The Women in the Castle

The Women in the Castle

Author: Jessica Shattuck

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2017-03-28

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 0062563688

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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • FEATURING AN EXCLUSIVE NEW CHAPTER GoodReads Choice Awards Semifinalist "Moving . . . a plot that surprises and devastates."—New York Times Book Review "A masterful epic."—People magazine "Mesmerizing . . . The Women in the Castle stands tall among the literature that reveals new truths about one of history’s most tragic eras."—USA Today Three women, haunted by the past and the secrets they hold Set at the end of World War II, in a crumbling Bavarian castle that once played host to all of German high society, a powerful and propulsive story of three widows whose lives and fates become intertwined—an affecting, shocking, and ultimately redemptive novel from the author of the New York Times Notable Book The Hazards of Good Breeding. Amid the ashes of Nazi Germany’s defeat, Marianne von Lingenfels returns to the once-grand castle of her husband’s ancestors, an imposing stone fortress now fallen into ruin following years of war. The widow of a resister murdered in the failed July 20, 1944, plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler, Marianne plans to uphold the promise she made to her husband’s brave conspirators: to find and protect their wives, her fellow resistance widows. First Marianne rescues six-year-old Martin, the son of her dearest childhood friend, from a Nazi reeducation home. Together, they make their way across the smoldering wreckage of their homeland to Berlin, where Martin’s mother, the beautiful and naive Benita, has fallen into the hands of occupying Red Army soldiers. Then she locates Ania, another resister’s wife, and her two boys, now refugees languishing in one of the many camps that house the millions displaced by the war. As Marianne assembles this makeshift family from the ruins of her husband’s resistance movement, she is certain their shared pain and circumstances will hold them together. But she quickly discovers that the black-and-white, highly principled world of her privileged past has become infinitely more complicated, filled with secrets and dark passions that threaten to tear them apart. Eventually, all three women must come to terms with the choices that have defined their lives before, during, and after the war—each with their own unique share of challenges. Written with the devastating emotional power of The Nightingale, Sarah’s Key, and The Light Between Oceans, Jessica Shattuck’s evocative and utterly enthralling novel offers a fresh perspective on one of the most tumultuous periods in history. Combining piercing social insight and vivid historical atmosphere, The Women in the Castle is a dramatic yet nuanced portrait of war and its repercussions that explores what it means to survive, love, and, ultimately, to forgive in the wake of unimaginable hardship.


The Hazards of Good Breeding: A Novel

The Hazards of Good Breeding: A Novel

Author: Jessica Shattuck

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2004-03-30

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9780393324839

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The "pitch perfect" (Los Angeles Times) first novel by the New York Times bestselling author of The Women in the Castle. This "richly appointed and generously portrayed" (Kirkus Reviews) debut novel tells the story of a WASPy, old-Boston family coming face to face with an America much larger than the one it was born in. Told from five perspectives, the novel spans an explosive week in the life of the Dunlaps, culminating in a series of events that will change their way of life forever. Caroline Dunlap has written off the insular world of the Boston deb parties, golf club luaus, and WASP weddings that she grew up with. But when she reluctantly returns home after her college graduation, she finds that not everything is quite as predictable, or protected, as she had imagined. Her father, the eccentric, puritanical Jack Dunlap, is carrying on stoically after the breakup of his marriage, but he can't stop thinking of Rosita, the family housekeeper he fired almost six months ago. Caroline's little brother, Eliot, is working on a giant papier-mâché diorama of their town—or is he hatching a plan of larger proportions? As the real reason for Rosita's departure is revealed, the novel culminates in a series of events that assault the fragile, sheltered, and arguably obsolete world of the Dunlaps. Opening a window into a family's repressed desires and fears, The Hazards of Good Breeding is a startlingly perceptive comedy of manners that heralds a new writer of dazzling talent. A New York Times Notable Selection and a Boston Globe Book of the Year.


