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Charlotte Taylor lived in the front row of history. In 1775, at the young age of twenty, she fled her English country house and boarded a ship to Jamaica with her lover, the family’s black butler. Soon after reaching shore, Charlotte’s lover died of yellow fever, leaving her alone and pregnant in Jamaica. In the sixty-six years that followed, she would find refuge with the Mi’kmaq of what is present-day New Brunswick, have three husbands, nine more children and a lifelong relationship with an aboriginal man. Using a seamless blend of fact and fiction, Charlotte Taylor's great-great-great-granddaughter, Sally Armstrong, reclaims the life of a dauntless and unusual woman and delivers liv...
The centenary history of the world's first popular newspaper.
Over 100 illustrations. This book explores the beginnings of the great teddy bear boom; explains why they are so important in our lives; discusses the innumerable variety of bears available; considers famous bears in fiction, such as Winnie-the-Pooh; and offers sound advice on how to start building a collection of these uniquely endearing little creatures. Over 100 full-color photographs aid the reader in sampling the immense universe of the teddy bear.
Unless we learn to love ourselves we will become slaves to the opinions and judgments from others. A healthy self-image, on the other hand, will bring peace to our souls during life's most difficult struggles. This children's story demonstrates the struggle to live a victorious life. For, in the end, this frail little flower is strengthened as she builds her faith on the foundation of love and forgiveness. The magic discovered by this delicate little flower is not only her story but my story too. Perhaps it is yours as well! Through Sally Taylor's own trials and triumphs she has come to believe in the power of faith, love, and forgiveness as key objectives in her personal pursuit of happiness. Life's experiences have taught her valuable lessons which she has come to identify as deep-rooted convictions. She feels certain that these convictions are necessary in the pursuit of peace with one's self. Using a colorful blend of experience, talent, and imagination she dedicates her convictions to the future generations.
Her Secret Guardian by Sally Tyler Hayes released on May 25, 2000 is available now for purchase.
A modernist icon, an object of forbidden desire, a symbol of loss and suffering, and an incorrigible survivor - the mother takes all of these forms in Chinese literature from the 1920s and 1930s. In an innovative analysis, Sally Taylor Lieberman explores the meanings the maternal figure acquired at a particular place and time and then engages those meanings in a feminist rereading of the master narratives of modern Chinese intellectual and literary history. Drawing on feminist literary criticism and the theories of Julia Kristeva, Melanie Klein, and Sigmund Freud, Lieberman breaks traditional analytical boundaries as she explores the place of the mother in the ideological struggles through which the modern Chinese canon attained its present shape.
This second volume tracing the history of the Daily Mail follows the fortunes of the paper after the second Lord Rothermere took over from his fascist father.
A short tale of love, exploration, and growth.