Una Squadra speciale dei servizi francesi, incasellata nell'organizzazione Suret Europ enne, diretta dall'Unione Europea, impegnata in una complicata indagine su traffici internazionali di stupefacenti, titoli di credito contraffatti e di armi. Accade che si imbatta in un gruppo di trafficanti che hanno fatto scalo in un porticciolo del Tirreno, sulla costa calabra, da l parte un ramo dell'indagine scaturito dal rinvenimento del cadavere di una bella donna, torturata e massacrata. La squadra composta da tre uomini, una donna, una contessa normanna, di rara bellezza e di grande fascino, e un capo, denominato "il Controllo", incontra poi il relitto di una nave affondata durante il secondo conflitto mondiale. La vicenda si intreccia ulteriormente, al punto che la nave diviene il centro dell'inchiesta e la sua tragica vicenda e i retroscena del suo carico, l'obiettivo numero uno della Squadra. Complesse, articolate, intricate ricerche documentali, analisi di testimonianze, ricostruzione di eventi bellici, formano il complicato, insidioso, infido percorso degli agenti segreti con l'obiettivo di portare alla luce la trama della nave, che nelle sue stive ha un carico di esplosivi superiore alle 1.500 tonnellate e che da circa cinquant'anni giace a poche decine di metri dalla costa calabra nei pressi di Capo dell'Armi, a una profondit che raggiunge i 50 metri. Esplosivi che la criminalit organizzata avrebbe in qualche misura recuperato e probabilmente utilizzato in vari attentati. Un relitto utilizzato come polveriera della criminalit ? La squadra si impegna a fondo e riesce nel non facile compito di fare luce sull'intrigo, anche se un velo di mistero permane. Un evento tuttora avvolto da interrogativi inquietanti e da complicit oscure.
Laura is a fictionalized story of Laura Boult of St. Maurice, Louisiana. She left her small town and went to the big city in 1900 after having four boys with two different common-law husbands. In 1905, after being fired by the famous Schubert Brothers of Broadway fame, she left New York in disgrace with an all-black dance troupe headed to Paris, France. It was in Paris that she met the handsome Fran oise Goldman who taught her how to drop her strap and step out of her tap pants to fame and fortune, the likes of which she had never imagined. In 1940, just days before the Germans invaded Paris, Laura, Fran oise, and their daughter fled for their lives, arriving in New York with little more than the clothes they carried in their suitcases. While in New York, they worked at whatever jobs that were offered them. Laura returned to a liberated Paris in 1948 where, with the help of her former stage manger Jules Eitenne, she regained both her fame and her fortune.
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Als Hinf hrung zur Biografie der Autorin und Frauenrechtlerin Laura Marholm wird hier eine kurze illustrierte W rdigung versucht, mit der Interesse f r eine angefeindete und ignorierte Pers nlichkeit geweckt werden soll, der es um "die eigene W rde der Frau" gegangen ist.
About 500,000 colonists remained faithful to the British crown. Many loyalists agreed that America had suffered wrongs at the hands of Britain, but unlike the rebels, they believed that the solution to those ills could be worked out inside the Empire.Over the course of the war between thirty and fifty thousand Loyalists joined Loyalist regiments. Despite the steadfast service of the northern Loyalists and their almost unbroken string of victories, the war did not go well for the British. The entry of the French on the side of the rebellious colonies in 1778 was a heavy blow. The British army was defeated. The Loyalists were forced from their land in the United States, and they wanted to own their own land. The British government made treaties with the Indians to obtain land for the settlers.Tom and Betsey O'Donnell are introduced early as the pioneer family followed in their early years of starting a farm in the wilds of Upper Canada.Andrew and Mary Parker, former neighbours of the O'Donnells, are introduced next. Andrew is a carpenter and thoroughly enjoys his creative work. Mary is a loving wife who looks after their home and vegetable garden. When we first meet them, Mary is expecting their first child.Andrew gets his lumber from John Cripps and Mary enjoys a visit with Catherine while the men discuss business. Catherine's daughter-in-law, Elizabeth, comes for a visit as well. Elizabeth is also expecting her first child and the three women have questions, concerns and knowledge to share.Mary Parker reads an article in The Church magazine about a woman named Laura Secord who walked a long way to warn the British of a planned American attack. This begins a search for more information.The Parkers visit the O'Donnells and solicit information from Betsey from her parents who live in the Niagara area.The War of 1812 