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Trapped in a loveless marriage to a dry but successful corn merchant, Catherine finds herself attracted to her husband's brother, Andrew.
In the early days of WW1, 1,200 suffragists from 12 countries crossed enemy lines to meet in The Hague, Holland. In a meeting chaired by Jane Addams, they voted to form an unusual women's org. that would advocate fundamental changes in economic & social conditions. Their goal would be to end all War. Details the history of the WILPF, offering an account of the League from its feminist foundations through its campaigns on behalf of world peace & human rights. Interviews with 18 women -- from Mildred Scott Olmsted to Angela Gethi, who formed a chapter in her native Kenya -- provide a glimpse of the diverse membership that has fought to create a world free from war & oppression.
“I am Death. I am the Grim Reaper… It is my job to take the soul of the newly departed, from the life they knew to the next stage of existence… ” Annabelle Décor is a woman betrayed who is on a mission to punish infidelity, marking her victims with the make-up of those they have deceived. From his position of power, Death watches the story unfold before his eyes. Is this merely a woman driven crazy, or a possession by an old and vengeful god?
Here is a valuable, and fascinating, piece of social history. Watson sheds new light on a macabre yet frequently misunderstood subject.
Lists over 7,000 emigrant names in alphabetical order. Includes the years 1811-1847.
A genealogical compilation of the descendants of Henry & Margareth Crook and their seven children. The couple was married circa 1812 in South Carolina and by 1828 could be found in Rankin County, Mississippi. Many of the descendants are traced to the present, including biographies and photographs when available.
The young antiquarian from an old Boston family and his sister had just inherited their aunt's Back Bay town house. As they walked through the home they felt the sorrow and excitement of new heirs and they reminisced about their childhood days in this antiquated residence where nothing had changed for years. Upstairs in a shuttered bedroom, an ornately enameled chest lured them by its barbaric splendor, and they were compelled to open it. Inside they found a key. The Family Jewels is a comedic mystery and the first book of the trilogy, Glamour Galore. Our industrious author is madly scribbling away with frantic haste the next two novels. Naughty Astronautess, the middle novel, recounts the adventures of the first drag queen astronaut. The concluding novel, The Mermaid and the Sailor, is a romantic romp set in Provincetown. These three Gay novels are escapist froth intended to make you laugh while you ponder the human condition.
Foss Man, highly sensitive fifteen-year-old Luke Foster, was routinely putting his bike in the remote storage shed when he walked in on Ron Ferguson, the notorious 230-pound town bully, who was violently raping Catherine, his screaming petite eighteen-year-old sister. With blind rage running through his veins, Luke impulsively grabbed a baseball bat and rushed the unsuspecting giant from behind and viciously pummeled the back of his head. The medical examiner pronounced the seventeen-year-old Ferguson dead at the scene a short time later. Eleven years earlier, Luke (Foss Man) had blamed himself for letting his two-year-old sister Carol drown when she slipped from his frozen hands and was thr...