Энни Прул3.8 Эннис и Джек выросли на маленьких бедных ранчо в противоположных концах штата, а встретились, когда пришли наниматься для ухода за овцами на одну скотоводческую фирму. Этот одинокий лагерь на Горбатой горе изменил их жизнь навсегда.
Исабель Альенде4.2 Дочь Фортуны – широкий портрет эры, повествование, богатое характерными персонажами, историей, насилием и состраданием. Элиза восстает против косности патриархата (общины) и понимает, что должна поставить себе новую цель. Альенде плавно расширяет географические границы своего произведения, попутно превращая последнее в исторический роман, и заинтересовывает читателя сразу четырьмя культурами: английской, чилийской, китайской и американской, на фоне которой в Калифорнии происходит золотая лихорадка 1849 года. Сирота воспитывается в Вальпараисо, чилийском городе, придерживающейся характерных викторианской эпохе норм незамужней женщиной и ее суровым братом. Жизнерадостная молодая Элиза Соммерс следует за своим возлюбленным к Калифорнию в разгар золотой лихорадки 1849 года. Попав в беспорядочную жизнь недавно прибывших сюда людей, окончательно помешавшихся на почве золота, Элиза все глубже проникает в общество холостяков и проституток не без помощи своего хорошего друга и спасителя, китайского доктора Тао Чьена. Калифорния дает возможность молодой чилийке начать новую, свободную и независимую, жизнь, и ее поиск своего неуловимого возлюбленного постепенно превращается в путешествие несколько иного плана. К тому моменту, как она, наконец, слышит новости о молодом человеке, Элиза должна решить, кто же из них и есть ее истинная любовь. В Элизе Альенде создала одну из своих самых привлекательных героинь, предприимчивая, и очень нетрадиционная молодая женщина с независимым нравом, у которой есть храбрость, чтобы повторно найти себя и создать свою судьбу в новой стране. По правде говоря, произведение Альенде – роман перемен, внутренне преобразующих его героев.
Синди Боннер0.0 This is the fouth of Cindy Bonner's deliciously romantic historic novels. And once again she perfectly captures the spirit of another time. Here are Texas farm families swept up in the drama of World War I and the devastation of their young men who fought it. Again, Bonner's vivid characters grab us by the lapels on page one. Almost from the day she was born - in 1901 in McDade, Texas - Sunny Delony adored her first cousin, Gil. Their mothers are sisters and raised their children as if they were siblings, with all the teasing, wrestling, and running wild.
Sunny can't say exactly when their puppy love turned into the full-blown grown-up kind, but before she was fifteen - and Gil seventeen - she knew something had changed. Her mother and aunt knew it, too. They wasted no time preaching right from wrong and describing the consequences of what they deemed "incest."
Taking those warnings to heart, Gil volunteered for the army. While he was fighting France, Sunny married a local boy, only the first in a string of mistakes that lead to broken hearts, broken marriages, lost lives, family condemnation, financial ruin, exile. Ultimately, their passion caused them to flee for their lives and those of their children. But somehow, wrong always felt right to Sunny and Gil.
Right from Wrong is a beautiful - and wrenching - love story.
Энн Тернер0.0 When a family of settlers follows the gold rush to California, they must leave behind their family, friends, and old way of life. With mixed feelings they embark upon an epic trip in a covered wagon across America. One piece of the life they left behind accompanies them -- a single red geranium -- which struggles to survive through the hardships of their journey. If Red Flower lives, they will replant it as a symbol of hope when they begin their new life in the West. Red Flower Goes West is a poignant portrayal of the hardships and joys of this defining period in American history.
Эллен Рекнор0.0 A WEDDING NIGHT SHE'LL NEVER FORGET
Annie Pinkerton Boone Newcastle's wedding night is one she wouldn't soon forget. One moment she's arriving in the practically barbarian Arizona Territory for a prearranged marriage -- the next she's a widow. The honeymoon has just begun when her newly acquired, much older husband breathes his last breath -- leaving Annie without funds, and with his two elderly relatives to support. To make matters worse, the dead geezer has the unmitigated gall to take up residence in Annie's body!
