This vintage book contains Harriet Ann Jacobs' 1861 autobiography, «Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl». It chronicles Jacobs' life as a female slave and documents how she attained freedom both for herself and for her children. Within this volume she explores the life of female slaves on plantations, the abuse and hardships that they had to endure, and their desperate efforts to protect their children. «Incidents in the Life of a Sl ...
Solomon Northup (born c.1807) was an American abolitionist and author. Born free to a freed slave and a free African American woman, he was a professional violinist, farmer and landowner until he was offered a job as a musician in Washington D.C., where he was drugged and kidnapped by slavers. He was sold to a painter in New Orleans and remained in bondage for 12 years until a Canadian plantation worker alerted the authorities in New York. He wa ...
Secrecy and intrigue ignite dangerous passions in New York Times bestselling author Hannah Howell's seductive new novel. . .It is whispered throughout London that the members of the Wherlocke family are possessed of certain unexplainable gifts. But Lord Ashton Radmoor is skeptical–until he finds an innocent beauty lying drugged and helpless in the bedroom of a brothel. The mystery woman is Penelope Wherlocke, and her special gift of sight ...
A Woman With A Past. . .. . . Six years ago, Rebecca Tremaine, the daughter of a vicar, became pregnant by her fiance. When he died unexpectedly, Rebecca was heartbroken and disgraced. The child was stillborn–or so Rebecca believed. Now, she's both shocked and jubilant to discover that her relatives arranged for her baby girl, Lily, to be given to a distant family connection–Cameron Sinclair, Earl of Hampton. The widowed earl reluctantly a ...
"A Spellbinding Tale Of The Last Days Of The Confederacy." –David J. Eicher, author of The Longest Night In the only book to tell the definitive story of Confederate President Jefferson Davis's chase, capture, imprisonment, and release, journalist and Civil War writer Clint Johnson paints a riveting portrait of one of American history's most complex and enduring figures."Riveting And Revealing." –Marc Leepson, author of Despera ...
Recounts some of the most dangerous feats in mountaineering history Insights into the human attraction to danger and suffering Award-winning author While you wouldn’t expect climbing an 8000-meter peak in winter to be a popular activity, there have been 178 expeditions (as of 2019) to the Himalaya and Karakoram during the cruelest season to do just that. Polish alpinist, Voytek Kurtyka, termed the practice the «art of suffering.» The stories her ...
En septiembre y noviembre de 1927 se celebro en Buenos Aires uno de los encuentros mas apasionantes en la historia del ajedrez mundial. El cubano Jose Raul Capablanca perdio el titulo de campeon mundial ante el jugador ruso-frances Alexander Alekhine. Esta novela recrea aquellos hechos. Por las paginas de Perdido en Buenos Aires desfilan Carlos Gardel y otras figuras del escenario y la farandula de la ciudad.
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