From celebrated author Susan Higginbotham comes an incredible book about Abraham Lincoln's First Lady and, on the other side of the Civil War, her sister.

A Union's First Lady

As the Civil War cracks the country in two, Mary Lincoln stands beside her husband praying for a swift Northern victory. But as the body count rises, Mary can't help but fear each bloody gain. Because her beloved sister Emily

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Rosemary Candwell's past has exploded into her present. Down-and-out and deteriorating, she drifts from anonymous beds and bars in Providence, to a homeless shelter hidden among the hedge-rowed avenues of Newport, and through the revolving door of service jobs and quick-fix psychiatric care, always grasping for hope, for a solution. She's desperate to readjust back into a family and a world that has deemed her a crazy bitch living a choice they believe...

The truth only fiction can tell. This is a novel about aspiration and delusion, set during the presidential election of 2012 and written by an anonymous author who has spent years observing politics and the fraught relationship between public image and self-regard. The novel includes revealing and insightful portraits of many prominent figures in the political world-some invented and some real.

Even in death, he said, the novella's power would bind us together, all of us who had read it, appealing as it did equally to our emotions and our intellects. A bond between three friends forms over a mutual fascination with an obscure Peruvian novella and is fractured by an accidental death. From the streets of Montreal's Plateau and Latin Quarter to the ruins of Machu Picchu, award-winning author Devon Code's Involuntary Bliss traces this tragic...

The first African-American woman to win an Academy Award, Hattie McDaniel, when the Oscar curse sets in, is thrust in the middle of two worlds--black and white--and is not welcomed in either but, through it all, continued her fight to pave a path for other Negro actors.

Guadalupe Muro, recipient of the Raul Urtusan, Frances Harley Scholarship for Young Emerging Artists from Argentina, has always had her own unique way of experiencing life. When applied to her writing, Muro says she finally "felt like a dog deciding to be a dog." Muro's Spanish publications have achieved strong acclaim, and now, BookThug is proud to introduce this remarkable new talent to the Canadian literary market. Air Carnation features an absorbing...

Sumergidos en la cotidianidad del escenario citadino y con la música como intermediaria, la literatura y el alcohol se convierten en los ejes para sobrellevar la decadencia y al mismo tiempo definirla. Nuestros personajes se desenvuelven en bares y burdeles, donde sus lecturas adquieren una profundidad que llega a ser pesimista tanto como poética, y se transforma así el sentido de sus experiencias. Sin perder el carácter realista, la prosa de...

Ernst Viebig, einziger Sohn der Eheleute Fritz Theodor Cohn, Verlagsbuchhändler, und der Dichterin Clara Viebig, wird am 10. Oktober 1897 geboren. Der Untertitel dieses Buches - 'Einer berühmten Mutter jüdischer Sohn erinnert sich' - nimmt Bezug auf Clara Viebigs 1906 - da ist der Autor neun Jahre alt - erschienenen Roman 'Einer Mutter Sohn'. Der Roman trägt im Vorsatz die Widmung 'Meinem Sohne zu der Zeit, da er groß sein wird'. Geradezu prophetisch,...

In Elle's upbringing, sexual abuse and rape was something not to be exposed, never discussed, and conditional. She remained quiet in fear of retaliation from another relative or the offender himself. Never mind how Elle feels or the residual lifelong problems and concerns that follow. Covering up failures, mistakes, and protecting the guilty was key. Becoming conscious of the absolute fact that sexual and drug abuse are interrelated, Elle's raging...

En esta víspera de mis horas finales, dispongo mis atavíos y los candelabros torneados en bronce para las velas finales. La oscuridad me espera. Voy hacia ella con paso decidido. El miedo es de los otros. José Félix Esquivel Aldao fue un religioso, un guerrero, un apóstata que renegó de la fe, pero también, un hombre de hechos y armas. Formó parte del Ejército de los Andes, como capellán y coronel; y se convirtió en un gran aliado de Facundo...