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Journalist Marguerite Holloway arrives at the Women's Tree Climbing Workshop as a climbing novice, but with a passion for trees and a deep concern about their future. Run by twin sister tree doctors Bear LeVangie and Melissa LeVangie Ingersoll, the workshop helps people develop impressive technical skills and ascend into the canopy.

This is Marguerite van Geldermalsen's story of how a New Zealand-born nurse came to be married to Mohammad Abdallah Othman, a Bedouin souvenir-seller from the ancient city of Petra in Jordan. It was 1978, and she and a friend were travelling through the Middle East when Marguerite met the charismatic Mohammad, who convinced her that he was the man for her. Marguerite's light-hearted and guileless observations of the people she comes to love are as heart-warming as they are valuable, charting Bedouin traditions now lost to the modern world.

American Libraries editor in chief Leonard Kniffel offers a compelling collection of interviews with prominent figures--all of whom have special connections to libraries. From President Barack Obama to actress Julie Andrews; from basketball star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to former First Lady and librarian Laura Bush and many others, stars of literature, politics, entertainment, and the public arena speak with Kniffel about the ways libraries have been critical in their lives.

When Deb Moerke and her husband decided to become foster parents, they never imagined how their lives would change. And never did they imagine their worst nightmare coming true: Their five-year-old foster daughter, Hannah, murdered at the hands of her birth mom, Karen. The Moerkes were overwhelmed with horror and grief. And just when they didn’t think they could bear any more, Deb received a phone call from Karen in prison. Facing a life sentence for Hannah’s murder, she was pregnant. And Karen had an incredible request: Would Deb take her unborn baby and love it as her own?

Marguerite Gray is a lifestyle icon known for her garden parties, high-end business ventures, and being the muse behind the famous Serge Kuhnert painting, Marguerite by the Lake. Her presence is overpowering, her taste, legendary. For the last few years, Phoenix has been the gardener on the famed Rosecliff grounds, home of the Gray family: Marguerite and her husband Geoffrey. Phoenix came from humble beginnings, and now she works hard to craft the landscape that underpins Marguerite's brand.

Paris, Frühling 1945. Eine junge Autorin, die als Marguerite Duras weltberühmt werden wird, wartet auf ihren Mann. Robert L. wurde als Mitglied der Résistance in ein deutsches Konzentrationslager verschleppt. Als er, den sie so sehnsüchtig herbeiwünscht, endlich eintrifft, ist er ihr nah und fremd zugleich. Die Liebe scheint verschwunden. Und der Schmerz bleibt. Mit faszinierender Klarheit beschreibt Duras das Martyrium des Wartens und Hoffens.

John Randel Jr. (1787-1865) was an eccentric and flamboyant surveyor. Renowned for his inventiveness as well as for his bombast and irascibility, Randel was central to Manhattan’s development but died in financial ruin. Telling Randel’s engrossing and dramatic life story for the first time, this eye-opening biography introduces an unheralded pioneer of American engineering and mapmaking. Charged with "gridding" what was then an undeveloped, hilly island, Randel recorded the contours of Manhattan down to the rocks on its shores.

Nora Ephron was one of the most popular, accomplished, and beloved writers in American journalism and film. Nora Ephron: A Biography is the first biography of the Manhattan-born girl who forged a path of her own, earning accolades and adoration from critics and fans alike. Author Kristin Marguerite Doidge explores the tremendous successes and disappointing failures Ephron sustained in her career and examines the private life she tried to keep in balance with her insatiable ambition.

No puede perderse este trabajo en base a la vida de la célebre Margarita Porete, o Marguerite Porrette, o la Porette, una mística francesa de la corriente de las beguinas nacida hacia 1250 y quemada en 1310 por herejía, por negarse a retirar de la circulación su libro El Espejo de las Almas Simples.

