The Spirited Mrs Pringle

Author : Jillianne Hamilton
Publisher : Tomfoolery Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781775256052

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The Spirited Mrs. Pringle by Jillianne Hamilton Pdf

London, 1888. Upon the death of her husband, self-involved social climber Cora Pringle assumes her recent dalliance with a wealthy gentleman will be her second chance at a happily ever after. That is until her paramour turns out to be a penniless imposter. Despite his betrayal, Cora can’t quite let go of the tug the handsome playwright has on her heart. Desperate for an income, Cora becomes a séance-performing spiritualist and gets a taste for celebrity—and it’s so delicious. So what if she can’t actually communicate with the dead? Her eager patrons don’t need to know that. Amelia Baxter, an ambitious journalist and suffragist, is discouraged when her editor refuses to let her cover the horrific Jack the Ripper murders. Instead, Amelia pours her frustrations into bringing Cora’s deceptive and manipulative act to an end, even if it means risking her family’s reputation.

Author : Louise Fein
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062964069

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Daughter of the Reich by Louise Fein Pdf

From the author of the international bestseller The Hidden Child comes a spellbinding story of impossible love set against the backdrop of the Nazi regime, perfect for fans of The Nightingale and All the Light We Cannot See. She must choose between loyalty to her country or a love that could be her destruction… As the dutiful daughter of a high-ranking Nazi officer, Hetty Heinrich is keen to play her part in the glorious new Thousand Year Reich. But she never imagines that all she believes and knows will come into stark conflict when she encounters Walter, a Jewish friend from the past, who stirs dangerous feelings in her. Confused and conflicted, Hetty doesn’t know whom she can trust and where she can turn to, especially when she discovers that someone has been watching her. Realizing she is taking a huge risk—but unable to resist the intense attraction she has for Walter—she embarks on a secret love affair with him. But as the rising tide of anti-Semitism threatens to engulf them, Hetty and Walter will be forced to take extreme measures. Will the steady march of dark forces destroy Hetty’s universe—or can love ultimately triumph…? Propulsive, deeply affecting, and inspired by the author’s family history, Daughter of the Reich is a mesmerizing page-turner filled with vivid characters, a meticulously researched portrait of Nazi Germany, and a reminder that the past must never be forgotten.

Author : Elizabeth Allston Pringle
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781643362809

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A Woman Rice Planter by Elizabeth Allston Pringle Pdf

A Woman Rice Planter offers insights into a broad spectrum of Southern life after the Civil War. As an account of a woman's struggle for survival and dignity in a distinctly male-dominated society, it contributes significantly to women's history. It presents a rich portrait of a distinctive place—the South Carolina Low Country—in a troubled and generally undocumented time, a portrait made all the more vivid by the fine pen-and-ink sketches of Charleston artist Alice R. Huger Smith. Elizabeth Alston Pringle was the daughter of Robert Francis Withers Allston, a state legislator and governor, who was at one time owner of seven plantations but bankrupt at the time of his death. Left to struggle for income to regain the property and position the family held prior to the war, Pringle turned to writing and eventually published a column on Southern culture in the New York Sun under the pseudeonym Patience Pennington. In 1913 she collected and reshaped these newspaper columns and compiled them into one volume, A Woman Rice Planter, a best-selling book that reduced her financial worries. Her descriptions of the vagaries of rice planting, of her relationships with former slaves and the first generation of free-born African Americans, and of her life in the early Reconstruciton period are important to our understanding of the prevailing attitudes and persistence of the Old South in the New. The volume was illustrated by Alice R. Huger Smith (1876–1958), an American painter and printmaker. This edition features an introduction by Charles Joyner (1935–2016), distinguished professor emeritus of southern history and culture at Coastal Carolina University and author of several books, including Down by the Riverside: A South Carolina Slave Community.

