[download pdf] Island Queen: A Novel

Island Queen: A Novel by Vanessa Riley

• Island Queen: A Novel
• Vanessa Riley
• Page: 592
• Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
• ISBN: 9780063002845
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Download eBook

Free ebooks to read and download Island Queen: A Novel

Overview

“Richly detailed, vividly depicted, and sweeping in scope, Island Queen is historical fiction at its absolute finest. A stunning must-read!”—Chanel Cleeton, New York Times bestselling author of The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba A remarkable, sweeping historical novel based on the incredible true life story of Dorothy Kirwan Thomas, a free woman of color who rose from slavery to become one of the wealthiest and most powerful landowners in the colonial West Indies.  Born into slavery on the tiny Caribbean island of Montserrat, Doll bought her freedom—and that of her sister and her mother—from her Irish planter father and built a legacy of wealth and power as an entrepreneur, merchant, hotelier, and planter that extended from the marketplaces and sugar plantations of Dominica and Barbados to a glittering luxury hotel in Demerara on the South American continent. Vanessa Riley’s novel brings Doll to vivid life as she rises above the harsh realities of slavery and colonialism by working the system and leveraging the competing attentions of the men in her life: a restless shipping merchant, Joseph Thomas; a wealthy planter hiding a secret, John Coseveldt Cells; and a roguish naval captain who will later become King William IV of England. From the bustling port cities of the West Indies to the forbidding drawing rooms of London’s elite, Island Queen is a sweeping epic of an adventurer and a survivor who answered to no one but herself as she rose to power and autonomy against all odds, defying rigid eighteenth-century morality and the oppression of women as well as people of color. It is an unforgettable portrait of a true larger-than-life woman who made her mark on history.

More eBooks: EL CLUB DE LOS LECTORES CRIMINALES leer pdf site, Descargar L AMIC RETROBAT FRED UHLMAN Gratis - EPUB, PDF y MOBI download link, DOWNLOAD [PDF] {EPUB} Lifelong Kindergarten: Cultivating Creativity through Projects, Passion, Peers, and Play download pdf, Descargar NUEVO PRISMA A2 LIBRO DEL ALUMNO Gratis - EPUB, PDF y MOBI download pdf, [Kindle] DC Comics: The Joker: Quotes from the Clown Prince of Crime (Tiny Book) download read book, MAÑANA TENDREMOS OTROS NOMBRES (PREMIO ALFAGUARA DE NOVELA 2019) EBOOK | PATRICIO PRON | Descargar libro PDF EPUB download pdf, [ePub] UN HOMBRE SOLTERO descargar gratis download pdf, [PDF] Getting to Know ArcGIS Pro: Second Edition by Michael Law, Amy Collins pdf, Descargar EL CREPUSCULO CELTA; LA ROSA SECRETA WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Gratis - EPUB, PDF y MOBI link,