The Blacksmith S Daughter

Author : Selim Özdoğan
Publisher : Upswell
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781743822418

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The Blacksmith's Daughter by Selim Özdoğan Pdf

A young girl navigates the joys and sorrows of rural life on the cusp of the modern world in mid-twentieth century Turkey. A close-knit family is transformed forever when its matriarch tragically dies, leaving behind a husband, Timur the blacksmith, and their three young daughters. The Blacksmith's Daughter follows the life of the eldest daughter, Gül, who is growing up in rural Turkey in the 1940s and '50s. When Timur remarries, the girls' new stepmother has none of their mother's warmth, so Gül feels compelled to take on the role of mother to her younger siblings. Their village upbringing is full of simple pleasures- summer evenings sat outside listening to the radio, games played in the street. But the world is evolving, and with an emerging focus on economic growth and prosperity as modernity creeps in, Gül's future is unknown. Through all the hardships and uncertainty, what remains ever-constant is the close bond she shares with her father, who deeply respects and cherishes his first-born. The Blacksmith's Daughter is an enchanting glimpse into how a young girl navigates loss, identity and altered family dynamics, while her simple way of life is changing too.

Author : Minnette Coleman
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781450224413

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The Blacksmith's Daughter by Minnette Coleman Pdf

"A black blacksmith from Alabama decides to make a name for himself through hard work, thrift and the relentless acquisition of land in Atlanta, Georgia. He has a loving and mutually supportive relationship with his wife Bira, five beautiful daughters and one son who is handicapped. The household is run according to a strict discipline and timetable, everyone to her or his task. As the daughters grow up, the blacksmith is most particular as to who they consort with and in which order they will eventually marry. Suitors must be educated and on their way to acquiring wealth in order to assure the blacksmith that his daughters will be appropriately provided for in the future. Then along comes the Piano Man who has been brought up principally in the North and in Europe, who is circumspect and sophisticated, and who is dazzling at the piano and in appearance. Furthermore, he is about to become a professor of music at the local university. This man is a catch worthy of one of the blacksmith's daughters - of Minnelsa, the eldest - or so the blacksmith decides. Then June, the rebellious youngest daughter has already determined otherwise. She has seen the Piano Man playing in the dive in the forest and this man is for her. To clinch the deal, the blacksmith tells the Piano Man that if he marries Minnelsa, he will be given a house and 50 acres of land as a dowry. For the previously itinerant Piano Man, this represents a grand settling down indeed. However, the strikingly attractive and musical June has other ideas."--Publisher's website.

Author : Ngozi Achebe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0982647301

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Onaedo-The Blacksmith's Daughter by Ngozi Achebe Pdf

An introduction to an African world that will haunt and surprise; an exquisite story told from a point of view that is rarely heard. This is a tale of two women separated by four hundred years but linked by history. Maxine a modern American woman who is half white and half African comes across a set of diaries written by a slave in the 16th century in her quest to connect with her Nigerian father. Then there is Onaedo a young woman from that era who found herself in the middle of events that were set in motion in a country far away from her small town in Igboland in West Africa. This is a coming of age novel set in a terrifying age - the age of Portuguese discovery.

Author : Suzanne Adair
Publisher : Whittlers Bench Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2007-09-01
Category : Camden, Battle of, Camden, S.C., 1780
ISBN : 0978526538

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The Blacksmith's Daughter by Suzanne Adair Pdf

With her mother on the run, suspected of being a traitor, and with a new baby on the way, 1780 is shaping up to be a tough year for Betsy Sheridan. Things become even more dangerous for the seventeen-year-old when she discovers the father of her child has been posing as a loyalist to smuggle information to patriot spies in the Carolinas. Then Betsy learns that the man she has always thought to be her own father was not - that her real father was blacksmith Mathias Hale. Hale and Betsy's mother, Sophie Barton, are reputed to be hiding in South Carolina. Betsy and her husband, Clark, travel to the Georgia frontier town of Alton to pick up the trail of her fugitive parents, only to come under the suspicions of British Lieutenant Dunstan Fairfax. Mathias and Sophie had escaped Fairfax's clutches earlier, and now the brutal redcoat sees a way to exact a measure of revenge through Betsy and Clark. Filled with action and suspense, The Blacksmith's Daughter is the second book following the exploits of Sophie Barton and her family as they are forced to choose sides in the war for American independence. From frontier Georgia, to the South Carolina back country, finally climaxing with the Battle of Camden, Suzanne Adair has earned her place as a rising star of historical fiction!

