Bøger af Dawn Vogel

Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. The Unfixed Timelines Omnibus collects three volumes of the Unfixed Timelines series, mixing speculative fiction with pieces of history. Inside, you'll find twenty stories and poems, each accompanied by a brief essay detailing the history that the story or poem twists.

Chrysanthemum and Marigold Marsh, girl detectives, investigate a break-in at their family's mechanical garden, and discover the culprit is a mechanical cat. After learning that the mechanical cat has only a limited power supply, they must find the cat to return it to its owner. But Dover is a big place, and there are Built Boys, a carnival, and a man called Solomon standing in their way. They'll need help from Inspector Gaspard Greymoor and his constables in order to rescue the mechanical cat before it's too late.

Cobalt City is home to super heroes and villains. And trouble follows the heroes even when they aren't at home. Kara Sparx and three different incarnations of the Huntsman battle killer Ferris wheels, mecha, clockwork ex-presidents, and Russian communists in five different stories of daring and adventure!

In February 2009, America celebrates the bicentennial of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, and the pace of new Lincoln books and articles has already quickened. From his cabinetGCOs politics to his own struggles with depression, Lincoln remains the most written-about story in our history. And each year historians find something new and important to say about the greatest of our Presidents.Lincoln Revisited is a masterly guidePub to whatGs new and whatGs noteworthy in this unfolding storyGa brilliant gathering of fresh scholarship by the leading Lincoln historians of our time. Brought together by The Lincoln Forum, they tackle uncharted territory and emerging questions; they also take a new look at established debatesGincluding those about their own landmark works.Here, these well-known historians revisit key chapters in LincolnGs legacyGfrom Matthew Pinsker on LincolnGs private life and Jean Baker on religion and the Lincoln marriage to Geoffrey Perret on Lincoln as leader and Frank J. Williams on Lincoln and civil liberties in wartime.The eighteen original essays explore every corner of LincolnGs worldGreligion and politics, slavery and sovereignty, presidential leadership and the rule of law, the Second Inaugural Address and the assassination.In his 1947 classic, Lincoln Reconsidered, David Herbert Donald confronted the Lincoln myth. Today, the scholars in Lincoln Revisited give a new generation of students, scholars, and citizens the perspectives vital for understanding the constantly reinterpreted genius of Abraham Lincoln.