Download or read book The Chimney Sweep s Sister written by Emma Hornby and published by Random House. This book was released on 2023-07-06 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brand-new page-turning Victorian saga from the bestselling and RNA shortlisted author. 'If you enjoy Dilly Court's stories, you'll love the latest heart-warming romance from Emma Hornby.' Yours ------- Jenny and her little brother Noah are orphans, living hand to mouth in a cellar dwelling in the heart of the Manchester slums. At the tender age of nine, Noah is a chimney sweep's boy: a dangerous job, where he's wickedly mistreated. But they survive on his earnings, for which his older sister Jenny feels terrible guilt. It's only her fiery temper that's prevented her keeping down a job herself. With her brother's safety - his life - on the line, Jenny resolves to try and control herself, and put her talent for singing to good use. Can she earn a crust by entertaining the punters at the taverns and inns around town? It seems like a dream come true when she catches the attention of a music hall manager and is offered a spot on a bigger stage, along with an enviable wage. But there's a darker bargain to be struck in return for their new riches . . . How far will Jenny go to protect her brother, and will they ever find the security they crave? ---- Readers love Emma Hornby's gritty and gripping thrillers: 'Emma Hornby has done it again, with her brilliant storytelling... A big thank you to Emma' 'What an excellent read... Emma Hornby writes some wonderful stories and this one hits the mark' 'A heartbreakingly good read... Very worthy five stars and more from me it's a must read' 'I do love to read Emma Hornby's books they are so atmospheric and draw you into the story from start to finish and make you want more. Excellent' 'Wow, what a book. Its such an emotional roller-coaster... I devoured this in one sitting'

Download or read book The Chimney Sweep s Ransom written by Dave Jackson and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young English boy is sold to be trained as a chimney sweep and is rescued by his brother with the help of John Wesley. Ages 8-12.

Download or read book The Scarlet Sisters written by Myra MacPherson and published by Twelve. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh look at the life and times of Victoria Woodhull and Tennie Claflin, two sisters whose radical views on sex, love, politics, and business threatened the white male power structure of the nineteenth century and shocked the world. Here award-winning author Myra MacPherson deconstructs and lays bare the manners and mores of Victorian America, remarkably illuminating the struggle for equality that women are still fighting today. Victoria Woodhull and Tennessee "Tennie" Claflin-the most fascinating and scandalous sisters in American history-were unequaled for their vastly avant-garde crusade for women's fiscal, political, and sexual independence. They escaped a tawdry childhood to become rich and famous, achieving a stunning list of firsts. In 1870 they became the first women to open a brokerage firm, not to be repeated for nearly a century. Amid high gossip that he was Tennie's lover, the richest man in America, fabled tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt, bankrolled the sisters. As beautiful as they were audacious, the sisters drew a crowd of more than two thousand Wall Street bankers on opening day. A half century before women could vote, Victoria used her Wall Street fame to become the first woman to run for president, choosing former slave Frederick Douglass as her running mate. She was also the first woman to address a United States congressional committee. Tennie ran for Congress and shocked the world by becoming the honorary colonel of a black regiment. They were the first female publishers of a radical weekly, and the first to print Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto in America. As free lovers they railed against Victorian hypocrisy and exposed the alleged adultery of Henry Ward Beecher, the most famous preacher in America, igniting the "Trial of the Century" that rivaled the Civil War for media coverage. Eventually banished from the women's movement while imprisoned for allegedly sending "obscenity" through the mail, the sisters sashayed to London and married two of the richest men in England, dining with royalty while pushing for women's rights well into the twentieth century. Vividly telling their story, Myra MacPherson brings these inspiring and outrageous sisters brilliantly to life.

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Download or read book Seven Sisters written by Carolyn Hart Bennett and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is July 19, 1863 when the Amazon arrives from London at the New York docks with eight hundred Mormons on board. Among the arriving Saints are seven young, unmarried, unrelated "sisters in the gospel," who have been placed together as a family during their forty-four-day voyage. The Seven Sisters, as they have come to be called, have become close enough to vow to stay together all the way to their new home in Utah. The Sisters must now travel overland by railroads and waterways to the Mormon outfitting camp in Nebraska Territory, where they plan to join the "down and back" wagons and trek to the Salt Lake Valley. As they make this journey, the Sisters experience many difficulties--from the rigors of changing trains and riverboats to sleeping outside in unpredictable weather to wondering when or where they will find their next sustenance. While facing unexpected accidents, sickness, and loss, the Sisters trek the last thousand miles on foot in unforgiving environments with the possibility of cattle and buffalo stampedes, hostile Indians, and treacherous river crossings. In this continuing historical tale, the Seven Sisters must face their biggest fears and rely on their faith, courage, and optimism to survive this challenging journey to their "Zion" home.

