However, the pace for the first 60% is incredibly slow with events occasionally perking things up a bit. Some dialogue I’m sorry to say I find dreadful and some peripheral characters don’t feel authentic. The repetition of the song La Petite Tonkinoise gets on my nerves after a while! The moment I heard this book had a connection with the Titanic, I was easily convinced to read it. For years I have found the story of the Titanic fascinating, so it's obvious that my favourite part was onboard the ship. I found Margaret's story a bit slow, but I think it was because of my level of excitement about the part onboard the ship. The ship itself has a small part in the story, the main focus is on the story leading up to the boys being on the ship and their life after the sinking. I enjoyed the historical research by Fidelis Morgan and found it really interesting. If you have a love for the Titanic (like me) or you enjoy Historical Fiction, then this book needs to be on your TBR. Marcella makes the momentous decision that she needs to leave this man for the sake of herself and her two young boys. Divorce is not going to be easy, it is 1911 and the French courts need to decide whether this will go ahead and what happens to the two young boys. You can be a hero to a deserving dog or cat. Almost without exception, people who adopt older animals feel a special sense of pride and purpose in opening their heart to a hard-to-place pet. Doing a good thing really does make you feel good! Katie Flynn was born in Norwich and attended Norwich High School, where she was extremely happy and extremely undistinguished. Published at the tender age of eight, in Enid Blyton's Sunny Stories, she joined a Writers’ Circle as an adult, publishing short stories, articles, etc; only turning to novels in 1971 because the postal strike cut off her main source of income!

Marcella is in unhappy marriage and age of 21 mother of 2 she decides to divorce from her husband. Her husband doesn't want her to have the kids. Taking children without telling anyone, he is leaving the country to make his journey on Titanic to America but we all know this massive ship is going to sink.. He and kids on board...Our story centres on Marcella. Young and naive she is swept up into a romance with Michael. Michael has plans and intends for Marcella to be part of them. He knows what to say to her and how to butter up her family. It takes some time, a marriage, a child and another on the way before his ugly side makes itself known. Much of the novel is the building of the foundation for the place that Marcella finds herself in, secretly visiting a divorce lawyer and relaying her story to him. It's about half way through the book that the event that dominates the cover and blurb occurs. Orphans of the Storm offers the Golden Buddies Program to match senior pets (6+ years-old) with senior citizens (65+ years-old.) Orphans of the Storm offers a wonderful selection of cats and dogs ready to find their place in your heart and home. To help more cats and dogs find loving homes we offer a special adoption program. This program is designed to help older adults add a friend to their lives. Seniors, age 55 and older, may select an adult dog or cat, 7 years or older, and we will waive all adoption fees. The fate of the Titanic is well known and Celia Imrie and Fidelis Morgan, who carried out the historical research, have taken some of the real life survivors and produced a poignant novel that successfully blends fact and fiction. A gripping tale (though mostly true). I could not put this book down until I learnt the fate of the two boys on the Titanic. Michael the husband of Marcela was not happy about a divorce and had convinced a male legal system that Marcela was a unfit mother. While waiting for the court decision he stole the boys away. Would their mother ever be able to trace them, and if they lived or died would she be able to claim them as hers as the male dominant society was unwilling to identify her as an acceptable mother.

Stanley Appelbaum, Great Actors and Actresses of the American Stage in Historic Photographs: 332 Portraits From 1850-1950 (1983) Orphans of the Storm is a 1921 silent movie. It was directed by D. W. Griffith. It stars sisters Dorothy and Lillian Gish. The movie is about two sisters (one blind) who are separated during the turmoil of the French Revolution. They are reunited after much tribulation. Khatyn, of course, is homonymous with the much more famous Katyn, the forest where the Soviets themselves had murdered up to twenty-two thousand captured Polish army officers during April and May of 1940. The responsibility for this terrible crime—a product of the dismemberment of Poland by Germany and by the Soviet Union in the wake of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact—had still, at the time of the making of Come and See, not been officially owned up to by the Soviet authorities; and it’s possible indeed to see permission to make the film in the first place as a tactical move in the Soviets’ ongoing propaganda war with the West, as indeed many did upon its release. The Polish Katyn would not thereby be denied outright, but it would be relativized—“You talk of your Katyn, but we have a Khatyn as well!”—put into the wider context of the endemic terrorism that shadows pretty much every war.

However it wasn't until the end of the book while reading the epilogue that I learned that this book is factual history. Each person and their story in the book is a documentation of actual people found through meticulous research. I was dumbfounded and even more impressed with the author's ability to write wonderful flowing dialogue and remarkable descriptions of the world that was of that time. The epic tale of two step-sisters, Henriette and Louise Girard, caught up in the storm of the French Revolution. Louise, the child of an aristocrat, was abandoned on the cathedral steps where Henriette's father found her and took her home to raise as their own. After Louise goes blind, Henriette takes her to Paris where she hopes her sight can be restored. They are separated however, with Louise taken in by an old hag who forces her to beg on the street. Henriette has met the handsome Chevalier de Vaudrey who, although an aristocrat, is kind and cares about his fellow man. With the advent of the revolution, both Henriette and de Vaudrey are sentenced to the guillotine and it left to Danton to plead their case. — garykmcd