Libbie by judy alter pdf download

Seattle, Economic ruin and dangerous riots have stripped this once-booming city of its former glories, leaving a near-empty husk.

The town is ripe for reinvention, if any person has the guts - and the capital - to make Seattle their own. She has ample wealth, wits, and courage to take on the powerful Reformers, the political party that have ushered Seattle to the brink of disaster.

A lady rescuing the city is scandalous enough; will anyone in Seattle deign to work with a lady who loves other women? As Lou struggles to revive the city and to confront her own desires, she is joined by new friends, each facing trials of their own. Jiayi still suffers from the aftermath of the anti-Chinese riots, which stranded her in Seattle two years before.

Lauretta, haunted by a tragic loss, embarks on an ill-advised quest to adopt a neglected child. And Amber, Lou Graham's secret love, strives to break her addiction to laudanum before the court takes her daughter away.

When an unfathomable disaster strikes Seattle, neither Lou nor her friends can hide any longer. Deception and shame will be burned away, leaving truth to rise from the ashes. With the scope of a Michener novel and an unforgettable cast of characters, Libbie Hawker returns to historic Seattle, the setting of her best-seller Mercer Girls, finalist for the Willa Award. The son of the god must take her rightful place on Egypt's throne. Hatshepsut longs for power, but she is constrained by her commitment to maat — the sacred order of righteousness, the way things must be.

Her mother claims Hatshepsut is destined for Egypt's throne — not as the king's chief wife, but as the king herself, despite her female body. But a woman on the throne defies maat, and even Hatshepsut is not so bold as to risk the safety of the Two Lands for her own ends. As God's Wife of Amun, she believes she has found the perfect balance of power and maat, and has reconciled herself to contentment with her station.

But even that peace is threatened when the powerful men of Egypt plot to replace her. They see her as nothing but a young woman, easily used for their own ends and discarded. But she is the son of the god Amun, and neither her strength nor her will can be so easily discounted. As the machinations of politics drive her into the hands of enemies and the arms of lovers, onto the battlefield and into the childbed, she comes face to face with maat itself — and must decide at last whether to surrender her birthright to a man, or to take up the crook and flail of the Pharaoh, and claim for herself the throne of the king.

Libbie begins writing her journal in the year of Itas the story of a girl coming of age while living in the Ozark Mountains. Even at the age of twelve, Libbie loves Aaron and believes they will marry when theyare older. Sheas a dreamer, but also a writer.

By the time sheas a teenager, war clouds are rumbling. They all know a civil war is inevitable, but thereas a question of which side to fight on.

Theyare in a border area where brother will fight against brother. Libbieas papa believes in the Union, but Aaron joins the Confederates. Newly married, Libbie settles down to wait out the long and bloody war that is so close they can hear the big guns when itas quiet. With so many men dying on the battlefields, will it ever be over, and will Aaron live to come home?

Finding Libbie Deanna Lynn Sletten. I would not see it all wiped away with the muckraking cry that Autie's overweening ambition had led him to disaster at Little Bighorn. I would make sure that the world saw the George Armstrong Custer I wanted seen. Only this private journal—to be burned upon my death—records my own wars. Twelve years is not very long in a lifetime, yet it seemed my whole life was lived in those brief years of marriage. I had fought battles of my own, hard battles, to marry Autie, and once married, I thought myself the happiest and luckiest of women—married to the great boy-general, the hero of the Civil War.

We would, I knew, grow old together, savoring the best of life, the last for which the first was made, so the poet wrote. I'm not sure when, exactly, that I knew that dream was not to be, that a love as intense as ours could not survive, that two people as willful as we could not be bound so tightly together. And yet, when all was said and done, I would not have traded those twelve years for anything on earth. Were they worth a lifetime?

There is no answer, but even to think about it, I must begin earlier, back in Monroe I remember yet one snowy night when I was but sixteen years old. Voices woke me—distant, yet loud. For just a moment I froze in fear, and then, shivering, I crept out of bed. There had been an early November snow in Monroe the night before, and the wind off Lake Erie was strong and cold, sneaking in through cracks around the windows. Papa had let the fires die down for the night, and the house had its winter chill.

I pulled on my robe and padded to the window, pulling back the lace curtain liner so that I could look out on the street. At first it seemed empty, with nothing but the moon shining on the snow and glistening off the ruts made during the day by carriages. This is her story, a first-person narrative based on three books written by the real-life Libbie and surviving correspondence.

Stretching from Texas to Kansas to the savage Dakota Territory, experience the sacrifices and hair-raising adventures, the hijinx Autie the nickname Libbie gave to her husband played on her, regretted flirtations, and a rare and remarkable love that would not be tamed. Brilliant and memorable Kudos to Ms. Alter for a refreshingly unique story.

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