Maddie Samuels is woman of - and ahead of - her time. She knows she doesn't belong in the kitchen, and she refuses to become trapped in a secretarial pool. In mid-sixties New York City, she's not only determined to succeed in a man's world, but to prove her work is as good - or better - than any man's. With free love" redefining relationships with ......
Paul M. Levitt, professor of English at the University of Colorado at Boulder, teaches modern drama, theatre history, and the gangster novel. He has written more than twenty books (five of them novels), radio plays for the BBC, books about medicine, stories for children, and numerous scholarly and popular articles. He lives in Boulder, Colorado.
ISBN-13: 9781630761493
(Hardback)
Publisher: GLOBE PEQUOT Imprint: TAYLOR TRADE PUBLISHING
In this finale of the Jennie Trilogy, the Glenroys find themselves facing issues that they've long been sheltered from: slavery, enmity, and violence. When a figure from their fugitive past sails into town, everything they have worked to build over the past twenty years is in danger of being torn asunder.
Jennie Hawthorne, a young, orphaned bride, is whisked off to Scotland by her bridegroom, and soon sees cracks forming in their fairytale marriage. Her husband's actions put him at odds with her moral code, and when she acts according to her convictions, a single chaotic moment will alter the course of her future forever.
Jennie and Alick Gilchrist are bound for the coast of Maine, fleeing Scotland and its painful memories. They immediately set to building a new life for themselves--Alick building boats, and Jennie teaching the well-to-do MacKenzie children--but while Alick is fixing to live ou...
Mary Jacob grew up as an anomaly. A child of Louisiana in the early sixties, she found little in common with most of the people in her community and in her household, and her best friend was Lavina, the black woman who cooked and cleaned for her family. Now, in the early nineties, Mary Jacob has escaped her history and established a fresh, if ......
This is the story of reluctant Oregon pioneer Jennie Haviland, who must give up study at her academy in New York when her father takes the family west over the Oregon Trail. In Oregon Jennie meets two young men, American mountain man Jake Johnston and British Hudson's Bay Company clerk Alan Radford. The two men vie for Jennie, as their nations vie ......
Set in London, Java, Sumatra, Penang, Malacca and Singapore, this historical novel takes the form of two diaries of Sir Stamford Raffles' two wives: Olivia and Sophia. When Raffles sets sail from the cold, damp confines of Georgian London to make his name and fortune in the tropics, he takes with him his new wife, Olivia, a raffish beauty with a ......
