02578cam a2200325 4500 530524952 TxAuBib 20210910120000.0 ||||||s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781647421076 1647421071 B08F3BRHJD Amazon d92b2b9f-af02-4666-b799-37f38f6825ec OverDrive (Reserve ID) 5659361 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib McMullen, Lori. Among the Beautiful Beasts [Libby] : A Novel. She Writes Press, 2021. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 806kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Fiction. Literature. Historical Fiction. HTML:Set in the early 1900s, <i>Among the Beautiful Beasts</i> is the untold story of the early life of Marjory Stoneman Douglas, known in her later years as a tireless activist for the Florida Everglades. After a childhood spent in New England estranged from her father and bewildered by her mother, who fades into madness, Marjory marries a swindler thirty years her senior. The marriage nearly destroys her, but Marjory finds the courage to move to Miami, where she is reunited with her father and begins a new life as a journalist in that bustling, booming frontier town. Buoyed by a growing sense of independence and an affair with a rival journalist, Marjory embraces a life lived at the intersection of the untamed Everglades and the rapacious urban development that threatens it. When the demands of a man once again begin to swallow Marjory's own desires and dreams, she sees herself in the vulnerable, inimitable Everglades and is forced to decide whether to commit to a life of subjugation or leap into the wild unknown. Told in chapters that alternate between an urgent midnight chase through the wetlands and extensive narrative flashbacks, <i>Among the Beautiful Beasts</i> is at once suspenseful and deeply reflective. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=d92b2b9f-af02-4666-b799-37f38f6825ec&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=d92b2b9f-af02-4666-b799-37f38f6825ec&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=d92b2b9f-af02-4666-b799-37f38f6825ec&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)