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Carroll, James An American Requiem: God, My Father, And The War That Came Between Us Mariner Books 1997 paperback. 1996 printing.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or937812. ISBN #039585993X / 9780395859933. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Carroll, James An American Requiem: God, My Father, And The War That Came Between Us Mariner Books 1997 paperback. 1996 printing.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or937812. ISBN #039585993X / 9780395859933. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary An American Requiem is the story of one man's coming of age. But more than that, it is a coming to terms with the conflicts that disrupted many families, inflicting personal wounds that were also social, political, and religious. Carroll grew up in a Catholic family that seemed blessed. His father had abandoned his own dream of becoming a priest to rise through the ranks of Hoover's FBI and then become one of the most powerful men in the Pentagon, the founder of the Defense Intelligence Agency. Young Jim lived the privileged life of a general's son, dating the daughter of a vice president and meeting the pope, all in the shadow of nuclear war, waiting for the red telephone to ring in his parents' house. He worshiped his father until Martin Luther King, Jr., the civil rights movement, turmoil in the Catholic Church, and then Vietnam combined to outweigh the bond between father and son. These were issues on which they would never agree. Only after Carroll left the priesthood to become a writer and husband with children of his own did he come to understand fully the struggles his father had faced. In this work of nonfiction, the best-selling novelist draws on the skills he honed with nine much-admired novels to tell the story he was, literally, born to tell. An American Requiem is a benediction on his father's life, his family's struggles, and the legacies of an entire generation.
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Carroll, Jonathan Sleeping in Flame 1990 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1078643. ISBN #0679727779 / 9780679727774. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Carroll, Jonathan Sleeping in Flame 1990 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1078643. ISBN #0679727779 / 9780679727774. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Ricocheting between the haunted chic of Vienna and the mystical crassness of Los Angeles, between the world of desire and the landscape of dreams, Sleeping In Flame is a hypnotic literary, novel with irresistible elements of fantasy and magic. It is the story of Walker Easterling, who saves a woman' life only to place her in infinitely greater danger by falling in love with her. It's the story of Maris York, an androgynous beauty who arouses incinerating passions in the around her. It is a novel populated by a shaman with a fondness for sandwiches, an autistic Adonis, and a tiny man as powerful and ravenously jealous as the God of the Old Testament. Praised by writers ranging from Stanislaw Lam to Stephen King, Jonathan Carroll has made Sleeping In Flame a dizzying tour de force of tenderness and terror, realistic suspense and mythic imagination.
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Carroll, Leslie Herself WmMorrowPB 2007 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1048728. ISBN #0060859954 / 9780060859954. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Carroll, Leslie Herself WmMorrowPB 2007 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1048728. ISBN #0060859954 / 9780060859954. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Forty is fabulous for Tessa Craig. Heck, she has it all a glamorous job as a political speechwriter, a Manhattan duplex, and a handsome boyfriend, Congressman David Weyburn, whose integrity, charisma, and good looks have made him his party's rising star. But her fabulosity fizzles when scandal strikes, and Tessa watches helplessly as her seemingly happy love life and successful career collapse like a house of cards. Tessa realizes it's time to embark on a new journey, one she should have made a long time ago. It's a trip that takes her to the Emerald Isle and back, leading her heart in unimagined directions. She makes new friends, unexpectedly adopts a new family or do they adopt her? , and discovers unanticipated love with silver-tongued, green-eyed, aspiring pub owner, Jamie Doyle. And, most importantly, Tessa makes that uphill climb over the rainbow to find the ultimate pot of gold: Herself .
