[PDF] The Stockwell Letters eBook

Author : Jacqueline Friedland
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 19,62 MB
Release : 2023-08-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1684632153

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From USA Today best-selling and multi-award-winning author Jacqueline Friedland comes a gripping work of fiction based on the true story of female abolitionist Ann Phillips and her connection to Anthony Burns, a young man who briefly escaped American slavery and rocked the nation with his astoundingly heroic story. A passionate advocate of abolition from her earliest years, Ann’s activism was derailed just before her twenty-fourth birthday, when she fell sick with a mysterious illness. In order to protect her fragile health, her husband, the famous abolitionist Wendell Phillips, forbade her from joining any further anti-slavery outings. Even so, when fugitive slave Anthony Burns is apprehended in Boston, Ann is determined to help him, no matter what it costs her. With a particular focus on the predicament of nineteenth-century women who wanted to effect change despite the restrictions society imposed on them, The Stockwell Letters— takes a deep dive into the harrowing conditions of the antebellum South and the obstacles faced by abolitionists who fought tirelessly to eradicate slavery. A fast-paced, arresting recounting of America’s not-so-distant history— the story will stay with readers long after the final page.

Author : Jacqueline Friedland
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 39,44 MB
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1684630983

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“It is hard to imagine a better novel for a book club discussion...A thoughtful and gripping family tale that will haunt readers long after finishing it.” —Kirkus Reviews, STARRED As a young mother with a toddler and a live-in boyfriend, Maggie Fisher’s job at a checkout counter in downtown Phoenix doesn’t afford her much financial flexibility. She dreams of going to college and becoming a teacher, options she squandered when she fled her family home as a teenager. When Maggie stumbles onto an ad offering thousands of dollars to women who are willing to gestate other people’s babies, she at first finds the concept laughable. Before long, however, she’s been seduced by all the ways the extra money could improve her life. Once she decides to go for it, it’s only a matter of months before she’s chosen as a gestational carrier by Chip and Donovan Rigsdale, a married couple from New York. After delivering twin babies and proudly handing them off to the Rigsdales, Maggie finally gets her life on a positive trajectory: she earns her degree, lands a great job, and builds a family of her own. She can’t fathom why, ten years after the fact, the fertility clinic is calling to ask for a follow-up DNA test. High-energy and immensely readable, He Gets That from Me explores what it really means to be part of a family.

Author : Jacqueline Friedland
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 33,59 MB
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1943006555

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Abigail Milton was born into the British middle class, but her family has landed in unthinkable debt. To ease their burdens, Abby’s parents send her to America to live off the charity of their old friend, Douglas Elling. When she arrives in Charleston at the age of seventeen, Abigail discovers that the man her parents raved about is a disagreeable widower who wants little to do with her. To her relief, he relegates her care to a governess, leaving her to settle into his enormous estate with little interference. But just as she begins to grow comfortable in her new life, she overhears her benefactor planning the escape of a local slave—and suddenly, everything she thought she knew about Douglas Elling is turned on its head. Abby’s attempts to learn more about Douglas and his involvement in abolition initiate a circuitous dance of secrets and trust. As Abby and Douglas each attempt to manage their complicated interior lives, readers can’t help but hope that their meandering will lead them straight to each other. Set against the vivid backdrop of Charleston twenty years before the Civil War, Trouble the Water is a captivating tale replete with authentic details about Charleston’s aristocratic planter class, American slavery, and the Underground Railroad.

Author : Jacqueline Friedland
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 50,63 MB
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1684630312

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Meredith Altman’s engagement to Wesley Latner ended in spectacular disaster—one that shattered her completely. Years have passed since then, and now she’s about to marry Aaron Rapp, a former Ivy League football player and baby-saving doctor. As they celebrate their engagement at a new TriBeCa hotspot, Meredith is stunned to find the restaurant owner is none other than Wesley, the man she is still secretly trying to forget. When Meredith learns that Wesley has been diagnosed with ALS, her feelings about their past become all the more confusing. As she spends more time with Wesley and is pulled further under his spell, she discovers what kind of man her new fiancé really is—and what kind of woman she wants to be.

Author : Mary Augusta Avery Stockwell
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 42,10 MB
Release : 188?
Category : Dennistoun (Glasgow, Scotland)
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Letter (1887) from Stockwell's son Norris Parmly Stockwell, Jr., and letter (undated) from son Charles Norris Stockwell, addressed to her at Dennistoun, Glasgow, Scotland.

Author : Walter Scott
Publisher : London : J. Murray
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 46,64 MB
Release : 1830
Category : Bookbinding
ISBN :

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Facsimile reprint of 1st ed., London, G. Routledge & Sons, 1884.

Author : Walter Scott
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 23,63 MB
Release : 2019-11-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN :

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"Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft" by Walter Scott Sir Walter Scott wrote Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft at the behest of his son-in-law, J. G. Lockhart, who worked for a publishing firm and was a study of witchcraft and the supernatural. Throughout the 19th century, it exercised a significant influence in promoting the Victorian penchant for Gothic and ghostly fiction. Even today, it's a highly sought-after reference text for fans of the supernatural.

Author : Sir Walter Scott
Publisher : Delphi Classics
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 12,77 MB
Release : 2017-07-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1786568829

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This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott’. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. The Delphi Classics edition of Scott includes original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of the author, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily. eBook features: * The complete unabridged text of ‘Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft’ * Beautifully illustrated with images related to Scott’s works * Individual contents table, allowing easy navigation around the eBook * Excellent formatting of the textPlease visit www.delphiclassics.com to learn more about our wide range of titles