Boston Jacky: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of Jacky Faber, Taking Care of Business
Jacky Faber makes waves, even when docked in her adopted city of Boston to attend to the business of Faber Shipping Worldwide. With big dreams and perhaps too much exuberance for the Puritan populace, she quickly finds herself at odds with the Women’s Temperance Union and a town roiling over the...
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Jacky Faber makes waves, even when docked in her adopted city of Boston to attend to the business of Faber Shipping Worldwide. With big dreams and perhaps too much exuberance for the Puritan populace, she quickly finds herself at odds with the Women’s Temperance Union and a town roiling over the arrival of hundreds of Irish laborers, brought in on Jacky’s Lorelei Lee. Thwarted at every turn by her enemies, Jacky is forced to acknowledge her shortcomings—and possibly lose her beloved Jaimy Fletcher. In this new installment in the ever-popular Bloody Jack Adventures, will the impulsive Jacky Faber finally get her comeuppance?
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780547974958 (0547974957)
Publish date: September 10th 2013
Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers
Pages no: 364
Edition language: English
Series: Bloody Jack (#11)
I mean, it's another Jacky Faber book and after L.A. Meyer died, I knew that my 10 year journey with this series was going to end. About half the time in the book I was just muttering "Dammit Jacky" under my breath--not a whole lot of new ground tread here, which is fine for fans but after a so many...