Author : Peter Straub
Publisher : Titan Publishing Company
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 39,74 MB
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : Detective and mystery comic books, strips, etc
ISBN : 9780857680358
Bob Steele is a disillusioned New York detective out for redemption, and to him redemption means a one-man crusade to stop Fielding Bandolier. Cop and killer finally face off in a mysterious midwestern pub. In that abandoned place, an unspeakable evil stronger than either of them lies waiting to seal the fates of both men.
Author : Tea Cooper
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 17,46 MB
Release : 2020-06-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0785235167
After her husband’s death in World War I, Fleur’s surprising inheritance takes her deep into the past—and could unravel a mystery surrounding a cursed opal, a gnarled family tree, and a sinister woman in a green dress. 1919: After a whirlwind romance, London teashop waitress Fleur Richards can’t wait for her new husband, Hugh, to return from the Great War. But when word of his death arrives on Armistice Day, Fleur learns he has left her a sizable family fortune. Refusing to accept the inheritance, she heads to his beloved home country of Australia in search of the relatives who deserve it more. In spite of her reluctance, she soon finds herself the sole owner of a remote farm and a dilapidated curio shop full of long-forgotten artifacts, remarkable preserved creatures, and a mystery that began more than sixty-five years ago. With the help of Kip, a repatriated soldier dealing with the sobering aftereffects of war, Fleur finds herself unable to resist pulling on the threads of the past. What she finds is a shocking story surrounding an opal and a woman in a green dress. . . a story that, nevertheless, offers hope and healing for the future. This romantic mystery from award-winning Australian novelist Tea Cooper will keep readers guessing until the astonishing conclusion. Praise for The Woman in the Green Dress: “Refreshing and unique, The Woman in the Green Dress sweeps you across the wild lands of Australia in a thrilling whirl of mystery, romance, and danger. This magical tale weaves together two storylines with a heart-pounding finish that is drop-dead gorgeous.” —J’nell Ciesielski, author of The Socialite A USA TODAY bestseller Full-length historical fiction with both mystery and romance Stand-alone novel Includes discussion questions for book clubs
Author : Félix Fénéon
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 34,46 MB
Release : 2007-08-21
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781590172308
A NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS ORIGINAL Novels in Three Lines collects more than a thousand items that appeared anonymously in the French newspaper Le Matin in 1906—true stories of murder, mayhem, and everyday life presented with a ruthless economy that provokes laughter even as it shocks. This extraordinary trove, undiscovered until the 1940s and here translated for the first time into English, is the work of the mysterious Félix Fénéon. Dandy, anarchist, and critic of genius, the discoverer of Georges Seurat and the first French publisher of James Joyce, Fénéon carefully maintained his own anonymity, toiling for years as an obscure clerk in the French War Department. Novels in Three Lines is his secret chef-d’oeuvre, a work of strange and singular art that brings back the long-ago year of 1906 with the haunting immediacy of a photograph while looking forward to such disparate works as Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project and the Death and Disaster series of Andy Warhol.
Author : Janet Wallach
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 18,94 MB
Release : 2013-06-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0307474577
No woman in the Gilded Age made as much money as Hetty Green, America’s first female tycoon. A strong woman who forged her own path, she was worth at least $100 million by the end of her life in 1916—equal to about $2.5 billion today. Green was mocked for her simple Quaker ways and her unfashionable frugality in an era of opulence and excess; the press even nicknamed her “The Witch of Wall Street.” But those who knew her admired her wit and wisdom, and while financiers around her rose and fell as financial bubbles burst, she steadily amassed a fortune that supported businesses, churches, municipalities, and even the city of New York. Janet Wallach’s engrossing biography reveals striking parallels between past financial crises and current recession woes, and speaks not only to history buffs but to today’s investors, who just might learn a thing or two from Hetty Green.
