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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 arr...

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Main Author: Meyer, L. A. (Louis A.), 1942-
Other Authors: Kellgren, Katherine (Narrator)
Format: Audiobooks eAudiobook Downloads eAudiobook
Language:English
Published: Union City : Listen & Live Audio, Inc., 2013.
Edition:Unabridged.
Series:A Bloody Jack adventure ; #11
Subjects:
Sex role > Young adult fiction.
Immigrants > Young adult fiction.
Irish > United States > Young adult fiction.
Temperance > Young adult fiction.
Boston (Mass.) > Young adult fiction.
Adventure stories > Young adult.
Sea stories > Young adult.
Historical fiction > Young adult.
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Summary: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?
Item Description:Unabridged.
Physical Description:1 online resource (8 audio files) : digital
Playing Time:09:53:34
Format:Requires OverDrive Listen (file size: N/A KB) or OverDrive app (file size: 278274 KB).
ISBN:9781593166625
Author Notes:L. A. Meyer was born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania in 1942. He received a B.A. in English literature from the University of Florida in Gainesville and soon after, enlisted in the U.S. Navy for a four year-stint. He worked as a social worker and then published two picture books, The Gypsy Bears and The Clean Air and Peaceful Contentment Dirigible Airline, before receiving his M.F.A. in painting from Boston University in 1973.

He taught high school art in Massachusetts for seven years and then left to open art and design shops. His first novel for young readers, Bloody Jack: Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary "Jacky" Faber, Ship's Boy, was published in 2002. It became the first book in the Bloody Jack Adventure series. He died from Hodgkin's lymphoma on July 29, 2014 at the age of 71.

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