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Lift Every Voice: The History of African American Music
by Burton W. PerettiSince their enslavement in West Africa and transport to plantations of the New World, black people have made music that has been deeply entwined with their religious, community, and individual identities. Music was one of the most important constant elements of African American culture in the centuries-long journey from slavery to freedom. It also continued to play this role in blacks' post-emancipation odyssey from second-class citizenship to full equality. Lift Every Voice traces the roots of black music in Africa and slavery and its evolution in the United States from the end of slavery to the present day. The music's creators, consumers, and distributors are all part of the story. Musical genres such as spirituals, ragtime, the blues, jazz, gospel, rhythm and blues, rock, soul, and hip-hop-as well as black contributions to classical, country, and other American music forms-depict the continuities and innovations that mark both the music and the history of African Americans. A rich selection of documents help to define the place of music within African American communities and the nation as a whole.
Lift My Eyes
by Magdalen DuganLift My Eyes fictionally portrays the life of celebrated feminist painter Matilda Lotz. The daughter of a faithful Christian family of German immigrants, Matilda is only six when she is caught up in the bloody Battle of Franklin, only ten when she and her family are pursued by the Ku Klux Klan and forced to flee from Tennessee to California. Like Joseph sold into slavery in Egypt, no adversity can crush her. The talented young artist becomes the protégé first of Penelope Hearst and later of French feminist painter Rosa Bonheur. No typical Victorian woman, she overcomes both sexism and self-doubt to paint dukes in England, counts in Hungary, and Bedouins in North Africa. She refuses to marry until fifty-five, when she falls in love with another painter, a Hungarian nobleman. But when a second war, the Great War, strips her of nearly everything, Matilda is challenged to one final battle – with her own heart.
Lift Up Thy Voice
by Mark PerryIn the late 1820s Sarah and Angelina Grimké traded their elite position as daughters of a prominent white slaveholding family in Charleston, South Carolina, for a life dedicated to abolitionism and advocacy of women's rights in the North. After the Civil War, discovering that their late brother had had children with one of his slaves, the Grimké sisters helped to educate their nephews and gave them the means to start a new life in postbellum America. The nephews, Archibald and Francis, went on to become well-known African American activists in the burgeoning civil rights movement and the founding of the NAACP. Spanning 150 eventful years, this is an inspiring tale of a remarkable family that transformed itself and America.
Lift Up Your Voice Like a Trumpet: White Clergy and the Civil Rights and Antiwar Movements, 1954-1973
by Michael FriedlandWhen the Supreme Court declared in 1954 that segregated schools were unconstitutional, the highest echelons of American religious organizations enthusiastically supported the ruling. Many white southern clergy, however, were outspoken in their defense.
Lift Your Spirits: A Celebratory History of Cocktail Culture in New Orleans (The Southern Table)
by Elizabeth M. Williams Chris McmillianThe Sazerac, the Hurricane, and the absinthe glass of Herbsaint are among the many well-known creations native to New Orleans's longstanding drinking culture. But more than vehicles for alcohol, the cocktails and spirits that complement the city's culinary prowess are each a token of its history. In every bar-side toast or street-corner daiquiri you can find evidence of the people, politics, and convergence of ethnicities that drive the story of the Crescent City.In Lift Your Spirits: A Celebratory History of Cocktail Culture in New Orleans, Elizabeth M. Williams, founder and director of the Southern Food and Beverage Institute, and world-renowned bartender Chris McMillian illuminate the city's open embrace of alcohol, both in religious and secular life, while delving into the myths, traditions, and personalities that have made New Orleans a destination for imbibing tourists and a mecca for mixologists.With over 40 cocktail recipes interspersed among nearly three hundred years of history, a sampling of premier cocktail bars in New Orleans, and a glossary of terms to aid drink making and mixing, Lift Your Spirits honors the art of a good drink in the city of good times.