Perfect Life: A Novel

Perfect Life: A Novel

Author: Jessica Shattuck

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2010-06-14

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 0393071502

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“Jessica Shattuck’s engrossing, deceptively ambitious novel explores a wide range of subjects . . . with a shrewd and sympathetic eye.”—Tom Perrotta “In this smart and engaging follow-up to her well-received debut, The Hazards of Good Breeding, Shattuck focuses on three privileged Gen X college roommates who are now grown up, coupled up, and raising kids in pre-recession Boston. The cracks in their ‘perfect lives’ begin to show when the most precocious of the trio, a gorgeous striver named Jenny whose husband is infertile, makes the unconventional decision to have a baby with a sperm donation from Neil, her brainy, slacker ex-boyfriend from Harvard. . . . Stylish storytelling and sharp social commentary . . . make Perfect Life both topical and eminently readable.”—People


Bloomer Girls

Bloomer Girls

Author: Debra A Shattuck

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2017-01-18

Total Pages: 437

ISBN-13: 025209879X

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Disapproving scolds. Sexist condescension. Odd theories about the effect of exercise on reproductive organs. Though baseball began as a gender-neutral sport, girls and women of the nineteenth century faced many obstacles on their way to the diamond. Yet all-female nines took the field everywhere. Debra A. Shattuck pulls from newspaper accounts and hard-to-find club archives to reconstruct a forgotten era in baseball history. Her fascinating social history tracks women players who organized baseball clubs for their own enjoyment and even found roster spots on men's teams. Entrepreneurs, meanwhile, packaged women's teams as entertainment, organizing leagues and barnstorming tours. If the women faced financial exploitation and indignities like playing against men in women's clothing, they and countless ballplayers like them nonetheless staked a claim to the nascent national pastime. Shattuck explores how the determination to take their turn at bat thrust female players into narratives of the women's rights movement and transformed perceptions of women's physical and mental capacity. Vivid and eye-opening, Bloomer Girls is a first-of-its-kind portrait of America, its women, and its game.


Proust's Way: A Field Guide to In Search of Lost Time

Proust's Way: A Field Guide to In Search of Lost Time

Author: Roger Shattuck

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2011-02-07

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 0393078701

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"Shattuck leaves us not only with a deepened appreciation of Proust's great work but of all great literature as well."—Richard Bernstein, New York Times For any reader who has been humbled by the language, the density, or the sheer weight of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time, Roger Shattuck is a godsend. Winner of the National Book Award for Marcel Proust, a sweeping examination of Proust's life and works, Shattuck now offers a useful and eminently readable guidebook to Proust's epic masterpiece, and a contemplation of memory and consciousness throughout great literature. Here, Shattuck laments Proust's defenselessness against zealous editors, praises some translations, and presents Proust as a novelist whose philosophical gifts were matched only by his irrepressible comic sense. Proust's Way, the culmination of a lifetime of scholarship, will serve as the next generation's guide to one of the world's finest writers of fiction.


Shattuck

Shattuck

Author: Wallace Wood

Publisher: Fantagraphics Books

Published: 2016-05-18

Total Pages: 73

ISBN-13: 1606999141

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Daredevil rebooter and Mad cartoonist Wallace Wood’s long-lost sexy Western comic strip: reloaded. In 1972, Wallace Wood created Shattuck, a rarely seen Western comic strip, assisted by soon-to-be great cartoonists Dave Cockrum (X-Men) and Howard Chaykin (American Flagg).


The Tribes and the States

The Tribes and the States

Author: William James Sidis

Publisher:

Published: 2021-01-06

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13:

