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Josephine

Author : Patricia Hruby Powell

Publisher : Chronicle Books

Page : 107 pages

File Size : 14,42 MB

Release : 2014-01-14

Category : Juvenile Nonfiction

ISBN : 1452129711

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Coretta Scott King Book Award, Illustrator, Honor Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award, Honor Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, Nonfiction Honor In exuberant verse and stirring pictures, Patricia Hruby Powell and Christian Robinson create an extraordinary portrait for young people 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.



Josephine Against the Sea

Author : Shakirah Bourne

Publisher : Scholastic Inc.

Page : 207 pages

File Size : 28,43 MB

Release : 2021-07-06

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 1338642111

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Meet Josephine, the most loveable mischief-maker in Barbados, in a magical, heartfelt adventure inspired by Caribbean mythology. * “A heart-wrenching adventure with big laughs and well-earned surprises.” –Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review Eleven-year-old Josephine knows that no one is good enough for her daddy. That's why she makes a habit of scaring his new girlfriends away. She's desperate to make it onto her school's cricket team because she'll get to play her favorite sport AND use the cricket matches to distract Daddy from dating. But when Coach Broomes announces that girls can't try out for the team, the frustrated Josephine cuts into a powerful silk cotton tree and accidentally summons a bigger problem into her life . . . The next day, Daddy brings home a new catch, a beautiful woman named Mariss. And unlike the other girlfriends, this one doesn't scare easily. Josephine knows there's something fishy about Mariss but she never expected her to be a vengeful sea creature eager to take her place as her father's first love! Can Josephine convince her friends to help her and use her cricket skills to save Daddy from Mariss's clutches before it's too late?



Jazz Age Josephine

Author : Jonah Winter

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 40 pages

File Size : 33,26 MB

Release : 2012-01-03

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 1442447109

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A picture book biography that will inspire readers to dance to their own beats! Singer, dancer, actress, and independent dame, Josephine Baker felt life was a performance. She lived by her own rules and helped to shake up the status quo with wild costumes and a you-can’t-tell-me-no attitude that made her famous. She even had a pet leopard in Paris! From bestselling children’s biographer Jonah Winter and two-time Caldecott Honoree Marjorie Priceman comes a story of a woman the stage could barely contain. Rising from a poor, segregated upbringing, Josephine Baker was able to break through racial barriers with her own sense of flair and astonishing dance abilities. She was a pillar of steel with a heart of gold—all wrapped up in feathers, sequins, and an infectious rhythm.



The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B

Author : Sandra Gulland

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 449 pages

File Size : 22,1 MB

Release : 2002-03-17

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0743213572

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Passion intertwines with fate in this riveting and historically rich novel about the journey of a woman from poverty to ultimate power in Revolution-era France. In this first of three books inspired by the life of Josephine Bonaparte, Sandra Gulland has created a novel of immense and magical proportions. We meet Josephine in the exotic and lush Martinico, where an old island woman predicts that one day she will be queen. The journey from the remote village of her birth to the height of European elegance is long, but Josephine's fortune proves to be true. By way of fictionalized diary entries, we traverse her early years as she marries her one true love, bears his children, and is left betrayed, widowed, and penniless. It is Josephine's extraordinary charm, cunning, and will to survive that catapults her to the heart of society, where she meets Napoleon, whose destiny will prove to be irrevocably intertwined with hers.



The Basil and Josephine Stories

Author : F. Scott Fitzgerald

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 342 pages

File Size : 29,46 MB

Release : 1997-01-24

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 0684826186

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In this classic collection of 14 short stories, Fitzgerald evokes, with a mixture of nostalgia and ironic humor, his experiences growing up in the decade before World War II. The tales were originally written as two separate series for The Saturday Evening Post.









Becoming Josephine

Author : Heather Webb

Publisher : Penguin

Page : 320 pages

File Size : 35,32 MB

Release : 2013-12-31

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1101634995

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A sweeping historical debut about the Creole socialite who transformed herself into an empress Readers are fascinated with the wives of famous men. In Becoming Josephine, debut novelist Heather Webb follows Rose Tascher as she sails from her Martinique plantation to Paris, eager to enjoy an elegant life at the royal court. Once there, however, Rose’s aristocratic soldier-husband dashes her dreams by abandoning her amid the tumult of the French Revolution. After narrowly escaping death, Rose reinvents herself as Josephine, a beautiful socialite wooed by an awkward suitor—Napoleon Bonaparte. “A debut as bewitching as its protagonist.” —Erika Robuck, author of Hemingway’s Girl and Call Me Zelda “Vivid and passionate.” —Susan Spann, author of The Shinobi Mysteries From the Trade Paperback edition.



The Barefoot Book of Father and Son Tales

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Publisher :

Page : 90 pages

File Size : 29,49 MB

Release : 1999

Category : Fathers and sons

ISBN :

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A collection of folktales from various cultures illuminate the father-son relationship.