined.
"Even though I was decaying, Amelia was growing. It was like some beautiful symphony the way both things were happening at once."Sacrificing your life for your child is one of the greatest ways a mother can show her love... For Cara Michaels, that sacrifice was made.At ten weeks pregnant, Cara was diagnosed with a fast-acting cancer and was faced with the ultimate decision... That decision, was to forgo life-saving treatment to ensure her child would come into this world unharmed.Cara shares with us the last months of her life as she prepared to give birth to her child, and for her husband, Joel, to parent without her.But a husband can only handle so much before he breaks...
Dear Readers, the story you are about to read is a tale of two sisters, Amelia and Amanda Fry. They were as close as sisters could possibly be, until they weren't. Separated by circumstance, will they ever be able to rekindle what they once had Time will tell. This touching novel will have you on an emotional roller-coaster.
Epitomizing the glamour and decadence of the era, Amelia Lambe is the quintessential English free spirit, an unlikely widow who knows the value of her sex and is not shy about using it. Combining her sexual magnetism with wily panache, Amelia uncovers the enemy within and annihilates men with an evil mission. Throughout, she is the sexual game player, not some passive love interest. The vengeful Meixmoron and his courting of the Nazis, born of his hatred of the Americans, follows his near-death experience at the end of the Great War at the hands of the most decorated US airman. His targeting of British searchlight stations is an untried Nazi plotline, bearing a twenty-first century resonance that hardly needs explaining. Spanning locations from the Alps to Belfast and Hitlers Eagles Nest to the Himalayas, the plot captures the essence of the times, as the story unfolds across Scotland and Englands university and cathedral cities. Amelias pursuit of the truth of her arms-dealing husbands disappearance on the Cresta Run is matched only by her nemesiss plotting against the Americans and his accomplices misplaced efforts to help the Nazis to victory.
The Versailles Treaty after WWI "Mandated Islands" in the Pacific to the Japanese. President Roosevelt felt the Japanese were illegally installing military fortification on these "Mandated Islands" which was in direct violation of the WWI Treaty. Amelia Earhart, a popular female pilot who set many aviation records, wanted to increase her popularity by flying around-the-world. This would be a huge accomplishments that no pilot, man or woman, had attempted before. She left California, March 17, 1937, in a twin-engine Lockheed Electra and flew to Honolulu on the first leg of her historic flight with Fred Noonan and Harry Manning as her navigators. Unfortunately, she crashed on take-off and her Electra was so badly damaged, it had to be shipped back to the Lockheed plant in California for repairs. Amelia and her publisher husband, George Putnam didn't have the money to repair her Electra and make another attempt to fly around-the-world, so Mr. Putnam approached President Roosevelt and asked if the U.S. government could help? FDR had met Amelia previously and knew of her plans to fly around-the-world. In 1937, FDR believed the Japanese were illegally preparing for war on "Mandated" islands in the Pacific. Marine Colonel Earl Ellis tried to sneak into Truk Atoll to gather information, but was caught on the island of Palau and killed. FDR believed that maybe a civilian pilot who was going to fly around-the-world might have a better chance to obtain the information he needed, so agreed to help Amelia on her request. But, FDR only did so, if Amelia would agree to take a few pictures of Japanese island fortifications along the way. Although a staunch 'pacifist' Amelia agreed to the president's stipulations. The U.S. government helped plan her second attempt, provided her plane with larger engines, installed additional fuel tanks and reconnaissance cameras, but did so with little fanfare or publicity. Instead of flying from East to West as she planned on her first attempt, she flew West to East with only Fred Noonan as her navigator. Prior to her flight it's reported she was sworn into the Army Air Force as an officer and confided to a friend, "Imagine me being a spy " Amelia left California on May 21st and headed for Miami, Puerto Rico, Brazil, Africa, India, Bangkok, Singapore and Dutch East Indies, where Mr. F.O. Furman, a Lockheed maintenance specialist, met Amelia and checked her Electra and cameras for 3-days. At each stop, 55-gallon drums of fuel would be waiting for her, even if she flew into a field that was not on her announced itinerary. She and Fred Noonan left Lae, New Guinea on July 1st, 1937 and headed for Howland Island, 2,556 miles away. The Coast Guard Cutter ITASCA waited just off Howland to handle all communications as she approached. Unfortunately, when Harry Manning was the designated navigator on her first attempt, he arranged for Navy ships to communicate with her in Morse Code. No one told the Navy vessels that Manning was no longer her navigator. Neither Amelia or Fred could read Morse Code Amelia Earhart's Final Flight tells the story of how she crashed on Mili Atoll in the Marshall Islands, was captured by the Japanese, taken to Saipan where she was held in prison for several years before being killed. Eye-witnesses in the Marshall Islands and on Saipan provided the true accounts of what actually happened to Amelia on her historic flight, what happened when she was captured, how she was killed and reaction by U.S. and Japanese leaders. It also relates how U.S. Marines found Amelia's briefcase and also found her Electra on Saipan when they attacked in 1944. David O'Malley, a member of the Writers Guild, wrote an interesting screenplay that's based on these eye-witness reports. It gives a rational explanation why both the U.S. and Japan have kept Amelia's capture and death a secrete since her Fin
