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From debut author Anna Adams, this delightful YA romcom is all about finding yourself, your family, and perfect harmony in the big city. Maude Laurent is an orphan. Raised in Carvin, a small town in northern France, she’s always wondered about her parents—who they were and what happened to them. Her foster family, the Ruchets, certainly won’t tell her anything. For them, she’s someone to cook meals, clean their house, and look after their twin boys, but Maude dreams of much more—she dreams of becoming an opera star and singing on the great stages of Paris. Her Cinderella moment arrives when she’s livestreamed playing the piano and singing in a café during a school trip to Paris....
"In retrospect I wish I hadn't fallen in love, because maybe fewer people would have died." Anna Burgin is happily single, with close friends, and a busy lifestyle. But then she meets someone who blows her mind. But it's the match made in heaven that ends in hell, sparking a deadly series of events that prove modern dating can be murder.
Madame Anna Guérin is the fascinating personality behind the title ‘The Poppy Lady’. Her idea of the ‘Inter-Allied Poppy Day’ gave work to women and children in the devastated areas of France, in addition to offering support for First World War veterans. Born in 1878, she was an early feminist, becoming financially independent. During the First World War, and the immediate years after the Armistice, many people knew of Madame Guérin’s reputation as a selfless fundraiser for French and American charities. Her speeches inspired many people to make generous donations. Having had her name lost in the mists of time, this is the first biography of Madame E. Guérin. The book follows her extraordinary story as ‘The Poppy Lady’, a woman born before her time, but confined to anonymity for too long.
Women have too often been written out of history. This is especially true in the fight for Irish independence. The women's struggle was three-fold, beginning with the suffragettes' fight to win the vote. Then came the push for fair pay and working conditions. Binding them together became part of the national struggle, first for home rule, then for the establishment of an Irish Republic. The Easter Rising of 1916 brought them together as soldiers of the Republic. Through the terrible years that followed, they became the conscience of Republicanism. Following independence, they were betrayed by the men they had served alongside. DeValera and the Catholic Church restricted their roles in society--they were to be wives and mothers without a voice. It was not until Ireland's entry into the European community and the self destruction of a corrupt Church that Irish women were acknowledged for what they had achieved.
Toulon, France: 1754 Senegal, West Africa: 1755 St. Augustine, Florida: 1756 - 1810 Book 3 - Children of the Alliance, 1754 – 1810 is the prequel to the series. The story-within-a-story encapsulates the legendary saga and recounts the life of Juliette and Claude’s ancestor’s, knight-errant and Captain, Françoise J. Reiss III, and Prince Boukar Semou Jolof, a.k.a. Luis Freedman, a former Senegalese prince and freed slave. It’s the Age of Enlightenment on the European, African and North Atlantic continents. It's an era when a racial divide makes most men enemies, but Françoise and Luis sacrifice everything to keep their mixed-race families together. Children of the Alliance will hold you captive to a tumultuous world where trading slaves is second nature and exposes the circumstances surrounding how Juliette’s dowry was acquired by her 4th great-grandfather. *Readers are given a glimpse of their ancestors’ journeys with excerpts in Book 1, Mistaken Legacy, and in Book 2, Heiress and Epithet, as Juliette and Claude discover how the captain acquired Juliette’s heirloom dowry: The decoratively carved ebony chest of rare gemstones.