was fought between the United States and Great Britain from 1812-1815. From the end of the American Revolution, the American colonies had been irritated by the failure of the British to withdraw from American territory along the Great Lakes, their backing of the Indians on America's frontiers, and their unwillingness to sign commercial agreements favourable to the colonies. Resentment grew during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars in which Britain and France fought. Neutral shipping was interfered with by laws passed by both of these countries which affected the American colonies. The American government leaders felt that American honour could be saved and British policies changed by an invasion of Canada. The United States declared war on Canada on June 18, 1812.Laura Secord travelled a long ways on a hot June day to warn the British of a planned American attack. This trek was kept fairly quiet for years for the safety of Laura and her family. . Laura cold not take a direct route as there were American soldiers in the area. In the woods there was some respite from the heat, but the mosquitoes were swarming around her. As she neared the British, she stumbled upon a native encampment and had to convince them that she had an important message for the British. She was exhausted by this time but would not rest until she had delivered her message. The natives escorted Laura to the British and she warned them of the planned attack. The British and the natives prepared for the American attack and were able to rout the Americans and take a large number captive.The lives of the O'Donnells, Parkers, Cripps, and Secords are followed through to the Confederation of Canada, to the building of canals, and the building of the railway to connect Canada from shore to shore and add British Columbia as another province in the country of Canada.The book concludes with the impact left behind by Laura Secord and the great service she provided for the Canadian people.
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La trilogie des aventures libertines d'un couple tr s amoureux.Laure et Christian sont mari s depuis plus de dix ans.Dans "bo te de six", pour rompre la monotonie, Christian offre son pouse, qui doit effectuer un stage Paris, une bo te de six pr servatifs. Il accompagne son geste d'un "Profites-en bien" nigmatique.Suivant le conseil de son mari, Laure va se retrouver emport e dans un tourbillon de situations toutes plus chaudes les unes que les autres. Elle finira par tout raconter Christian.Dans 'Bo te de douze", Christian offre Laure un week-end en amoureux, agr ment d'une bo te de douze pr servatifs. Ils vont les partager avec de nombreux partenaires, rencontr s dans des moments plus cocasses les uns que les autres...Dans "bo te de trois", Laure se confie ses amies. De r v lations en aveux, la temp rature va monter pour atteindre son maximum quand Christian rejoint les trois amies...
“Masterly deftness, funny sentence by funny sentence...a moving and intricately braided story of two mothers.” —Jonathan Franzen, The Guardian This “beguiling, addictive read” (People, Book of the Week) and Belletrist Book Club pick about a blue-blooded single mother raising her daughter in rarefied New York City is a “carefully observed family story [that] rings true to life” (The New York Times Book Review).Laura hails from the Upper East Side of Manhattan, born into old money, drifting aimlessly into her early thirties. One weekend in 1981 she meets a man. The two sleep together. He vanishes. And Laura realizes she’s pregnant. Enter: Emma. “Unputdownable” (Library Journal) and “wryly observed” (Vogue), Laura & Emma follows Laura as she raises Emma in New York City over the next fifteen years. With wit and compassion, Kate Greathead explores the many flaws and quirks that make us human. Laura’s story hosts a cast of effervescent and original characters, including her eccentric mother, who informs her society friends and Emma herself that she was fathered by a Swedish sperm donor; her brother, whose childhood stutter reappears in the presence of their forbidding father; an exceptionally kind male pediatrician; and her overbearing best friend, whose life has followed the Park Avenue script in every way except for childbearing. “Kate Greathead’s debut novel gamely takes on class conflict, single motherhood, and the discreet pretension of the 1980s Upper East Side” (New York magazine) and is a “layered story about mothers and daughters and identity” (Entertainment Weekly). Told in vignettes whose every “restrained and understated sentence has been polished to glittering brightness” (Vox), Laura & Emma is “an incisive comedy of manners about class divides and the ‘burdens’ of being born privileged” (Esquire) and “a thoughtful novel of trying to find oneself despite an assigned place in the world” (Publishers Weekly).
