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Store Events - November 21, 10:30 a.m.
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Time: Saturday, November 21, 2009 10:30 a.m.
Location: Octavia Books, 513 Octavia St., New Orleans, LA 70115
Title of Event: Octavia Books Book Club- The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B
This month our bookclub is coming together to discuss the first installment of Sandra Gulland's Josephine B trilogy. Join us for a great discussion of a great book!
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The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B.
by
Gulland, Sandra
Format: Trade Paperback
Price:
$15.00
Published: Touchstone Books, 1999
Inventory Status: On Our Shelves Now
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In this first of three books inspired by the life of Josephine Bonaparte, Sandra Gulland has created a novel of immense and magical proportions. We meet Josephine in the exotic and lush Martinico, where an old island woman predicts that one day she will be queen. The journey from the remote village of her birth to the height of European elegance is long, but Josephine's fortune proves to be true. By way of fictionalized diary entries, we traverse her early years as she marries her one true love, bears his children, and is left betrayed, widowed, and penniless. It is Josephine's extraordinary charm, cunning, and will to survive that catapults her to the heart of society, where she meets Napoleon, whose destiny will prove to be irrevocably intertwined with hers.
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