[PDF] [READ] Mademoiselle Revolution by Zoe Sivak Read NowDownload Now
A powerful, engrossing story of a biracial heiress who escapes to Paris when the Haitian Revolution burns across her island home. But as she works her way into the inner circle of Robespierre and his mistress, she learns that not even oceans can stop the flames of revolution.Sylvie de Rosiers, as the daughter of a rich planter and an enslaved woman, enjoys the comforts of a lady in 1791 Saint-Domingue society. But while she was born to privilege, she was never fully accepted by island elites. After a violent rebellion begins the Haitian Revolution, Sylvie and her brother leave their family and old lives behind to flee unwittingly into another uprising--in austere and radical Paris. Sylvie quickly becomes enamored with the aims of the Revolution, as well as with the revolutionaries themselves--most notably Maximilien Robespierre and his mistress, Corn?lie Duplay.As a rising leader and abolitionist, Robespierre sees an opportunity to exploit Sylvie's race and abandonment of her
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[PDF] [READ] Never Rescue a Rogue (The Merriwell Sisters, #2) by Virginia Heath Read NowDownload Now
Virginia Heath?s Never Rescue a Rogue, the next book in the Merriwell Sisters series, is filled with whip-smart banter, swoony romance, hilarious mishaps, and twisty reveals that will make you gasp and laugh in delight.Diana Merriwell and Giles Sinclair only tolerate one another for the sake of their nearest and dearest. Everyone believes that the two of them are meant to be together, but Diana and Giles know that their constant pithy barbs come from a shared disdain?not a hidden attraction. Diana loves the freedom of working at the newspaper too much to give it up for marriage, and Giles is happily married to his bachelor lifestyle. But they do have one thing in common?the secrets they can?t risk escaping.When Giles? father, the curmudgeonly Duke of Harpenden unexpectedly turns up his toes, it?s only a matter of time before someone comes crawling out of the woodwork who knows the true circumstances of his only son's birth. As the threat of blackmail becomes real, Giles must uncover
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[PDF] [READ] How to Win a Wallflower (Rebels with a Cause, #3) by Samara Parish Read NowDownload Now
A wallflower will put everything on the line . . .When John Barnesworth inherits unexpectedly, he abandons his solitude and returns to London to settle his brother's affairs, only to discover his estates are crumbling and he is now betrothed to his brother?s unpleasant fianc?e. Her dowry might save him from ruin, but at what cost? His only hope lies with the vivacious, charming Lady Charlotte Stirling, whose audacious solution to John's troubles might actually work. If only he can keep his feelings for her out of the equation . . .Lady Charlotte Stirling knows she can?t fall for John. He?s her brother?s best friend, he?s engaged to her mortal enemy, and he wants to return to America. Not to mention he?d never survive in her bustling social life. She can, however, try to solve his money problem. But the closer she gets to ensuring his freedom, the harder it is to let him go . . .
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[PDF] [READ] The Night They Vanished by Vanessa Savage Read NowDownload Now
A family with a secret.A past about to catch up with them.Hanna has barely spoken to her family since the tragedy that rocked their lives fourteen years ago. The tragedy for which they held Hanna responsible.Then she sees her family home listed as the scene of a horrific crime. Number of victims: three. Date of crime: today. Frantic, Hanna tries to contact her family, only to find they have disappeared.To find them, Hanna will have to confront what happened all those years ago.And the person determined to make her pay for it? . . .
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[PDF] [READ] Pride and Protest by Nikki Payne Read NowDownload Now
A woman goes head-to-head with the CEO of a corporation threatening to destroy her neighborhood in this fresh and modern retelling of Pride and Prejudice by debut author Nikki Payne.Liza B.--the only DJ who gives a jam--wants to take her neighborhood back from the soulless property developer dropping unaffordable condos on every street corner in DC. But her planned protest at a corporate event takes a turn after she mistakes the smoldering-hot CEO for the waitstaff. When they go toe-to-toe, the sparks fly--but her impossible-to-ignore family thwarts her every move. Liza wants Dorsey Fitzgerald out of her hood, but she'll settle for getting him out of her head.At first, Dorsey writes off Liza Bennett as more interested in performing outrage than acting on it. As the adopted Filipino son of a wealthy white family, he's always felt a bit out of place and knows a fraud when he sees one. But when Liza's protest results in a viral meme, their lives are turned upside down, and Dorsey comes
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[PDF] [READ] Saga, Volume 10 by Brian K. Vaughan Read NowDownload Now
A CONTEMPORARY CLASSIC CELEBRATING A DECADE OF EXCELLENCE!At long last, Hazel and her star-crossed family are finally back, and they?ve made some new...friends? This collection features the latest six chapters of the most epic adventure in comics, including the series' double-sized first issue back from hiatus.Collects: Saga #55-60.
