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From USA Today Bestseller Grace Callaway comes a spooky gothic romance perfect for the Hallowe'en season... “Jane Eyre meets Immortals After Dark." -Tina Folsom, NYT Bestselling Author My name is Abigail Jones…and I have a monstrous secret. All my life, I’ve had visions. Of darkness and carnality, wickedness that makes me tremble with fear—and a terrible longing. They say the madness in my bloodline drove my mama to an early grave. I grew up under my aunt’s care, hiding in the shadows, trying to escape the scorn of my peers. Now my aunt is gone, and I am left alone and penniless in a world that rejects oddities like me. I have no place to go…until I am offered a position no innoc...
The work at hand enumerates a list of 3,200 Ulster emigrants to Philadelphia between 1803 and 1850. Arranged alphabetically according to the head of the household--with other family members listed immediately under the head--the entries typically furnish the name of the emigrant, his/her age, town and county of origin, where given, year of emigration, and name of ship.
From the award-winning author of Bang Crunch and Boo, Jones is the harrowing, funny, utterly unforgettable story of a pair of siblings attempting to survive the horror show of their family. Abi and Eli Jones have a special bond. Eli looks up to his sister Abi, two years older, who knows how to inhabit the souls of animals, and sometimes even the soul of her brother. They share jokes, codes, and an obsession with impressive feats of word power—such are the survival tricks for growing up Jones. Pal, their alcoholic father, is haunted by demons from the Korean War, and their less-than-nurturing mother Joy hasn’t got the courage to leave him. Always moving to where Pal gets work, the Joneses...
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At the Table of Power is both a cookbook and a culinary history that intertwines social issues, personal stories, and political commentary. Renowned culinary historian Diane M. Spivey offers a unique insight into the historical experience and cultural values of African America and America in general by way of the kitchen. From the rural country kitchen and steamboat floating palaces to marketplace street vendors and restaurants in urban hubs of business and finance, Africans in America cooked their way to positions of distinct superiority, and thereby indispensability. Despite their many culinary accomplishments, most Black culinary artists have been made invisible—until now. Within these ...
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