The inheritance left by her father draws Emily into reactivating his business including fund-raising through corporate donations tied to federal expenditures. Her agreement to administer the spending from the inherited offshore bank accounts pulls her into the underworld of subversive activity related to the Middle East conflict and the prisoners held at the Guantnamo Bay prison in Cuba. Emilys determination to adhere to her fathers principles of limiting spending to humanitarian efforts leads to charges of subversive activity as she uncovers details around her fathers sudden death. Emilys conflict with her mother over the beach property forces her into liaisons and investments to protect The Beach House, her sanctuary for her and her child, Susan.
Emily’s expensive beach properties are an attractive intermediate drop point for the drug cartel’s smuggling operations. The modified luxury yacht, the Santa Gabriela, becomes the focus of both the problem and eventually the rescue boat that brings Emily and her cohorts back safely from their adventures into the den of a drug lord. Young Susan is threatened and later is instrumental in identifying the ‘pirates’ bringing the contraband onto her beach. Emily’s mother continues her supportive and competitive relationship with her daughter and the raising of Susan.
Emilys teenage daughter, Susan, creates her version of the history of her mothers art collection after reading The Diary of Anne Frank and studying the Nazi era on the Internet. She decodes the Dutch ledger, listing the art as part of the personal collection of Reichsmarschall Herman Goering. Emilys emotional state, because of her pregnancy and her insatiable drive to find the missing art, leads her back to South America and her involvement with the drug lord that sold her the collection. The stress level and fatigue from Emilys relentless traveling threatens her pregnancy. Young Susan, who is charged with helping her mother to protect the unborn child, uncovers the secrets behind the graves left in the wake of the hijacking of the Goering art train. Their reward is the legacy found in the Church of St. Anne.
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Working from microfilm copies of the Hamburg police lists, Clifford Neal Smith has here reconstructed the identities of about 7,000 Hamburg passengers whose names were found among 60 separate lists for the year 1850. For each entry the compiler provides the following information: passenger's surname, given name, occupation, birthplace, and reference number from the police register.
This book is the first attempt to provide a basis for the interactionof the brain and nervous system with painting, music andliterature. The introduction deals with the problems of creativity andwhich parts of the brain are involved. Then an overview of artpresents the multiple facets, such as anatomy, and the myths appearingin ancient descriptions of conditions such as polio and migraine. Theneurological basis of painters like Goya and van Gogh isanalysed. Other chapters in the section on art cover da Vinci''smechanics and the portrayal of epilepsy. The section on music concernsthe parts of the brain linked to perception and memory, as well aspeople who cannot appreciate music, and the effect of music onintelligence and learning (the Mozart effect). The section onliterature relates to Shakespeare, Dostoyevsky, Conan Doyle, JamesJoyce and the poetry of one of England''s most famous neurologists, Henry Head
As Mr. Smith has noted in the Introduction to this work, "There is little so rare in German-American genealogy as a complete emigrant passenger list from Bremen." As most researchers know, the Bremen lists were destroyed during the fire storm of that city during World War II. In the case of this work, however, Mr. Smith was able to recover fourteen Bremen lists because they had been reprinted in the obscure weekly newspaper from Rudolstadt, Thuringia, entitled the "Allgemeine Auswanderungs-Zeitung" (which can be found in the rare-book collection at Yale University). The compiler has transcribed the names of all persons bound for America from each of the fourteen lists. The emigrants, who are arranged alphabetically, are identified by place of origin and sometimes by the number of persons in the passenger's family or the names of traveling companions.
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