Author : Tessa Dare
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062238849

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Beauty and the Blacksmith by Tessa Dare Pdf

Take a trip to Spindle Cove in New York Times bestselling author Tessa Dare's gorgeous and sexy Regency romance. Beautiful and elegant, Miss Diana Highwood is destined to marry a wealthy, well-placed nobleman. At least that's what her mother has loudly declared to everyone in Spindle Cove. But Diana's not excited by dukes and lords. The only man who makes her heart pound is the village blacksmith, Aaron Dawes. By birth and fortune, they couldn't be more wrong for each other . . . but during stolen, steamy moments in the smithy, his strong hands feel so right. Is their love forged strong enough to last, or are they just playing with fire?

Author : Susan Oldacre
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Country life
ISBN : UVA:X000986135

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The Blacksmith's Daughter by Susan Oldacre Pdf

Author : Cathy Marie Buchanan
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781443452687

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Daughter of Black Lake by Cathy Marie Buchanan Pdf

By the bestselling author of The Painted Girls When a remote, ancient settlement is threatened, it is up to one girl to save her family and her community It’s the season of Fallow, the first century AD. In a misty northern bog surrounded by woodlands and wheat fields, lies a settlement far beyond the reach of the Roman invaders, who are still hundreds of miles to the southeast. Here, life is simple, or so it seems to the tightly knit community. Sow. Reap. Honour Mother Earth, who will provide at harvest time. A girl named Devout comes of age. She flirts sweetly with the young man who has tilled the earth alongside her all her life, envisioning a future of love and abundance. Seventeen years later, however, the settlement is a changed place. Famine has brought struggle, and outsiders, with their military might and foreign ways, have arrived at the doorstep. For Devout’s young daughter, life is more troubled than her mother ever anticipated. But this girl has an extraordinary gift. As worlds collide and peril threatens, it will be up to her to save her family and her community. Immersing readers in a lost world of pagan traditions, Daughter of Black Lake is a transporting story of love, family, survival and the sublime power of the natural world.

Author : G.A. Aiken
Publisher : Kensington Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781496721228

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The Blacksmith Queen by G.A. Aiken Pdf

When a prophesy brings war to the Land of the Black Hills, Keeley Smythe must join forces with a clan of mountain warriors who are really centaurs in a thrilling new fantasy romance series from New York Times bestselling author G.A. Aiken. The Old King Is Dead With the demise of the Old King, there’s a prophesy that a queen will ascend to the throne of the Black Hills. Bad news for the king’s sons, who are prepared to defend their birthright against all comers. But for blacksmith Keeley Smythe, war is great for business. Until it looks like the chosen queen will be Beatrix, her younger sister. Now it’s all Keeley can do to protect her family from the enraged royals. Luckily, Keeley doesn’t have to fight alone. Because thundering to her aid comes a clan of kilt-wearing mountain warriors called the Amichai. Not the most socially adept group, but soldiers have never bothered Keeley, and rough, gruff Caid, actually seems to respect her. A good thing because the fierce warrior will be by her side for a much longer ride than any prophesy ever envisioned … Praise for The Dragon Who Loved Me “A chest thumping, mead-hall rocking, enemy slaying brawl of a good book.” —All Things Urban Fantasy “Aiken aces another one.” —RT Book Reviews, 4 Stars

Author : John Pipkin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781632861887

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The Blind Astronomer's Daughter by John Pipkin Pdf

A transporting historical novel from the acclaimed author of Woodsburner. In late-eighteenth-century Ireland, Caroline Ainsworth learns that her life is not what it seems when her father, Arthur, an astronomer gone blind from staring at the sun, throws himself from his rooftop observatory. His vain search for an unknown planet and jealousy over astronomer William Herschel's discovery of Uranus had driven him to madness. Grief-stricken, Caroline leaves Ireland for London. But her father has left behind a cryptic atlas that holds the secret to finding a new world at the edge of the sky. As Caroline reluctantly resumes her father's work, she must confront her own longings, including her love for her father's former assistant, the tinkering blacksmith Finnegan O'Siodha. Then Ireland is swept into rebellion, and Catherine and Finnegan are plunged into its violence. A novel about the obsessions of the age--scientific inquiry, geographic discovery, political reformation, but above all, astronomy--The Blind Astronomer's Daughter encapsulates the quest for knowledge and for human connection. It is rich, far-reaching, and unforgettable.

