Books with title The Revolution of Marina M.

[Read by Grover Gardner]From the author of the Inspector Montalbano series comes the remarkable account of an exceptional woman who rises to power in seventeenth-century Sicily and brings about sweeping changes that threaten the iron-fisted patriarchy, before being cast out in a coup after only twenty-seven days.Sicily, April 16, 1677. From his deathbed, Charles III's viceroy, don Angel de Guzman, marquis of Castel de Roderigo, names his wife, donna Eleonora, as his successor. Eleonora di Mora is a highly intelligent and capable woman who immediately applies her political acumen to heal the scarred soul of Palermo, a city afflicted by poverty, misery, and the frequent uprisings they entail.The marquise implements measures that include lowering the price of bread, reducing taxes for large families, reopening women's care facilities, and establishing stipends for young couples wishing to marry -- all measures that were considered seditious by the conservative city fathers and by the Church. The machinations of powerful men soon result as donna Eleonora, whom the Church sees as a dangerous revolutionary, is recalled to Spain. Her rule lasted twenty-seven days -- one cycle of the moon.Based on a true story, Camilleri's gripping and richly imagined novel tells the story of a woman whose courage and political vision is tested at every step by misogyny and reactionary conservatism.

A Son of the Revolutionby Elbridge S. BrooksA Son of the Revolution being the story of young Tom Edwards, adventurer, and how he labored for liberty and fought it out with his conscience in the days of Burr's conspiracyHow Tom rode TruxtonHow the general helpedThe "little counsellor's" main relianceWhy "Old Ben" explodedTom goes down the riverA race for the colonelA cruise on the CumberlandThe general does some thinkingThe captain of Batteau 4The warning in the nightThe captain strikes a snagHow he slipped the secretary at fort massacThe web of the spiderThe general's fire-hunt and what came of itTom has a sudden awakeningThe fly and the spiderHow Tom Edwards faced a double dutyWhy Tom took to the woodsA fallen idolWhat the President saidWitnesses for the governmentA son of the republic**This kindle edition is scanned from the original hardcover book.

[Read by Grover Gardner]From the author of the Inspector Montalbano series comes the remarkable account of an exceptional woman who rises to power in seventeenth-century Sicily and brings about sweeping changes that threaten the iron-fisted patriarchy, before being cast out in a coup after only twenty-seven days.Sicily, April 16, 1677. From his deathbed, Charles III's viceroy, don Angel de Guzman, marquis of Castel de Roderigo, names his wife, donna Eleonora, as his successor. Eleonora di Mora is a highly intelligent and capable woman who immediately applies her political acumen to heal the scarred soul of Palermo, a city afflicted by poverty, misery, and the frequent uprisings they entail.The marquise implements measures that include lowering the price of bread, reducing taxes for large families, reopening women's care facilities, and establishing stipends for young couples wishing to marry -- all measures that were considered seditious by the conservative city fathers and by the Church. The machinations of powerful men soon result as donna Eleonora, whom the Church sees as a dangerous revolutionary, is recalled to Spain. Her rule lasted twenty-seven days -- one cycle of the moon.Based on a true story, Camilleri's gripping and richly imagined novel tells the story of a woman whose courage and political vision is tested at every step by misogyny and reactionary conservatism.

Caleb Fields joined the Militia to help America win the Revolutionary War. Now which one of the two young women in his life will win his heart? Orphaned at fifteen, Caleb Fields joins the South Carolina Militia to fight the British. When he's separated from his unit, he finds help at the home of Abby Williams and her family. When he's captured by the Red Coats, Abby helps him escape. He's unable to locate his own unit, so he joins another and makes a friend, Seth Larkin. Seth is wounded in battle, and when Caleb accompanies him home he meets the Larkin family, including Seth's saucy younger sister, Elizabeth. She wants nothing more than to join the fight. Leaving Seth to recuperate, Caleb is kidnapped by a loyalist group headed up by the famous Swamp Fox, Francis Marion. The goal of his ragged band is to steal British weapons in Charleston Harbor and destroy a bridge vital to the Red Coats. Caleb plays a vital part in this mission. Caleb and Seth meet up again, and after months of skirmishes with the enemy, the two wind up in a decisive battle against the notorious Lieutenant Banestre Tarlton -Bloody Ban. As the British flee the battlefield Caleb is wounded. Seth brings Caleb to the nearby Williams' farmhouse where he is happy to see Abby, but he also learns the severity of his injuries. He may never walk again. A fierce spring storm brings a miracle that Caleb needs to finally put his life together. With the war ending, Caleb must make a decision to stay in service to his country or return to his farm. He's torn between the two young women in his life, but when he makes his decision, he knows it is right, and what he has wanted all along.

As I floated, chattering in cold, the freezing waters spraying my face and mouth, the salt burning my throat; as the night tide whipped me back and forth, and I could see nothing but inky blackness for miles and miles all around me, and no sense of direction as to where the closest shore was, I wondered. To fight the bad guys, I’d had to become like them, with that precarious line so blurred that I could no longer tell the difference between the good and the bad guys, anymore, or even which one I now was. I’d caused a revolution. The perfect justice to fit their crimes. But what would my justice be? At the mercy and mercy alone of high-tide to do with me as it pleased, I tiredly closed my eyes. “I’m coming, Nana. I’m coming,” I said weakly. Catina Salsbury returns for the fifth book in the action-packed dystopian series, The Modules.

From the mega-bestselling author of White Oleander and Paint It Black, a sweeping historical saga of the Russian Revolution, as seen through the eyes of one young woman St. Petersburg, New Year's Eve, 1916. Marina Makarova is a young woman of privilege who aches to break free of the constraints of her genteel life, a life about to be violently upended by the vast forces of history. Swept up on these tides, Marina will join the marches for workers' rights, fall in love with a radical young poet, and betray everything she holds dear, before being betrayed in turn. As her country goes through almost unimaginable upheaval, Marina's own coming-of-age unfolds, marked by deep passion and devastating loss, and the private heroism of an ordinary woman living through extraordinary times. This is the epic, mesmerizing story of one indomitable woman's journey through some of the most dramatic events of the last century.