Showing results for "The Voyage" in Biographical Fiction

A family torn apart. A king with an iron fist. Will their faith be strong enough to survive persecution and reunite? Jeanne is the wife of a wealthy merchant, but now she risks losing everything. Louis XIV's soldiers will stop at nothing to forcibly convert the country's Protestants to the "true" faith. The men ransack Jeanne's belongings and threaten her children. If Jeanne and Jacob can't find a way to evade the soldiers' clutches, their family will face a fate far worse than poverty and imprisonment. They may never see each other again....

It's a journey that most deem an insane impossibility. Yet on October 20th, 1811, Lydia Latrobe Roosevelt—daughter of one of the architects of the United States Capitol—fearlessly boards the steamship New Orleans in Pittsburgh. Eight months pregnant and with a toddler in tow, Lydia is fiercely independent despite her youth. She's also accustomed to defying convention. Against her father's wishes, she married his much older business colleague, inventor Nicholas Roosevelt—builder of the New Orleans—and spent her honeymoon on a primitive flatboat. But the stakes for this trip are higher.

Mamma mia! Who would have dared to dream that ABBA would come back to us? Maybe most surprised were the members of the supergroup themselves who for years had cut short any discussion on the subject with a clear "nej". ABBA´s reunion is much more than a 70s phenomenon returning to the supertrooper limelight one last time; it hit a nerve in a sensitive world recovering from the pandemic. We somehow believe now that ABBA is back, we will be alright. Why do we love ABBA so much?

"- Vu l’ancienneté des faits, il sera sans doute compliqué de les faire établir, et vraisemblablement, votre père ne sera pas condamné… - Alors, il y a des faits plus récents, qui ont eu lieu à Nancy, à Nice, à Paris et à Tende, il y a deux ans. Ce serait peut-être plus facile… - Certainement. - Mais j’étais majeure. - Ça reste des viols par ascendant, madame. Et qui ont eu un commencement d’exécution quand vous étiez mineure.

Luther is a typical entrepreneur. He works hard and diligently to become one of the most impressive. His unyielding desire allows him to have everything he could wish for but not even wishes are free. He fights the good fight as a good entrepreneur does, but backlash creeps its way into blatant terribliness. Two things everyone should remember about life are that some things can't be changed, and priceless things are hard to come by.