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Carroll, Lewis Alice in Wonderland (A Norton Critical Edition) W.W. Norton & Company 1992 paperback. Pencil markings throughout.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1158038. ISBN #0393958043 / 9780393958041. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Carroll, Lewis Alice in Wonderland (A Norton Critical Edition) W.W. Norton & Company 1992 paperback. Pencil markings throughout.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1158038. ISBN #0393958043 / 9780393958041. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary This Norton Critical Edition reprints the 1897 editions of Alice s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and the 1876 edition of The Hunting of the Snark . New to the Second Edition is "The Wasp in a Wig," a recently discovered episode Carroll deleted from Through the Looking-Glass , but which fits into the story in interesting ways. Each text is accompanied by ample explanatory notes. "Backgrounds" reprints new selections from recent biographies of Carroll and from recent editions of his diaries and letters. Our understanding of and appreciation for Carroll s life and literature are deepened by new contributions from Anne Clark, Tony Beale, E. M. Rowell, and, most revealingly, Carroll himself. "Criticism" retains seven seminal critiques from the First Edition while adding four important recent essays by Nina Auerbach, Roger Henkle, Robert Polhemus, and Donald Rackin. A revised and updated Selected Bibliography is also included.
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Carroll, Lewis Alice in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass Barnes & Noble 2004 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1159029. ISBN #1593080158 / 9781593080150. (keywords: FICTION FANTASY YOUNG READER CHILDREN JUVENILE ADVENTURES) (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Carroll, Lewis Annotated Hunting Of The Snark 2006 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Like New. JACKET COND: Used; Like New. Book #or1146089. ISBN #0393062422 / 9780393062427. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Carroll, Lewis Annotated Hunting Of The Snark 2006 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Like New. JACKET COND: Used; Like New. Book #or1146089. ISBN #0393062422 / 9780393062427. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The definitive guide to one of the most baffling epics of nineteenth-century literature a companion to The Annotated Alice . "It's a Snark " for whatever else can it be?" Published on April Fools' Day in 1876, Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark remains one of the most amusing and bizarre works of modern verse. Carroll, who completed this classic poem eleven years after the publication of Alice in Wonderland , invites readers along on a fictitious hunt to determine who or what the Snark actually is. More than 130 years later, the indomitable Martin Gardner returns to the Snark with a trove of new annotations and illustrations, uncovering some of the most confounding literary, linguistic, and mathematical references embedded in any of Lewis Carroll's many works. Included in this gorgeous, two-color volume is an introduction by Adam Gopnik, as well as Henry Holiday's distinctive, original illustrations, a substantial bibliography, and a suppressed drawing of the infamous Boojum. With a host of other Snark resources, this is the most ambitious work on Lewis Carroll's masterpiece in many decades.
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Carroll, Susan Dark Queen 2005 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1104079. ISBN #0345437969 / 9780345437969. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Carroll, Susan Dark Queen 2005 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1104079. ISBN #0345437969 / 9780345437969. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary From Brittany s misty shores to the decadent splendor of Paris s royal court, one woman must fulfill her destiny while facing the treacherous designs of Catherine de Medici, the dark queen. She is Ariane, the Lady of Faire Isle, one of the Cheney sisters, renowned for their mystical skills and for keeping the isle secure and prosperous. But this is a time when women of ability are deemed sorceresses, when Renaissance France is torn by ruthless political intrigues, and all are held in thrall to the sinister ambitions of Queen Catherine de Medici. Then a wounded stranger arrives on Faire Isle, bearing a secret the Dark Queen will do everything in her power to possess. The only person Ariane can turn to is the comte de Renard, a nobleman with fiery determination and a past as mysterious as his own unusual gifts. Riveting, vibrant, and breathtaking, The Dark Queen follows Ariane and Renard as they risk everything to prevent the fulfillment of a dreadful prophecy even if they must tempt fate and their own p