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The Tribes and the States is a history of the indigenous peoples of New England and the effect they exerted on the governments and civic systems that emerged in pre and post revolutionary America. Written by child prodigy William James Sidis, the book contends that American democracy has been shaped largely by the various native peoples European colonists encountered as they settled the continent. Completed in 1936, The Tribes and the States is still a unique, progressive and under-acknowledged history of the United States.---TABLE OF CONTENTSCHAPTER I - RED RACE PRE-HISTORY - Source of the Red Race - The Cro-Magnons - AtlantisCHAPTER II - THE RED MAN IN AMERICA - The Different Red Stocks - Tribe, Phratry, and Gens - Equality and Democracy - War and Peace - The Penacook PeoplesCHAPTER III PRE-FEDERATE EVENTS - Events in the Interior - Pre-Federate Transatlantic Communication - The Iroquois - Lines of CommunicationCHAPTER IV THE IROQUOIS FEDERATION - Dagonoweda's Plan - Formation of the Federation - Iroquois Empire and Counter-Federation - Federation as a New DepartureCHAPTER V THE GREAT WHITE INVASION - An Invading Race - Rights of Conquest and Discovery - French Invasion - British Invasions - White AdministrationsCHAPTER VI THE PENACOOK FEDERATION - The Pilgrims - Samoset's Welcome - The Iroquois Attack - Passaconaway - The Penacook Federation - Federability of the Penacook Federation - Defeat of the IroquoisCHAPTER VII PISCATAQUA AND MASADCHU - Invasion of the Piscataqua - The Paumonok Islands - Growth of the Pilgrim Colony - The Puritan Invasion - The Puritans and Their Neighbors - The Head of Massachusetts Bay - The Iroquois AllianceCHAPTER VIII THE PENACOOK PEACE - The Peace of 1634 - Elsewhere in America - Invasion of the Quinnitucket - Extension of the Bay Colony - Apostle Eliot - Narragansett Bay SettlementsCHAPTER IX THE LAST OF THE PEQUOTS - Federation on the Quinnitucket - The Pequot War - Puritan Re-Migration - Puritan Revolt in England - New HavenCHAPTER X THE NEW ENGLAND CONFEDERATION - Difficulties with the Dutch -New England Federation46 Annexation of the Piscataqua47 New Sects48 Conquest of the South49 The Middle RegionsCHAPTER XI UNDER RESTORED MONARCHY50 American Policy of the Restored Stuarts51 The Penacook Country at the Restoration52 The Duke of York's Claims53 New Settlement in Carolina54 Punishing New England55 New York's Border ConflictsCHAPTER XII METACOM'S WAR56 Bashaba Metacom57 Plymouth Resents Metacom58 Reconquest of Paumonok59 Effect of the Penacook Federation60 War Against Plymouth61 Converts and Adoptees62 The Defeat of the Tribes63 Rebellion in VirginiaCHAPTER XIII QUAKER SETTLEMENT64 The Keystone Colony65 Starting the Quaker Colony66 Massachusetts's Charter Disputes67 Extension of the Keystone TerritoryCHAPTER XIV THE ANDROS REGIME68 New York's Overlord Becomes King69 New York Annexes New England70 Witchcraft71 Rebellion Against Andros72 The Rebellion SpreadsCHAPTER XV REBEL PROVINCES73 Rebel Provinces74 Father Rasles75 The Hudson Valley Is Attacked76 The Rebel Governments77 Scalping Bounties78 Down the Mississippi79 End of the Rebel GovernmentsCHAPTER XVI INTERCOLONIAL STRUGGLES80 The Peace of 169781 Louisiana82 The English Colonies after the Partition83 The Acadian War84 Wars Against the Tribes85 A Thirteenth Colony86 Religious Reform87 The Georgian WarCHAPTER XVII THE GREAT OHIO WAR88 Canessetago and Franklin89 Expulsion of the Acadians90 The Lanapes' New Home91 French Expansion in the Interior92 Virginia's Ohio Expedition93 The Great Ohio War Starts94 Iroquois Territory Invaded95 Amherst's Smallpox96 Capture of Canada97 The Peace of 1763...


Forbidden Knowledge

Forbidden Knowledge

Author: Roger Shattuck

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9780156005517

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A riveting account of the ways in which man's darkest impulses conflict with common sense. From the lessons learned in "Paradise Lost" and the events which transpired in the tales of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" and "Frankenstein" to unlocking the secrets of the atom, Shattuck's brilliant synthesis of history and literature is utterly relevant to our times and addictively readable.


Faith, Hope, and Sustainability

Faith, Hope, and Sustainability

Author: Cybelle T. Shattuck

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2021-06-01

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1438482000

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Faith, Hope, and Sustainability explores the experiences of fifteen faith communities striving to care for the earth and live more sustainably. A church in Maine partners with fishermen to create the first community-supported fishery so they can make a living without overfishing. A Jewish congregation in Illinois raises extra funds to construct a green synagogue that expresses their religious mission to heal the world. Benedictine sisters in Wisconsin adopt caring for the earth as part of their mission and begin restoring one hundred acres of prairie, reviving their community in the process. Presbyterians in Virginia, dismayed by air pollution in Shenandoah National Park, take courage from their conviction that "God does not call us to do little things" and advocate for improved national air pollution policies. Stories such as these highlight the variety of environmental actions that people of faith are enacting through congregational venues. Beyond simply narrating inspiring stories, however, this book compares these case studies to explore in detail the processes through which the communities took action. In addition to examining why faith communities engage in earth care, Cybelle T. Shattuck explores how they put intention into action and how the congregational context affects what they do. She introduces an analytical framework focusing on four domains of activity—champions, faith leaders, congregations, and organizations—to explicate the full range of factors that influence how initiatives develop and whether sustainability becomes embedded in these religious organizations. Both the framework and the information on process presented in this book will be highly useful to scholars and to people of faith interested in implementing an earth-care ethic through sustainability programs.