Author : Elna C. Green
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 46,41 MB
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0807861758
The biographies of more than 800 women form the basis for Elna Green's study of the suffrage and the antisuffrage movements in the South. Green's comprehensive analysis highlights the effects that factors such as class background, marital status, educational level, and attitudes about race and gender roles had in inspiring the region's women to work in favor of, or in opposition to, their own enfranchisement. Green sketches the ranks of both movements--which included women and men, black and white--and identifies the ways in which issues of class, race, and gender determined the composition of each side. Coming from a wide array of beliefs and backgrounds, Green argues, southern women approached enfranchisement with an equally varied set of strategies and ideologies. Each camp defined and redefined itself in opposition to the other. But neither was entirely homogeneous: issues such as states' rights and the enfranchisement of black women were so divisive as to give rise to competing organizations within each group. By focusing on the grassroots constituency of each side, Green provides insight into the whole of the suffrage debate.
Author : Monique Roffey
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 16,4 MB
Release : 2011-04-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101514051
A beautifully written, unforgettable novel of a troubled marriage, set against the lush landscape and political turmoil of Trinidad—by the award-winning author of The Mermaid of Black Conch and Passiontide Monique Roffey's Orange Prize-shortlisted novel is a gripping portrait of postcolonialism that stands among great works by Caribbean writers like Jamaica Kincaid and Andrea Levy. When George and Sabine Harwood arrive in Trinidad from England, George is immediately seduced by the beguiling island, while Sabine feels isolated, heat-fatigued, and ill-at-ease. As they adapt to new circumstances, their marriage endures for better or worse, despite growing political unrest and racial tensions that affect their daily lives. But when George finds a cache of letters that Sabine has hidden from him, the discovery sets off a devastating series of consequences as other secrets begin to emerge.
Author : Victor H. Green
Publisher : Colchis Books
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 46,86 MB
Release :
Category : History
ISBN :
The Negro Motorist Green Book was a groundbreaking guide that provided African American travelers with crucial information on safe places to stay, eat, and visit during the era of segregation in the United States. This essential resource, originally published from 1936 to 1966, offered a lifeline to black motorists navigating a deeply divided nation, helping them avoid the dangers and indignities of racism on the road. More than just a travel guide, The Negro Motorist Green Book stands as a powerful symbol of resilience and resistance in the face of oppression, offering a poignant glimpse into the challenges and triumphs of the African American experience in the 20th century.
Author : Emma Bailey
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 30,61 MB
Release : 2017-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1787205347
First published in 1962, this is the autobiography of Emma Bailey, America’s very first woman auctioneer. Describing events from the 1940s through to the 1960s, Bailey delightfully tells of her experiences in a field long dominated by men, in an era when it was still highly controversial for women to go out into the workforce.
Author : Gloria Dean Brown
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,48 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780870710018
An urban African American woman rises from secretary to leader in the USDA Forest Service of the twentieth century West. Along the way, she faces personal and agency challenges to become the first black female forest supervisor in the United States.
Author : Kerstin Dahlin Hedenblad
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 45,11 MB
Release : 2013-08-28
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 149170442X
In The Green Side of a Woman, author Kerstin Dahlin Hedenbladbuilding on her own experience of divorce following thirty years of marriageshares the best of her interactions with women around the world. Here, she focuses on her conversations with married women in two very different countries, Sweden and Kenya. Through these meetings, she found many common patterns in their stories, as well as great differences. Among the women, she explored universal themes of faith, hope, love, strength, commitment, and dedicationas well as fatigue, pain, struggle, forlornness, and signs of resignation. She shares the stories of three women from each country to celebrate the power of the universal female spirit. Their stories are meant to serve as wake-up calls to women of the world, especially those who have allowed themselves to be diminished in their marriages. With humour and empathy, she offers up courage, joy, pride, strength, and trust as inspiration for those still searching for their inner bliss. She hopes to inspire women to encounter reality as it really is and to give way to the power of the present. When you can accept the past and appreciate the gifts of the moment, nothing can stop you from creating new possibilities. Are you going to make yourself the source of your blame, or are you going to rise above it and thrive?