Lift: Fitness Culture, from Naked Greeks and Acrobats to Jazzercise and Ninja Warriors
by Daniel KunitzA fascinating cultural history of fitness, from Greek antiquity to the era of the “big-box gym” and beyond, exploring the ways in which human exercise has changed over time—and what we can learn from our ancestors.We humans have been conditioning our bodies for more than 2,500 years, yet it’s only recently that treadmills and weight machines have become the gold standard of fitness. For all this new technology, are we really healthier, stronger, and more flexible than our ancestors?Where Born to Run began with an aching foot, Lift begins with a broken gym system—one founded on high-tech machinery and isolation techniques that aren’t necessarily as productive as we think. Looking to the past for context, Daniel Kunitz crafts an insightful cultural history of the human drive for exercise, concluding that we need to get back to basics to be truly healthy.Lift takes us on an enlightening tour through time, beginning with the ancient Greeks, who made a cult of the human body—the word gymnasium derives from the Greek word for “naked”—and following Roman legions, medieval knights, Persian pahlevans, and eighteenth-century German gymnasts. Kunitz discovers the seeds of the modern gym in nineteenth-century Paris, where weight lifting machines were first employed, and takes us all the way up to the game-changer: the feminist movement of the 1960s, which popularized aerobics and calisthenics classes. This ignited the first true global fitness revolution, and Kunitz explores how it brought us to where we are today.Once a fast-food inhaler and substance abuser, Kunitz reveals his own decade-long journey to becoming ultra-fit using ancient principals of strengthening and conditioning. With Lift, he argues that, as a culture, we are finally returning to this natural ideal—and that it’s to our great benefit to do so.
Lifted: A Cultural History of the Elevator
by Andreas BernardBefore skyscrapers forever transformed the landscape of the modern metropolis, the conveyance that made them possible had to be created. Invented in New York in the 1850s, the elevator became an urban fact of life on both sides of the Atlantic by the early twentieth century. While it may at first glance seem a modest innovation, it had wide-ranging effects, from fundamentally restructuring building design to reinforcing social class hierarchies by moving luxury apartments to upper levels, previously the domain of the lower classes. The cramped elevator cabin itself served as a reflection of life in modern growing cities, as a space of simultaneous intimacy and anonymity, constantly in motion. In this elegant and fascinating book, Andreas Bernard explores how the appearance of this new element changed notions of verticality and urban space. Transforming such landmarks as the Waldorf-Astoria and Ritz Tower in New York, he traces how the elevator quickly took hold in large American cities while gaining much slower acceptance in European cities like Paris and Berlin. Combining technological and architectural history with the literary and cinematic, Bernard opens up new ways of looking at the elevator--as a secular confessional when stalled between floors or as a recurring space in which couples fall in love. Rising upwards through modernity, Lifted takes the reader on a compelling ride through the history of the elevator.
Lifting Every Voice: My Journey from Segregated Roanoke to the Corridors of Power
by William B. RobertsonBill Robertson was one of our greatest pioneers and a tireless advocate for racial justice. One of his final acts was the completion of his memoirs. Lifting Every Voice reveals how the advances made during his lifetime were no foregone conclusion; without the passionate efforts of real people, our present could have been very different.The survivor of a traumatic childhood in the Green Book South, and the witness to his father's rage over racial inequity, Robertson rose above an oppressive environment to find a place within the system and, against extreme odds, effect change. He was the first Black man to run for the Virginia General Assembly, and as a teacher, the first to help integrate a white school in Roanoke. He became the first Black decision-maker in any southern governor’s office, appointed by Virginia governor Linwood Holton in 1970. In a state controlled by segregationist Democrats, Holton was the first Republican governor since Reconstruction, and his government was pivotal in its commitment to move the state away from nearly a century of segregationist policies. Bill Robertson was an inner-circle member of this historic administration. His account of its challenges and hard-won victories tells us much about that critical era.Robertson went on to serve five presidents, heading the Peace Corps office in Kenya and later serving as deputy assistant secretary of state for African affairs. As a public servant he worked on both sides of the aisle, in a way almost inconceivable in today’s polarized society, collaborated with the Jaycees to build a camp for children with mental disabilities in Virginia, and eventually focused his support on Black Lives Matter in his eighties—because there is still so far to go.
