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Bonjour! My name is Monsieur Pierre and may I introduce Mademoiselle Gigi. With the help of Gigi, I am going to tell the exciting true-life story of Napoleon Bonaparte's life. You see, Napoleon was my master. Gigi's mistress, Madame Josephine, was the love of Napoleon's life. "Napoleon's pere wanted Napoleon's dream of becoming a soldier to come true. So, Gigi, his pere went to the French governor of Corsica and asked him for a scholarship fo...

I was born a bastard at a county hospital. When most girls of sixteen were getting their driver licenses my mother was getting herself a baby. As a child I spent a lot of time in an orphanage called the Margaret Lloyd Stansel's Children's Asylum. My mother preferred to call it a boarding school or summer camp depending upon the time of year I was visiting. Most every child who lived there had a parent, a grandparent, an aunt, uncle, or s...

Fifteen-year-old Jennifer Brice Hamilton has been subjected to her mother's new way of life ever since her parents' divorce two years earlier - a move to a lower tax bracket in Chicago, an undesirable school and her mother's newest boyfriend - Phil. Jennifer rebels. Her mother's answer to the "handful-slash-Jennifer" is to pack her up and send her to her grandma's, whom Jennifer has not seen in almost three years. Her mother's lusty plan is fo...

Tuesday is a beautiful, talented and obedient child star, ordered around by her bipolar stage mother, Constance, and her agent, Uncle Monty. The two adults are Tuesday's entire, lonely, rule-filled world until the singer meets Zelda-the daughter of Tuesday's housekeeper and a fellow teenager-who plots to show Tuesday a good time. Horrified by Tuesday's sheltered and puritanical life, Zelda compels her to re-examine the way her mother pushes he...

Historical fiction account written for children about a Seminole Indian known as Alligator Warrior (Halpatter Tustenuggee). Follow him from the time he is a child living peacefully along the banks of Big Lake in Alligator Town (Halpata Tolophka) later known as Lake City throughout his lifetime. Trace his steps through the First and Second Seminole Wars, through his capture and being forced to move to the Indian Territory - only having to share...

Ever since Coral Anderson started high school her life has been a nightmare. Her best friend has made all the right moves: cheerleading, haircut, make-up, and a boyfriend. As hard as Coral tries, she is pushed further to the front of the school bus.However, Coral believes after meeting Mr. Patterson, the Algebra teacher her luck has changed. There is hope - a secret relationship, a shoulder to cry upon, and his lips to kiss.

Once upon a time there lived a little princess named Cleopatra. She lived long long ago in Egypt, a far-off land in Africa. Cleopatra grew up to become the last and most famous queen of Egypt. "... Cleopatra, girls don't go to school. Girls learn how to dance and put on make-up, " barked Podenco, the king's other greyhound. "Both of you are wrong! I will go to the museum and learn about literature, medicine, the arts, science, languages, and...

Pedro Menendez sailed to Florida on his flagship, the San Pelayo, named after a knight who had successfully defeated the Spanish Moors 850 years earlier. There were twenty cabin boys on board the San Pelayo. Ship boys or cabin boys were from ages eleven to thirteen. Many boys were from poor families who could neither clothe nor feed them. They were servants to the officers and worked long hours, often doing the necessary dirty work onboard th...

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