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Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Historical fiction
Strongheart is the final installment to the One Thousand White
Women trilogy, a novel about fierce women who are full of heart and
the power to survive. In 1873, a Cheyenne chief offers President
Grant the opportunity to exchange one thousand horses for one
thousand white women, in order to marry them with his warriors and
create a lasting peace. These women, recruited by force in the
penitentiaries and asylums of the country, gradually integrate the
way of life of the Cheyenne, at the time when the great massacres
of the tribes begin. After the battle of Little Big Horn, some
female survivors decide to take up arms against the United States,
which has stolen from the Native Americans their lands, their way
of life, their culture and their history. This ghost tribe of
rebellious women will soon go underground to wage an implacable
battle, which will continue from generation to generation. In this
final volume of the One Thousand White Women trilogy, Jim Fergus
mixes with rare mastery the struggle of women and Native Americans
in the face of oppression, from the end of the 19th century until
today. With a vivid sense of the 19th century American West, Fergus
paints portraits of women as strong as they are unforgettable.
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Hamnet
(Hardcover)
Maggie O'Farrell
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R753
R672
Discovery Miles 6 720
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'Heather Atkinson is my no.1 author. She keeps you glued to her
books from beginning to end.' Edinburgh 1880. When Amy Osbourne's
parents are lost at sea, she is forced to leave her London home and
is sent to live with her aunt and uncle at the opposite end of the
country. Alardyce House is depressing and dreary, her aunt haughty
and cruel. Amy strikes up a friendship with her cousin Edward but
his older brother Henry is just as conceited as his mother, and a
mutual loathing develops between him and Amy. As her weeks of
mourning pass, the realisation begins to dawn on Amy that her aunt
has designs on her inheritance and the candidate she favours to be
her niece's husband fills Amy with horror. Struggling in this
strange, unwelcoming environment, Amy begins to suspect that
something isn't right at Alardyce House. There are rumours below
stairs of a monster on the loose, local women are being brutally
attacked and her cousin Henry is the prime suspect. Alardyce House
is full of dark secrets and Amy isn't sure who she can trust... If
you love Emily Organ, Kate Saunders and Ann Granger, you'll loveThe
Missing Girls of Alardyce House. Discover bestselling author
Heather Atkinson and you'll never look back... Please note this
book was previously published as Sins of a Father. What readers are
saying about Heather Atkinson: 'What a story. This book I think is
the best yet from Heather Atkinson and I have read all hers so
far.' 'Another brilliant book from Heather...she really is one the
best in the business. ' 'I have read ALL Heather Atkinson's books.
They are all fantastic.' 'I stumbled upon Heather's books and I'm
so glad I did, characters excellent and storylines are great, I
find myself searching the book stores for more of them to read the
minute I finish one.'
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Sin Eater
(Paperback)
Megan Campisi
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R428
R399
Discovery Miles 3 990
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