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This is the first time they've allowed early voting here on a Sunday, in my memory.



In September 1776, the vulnerable Continental Army under an unsure George Washington (who had never commanded a large force in battle) evacuates New York after a devastating defeat by the British Army. Three weeks later, near the Canadian border, one of his favorite generals, Benedict Arnold, miraculously succeeds in postponing the British naval advance down Lake Champlain that might have ended the war. Four years later, as the book ends, Washington has vanquished his demons and Arnold has fled to the enemy after a foiled attempt to surrender the American fortress at West Point to the British. After four years of war, America is forced to realize that the real threat to its liberties might not come from without but from within.
Valiant Ambition is a complex, controversial, and dramatic portrait of a people in crisis and the war that gave birth to a nation. The focus is on loyalty and personal integrity, evoking a Shakespearean tragedy that unfolds in the key relationship of Washington and Arnold, who is an impulsive but sympathetic hero whose misfortunes at the hands of self-serving politicians fatally destroy his faith in the legitimacy of the rebellion. As a country wary of tyrants suddenly must figure out how it should be led, Washington’s unmatched ability to rise above the petty politics of his time enables him to win the war that really matters.



On November 25, 1783, the last British troops pulled out of New York City, bringing the American Revolution to an end. Patriots celebrated their departure and the confirmation of U.S. independence. But for tens of thousands of American loyalists, the British evacuation spelled worry, not jubilation. What would happen to them in the new United States? Would they and their families be safe? Facing grave doubts about their futures, some sixty thousand loyalists—one in forty members of the American population—decided to leave their homes and become refugees elsewhere in the British Empire. They sailed for Britain, for Canada, for Jamaica, and for the Bahamas; some ventured as far as Sierra Leone and India. Wherever they went, the voyage out of America was a fresh beginning, and it carried them into a dynamic if uncertain new world.

A groundbreaking history of the revolutionary era, Liberty’s Exiles tells the story of this remarkable global diaspora. Through painstaking archival research and vivid storytelling, award-winning historian Maya Jasanoff re-creates the journeys of ordinary individuals whose lives were overturned by extraordinary events. She tells of refugees like Elizabeth Johnston, a young mother from Georgia, who spent nearly thirty years as a migrant, searching for a home in Britain, Jamaica, and Canada. And of David George, a black preacher born into slavery, who found freedom and faith in the British Empire, and eventually led his followers to seek a new Jerusalem in Sierra Leone. Mohawk leader Joseph Brant resettled his people under British protection in Ontario, while the adventurer William Augustus Bowles tried to shape a loyalist Creek state in Florida. For all these people and more, it was the British Empire—not the United States—that held the promise of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” Yet as they dispersed across the empire, the loyalists also carried things from their former homes, revealing an enduring American influence on the wider British world.

Ambitious, original, and personality-filled, Liberty’s Exiles is at once an intimate narrative history and a provocative new analysis—a book that explores an unknown dimension of America’s founding to illuminate the meanings of liberty itself.

http://apps.shelf-awareness.com/signup/229/294554 <--- Oh, there's a win a signed copy of it there.

Now to wait for the book to come to me at the public library................
waiting ..........
waiting..........

This author is amusing and she and her partner in fantasy crime have produced some great books. They are posting book 3, chapter a week, of the Innkeeper series One Fell Sweep It's a free read as it's posting and the other two books are up for sale.



Photo of a backlit cat looking out the window seen in silhouette. http://ilonafeed.livejournal.com/416225.html

It is a windy day in Texas. Sunny but windy. The squirrels are out in force, raiding the bird feeder we hung for mocking birds. Tulip is fascinated. The squirrels have no shame and they sometimes jump on windowsills to derisively fluff their tails and yell squirrel obscenities at the cats.

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Am reading the first couple of chapters of Anne Bishop's Marked in Flesh March 2016.

Okay this is light reading and fun and funny. Only 61 pages.

