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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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In exuberant verse and stirring pictures, Patricia Hruby Powell and Christian Robinson create an extraordinary portrait of the passionate performer and civil rights advocate Josephine Baker, the woman who worked her way from the slums of St. Louis to the grandest stages in the world. Meticulously researched by both author and artist, Josephine's powerful story of struggle and triumph is an inspiration and a spectacle, just like the legend herself....
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English
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In 1939 Hollywood, when a shocking act of violence on the set of Hitchcock's Rebecca reawakens the shadows of the past, Josephine Tey teams up with DCI Archie Penrose and together, they follow a trail of clues that echoes Rebecca's timeless themes of obsession, jealousy and murder.
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English
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Josephine Tascher de la Pagerie, born a Creole on the island of Martinique in the French West Indies, became one of the best known and most envied women who ever lived. Sent to France to make an advantageous marriage to a young aristocrat, her naiveté and lack of education left her ill prepared to deal with the sophisticated, if decadent, world of pre-Revolutionary Paris. Treated cruelly by her shallow young husband, her life had become a nightmare...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"In Agent Josephine, bestselling author Damien Lewis uncovers this little-known history of the famous singer's life. During the war years, as a member of the French Nurse paratroopers--a cover for her spying work--Baker participated in numerous clandestine activities and emerged as a formidable spy. In turn, she was a hero of the three countries in whose name she served--the US, France, and Britain"--
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Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
250 pages, 26 unumbered pages of plates ; illustrations 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In Josephine Baker and the Rainbow Tribe, Matthew Pratt Guterl brings out a little known side of the celebrated personality, showing how her ambitions of later years were even more daring and subversive than the youthful exploits that made her the first African American superstar. Her performing days numbered, Baker settled down in a sixteenth-century chateau she named Les Milandes, in the south of France. Then, in 1953, she did something completely...
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Series
Josephine Tey mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Bourbon Street Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
346 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Secret Spy Society volume 1
Publisher
Viking Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
95 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"It's a dark and stormy night when three sleuthing little girls get pulled into a web of mystery. They have mistakenly uncovered a secret society of some of the most famous female spies in history. A glamorous spy named Josephine Baker enlists the girls to find out who has kidnapped Chiquita, her precious pet cheetah. Do the girls have what it takes to become spies themselves?"--
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Series
Josephine Fuller mysteries volume 4
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
227 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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Series
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
329 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"May, 1937, London: The country is still reeling from Edward VIII's shocking decision to abdicate the throne in order to marry the woman he loves, Wallis Simpson. As London prepares for the historic Coronation of his brother, George, bestselling writer Josephine Tey is in town to oversee a BBC radio production of her play, Queen of Scots. When one of the BBC's best-known broadcasters is murdered at the height of the Coronation celebrations, Josephine...
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Sarah Crichton Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
1st American edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 488 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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The forefront British dance critic and award-nominated author of Bloomsbury Ballerina presents a revisionist assessment of the movement that shattered the boundaries of conventional femininity through the lives of six figures that exemplified it, including Lady Diana Cooper, Nancy Cunard, Tallulah Bankhead, Zelda Fitzgerald, Josephine Baker and Tamara de Lempicka.
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Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xi, 317 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Josephine N. Leary is determined to build a life of her own, and a future for her family. When she moves to Edenton, North Carolina from the plantation where she was born, she is free, newly married, and ready to follow her dreams. As the demands of lifepull Josephine's attention-deepening her marriage, mothering her daughters, supporting her grandmother-she struggles to balance her real estate aspirations with the realities of keeping life going...
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
213 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The author of the best-selling A Venetian Affair now gives us a charming chronicle of his search for a fabled antique rose--a tale that takes us back to the time of Josephine Bonaparte, and looks into the future of this much beloved flower"--
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Publisher
Simons & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xxix, 305 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The astonishing story of Dr. Josephine Janina Mehlberg--a Jewish mathematician who saved thousands of lives in Nazi- occupied Poland by masquerading as a Polish aristocrat-- drawing on Mehlberg's own unpublished memoir. World War II and the Holocaust have given rise to many stories of resistance and rescue, but The Counterfeit Countess is unique. It tells the remarkable, unknown story of "Countess Janina Suchodolska," a Jewish woman who rescued more...
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