Lifting Hearts to the Lord: Worship with John Calvin in Sixteenth-Century Geneva (The Church at Worship)
by Karin MaagThe Church at Worship is a series of documentary case studies of specific worshiping communities from around the world and throughout Christian history — case studies that can inform and enrich worship practices today. In Lifting Hearts to the Lord Karin Maag brings together a wealth of primary sources to examine worship as it was taught and practiced in John Calvin’s Geneva. Enhanced with Maag’s introductions and numerous marginal notes, this volume covers the period from 1541 to 1564, capturing both Calvin’s signal contribution to Reformation worship and the voices of ordinary Genevans as they navigated — and fought about — changes in their worship. Some of the primary materials included here: · Selections from John Calvin’s Scripture commentaries and sermons dealing with worship · Pages from the Genevan Psalter and service book · Historical maps and illustrations of Geneva and its churches · Genevan city council edicts and ordinances on worship · Excerpts from letters, eyewitness accounts of Reformation worship in Geneva, and consistory records
Lifting a Ton of Feathers: A Woman's Guide For Surviving in the Academic World
by Paula J. CaplanLifting a Ton of Feathers is not only a survival guide, it is also a destroyer of academic myths about women's career chances in the university, and a revelation of the catch-22 positions in which women find themselves. Caplan demonstrates that while many women believe that when they fail it is their fault, their fate is more likely to be sealed by their encounter with the male environment, and by the manner in which they are tossed about by it. She aims to help women avoid self-blame and understand the real sources of their problems. Readers will find the information about the mine-field of academia for women infuriating, but the means of telling it highly entertaining. Women account for more than half of all undergraduate students in the US and Canada, yet they make up only 10 per cent of faculty members at the level of full professor. What happens to women between freshman level, the tenure track, and the ensuing following professional years that keeps them out of the highest levels of academia? Paula Caplan is herself a veteran of the academic career struggle, and she sets out to explore this question with not only her own observations but also those of many women whom she has interviewed, and with a strong backing of established research. With these tools she provides a clear-eyed assessment of what women who have embarked on an academic career, and those who are considering it, may expect. Forewarned is forearmed, and Caplan presents a list of the forms that the maleness of the environment take: two of these are the conflict between professional and family responsibilities, and sexual harassment. In addition, her book offers advice on practical techniques of how to prepare a curriculum vitae, how to handle job interviews, and how to apply for promotions and tenure. A final chapter is a unique checklist which serves two purposes: to provide guidance in a search for a woman-positive institution and to give suggestions for ways individual women, and women in groups, can work to improve the situation at their own institutions.
Lifting as We Climb: Black Women's Battle for the Ballot Box
by Evette DionneFor African American women, the fight for the right to vote was only one battle. <p><p> An eye-opening book that tells the important, overlooked story of black women as a force in the suffrage movement--when fellow suffragists did not accept them as equal partners in the struggle. <p><p> Susan B. Anthony. Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Alice Paul. The Women's Rights Convention at Seneca Falls. The 1913 Women's March in D.C. When the epic story of the suffrage movement in the United States is told, the most familiar leaders, speakers at meetings, and participants in marches written about or pictured are generally white. <p><p> The real story isn't monochromatic. <p><p> Women of color, especially African American women, were fighting for their right to vote and to be treated as full, equal citizens of the United States. Their battlefront wasn't just about gender. African American women had to deal with white abolitionist-suffragists who drew the line at sharing power with their black sisters. They had to overcome deep, exclusionary racial prejudices that were rife in the American suffrage movement. And they had to maintain their dignity--and safety--in a society that tried to keep them in its bottom ranks. <p><p> Lifting as We Climb is the empowering story of African American women who refused to accept all this. Women in black church groups, black female sororities, black women's improvement societies and social clubs. Women who formed their own black suffrage associations when white-dominated national suffrage groups rejected them. Women like Mary Church Terrell, a founder of the National Association of Colored Women and of the NAACP; or educator-activist Anna Jullia Cooper who championed women getting the vote and a college education; or the crusading journalist Ida B. Wells, a leader in both the suffrage and anti-lynching movements. <p><p> Author Evette Dionne, a feminist culture writer and the editor-in-chief of Bitch Media, has uncovered an extraordinary and underrepresented history of black women. In her powerful book, she draws an important historical line from abolition to suffrage to civil rights to contemporary young activists--filling in the blanks of the American suffrage story.
Lifting the Cup: The Story of Battling Barnsley, 1910-1912
by David Wood Mark MetcalfThis is the first detailed account of Barnsley Football Club's most illustrious and successful period. Between 1910 and 1912 'Battling Barnsley' won their way through to the FA Cup Final, then the most prestigious football tournament in the world, on not one but two occasions and capped things off by beating West Bromwich Albion in the 1912 final replay at Bramall Lane, Sheffield, when Arthur Fairclough 'lifted the Cup' for the only time, so far, in the Club's long history. This centenary celebration brings the 1910-12 era back to life through match reports, and a wealth of photographs (some never seen before) and memorabilia. It also pays tribute to the extraordinary support of thousands of Barnsley fans. Against a background of major social and political change, this book also examines the careers of legendary players such as Dickie Downs, Bob Glendenning, Wilf Bartrop, Tommy Boyle, George Utley, George Lillycrop - and of course the goal-scoring hero of 1912: the great Harry Tufnell.
