Author: Leigh Haskell
Publisher: Signet Book
ISBN: 9780451162236
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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Author: Lyndsay Faye
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0735210764
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 432

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A gun moll with a knack for disappearing flees from Prohibition-era Harlem to Portland's Paragon Hotel. The year is 1921, and "Nobody" Alice James has just arrived in Oregon with a bullet wound, a lifetime's experience battling the New York Mafia, and fifty thousand dollars in illicit cash. She befriends Max, a black Pullman porter who reminds her achingly of home and who saves Alice by leading her to the Paragon Hotel. But her unlikely sanctuary turns out to be an all-black hotel in a Jim Crow city, and its lodgers seem unduly terrified of a white woman on the premises. As she meets the churlish Dr. Pendleton, the stately Mavereen, and the club chanteuse Blossom Fontaine, she understands their dread. The Ku Klux Klan has arrived in Portland in fearful numbers--burning crosses, electing officials, infiltrating newspapers, and brutalizing blacks. And only Alice and her new Paragon "family" are searching for a missing mulatto child who has mysteriously vanished into the woods. To untangle the web of lies and misdeeds around her, Alice will have to answer for her own past, too. A richly imagined novel starring two indomitable heroines, The Paragon Hotel at once plumbs the darkest parts of America's past and the most redemptive facets of humanity. From international-bestselling, multi-award-nominated writer Lyndsay Faye, it's a masterwork of historical suspense.

Author: Carolyn Dever
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691234973
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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Why a monumental diary by an aunt and niece who published poetry together as “Michael Field”—and who were partners and lovers for decades—is one of the great unknown works of late-Victorian and early modernist literature Michael Field, the renowned late-Victorian poet, was well known to be the pseudonym of Katharine Bradley (1846–1914) and her niece, Edith Cooper (1862–1913). Less well known is that for three decades, the women privately maintained a romantic relationship and kept a double diary, sharing the page as they shared a bed and eventually producing a 9,500-page, twenty-nine-volume story of love, life, and art in the fin de siècle. In Chains of Love and Beauty, the first book about the diary, Carolyn Dever makes the case for this work as a great unknown “novel” of the nineteenth century and as a bridge between George Eliot and Virginia Woolf, Victorian marriage plot and modernist experimentation. While Bradley and Cooper remained committed to publishing poetry under a single, male pseudonym, the diary, which they entitled Works and Days and hoped would be published after their deaths, allowed them to realize literary ambitions that were unfulfilled during their lifetime. The women also used the diary, which remains largely unpublished, to negotiate their art, desires, and frustrations, as well as their relationships with contemporary literary celebrities, including Robert Browning, Oscar Wilde, William Butler Yeats, and Walter Pater. Showing for the first time why Works and Days is a great experimental work of late-Victorian and early modernist writing, one that sheds startling new light on gender, sexuality, and authorship, Dever reveals how Bradley and Cooper wrote their shared life as art, and their art as life, on pages of intimacy that they wanted to share with the world.

Author: P. I. McKenzie
Publisher: pimckenzie
ISBN: 1438257767
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 301

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The memoirs and adventures of five post-war children who wanted to be Americans. Their aspirations and their dreams, the joys and sorrows of growing up and the unexpected turning point that allowed one of them to reach his goal.

