Jane Steele

Author : Lyndsay Faye
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780698155954

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Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye Pdf

The reimagining of Jane Eyre as a gutsy, heroic serial killer that The New York Times Book Review calls “wonderfully entertaining” and USA Today describes as “sheer mayhem meets Victorian propriety”—nominated for the 2017 Edgar Award for Best Novel. “Reader, I murdered him.” A sensitive orphan, Jane Steele suffers first at the hands of her spiteful aunt and predatory cousin, then at a grim school where she fights for her very life until escaping to London, leaving the corpses of her tormentors behind her. After years of hiding from the law while penning macabre “last confessions” of the recently hanged, Jane thrills at discovering an advertisement. Her aunt has died and her childhood home has a new master: Mr. Charles Thornfield, who seeks a governess. Burning to know whether she is in fact the rightful heir, Jane takes the position incognito and learns that Highgate House is full of marvelously strange new residents—the fascinating but caustic Mr. Thornfield, an army doctor returned from the Sikh Wars, and the gracious Sikh butler Mr. Sardar Singh, whose history with Mr. Thornfield appears far deeper and darker than they pretend. As Jane catches ominous glimpses of the pair’s violent history and falls in love with the gruffly tragic Mr. Thornfield, she faces a terrible dilemma: Can she possess him—body, soul, and secrets—without revealing her own murderous past? “A thrill ride of a novel. A must read for lovers of Jane Eyre, dark humor, and mystery.”—PopSugar.com

Author : Lyndsay Faye
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780525535904

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The King of Infinite Space by Lyndsay Faye Pdf

In this lush, magical, queer, and feminist take on Hamlet in modern-day New York City, a neuro-atypical philosopher, along with his best friend Horatio and artist ex-fiancé Lia, are caught up in the otherworldly events surrounding the death of his father. Meet Ben Dane: brilliant, devastating, devoted, honest to a fault (truly, a fault). His Broadway theater baron father is dead--but by purpose or accident? The question rips him apart. Unable to face alone his mother's ghastly remarriage to his uncle, Ben turns to his dearest friend, Horatio Patel, whom he hasn't seen since their relationship changed forever from platonic to something...other. Loyal to a fault (truly, a fault), Horatio is on the first flight to NYC when he finds himself next to a sly tailor who portends inevitable disaster. And who seems ominously like an architect of mayhem himself. Meanwhile, Ben's ex-fiancé Lia, sundered her from her loved ones thanks to her addiction recovery and torn from her art, has been drawn into the fold of three florists from New Orleans--seemingly ageless sisters who teach her the language of flowers, and whose magical bouquets hold both curses and cures. For a price. On one explosive night these kinetic forces will collide, and the only possible outcome is death. But in the masterful hands of Lyndsay Faye, the story we all know has abundant surprises in store. Impish, captivating, and achingly romantic, this is Hamlet as you've never seen it before.

Author : Ann Hagedorn
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1439128669

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Beyond the River by Ann Hagedorn Pdf

Beyond the River brings to brilliant life the dramatic story of the forgotten heroes of the Ripley, Ohio, line of the Underground Railroad. From the highest hill above the town of Ripley, Ohio, you can see five bends in the Ohio River. You can see the hills of northern Kentucky and the rooftops of Ripley’s riverfront houses. And you can see what the abolitionist John Rankin saw from his house at the top of that hill, where for nearly forty years he placed a lantern each night to guide fugitive slaves to freedom beyond the river. In Beyond the River, Ann Hagedorn tells the remarkable story of the participants in the Ripley line of the Underground Railroad, bringing to life the struggles of the men and women, black and white, who fought “the war before the war” along the Ohio River. Determined in their cause, Rankin, his family, and his fellow abolitionists—some of them former slaves themselves—risked their lives to guide thousands of runaways safely across the river into the free state of Ohio, even when a sensational trial in Kentucky threatened to expose the Ripley “conductors.” Rankin, the leader of the Ripley line and one of the early leaders of the antislavery movement, became nationally renowned after the publication of his Letters on American Slavery, a collection of letters he wrote to persuade his brother in Virginia to renounce slavery. A vivid narrative about memorable people, Beyond the River is an inspiring story of courage and heroism that transports us to another era and deepens our understanding of the great social movement known as the Underground Railroad.

Author : Nathaniel West
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Dakota Indians
ISBN : NYPL:33433082388806

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The Ancestry, Life, and Times of Hon. Henry Hastings Sibley by Nathaniel West Pdf

Author : Lyndsay Faye
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780399169496

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Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye Pdf

"A reimagining of Jane Eyre as a gutsy, heroic serial killer, from the author whose work The New York Times described as "riveting" and The Wall Street Journal called "thrilling.""--

Author : William Henry Egle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Pennsylvania
ISBN : UOM:39015027777245

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Notes and Queries by William Henry Egle Pdf

Author : Rhoda R. Gilman
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 087351484X

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Henry Hastings Sibley by Rhoda R. Gilman Pdf

The first full-scale biography of Henry Hastings Sibley, congressman, army general, and Minnesota's first governor.

