Scholar Susan Godwin is hooked when she comes across the captivating story of Mary of Modena—a seventeenth-century Italian princess who was only fourteen when coerced into marriage with the future king of England, James II, yet went on to cultivate a court full of women writers in an age when female authorship was rare. How did Mary achieve such a feat? Rain Dodging is Susan’s creative nonfiction account of the years-long search upon which this question—and her own unquenchable curiosity—launched her. Godwin travels through both space and time, solo adventuring through Britain in pursuit of truth and, in a spicy parallel arc, chronicling her own cluttered but resilient feminist path. From schizophrenic lovers to out-there musicians to one unhinged mother, Susan tells the story of her personal enlightenment even as she visits the palaces and manor houses in England and Scotland Mary once inhabited and pores over materials in Oxford’s stunning 400-year-old Bodleian Library, finding moments of transcendence and unexpected delight along the way. Join Susan in this irreverent and illuminating journey—a fascinating account of the late Stuart monarchy, the progression of feminist history, and the unexpected connection between the two.

A foreword by Chubby Jackson, a discography, and an index round out this captivating volume."--BOOK JACKET.

1807. As a young boy, Brogan O'Malley encounters the strange and enigmatic Darcy on the streets of Edinburgh. Ten years pass and Brogan, now a petty thief, meets her once again and is surprised to discover she has not aged one day. A further ten years later, it's 1827 and Brogan's life has taken a turn for the worse. About to become involved with unscrupulous bodysnatchers, William Burke and William Hare, the reappearance of the ageless Darcy sees Brogan discover a secret that will change his life forever. Series Keywords: time travel, historical, science fiction, scifi, Edinburgh, 18th century, bodysnatchers, infamous, murder, crime, assassins,

This is a fictional story about a group of people who are strongly against oppression, and they are most eager to expose those who create it. Sheppardsville, your town is the city they love, and call home. The city has problems of that nature for many years, and no one wants to lift a finger to unshackle the grip that is holding this world at bay. The Group has taken it upon themselves to fight this problem head on. No matter what it takes they are determine to succeed.

Bellebrook: a place where jealousy, blackmail and lust entwine like ivy creeping through its ancient oaks, with compassion, love and trust. Alistair Burgoyne, QC and owner of the village manor, assumes he is untouchable, until his family are tousled by Trudy Hampstead, a young girl with more kick and spirit than a lethal cocktail, who proves to be even more toxic than he his. The residents of Bellebrook all have their own agenda, there’s Matt Lovestock, a local farmer, with an unsuitable ‘townie’ wife, who also has reason to score even with the Burgoynes, his revenge knows no bounds. Lizzie Hampstead, a widow and mother to twins, just wants a quiet life, no such luck… and just what is it about Peter Winrow, the rather insipid, quivering, nervous wreck of a curate? How will it all pan out? Will the good people of Bellebrook get their own way? Some may, some may not, others certainly get what they deserve.

Dark Matter explores the thin line between lust and destruction, revealing a blasted spectrum where thirsty raindrops cause havoc between wet sheets, and from the windows view young girls are hanging by rope from the mango tree; from vast twisted tempests, where Miranda carries Caliban's spawn, to the moist incubator of a breathless baby on the very edge of life, Amy Neilson Smith'sDark Matter work burrows into the bones of what is so viscerally here - and what is so nearly not.It's the after taste of life's losses, all sewn together with a lifeline of light. Dark Mater Amy Neilson Smith's poetry is lively work, displaying an exuberant love of words that will leave the reader eager for more - an engaging talent. Agnes Meadows, Poet/ Writer, Loose Muse - Morgan's Eye Press Amy's work is the thorn and the petals, the whole complicated rose.

This work was largely begun on the premises of the opening French paragraph, having to do with the human animal, "dark", erudite but not necessarily rational, and its vulnerability to the vicissitudes of fortune. It has partially to do with digital estrangement from the conditions of nature. It is a dark and brooding thing, very Old World in most of its aesthetics, but premised in the context of the digital media. This is a bit "decadent", having no genre in mind, having no political or otherwise paradigm keeping it doctrinally ordered. The linguistic aspects took on lives of their own, aside from any "self-expressive" impetus behind the work.

A historic connection has the power to change the future in this classic, gripping novel from Newbery Medalist Susan Cooper. Sam Robbins is a farm boy, kidnapped to serve on HMS Victory, the ship on which Lord Nelson will die a hero’s death at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. Molly Jennings is a twenty-first-century English girl who’s been transplanted to the United States by her stepfather’s job and is fighting her own battle against loss and loneliness. Two different lives, two centuries apart, are linked by a tiny scrap of fraying cloth that’s tucked into an old book. It draws Molly into Sam’s world, to a moment in time that changed history—a frightening shared moment that holds the key both to secrets from the past and hope for the future.

Nora Blackbird, society columnist and down-and-almost-out former debutante, reclaims her place within Philadelphia's elite when she stumbles upon the murdered body of a millionaire art collector.