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![]() You’ll find others on Regency and Victorian England, Prohibition through WWII, Colonial American, Indian, Wild West, etc. The Everyday Life collection is pretty extensive. However, there is another version specifically on the Civil War. Rest assured, you’re looking at the same book. You’ll find another version by the same title but a different cover. ![]() A guide for writers (or history enthusiasts) for all things in the 1800s. Oh how I wish I had found this book sooner!!! The book is exactly as it claims to be. ![]() A must for both fiction and nonfiction historical writers. ![]() The wonderful and fascinating details of the 1800s have been gathered into one interesting volume, in which McCutcheon has included quotes from 19th-century citizens concerning or describing hairstyles and fashion, favorite swear words and slang, jokes of the period, courtship and marriage rituals, and more. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is the read order for the best experience. You will find that the series build together for a greater experience. Blue Saffire’s books are written to weave, loop and intertwine with one another. It is a novella in award winning, bestselling Legally Bound Series leading up to conclusion to the series, Legally Bound 5.5 Legally Unbound. ![]() * This is Book 5.2 in the Legally Bound Series. ![]() Now I’m standing in the middle of a war zone and the bomb in my lap is set to go off in 5…4…3…2…. I never saw him coming and I’m not sure how I feel now that he’s here. Daddy’s little girl is about to shake things up…at least I had planned to. My boys don’t deserve it and neither do I. The only thing I’m certain of is that I’m tired of being the victim. It’s about to go off, but there are already a string of explosions going on right alongside Ellen’s secret. One of my best friends has placed a ticking time bomb in my lap. Award-winning Author Blue Saffire presents Legally Bound Illegal Treasures: Camille 5.2: Book 5.2 in Legally Bound Series Just when I’ve been burdened with one secret too many and I feel like I may crumble, everything in my life changes. ![]() ![]() But now his father is dead, the Ware family is broken, and as the heir he is being called home. He enlisted in the fight against Napoleon and didn't look back for six years. But at twenty-two, he discovered his whole world was an elaborate illusion, and when Devlin publicly called his family to account for it, he was exiled as a traitor. They were kind, gracious, and shared the beauty of Ravenwood, their grand country estate, by hosting lavish parties for the entire countryside. As a child, Devlin Ware thought his family stood for all that was right and good in the world. The handsome and charismatic Earl of Stratton, Caleb Ware, has been exposed to the ton for his clandestine affairs-by his own son. Discover New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh's Ravenswood series. ![]() ![]() "The undisputed queen of Regency romance is back with a brand-new series perfect for fans of Bridgerton. ![]() ![]() She is insatiably hungry and her younger sister Pen seems scared of her. Triss wakes up at her family's holiday home after a supposed fall in a river not remembering what happened. In a quest find the truth she must travel into the terrifying Underbelly of the city to meet a twisted architect who has dark designs on her family - before it's too late. Soon Triss discovers that what happened to her is more strange and terrible than she could ever have imagined, and that she is quite literally not herself. She looks through her diary to try to remember, but the pages have been ripped out. She is insatiably hungry her sister seems scared of her and her parents whisper behind closed doors. ![]() When Triss wakes up after an accident, she knows that something is very wrong. ![]() 'Who do you think you are? This is my family.' 'What are you doing here?' It was uttered in tones of outrage and surprise, and in a voice as cold and musical as the clinking of cups. Then the tiny mouth moved, opened to speak. ![]() Slowly they swivelled, until their gaze was resting on Triss's face. Synopsis The first things to shift were the doll's eyes, the beautiful grey-green glass eyes. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the 1870s Truth’s friend and informal manager Frances Titus compiled a new edition of the Narrative, adding the “Book of Life,” a scrapbook comprising essays, articles, and letters from Truth’s contemporary admirers. The following year Truth set out to promote her book and to speak out on abolition and women’s rights. Illiterate, she dictated her autobiography to her neighbor Olive Gilbert, and the Narrative of Sojourner Truth was published in 1850. By 1843 she had transformed herself into the itinerant preacher Sojourner Truth, and spent most of the next thirteen years in Northampton, Massachusetts. In the early 1830s she joined the commune or “Kingdom” of the Prophet Matthias. ![]() She was emancipated by state law in 1827, and the following year she moved to New York City, where she found work in wealthy households and became increasingly involved in unorthodox religious groups. Sojourner Truth, born Isabella, a slave in Ulster County, New York, around 1797, became an abolitionist, orator, and preacher, and eventually an icon for strong black women. ![]() ![]() Digitalbook provides a platform to easily access these books along with free podcasts.Īn audio book is a recording of a text read aloud, either word for word or abridged. 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When Chloe first steps foot into the ocean she feels like a missing piece of herself has just been found. Chloe has had a little bit of a crush on the super-hot Noah for a while now, but Baylie says he's been acting strange lately. ![]() So Chloe does what any sensible teenager would do - she goes anyway, running away from home.Īt the beach house owned by Baylie's extended family, she meets Diane and Peter, parents to Baylie's stepbrothers, Maddox and Noah. I received a copy of Awaken in exchange for an honest review.Īll Chloe Kowalski wanted was to see the ocean, but her crazy water-hating parents said a big fat NO when she asked to go on vacation to the California coast with her best friend, Baylie. ![]() ![]() ![]() Solomon’s talent as a fiddle player provides him a sense of comfort and solace during his years as a slave and enables him to make a little money by performing at other slave owners’ social gatherings. Solomon is known to his masters and fellow slaves as Platt, a name given to him by Burch. Solomon lives as a slave for twelve years for three different masters-first, the kindhearted William Ford, then the violent John Tibeats, and finally, the exceedingly cruel and evil Edwin Epps. The two men betray Solomon, selling him into slavery to James Burch. with two new acquaintances ( Brown and Hamilton) to play the fiddle in their circus. These traits unknowingly lead him into a trap, when, needing a source of income to help his family, Solomon agrees to travel to Washington D.C. ![]() He is known by the community as an excellent fiddle player, a family man, and a hard worker. Solomon Northup, the author and protagonist of the memoir, is born a free black man in New York, where, at the start of the story, he lives a pleasant life with his wife, Anne, and their three children, Elizabeth, Margaret, and Alonzo. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1872 FitzGerald had a third edition printed which increased interest in the work in America. Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is the title that Edward FitzGerald gave to his 1859 translation from Farsi to English of a selection of quatrains (rubāʿiyāt) attributed to Omar Khayyam (1048–1131), dubbed "the Astronomer-Poet of Persia".įitzGerald's work at first was unsuccessful, but was popularised by Whitley Stokes from 1861 onward, and the work came to be greatly admired by the Pre-Raphaelites. "Together with a tribute in Quatrains by Andrew Land, a brief biography of both poet and translator, and a descriptive article by Edward S. Copyright 1899 "Fourth Edition With Notes", leather boards by Alex, Grosset and Company with illustrations by Gilbert James very good condition inside with strong binding leather boards have minor edge wear (pic). ![]() |