6/30/2023 0 Comments Better off wed susanna craig![]() ![]() Jeremy quickly finds Laura while she’s posing as a beleaguered, mud-spattered demoiselle with a twisted ankle to get closer to her latest quarry and says Jeremy is her husband – Lord Sterling – to help bolster her cover. ![]() “Lady Sterling” happens to be Laura Hopkins, and her motivation happens to be much simpler – she targets sexual harassers, seducers and rapists, and she uses the dirty secrets she’s learned to threaten those those powerful men until they stop harassing their domestic servants or those they’ve abused. Surely Lady Sterling wouldn’t willingly lie to her own husband – and this way he can get close enough to sniff out her secrets. Scott wants Jeremy to stop her before it’s too late…by marrying her. Scott thinks Lady Sterling is looking for blackmail material and might have gotten her hands on some high-octane secrets. General Scott, Jeremy’s supervisor, has noted that the pickpocket’s game seems to be concealing more – she only targets vulnerable men with high social positions. Impoverished spy, codebreaker and ex-army Captain Jeremy Addison, Viscount Sterling, has been assigned to the case of sly ‘Lady Sterling’, a notorious high society pickpocket who has been bedeviling Scotland Yard for ages. With a smart and strong heroine and a stiff-spined hero, it’s warm and strongly written, and the best book in the Love and Let Spyseries thus far. Susanna Craig’s Better off Wed is delightful if slightly imperfect. ![]()
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6/30/2023 0 Comments The starless crown james rollins![]() ![]() ![]() On the run, hunted by enemies old and new, they must learn to trust each other in order to survive in a world evolved in strange, beautiful, and deadly ways, and uncover ancient secrets that hold the key to their salvation. An imprisoned thief, who escapes the crushing dark and discovers a gleaming artifact - one that will ignite a power struggle across the globe. A drunken prince, who steps out from his beloved brother's shadow and claims a purpose of his own. Fleeing into the unknown she is drawn into a team of outcasts: A broken soldier, who once again takes up the weapons he's forbidden to wield and carves a trail back home. A gifted student foretells an apocalypse. Summary: An alliance embarks on a dangerous journey to uncover the secrets of the distant past and save their world in this captivating, deeply visionary adventure from #1 New York Times bestselling thriller-master James Rollins. ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments Foner the second founding![]() His book, The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery won the Pulitzer, Bancroft, and Lincoln prizes for 2011. He has also been the curator of several museum exhibitions, including the prize-winning "A House Divided: America in the Age of Lincoln," at the Chicago Historical Society. ![]() He is one of only two persons to serve as President of the Organization of American Historians, American Historical Association, and Society of American Historians. This program was presented in conjunction with the Center’s exhibit Civil War and Reconstruction: The Battle for Freedom and Equality.Įric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University, specializes in the Civil War and Reconstruction, slavery, and 19th-century America. He sits down with National Constitution Center President Jeffrey Rosen. ![]() Foner traces the arc of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution-the “Reconstruction amendments”-from their dramatic pre-Civil War origins to today, detailing how they changed our founding document and shaped American history. ![]() Pultizer Prize-winning historian Eric Foner tells the story of the battle to inscribe equality into the Constitution. ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments Plain bad heroines a novel![]() ![]() The dead students had been obsessed with MacLane’s memoir, in which the author invokes the devil to satisfy her desire for women. In the present, Merritt Emmons is reviewing the screenplay adaptation of her book about three students who died at Brookhants in 1902, two of whom were attacked by a swarm of wasps under the watch of principal Libbie Brookhants and her partner Alex Trills, who also met eerie, premature deaths. Danforth’s sumptuous sophomore novel (after The Miseducation of Cameron Post) chronicles the allegedly cursed 1902 memoir The Story of Mary MacLane and its link to the shuttered Brookhants School for Girls in Little Compton, R.I. ![]() |