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[PDF] [READ] Feel the Bern: A Bernie Sanders Mystery by Andrew Shaffer Read NowDownload Now
Who knew fighting for a living wage could be so deadly? Bernie Sanders and his Gen Z intern are drawn into a murder investigation in a small Vermont town in this hilarious spin on cozy mysteries from the New York Times bestselling author of Hope Never Dies: An Obama Biden Mystery
Fall is bursting out all over Vermont, and while the rest of the Congress enjoys its recess, Senator Bernie Sanders has returned to his beloved home state for a weekend of events in Eagle Creek, ?America?s #1 Leaf Peeping Destination.? It?s up to intern and Eagle Creek native Crash Robertson to keep the senator on schedule?and out of trouble.Crash?s hopes for a quiet homecoming are dashed, however, when the lifeless body of a community banker with ties to ?Big Maple? is found in Lake Champlain. While the sheriff?s department closes the case as an accident, a leaked autopsy indicates foul play?with a trail of syrup leading directly to one of the senator?s oldest friends. Bernie, taking a page from the cozy
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[PDF] [READ] The Boy With the Bookstore by Sarah Echavarre Smith Read NowDownload Now
When a baker meets the bookshop owner of her dreams, and he turns into her nemesis, they?ll both have to read between the lines to avoid a career-ending recipe for disaster.Max Boyson looks good...from a distance. But up close and personal, the tattooed hottie Joelle Prima has been crushing on for the past year and half has turned into the prime example of why you shouldn?t judge a book by his delectable cover. When she first learned about the massive renovation to the building they share, Joelle imagined that temporarily combining her Filipino bakery with Max?s neighboring bookstore would be the perfect opening chapter to their happily ever after. In her fantasies they fed each other bibingka and pandesal while discussing Jane Austen and cooing over her pet hamster, Pumpkin. Reality, however...is quite different. Her gallant prince turned out to be a stubborn toad who snaps at her in front of customers, dries his sweaty gym clothes in her oven, and routinely helps himself to the
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[PDF] [READ] Maiden Voyages: Magnificent Ocean Liners and the Women Who Traveled and Worked Aboard Them by Si?n Evans Read NowDownload Now
In an engaging and anecdotal social history, Si?n Evans's Maiden Voyages explores how women?s lives were transformed by the Golden Age of ocean liner travel between Europe and North America.During the early twentieth century, transatlantic travel was the province of the great ocean liners. It was an extraordinary undertaking made by many women, whose lives were changed forever by their journeys between the Old World and the New. Some traveled for leisure, some for work; others to reinvent themselves or find new opportunities. They were celebrities, migrants and millionaires, refugees, aristocrats and crew members whose stories have mostly remained untold?until now. Maiden Voyages is a fascinating portrait of the era, the ships themselves, and these women as they crossed the Atlantic. The ocean liner was a microcosm of contemporary society, divided by class: from the luxury of the upper deck, playground for the rich and famous, to the cramped conditions of steerage or third class
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[PDF] [READ] Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel Read NowDownload Now
The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon three hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and space.Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at a dinner party. He enters the forest, spellbound by the beauty of the Canadian wilderness, and suddenly hears the notes of a violin echoing in an airship terminal?an experience that shocks him to his core.Two centuries later a famous writer named Olive Llewellyn is on a book tour. She?s traveling all over Earth, but her home is the second moon colony, a place of white stone, spired towers, and artificial beauty. Within the text of Olive?s bestselling pandemic novel lies a strange passage: a man plays his violin for change in the echoing corridor of
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[PDF] [READ] The Oleander Sword (The Burning Kingdoms, #2) by Tasha Suri Read NowDownload Now
The prophecy of the nameless god?the words that declared Malini the rightful empress of Parijatdvipa?has proven a blessing and curse. She is determined to claim the throne that fate offered her. But even with the strength of the rage in her heart and the army of loyal men by her side, deposing her brother is going to be a brutal and bloody fight. The power of the deathless waters flows through Priya?s blood. Thrice born priestess, Elder of Ahiranya, Priya?s dream is to see her country rid of the rot that plagues it: both Parijatdvipa's poisonous rule, and the blooming sickness that is slowly spreading through all living things. But she doesn?t yet understand the truth of the magic she carries. Their chosen paths once pulled them apart. But Malini and Priya's souls remain as entwined as their destinies. And they soon realize that coming together is the only way to save their kingdom from those who would rather see it burn?even if it will cost them.
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[PDF] [READ] Into the Great Emptiness: Peril and Survival on the Greenland Ice Cap by David Roberts Read NowDownload Now
By 1930, no place in the world was less well explored than Greenland. The native Inuit had occupied the relatively accessible west coast for centuries. The east coast, however, was another story. In August 1930, Henry George Watkins (nicknamed ?Gino?), a twenty-three-year-old British explorer, led thirteen scientists and explorers on an ambitious expedition to the east coast of Greenland and into its vast and forbidding interior to set up a permanent meteorological base on the icecap, 8,200 feet above sea level. The Ice Cap Station was to be the anchor of a transpolar route of air travel from Europe to North America.The weather on the ice cap was appalling. Fierce storms. Temperatures plunging lower than ?50? Fahrenheit in the winter. Watkins?s scheme called for rotating teams of two men each to monitor the station for two months at a time. No one had ever tried to winter over in that hostile landscape, let alone manage a weather station through twelve continuous months. Watkins was
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