The Agenda: How a Republican Supreme Court Is Reshaping America, Millhiser Ian
Автор: Millhiser Marlys Название: The Mirror ISBN: 1504049330 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781504049337 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 3723.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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In this twisting time-travel thriller, a woman faints on the eve of her wedding and awakens at the turn of the century in her grandmother's body
The night before her wedding, Shay Garrett has no idea that a glimpse into her grandmother's antique Chinese mirror will completely transform her seemingly ordinary life. But after a bizarre blackout, she wakes up to find herself in the same house--in the year 1900. Even stranger, she realizes she is now living in the body of her grandmother, Brandy McCabe, as a young woman. Meanwhile, Brandy, having looked into the same mirror, awakens in Shay's body in the present day to discover herself pregnant. Did Shay die and get reincarnated as young Brandy, who is about to get married herself? The answer is far more complex and bizarre than either woman can imagine.
Shay's mother, Rachael, weaves back and forth between the two time periods in this riveting story of three headstrong women grappling with identity, love, and family drama. From courageous, compassionate Shay, who suddenly finds herself fighting against the confines of a society decades away from women's liberation, to Brandy, struggling to adapt to a more modern world, Millhiser's strong characters are up to the task presented by this imaginative yet humorous adventure.
This extraordinary novel is both a fascination tale of time-travel suspense and a journey to the heart of the bond shared by three generations of women. It is a tribute to survival, and to the triumph of the female spirit in the face of seemingly insurmountable obstacles.
Автор: Millhiser, Marlys Название: Murder At Moot Point ISBN: 0385504055 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780385504058 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 1747.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Now with a new epilogue. Few American institutions have inflicted greater suffering on ordinary people than the Supreme Court of the United States. Since its inception, the justices of the Supreme Court have shaped a nation where children toiled in coal mines, where Americans could be forced into camps because of their race, and where a woman could be sterilized against her will by state law. The Court was the midwife of Jim Crow, the right hand of union busters, and the dead hand of the Confederacy. Nor is the modern Court a vast improvement, with its incursions on voting rights and its willingness to place elections for sale. In this powerful indictment of a venerated institution, Ian Millhiser tells the history of the Supreme Court through the eyes of the everyday people who have suffered the most from it. America ratified three constitutional amendments to provide equal rights to freed slaves, but the justices spent thirty years largely dismantling these amendments. Then they spent the next forty years rewriting them into a shield for the wealthy and the powerful. In the Warren era and the few years following it, progressive justices restored the Constitution s promises of equality, free speech, and fair justice for the accused. But, Millhiser contends, that was an historic accident. Indeed, if it weren t for several unpredictable events, Brown v. Board of Education could have gone the other way. In "Injustices," Millhiser argues that the Supreme Court has seized power for itself that rightfully belongs to the people s elected representatives, and has bent the arc of American history away from justice. "
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