Author : Toni Morrison
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009-08-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307373076

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A Mercy by Toni Morrison Pdf

A powerful tragedy distilled into a small masterpiece by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved and, almost like a prelude to that story, set two centuries earlier. Jacob is an Anglo-Dutch trader in 1680s United States, when the slave trade is still in its infancy. Reluctantly he takes a small slave girl in part payment from a plantation owner for a bad debt. Feeling rejected by her slave mother, 14-year-old Florens can read and write and might be useful on his farm. Florens looks for love, first from Lina, an older servant woman at her new master's house, but later from the handsome blacksmith, an African, never enslaved, who comes riding into their lives . . . At the novel's heart, like Beloved, it is the ambivalent, disturbing story of a mother and a daughter – a mother who casts off her daughter in order to save her, and a daughter who may never exorcise that abandonment.

Author : Juliet Marillier
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429913461

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Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier Pdf

Daughter of the Forest is a testimony to an incredible author's talent, a first novel and the beginning of a trilogy like no other: a mixture of history and fantasy, myth and magic, legend and love. Lord Colum of Sevenwaters is blessed with six sons: Liam, a natural leader; Diarmid, with his passion for adventure; twins Cormack and Conor, each with a different calling; rebellious Finbar, grown old before his time by his gift of the Sight; and the young, compassionate Padriac. But it is Sorcha, the seventh child and only daughter, who alone is destined to defend her family and protect her land from the Britons and the clan known as Northwoods. For her father has been bewitched, and her brothers bound by a spell that only Sorcha can lift. To reclaim the lives of her brothers, Sorcha leaves the only safe place she has ever known, and embarks on a journey filled with pain, loss, and terror. When she is kidnapped by enemy forces and taken to a foreign land, it seems that there will be no way for her to break the spell that condemns all that she loves. But magic knows no boundaries, and Sorcha will have to choose between the life she has always known and a love that comes only once. Juliet Marillier is a rare talent, a writer who can imbue her characters and her story with such warmth, such heart, that no reader can come away from her work untouched. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Chris Bellows
Publisher : Pink Flamingo Media
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781939916358

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The Blacksmith's Daughter by Chris Bellows Pdf

Dr. Winthrop Samuels returns to Pink Flamingo Publications, after the ?Suspension Bondage? affair, to once again care for a masochistic morsel of feminine flesh, plying his medical and engineering skills to abet the girl?s bizarre penchant for bondage and restraint. Male dominant, some female dominance, Dr. Samuels plies his craft with zeal, determined to assuage the needs of the Blacksmith?s Daughter, her deep inner quest for the gothic bondage of iron... black and crude... found to be unending. Not a sequel, but for the readers who enjoyed the erudite Dr. Winthrop Samuels, aloof and exacting in his ?care? of Sunny Sudenskaya, this second tale is sure to enthuse. Bondage, sodomy, caning, incredibly bizarre restraints, will the Blacksmith?s Daughter ever be freed? Afficionados of Chris Bellows think not.

Author : Rowan Mallory
Publisher : Far Shore Design Publishing
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-15
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1956158014

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The Blacksmith Princess by Rowan Mallory Pdf

"I am the fraudulent princess. Everyone knows it. I'm the one who doesn't belong here." - Princess Jaclyn (Jax) of Venia The Fairy Tale ... When the crown prince of Aldforth is killed by a manticore, King Wulfric invites twelve eligible princesses to a ball where he will choose a bride for his surviving son. The Reality ... King Wulfric is more dangerous than any mythical monster, and when the princesses find themselves trapped in a cursed fortress far from home, they don't have the luxury of waiting for a prince to rescue them. The Blacksmith Princess ... Jax was never meant to be a princess. The bastard child of the queen of Venia, daughter of a blacksmith, she's determined to make a place for herself in her small village. But when Wulfric demands her attendance at his ball, she must leave behind all she has ever known to protect her family and her kingdom. With nothing but her hammer, her wits and a talent for disruption, will Jax be able to survive court intrigue, dangerous rivals, and an angry giant king to rescue the boy she loves, save the Blessed Kingdoms from war-and figure out where she really belongs? Perfect for fans of Naomi Novik's Spinning Silver and Jennifer Donnelly's Stepsister, this fairy-tale adjacent historical fantasy will take you on an adventure inspired by friendship and forging your place in the world.

Author : Joanna Ruocco,Ben Marcus
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781573661652

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Another Governess / The Least Blacksmith by Joanna Ruocco,Ben Marcus Pdf

"In 'Another Governess' a woman in a decaying manor tries to piece together her own story. In 'The Least Blacksmith' a boy cannot help but fail his older brother as they struggle to run their dead father's forge"--P. [4] of cover.

Author : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,Edmund Henry Garrett,Charles Copeland
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1016226098

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The Village Blacksmith by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,Edmund Henry Garrett,Charles Copeland Pdf

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