Lifting the Fog of Peace: How Americans Learned to Fight Modern War
by Janine DavidsonHow military organizations trained for conventional war adapt—or fail to adapt—to nontraditional missions
Lifting the Shadow: Reshaping Memory, Race, and Slavery in U.S. Museums (Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights)
by Amy SodaroLifting the Shadow: Reshaping Memory, Race, and Slavery in U.S. Museums examines a small but significant wave of new U.S. memorial museums that focus on slavery and its ongoing violent legacies, including the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Montgomery’s Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration, and Greenwood Rising, which commemorates the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. These museums are challenging historical narratives of slavery and race by placing racial oppression at the center of American history and linking historical slavery to contemporary racial injustice, but they have opened in a period marked by growing racial tension, white nationalism, and political division. Sodaro examines how the violence of U.S. slavery and its lasting legacies is negotiated in these museums, as well as their potential to contribute to the development of a more critical historical memory of race in the U.S. at this particularly volatile sociopolitical moment.
Lifting the Silence: A World War II RCAF Bomber Pilot Reunites with his Past
by David Scott Smith Sydney Percival SmithAt a time of great sacrifice in Canadian history, we are welcomed into the homes, the hearts, and the minds of mothers, sons, fathers, and friends as we follow Syd Smith and his high-school brotherhood of 13 when they answer the call to duty in 1941. Written with his son, David, Lifting the Silence is also a father-and-son journey of discovery that uncovers a remarkable letter that serves as testament to what still defines Canada today. Postmarked "France August 1946," the fragile letter bares the soul of a people beaten down by cruel times and extols their admiration and gratitude for Canada as a nation of spiritual and economic resources that helped them out so much during the war. Within the letter as well, a heartfelt and strikingly prophetic expression of hope to once again receive the downed pilot they had sheltered in 1942. As if by Providence, this letter now serves to reunite Syd with his angel of the French Resistance 61 years later.
Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX
by Eric Berger"This is as important a book on space as has ever been written and it's a riveting page-turner, too." —Homer Hickam, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of Rocket BoysThe dramatic inside story of the historic flights that launched SpaceX—and Elon Musk—from a shaky startup into the world's leading-edge rocket companySpaceX has enjoyed a miraculous decade. Less than 20 years after its founding, it boasts the largest constellation of commercial satellites in orbit, has pioneered reusable rockets, and in 2020 became the first private company to launch human beings into orbit. Half a century after the space race it is private companies, led by SpaceX, standing alongside NASA pushing forward into the cosmos, and laying the foundation for our exploration of other worlds. But before it became one of the most powerful players in the aerospace industry, SpaceX was a fledgling startup, scrambling to develop a single workable rocket before the money ran dry. The engineering challenge was immense; numerous other private companies had failed similar attempts. And even if SpaceX succeeded, they would then have to compete for government contracts with titans such as Lockheed Martin and Boeing, who had tens of thousands of employees and tens of billions of dollars in annual revenue. SpaceX had fewer than 200 employees and the relative pittance of $100 million in the bank.In Liftoff, Eric Berger, senior space editor at Ars Technica, takes readers inside the wild early days that made SpaceX. Focusing on the company’s first four launches of the Falcon 1 rocket, he charts the bumpy journey from scrappy underdog to aerospace pioneer. We travel from company headquarters in El Segundo, to the isolated Texas ranchland where they performed engine tests, to Kwajalein, the tiny atoll in the Pacific where SpaceX launched the Falcon 1. Berger has reported on SpaceX for more than a decade, enjoying unparalleled journalistic access to the company’s inner workings. Liftoff is the culmination of these efforts, drawing upon exclusive interviews with dozens of former and current engineers, designers, mechanics, and executives, including Elon Musk. The enigmatic Musk, who founded the company with the dream of one day settling Mars, is the fuel that propels the book, with his daring vision for the future of space. Filled with never-before-told stories of SpaceX’s turbulent beginning, Liftoff is a saga of cosmic proportions.
