Girl Intrepid
Title | Girl Intrepid PDF eBook |
Author | Leslie Armstrong |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 2020-08-04 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781951937249 |
Intrepid Woman
Title | Intrepid Woman PDF eBook |
Author | Betty Lussier |
Publisher | US Naval Institute Press |
Total Pages | 256 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: HISTORICAL, POLITICAL & MILITARY. A college student in Maryland when World War II began, Betty Lussier went to England to help the British fight off an impending invasion. Armed with a private pilot's license, she joined the Air Transport Auxiliary and was soon ferrying planes and pilots for the RAF, and her memoir describes those days in thrilling detail. After the Normandy invasion, when women pilots were barred from delivering planes to the combat zones on the continent, she went to the newly formed American Office of Strategic Services, which was recruiting field agents. Her experiences with a special liaison unit in Algeria, Sicily, Italy, and France helping to set up a chain of double agents and transmit misinformation to the enemy are described in compelling detail as she takes the reader step-by-step through some memorable cases that helped bring the war to an end.
Girl Intrepid
Title | Girl Intrepid PDF eBook |
Author | Leslie Armstrong |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 2020-08-04 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781951937232 |
The Adventures of Mighty-Girl: Mighty-Girl's First True Love
Title | The Adventures of Mighty-Girl: Mighty-Girl's First True Love PDF eBook |
Author | William J. Smith |
Publisher | Lulu.com |
Total Pages | 360 |
Release | 2016-01-09 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1329737431 |
For the first 15 years of her life, and first 10 years as Mighty-Girl, Carol Anne was able to live her dual-life as a mild-mannered little girl and superhero without a care in the world, but once she meets her boyfriend;Nicholas, she has lots of things to worry and stress about.She has to keep her identity as Mighty-Girl a secret from Nicholas and then she has to decide if she'll give up her innocence, her virginity to prove her love and loyalty to Nicholas and if her dual life is more important than true l
Mrs. Sherlock Holmes
Title | Mrs. Sherlock Holmes PDF eBook |
Author | Brad Ricca |
Publisher | St. Martin's Press |
Total Pages | 432 |
Release | 2017-01-03 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1466883650 |
Nominated for the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime! This is the shocking and amazing true story of the first female U.S. District Attorney and traveling detective who found missing 18-year-old Ruth Cruger when the entire NYPD had given up. Mrs. Sherlock Holmes tells the true story of Grace Humiston, the lawyer, detective, and first woman U.S. District Attorney who turned her back on New York society life to become one of the nation's greatest crime-fighters during an era when women were still not allowed to vote. After agreeing to take the sensational case of missing eighteen-year-old Ruth Cruger, Grace and her partner, the hard-boiled detective Julius J. Kron, navigated a dangerous web of secret boyfriends, two-faced cops, underground tunnels, rumors of white slavery, and a mysterious pale man, in a desperate race against time. Brad Ricca's Mrs. Sherlock Holmes is the first-ever narrative biography of this singular woman the press nicknamed after fiction's greatest detective. Her poignant story reveals important clues about missing girls, the media, and the real truth of crime stories. Mrs. Sherlock Holmes is a nominee for the 2018 Edgar Awards for Best Fact Crime.
The Horse Lover
Title | The Horse Lover PDF eBook |
Author | H. Alan Day |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | 262 |
Release | 2022-09 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1496232631 |
The Horse Lover is H. Alan Day’s personal history of the first government-sponsored wild horse sanctuary, with its surprises and pleasures and its plentiful dangers, frustrations, and heartbreak.
Sovay
Title | Sovay PDF eBook |
Author | Celia Rees |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | 429 |
Release | 2010-10-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1599905736 |
In 1794 England, the beautiful Sovay dons a man's cloak and holds up stagecoaches in broad daylight. Posing as a highway robber began as a lark to test a suitor's devotion. But when she lifts the wallet of one of England's most dangerous men, Sovay begins to unravel a web of deceit and duplicity. Acclaimed author Celia Rees' talent for romance and intrigue are sure to thrill a paperback audience.