Alice Jones
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Unveiling a Parallel (1893) is a novel by Alice Ilgenfritz Jones and Ella Merchant. Alongside Mary E. Bradley Lane's Mizora (1890) and Elizabeth Corbett's New Amazonia (1889), Unveiling a Parallel is an important early work of feminist utopian science fiction. "Having launched my aeroplane on the current of attraction which flows uninterruptedly between this world and that, traveling was as swift as thought. My impression is that my speed was constantly...
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Silent years volume 4
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Two women occupy a place in Herod's court. The first, Salome, is the king's only sister, a resentful woman who has been told she is from an inferior race, a people God will never accept or approve. The second woman, Zara, is a lowly handmaid who serves Salome, but where Salome spies conspiracies and treachery, Zara sees hurting people in need of understanding and compassion. Powerful and powerless, Idumean and Jew, selfish and selfless--both women...
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When four-year-old Karl, Kara's son, suddenly disappears, Kara's worst fear becomes her painful reality. Has someone seen through her cover? Her cover was meant to be foolproof -- who would think of finding an Aryan-looking Jewish child in the household of a high-ranking Nazi officer?
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My beautiful boy . . . Created in love . . . born into hatred.
There were so many terrifying stories about the Jews. People called them useless vermin, filthy, dangerous. Before I met Abram, I was afraid of them too. But I am about to tell you a very different story-a forbidden story.
My love for Abram defied all reason . . . as well as German law.
Tonight our son giggles with excitement as he blows out the candles on his birthday cake. But our...
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As Hitler's murderous reign inches steadily towards a disastrous end, the intricate web of secrets woven by each character begins to unravel.
Oskar, handsome but terrifying, is on the verge of madness.
What torments him so?
What dark secrets are buried deep within Kara's loving heart?
Anka's affection for her husband Ludwig is all but gone. Will he turn to the ever-open arms of a secret life?
And . . .
What about Abram? Will he find a way to...