Patricia Miller

“I’ll take my share of the blame. I only ask that he take his.” In Bringing Down the Colonel, the journalist Patricia Miller tells the story of Madeline Pollard, an unlikely nineteenth-century women’s rights crusader. After an affair with a prominent politician left her “ruined,” Pollard brought the man—and the hypocrisy of America’s control of women’s sexuality—to trial. And, surprisingly, she won. Pollard and the married Colonel Breckinridge began their decade-long affair when she was just a teenager. After the death of his wife, Breckinridge asked for Pollard’s hand—and then broke off the engagement to marry another woman. But Pollard struck back, suing Breckinridge for breach of promise in a shockingly public trial. With premarital sex considered irredeemably ruinous for a woman, Pollard was asserting the unthinkable: that the sexual morality of men and women should be judged equally. Nearly 125 years after the Breckinridge-Pollard scandal, America is still obsessed with women’s sexual morality. And in the age of Donald Trump and Harvey Weinstein, we’ve witnessed fraught public reckonings with a type of sexual exploitation unnervingly similar to that experienced by Pollard. Using newspaper articles, personal journals, previously unpublished autobiographies, and letters, Bringing Down the Colonel tells the story of one of the earliest women to publicly fight back.

A Sex Scandal of the Gilded Age, and the "Powerless" Woman Who Took On Washington

Bringing Down the Colonel

Good Catholics tells the story of the remarkable individuals who have engaged in a nearly fifty-year struggle to assert the moral legitimacy of a pro-choice position in the Catholic Church, as well as the concurrent efforts of the Catholic hierarchy to suppress abortion dissent and to translate Catholic doctrine on sexuality into law. Miller recounts a dramatic but largely untold history of protest and persecution, which demonstrates the profound and surprising influence that the conflict over abortion in the Catholic Church has had not only on the church but also on the very fabric of U.S. politics. Good Catholics addresses many of today’s hot-button questions about the separation of church and state, including what concessions society should make in public policy to matters of religious doctrine, such as the Catholic ban on contraception. Good Catholics is a Gold Medalist (Women’s Issues) in the 2015 IPPY awards, an award presented by the Independent Publishers Book Association to recognize excellence in independent book publishing.

The Battle Over Abortion in the Catholic Church

Good Catholics

A Mystery Collection "Four fresh and captivating tales to whet your appetite for the unexplained."--Robin Ginther, Book Blogger Ghostly dreams, hidden tunnels, haunted hallways, devious secrets, and a seemingly unbreakable Chinese puzzle box make up the four mysteries in this collection, Mysterious Tales of the Unexplained, Volume 2. In The Spiral Staircase, 12-year-old Rylee helps her mom uncover the secrets beneath their old Victorian home. A ghostly haunt runs wild in a basement office in Scary Mary. Mable & Archie uncover illegal activities behind the murder of a fellow resident of Open Arms retirement home in A Puzzling Mystery. And 17-year-old Noah shows his 18-year-old brother and 3 of his friends how to ingeniously decipher clues surrounding a giant Chinese puzzle box in Mystery Weekend at Morehead Mansion. Other books in this series: Mysterious Tales of the Unexplained, Volume 1. "Patricia Miller has given us crisp and creepy tales of mystery, in the form of well written supernatural short stories full of secrets. These entertaining mysteries are hauntingly good and draw you in from the very first pages. I really love Patricia Miller's writing style; I thoroughly enjoyed each story and highly recommend this author and her stories to mystery fans and young adult readers alike. Again, like in Volume 1, the illustrations were fantastic and I love that they came from local high school art students." --- Robin Ginther, Book Blogger Also by this Author: (YA Sci Fi Romance Trilogy) Joshua: Life After Theos, Joshua: Breaking Free, Joshua: Between Two Worlds

Mysterious Tales of the Unexplained, Volume 2

Patricia Miller Rains

The Central American Route

Cruising Ports

Theos forbids contact with the hostile and unevolved planet of Earth. A young, scientific phenom disobeys and escapes to prove his government wrong, with his ex-girlfriend secretly in tow. On Earth, they battle deadly illness and evil forces but nothing poses a greater threat than a battle against the heart!

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