Bloodlines - Touch Not the Cat, a Genealogy Mystery Novel
Title | Bloodlines - Touch Not the Cat, a Genealogy Mystery Novel PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas McKerley |
Publisher | Summertime Publishing |
Pages | 316 |
Release | 2011-11-01 |
Genre | Detective and mystery stories |
ISBN | 9781904881490 |
Scottish-American genealogy mystery novel set in Victorian times and 2011, reveals why Alexander Stewart emigrated to America in 1895 and what moved laird Gordon Macpherson to protect his Highland values. Women's suffrage, racism and social division are at the heart of this gripping mystery. Climaxes at clan gathering in Scotland.
Bloodlines
Title | Bloodlines PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas McKerley |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2011 |
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Futureface
Title | Futureface PDF eBook |
Author | Alex Wagner |
Publisher | One World |
Pages | 354 |
Release | 2019-01-08 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0812987500 |
From the host of MSNBC’s Alex Wagner Tonight, “a rich and revealing memoir” (The New York Times) about her travels around the globe to solve the mystery of her ancestry, confronting the question at the heart of the American experience of immigration, race, and identity: Who are my people? “A thoughtful, beautiful meditation on what makes us who we are . . . and the values and ideals that bind us together as Americans.”—Barack Obama The daughter of a Burmese mother and a white American father, Alex Wagner grew up thinking of herself as a “futureface”—an avatar of a mixed-race future when all races would merge into a brown singularity. But when one family mystery leads to another, Wagner’s post-racial ideals fray as she becomes obsessed with the specifics of her own family’s racial and ethnic history. Drawn into the wild world of ancestry, she embarks upon a quest around the world—and into her own DNA—to answer the ultimate questions of who she really is and where she belongs. The journey takes her from Burma to Luxembourg, from ruined colonial capitals with records written on banana leaves to Mormon databases, genetic labs, and the rest of the twenty-first-century genealogy complex. But soon she begins to grapple with a deeper question: Does it matter? Is our enduring obsession with blood and land, race and identity, worth all the trouble it’s caused us? Wagner weaves together fascinating history, genetic science, and sociology but is really after deeper stuff than her own ancestry: in a time of conflict over who we are as a country, she tries to find the story where we all belong. Praise for Futureface “Smart, searching . . . Meditating on our ancestors, as Wagner’s own story shows, can suggest better ways of being ourselves.”—Maud Newton, The New York Times Book Review “Sincere and instructive . . . This timely reflection on American identity, with a bonus exposé of DNA ancestry testing, deserves a wide audience.”—Library Journal “The narrative is part Mary Roach–style participation-heavy research, part family history, and part exploration of existential loneliness. . . . The journey is worth taking.”—Kirkus Reviews “[A] ruminative exploration of ethnicity and identity . . . Wagner’s odyssey is an effective riposte to anti-immigrant politics.”—Publishers Weekly
Touch Not the Cat
Title | Touch Not the Cat PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Stewart |
Publisher | Hodder & Stoughton |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2011-04-28 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1444715046 |
'A comfortable chair and a Mary Stewart: total heaven. I'd rather read her than most other authors.' Harriet Evans Ashley Court: the tumbledown ancestral home of the Ashley family, all blessed with 'the gift' of being able to speak to each other without words. When Bryony Ashley's father dies under mysterious circumstances, his final words a cryptic warning to her, Bryony returns from abroad to uncover Ashley Court's secrets. What did her father's message mean? What lies at the centre of the overgrown maze in the gardens? And who is trying to prevent Bryony from discovering the truth? Tell Bryony. The cat, it's in the cat on the pavement. The map. The letter. In the brook. Tell Bryony. My little Bryony to be careful. Danger.
Bloodlines - Traces
Title | Bloodlines - Traces PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas McKerley |
Publisher | |
Pages | 324 |
Release | 2016-05-07 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9789081951425 |
American cop Cathy Stewart stays on in the Scottish Highlands, to defend the Macpherson family from the inquisitive DI Duckett over the bones of ancestor Gordon Macpherson. Simultaneously, she finds herself entangled in a 110-year-old scandal, involving the laird's daughter Katherine at the University of Edinburgh. Meanwhile estranged husband David, continues his genealogy quest into the World War I atrocities of Gallipoli, where his ancestor Alexander Stewart is said to have died. Following Cathy's trail, New Yorker Diane Cox boards the luxurious Royal Scotsman train to heir hunt her way to the Ballindalloch Estate and confront present-day patriarch Angus Macpherson. Just as the path of David and Cathy reunite and all threads come together Angus disappears ...
Bloodlines-Touch Not the Cat
Title | Bloodlines-Touch Not the Cat PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas McKerley |
Publisher | |
Pages | 318 |
Release | 2011-11-11 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9789081951401 |
When American homicide detective, Cathy Macpherson, reluctantly agrees to join her husband on a genealogy trip to Scotland, she does not expect to solve a mystery set in motion by her own ancestors. Switching back and forth between Victorian times and 2011, Bloodlines - Touch Not the Cat, reveals what forced Alexander Stewart to emigrate to America in 1895 and what moved laird Gordon Macpherson to protect his Highland values. Women's suffrage, racism and social division are at the heart of this gripping mystery. All bloodlines and events come together at a clan gathering in Scotland, where a family skeleton has a story to tell.
Four and Twenty Blackbirds
Title | Four and Twenty Blackbirds PDF eBook |
Author | Cherie Priest |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 286 |
Release | 2005-10-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1429944439 |
Although she was orphaned at birth, Eden Moore is never alone. Three dead women watch from the shadows, bound to protect her from harm. But in the woods a gunman waits, convinced that Eden is destined to follow her wicked great-grandfather--an African magician with the power to curse the living and raise the dead. Now Eden must decipher the secret of the ghostly trio before a new enemy more dangerous than the fanatical assassin destroys what is left of her family. She will sift through lies in a Georgian ante-bellum mansion and climb through the haunted ruins of a 19th century hospital, desperately seeking the truth that will save her beloved aunt from the curse that threatens her life. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.