Jean Zimmerman

Allegedly raised by wolves in the wilds of Nevada and adopted by a wealthy Manhattan couple that wants to civilize her, 18-year-old Bronwyn explosively enters high society and is implicated in the deaths of several suitors while her devoted brother resolves to take the fall for her.

Savage Girl

The orphanmaster

A portrait of an ambitious seventeenth-century woman merchant documents how Margaret Hardenbroeck Philipse built a trading empire in New Amsterdam while managing a home that included her five children, describing how she and her female descendants transformed her storeroom into the Philipse Manor Hall and enjoyed prestige until the Revolution. Reprint.

How a Colonial She-Merchant Built a Mansion, a Fortune, and a Dynasty

The Women of the House

Documents the Gilded Age love story of an heiress who fought for women's rights and an architect, tracing their upbringings, their pursuits, and their advocacy efforts on behalf of the poor and disenfranchised.

A Gilded Age Romance

Love, Fiercely

"Il libro ideale per chi ama il romanzo storico quando si tinge di giallo." The New York Times

Il rituale dei bambini perduti

From a debut novelist, a gripping historical thriller and rousing love story set in seventeenth-century Manhattan It’s 1663 in the tiny, hardscrabble Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, now present-day southern Manhattan. Orphan children are going missing, and among those looking into the mysterious state of affairs are a quick-witted twenty-two-year-old trader, Blandine von Couvering, herself an orphan, and a dashing British spy named Edward Drummond. Suspects abound, including the governor’s wealthy nephew, a green-eyed aristocrat with decadent tastes; an Algonquin trapper who may be possessed by a demon that turns people into cannibals; and the colony’s own corrupt and conflicted orphanmaster. Both the search for the killer and Edward and Blandine’s newfound romance are endangered, however, when Blandine is accused of being a witch and Edward is sentenced to hang for espionage. Meanwhile, war looms as the English king plans to wrest control of the colony. Jean Zimmerman brings New Amsterdam and its surrounding wilderness alive for modern-day readers with exacting period detail. Lively, fast paced, and full of colorful characters, The Orphanmaster is a dramatic page-turner that will appeal to fans of Hilary Mantel and Geraldine Brooks.

A Novel of Early Manhattan

The Orphanmaster

De weeskinderen Nieuw-Amsterdam, 1663. De kleine Nederlandse kolonie op Manhattan is diep getroffen door de verdwijning van een aantal weeskinderen. De jonge Blandine van Couvering, een eigenzinnige en onafhankelijke handelaarster en zelf een wees, gaat samen met de mysterieuze Engelsman Edward Drummond op onderzoek uit. Europese decadentie heeft haar intrede gedaan op het ongerepte en ruige Manhattan en vormt in combinatie met het indiaanse bijgeloof in duivelse geesten een giftig brouwsel... Jean Zimmerman (1957) is een Amerikaanse historica en schrijfster. Ze heeft verschillende non-fictieboeken geschreven over de rol van de vrouw in de Amerikaanse geschiedenis. De weeskinderen is haar literaire debuut. `Een goed geslaagde historische thriller. Library Journal `Een verslavend, hartverscheurend en huiveringwekkend mysterie. Booklist

De weeskinderen

Celebrates the diminishing traditions of home economics, quickly being replaced by premade items and fast food, by revisiting history and its homemakers.

Reclaiming the Pleasures of the American Hearth

Made from Scratch

Kate Figes

The birth of a child can provoke profound change in a woman-in her health, career, emotions, sex life, and relationships with friends, husband and family. Pregnancy and childbirth radically alter a women's body and metabolism--it's virtually impossible to "bounce back" quickly after childbirth. And many new moms discover that their sex lives and social lives--and with them, their self esteem--evaporate with a new baby, who they somehow seem to have been made wholly responsible for. Life After Birth doesn't cloak the truth in pastel colors, but explores the actual physical, psychological and emotional consequences of giving birth. Through extensive research and interviews, Figes tackles the tough realities of a new mother's life. What she discovered can help a new parent face some of the most difficult decisions she'll ever have to make.

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