Books with title America the Beautiful

[Read by Kate Reading] From Paris in the 1920s to London after the Blitz, two women find that a secret from their past reverberates through years of joy and sorrow.As recovery from World War II begins, expatriate American Nora Tours travels from her home in southern France to London in search of her missing sixteen-year-old daughter. There she unexpectedly meets up with an old acquaintance, famous model-turned-photographer Lee Miller. Neither has emerged from the war unscathed. Nora is racked with the fear that her efforts to survive under the Vichy regime may have cost her daughter's life. Lee suffers from what she witnessed as a war correspondent photographing the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps.Nora and Lee knew each other in the heady days of late 1920s Paris, when Nora was giddy with love for her childhood sweetheart, Lee became the celebrated mistress of the artist Man Ray, and Lee's magnetic beauty drew them all into the glamorous lives of famous artists and their wealthy patrons. But Lee fails to realize that her friendship with Nora is even older, that it goes back to their days as children in Poughkeepsie, New York, when a devastating trauma marked Lee forever. Will Nora's reunion with Lee give them a chance to forgive past betrayals and break years of silence to forge a meaningful connection as women who have shared the best and the worst that life can offer?A novel of freedom and frailty, desire and daring, The Beautiful American portrays the extraordinary relationship between two passionate, unconventional women.

America Is Beautiful is written in a simple style for readers. This book is fun and playful with delightful pictures to entertain the reader.Other titles in the Sam You Can Read Book Series:> Something Told The Wild Geese, by Rachel Field> Good Night Joon, by Aussie Osborne> The Little Mouse Miss And Her Little House of Swiss, by Dr. Zeuzz> Foxes in Boxes, by Dr. Zuezz> Go, Mouse. Go!, by Dr. Zuezz> Not My Mittens, by Samantha Sams > The Teacher's Pet, by Samantha Sams > The Rainbow Day, by Samantha Sams > Bella Is A Ballerina, by Samantha Sams > Stella Is A Mariachi Dancer, by Samantha Sams > Sports I Like To Play, by Samantha Sams > The Book Of Look, by Samantha Sams > Sam You Can Colors, by Samantha Sams > Sam You Can Numbers, by Samantha Sams > If We Went To The Beach , by Samantha Sams > Just For You, by Samantha Sams > A Bear Just Right For Me, by Samantha Sams> Mama Smiles, by Louis Eckbert, > All The Pretty Horses Of The Painted Hills, by Louis Eckbert> Growing Jack O' Lanterns, by Louis Eckbert> Growing Christmas

Master paper engineer Robert Sabuda has interpreted the classic American anthem "America the Beautiful" in dazzling dimension. From the Golden Gate Bridge to Mount Rushmore to the Statue of Liberty, America has never looked more spectacular. This stunning keepsake masterpiece will be shared and admired by generations to come; indeed it is a national treasure in and of itself. This book is one of a special edition of 26, lettered A to Z, retained by the author, or one of a signed and numbered edition of 250.

#1 New York Times bestselling author Renée Ahdieh returns with a sumptuous, sultry and romantic new series set in 19th century New Orleans where vampires hide in plain sight.'Incredibly ornate [and] lush . . . nail-biting and swoony and satisfying and tense all at the same time' Sabaa TahirIn 1872, New Orleans is a city ruled by the dead.But to seventeen-year-old Celine Rousseau, it's also a safe haven after she's forced to flee her life in Paris. Quickly enraptured by the vibrant city, from its music to its extravagant soirées and even its danger, she soon becomes embroiled in the city's glitzy underworld, and particularly the group known as La Cour des Lions.But when a body is found in their lair, Celine is forced to battle her attraction for the group's enigmatic leader, Sébastien Saint Germain, and suspicions about his guilt, along with her own secrets.As more bodies are discovered, New Orleans becomes gripped by the terror of a serial killer on the loose - one who seems to have Celine in his sights. But when she finally takes matters into her own hands, she finds herself caught in the midst of an age-old feud between the darkest creatures of the night, where the price of forbidden love is her life.

From his unique perspective as the great, great grandnephew of "America the Beautiful" writer, Katharine Lee Bates, Chris Gall transforms this beloved patriotic song into monumental works of art--from purple mountain majesties to gleaming alabaster cities. Honoring his ancestry and national pride, Gall pairs the beautiful lyrics with striking illustrations of notable American images such as Pike's Peak, the Tuskgee Airmen, and firefighters raising the American flag at Ground Zero.