The Celestials: A Novel
The Celestials: A Novel

Author: Karen Shepard

Publisher: Tin House Books

Published: 2013-06-11

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 1935639560

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The Celestials is a historical novel of immigration, multiculturalism, labor, community and exclusion, alienation and reinvention, and our country's peculiar history and relationship with all those things. It's about our shared sense that we're all aliens of some kind--at home in no place. In June of 1870, seventy-five Chinese laborers arrived in North Adams, Massachusetts, to work for Calvin Sampson, one of the biggest industrialists in that busy factory town. Except for the foreman, the Chinese didn’t speak English. They didn’t know they were strikebreakers. The eldest of them was twenty-two. Combining historical and fictional elements, The Celestials beautifully reimagines the story of Sampson’s “Chinese experiment” and the effect of the newcomers’ threatening and exotic presence on the New England locals. When Sampson’s wife, Julia, gives birth to a mixed-race baby, the infant becomes a lightning rod for the novel’s conflicts concerning identity, alienation, and exile.

The Last Celestials
The Last Celestials

Author: Becca Mionis

Publisher:

Published: 2022-02-14

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13:

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A defeated general. A jaded princess. A really awkward situation. Orion and Cassiopeia are the last of their kind: an ancient, powerful race of space-dwelling beings known as Celestials. After losing a terrible war against another, deadlier race, Orion appeals to Cassiopeia, hoping she'll help him save their species. After all, he's a male, she's a female... This shouldn't be complicated, right? Wrong! Cassiopeia, who has been living like a recluse for centuries, wants absolutely nothing to do with Orion. And not just because he has no manners; there are things she doesn't want him to know, secrets that drove her to self-exile. So she does the only logical thing she can think of: She runs away to Earth, where she allies herself with a group of young musicians and adopts their easygoing way of life in order to blend in. It's the perfect hiding place, right? Wrong! Little does Cassiopeia know, Orion is way better at tracking than he is at romance... though he may have to become good at both if he wants a second chance.

The 19th Wife
The 19th Wife

Author: David Ebershoff

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2008-08-05

Total Pages: 530

ISBN-13: 1588367487

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Faith, I tell them, is a mystery, elusive to many, and never easy to explain. Sweeping and lyrical, spellbinding and unforgettable, David Ebershoff’s The 19th Wife combines epic historical fiction with a modern murder mystery to create a brilliant novel of literary suspense. It is 1875, and Ann Eliza Young has recently separated from her powerful husband, Brigham Young, prophet and leader of the Mormon Church. Expelled and an outcast, Ann Eliza embarks on a crusade to end polygamy in the United States. A rich account of a family’s polygamous history is revealed, including how a young woman became a plural wife. Soon after Ann Eliza’s story begins, a second exquisite narrative unfolds–a tale of murder involving a polygamist family in present-day Utah. Jordan Scott, a young man who was thrown out of his fundamentalist sect years earlier, must reenter the world that cast him aside in order to discover the truth behind his father’s death. And as Ann Eliza’s narrative intertwines with that of Jordan’ s search, readers are pulled deeper into the mysteries of love and faith. Praise for The 19th Wife “This exquisite tour de force explores the dark roots of polygamy and its modern-day fruit in a renegade cult . . . Ebershoff brilliantly blends a haunting fictional narrative by Ann Eliza Young, the real-life 19th “rebel” wife of Mormon leader Brigham Young, with the equally compelling contemporary narrative of fictional Jordan Scott, a 20-year-old gay man. . . . With the topic of plural marriage and its shattering impact on women and powerless children in today's headlines, this novel is essential reading for anyone seeking understanding of the subject.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Gilded Rose
Gilded Rose

Author: Emma Hamm

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2019-11-27

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13:

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A monster is holding me hostage inside a chateau. The world is plagued by creatures called the Dread. And he's their king. I've tried to run. I've tried to hide. But there's no escaping him. He wants to turn me into one of the creatures. Unless... I find a way to break the curse. A curse that has turned him into the monster that he is. He wasn't supposed to destroy cities. He's one of the Celestials meant to save humanity. As I uncover the truth and break his curse, I wonder if I've lost myself in the process. Can I still escape him? Or has he taken my heart forever? Book One in the Celestial series by USAToday Bestselling Author Emma Hamm

The Celestial's Chosen
The Celestial's Chosen

Author: Charlie Daniels

Publisher:

Published: 2020-05-13

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13:

