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Arlette's Story

Author: Angela Barton

Publisher: Choc Lit

Published: 2018-06-26

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 1912550032

“A beautifully written novel . . . which captures life in occupied France during the Second World War” from the author of Magnolia House (That Thing She Reads). One woman’s struggle to protect the ones she loves . . . When Arlette Blaise sees a German plane fly over the family farm in 1940, she’s comforted by the fact that the occupying forces are far away in the north of the country. Surely the war will not reach her family in the idyllic French countryside near the small town of Oradour-sur-Glane? But then Saul Epstein, a young Jewish man driven from his home by the Nazis, arrives at the farm and Arlette begins to realize that her peaceful existence might be gone for good . . . “Absolutely gorgeous . . . an excellent book that really brings home just how horrific [WWII] must have been.”—Donna’s Book Blog

The Midnight Sister

Author: Marvin H. Albert

Publisher: Wildside Press LLC

Published: 2017-03-02

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 1479425427

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Pete Sawyer is a private eye of a different kind. The son of a World War II American pilot and a brave French resistance fighter, he grew up on both sides of the Atlantic -- though he prefers his sun-dappled villa on the Riviera to most other places. He takes pleasure in a fine wine...and a good gun. His French name is Pierre-Ange, and it suits him. In English, it means Stone Angel. When gutsy Arlette Alfani, a brilliant and beautiful Monaco lawyer, asks Pete for help, it's no cry in the dark. A former client of hers, the notorious killer and jewel thief, Andre Colin, has escaped from jail and the police think she arranged it. Pete puts himself on the case, scouring the discos and streetlife of Paris and the hills of Monaco, chasing every clue to a million-dollar scam in stolen gems and a missing mob boss. What he discovers in an insidious connection to a secret society called the Midnight Sister and a lone brutalized woman he must protect from Colin's revenge. If only Pete can keep her healthy enough, long enough, and keep himself that way, too...

Suzanne Noël: Cosmetic Surgery, Feminism and Beauty in Early Twentieth-Century France

Author: Paula J. Martin

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-03-09

Total Pages: 173

ISBN-13: 131704746X

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Working at the forefront of cosmetic surgery at the turn of the twentieth century, Dr Suzanne Noël was both a pioneer in her medical field and a firm believer in the advancement of women. Today her views on the benefits of aesthetic surgery to women may seem at odds with her feminist principles, but by placing Noël in the context of turn-of-the-century French culture, this book is able to demonstrate how these two worldviews were reconciled. Noël was able to combine her intense convictions for gender equality and anti-ageism in the workforce with her underlying compassion and concern for her female patients, during a time when there were no laws in place to protect women from workplace discrimination. She was also responsible for several advances in cosmetic surgery, a thriving industry, and is today best known for her development of the mini facelift. This book, therefore, sheds much valuable light on advances in aesthetic surgery, twentieth-century beauty culture, women and the public sphere, and the ’new woman’.

Florida

Author: Christine Schutt

Publisher: Open Road Media

Published: 2013-08-06

Total Pages: 155

ISBN-13: 1480438464

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Finalist for the National Book Award: Christine Schutt’s masterful novel—hailed by John Ashbery as “an amazing achievement”—about a remarkable little girl who comes of age, adrift, in the care of a rotating cast of indifferent relatives Alice Fivey is seven years old when her father dies, and ten when her mentally fragile mother is institutionalized. So begins the “sleepover life” for Alice. Shuttled among the homes of wealthy relatives, retainers, babysitters, and reluctant caretakers, Alice must learn their habits and adapt if she is to survive. But how is she to remain intact after the loss of her parents, whose troubled pasts are invoked to punish and manipulate her? Books help, as do kindly teachers. Set largely in the chilly Midwest, the vision of a life in Florida, first offered up by Alice’s father as a promise of good health and balmy weather, grows in significance for Alice. She is an orphan, and as such she must forge a home and an identity beyond that of her namesake: her unstable mother. Alice Fivey, consoled with reading, becomes a storyteller herself, building a home word by word in elegiac, luminous scenes that serve as evidence of the life-giving power of language. A finalist for the National Book Award, Florida is an elegant, lyrical, and dreamlike first-person portrait of a young artist in early bloom, and a hauntingly beautiful tale of survival and growth told in a unique and unforgettable voice.

