Books with author Marty Hartman

Wally the wheelchair is back with a new adventure as he and his new friend Timmy prepare for their first day of school. Join them as they go through all the emotions of dealing with change going to school brings and spend a sleepless night in restless anticipation. Follow them through their first day of school as they meet other children with unique challenges of their own. Discover along with Wally that even though every child is different that every child was made special by their Maker and created for their own special purpose.

This riveting combination of true crime and social history examines a dozen cases from the 1800s involving thirteen French and English women charged with murder. Each incident was a cause célèbre, and this mixture of scandal and scholarship offers illuminating details of backgrounds, deeds, and trials. "The real delight is that historian Mary S. Hartman does more than reconstruct twelve famous trials. She has written a piece on the social history of nineteenth-century women from an illuminating perspective: their favorite murders." — Time Magazine"Noteworthy …. It has several distinctions: its expert prose style, its scholarly authority, and its perceptive analysis of the prevailing attitudes toward women's roles and domestic relations."—Criticism"The author would have made a fine detective …. When she observes the women and men in extreme circumstances, she writes with the gift of a novelist and the depth of a scholar." — Los Angeles Times"Vividly written, meticulously researched." — Choice"Loved this book and so glad to see it's been returned to print! You can't beat the highly readable scholarly treatment of these 13 Victorian murderesses. Harman does a spectacular job of bringing these women and the carnage they created into the 20th and 21st centuries as well as giving the reader an excellent feminist critique of their reception in scholarly and popular culture. Pour yourself a cup of tea and enjoy the variety of their crimes and their drive to define themselves outside the constrictions of Victorian life." — Under the Covers and Reading

A fascinating, unique book that explores the true history of 13 Victorian French & American murderesses. Among the 13 is Marie Lafarge, a wife disappointed with her marriage her family had arranged for her and solved her disappointment by feeding her husband large doses of arsenic. There is also Constance Kent, whose hatred for her step-mother and step-brother led her to commit an unspeakable crime. Another case concerns Claire Raymond, a young woman who was driven by her unfaithful husband to kill his mistress.Probably the most lurid, and detestable case concerns governess Celestine Doudet, who beat and tortured the children in her care until two of them died. Sensational and gripping showing women are every bit as cool, calculating and dangerous as any man. A book tough to put down.