But, it turns out, the ghost of Jonas Newcastle makes himself useful by channeling vital information from the great beyond through Annie, and the somewhat bewildered widow quickly earns a reputation as a seer. She's soon sharing Jonas's psychic "hints" with the public and, no longer impoverished, she's a local celebrity. However, even "Prophet Annie" can't foresee all the raucous adventures and passionate fulfillment the future has in store for her...
A WEDDING NIGHT SHE'LL NEVER FORGETAnnie Pinkerton Boone Newcastle's wedding night is one she wouldn't soon forget. One moment she's arriving in the practically barbarian Arizona Territory for a prearranged marriage -- the next she's a widow. The honeymoon has just begun when her newly acquired, much older husband breathes his last breath -- leaving Annie without funds, and with his two elderly relatives to support. To make matters worse, the dead geezer has the unmitigated gall to take up residence in Annie's body!
But, it turns out, the ghost of Jonas Newcastle makes himself useful by channeling vital information from the great beyond through Annie, and the somewhat bewildered widow quickly earns a reputation as a seer. She's soon sharing Jonas's psychic "hints" with the public and, no longer impoverished, she's a local celebrity. However, even "Prophet Annie" can't foresee all the raucous adventures and passionate fulfillment the future has in store for her...A WEDDING NIGHT SHE'LL NEVER FORGET
Annie Pinkerton Boone Newcastle's wedding night is one she wouldn't soon forget. One moment she's arriving in the practically barbarian Arizona Territory for a prearranged marriage -- the next she's a widow. The honeymoon has just begun when her newly acquired, much older husband breathes his last breath -- leaving Annie without funds, and with his two elderly relatives to support. To make matters worse, the dead geezer has the unmitigated gall to take up residence in Annie's body!
But, it turns out, the ghost of Jonas Newcastle makes himself useful by channeling vital information from the great beyond through Annie, and the somewhat bewildered widow quickly earns a reputation as a seer. She's soon sharing Jonas's psychic "hints" with the public and, no longer impoverished, she's a local celebrity. However, even "Prophet Annie" can't foresee all the raucous adventures and passionate fulfillment the future has in store for her...
К. А. Бауэр0.0 They are four people who have come to the frontier with their passion, their hopes, and their extraordinary will to survive. Brenna Corbett is from Ireland, a strong woman who can hear the spirits of horses. Her father is counting on her to bring the family to him in California. But between her old home and a new one lies a thousand miles of violence. Charley Armstrong is a gentle soul in a fierce new world, a West Point graduate who has lost his wife and child. Now assigned to Fort Laramie, he has come face-to-face with human atrocity -- and the beginnings of a treachery that stretches all the way to Washington, D.C. Josiah Brown is intent an forcing the military to take revenge against the tribes who murdered his brother. Disguised as Indians, his band of mercenaries will prey on the innocent settlers bound for the West...until he meets his match on a lonely prairie ridge. Matilda Castillo is a towering sensual beauty with ivory-handled pistols strapped on each hip. Born in Santa Fe, she travels West with Brenna -- and brings with her a legacy of loss and vengeance that will explode upon them all.In a land towering mountains and endless vistas, the worst deeds of men have touched off a tragic feud among soldiers, natives, and criminals. Now, for a determined band of pioneers, survival means journeying through a firestorm -- with all the courage that is in their hearts and souls.
Мари Гранья0.0 Mari Grana begins her account of an adventure that grew out of her desire to withdraw to the wild and that ends with a sense of homecoming and community: "I saw over a rise in a meadow a little stone cabin far in the distance. The landscape of the canyon--the rocky pine-covered ridges, the long wide meadow with the escarpment of Rowe Mesa rising in the background--suddenly became the place I had dreamed about."
