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The Fate of Jane McKenzie
Peter Piper, star reporter for the Herald, has been taken off the crime beat to cover a total eclipse of the sun, which has been attracting astronomers and the curious public to the top of Jane McKenzie's mountain. Jane McKenzie is the tough-minded, domineering matriarch of the wealthy McKenzie family and when she disappears during the eclipse, Peter is on the spot to cover the story. After her body is discovered in a ravine--with a fatal head wound--everyone is a suspect in her murder: her eccentric family, a desperate astronomer, a reclusive novelist, and a gang of bootleggers running an illegal still on the mountain.
A Lady of the High Hills
From her birth at the palace at Versailles to her death on a South Carolina plantation, Natalie Delage Sumter (1782-1841) lived a life riveted by escape, adventure, grandeur, and hardship - a saga that spanned several turnultuous decades of French history and included her residence on three continents. The godchild of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette and a member of the French nobility, Nathalie de Lage de Volude fled to New York at age eleven at the height of the French Revolution. She lived for eight years in the household of politician Aaron Burr and became a confidante of his daughter, Theodosia. On her return voyage to France, Delage fell in love with Thomas Sumter Jr., a diplomat to France and the son of South Carolina's Revolutionary War Gamecock. The couple enjoyed a celebrated shipboard romance, and with their subsequent marriage, Natalie Sumter entered the world of the southern planter aristocracy. A Lady of the High Hills follows the epic events that took Sumter to Brazil, back to France, and ultimately to plantation life in Stateburg, South Carolina. Thomas Tisdale describes Sumter's adjustment to life in the South Carolina backcountry, her role as the matriarch of the
Sessional Papers
"Report of the Dominion fishery commission on the fisheries of the province of Ontario, 1893", issued as vol. 26, no. 7, supplement.
The People's Clearance
This is a revisionist account of Highland Scottish emigration to what is now Canada, in the formative half century before Waterloo.
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