Download or read book Nursing History Review Volume 1 written by Joan E. Lynaugh and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1992-12-29 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Launches an annual series produced by the American Association for the History of Nursing, containing historical studies, commentary, historiographic essays, and book reviews relating to the history of the broad field of nursing. All the selections of the first volume deal with American nursing of the late 19th and 20th centuries. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Download or read book The Chimney Sweeper s Boy written by Ruth Rendell and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-02-22 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A daughter’s research into her father’s life unearths shocking family secrets in this “frightening” novel (Express on Sunday). After celebrated English author Gerald Candless dies of a heart attack at his clifftop home above Gaunton Dunes in Devon, his eldest daughter, Sarah, is commissioned to write his autobiography. Ever-present in her life, her father was generous, passionate, and talented, yet always a bit of a mystery. Who’s to blame for his chilly relationship with her mother that seemed to survive something unspoken? Why, in each successive novel, did he seem to reinvent himself, never settling for one public persona? What of his odd little parlor games for which only he knew the rules and the purpose? And was it really true that he had no living relatives? What begins as an admiring project becomes an obsession. For Sarah’s first discovery is stunner: Gerald Candless was not his real name. The more she uncovers, the deeper Sarah’s fear and fascination grows. Her father’s life was nothing more than an ingeniously plotted work of fiction. As each lie Sarah uncovers gives way to another, her journey into the past of a familiar stranger gets so dark that seeing the truth could be last thing she wants. From the New York Times–bestselling author of Dark Corners and three-time Edgar Award winner comes a novel “about the power of taboos, transgressions, guilts, deceptions, horrors, atonements, upsets and upheavals” (Independent). And it’s “as jolting as a flash of lightning” (Sunday Times).

Download or read book Maria s Story written by Maria Wolf Stella and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-12 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maria's Story...is an oral history as dictated by Maria Wolf Stella about people and events sought by academic scholars to authenticate studies of Germany's Nazi era. Her father's imprisonment and then enforced unemployment led to meager meals at home, discrimination in school, and, for Maria at age 14, an order to report for work in a war material factory. Throughout, she faced wartime terror and carnage as bombing raids around the factory increased in frequency and destructiveness. Maria survived shock, heartbreak, and grief from the bombing of her village. She survived being strafed by a fighter plane, a tank bombardment of a bunker which she alone occupied, and the sniping by a lone hidden rifleman while searching for her sister. Eventually, even her sunny disposition could not dispel feelings of despair and foreboding for the future. World War II introduced a new form of warfare with primary casualties shifting from battlefield soldiers to civilians in cities, followed by a cold war era filled by the murder and genocide of millions by communist governments. An introduction to the book written by Robert Stella, outlines a national intercontinental ballistic missile defense system to shield the nation's city dwellers against incineration by H-bomb warheads. Ten appendices, also by Robert Stella, provide new perspective to World War II events; an eleventh reviews essentials of a U.S. Ballistic Missile "Star Wars" Defense System.

Download or read book The Victorian Era written by John F. Wukovits and published by Greenhaven Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2013-05-31 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Victorian era takes its name from Queen Victoria, who ruled over Great Britain during a time of revolution, popular emancipation from monarchical rule, metric industry growth, urban decay, and imperial expansion. This compelling edition examines the events and the eccentric personalities of the Victorian era. Chapters present relevant topics in accessible language, maps, and timelines to facilitate student research. Topics analyzed in this edition include: the new world under Queen Victoria, innovations in technology and industrialization, the splendor and the abuses of Victorian England, various reform movements, life and leisure, and the eventual decline of the Victorian era.

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Download or read book Sisters written by Ada Cambridge and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2020-06-15 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After losing his wife to an accident, Guthrie Carey wants a better guardian for his newborn son without being ensnared in the chains of marriage. His path leads him to the Sisters—Mary, Deb, Rose and Frances at Redford, where he falls for Deb. But will he get to marry her and have a successful life? What about the lives of the other sisters? What would happen when Carey's son would die from typhoid in his absence? Read on!

Download or read book Caviar with Rum written by J. Loss and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-09-05 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consisting of sixteen essays by renowned writers and artists, Caviar with Rum: Cuba-USSR and the Post-Soviet Experience is the first book of its kind to bring to life how and why the Soviet period is revisited in Cuban memory these days and what that means for creative production and the future of geopolitics.

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Download or read book The O Connell Sisters Box Set written by Kristen Casey and published by Gallant Fox Press. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 893 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lose the burdens of the past, and find what’s meant to be. The O’Connell sisters need one more chance to get love right…and these hunky heroes are only too happy to give it to them! The O'Connell Sisters Box Set includes Molly and Mina O’Connell's stories (Finding a Husband and Finding Forever), as well as the spinoff novella Forever and a Day. It also contains two short stories, Valentine's Day themed Heroes & Husbands, and finale story Forever Starts Now, plus two bonus scenes not available anywhere else (The Pop In and Love Seat). · Finding a Husband (book 3) – Everyone has secrets, but Molly and Jake’s just might keep them apart for good. A steamy heartbreaker of a southern romance. · Heroes & Husbands (book 3.5) – It’s Valentine’s Day in Wilmington, and two couples introduced in Finding a Husband are definitely feeling the love. · The Pop In (Heroes & Husbands bonus scene) – Tim and Healey are going to tell people they’re in love. Eventually. · Finding Forever (book 4) – Twelve years is a long time to wait for the one you love. Can old friends Mina and Mack overcome all that’s happened between them in that time? · Forever and a Day (book 4.5) – Mina’s dear friend Dimitri played a role in her story, but now this single dad gets his own shot at forever. · Love Seat (Forever and a Day bonus scene) – Dimitri’s had a bad dream, but Emily is oh so real. · Forever Starts Now (book 4.7) – One weekend and two big milestones progress, as the Lost & Found ladies celebrate their new loves and lives together, in this sweet and funny conclusion to the series.