![]() ![]() The Canadian legacy of fur-trapping and the Hudson Bay Company play an important role in the narrative. ![]() This book contains an intricately woven mystery, with several subordinate mysteries embedded into the main storyline. After her husband searches, but fails to find Francis, she and the tracker set off to locate him and determine what happened. Suspicion falls upon her son and a mixed-race tracker. Upon returning home she finds that her seventeen-year-old son, Francis, a friend of the murdered man, has disappeared. Ross, discovers the body and alerts the authorities. In this historical fiction set in the Canadian wilderness in the mid-19th century, a French-Canadian trapper living near an isolated village is found murdered in his bed. ![]()
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Pure reading joy! - Library Journal (starred review) From the very first page of this whimsical and wryly inventive masterpiece, the latest in her fetching Girl Meets Duke series, RITA Award-winning Dare reels readers in and then keeps them firmly hooked with her distinctive blend of exuberant characters, lively dialogue, buoyant wit, and bone-melting sensuality. Kirkus Reviews (starred review) A ducal heir who dreads failure and a comet-obsessed sea captain's daughter with her own ghosts to slay finally give in to romance in an affecting gem enhance by laugh-out-loud humor, scorching passion, and sparkling repartee. Dare continues her splendid, quirky Girl Meets Duke series with wit, heart, and humor. ![]() Entertainment Weekly A sprawling cast of delightfully eccentric characters adds texture and depth to a captivating love story. New York Times Book Review If historical Regency romances are all the inevitable inheritors of the work of Jane Austen, Dare is undoubtedly the lady's clearest successor when it comes to her wit. ![]() ![]() Alex and Chase are playful, intense and stubborn-their flaws make them a magical match, not perfect but perfect for each other. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The current edition has integrated new scholarship and techniques. ⭐I recently bought this book, after having an earlier edition (2nd) of it. Recommend to those interested in language and linguistics as introductory topic. ⭐Great book that gave me an insight into linguistics. I would highly recommend that start from this book if you have no background in linguistics ![]() I liked this book so much that I made the videos on this complete book in English and Urdu/Hindi on my You Tube channel. ⭐This was the first book when I started my undergraduate degree in linguistics. However, as someone easily distracted by busy formatting, I would have wanted to know this prior to purchase, if I had other options for the text. ⭐The Kindle eBook has an excessive number of lines and boxes, making the task of parsing more challenging, for this reader at least.I am CERTAIN that the text will be useful for the intro linguistics course that I will be teaching - my university’s students and faculty have found it to be both readable and comprehensive.I will be contacting the publisher as this is not a formatting issue I am having with my other eBooks and Kindle texts on the same platform. Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website: ![]() ![]() ![]() Cora and Caesar’s first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. In Whitehead’s ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor-engineers and conductors operate a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted. Matters do not go as planned-Cora kills a young white boy who tries to capture her. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood-where even greater pain awaits. ![]() New York, NY: Doubleday (January 30, 2018)Ģ016 National Book Award for Fiction | 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fictionįrom prize-winning, bestselling author Colson Whitehead, a magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum.Ĭora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. ![]() ![]() ![]() But their culture is brutal, her boss is a monster, and she doesn’t know if she can last for long. Keira Swanson, 28, lands her dream job at Viatorum, a slick magazine in New York City, as an aspiring travel writer. LOVE LIKE THIS (The Romance Chronicles-Book #1) is the debut of a new romance series by #1 bestselling author Sophie Love. Kudos to the author for this amazing start of a series that promises to be very entertaining.”-Books and Movies Reviews, Roberto Mattos (re: For Now and Forever) ![]() The author did an amazing job with the creation of the characters and her description of the environment. “A very well written novel, describing the struggle of a woman to find her true identity. It's a delightful recommendation for romance readers looking for a touch more complexity from their romance reads.”-Midwest Book Review (Diane Donovan re: For Now and Forever) the perfect romance or beach read, with a difference: its enthusiasm and beautiful descriptions offer an unexpected attention to the complexity of not just evolving love, but evolving psyches. ![]() “Sophie Love's ability to impart magic to her readers is exquisitely wrought in powerfully evocative phrases and descriptions…. ![]() ![]() His parents stood at a crossroads of traditional culture and Christian influence this made a significant impact on the children, especially Chinualumogu. ![]() (From the publisher.)Ĭhinua was born Albert Chinualumogu Achebe in the Igbo village of Nneobi, on November 16, 1930. Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe's masterpiece, has been published in fifty different languages and has sold millions of copies in the United States since its original publication in 1958-1959. Of his novels, Arrow of God won the New Statesman-Jock Campbell Award, and Anthills of the Savannah was a finalist for the 1987 Booker Prize. His volume of poetry, Christmas in Biafra, written during the Biafran War, was the joint winner of the first Commonwealth Poetry Prize. Currently-lives in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, USAĬhinua Achebe was cited in the London Sunday Times as one of the "1,000 Makers of the Twentieth Century" for defining "a modern African literature that was truly African" and thereby making "a major contribution to world literature."Īchebe has published novels short stories, essays, and children's books. ![]() Government College (in Umuahia) University of Ibadan Education-Dennis Memorial Grammar School (in Onitsha). ![]() |