eBooks „Maxwell“
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Michelle Johnson-Lane
Unravel
A SOON-TO-PUBLISHED DEBUT NOVEL ~ SUMMER 2012
- Belletristik
- Englisch
- 6027 Wörter
- Keine Altersempfehlung
- 1092
- 2
"With Unravel, Michelle Johnson-Lane has created a novel full of twists and turns and OMG moments that will keep you riveted throughout. It was an enjoyment to read and work on. The anticipation rises page by page and I guarantee you will not see the end coming. This novel is anything but boring and is a thoroughly good read."
—Crystal, FirstEditing.com
Come share life experiences through the eyes and ears of a child with a black mother and a white father during the time of segregation.
WHITES ONLY... COLORED ONLY
Matilda McGraw came into this world in 1947 with a silver spoon in her mouth. She grew up in Seattle, Washington as a product of an interracial marriage. Matilda has never wanted for anything since she’s a co-heiress of her grandparents enormous estate. Unfortunately, money will not exempt her from experiencing the many life crises that she’s had to succumb to—father’s abandonment, step-father’s abuse, classmate’s torture, and her mother’s illness.
Matilda’s life spiraled out of control long before she drives across the country to attend the University of Maine. Finally, she finds solace when she meets Tilly, who lends her shoulder and provides an outlet for Matilda to open up and share all her inner most secrets. Things come to a halt when Tilly mets her only true love, which causes Matilda to mysteriously drop out of sight—never to be seen again. However, Matilda does entrust Tilly with her personal belongings and a box of keepsakes. Before she disappears, Tilly makes the promise to take Matilda’s secrets to the grave.
Take the journey through Unravel to see just how careful Tilly is in protecting Matilda’s secrets after she becomes the matriarch of the Maxwell Family. [mehr]
Stichwörter: Matriarch, Family, Gatherings, Fame, Wealth, Education, Estate, Journalist, Judge, Illegal Activity, Drugs, Death, Abuse, Marriage, Divorce, AIDS, Homosexuality, Secrets, Mental Health, Hospital [mehr]
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Francis Hackett
The Invisible Censor
- Drama
- Englisch
- 44584 Wörter
- Ab 18 Jahren
- 2
Francis Hackett (21 January 1883 – 25 April 1962). He was born in Kilkenny, Ireland to the daughter of a farmer and a medical officer. He is most famous for writing a detailed book about Henry VIII but was also a noted critic and published several other books most of which were either non-fiction or biographies.
He was educated in St Kieran's College, where Thomas MacDonagh was his teacher.
He married the Danish writer Signe Toksvig, and the couple lived in Ireland in the early years of the State, and then moved to Denmark, to the US during World War II, and back to Denmark.
"Hackett immigrated to the United States in 1901 for various reasons, among them being his dissatisfaction with the British Government ruling Ireland, and his family’s inability to finance his college education. When he arrived in New York he published articles in Standish O’Grady’s All Ireland Review, Arthur Griffith’s United Irishman, and Samuel Richardson’s The Gael. Hackett took a series of jobs as a clerk in a law firm, for the advertising department of Cosmopolitan Magazine, and literary editor of various periodicals, such as the Chicago Evening Post. In 1906 Hackett moved into Hull-House and taught English to Russian Immigrants. As writer and critic, Hackett attacked Chicago’s genteel and commercial cultures, racism, and the subordination of women. He left his position as literary editor of the Post in 1911 to pursue a career as a novelist." (http://tigger.uic.edu/depts/hist/hull-maxwell/vicinity/nws1/documents/hackett-introduction.PDF)
Hackett died onn 25 April 1962. [mehr]
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