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It all started with a prophecy... Human-that's what Lilah Phillips thought she was until her Elemental powers kicked in on her twenty-first birthday. With her powers emerging, Lilah must navigate a world she knew nothing about to prove she's worthy. Because if she can't, her Elements will be stripped from her very soul. Chances of surviving? Well below zero. With two best friends, a Celestial partner, and a whole lot of guy trouble, Lilah's time at the Elemental Academy may be more than she bargained for. Can this half-human, half-Elemental prove she's worthy, or will the Academy's secrets toss her into an early grave? *** This is a NA Paranormal Academy Romance. Non-RH***

A Shoemaker's Story
A Shoemaker's Story

Author: Anthony W. Lee

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13:

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On a June morning in 1870, seventy-five Chinese immigrants stepped off a train in the New England factory town of North Adams, Massachusetts, imported as strikebreakers by the local shoe manufacturer. They threaded their way through a hostile mob and then--remarkably--their new employer lined them up along the south wall of his factory and had them photographed as the mob fell silent. So begins A Shoemaker's Story. Anthony Lee seeks to understand the social forces that brought this now-famous photograph into being, and the events and images it subsequently spawned. He traces the rise of photography as a profession and the hopes and experiences of immigrants trying to find their place in the years following the Civil War. He describes the industrialization of the once-traditional craft of shoemaking, and the often violent debates about race, labor, class, and citizenship that industrialization caused. Generously illustrated with many extraordinary photographs, A Shoemaker's Story brings 1870s America to vivid life. Lee's spellbinding narrative interweaves the perspectives of people from very different walks of life--the wealthy factory owner who dared to bring the strikebreakers to New England, the Chinese workers, the local shoemakers' union that did not want them there, the photographers themselves, and the ordinary men and women who viewed and interpreted their images. Combining painstaking research with world-class storytelling, Lee illuminates an important episode in the social history of the United States, and reveals the extent to which photographs can be sites of intense historical struggle.

Devil's Temptation
Devil's Temptation

Author: Trish Heinrich

Publisher:

Published: 2021-02-12

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 9781733188081

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HE'S NO ANGEL. AND SHE LIKES IT THAT WAY... Playboy night club owner Nathan Dearborne thought he could outrun his family's celestial legacy with good old-fashioned debauchery. Until the night he suffered a devastating loss and swore to never drag anyone into his dark world again. Then, he met Tessa... Rebuilding her life after a humiliating breakup, investigative reporter Tessa Clarke vows that her only relationship will be with chocolate. Until the night Nathan saves her from a pack of demons. With one touch he ignites a spark of passion that breaks down all her walls. But the sparks that fly between them may come to nothing when Nathan discovers that a specter from his past has returned to destroy his life. A life that Tessa wants to be a part of. He knows he'll break her heart. She knows she won't survive it if he does. But neither can resist the temptation to give in to love for one last time. Warning: If you love steamy paranormal romance with humor, angels, a wounded hero, and a take-no-crap heroine, then you may have to stay up all night to finish Devil's Temptation. This is a full-length novel with a HEA, no cliffhanger! Recommended for mature audiences. Devil's Temptation is the first book in the Celestial Superheroes series.

The Dissociation of Haruhi Suzumiya
The Dissociation of Haruhi Suzumiya

Author: Nagaru Tanigawa

Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Published: 2013-06-18

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 9780316228701

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As the second year of high school begins, Haruhi's cynical and sarcastic confidant Kyon, the only "normal" member of the SOS Brigade, finds himself meeting Sasaki, an old friend from his days in junior high. Haruhi and Sasaki's shared friendship with Kyon and, possibly, shared abilities, causes tension between the two and Kyon knows Haurhi's dissatisfaction can have dire consequences! Kyon and Sasaki's chance meeting could affect his future, the future of the SOS Brigade, and the world forever. This ninth volume of the Haruhi Suzumiya series is the first to use two alternate stories for the same plot with different endings. The story continues in the next novel, The Surprise of Haruhi Suzumiya.

The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (light novel)
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (light novel)

Author: Nagaru Tanigawa

Publisher: Yen Press LLC

Published: 2012-09-04

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 0316228613

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Haruhi holds the fate of the universe in her hands . . . lucky for you she doesn't know it! Meet Haruhi - a cute, determined girl, starting high school in a city where nothing exciting happens and absolutely no one understands her. Meet Kyon - the sarcastic guy who sits behind Haruhi in homeroom and the only boy Haruhi has ever opened up to. His fate is now tied to hers. Meet the S.O.S. Brigade - an after-school club organized by Haruhi with a mission to seek out the extraordinary. Oh, and their second mission? Keeping Haruhi happy . . . because even though she doesn't know it, Haruhi has the power to destroy the universe. Seriously. The phenomenon that took Japan by storm - with more than 4.5 million copies sold - is now available in the first-ever English edition.