Things Half in Shadow - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Things Half in Shadow write by Alan Finn. This book was released on 2014-12-30. Things Half in Shadow available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Postbellum America makes for a haunting backdrop in this historical and supernatural tale of moonlit cemeteries, masked balls, cunning mediums, and terrifying secrets waiting to be unearthed by an intrepid crime reporter. Edward Clark is a successful young crime reporter in comfortable circumstances with a lovely, well-connected fiancée. Then an assignment to write a series of exposés on the city’s mediums places all that in jeopardy. In the Philadelphia of 1869, photographs of Civil War dead adorn dim sitting rooms, and grieving families attempt to contact their lost loved ones. Edward’s investigation of the beautiful young medium Lucy Collins has unintended consequences, however. He uncovers her tricks, but realizes to his dismay that Lucy is more talented at blackmail than she is at a medium’s sleights of hand. And since Edward has a hidden past, he reluctantly agrees that they should collaborate in exposing only her rivals. The mysterious murder of noted medium Lenora Grimes Pastor as Lucy and Edward attend her séance results in a plum story for Edward—and a great deal more. The pair want to clear themselves from suspicion, but a search spanning the houses of the wealthy to the underside of nineteenth-century Philadelphia unearths a buzzing beehive of past murder, current danger, and supernatural occurrences that cannot be explained…
Half in Shadow
Half in Shadow - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Half in Shadow write by Shanna Greene Benjamin. This book was released on 2021-04-01. Half in Shadow available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Nellie Y. McKay (1930–2006) was a pivotal figure in contemporary American letters. The author of several books, McKay is best known for coediting the canon-making with Henry Louis Gates Jr., which helped secure a place for the scholarly study of Black writing that had been ignored by white academia. However, there is more to McKay's life and legacy than her literary scholarship. After her passing, new details about McKay's life emerged, surprising everyone who knew her. Why did McKay choose to hide so many details of her past? Shanna Greene Benjamin examines McKay's path through the professoriate to learn about the strategies, sacrifices, and successes of contemporary Black women in the American academy. Benjamin shows that McKay's secrecy was a necessary tactic that a Black, working-class woman had to employ to succeed in the white-dominated space of the American English department. Using extensive archives and personal correspondence, Benjamin brings together McKay’s private life and public work to expand how we think about Black literary history and the place of Black women in American culture.
Shadow Kin
Shadow Kin - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shadow Kin write by M.J. Scott. This book was released on 2011-09-06. Shadow Kin available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. On one side, the Night World, rules by the Blood Lords and the Beast Kind. On the other, the elusive Fae and the humans, protected by their steadfast mages... Born a wraith, Lily is a shadow who slips between worlds. Brought up by a Blood Lord and raised to be his assassin, she is little more than a slave. But when Lily meets her match in target Simon DuCaine, the unlikely bond that develops between them threatens to disrupt an already stretched peace in a city on the verge of being torn apart...
Half in Shadow
Half in Shadow - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Half in Shadow write by Mary Elizabeth Counselman. This book was released on 1978. Half in Shadow available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Stories tell of fatefully marked coins, a terrible curse on a small Southern town, a Civil War ghost, and a haunted plantation
The Book of the New Sun
The Book of the New Sun - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Book of the New Sun write by Gene Wolfe. This book was released on 2015-03-12. The Book of the New Sun available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An extraordinary epic, set a million years in the future, in the time of a dying sun, when our present culture is no longer even a memory. Severian, a torturer's apprentice, is exiled from his guild after falling in love with one of his prisoners. Ordered to the distant city of Thrax, armed with his ancient executioner's sword, Terminus Est, Severian must make his way across the perilous, ruined landscape of this far-future Urth. But is his finding of the mystical gem, the Claw of the Conciliator, merely an accident, or does Fate have a grander plans for Severian the torturer . . . ? This edition contains the first two volumes of this four volume novel, The Shadow of the Torturer and The Claw of the Conciliator.
