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Turn: Washington's Spies (originally titled Turn and stylized as TURŠ: Washington's Spies) is an American period drama television series based on Alexander Rose's book Washington's Spies: The Story of America's First Spy Ring (2007), [3] a history of the Culper Ring. [4]
Lafayette in the Somewhat United States is a 2015 non-fiction book written by Sarah Vowell [1] about the travels of the American and French revolutionary Marquis de Lafayette in early America. See also
[21] Goodman also wrote that "Vowell tells a good tale" with "shrewd observations", but that she found that "the narrative wears thin where casual turns cute and cute threatens to turn glib." [21] Her most recent book is Lafayette in the Somewhat United States (2015), an account of the Marquis de Lafayette, a French aristocrat who became George ...
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This book has received generally positive reviews. Jamelle Bouie from the New York Times thought that "through Lafayette’s adventures and misadventures...Duncan shows readers a Lafayette who...never fails to show the courage of his convictions and never flinches from a fight when his ideals are on the line...Time and again, Duncan shows Lafayette risking his life and reputation for his ideals."
Charles Bernard Nordhoff (February 1, 1887 – April 10, 1947) was an American novelist and traveler, born in England. Nordhoff is perhaps best known for The Bounty Trilogy, three historical novels he wrote with James Norman Hall: Mutiny on the Bounty (1932), Men Against the Sea (1934) and Pitcairn's Island (1934). [1]
Lafayette, the narrator, turned twelve a few weeks before the events of the novel. He feels responsible for his mother's death. He feels responsible for his mother's death. Charlie is the fifteen-year old middle brother.
One Good Turn (subtitled A Jolly Murder Mystery) is a 2006 crime novel by Kate Atkinson set in Edinburgh during the Festival.. “People queuing for a lunchtime show witness a brutal road rage incident - an incident that changes the lives of everyone involved.” [1] It is the second novel to feature former private investigator Jackson Brodie and is set two years after the earlier Case Histories.