The Devil's Half Acre

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Publisher : Seal Press
ISBN 13 : 1541675622
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (416 download)

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Book Synopsis The Devil's Half Acre by : Kristen Green

Download or read book The Devil's Half Acre written by Kristen Green and published by Seal Press. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inspiring true story of an enslaved woman who liberated an infamous slave jail and transformed it into one of the nation’s first HBCUs In The Devil’s Half Acre, New York Times bestselling author Kristen Green draws on years of research to tell the extraordinary and little-known story of young Mary Lumpkin, an enslaved woman who blazed a path of liberation for thousands. She was forced to have the children of a brutal slave trader and live on the premises of his slave jail, known as the “Devil’s Half Acre.” When she inherited the jail after the death of her slaveholder, she transformed it into “God’s Half Acre,” a school where Black men could fulfill their dreams. It still exists today as Virginia Union University, one of America’s first Historically Black Colleges and Universities. A sweeping narrative of a life in the margins of the American slave trade, The Devil’s Half Acre brings Mary Lumpkin into the light. This is the story of the resilience of a woman on the path to freedom, her historic contributions, and her enduring legacy.

Murder in the Devil's Half Acre

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Publisher : Flax Bay Books
ISBN 13 : 0473627892
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (736 download)

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Book Synopsis Murder in the Devil's Half Acre by : Rose Pascoe

Download or read book Murder in the Devil's Half Acre written by Rose Pascoe and published by Flax Bay Books. This book was released on 2022-06-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Penrose and Pyke go together like fire and kerosene in this Victorian-era mystery with heart. Trouble’s brewing in the Devil’s Half Acre. A death in an alleyway, a tragic accident in a factory, rumours of a murderer loose on the streets. It’s enough to give a genteel lady a fit of the vapours. Fortunately, Grace Penrose isn’t one to swoon at the sight of blood. All she wants is the chance to become the first woman doctor in the colony. Instead, she is plunged into the harsh reality of the city’s worst sweatshop, where tensions are running as hot as a steam engine. When the police prove reluctant to investigate the deaths, she turns to a constable who is already up to his neck in trouble. As the clock ticks, Grace Penrose and Constable Charlie Pyke must figure out which deaths are accidents and which are murders, because the next victim might well be one of their own. The ‘Penrose & Pyke Mysteries’ are a series of heart-warming, pulse-racing historical mysteries, set during a remarkable period of social upheaval in 1890s New Zealand. The fight for women’s rights has never been such deadly fun.

The Devil's Acre

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Publisher : Saint Martin's Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 9780312991975
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (919 download)

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Download or read book The Devil's Acre written by David Holland and published by Saint Martin's Paperbacks. This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Starve Acre

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Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1529387272
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (293 download)

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Book Synopsis Starve Acre by : Andrew Michael Hurley

Download or read book Starve Acre written by Andrew Michael Hurley and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The worst thing possible has happened. Richard and Juliette Willoughby's son, Ewan, has died suddenly at the age of five. Starve Acre, their house by the moors, was to be full of life, but is now a haunted place. Juliette, convinced Ewan still lives there in some form, seeks the help of the Beacons, a seemingly benevolent group of occultists. Richard, to try and keep the boy out of his mind, has turned his attention to the field opposite the house, where he patiently digs the barren dirt in search of a legendary oak tree. Starve Acre is a devastating new novel by the author of the prize-winning bestseller The Loney. It is a novel about the way in which grief splits the world in two and how, in searching for hope, we can so easily unearth horror.

Eighth Grade Bites #1

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698188055
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (981 download)

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Book Synopsis Eighth Grade Bites #1 by : Heather Brewer

Download or read book Eighth Grade Bites #1 written by Heather Brewer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-01-10 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vlad has to keep his vampire urges under control while dealing with the pressures of middle school. Thirteen-year-old Vladimir Tod really hates junior high. Bullies harass him, the principal is dogging him, and the girl he likes prefers his best friend. Oh, and Vlad has a secret: His mother was human, but his father was a vampire. With no idea of the extent of his powers, Vlad struggles daily with his blood cravings and his enlarged fangs. When a substitute teacher begins to question him a little too closely, Vlad worries that his cover is about to be blown. But then he faces a much bigger problem: He’s being hunted by a vampire killer. Watch a QuickTime trailer for this book.

Chrysalis

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Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0156032996
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (56 download)

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Book Synopsis Chrysalis by : Kim Todd

Download or read book Chrysalis written by Kim Todd and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2007 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the life and work of the pioneering seventeenth-century woman naturalist, discussing her unprecedented solo expedition to study insect metamorphosis in the New World and her role in the establishment of a new branch of biology.

