Plucking the Pearl

2017-04 African American women

Author : Afton Locke
Release : 2017-04
Genre : African American women
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Book Rating : 083/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Plucking the Pearl written by Afton Locke. This book was released on 2017-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Pearl's sheltered life shatters in the 1930s when her mother dies, her only option is to move in with poor family relations and shuck oysters in the local plant on Oyster Island, Maryland. Determined to live a morally proper life, the last thing she wants is an affair with a white man, but Caleb, the plant owner, knows a pearl when he sees one. The successful widower is the "oyster king" of the island, but his intense desire for his forbidden new employee, a woman of color, threatens everything he's built. What begins as a private sexual liaison flowers into strong feelings that don't fit the social mores of the island. When their secret is discovered, they risk losing everything. They dared to pluck the pearl, but will their love be strong enough to keep it forever?

The Waiting Darkness

2021-10-19 Fiction

Author : Michael S. Nuckols
Release : 2021-10-19
Genre : Fiction
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Download or read book The Waiting Darkness written by Michael S. Nuckols. This book was released on 2021-10-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this prequel to "The Winter Calf", Iris Littleton is alarmed when the handsome stranger knocking on her door offers more than meets the eye. Later, a voice leads her high onto the mountain where she finds the skull of a lost child.

The Pearl Thief

2017-05-04 Young Adult Fiction

Author : Elizabeth Wein
Release : 2017-05-04
Genre : Young Adult Fiction
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Book Rating : 514/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Pearl Thief written by Elizabeth Wein. This book was released on 2017-05-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don’t miss Elizabeth Wein’s stunning new novel, Stateless Before Verity . . . there was Julie. When fifteen-year-old Julia Beaufort-Stuart wakes up in the hospital, she knows the lazy summer break she'd imagined won't be exactly what she anticipated. And once she returns to her grandfather's estate, a bit banged up but alive, she begins to realize that her injury might not have been an accident. One of her family's employees is missing, and he disappeared on the very same day she landed in the hospital. Desperate to figure out what happened, she befriends Euan McEwen, the Scottish Traveler boy who found her when she was injured, and his standoffish sister, Ellen. As Julie grows closer to this family, she witnesses firsthand some of the prejudices they've grown used to-a stark contrast to her own upbringing-and finds herself exploring thrilling new experiences that have nothing to do with a missing-person investigation. Her memory of that day returns to her in pieces, and when a body is discovered, her new friends are caught in the crosshairs of long-held biases about Travelers. Julie must get to the bottom of the mystery in order to keep them from being framed for the crime. This exhilarating coming-of-age story, a prequel to the Printz Honor Book Code Name Verity, returns to a beloved character just before she first takes flight.

The Everyday Life of Memorials

2022-10-04 Architecture

Author : Andrew M. Shanken
Release : 2022-10-04
Genre : Architecture
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Book Rating : 732/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Everyday Life of Memorials written by Andrew M. Shanken. This book was released on 2022-10-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timely study, erudite and exciting, about the ordinary—and oftentimes unseen—lives of memorials Memorials are commonly studied as part of the commemorative infrastructure of modern society. Just as often, they are understood as sites of political contestation, where people battle over the meaning of events. But most of the time, they are neither. Instead, they take their rest as ordinary objects, part of the street furniture of urban life. Most memorials are “turned on” only on special days, such as Memorial Day, or at heated moments, as in August 2017, when the Robert E. Lee monument in Charlottesville was overtaken by a political maelstrom. The rest of the time they are turned off. This book is about the everyday life of memorials. It explores their relationship to the pulses of daily life, their meaning within this quotidian context, and their place within the development of modern cities. Through Andrew Shanken’s close historical readings of memorials, both well-known and obscure, two distinct strands of scholarship are thus brought together: the study of the everyday and memory studies. From the introduction of modern memorials in the wake of the French Revolution through the recent destruction of Confederate monuments, memorials have oscillated between the everyday and the “not-everyday.” In fact, memorials have been implicated in the very structure of these categories. The Everyday Life of Memorials explores how memorials end up where they are, grow invisible, fight with traffic, get moved, are assembled into memorial zones, and are drawn anew into commemorations and political maelstroms that their original sponsors never could have imagined. Finally, exploring how people behave at memorials and what memorials ask of people reveals just how strange the commemorative infrastructure of modernity is.

One Little Sin

2005-10-07 Fiction

Author : Liz Carlyle
Release : 2005-10-07
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 165/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book One Little Sin written by Liz Carlyle. This book was released on 2005-10-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nationally bestselling author Liz Carlyle presents her most tempting romance to date—a sinfully sensual tug-of-war between heavenly desires and earthly delights. He was a scoundrel, a scamp, and a hopeless skirt-chaser. So it shouldn't have been so surprising when Sir Alasdair awoke after a night of debauchery to see a young lass on his doorstep...with a baby in her arms. She was beautiful, brazen, and utterly bankrupt. So it shouldn't have been so shocking when Miss Hamilton accepted the rogue's scandalous proposal to move in with him...and become the baby's governess. One little sin brought them together. But when one man's wicked charms are matched by one woman's fiery spirit, one little sin can lead to another...and another...and another...

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