Ligeramente casados (Bedwyn #Volumen 1)
by Mary BaloghPrimera entrega de la serie «Bedwyn». ¿Les será posible a lord Aidan Bedwyn y a Eve Morris estar algo más que ligeramente casados? En Francia, en el campo de batalla, el altivo pero caballeroso lord Aidan Bedwyn prometió a un soldado herido de muerte que cuidaría a la hermana que este dejaba en Inglaterra. El azar lo lleva así ante Eve Morris, con un juramento que él está determinado a cumplir pese a que ella rechaza toda ayuda... O casi toda, porque si Eve no se casa se verá desposeída de la mansión donde se crió. Aidan le hace una oferta a la que no podrá oponerse: un simple matrimonio de conveniencia, pasar juntos unos cuantos días y después toda una vida de feliz independencia separados. Sin embargo, no contaban con la intromisión del hermano mayor de Aidan y una irresistible atracción que puede dar al traste con sus prácticos planes...
Ligeramente casados (Bedwyn #Volumen 1)
by Mary BaloghPrimera entrega de la serie «Bedwyn». ¿Les será posible a lord Aidan Bedwyn y a Eve Morris estar algo más que ligeramente casados? En Francia, en el campo de batalla, el altivo pero caballeroso lord Aidan Bedwyn prometió a un soldado herido de muerte que cuidaría a la hermana que este dejaba en Inglaterra. El azar lo lleva así ante Eve Morris, con un juramento que él está determinado a cumplir pese a que ella rechaza toda ayuda... O casi toda, porque si Eve no se casa se verá desposeída de la mansión donde se crió. Aidan le hace una oferta a la que no podrá oponerse: un simple matrimonio de conveniencia, pasar juntos unos cuantos días y después toda una vida de feliz independencia separados. Sin embargo, no contaban con la intromisión del hermano mayor de Aidan y una irresistible atracción que puede dar al traste con sus prácticos planes...
Ligeramente escandaloso (Bedwyn #Volumen 3)
by Mary BaloghTercera entrega de la serie Bedwyn El matrimonio es solo uno de los peligros que los acechan... Freyja Bedwyn es puro fuego, una mujer indomable en busca de libertad y aventura. Y la aventura sale a su encuentro durante un viaje a Bath, cuando un apuesto desconocido irrumpe a medianoche en su habitación de la posada y le pide cobijo. Es Joshua Moore, marqués de Hallmere, un hombre cuya reputación haría palidecer al peor sinvergüenza. Un hombre que huye del cuarto de Freyja tras recibir un buen puñetazo en la nariz. Días más tarde, ambos vuelven a coincidir en Bath, y la colisión entre dos caracteres tan fuertes hace que salten chispas. Pero Joshua está desesperado por evitar los malévolos planes matrimoniales que se le vienen encima, y sabe que la única persona a la que puede recurrir es lady Bedwyn. Solo ella tiene el valor suficiente para fingir que ambos están prometidos en un noviazgo... ligeramente escandaloso
Ligeramente escandaloso (Bedwyn #Volumen 3)
by Mary BaloghTercera entrega de la serie Bedwyn El matrimonio es solo uno de los peligros que los acechan... Freyja Bedwyn es puro fuego, una mujer indomable en busca de libertad y aventura. Y la aventura sale a su encuentro durante un viaje a Bath, cuando un apuesto desconocido irrumpe a medianoche en su habitación de la posada y le pide cobijo. Es Joshua Moore, marqués de Hallmere, un hombre cuya reputación haría palidecer al peor sinvergüenza. Un hombre que huye del cuarto de Freyja tras recibir un buen puñetazo en la nariz. Días más tarde, ambos vuelven a coincidir en Bath, y la colisión entre dos caracteres tan fuertes hace que salten chispas. Pero Joshua está desesperado por evitar los malévolos planes matrimoniales que se le vienen encima, y sabe que la única persona a la que puede recurrir es lady Bedwyn. Solo ella tiene el valor suficiente para fingir que ambos están prometidos en un noviazgo... ligeramente escandaloso
Ligeramente inmoral (Bedwyn #Volumen 5)
by Mary BaloghQuinta entrega de la serie Bedwyn. La tentación y el escándalo van de la mano... Durante el fragor de la batalla de Waterloo, lord Alleyne Bedwyn es herido y dado por muerto. Cuando días después recobra el conocimiento, no recuerda quién es ni cómo ha llegado a esa habitación en un burdel de Bruselas. Lo único que sabe es que el ángel que ha estado cuidándole es la joven que desearía para él. Rachel York no es lo que parece. Un cúmulo de circunstancias desafortunadas la obligaron a refugiarse en esta casa regentada por unas mujeres con un corazón de oro, mucho carácter y dudosa reputación. Pero ahora el atractivo soldado sin nombre ni fortuna podría ayudarla a recuperar algo que es suyo por derecho... si aceptase su proposición ligeramente inmoral.
