Belle's Best Move

Belle's Best Move
Author: Alexandra Moss
Publisher: Hippo Bks
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2005-07
Genre: Ballet dancing
ISBN: 9780439959698

Nine-year-old Clara has won a place at a top London ballet school - it's what she's always wanted, but as well as excitement there are nerves too - what if all the other girls are better than her? And what about the friends she's leaving behind...? Book Two: There's a new French ballet mistress, and for some reason she seems to have singled out Clara for criticism. Clara is mystified and upset, but how can she prove to the teacher that she's as talented as everyone else?

Three Degrees Above Zero

Three Degrees Above Zero
Author: Jeremy Bernstein
Publisher: CUP Archive
Total Pages: 270
Release: 1987-05-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521329835

Bell Laboratories is one of the world's leading research centres. Bell scientists have won seven Nobel prizes in, physics, more than any other single institution in the world. In this engrossing book - a blend of popular science, and history -Jeremy Bernstein guides us on a fascinating tour of the labs, introducing us to the men and women who have been responsible for some of the greatest scientific advances of this century, in computers and computation, solid state physics (including the invention and development of the transistor); communications, and in astrophysics.

Mathematical Go

Mathematical Go
Author: Elwyn Berlekamp
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 1994-02-15
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1439863555

The ancient game of Go is one of the less obvious candidates for mathematical analysis. With the development of new concepts in combinatorial game theory, the authors have been able to analyze Go games and find solutions to real endgame problems that have stumped professional Go players. Go players with an interest in mathematics and mathematicians

Belle

Belle
Author: Lesley Pearse
Publisher:
Total Pages: 536
Release: 2021-10-14
Genre:
ISBN: 9781913099824

A sweeping historical saga from the internationally best-selling author Lesley Pearse. London, 1910. Though raised in a brothel, fifteen-year-old Belle is still an innocent, carefree girl. That all changes when she witnesses a murder. After seeing a girl strangled by her client, Belle's life is turned upside down. From the brothel to the streets, Belle is sold into the seedy world of sex trafficking and shipped away to New Orleans where she is made a courtesan. With little autonomy and even less hope, Belle is at the mercy of the men she is forced to entertain. With a broken spirit, dreams of her home and family are all that keep Belle going. But if she were to find her freedom, would she have a home to return to? PRAISE FOR LESLEY PEARSE & BELLE 'An atmospheric cracker with lots of twists' - Woman 'Pearse will pull on your heartstrings with this well-crafted story' - Sun 'Storytelling at its very best' - Daily Mail 'Evocative, compelling, told from the heart' - Sunday Express 'Glorious, heart-warming' - Woman & Home 'Intrigue, heart-tugging, beautifully written' - Closer 'Characters it is impossible not to care about' - Daily Mail

Belle

Belle
Author: Joyce Dunn
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2008-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1934925357

"I couldn't wait to see what was coming next in Belle's life." - Sara Powers, elementary teacher "I loved the way she describes life on a small farm in the early 1900's." - Gwen Rice, librarian "What a woman!" - David Martin, Editor of Fine Lines Sitting at the table was a rail thin woman I'd never seen before. She had raven black hair, shapely black eyebrows, bright red lipstick, and thick pancake makeup. She was wearing red silk lounging pajamas with white polka dots. Her nails were long and also red. A large diamond adorned one finger, and numerous rings were scattered on her other fingers. The final touch was the cigarette in a long black holder. When introductions were made, I learned this was Aunt Belle, it seemed obvious even to an eight-year-old that everyone wished Aunt Belle would just disappear. Joyce Dunn reveals the life and times of a bigger-than-life character trying to shape the world and find her place in it.