Nach circa 350 Jahren konnte sie 1980 als erste Frau in die Académie Française einziehen. Die einzigartigen Biografien laden dazu ein, sich mit der Geschichte der Frauen zu befassen, die den Mut hatten, ihren Traum zu verwirklichen und schließlich ihr Ziel erreichten, die Erste zu sein!

Bienvenue dans Saturne!! un podcast chill, sincère et un peu lunaire, où on parle émotions, développement perso, vie d’étudiante et réalités qu’on ne dit pas trop fort. C’est un journal de bord doux-amer, entre rires, ras-le-bol et réflexions qui réchauffent. Insta du podcast 🪐🎙️: https://www.instagram.com/saturnepodcast/ Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

Bienvenue dans Saturne!! un podcast chill, sincère et un peu lunaire, où on parle émotions, développement perso, vie d’étudiante et réalités qu’on ne dit pas trop fort. C’est un journal de bord doux-amer, entre rires, ras-le-bol et réflexions qui réchauffent. Insta du podcast 🪐🎙️: https://www.instagram.com/saturnepodcast/ Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

Bienvenue sur “Paroles et musique”, le podcast qui met la littérature au carré, qui donne une deuxième dimension aux livres avec la chanson. Si vous aimez les récits autour de la lecture, si vous considérez la musique comme une machine à voyager dans le temps, alors ce podcast devrait vous plaire. 🌼 Je suis Marguerite, professeur la semaine et podcasteuse dès le vendredi. 🗓️ Le premier vendredi du mois, vous retrouverez un épisode d’une dizaine de minutes qui mettra la littérature au carré, la littérature puissance deux, en paroles, avec les livres et les écrivains, ...

Ça chauffe pas 😎 Un podcast pour enfin m'exprimer au delà des écrits, pour reprendre gout à ce que je sais faire le mieux, raconter des histoires, mes histoires, celles des autres, celles découvertes dans les livres, à travers les films ou en musique. Un podcast pour me soigner, pour guérir et apporter plus que des mots à mes auditeurs, Kaléidoscope De Moi, de vous, de tout, voila.

« Au revoir mes enfants ! Quand vous partez, ne vous retournez pas… » Avec ces derniers mots de leur mère, deux petites filles, Marguerite et sa sœur aînée, vont commencer une longue errance qui durera deux ans. Munies d’une nouvelle identité, elles doivent se couper de tout ce qui...

“Goodbye my children! When you leave, don't look back…” With these last words from their mother, two little girls, Marguerite and her older sister, will begin a long wandering that will last two years. Equipped with a new identity, they must cut themselves off from everything that...

From Fox News medical contributor Dr. Nicole Saphier, comes an inspiring collection of powerful first-person stories celebrating motherhood, from Fox News personalities and extraordinary moms around America. Unmatched and unwavering, mothers are the embodiment of selfless, pure, and...

In 1889, Victorian impresario Richard D'Oyly Carte opened The Savoy, Britain's first luxury hotel. Allowing the rich to live like royalty, it attracted glamour, scandal and a cast of eccentric characters, with the D'Oyly Carte family elevated to a unique vantage point on high society. The Secret...

On the morning of November 14, 1992, Annette Herfkens, a top Dutch banker, packed her luggage for a romantic getaway with her longtime fiancé, Willem. At 6:25 that morning, Annette and Willem boarded a plane out of Ho Chi Minh City, with 23 other passengers and six crew members, excited to finally have a vacation together. Six minutes before landing, flying at speed of 300 miles per hour, the plane lost altitude and crashed along a mountain ridge in the jungle of Vietnam.

Jayne Mansfield was driven not just to be an actress but to be a star. One of the most influential sex symbols of her time, she was known for her platinum blonde hair, hourglass figure, outrageously low necklines, and flamboyant lifestyle. Mansfield proved early in her career that she was adept in both comic and dramatic roles, but her tenacious search for the spotlight and her risqué stunts caused her to be increasingly snubbed in Hollywood. In the first definitive biography of Mansfield, Eve Golden offers a joyful account of the star Andy Warhol called “the poet of publicity.”