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Carroll, Susan Silver Rose 2006 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1104082. ISBN #0345482514 / 9780345482518. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Carroll, Susan Silver Rose 2006 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1104082. ISBN #0345482514 / 9780345482518. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary From Brittany s fog-shrouded forests to the elegant dark heart of Paris s royal court, one woman must challenge a country s destiny and her own dangerous fate. France, 1585. She is the youngest and most powerful of the Sisters of Faire Isle, women known far and wide for their extraordinary mystical abilities. Skilled in healing and able to forecast the future of those around her, Miri Cheney has returned to her ancestral home to take refuge from a land devastated by civil war and to grieve for her family, driven to exile. But she cannot hide from the formidable new power threatening to seize control of France from the dread Dark Queen, Catherine de Medici a diabolical woman known only as the Silver Rose. Miri has no choice but to turn to the one man she distrusts as much as she desires: Simon Aristide, the charismatic witch-finder who is now himself the hunted, and who has reluctantly made an unholy pact with Catherine. Miri must defy throne and family to save all that she loves most and command a future greater than she could ever imagine. Vibrant with stunning historical detail, alive with characters as richly passionate as they are compelling, The Silver Rose is a sweeping, exquisitely wrought tale from a me
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Carroll, Susan The Courtesan Ballantine Books 2005 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1003867. ISBN #0345437977 / 9780345437976. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Carroll, Susan The Courtesan Ballantine Books 2005 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1003867. ISBN #0345437977 / 9780345437976. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Skilled in passion, artful in deception, and driven by betrayal, she is the glittering center of the royal court but the most desired woman of Renaissance France will draw the wrath of a dangerous adversary. Paris, 1575. The consort of some of Europe s most influential men, Gabrielle Cheney is determined to secure her future by winning the heart of Henry, the Huguenot king of Navarre. As his mistress, Gabrielle hopes she might one day become the power behind the French throne. But her plans are jeopardized by Captain Nicolas R my, a devoted warrior whose love Gabrielle desires and fears above all. She will also incur the malevolence of the Dark Queen, Catherine de Medici, whose spies and witch-hunters are legion, and who will summon the black arts to maintain her authority. With the lives of those she loves in peril, Gabrielle must rebel against her queen to fulfill a glorious destiny she has sacrificed everything to gain. Alive with vivid period detail and characters as vibrant as they are memorable, The Courtesan is a sweeping historical tale of dangerous intrigues, deep treachery, and one woman s unshakable resolve to honor her heart.
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Carroll, Susan The Huntress Ballantine Books 2007 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or993466. ISBN #0345490614 / 9780345490612. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Carroll, Susan The Huntress Ballantine Books 2007 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or993466. ISBN #0345490614 / 9780345490612. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary In a time of intrigue and betrayal, the huntress is on a quest that could jeopardize two empires and two great queens: Catherine de Medici and Elizabeth I. The year is 1585 and prophecy has foretold the coming of a daughter of the Earth whose powers are so extraordinary they could usurp the very rule of the Dark Queen herself, Catherine de Medici. Dispatched from Brittany to London, Catriona O Hanlon, known as the Huntress, must find this mysterious young girl and shield her from those who will exploit her mystic abilities, which have the potential to change the course of history. Catriona s skill with weaponry is all she has to protect herself and her young charge from spies who snake through the courts of Elizabeth I, the Virgin Queen including the girl s own father, whose loyalties are stretched to the breaking point. But Catriona will soon face menacing forces and sinister plots unlike any she has ever encountered. From Susan Carroll, the celebrated storyteller of historical fiction, The Huntress is an unforgettable portrait of power and passion and one woman s courage to risk everything for those she loves. Susan Carroll writes sparkling dialogue and exquisite prose. Teresa Medeiros, author of After Midnight
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Carter, Emily Glory Goes And Gets Some: Stories 2000 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1070862. ISBN #1566891019 / 9781566891011. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Carter, Emily Glory Goes And Gets Some: Stories 2000 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1070862. ISBN #1566891019 / 9781566891011. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary How is a woman in her thirties, HIV-positive and fresh out of rehab, supposed to find love and work in contemporary, urban America, steering clear of self-pity and doctrinaire "happy-talk"? This linked short story collection shows how Glory goes and gets some. Emily Carter's debut traces Glory s stay in Minnesota s recovery community, from halfway houses in blighted urban neighborhoods to well-funded treatment centers in bucolic pastures. From her addictions to heroin and alcohol in New York through her unlikely, tenuous, yet rewarding alliances with the full range of treatment mavens in the midwest, Glory gives us an uncensored and irreverent account of her experiences in twelve-step recovery a process that, for all its faults, ultimately works for her. That first six months, there were an awful lot of people I met who talked the talk, all the time. Their faces seemed to glow, and they d go on about so-and-so "getting it, getting the program," having that much-touted aura of serenity about them. It was my experience that such persons usually relapsed and stole their roommate s stereo equipment, or charged five thousand dollars worth of lingerie at Neiman Marcus. Glory Goes and Gets Some is a streetwise and sardonic look at sex, HIV, addiction, and recovery. Emily Carter 's work has received many awards and fellowships, including the Loft McKnight Award, a Bush Grant, and a National Magazine Award. Her writing has appeared in Story Magazine, Gathering of the Tribes, Between C D, Artforum, Open City, Great River Review, and Poz Magazine, for which she was the cover subject of the 1998 summer fiction issue. Glory Goes and Gets Some features stories that were originally published in The New Yorker , and the title story was selected by Garrison Keillor for Best American Short Stories 1997 . Emily Carter lives in Minneapolis.
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Carter, Jimmy The Hornet's Nest: A Novel of the Revolutionary War Simon & Schuster 2003 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or813238. ISBN #0743255429 / 9780743255424. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Carter, Jimmy The Hornet's Nest: A Novel of the Revolutionary War Simon & Schuster 2003 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or813238. ISBN #0743255429 / 9780743255424. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The first work of fiction by a President of the United States -- a sweeping novel of the American South and the War of Independence In his ambitious and deeply rewarding novel, Jimmy Carter brings to life the Revolutionary War as it was fought in the Deep South; it is a saga that will change the way we think about the conflict. He reminds us that much of the fight for independence took place in that region and that it was a struggle of both great and small battles and of terrible brutality, with neighbor turned against neighbor, the Indians' support sought by both sides, and no quarter asked or given. The Hornet's Nest follows a cast of characters and their loved ones on both sides of this violent conflict -- including some who are based on the author's ancestors. At the heart of the story is Ethan Pratt, who in 1766 moves with his wife, Epsey, from Philadelphia to North Carolina and then to Georgia in 1771, in the company of Quakers. On their homesteads in Georgia, Ethan and his wife form a friendship with neighbors Kindred Morris and his wife, Mavis. Through Kindred and his young Indian friend Newota, Ethan learns about the frontier and the Native American tribes who are being continually pressed farther inland by settlers. As the eight-year war develops, Ethan and Kindred find themselves in life-and-death combat with oppos- ing forces. With its moving love story, vivid action, and the suspense of a war fought with increasing ferocity and stealth, The Hornet's Nest is historical fiction at its best, in the tradition of such major classics as The Last of the Mohicans.
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Carter, Jimmy The Hornet's Nest: A Novel of the Revolutionary War Simon & Schuster 2004 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1030433. ISBN #0743255445 / 9780743255448. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Carter, Jimmy The Hornet's Nest: A Novel of the Revolutionary War Simon & Schuster 2004 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1030433. ISBN #0743255445 / 9780743255448. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The first work of fiction by a President of the United States -- a sweeping novel of the American South and the War of Independence In his ambitious and deeply rewarding novel, Jimmy Carter brings to life the Revolutionary War as it was fought in the Deep South; it is a saga that will change the way we think about the conflict. He reminds us that much of the fight for independence took place in that region and that it was a struggle of both great and small battles and of terrible brutality, with neighbor turned against neighbor, the Indians' support sought by both sides, and no quarter asked or given. The Hornet's Nest follows a cast of characters and their loved ones on both sides of this violent conflict -- including some who are based on the author's ancestors. At the heart of the story is Ethan Pratt, who in 1766 moves with his wife, Epsey, from Philadelphia to North Carolina and then to Georgia in 1771, in the company of Quakers. On their homesteads in Georgia, Ethan and his wife form a friendship with neighbors Kindred Morris and his wife, Mavis. Through Kindred and his young Indian friend Newota, Ethan learns about the frontier and the Native American tribes who are being continually pressed farther inland by settlers. As the eight-year war develops, Ethan and Kindred find themselves in life-and-death combat with oppos- ing forces. With its moving love story, vivid action, and the suspense of a war fought with increasing ferocity and stealth, The Hornet's Nest is historical fiction at its best, in the tradition of such major classics as The Last of the Mohicans.
