![]() ![]() ![]() The few people still out this late were well bundled in gloves and scarves, and hats pulled down over their ears. Winter had set in just in time for the Thanksgiving holiday. The glass was cold against my skin, a stark contrast to the liquor burning in my chest. I pressed my cheek against my bedroom window and watched the lonely street below. How many times could a song be listened to on repeat? If there was a limit, I was approaching mine. ![]() I brought the tumbler of scotch to my lips, taking another sip as the Frou Frou song playing from the Spotify app on my phone started up again. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.Īll rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever.īe sure to sign up for my newsletter where you’ll receive a FREE book every month from bestselling authors, only available to my subscribers, as well as up-to-date information on my latest releases. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. ![]()
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![]() Detective-like, she discloses the origins of key ideas and phrases in the Declaration and unravels the complex story of its drafting and of the group-editing job which angered Thomas Jefferson. She lets us hear the voice of the people as revealed in the other "declarations" of 1776: the local resolutions - most of which have gone unnoticed over the past two centuries - that explained, advocated, and justified Independence and undergirded Congress's work. In Maier's hands, the Declaration of Independence is brought close to us. Maier describes the transformation of the Second Continental Congress into a national government, unlike anything that preceded or followed it, and with more authority than the colonists would ever have conceded to the British Parliament the great difficulty in making the decision for Independence the influence of Paine's Common Sense, which shifted the terms of debate and the political maneuvers that allowed Congress to make the momentous decision. It is truly "American Scripture," and Maier tells us how it came to be - from the Declaration's birth in the hard and tortuous struggle by which Americans arrived at Independence to the ways in which, in the nineteenth century, the document itself became sanctified. ![]() ![]() ![]() Pauline Maier shows us the Declaration as both the defining statement of our national identity and the moral standard by which we live as a nation. ![]() ![]() But when she is taken captive by the tribe Clay left, his hand–and heart–are forced, leading to one very private and one very public reckoning. Raised by Lenape Indians, he returns a hero from the French and Indian War to the fort that bears his name, bringing with him Tessa’s long-lost friend, Keturah, a redeemed Indian captive like himself.ĭetermined to avoid any romantic entanglements as fort commander, Clay remains aloof whenever he encounters the lovely Tessa. Quiet and courageous, Clay Tygart is not your typical 18th-century man. ![]() ![]() Born and bred on the western Virginia frontier along with her five brothers, she is a force to be reckoned with. Unflinching and plainspoken, Tessa Swan is not your typical 18th-century woman. ![]() ![]() Read moreĭeep, Emotional, SuperbThis book is almost identical to an earlier release back in 1997 but with a fewer stories. ![]() It deserves a place in every Canadian book-lover’s library. ![]() This is a book to read slowly, savouring each story. or in Ontario’s “Alice Munro Country.” And “The Bear Came Over the Mountain,” the story behind the film Away From Her, takes us far from the world of young girls learning about sex into unflinching old age. “The Albanian Virgin” destroys the idea that her stories are set in B.C. “A Wilderness Station,” for example, breaks “short story rules” by taking us right back to the 1830s then jumping forward more than 100 years. The 17 stories are carefully arranged in the order in which she wrote them, which allows us to follow the development of her range. Readers lucky enough to have found her recently will be delighted, as one masterpiece succeeds another. This splendid gift edition is sure to delight Alice Munro’s growing body of admirers, what Atwood calls her “devoted international readership.” Long-time fans of her stories will enjoy meeting old favourites, where their new setting in this book may reveal new sides to what once seemed a familiar story devoted followers may even dispute the exclusion of a specially-beloved story. Among writers themselves, her name is spoken in hushed tones.” ![]() In her lengthy and fascinating introduction Margaret Atwood says “Alice Munro is among the major writers of English fiction of our time. ![]() ![]() Aunt Blythe arrives and calms down her father (who was very agitated).ĭrew is surprised to find a door in his guest bedroom that leads to the attic. 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Whatever the genre, she hopes she creates characters you can root for. ![]() She enjoys writing all kinds of books, because each one brings a different experience. Raven Kennedy is a tea and dark chocolate kind of girl and can often be found binge-watching The Office or The Great British Baking Show. ![]() Raven Kennedy crafts an astonishing world thats filled with captivating. When she’s not reading or writing, she’s with her family, probably messing up a recipe or going on a hike that she thinks she can do, but in reality she can't because she remembers that all she does is sit at a computer all day and write her heart out. Every single word gleams like gold Beck Michaels, author of Divine BloodThis. Nobles come to gawk at her behind the golden bars of the cage she lives in. Whatever the genre, she hopes she creates characters you can root for. As King Midas gold-touched, favored saddle, Auren is constantly being paraded around the castle and shown off to dignitaries. ![]() ![]() ![]() The vanquished scoundrel returns, with sinister plans. Domineering cousin Jane forbids more meetings. More books by Edward Ormondroyd All in Good Time David and the Phoenix Castaways on Long Ago For younger readers Jonathan Frederick Aloysius Brown Michael. Their parents meet and don’t fall in love. She and her new best friend Victoria Walker just know that when their parents meet it will be love at first sight, and the two families will become one.īut nothing happens the way it should. Shaw thinks, until I can get her to a doctor. His daughter Susan must be mad! Only a girl suffering from hallucinations would make a request like that, on top of a wild story about a good witch, an elevator that travels to 1881, a vanquished scoundrel, a dug-up treasure, and a distressed nineteenth-century family named Walker. (Time at the Top 1-2) by Edward Ormondroyd, Charles Geer, Jolly Roger Bradfield 4. ![]() ![]() “You want to take me back to the nineteenth century, to marry somebody there?” ![]() ![]() A respectable job, Mary Jane's mother says. Shy, quiet, and bookish, she's glad when she lands a summer job as a nanny for the daughter of a local doctor. "I LOVED this novel.If you have ever sung along to a hit on the radio, in any decade, then you will devour Mary Jane at 45 rpm." -Nick HornbyAlmost Famous meets Daisy Jones and the Six in this funny, wise, and tender novel about a fourteen-year-old girl's coming of age in 1970s Baltimore, caught between her straight-laced family and the progressive family she nannies for-who happen to be secretly hiding a famous rock star and his movie star wife for the summer.In 1970s Baltimore, fourteen-year-old Mary Jane loves cooking with her mother, singing in her church choir, and enjoying her family's subscription to the Broadway Showtunes of the Month record club. ![]() |
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