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Weathering the Storm
Unexplained weather has been terrorizing the world for a few months. When MI6 agent Nicholas Wellington and some colleagues are killed in a ship wreck, Nicholas’s girlfriend Charmaine Dorbandt, a fellow MI6 employee decides to investigate and prove her theory of unexplained weather, but will the world governments listen to her? French Air Force Medic, Pierre Marceline is recovering from a helicopter accident that nearly cost him his life. Pierre receives a call from DGSE where he is asked to help a blind MI6 agent on a classified mission. Pierre decides to help and his adventure begins. When Charmaine and Pierre meet, they start to work with a group of scientists to see if they can stop the worsening weather. During their investigation, Charmaine decides to investigate each person, but along the way, Charmaine and Pierre must learn to work together with physical obstacles from Charmaine’s blindness and Pierre’s healing body, and the emotional scars that Charmaine has from Nicholas’s untimely death and the trauma from Pierre’s accident. Will they be able to weather the physical and emotional storms that keep coming up, while they are trying to save the world from disaster?
Polo Games
A veritable symbol of the art of living, polo has generated its own clans, codes, and destinations. Polo was first played in Persia, and then spread across the steppes of Central Asia to India. The British colonialists were quickly seduced by this sport of kings and king of sports. They exported the game to the Western world, all the way to the Argentine Pampas. Today, polo teams travel a worldwide circuit, from Windsor to St. Moritz, Dubai or Buenos Aires, to compete in contests that recall jousting matches of warriors. Cartier, jeweler to kings, princes, and maharajahs, is of course an enthusiast of this sport and sponsors some of the most spectacular tournaments in the world, combining elements of passion, audacity, and the chic and cosmopolitan art of living.
Love Under Siege
Love under Siege shares the tale of a young womans struggles after she overhears a shocking secret and risks everything in a valiant search for her parents, true love, and a new faith. It has been twenty-four years since Violette de la Marne was told her parents were dead. Now as she stands beside her Grand-Pere Philippes death bed, she clutches the only thing she has left from her parents a golden locket and waits for him to take his last breath. But before he does, she overhears him reveal a shocking secret during a confession to a bishop: he has lied to Violette for years, fearing he would lose her to the Huguenots. Her parents are alive. Betrayed by her Grand-Pere and betrothed to a man ...
Unbelievable
This book charts a journey – my unbelievable journey, taking you along for a memorable ride with some of the country’s most interesting and enigmatic business personalities and political figures showing you what is really behind the curtain of success. What may surprise you when you turn the last page and close the back cover is that the only difference between them and you is their indomitable will to succeed despite their shortcomings and like me, they have more than their share of shortcomings. In other words, this isn’t a rah, rah book patting you on the back, saying, “go get em, Kid.” It is a kick you in the ass you can do it book that boldly states, “if you can think it, you can solve it” go get em, kid. What do you say, ready to go get em!
The Soap Maker
Anton is a boy of twelve when World War II turns his life upside down. He discovers his first love and soul mate when he finds Marie in the midst of the Nazi occupation of France. Though his mettle is severely tested as he experiences the tragic loss of everything he loves, he perseveres. From the French Resistance to the liberation of Paris, to the high-fashion industry in America in the 1950s, and to the bucolic valley of Sonoma, California, Anton comes full circle. Through tragedy, loss, love, revenge, and finally, a life fulfilled, The Soap Maker will make you cry, laugh, and eventually, smile.
Renoir on Renoir
This is a 1990 collection of interviews and essays by the legendary filmmaker Jean Renoir.
Agency and Archaeology of the French Maritime Empire
The French maritime empire enabled the continued colonization of territories all over the world from the 17th to the 19th centuries and was built upon the backs of those in lower socioeconomic classes. These classes were heavily impacted by social, political and economic structures. Detailed archaeological case studies using an agency perspective indicate that these lower socioeconomic classes were extremely diverse and dynamic groups that constantly negotiated their identities. These stories are not about the kings, military leaders, and politicians, but rather an exploration of the perspective of those who provided the fuel, both willingly and unwillingly, for the French maritime empire.
Historical Dictionary of Cycling
The nearly 150-year-old sport of cycling had its first competition in France in 1868. Soon afterward, the need arose for purpose-built cycling tracks because of poor road conditions at the time. Racing on blocked off pieces of street or grass soon evolvedinto racing on special tracks called velodromes. This development marked the split into what are still the two main forms of cycling competition: road racing and track racing. Initially, track cycling was more popular in terms of public attention and money to be earned by racers, but this gradually changed in favor of road racing, which has been the most popular form of cycling since at least the end of World War II. The Historical Dictionar...
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