Female POV, pragmatic, 'talented', and adopted, after her mother who died giving birth to her, by her mother's friend. *GRINS* Adoptive mother is VERY protective and anxious as any mother but knows that her child needs to go out into the big bad universe to seek her fortune.
Mother is 'special', *wink wink nudge nudge*. She's a l’nal, a nine-foot member of the spider species. *laughing*

I enjoyed this. Wish it could have been longer and developed the other characters more, or at all, but after Mother was introduced *shrugs*, she kind of overshadows things but then you know how I feel about spiders.

I bought this probably late on the 9th and stayed up until 3am reading before having to sleep. I'm right handed. My mouse is on my right. I read online using the Kindle app for PC. Work has given me a shoulder that hurts ... on my right side. So I read and watched British mysteries and did laundry and tried not to move my arm very much. And then I read. Had to be up at 6 am today because work and transportation of child to and back again, ate and at about 6pm read. I've finished it and though there were times I had to step away because things got too intense the story haunted me.

Now the evil authors have put at the end of this ebook a snippet of the second book. Don't know when it'll be out but it makes me ache to read it.

Strong female character who more than holds her own against strong male characters except one of them cheats and that is good too. She deals with it and him and remains a strong independent character.
Go read the beginning for a taste and realise that that is just the beginning and it only gets better until you're almost at the end and you're afraid it won't deliver. That the story will slump into bland. (This is one of the times where I had to step away for a bit) It doesn't slump. It delivers. And then that little piece of the next book lays the kindling and hovers the match so you can feel the impending heat.

Evil beautiful cruel authors. Thanksgiving vacation is in 2 weeks. Christmas not long after. Surely it'll be available by one of those times??? My birthday is the end of February. *@_@* Pleeeeease?

Advil is a wonderful product and I'm going to go take some now.

Need to finish Amelia Hutchins' 3rd book,Escaping Destiny, and then recover. They're intense and I have to take breaks periodically. Yeah there are glitches but the story plot and the 'verse she created... luckily book 4 isn't out yet.

With each of the first 2 books I've HAD to read the end because it became too much. Didn't hurt the picking up the story where I left off to continue reading any. So far I haven't done this with the 3rd book but I'm only a third of the way through at chapter 13.

It's het with no m/m at all and I'm not sure about how I feel about the male dominance issue in Fae world view. Then again the female main character is able to kick butt and the Human world is people are equal and some are more depending on their abilities.
There bigotry involved, the Fae thinking they're superior. There's magic (duh), the main character is a witch with a coven that protect the human world from Fae who abuse humans. Vampires/were/etc are part of the Fae world that have spilled over into this one.

I want to slap the characters sometimes and tell them to get on with it. Think they'd get affronted and I'd have to be a goddess or something to get away with it... cause Fae and Witches and Warlocks.

I'm not buying this book.... but.... it's tempting to see if they did anything as 'interesting' as mine.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006W42N6C/ref=wl_it_dp_v_S_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=NM4B8IYLY3FX&coliid=I1OW0IE2TBNBN6



Read the introduction *grins*

This is a two for one price book.

http://www.wittegenpress.com/catalogue_v3/items/show/418

The Visitor
I quite liked this. It's going to make me nervous about sleeping at inns where the accommodations might be iffy or *looks at my own bed* ... Always wonder about the people who had had the room before. And here I thought that the only worry was about bedbugs.
Seems a simple ghost story at first but then after little easily overlooked things fall into place there are avenues of thought that open up.

Ruderbaker
I've never liked the game that's played here, regardless of the specific details of how it's played. It has always seemed a silly 'dare you' style of game that is asking for trouble, or annoying pranksters, because daring the supernatural ... not terribly smart. Did like the hint of romance about this one, though I wonder what happens to Ellie after the game is played the next time.

I am amused and delighted. 3 authors;

www.tessagratton.com *** Tessa Gratton
www.maggiestiefvater.com *** Maggie Stievater
www.brennayovanoff.com *** Brenna Yovanoff

Got together to form a writing blog where they would 'each try to do a piece of flash fiction or a mini scene ...' three times a week.

It resulted in a cute book of stories with comments or illustrations inked in on margins or bottoms or tops of pages or parts of sentences boxed with arrows to follow to the side for other comments. It shows the creative mind playing and the works resulting.

And even better there are more stories past this 'non-anthology anthology' at:

www.merryfates.com

And they're all free.