Plucking the Pearl - 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 Plucking the Pearl write by Afton Locke. This book was released on 2017-04. Plucking the Pearl available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When Pearl's sheltered life shatters in the 1930s when her mother dies, her only option is to move in with poor family relations and shuck oysters in the local plant on Oyster Island, Maryland. Determined to live a morally proper life, the last thing she wants is an affair with a white man, but Caleb, the plant owner, knows a pearl when he sees one. The successful widower is the "oyster king" of the island, but his intense desire for his forbidden new employee, a woman of color, threatens everything he's built. What begins as a private sexual liaison flowers into strong feelings that don't fit the social mores of the island. When their secret is discovered, they risk losing everything. They dared to pluck the pearl, but will their love be strong enough to keep it forever?
The Everyday Life of Memorials
The Everyday Life of Memorials - 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 Everyday Life of Memorials write by Andrew M. Shanken. This book was released on 2022-10-04. The Everyday Life of Memorials available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A timely study, erudite and exciting, about the ordinary—and oftentimes unseen—lives of memorials Memorials are commonly studied as part of the commemorative infrastructure of modern society. Just as often, they are understood as sites of political contestation, where people battle over the meaning of events. But most of the time, they are neither. Instead, they take their rest as ordinary objects, part of the street furniture of urban life. Most memorials are “turned on” only on special days, such as Memorial Day, or at heated moments, as in August 2017, when the Robert E. Lee monument in Charlottesville was overtaken by a political maelstrom. The rest of the time they are turned off. This book is about the everyday life of memorials. It explores their relationship to the pulses of daily life, their meaning within this quotidian context, and their place within the development of modern cities. Through Andrew Shanken’s close historical readings of memorials, both well-known and obscure, two distinct strands of scholarship are thus brought together: the study of the everyday and memory studies. From the introduction of modern memorials in the wake of the French Revolution through the recent destruction of Confederate monuments, memorials have oscillated between the everyday and the “not-everyday.” In fact, memorials have been implicated in the very structure of these categories. The Everyday Life of Memorials explores how memorials end up where they are, grow invisible, fight with traffic, get moved, are assembled into memorial zones, and are drawn anew into commemorations and political maelstroms that their original sponsors never could have imagined. Finally, exploring how people behave at memorials and what memorials ask of people reveals just how strange the commemorative infrastructure of modernity is.
The Waiting Darkness
The Waiting Darkness - 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 Waiting Darkness write by Michael S. Nuckols. This book was released on 2021-10-19. The Waiting Darkness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this prequel to "The Winter Calf", Iris Littleton is alarmed when the handsome stranger knocking on her door offers more than meets the eye. Later, a voice leads her high onto the mountain where she finds the skull of a lost child.
The Princess and the Pearl
The Princess and the Pearl - 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 Princess and the Pearl write by E.D. Baker. This book was released on 2017-03-21. The Princess and the Pearl available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Princess Annie sets sail on the high seas in the sixth tale of the irresistible Wide-Awake Princess series. When Princess Annie's father and uncle fall ill and no doctors in Treecrest can cure them, there's only one person who might be able to help -- a healer who lives in Skull Cove, all the way on the other side of the world. To journey there, Annie and Liam must set sail on dangerous seas full of sea monsters and magical creatures. There, Annie finds out that the only cure for her father is a giant pearl that's been stolen and held captive by a protective sea witch. Can Annie find the pearl before it's too late? Look for the other books in the Wide-Awake Princess series: The Wide-Awake Princess Unlocking the Spell The Bravest Princess Princess in Disguise Princess Between Worlds Princess Before Dawn And these other magical series by E.D. Baker: Tales of the Frog Princess The Fairy-Tale Matchmaker More Than a Princess Magic Animal Rescue and more!
One Little Sin
One Little Sin - 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 One Little Sin write by Liz Carlyle. This book was released on 2005-10-07. One Little Sin available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Nationally bestselling author Liz Carlyle presents her most tempting romance to date—a sinfully sensual tug-of-war between heavenly desires and earthly delights. He was a scoundrel, a scamp, and a hopeless skirt-chaser. So it shouldn't have been so surprising when Sir Alasdair awoke after a night of debauchery to see a young lass on his doorstep...with a baby in her arms. She was beautiful, brazen, and utterly bankrupt. So it shouldn't have been so shocking when Miss Hamilton accepted the rogue's scandalous proposal to move in with him...and become the baby's governess. One little sin brought them together. But when one man's wicked charms are matched by one woman's fiery spirit, one little sin can lead to another...and another...and another...