The Allure of the Archives

Author: Arlette Farge

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2013-09-24

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13: 0300180217

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DIVArlette Farge’s Le Goût de l’archive is widely regarded as a historiographical classic. While combing through two-hundred-year-old judicial records from the Archives of the Bastille, historian Farge was struck by the extraordinarily intimate portrayal they provided of the lives of the poor in pre-Revolutionary France, especially women. She was seduced by the sensuality of old manuscripts and by the revelatory power of voices otherwise lost. In The Allure of the Archives, she conveys the exhilaration of uncovering hidden secrets and the thrill of venturing into new dimensions of the past. Originally published in 1989, Farge’s classic work communicates the tactile, interpretive, and emotional experience of archival research while sharing astonishing details about life under the Old Regime in France. At once a practical guide to research methodology and an elegant literary reflection on the challenges of writing history, this uniquely rich volume demonstrates how surrendering to the archive’s allure can forever change how we understand the past./div

When All Else Fails

Author: Michael Pulley

Publisher: Archway Publishing

Published: 2023-06-15

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 166573812X

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A wealthy land developer suddenly converts to evangelical Christianity, which flummoxes his wife, a heavy drinking socialite, and daughter, an outstanding high school tennis player, and sends them into a series of unexpected events with an agnostic tennis coach, a closet Algerian Muslim tennis player, and underworld figures threatening to bankrupt the land developer. The often profane and comic novel is not moralistic or cautionary but offers a realistic glimpse into events when strong religious feelings engulf a family and send them on a journey no one expects.

Gender and French Identity after the Second World War, 1944-1954

Author: Kelly Ricciardi Colvin

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2017-09-07

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 1350031127

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The enfranchisement of women in Charles de Gaulle's France in 1944 is considered a potent element in the nation's self-crafted, triumphant World War Two narrative: the French, conquered by the Germans, valiantly resisted until they rescued themselves and built a new democracy, honoring France's longstanding liberal traditions. Kelly Ricciardi Colvin's Gender and French Identity after the Second World War, 1944-1954 calls that potent element into question. By analyzing a range of sources, including women's magazines, trials, memoirs, and spy novels, this book explores the ways in which culture was used to limit the power of the female vote. It exposes a wide network of constructed behavioral norms that supported a conservative vision of French identity. Taken together, they depicted men as virile Resistors for French democracy and history, and women as solely domestic support. Indeed Colvin shows that women's access to the vote emerged alongside an explosion of cultural messages that encouraged them to retreat into the home, to find mates, to have 'millions of beautiful babies', in the words of de Gaulle, and not to challenge patriarchy in any way. This is a vital study for understanding the nature of postwar France and women's history in 20th-century Europe.

Teachers' Work

Author: RW Connell

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-08-02

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1000247600

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Teachers' Work is a highly readable, penetrating and often amusing account of the reality of teachers working lives, as relevant to the profession and its future as it was when first published in 1985. Based on the classic Australian study of the schools and homes of the wealthy and powerful and of ordinary wage-earners described in Making the Difference, Teachers' Work draws on extended interviews with teachers in elite private schools and mainstream government high schools and with the students and parents who attend and patronise them. As well as providing an absorbing account of the life and work of teachers through vivid portraits of people, classrooms and staffrooms, Teachers' Work illuminates the interaction between personal relationships in the classroom and the social structures of gender and class. In generating new ways of thinking about the character and origins of inequality in education, this book gives teachers themselves cause for reflection, offers student-teachers a picture of the real world of teaching, and provides parents with an insight into daily life behind the classroom door. At a time when the power of 'effective teaching' is being widely recognised and national debate focuses on the condition and prospcts of the teaching profession, Teachers' Work is as insightful and rewarding as ever.

The Technique of the Novel

Author: Carl Henry Grabo

Publisher:

Published: 1928

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13:

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You've Got My Number

Author: Angela Barton

Publisher: Choc Lit

Published: 2020-02-18

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 1781894485

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“A well-balanced story of life, love, and new beginnings” from the author of Magnolia House and Arlette’s Story (The Book Review). Three isn’t always a magic number . . . There are three reasons Tess Fenton should be happy. One, her job at the Blue Olive deli is dull, but at least she gets to work with her best friend. Two, she lives in a cozy cottage in the pretty village of Halston. Three, she’s in love with her boyfriend, Blake. Isn’t she? Because, despite their history, Blake continues to be the puzzle piece in Tess’s life that doesn’t quite fit. And when she meets intriguing local artist Daniel Cavanagh, it soon becomes apparent that, for Tess, love isn’t as easy as one, two, three . . . “Angela is a great storyteller and has created some lovely characters in You’ve Got My Number . . . This is a thoroughly enjoyable read which does not disappoint.”—Books, Life and Everything “A heartwarming contemporary romance . . . It is a great read, with a fantastic mix of characters—especially the budding Miss Marple!! It takes the reader on the full gamut of emotions and I have no hesitation in highly recommending it—another brilliant read from this talented author.”—Splashes into Books “Charming . . . an uplifting, romantic novel with two wonderful lead characters.”—Devilishly Delicious Book Reviews