Martha Conway
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Nicola is having a really bad day. She's tired of her job, her boss, and even her San Francisco apartment, which she's just heard she's being evicted from anyway. Her life's only excitement is fueled by fantasy, about the expensive lingerie, she wears under her business suits, about a man she sees at lunch every day, a darkly handsome man she calls Chorizo, after the kind of pizza he orders. She's flat-out tired of her life, and nothing brings it...
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Con un barco teatro que recorre el río Ohio durante el siglo XIX como telón de fondo, El Teatro Flotante es la emocionante historia de una costurera encantadoramente sincera e ingenua que, víctima de un chantaje, tendrá que ayudar a salvar a esclavos prófugos, poniendo en riesgo su libertad, su modo de vida y un nuevo amor.
Cuando la joven costurera May Bedlow se queda sola y sin un centavo en un pueblo a las orillas del río Ohio, encontrará...
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It's 1838, and May Bedloe works as a seamstress for her cousin, the famous actress Comfort Vertue-until their steamboat sinks on the Ohio River. Though they both survive, both must find new employment. Comfort is hired to give lectures by noted abolitionist Flora Howard, and May finds work on a small flatboat, Hugo and Helena's Floating Theatre, as it cruises the border between the northern states and the southern slave-holding states. May becomes...