Author : Lyndsay Faye
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780735210769

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The Paragon Hotel by Lyndsay Faye Pdf

A gun moll with a knack for disappearing flees from Prohibition-era Harlem to Portland's Paragon Hotel. The year is 1921, and "Nobody" Alice James has just arrived in Oregon with a bullet wound, a lifetime's experience battling the New York Mafia, and fifty thousand dollars in illicit cash. She befriends Max, a black Pullman porter who reminds her achingly of home and who saves Alice by leading her to the Paragon Hotel. But her unlikely sanctuary turns out to be an all-black hotel in a Jim Crow city, and its lodgers seem unduly terrified of a white woman on the premises. As she meets the churlish Dr. Pendleton, the stately Mavereen, and the club chanteuse Blossom Fontaine, she understands their dread. The Ku Klux Klan has arrived in Portland in fearful numbers--burning crosses, electing officials, infiltrating newspapers, and brutalizing blacks. And only Alice and her new Paragon "family" are searching for a missing mulatto child who has mysteriously vanished into the woods. To untangle the web of lies and misdeeds around her, Alice will have to answer for her own past, too. A richly imagined novel starring two indomitable heroines, The Paragon Hotel at once plumbs the darkest parts of America's past and the most redemptive facets of humanity. From international-bestselling, multi-award-nominated writer Lyndsay Faye, it's a masterwork of historical suspense.

Author : Jane Austen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HN6GWD

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Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen Pdf

Author : Lyndsay Faye
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802189363

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The Whole Art of Detection by Lyndsay Faye Pdf

This collection of short mysteries by the international-bestselling author of Dust and Shadow “belongs on the top shelf with the very best of Doyle’s” (Nicholas Meyer, author of The Seven-Per-Cent Solution). Inspired by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson, Edgar Award–finalist Lyndsay Faye has masterfully woven these quintessential characters into her own works of fiction—from her acclaimed debut novel, Dust and Shadow, to a series of short stories for the Strand Magazine, whose predecessor published the first Sherlock Holmes story in 1892. The best of Faye’s Sherlockian tales, including two new works, are brought together in a collection that spans the character’s career, from self-taught upstart to lauded detective, both before and after he faked his own death over a Swiss waterfall in 1894. In “The Lowther Park Mystery,” the unsociable Holmes is forced to attend a garden party at the request of his politician brother and improvises a bit of theater to foil a conspiracy against the government. “The Adventure of the Thames Tunnel” brings Holmes’s attention to the murder of a jewel thief in the middle of an underground railway passage. With Holmes and Watson encountering all manner of ungrateful relatives, phony psychologists, wronged wives, outright villains, and even a peculiar species of deadly red leech, The Whole Art of Detection is a must-read for any fan of historical crime fiction. “If Lyndsay Faye’s byline weren’t on the cover, readers might deduce that the Sherlock Holmes mysteries in The Whole Art of Detection actually came from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.” —David Martindale, Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Author : Miloslav Rechcigl Jr.
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 1537 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781665540063

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Notable Americans of Czechoslovak Ancestry in Arts and Letters and in Education by Miloslav Rechcigl Jr. Pdf

As pointed out in my last two publications, no comprehensive study has been undertaken about the American Learned Men and Women with Czechoslovak roots. The aim of this work is to correct this glaring deficiency, with the focus on immigration from the period of mass migration and beyond, irrespective whether they were born in their European ancestral homes or whether they have descended from them. Whereas in the two mentioned monographs, the emphasis has been on scholars and social and natural scientists; and men and women in medicine, applied sciences and engineering, respectively, the present compendium deals with notable Americans of Czechoslovak ancestry in arts and letters, and in education. With respect to women, although most professional fields were closed to them through much of the nineteenth century, the area of arts and letters was opened to them, as noted earlier and as this compendium authenticates.

Author : Maya Banks
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101599983

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Forged in Steele by Maya Banks Pdf

The next heart pounding novel in the KGI series from Maya Banks, the New York Times bestselling author of Rush, Fever, and Burn, the Breathless trilogy. The Kelly Group International (KGI): A super-elite, top secret, family-run business. Qualifications: High intelligence, rock-hard body, military background. Mission: Hostage/kidnap victim recovery. Intelligence gathering. Handling jobs the U.S. government can’t… Steele, a KGI team leader, is an enigma not even his teammates understand. His emotions are tightly locked down and nothing can break that icy exterior. Nothing except Maren Scofield, a doctor on a mission, a woman who has gotten under Steele’s skin and threatens to crack that unflappable cool he’s legendary for. Steele is determined not to allow Maren past his carefully guarded defenses. But when she’s in danger, there’s no way he’ll allow anyone else to protect her. Maren’s hiding something. He’s sure of it. But he isn’t prepared for the shocking discovery her secrets reveal. Or how they will forever alter the course of his destiny. He has a decision to make. Hold tight and shut her out. Or take a chance on something more powerful than he’s ever faced: Love.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1020 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1915
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : HARVARD:HL02BP

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Records and Briefs of the United States Supreme Court by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Bible records
ISBN : 9780806311258

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Georgia Bible Records by Anonim Pdf

"Contains an itemized list of the births, marriages, and deaths found in approximately 1,000 family Bibles ... The collection spans a period stretching from the early 1700s to the 1900s."--Note to the Reader.

Author : Arthur Wyllie
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 581 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781312272910

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Tennessee Confederate Pensions by Arthur Wyllie Pdf

This book contains a complete list of every person, soldier and widows, who received a Confederate pension from the state of Tennessee, Each entry contains the soldier's name, county the person was living in, unit, and pension number and, if applicable, the widow's name and pension number.