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Carter, Mary Fortune in Dimes hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1083060. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Carter, Robert Pleasure Within Sirius 1988 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or817597. ISBN #0207155976 / 9780207155970. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Carter, Stephen L. Emperor Of Ocean Park 2002 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1085566. ISBN #0375413634 / 9780375413636. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Carter, Stephen L. Emperor Of Ocean Park 2002 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1085566. ISBN #0375413634 / 9780375413636. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary An extraordinary fiction debut: a large, stirring novel of suspense that is, at the same time, a work of brilliantly astute social observation. The Emperor of Ocean Park is set in two privileged worlds: the upper crust African American society of the eastern seaboard old families who summer on Martha s Vineyard and the inner circle of an Ivy League law school. It tells the story of a complex family with a single, seductive link to the shadowlands of crime. The Emperor of the title, Judge Oliver Garland, has just died, suddenly. A brilliant legal mind, conservative and famously controversial, Judge Garland made more enemies than friends. Many years before, he d earned a judge s highest prize: a Supreme Court nomination. But in a scene of bitter humiliation, televised across the country, his nomination collapsed in scandal. The humbling defeat became a private agony, one from which he never recovered. But now the Judge s death raises even more questions and it seems to be leading to a second, even more terrible scandal. Could Oliver Garland have been murdered? He has left a strange message for his son Talcott, a professor of law at a great university, entrusting him with the arrangements a mysterious puzzle that only Tal can unlock, and only by unearthing the ambiguities of his father s past. When another man is found dead, and then another, Talcott wry, straight-arrow, almost too self-aware to be a man of action must risk his career, his marriage, and even his life, following the clues his father left him. Intricate, superbly written, often scathingly funny, The Emperor of Ocean Park is a triumphant work of fiction, packed with character and incident a brilliantly crafted tapestry of ambition, family secrets, murder, integrity tested, and justice gone terribly wrong.
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Carter, Stephen L. Impeachment Of Abraham Lincoln 2012 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1091808. ISBN #030727263X / 9780307272638. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Carter, Stephen L. Impeachment Of Abraham Lincoln 2012 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1091808. ISBN #030727263X / 9780307272638. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary From the best-selling author of The Emperor of Ocean Park and New England White, a daring reimagining of one of the most tumultuous moments in our nation s past Stephen L. Carter s thrilling new novel takes as its starting point an alternate history: President Abraham Lincoln survives the assassination attempt at Ford s Theatre on April 14, 1865. Two years later he is charged with overstepping his constitutional authority, both during and after the Civil War, and faces an impeachment trial . . . Twenty-one-year-old Abigail Canner is a young black woman with a degree from Oberlin, a letter of employment from the law firm that has undertaken Lincoln s defense, and the iron-strong conviction, learned from her late mother, that whatever limitations society might place on ordinary negroes, they would never apply to her. And so Abigail embarks on a life that defies the norms of every stratum of Washington society: working side by side with a white clerk, meeting the great and powerful of the nation, including the president himself. But when Lincoln s lead counsel is found brutally murdered on the eve of the trial, Abigail is plunged into a treacherous web of intrigue and conspiracy reaching the highest levels of the divided government. Here is a vividly imagined work of historical fiction that captures the emotional tenor of post Civil War America, a brilliantly realized courtroom drama that explores the always contentious question of the nature of presidential authority, and a galvanizing story of political suspense.
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