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Elizabeth Blair Lee was raised in Washington's political circles, and her husband, Samuel Phillips Lee, third cousin to Robert E. Lee, commanded the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron during the Civil War. When they married, Elizabeth promised to write every day they were apart. Of the hundreds of letters with which she kept her promise, Virginia Jeans Laas has edited a choice selection that illuminates the functioning of a nineteenth-century family and the Mrs. Lee's unique perspective on the political and military affairs of the nation's beleaguered capital.
Susan Bainbridge is a tortured woman who suffers from debilitating seizures and amnesia from a horrifying encounter in her past life. Living in a stable and gratifying relationship with Bill, an Air force General, she is abruptly catapulted back to the realization of what she really is a true woman of power who is in love with another man. Susan decides to leave Bill after a party but must explain her reasons because she owes him her sanity. They never arrive home and, instead, are caught in a strange loop of time with a squad of Marines, a church singing group and two of her Sisters a Native American named Shining Star and a Mongolian named Chiani. Blending dangerous adventure with a sense of the mystic, The Temujin Loop joins people of many cultures in a drama of historic proportions.
"Cases argued and determined in the Court of Appeals, Supreme and lower courts of record of New York State, with key number annotations." (varies)
A few months after the outbreak of the War of 1812, Captain David Porter set out in the USS Essex on an epic, seventeen-month cruise to the South Seas. Porter was pursuing fame and riches, and by most accounts his odyssey was a stunning success: it brought glory to the fledgling American navy, cemented Porter's reputation as a daring and talented commander, and has long been celebrated as one of the greatest maritime adventures in U.S. history. Less well known, however, is the terrible price that the crew of the Essex paid for their captain's outsized ambitions. In The Shining Sea, award-winning historian George C. Daughan tells the full story of Porter's thrilling, action-packed voyage, rev...