Once she had purchased the abandoned sheepherder's cabin on 240 remote acres of land in northern New Mexico, Grana began the work of making the cabin livable. With the help of local villagers, she plastered the mud walls, installed a cook-stove, and cleaned the rats out of her storehouse. She began to meet her neighbors and to learn the human history of the area. As she became familiar with the beauty, drama, and danger of the natural environment, she also learned about legendary local criminals and ancient land swindles. Writing out of her direct experience of this landscape and culture, Grana vividly describes a world where the village church comes alive on saints' days and the spirit of Begoso Cabin's builder, Natividad Ortiz, lingers still
Сьюзен Цвингер0.0 The northwestern edge of North America is a final edge to settle on a finite planet. Where does mankind go from here? Where else have we not settled, altered, and consumed ? Author Susan Zwinger suspects that we have saved this wild edge for last because its geography is punched, exploded, ground, and drenched. Its forest of enormous trees once created a boundary difficult to penetrate, let alone farm. Yet, today this wildness is under threat, as civilization bores its way into even this remote edge.
Кристен Иверсен0.0 When Margaret Tobin Brown arrived in New York City shortly after her perilous night in Titanic's Lifeboat Six, a legend was born. Through magazines, books, a Broadway musical, and a Hollywood movie, she became "The Unsinkable Molly Brown," but in the process her life story was distorted beyond recognition. Even her name was changed--she was never known as Molly during her lifetime. Molly Brown: Unraveling the Myth is the first full-length biography of this American icon, and the story it tells is of a passionate and outspoken crusader for the rights of women, children, mine workers, and others struggling for their voice in the early twentieth century.
Линда Гордон0.0 In 1904, New York nuns brought forty Irish orphans to a remote Arizona mining camp, to be placed with Catholic families. The Catholic families were Mexican, as was the majority of the population. Soon the town's Anglos, furious at this "interracial" transgression, formed a vigilante squad that kidnapped the children and nearly lynched the nuns and the local priest. The Catholic Church sued to get its wards back, but all the courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, ruled in favor of the vigilantes.
The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction tells this disturbing and dramatic tale to illuminate the creation of racial boundaries along the Mexican border. Clifton/Morenci, Arizona, was a "wild West" boomtown, where the mines and smelters pulled in thousands of Mexican immigrant workers. Racial walls hardened as the mines became big business and whiteness became a marker of superiority. These already volatile race and class relations produced passions that erupted in the "orphan incident." To the Anglos of Clifton/Morenci, placing a white child with a Mexican family was tantamount to child abuse, and they saw their kidnapping as a rescue.
Women initiated both sides of this confrontation. Mexican women agreed to take in these orphans, both serving their church and asserting a maternal prerogative; Anglo women believed they had to "save" the orphans, and they organized a vigilante squad to do it. In retelling this nearly forgotten piece of American history, Linda Gordon brilliantly recreates and dissects the tangled intersection of family and racial values, in a gripping story that resonates with today's conflicts over the "best interests of the child."
Louise Erdrich0.0 This is one of those children's books with a magical, tender quality that seizes the imagination. It is the first children's book, and the first in a cycle of novels, by the distinguished novelist Louise Erdrich, who draws on her own family history to evoke the lives of Native Americans forced from their ancestral lands. It is the story of a little girl, Omakayas, who lives with her family on an island in Lake Superior in the 1840s. It is the story of a loving family of adults and children, and the tribulations and joys they experience, in the course of a year that sees the decimation of the tribe by the white man's disease, smallpox.. Omakayas herself, with her affinity for animals - she has a pet crow, and makes friends with the bears - is a wonderful character who learns only at the end who she really is, and what her role in the tribe will be. The detail of daily life among the Ojibwa, so close to the land and to animals, is beautifully described and the characters are realized with a delightful warmth - not just Omakayas but the new baby she adores, her annoying little brother Pinch, the strange, tough, masculine Auntie, and the grandmother with her healing powers. It is an immensely charming and moving book on a subject that is always fascinating to young readers.
Клэр Рудольф Мерфи, Джейн Дж. Хэй0.0 These individual stories, vintage photographs, and historic memorabilia tell what life was like for the children who came North with their parents in search of gold.
