Inside Madeleine

Inside Madeleine
Title Inside Madeleine PDF eBook
Author Paula Bomer
Publisher Soho Press
Pages 241
Release 2014-05-13
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1616953098

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"With surgical insight, Inside Madeline delves into the most complex female territory imaginable and dissects until every honest bone is revealed. Bomer's prose doesn't flinch, doesn't filter—the bravery of these stories left me breathless.” —Alissa Nutting, author of Tampa From the author of Nine Months and Baby comes a daring new collection that seethes with alienation, lust and rage. Bomer takes us from hospitals, halfway houses, and alleyways, to boarding schools and Park Avenue penthouses, exploring the complex relationships girls have with their bodies, with other girls, and with boys. The title novella tracks the ins and outs of an outsider’s life: her childhood obesity and kinky sex life, her toxic relationships, whether familial or erotic, and her various disappearing acts, of body and mind.

A Wrinkle in Time

A Wrinkle in Time
Title A Wrinkle in Time PDF eBook
Author Madeleine L'Engle
Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Pages 260
Release 2010-04-01
Genre Juvenile Fiction
ISBN 1429915641

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NEWBERY MEDAL WINNER • TIME MAGAZINE’S 100 BEST FANTASY BOOKS OF ALL TIME • NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM DISNEY Read the ground-breaking science fiction and fantasy classic that has delighted children for over 60 years! "A Wrinkle in Time is one of my favorite books of all time. I've read it so often, I know it by heart." —Meg Cabot Late one night, three otherworldly creatures appear and sweep Meg Murry, her brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin O'Keefe away on a mission to save Mr. Murray, who has gone missing while doing top-secret work for the government. They travel via tesseract--a wrinkle that transports one across space and time--to the planet Camazotz, where Mr. Murray is being held captive. There they discover a dark force that threatens not only Mr. Murray but the safety of the whole universe. A Wrinkle in Time is the first book in Madeleine L’Engle’s Time Quintet.

Madeleine's Children

Madeleine's Children
Title Madeleine's Children PDF eBook
Author Sue Peabody
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 352
Release 2017-09-01
Genre History
ISBN 0190233907

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Madeleine's Children uncovers a multigenerational saga of an enslaved family in India and two islands, Réunion and Mauritius, in the eastern empires of France and Britain during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. A tale of legal intrigue, it reveals the lives and secret relationships between slaves and free people that have remained obscure for two centuries. As a child, Madeleine was pawned by her impoverished family and became the slave of a French woman in Bengal. She accompanied her mistress to France as a teenager, but she did not challenge her enslavement there on the basis of France's Free Soil principle, a consideration that did not come to light until future lawyers investigated her story. In France, a new master and mistress purchased her, despite laws prohibiting the sale of slaves within the kingdom. The couple transported Madeleine across the ocean to their plantation in the Indian Ocean colonies, where she eventually gave birth to three children: Maurice, Constance, and Furcy. One died a slave and two eventually became free, but under very different circumstances. On 21 November 1817, Furcy exited the gates of his master's mansion and declared himself a free man. The lawsuit waged by Furcy to challenge his wrongful enslavement ultimately brought him before the Royal Court of Paris, despite the extreme measures that his putative master, Joseph Lory, deployed to retain him as his slave. A meticulous work of archival detection, Madeleine's Children investigates the cunning, clandestine, and brutal strategies that masters devised to keep slaves under their control-and paints a vivid picture of the unique and evolving meanings of slavery and freedom in the Indian Ocean world.

The Novels, Stories and Sketches of F. Hopkinson Smith: Colonel Carter's Christmas. The romance of an old-fashioned gentleman

The Novels, Stories and Sketches of F. Hopkinson Smith: Colonel Carter's Christmas. The romance of an old-fashioned gentleman
Title The Novels, Stories and Sketches of F. Hopkinson Smith: Colonel Carter's Christmas. The romance of an old-fashioned gentleman PDF eBook
Author Francis Hopkinson Smith
Publisher
Pages 450
Release 1907
Genre
ISBN

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The Novels, Stories and Sketches

The Novels, Stories and Sketches
Title The Novels, Stories and Sketches PDF eBook
Author Francis Hopkinson Smith
Publisher
Pages 274
Release 1907
Genre
ISBN

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Nêne

Nêne
Title Nêne PDF eBook
Author Ernest Pérochon
Publisher
Pages 296
Release 1922
Genre
ISBN

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Everyday Life in the Old Stone Age

Everyday Life in the Old Stone Age
Title Everyday Life in the Old Stone Age PDF eBook
Author
Publisher
Pages 140
Release 1926
Genre Ethnology
ISBN

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