Novels in English by Women, 1891-1920

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Publisher : Scholarly Title
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 830 pages
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Download or read book Novels in English by Women, 1891-1920 written by Janet Grimes and published by Scholarly Title. This book was released on 1981 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Forthcoming Books

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1736 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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To Live Again

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Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 145672102X
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (567 download)

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Book Synopsis To Live Again by : Bill D. West

Download or read book To Live Again written by Bill D. West and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reader of this book will be taken on a fascinating journey from the earliest days of the historic Robinson plantation of 150 years ago, to its present day name of the West River Plantation. Carved out of the wilderness of east Texas, the estate rose to immense prosperity during the industrial revolution, only to fall into inevitable decline and tragedy. Reduced to a few acres, and the home in disrepair in the late 1970s, the estate would be sold to the West family. The era of the once great plantation of 3500 acres was fast fading into history, as well as the memory of the Robinson family. But with the recent discovery of a multitude of artifacts by the West family, and the building of a museum on the estate, the dying plantation, and the memory of the Robinsons is beginning to live once again. The book delivers eye-witness accounts of life changing events in the Robinson family, and lists many of the artifacts found, and follow-up research done by the author. From the days of General Sam Houston dancing in the foyer of the Victorian house, to the sounds of many children laughing and playing, to the designation of the plantation as a State Archeological Landmark, the reader will be captivated by this account of early Texas history.

Book with No Name

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Publisher : Gibbes Street
ISBN 13 : 9781921517099
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Book with No Name written by Anonymous and published by Gibbes Street. This book was released on 2010 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many centuries the library of lawless hell hole Santa Mondega, in South America, has held a gruesome secret. There is on its shelves a nameless book, by an anonymous author, and everyone who has ever read it ... is dead.

The Squared Circle

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1592408818
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (924 download)

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Download or read book The Squared Circle written by David Shoemaker and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A breakthrough examination of the professional wrestling, its history, its fans, and its wider cultural impact The Squared Circle grows out of David Shoemaker’s writing for Deadspin, where he started the column “Dead Wrestler of the Week” (which boasts more than 1 million page views)—a feature on the many wrestling superstars who died too young because of the abuse they subject their bodies to—and his writing for Grantland, where he covers the pro wrestling world, and its place in the pop culture mainstream. Shoemaker’s sportswriting has since struck a nerve with generations of wrestling fans who—like him—grew up worshipping a sport often derided as “fake” in the wider culture. To them, these professional wrestling superstars are not just heroes but an emotional outlet and the lens through which they learned to see the world. Starting in the early 1900s and exploring the path of pro wrestling in America through the present day, The Squared Circle is the first book to acknowledge both the sport’s broader significance and wrestling fans’ keen intellect and sense of irony. Divided into eras, each section offers a snapshot of the wrestling world, profiles some of the period’s preeminent wrestlers, and the sport’s influence on our broader culture. Through the brawling, bombast, and bloodletting, Shoemaker argues that pro wrestling can teach us about the nature of performance, audience, and, yes, art. Full of unknown history, humor, and self-deprecating reminiscence—but also offering a compelling look at the sport’s rightful place in pop culture—The Squared Circle is the book that legions of wrestling fans have been waiting for. In it, Shoemaker teaches us to look past the spandex and body slams to see an art form that can explain the world.

The Devil in Manuscript And Other Tales of Forbidden Books

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Publisher : The Forlorn Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Devil in Manuscript And Other Tales of Forbidden Books written by Osie Turner and published by The Forlorn Press. This book was released on 2013-08-17 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The Green Book,” a small, unassuming diary of a young girl; an unheard of book of the Talmud known as the “Tractate Middoth”; “The King in Yellow,” a play that drives people to insanity; two mysterious grey stone plaques from the sands of Chaldea known as the “Tablets of The Gods”; “The Confessions of Constantine,” which drives its readers into a homicidal rage—these accursed books are the subject of this collection of olden tales. Table of Contents: The Tractate Middoth by M.R. James The White People by Arthur Machen The Devil in Manuscript by Nathaniel Hawthorne The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers The Man Who Found Out (A Nightmare) by Algernon Blackwood P.’s Correspondence by Nathaniel Hawthorne The Innmost Light by Arthur Machen The Birthmark by Nathaniel Hawthorne For Art’s Sake by Tod Robbins Appendix: In Search of the Real Necronomicon by Osie Turner

Time's Arrow

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780140167795
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (677 download)

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Book Synopsis Time's Arrow by : Martin Amis

Download or read book Time's Arrow written by Martin Amis and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1992 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this novel a man's life is portrayed backwards, from death to birth, as are some of the scenes - for example, sex begins with climax, moves through foreplay and exhausts itself on flirtation. The plot is about a doctor whose story begins with his death. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

The Outlook

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1172 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book The Outlook written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 1172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

New York Magazine

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
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Download or read book New York Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1989-12-25 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.

The Athenaeum

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 860 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book The Athenaeum written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Outlook

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1166 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Outlook by : Alfred Emanuel Smith

Download or read book Outlook written by Alfred Emanuel Smith and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 1166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: