Tarashea nesbit biography of barack obama
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By Terri Schlichenmeyer
The Bookworm
&#;Beheld: A Novel&#; by TaraShea Nesbit
c, Bloomsbury $ / $ Canada
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Either you are a Have&#; or you are a Have Not.
If you Have, you feel secure, knowing that what you need is close. If you are in the latter category, you may want for much and own very little. It&#;s not fair, it&#;s not equitable, and in the new book &#;Beheld&#; by TaraShea Nesbit, it gets worse.
She should have known it was coming.
The signs were all there, but while Alice Bradford noted them, she paid little heed. With three small children to tend and a household to run, she had no time for worry – although worry crept into her mind often.
It was &#;the year of our Lord sixteen hundred and thirty,&#; a decade since a small handful of English landed at Plymouth and the colony had first settled. Alice wasn&#;t among them then; she came later, after her best consort, Dorothy, died; and after Dorothy&#;s husband, William, called for a new wife.
Life in Plymouth had gone well for Alice, although she missed the children she had by her first husband, boys who&#;d been left behind in Holland. William promised that both their sons would be brought soon; in the meantime, there was much to do – including things that, as the wife of the leader of the colony, we
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