His historical account spans two centuries and the whole of British North America, from New England to the Caribbean, exploring the social, political, and legal dynamics that shaped a diverse sexual culture. In this book, Richard Godbeer overturns conventional wisdom about the sexual values and customs of colonial Americans. These depictions of colonial North America's sexual culture sharply contradict the stereotype of Puritanical abstinence that persists in the popular imagination. Charles Woodmason, an Anglican minister in South Carolina in 1766, described the region as a "stage of debauchery" in which polygamy was "very common", "concubinage general", and "bastardy no disrepute". In 1695, John Miller, a clergyman travelling through New York, found it appalling that so many couples lived together without ever being married and that no one viewed "ante-nuptial fornication" as anything scandalous or sinful. Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p.
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Bromberg has expanded the series since then, but Colton and Riley remain my favorite couple. It’s been a few years since I read the original Driven trilogy. Slow Burn, Sweet Ache, and Hard Beat are standalone Driven novels that can be read in their own.) (Reading Order: Driven, Fueled, Crashed, Raced is optional, and then Aced. Bromberg writes the perfect romance, packed with steam, sizzle, and soul. I loved this new chapter in their epic romance. “Colton and Rylee are back - hotter, sweeter, and more passionate than ever. Plus she has the most delicious heroes in the book world! A master storyteller!!” -New York Times bestselling author Pepper Winters Bromberg’s books and every story is full of love, emotion, and true life that makes the fantasy even more poignant. Colton and Rylee will forever be one of romances sexiest and most passionate couples.” -New York Times bestselling author Jay Crownover Bromberg is the master of making hearts race and pulses pound. How can one moment, when our world seemed so right, resurface and cause our perfect life to spiral out of control? So why do I feel like it's slipping through my fingers? Our happily was supposed to be ever after. Now it's the catalyst that threatens to tear us apart. The night she made the world around me so much more than just a blur. Published by Tantor Audio on January 11, 2016 Pregnant and desperate, Calla must contend with whether or not the lottery knows her better than she knows herself-and what that might mean for her child. When Calla, a blue-ticket woman, begins to question her fate, she must go on the run. But what if the life you're given is the wrong one? And once you've taken your ticket, there is no going back. You are relieved of the terrible burden of choice. A blue ticket grants you a career and freedom. A white ticket grants you marriage and children. On the day of your first bleed, you report to the station to learn what kind of woman you will be. "Blue Ticket adds something new to the dystopian tradition set by Orwell’s 1984 or Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale." -New York Times Book ReviewĬalla knows how the lottery works. From the author of the Booker Prize longlisted novel The Water Cure comes another mesmerizing, refracted vision of our society: What if the life you're given is the wrong one? Her interest is piqued by her solitary, elderly neighbor. Montana, 1983: Lily is a lonely teenager looking for adventure in small-town Montana. But when the war finally ends, instead of freedom, Odile tastes the bitter sting of unspeakable betrayal. Together with her fellow librarians, Odile joins the Resistance with the best weapons she has: books. When the Nazis march into the city, Odile stands to lose everything she holds dear, including her beloved library. Paris, 1939: Young and ambitious Odile Souchet seems to have the perfect life with her handsome police officer beau and a dream job at the American Library in Paris. An instant New York Times, Washington Post, and USA TODAY bestseller-based on the true story of the heroic librarians at the American Library in Paris during World War II- The Paris Library is a moving and unforgettable “ ode to the importance of libraries, books, and the human connections we find within both” (Kristin Harmel, New York Times bestselling author). Maya’s Indian Muslim parents expect her to adhere to their traditions when it comes to education and marriage-something Maya is battling against. She wants proof.”Īhmed’s first teenage protagonist, Maya Aziz in Love, Hate & Other Filters, is American born, unlike the author, who was born in Bombay and brought to the United States as a toddler. “She’s smart, she’s a skeptic, and she’s not willing to take what adults say at face value, even when she’s in a difficult position. “Amira is a revolutionary girl, like my teenage protagonists,” Ahmed says. Fantasy tells a truth about the world we live in.”