CoCo: The Colorful History of Tandy's Underdog Computer is the first book to document the complete history of the Tandy Color Computer (CoCo), a popular 8-bit PC series from the 1980s that competed against the era's biggest names, including the Apple II, IBM PC, and Commodore 64. The book takes you inside the interesting stories and people behind t

Coco Chanel lived her own life as a romantic heroine. Fueled by 19th century literature, she built a life which was partly myth and partly factual. She was the fashion designer everyone admired. The business woman whose fortune was impossible to track. She was also a performer, lover of many high profile intellectuals and, as believed by many, a Nazi spy. Her life was, extraordinarily, affected by history (the Nazi movement and World War II), symbolism and literature. This biography explores her life from her troubled and poor past to the opening of her first hat shop, passions and secrets; the biography also draws parallelisms between myths and facts and how, and if ever, they match at all. The biography also features chapters on the Chanel Maison and the creation of her iconic trademark as well as her ‘little black dress’ and ‘Chanel No 5’. Finally, the biography ends with a reflection on how the myth of Coco Chanel is represented today in pop culture.

Lil Coco is very nosy and curious, very gentle. She loves trail riding with Monni. They live in Florida. This book is Monnis first book in a series of her horse, Lil Coco.

Each story in this book can also be described as fable, urban legend, fairy tale, or all of the above. This book is a collection of stories that are part fable, part urban legend, part fairy tale. They will make you laugh. They will make you think. They will make you read them again. The stories included in this book are: Blue Jack Down Swank and Toxy Space Garbage Man Cross My Heart Heurist Blues Charlatan's Green Blueberry Moon over POW The Joker's Smile Ruffian's Gold Unnecessary Beauty The Incredible Sunshine Lady The Girl in Orange Dress A Cup of Tea for My Coyote Five Takes the Island Divide by True Stranger in Blue Coco Quantum Chariots of Rainbow Breakable Hearts at Five and Dime Mabelline Freedom Truth Does Not Entertain

When Coco the Chihuahua came to live with the Gillette family, she displayed some uncharacteristic behavior. She wouldn't bark. She slept all day and wanted to play at night. She didn't even like to go for walks! The Gillette family soon realized that Coco was having an identity crisis and needed their help to discover who she truly was. Coco's Identity Crisis is a playful tale that also instills in young readers the importance of being who God created you to be.

This book provides an overview of the risk components of CoCo bonds. CoCos are hybrid financial instruments that convert into equity or suffer a write-down of the face value upon the appearance of a trigger event. The loss-absorption mechanism is automatically enforced either via the breaching of a particular accounting ratio, typically in terms of the Common Equity Tier 1 (CET1) ratio, or via a regulatory trigger. CoCos are non-standardised instruments with different loss-absorption and trigger mechanisms. They might also contain additional features such as the cancellation of coupon payments. Different pricing models are discussed in detail. These models use market data such as share prices, CDS levels and implied volatility in order to calculate the theoretical price of a CoCo bond and its sensitivities, providing the investor with insides to hedge from adverse changes in the market conditions. The audience are professionals as well as academics who want to learn how to risk manage CoCo bonds using cutting edge techniques as well as all the risk involved in CoCo bonds.

A riveting and prismatic novel of the eternally enigmatic Coco Chanel in the aftermath of World War II. Though her name is synonymous with elegance and chic, the iconic Coco Chanel had a complicated dark side, and in late August 1944, as World War II drew to a close, she was arrested and interrogated on charges of treason to France. Many of the facts are lost to history, partly through Chanel's own obfuscation, but this much is known: the charges grew out of her war-time romance with a German spy, and one morning two soldiers from the French Forces of the Interior—the loose band of Resistance fighters, soldiers and private citizens who took up arms in the wake of the Liberation of Paris—led Chanel from her suite at the Ritz Hotel in Paris to an undisclosed location for questioning. What transpired during her interrogation, who was present, and why she was set free when so many other women who’d been involved with German men (willingly or otherwise) had their heads shaved or were imprisoned, remains a mystery. In this brilliantly insightful and compulsively readable novel from the author of I am Madame X, Gioia Diliberto explores the motivations of this complex woman and portrays the gripping battle of wits that could have been her interrogation. Was Chanel truly a collaborator? Though the Occupation of France offered a stark contrast between good and evil, few people are wholly heroes or villains in wartime. Most citizens, as the writer André Gide noted, were like old shoes floating in murky waters: battered and torn, riding the turbulent flow, just trying to survive. By turns raw and vulnerable, steely and flawed, Chanel emerges from these pages as a woman who owns her decisions, no matter the consequences. Rich with history and filled with emotional truths, Coco at the Ritz is a story about the choices one woman made when the stakes were the highest. In today’s world, it is a cautionary tale about the necessity of standing against evil when it stares you in the face.

The rags-to-riches story of Coco Chanel plays out in a wonderful picture-book biography as full of style and spirit as its heroine. Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel was always different. And she vowed to prove that being different was an advantage! Poor, skinny, and orphaned, Coco stubbornly believed that she was as good as the wealthier girls of Paris. Tapping into her creativity and her sewing skills, she began making clothes that suited her (and her pocketbook) — and soon a new generation of independent working women craved her sleek, comfortable, and practical designs. Now an icon of fashion and culture, Coco Chanel continues to inspire young readers, showing just how far a person can come with spunk, determination, and flair. Back matter includes a fashion time line and a bibliography.

Could you solve your own murder? When Rhys Evans agrees to house-sit for his uncle, the last thing he expects is to find a strange girl hiding in the greenhouse. A girl with no memory of her past and no chance at a future unless he helps her. A freak of nature has given Coco a second chance at life, but before she can live it, she needs to find out who she is and where she came from. The answers aren't quite what either of them were expecting... Coco du Ciel is a standalone romantic suspense novel with magical realism elements - no cliffhanger! Keywords: Amateur sleuth, amnesia, British, contemporary, justice, magic realism, murder, mystery, paranormal, pregnancy, revenge, romantic suspense, secret identity, supernatural, suspense, The Planes, vigilante