Ligeramente inmoral (Bedwyn #Volumen 5)
by Mary BaloghQuinta entrega de la serie Bedwyn. La tentación y el escándalo van de la mano... Durante el fragor de la batalla de Waterloo, lord Alleyne Bedwyn es herido y dado por muerto. Cuando días después recobra el conocimiento, no recuerda quién es ni cómo ha llegado a esa habitación en un burdel de Bruselas. Lo único que sabe es que el ángel que ha estado cuidándole es la joven que desearía para él. Rachel York no es lo que parece. Un cúmulo de circunstancias desafortunadas la obligaron a refugiarse en esta casa regentada por unas mujeres con un corazón de oro, mucho carácter y dudosa reputación. Pero ahora el atractivo soldado sin nombre ni fortuna podría ayudarla a recuperar algo que es suyo por derecho... si aceptase su proposición ligeramente inmoral.
Ligeramente peligroso (Bedwyn #Volumen 6)
by Mary BaloghLa última entrega de la serie Bedwyn. Dos seres tan distintos que, sin duda, están condenados a enamorarse. Aunque de entrada, ella le ha rechazado... La llegada de Wulfric Bedwyn, duque de Bewcastle, a la fiesta campestre por excelencia de la temporada ha revolucionado a la alta sociedad londinense. Es uno de los hombres más ricos, poderosos e influyentes del reino; también el más altivo y distante. Pero en esta deslumbrante tarde de verano, mientras todas las miradas femeninas convergen en el apuesto y arrogante duque, él solo parece tener ojos para la única mujer que de ninguna manera querría llamar su atención. Christine Derrick es inmune a su título y su posición. Lo desconcierta y lo exaspera con su vitalidad y sus francas maneras. Es absolutamente inadecuada para él. Pero a su lado, por primera vez en su vida, Wulfric siente que ese muro de frialdad y reserva que ha levantado entre él y el mundo se empieza a resquebrajar.
Ligeramente peligroso (Bedwyn #Volumen 6)
by Mary BaloghLa última entrega de la serie Bedwyn. Dos seres tan distintos que, sin duda, están condenados a enamorarse. Aunque de entrada, ella le ha rechazado... La llegada de Wulfric Bedwyn, duque de Bewcastle, a la fiesta campestre por excelencia de la temporada ha revolucionado a la alta sociedad londinense. Es uno de los hombres más ricos, poderosos e influyentes del reino; también el más altivo y distante. Pero en esta deslumbrante tarde de verano, mientras todas las miradas femeninas convergen en el apuesto y arrogante duque, él solo parece tener ojos para la única mujer que de ninguna manera querría llamar su atención. Christine Derrick es inmune a su título y su posición. Lo desconcierta y lo exaspera con su vitalidad y sus francas maneras. Es absolutamente inadecuada para él. Pero a su lado, por primera vez en su vida, Wulfric siente que ese muro de frialdad y reserva que ha levantado entre él y el mundo se empieza a resquebrajar.
Ligeramente perverso (Bedwyn #Volumen 2)
by Mary BaloghSegunda entrega de la serie Bedwyn ¿Podrán Judith y Rannulf ocultar al mundo su secreto ligeramente perverso? No es el heroico salteador de caminos con el que estaba soñando momentos antes del accidente. Sin embargo, algo en los ojos risueños y provocadores del jinete que se ha acercado a socorrer al coche de postas despierta en Judith Law un anhelo de aventura, por fugaz que sea. Nada puede apartarla del tedioso y gris futuro que recientemente se ha abierto ante ella; solo podrá eludirlo un instante... que no va a dejar escapar. También desde el primer momento, Rannulf Bedwyn se ha sentido atraído por esta joven que se ha presentado como Claire Campbell, una actriz de teatro. En cambio él no le ha revelado su auténtico nombre y posición, que solo conllevan obligaciones y deberes en los que ahora no querría pensar. Como el de casarse sin amor. Durante dos días, en que el tiempo parece detenerse, ambos juegan a engañar a sus auténticos destinos, hasta que la realidad se impone a las fantasías. Ninguno conoce la verdadera identidad del otro. No imaginan que jamás vuelvan a encontrarse. Pero cuando el destino les una de nuevo, tendrán que ocultar ante el mundo su secreto ligeramente perverso. Reseña:«Ligeramente perverso, la segunda entrega de la saga de los Bedwyn, es una historia intrigante, absolutamente cautivadora, de amor, pasión, deber y honor.»Romance Reviews Today