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From USA Today best-selling and multi-award-winning author
Jacqueline Friedland comes a gripping work of fiction based on the
true story of female abolitionist Ann Phillips and her connection
to Anthony Burns, a young man who briefly escaped American slavery
and rocked the nation with his astoundingly heroic story. A
passionate advocate of abolition from her earliest years, Ann’s
activism was derailed just before her twenty-fourth birthday, when
she fell sick with a mysterious illness. In order to protect her
fragile health, her husband, the famous abolitionist Wendell
Phillips, forbade her from joining any further anti-slavery
outings. Even so, when fugitive slave Anthony Burns is apprehended
in Boston, Ann is determined to help him, no matter what it costs
her. With a particular focus on the predicament of
nineteenth-century women who wanted to effect change despite the
restrictions society imposed on them, The Stockwell Letters—
takes a deep dive into the harrowing conditions of the antebellum
South and the obstacles faced by abolitionists who fought
tirelessly to eradicate slavery. A fast-paced, arresting recounting
of America’s not-so-distant history— the story will stay with
readers long after the final page.
Abigail Milton was born into the British middle class, but her
family has landed in unthinkable debt. To ease their burdens,
Abby's parents send her to America to live off the charity of their
old friend, Douglas Elling. When she arrives in Charleston at the
age of seventeen, Abigail discovers that the man her parents raved
about is a disagreeable widower who wants little to do with her. To
her relief, he relegates her care to a governess, leaving her to
settle into his enormous estate with little interference. But just
as she begins to grow comfortable in her new life, she overhears
her benefactor planning the escape of a local slave-and suddenly,
everything she thought she knew about Douglas Elling is turned on
its head. Abby's attempts to learn more about Douglas and his
involvement in abolition initiate a circuitous dance of secrets and
trust. As Abby and Douglas each attempt to manage their complicated
interior lives, readers can't help but hope that their meandering
will lead them straight to each other. Set against the vivid
backdrop of Charleston twenty years before the Civil War, Trouble
the Water is a captivating tale replete with authentic details
about Charleston's aristocratic planter class, American slavery,
and the Underground Railroad.
This book examines the construction, dissemination, and reception
of the Stalin cult in East Germany from the end of World War II to
the building of the Berlin Wall. By exporting Stalin's cult to the
Eastern bloc, Moscow aspired to symbolically unite the communist
states in an imagined cult community pivoting around the Soviet
leader. Based on Russian and German archives, this work analyzes
the emergence of the Stalin cult's transnational dimension. On one
hand, it looks at how Soviet representations of power were
transferred and adapted in the former "enemy's" country. On the
other hand, it reconstructs "spaces of agency" where different
agents and generations interpreted, manipulated, and used the
Stalin cult to negotiate social identities and everyday life. This
study reveals both the dynamics of Stalinism as a political system
after the Cold War began and the foundations of modern politics
through mass mobilization, emotional bonding, and social
engineering in Soviet-style societies. As an integral part of the
global history of communism, this book opens up a comparative,
entangled perspective on the ways in which veneration of Stalin and
other nationalistic cults were established in socialist states
across Europe and beyond.
A 2021 Kirkus Reviews' Best Indie Book of the YearSheReads 2021
Book Awards: Best Book Club Pick "It is hard to imagine a better
novel for a book club discussion...A thoughtful and gripping family
tale that will haunt readers long after finishing it." -Kirkus
Reviews, STARRED "...a touching and provocative novel about the
collisions of the emotional and legal meanings of family."
-Foreword Reviews As a young mother with a toddler and a live-in
boyfriend, Maggie Fisher's job at a checkout counter in downtown
Phoenix doesn't afford her much financial flexibility. She dreams
of going to college and becoming a teacher, options she squandered
when she fled her family home as a teenager. When Maggie stumbles
onto an ad offering thousands of dollars to women who are willing
to gestate other people's babies, she at first finds the concept
laughable. Before long, however, she's been seduced by all the ways
the extra money could improve her life. Once she decides to go for
it, it's only a matter of months before she's chosen as a
gestational carrier by Chip and Donovan Rigsdale, a married couple
from New York. After delivering twin babies and proudly handing
them off to the Rigsdales, Maggie finally gets her life on a
positive trajectory: she earns her degree, lands a great job, and
builds a family of her own. She can't fathom why, ten years after
the fact, the fertility clinic is calling to ask for a follow-up
DNA test. High-energy and immensely readable, He Gets That from Me
explores what it really means to be part of a family.
Meredith Altman's engagement to Wesley Latner ended in spectacular
disaster-one that shattered her completely. Years have passed since
then, and now she's about to marry Aaron Rapp, a former Ivy League
football player and baby-saving doctor. As they celebrate their
engagement at a new TriBeCa hotspot, Meredith is stunned to find
the restaurant owner is none other than Wesley, the man she is
still secretly trying to forget. When Meredith learns that Wesley
has been diagnosed with ALS, her feelings about their past become
all the more confusing. As she spends more time with Wesley and is
pulled further under his spell, she discovers what kind of man her
new fiance really is-and what kind of woman she wants to be.
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