Author: M. C. Beaton
Publisher: Minotaur Books
ISBN: 1429901640
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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The Perfect Paragon continues the tradition in M. C. Beaton's beloved Agatha Raisin cozy mystery series—now a hit show on Acorn TV and public television. After being nearly killed by both a hired hit man and her former secretary, Agatha Raisin could use some low-key cases. So when Robert Smedley walks through the door, determined to prove that his wife is cheating, Raisin Investigations immediately offers to help. Trouble is, Agatha hates divorce cases--especially when the client is as pompous as Smedley--but she has a business to run and she's not about to turn away a paying customer. Unfortunately for Agatha, Mabel Smedley appears to be the perfect wife, young and pretty and a regular volunteer at church. Although Smedley's case doesn't look promising, Agatha's attentions are diverted when she stumbles across the body of missing teenager, Jessica Bradley. In a sudden gesture of kindness (and good public relations), Agatha offers to investigate Jessica's death free of charge. As Agatha juggles her two biggest cases, things are turned upside down when Robert Smedley is found poisoned in his office. The prime suspect, his sainted wife Mabel, immediately hires Agatha to find the real killer. With the help of her old friend, Sir Charles Fraith, and some newly hired staff, Agatha Raisin sets off on another adventure solving crime in the English Cotswolds.

Author: Michelle Styles
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1488047030
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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A Viking warrior’s unwanted bride may be exactly the woman he needs in this sexy medieval romance set in nineth century Scotland. When her brother-in-law kills her husband and lays siege to her lands, Ragnhild Thorendottar would do anything to escape the murderous brute and protect her younger sister. Agreeing to marry a warrior she’s never met, Ragn make the perilous journey to his remote island. But Gunnar Olafson’s belief in love died with his family. The man to whom Ragn is betrothed does not want a bride! But as yuletide approaches, Gunnar finds his isolated existence transformed by her warmth and beaty. Perhaps Ragn will even melt her Viking warrior’s frozen heart . . .

Author: Mary Brendan
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 142681531X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274

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One scandal leads to another when a desperate woman must turn to her handsome rival for help in this Regency romance. Mark Hunter manages to vex Emily Beaumont at every opportunity—and seems to enjoy doing so. While it gives her no pleasure to ask the irritatingly handsome man for a favor, Mark is the only man who can help Emily find her missing brother. Assuming the young man is merely hiding from his creditors, Mark is happy to be of service to the delectable Miss Beaumont. And when it becomes clear that Emily is truly in danger, Mark is determined to keep her safe. With disgrace just a breath away, Emily aches for Mark’s strong arms to comfort her. Yet she holds a secret—one that will surely prevent any gentleman from considering her as a suitable bride . . .

Author: George Zachariah
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 1098034740
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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At a time when divorce and broken families are common, Christian families are seeking God's blessing and wisdom to preserve and make fruitful their marriages and journey together. The author has been married for sixty-one years; and through his experiences, conversations, and counseling with many couples, he has garnered important insights on how Christians may have good and productive marriages. This book provides guidance that Christians can prayerfully use to enrich their journey in married life with their partners, if they choose to listen. The author's six decades with his partner, Susan, have encouraged him to share his and her insights with fellow Christians.

Author: Rosemary Griggs
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1805147978
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 266

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1571, and the beautiful, headstrong daughter of a French Count marries the son of the Vice Admiral of the Fleet of the West in Queen Elizabeth’s chapel at Greenwich. It sounds like a marriage made in heaven… Roberda’s father, the Count of Montgomery, is a prominent Huguenot leader in the French Wars of Religion. When her formidable mother follows him into battle, she takes all her children with her. After a traumatic childhood in war-torn France, Roberda arrives in England full of hope for her wedding. But her ambitious bridegroom, Gawen, has little interest in taking a wife. Received with suspicion by the servants at her new home, Dartington Hall in Devon, Roberda works hard to prove herself as mistress of the household and to be a good wife. But there are some who will never accept her as a true daughter of Devon. After the St Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, Gawen’s father welcomes Roberda’s family to Dartington as refugees. Compassionate Roberda is determined to help other French women left destitute by the wars. But her husband does not approve. Their differences will set them on an extraordinary path…

Author: Carol Marinelli
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1552547469
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 190

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One night of tragedy brings Rico Mancini back into Catherine Masters's life. Now he's demanding that she be his bride…. And the bride price…? If Catherine says no, she gives up custody of her orphaned niece. But if she says yes, will she be losing her heart to a man who wants her only in his bed?