Īmira & Hamza follows the story of contemporary 12-year-old Amira and her younger brother, who suddenly find themselves in the mystical land of Qaf, tasked with stopping the moon from breaking apart and evil creatures from swarming throughout the world, bent on its destruction. While it may seem like a change, she says the book “is not really a departure for me. Her newest book, Amira & Hamza: The War to Save the Worlds (Little, Brown, Sept.), though, is a middle grade fantasy. Since the publication of her debut novel, Love, Hate & Other Filters, in 2018, Samira Ahmed has become known for her YA fiction featuring strong, smart, and passionate Muslim American teenage girls. Later, Alexandra finds Emil in the general store with Marie Tovesky. Alexandra asks her neighbor and friend Carl Linstrum to retrieve the kitten. On a windy January day in Hanover, Nebraska, Alexandra Bergson is with her five-year-old brother Emil, whose little kitten has climbed a telegraph pole and is afraid to come down. The book is divided into five parts, each of which has numerous chapters. The novel is also concerned with two romantic relationships, one between Alexandra and family friend Carl Linstrum and the other between Alexandra's brother Emil and the married Marie Shabata. The main character, Alexandra Bergson, inherits the family farmland when her father dies, and she devotes her life to making the farm a viable enterprise at a time when many other immigrant families are giving up and leaving the prairie. O Pioneers! tells the story of the Bergsons, a family of Swedish-American immigrants in the farm country near the fictional town of Hanover, Nebraska, at the turn of the 20th century. "There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating. Though he would become world-famous as the author of adventure tales such as Treasure Island and the Gothic potboiler The Strange Case of Dr. In Under the Wide and Starry Sky, Horan is at it again, reimagining the real-life courtship and adventures of globe-trotting Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson and his indomitable American wife, Fanny Osbourne. With her best-selling 2007 novel Loving Frank - about architect Frank Lloyd Wright and his scandalous affair with Mamah Borthwick Cheney - Nancy Horan didn't invent the genre of the Woman Behind the Great Artist.īut she was a guiding light for what proved to be a fresh current in literary fiction. Under the Wide and Starry Sky by Nancy Horan Ballantine, 472 pp. What should you read this weekend? USA TODAY's picks for book lovers include the latest historical novel from Loving Frank author Nancy Horan, and a fresh look at the marriage of Pat and Richard Nixon. Gr 4-8-In this graphic adaptation of the first book in the "Kane Chronicles" series (Hyperion), Sadie and Carter Kane search for their missing father, an archaeologist specializing in Egyptian antiquities. Orpheus lives in Los Angeles, California. Orpheus also provided the storyboards for The Lightning Thief: The Graphic Novel. He has contributed his coloring skills to numerous titles, including The Amazing Spider-Man and Ultimate X-Men. Orpheus Collar (is a storyboard artist and illustrator who received his BFA from the Maryland Institute of Art. He lives in San Antonio, Texas, with his wife and two sons. His other novels for children include the New York Times #1 best-selling The Heroes of Olympus, Book One: The Lost Hero and Book Two: The Son of Neptune, as well as the five books in the New York Times #1 best-selling Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. Rick Riordan (is the author of the New York Times #1 best-selling The Kane Chronicles, Book One : The Red Pyramid and Book Two: The Throne of Fire. OL18347891W Page_number_confidence 94.08 Pages 306 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.18 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20220211144603 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 246 Scandate 20220204204014 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9781935408536 Tts_version 4. Urn:lcp:undoingdemosneol0000brow:lcpdf:6c9333bc-286a-484a-b415-5c63963c7cdb This item: Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution by Wendy Brown Hardcover 40.00 In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise of Antidemocratic Politics in the West by Wendy Brown Paperback 33. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 19:01:54 Bookplateleaf 0005 Boxid IA40362313 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier And as shocking secrets and the harshest betrayals come to light, and enemies emerge to threaten everything Poppy and Casteel have fought for, they will discover just how far they are willing to go for their people-and each other. Poppy and Casteel must consider the impossible-travel to the Lands of the Gods and wake the King himself. And they will stop at nothing to ensure that the crown never sits upon Poppy’s head.īut the greatest threat to them and to Atlantia is what awaits in the far west, where the Queen of Blood and Ash has her own plans, ones she has waited hundreds of years to carry out. But as the kingdoms’ dark sins and blood-drenched secrets finally unravel, a long-forgotten power rises to pose a genuine threat. Poppy has only ever wanted to control her own life, not the lives of others, but now she must choose to either forsake her birthright or seize the gilded crown and become the Queen of Flesh and Fire. By right the crown and the kingdom are hers. She carries the blood of the King of Gods within her. Because Poppy is the Chosen, the Blessed. It’s a dangerous mission and one with far-reaching consequences neither dreamed of. She wants to revel in her happiness but first they must free his brother and find hers. Poppy never dreamed she would find the love she’s found with Prince Casteel. |