The Innkeeper And The Fugitive

Author : Martha Keyes
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Innkeeper and the Fugitive written by Martha Keyes and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-08-17 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After nearly ten years in the army, Hamish Campbell is ready to settle in and call a place home. His sights are set on Dalmore House, the Campbell family estate seized by the Crown after the ‘45 uprising. To have any chance at all of regaining it, Hamish must not only find the money to pay off the estate’s debts but persuade the man who has charge of it to relinquish the property into the hands of a Jacobite’s son. With the help of his brother-in-arms, Hamish finds employment at an inn near to Dalmore’s overseer, putting him in an ideal location to seek the man’s favor. Ava MacMorran cannot marry Angus MacKinnon. Any fate would be preferable. Escaping her father’s threats of force, Ava sets out for the home of the childhood friend she knows will help her--perhaps even marry her. But when the merchant meant to take her there is nowhere to be found and Ava is mistaken for a long-awaited inn servant, she determines to go along with the misconception until she can be rescued by her friend. With Ava ignorant of Hamish’s goals and Hamish unaware that he is harboring the fugitive daughter of the lynchpin of his plan, attachment between them deepens and the threat of discovery looms large, making a satisfactory outcome seem all but impossible.

Author : Jonathan D. Spence
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 014005121X
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Death of Woman Wang written by Jonathan D. Spence and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1979-03-29 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Spence shows himself at once historian, detective, and artist. . . . He makes history howl.” (The New Republic) Award-winning author Jonathan D. Spence paints a vivid picture of an obscure place and time: provincial China in the seventeenth century. Life in the northeastern county of T’an-ch’eng emerges here as an endless cycle of floods, plagues, crop failures, banditry, and heavy taxation. Against this turbulent background a tenacious tax collector, an irascible farmer, and an unhappy wife act out a poignant drama at whose climax the wife, having run away from her husband, returns to him, only to die at his hands. Magnificently evoking the China of long ago, The Death of Woman Wang also deepens our understanding of the China we know today.

Author : Darrel E. Bigham
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813188318
Total Pages : 607 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Jordan's Banks written by Darrel E. Bigham and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 607 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the Ohio River and its settlements are an integral part of American history, particularly during the country's westward expansion. The vibrant African American communities along the Ohio's banks, however, have rarely been studied in depth. Blacks have lived in the Ohio River Valley since the late eighteenth century, and since the river divided the free labor North and the slave labor South, black communities faced unique challenges. In On Jordan's Banks, Darrel E. Bigham examines the lives of African Americans in the counties along the northern and southern banks of the Ohio River both before and in the years directly following the Civil War. Gleaning material from biographies and primary sources written as early as the 1860s, as well as public records, Bigham separates historical truth from the legends that grew up surrounding these communities. The Ohio River may have separated freedom and slavery, but it was not a barrier to the racial prejudice in the region. Bigham compares early black communities on the northern shore with their southern counterparts, noting that many similarities existed despite the fact that the Roebling Suspension Bridge, constructed in 1866 at Cincinnati, was the first bridge to join the shores. Free blacks in the lower Midwest had difficulty finding employment and adequate housing. Education for their children was severely restricted if not completely forbidden, and blacks could neither vote nor testify against whites in court. Indiana and Illinois passed laws to prevent black migrants from settling within their borders, and blacks already living in those states were pressured to leave. Despite these challenges, black river communities continued to thrive during slavery, after emancipation, and throughout the Jim Crow era. Families were established despite forced separations and the lack of legally recognized marriages. Blacks were subjected to intimidation and violence on both shores and were denied even the most basic state-supported services. As a result, communities were left to devise their own strategies for preventing homelessness, disease, and unemployment. Bigham chronicles the lives of blacks in small river towns and urban centers alike and shows how family, community, and education were central to their development as free citizens. These local histories and life stories are an important part of understanding the evolution of race relations in a critical American region. On Jordan's Banks documents the developing patterns of employment, housing, education, and religious and cultural life that would later shape African American communities during the Jim Crow era and well into the twentieth century.

Author : Maria Hack
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3368161733
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stories from English History During the Middle Ages written by Maria Hack and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-03-29 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1872.

Author : Maria Hack
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stories from English history, during the Middle ages [from English stories] revised by D.M. Smith written by Maria Hack and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ernest Slater
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Marta written by Ernest Slater and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 560 pages
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Download or read book Albany Law Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 738 pages
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Download or read book The Albany Law Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jaime Clevenger
Publisher : Bella Books
ISBN 13 : 1594936277
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Fugitive's Kiss written by Jaime Clevenger and published by Bella Books. This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Desperate and running for her life, Darin has left behind the world she’s known and hidden her gifts. With hunters on her trail, nowhere is safe but a night’s respite in an out-of-the-way barn seems worth the risk. Suspicious of Northerners, Aysha is wary of the stranger she discovers in her barn. Their first meeting only confirms her distrust, but she’s drawn to the mysterious fugitive and fears give way to passion. When Aysha is threatened by Darin’s pursuers, the two must escape to a new land. Hoping for a peaceful life, neither can outrun secrets of their past.

Author : Jane Sloan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520089044
Total Pages : 638 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alfred Hitchcock written by Jane Sloan and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1995-03-08 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A concise and intelligent synthesis of what we know and think about Hitchcock and a road map to future work on the subject. . . . There is no complete index to Hitchcock's career like this one and critics and historians will mine Sloan's work with enormous profit. . . . The 'Critical Survey' section constitutes an invaluable contribution to the project of metacriticism."—Matthew Bernstein, author of Walter Wanger, Hollywood Independent