Author : Lucy Maud Montgomery
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9788026882022

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Anne of Windy Poplars by Lucy Maud Montgomery Pdf

Anne Shirley has graduated from Redmond College and she is getting ready to marry to Gilbert Blythe. While Gilbert is still in medical school, Anne takes a job as the principal of Summerside High School, where she also teaches. She lives in a large house called Windy Poplars with two elderly widows, Aunt Kate and Aunt Chatty, along with their housekeeper, Rebecca Dew, and their cat, Dusty Miller. During her time in Summerside, Anne must learn to manage many of Summerside's inhabitants, including the clannish and resentful Pringle family, her bitter colleague Katherine Brooke, and others of Summerside's more eccentric residents.

Author : Betty Neels
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781459239265

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Pineapple Girl by Betty Neels Pdf

THEY SEEMED FATED TO MEET! It was a pineapple given to her by a grateful patient that led Eloise Bennett to meeting the Dutch doctor Timon van Zeilst. Shortly after that, Eloise went to Holland to nurse a patient and there was Dr. van Zeilst again! Thrown into his company, Eloise soon realized that she loved him. But Timon was going to marry the beautiful Liske—so why would he look twice at Eloise?

Author : Robert Smith Surtees
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798706596309

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"Ask Mamma" by Robert Smith Surtees Pdf

In the dress department he was ably assisted by his mother, a lady of very considerable taste, who not only fashioned his clothes but his mind, indeed we might add his person, Billy having taken after her, as they say; for his father, though an excellent man and warm, was rather of the suet dumpling order of architecture, short, thick, and round, with a neck that was rather difficult to find. His name, too, was William, and some, the good natured ones again of course, used to say that he might have been called "Fine Billy the first," for under the auspices of his elegant wife he had assumed a certain indifference to trade; and when in the grand strut at Ramsgate or Broadstairs, or any of his watering-places, if appealed to about any of the things made or dealt in by any of the concerns in which he was a "Co.," he used to raise his brows and shrug his shoulders, and say with a very deprecatory sort of air, "'Pon my life, I should say you're right," or "'Deed I should say it was so," just as if he was one of the other Pringles, the Pringles who have nothing to do with trade, and in noways connected with Pringle & Co.; Pringle & Potts; Smith, Sharp & Pringle; or any of the firms that the Pringles carried on under the titles of the original founders. He was neither a tradesman nor a gentleman. The Pringles like the happy united family we meet upon wheels; the dove nestling with the gorged cat, and so on all pulled well together when there was a common victim to plunder; and kept their hands in by what they called taking fair advantages of each other, that is to say, cheating each other, when there was not.

Author : Miss Read,John S. Goodall
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Fiction
ISBN : IND:30000000990410

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Mrs. Pringle by Miss Read,John S. Goodall Pdf

Through the eyes of many Fairacre friends, we trace Mrs. Pringle"s life and her stormy standing as the redoubtable cleaner of the town"s school. However maddening she is, life at Fairacre would be poorer without her.

Author : Elizabeth W. Allston Pringle
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547254843

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Chronicles of Chicora Wood by Elizabeth W. Allston Pringle Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Chronicles of Chicora Wood" by Elizabeth W. Allston Pringle. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2003-11-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0439555108

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A Coal Miner's Bride by Susan Campbell Bartoletti Pdf

A diary account of thirteen-year-old Anetka's life in Poland in 1896, immigration to America, marriage to a coal miner, widowhood, and happiness in finally finding her true love.

Author : Theodore Dwight Weld,American Anti-Slavery Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1839
Category : Enslaved persons
ISBN : BCUL:VD2266460

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American Slavery as it is by Theodore Dwight Weld,American Anti-Slavery Society Pdf

Author : Katherine Holubitsky
Publisher : Paw Prints
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008-08-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1439543135

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Alone at Ninety Foot by Katherine Holubitsky Pdf

Pamela Collins, a fourteen-year-old girl living near Lynn Canyon Park in Canada, struggles to deal with changing friendships, school, growing up, and her future while coping with her mother's death.

Author : Dorothy L. Sayers
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780771060250

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In the Teeth of the Evidence by Dorothy L. Sayers Pdf

A collection of short stories featuring Lord Peter Wimsey, Montague Egg, and others. Includes stories such as "Absolutely Everywhere," "Bitter Almonds", and "The Leopard Lady." Penguin Random House Canada is proud to bring you classic works of literature in e-book form, with the highest quality production values. Find more today and rediscover books you never knew you loved.