Mean Spirit

Mean Spirit
Author: Linda Hogan
Publisher: Ivy Books
Total Pages: 386
Release: 1991-11-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0804108633

SELECTED BY THE LITERARY GUILD "Extraordinary...If you take up no other novel this year, or next, this one will suffice to hold, to disturb, to enlighten and to inspire you." NEWSDAY Early in this century, rivers of oil were found beneath Oklahoma land belonging to Indian people, and beautiful Grace Banket became the richest person in the Territory. But she was murdered by the greed of white men, and the Graycloud family, who cared for her daughter, began dying mysteriously. Letters sent to Washington, D.C. begging for help went unanswered, until at last a Native American government official, Stace Red Hawk, traveled west to investigate. What he found has been documented by history: rampant fraud, intimidation, and murder. But he also found something truly extraordinary--his deepest self and abiding love for his people, and their brave past.

Belle

Belle
Author: Beverly Jenkins
Publisher: NYLA
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2018-03-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1641970170

Belle Palmer is finally free! Separated from her father on the harrowing escape, Belle is lost and alone until she finds shelter with the Bests, the first free family she’s ever known. For the first time in her sixteen years, Belle can speak her mind—except for her feelings for a certain dark-eyed young man—The Beau. Educated and handsome, at eighteen, Daniel Best is engaged to the prettiest (if a little spoiled) girl around. So when the bedraggled girl his parents take under their wing suddenly turns into a vibrant, lovely young woman, his attraction to her is a complete—and complicated—surprise. That the two belong together is undeniable, but caught between conscience and attraction, could it possibly happen? “Beverly Jenkins has reached romance superstardom.”—Detroit Free Press “Beverly Jenkins writes a captivating novel with the right combination of romance, history, action, and a dash of quick-witted humor. With well-sculpted characters and well-drawn setting, this is a perfect novel to interest teens into reading other romances.”—Romantic Times

Boudoirs to Brothels

Boudoirs to Brothels
Author: Michael Rutter
Publisher: Farcountry Press
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2015-10-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 1560376260

From boudoirs to brothels, historian Michael Rutter takes you into the intimate world of the Wild West's women of the night. Eighteen richly researched biographies reveal the tricks and torments of the trade, with fascinating sidebars on venereal diseases (and dire "cures"), children of prostitutes, a floating brothel, and hog ranches.

In the Black

In the Black
Author: Sheryl Nantus
Publisher: Carina Press
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2014-05-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1426898355

Book one of Tales from the Edge When Sam Keller left the military, she ran to the far end of the galaxy. Now she captains the Bonnie Belle, a spaceship full of courtesans who bring a little pleasure to hard-up men on mining colonies. When one of her girls turns up dead, it's Sam's job to find out who killed her, fast. Marshal Daniel LeClair is as tough as steel and quick on the draw. But when his vacation gets replaced by an assignment to help find the killer, he can't help angling for a little action with the saucy, hard-charging Sam. She's got brains, attitude and a body he wouldn't mind investigating. Sam, six months lonely, might just indulge him. But the Guild that owns the Belle wants the case closed yesterday. With pressure coming from all quadrants, Sam and her marshal clash over false leads and who's on top. But when the killer threatens the Belle again, romance will have to wait. It's a captain's job to save her crew, no matter the cost. 91,000 words

Southern Belle

Southern Belle
Author: Steve M. Smith
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2000-12-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1469755491

For computer programmer Mike Braker it had been a bad year. With his wife gone and his drinking problem getting worse, all he wanted to do was hide from his problems. Running away was all he had done throughout his life. Mike Brakers year was going to get a whole lot worse. He was about to come up against a problem from which there would be no hiding. He was about to meet Sean Crane. Crane was cool, meticulous and unrelenting in his ruthlessness. It was these qualities that over the years had made him a top assassin, but as the years took their toll his nerves were beginning to show. When Braker starts to uncover an intricate computer fraud, he is pitted against Cranes professional skills. Their battle begins in Spain, continues in England, New Orleans and Orlando reaching its climax in New York at the height of the Independence Day fireworks display. With $7.5 million diverted to a hidden account, the line between hunter and hunted becomes blurred. The ultimate race against time to halt a multiple assassination and expose the fraud holds an intriguing triple-twist ending that is sure to keep the pages turning.