Author : Doris Kearns Goodwin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 912 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781451673791

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The Bully Pulpit by Doris Kearns Goodwin Pdf

Pulitzer Prize–winning author and presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin’s dynamic history of Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft and the first decade of the Progressive era, that tumultuous time when the nation was coming unseamed and reform was in the air. Winner of the Carnegie Medal. Doris Kearns Goodwin’s The Bully Pulpit is a dynamic history of the first decade of the Progressive era, that tumultuous time when the nation was coming unseamed and reform was in the air. The story is told through the intense friendship of Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft—a close relationship that strengthens both men before it ruptures in 1912, when they engage in a brutal fight for the presidential nomination that divides their wives, their children, and their closest friends, while crippling the progressive wing of the Republican Party, causing Democrat Woodrow Wilson to be elected, and changing the country’s history. The Bully Pulpit is also the story of the muckraking press, which arouses the spirit of reform that helps Roosevelt push the government to shed its laissez-faire attitude toward robber barons, corrupt politicians, and corporate exploiters of our natural resources. The muckrakers are portrayed through the greatest group of journalists ever assembled at one magazine—Ida Tarbell, Ray Stannard Baker, Lincoln Steffens, and William Allen White—teamed under the mercurial genius of publisher S.S. McClure. Goodwin’s narrative is founded upon a wealth of primary materials. The correspondence of more than four hundred letters between Roosevelt and Taft begins in their early thirties and ends only months before Roosevelt’s death. Edith Roosevelt and Nellie Taft kept diaries. The muckrakers wrote hundreds of letters to one another, kept journals, and wrote their memoirs. The letters of Captain Archie Butt, who served as a personal aide to both Roosevelt and Taft, provide an intimate view of both men. The Bully Pulpit, like Goodwin’s brilliant chronicles of the Civil War and World War II, exquisitely demonstrates her distinctive ability to combine scholarly rigor with accessibility. It is a major work of history—an examination of leadership in a rare moment of activism and reform that brought the country closer to its founding ideals.

Author : Philip Roth
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1994-09-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780679756453

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Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth Pdf

The groundbreaking novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Pastoral that originally propelled its author to literary stardom: told in a continuous monologue from patient to psychoanalyst, this masterpiece draws us into the turbulent mind of one lust-ridden young Jewish bachelor named Alexander Portnoy. "Deliciously funny...absurd and exuberant, wild and uproarious...a brilliantly vivid reading experience." —The New York Times Book Review "Touching as well as hilariously lewd.... Roth is vibrantly talented." —New York Review of Books Portnoy's Complaint n. [after Alexander Portnoy (1933- )] A disorder in which strongly-felt ethical and altruistic impulses are perpetually warring with extreme sexual longings, often of a perverse nature. Spielvogel says: 'Acts of exhibitionism, voyeurism, fetishism, auto-eroticism and oral coitus are plentiful; as a consequence of the patient's "morality," however, neither fantasy nor act issues in genuine sexual gratification, but rather in overriding feelings of shame and the dread of retribution, particularly in the form of castration.' (Spielvogel, O. "The Puzzled Penis," Internationale Zeitschrift für Psychoanalyse, Vol. XXIV, p. 909.) It is believed by Spielvogel that many of the symptoms can be traced to the bonds obtaining in the mother-child relationship.

Author : Peter Polack
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781443873758

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Jamaica, the Land of Film by Peter Polack Pdf

If Jamaica were an actor she would have appeared in more than one hundred and forty-one films. The list of movies where the name Jamaica plays a prominent part is probably closer to two hundred. This book chronicles over one hundred years of international film making in Jamaica from 1910, and provides many previously unpublished details of locations, actors and directors. As such, Jamaica, the Land of Film provides a comprehensive history which will be of great interest to all cinema aficionados and fans of Caribbean history.