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    Liberty
    Liberty
    Liberty
    Audiobook6 hours

    Liberty

    Written by Andrea Portes and Joel Silverman

    Narrated by Tara Sands

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    The bestselling author of Anatomy of Misfit and The Fall of Butterflies, Andrea Portes, is back with another irresistible snarky heroine in Liberty.  

    What is a hero? Paige Nolan knows. Edward Raynes, the young man who exposed America’s unconstitutional spying techniques, is a hero, even if half the dum-dums in the country think he’s a traitor. Or Paige's parents, journalists who were captured by terrorists while telling stories of the endangered and oppressed. They were heroes, too. Were. . . or are—no one has ever told Paige if they’re still alive, or dead.

    Not heroes? Anyone in the government who abandoned her parents, letting them rot somewhere halfway across the world. And certainly not Paige herself, who despite her fluency in five languages and mastery of several obscure martial arts (thanks, Mom!) could do nothing to save them.

    Couldn’t, that is, until she’s approached by Madden Carter, an undercover operative who gives her a mission—fly to Russia, find Raynes, and discover what other government secrets he’s stockpiled. In exchange, he’ll reopen the case on her missing parents. She’s given a code name and a cover as a foreign exchange student.

    Who is a hero? Not Paige Nolan, but maybe, just maybe, Liberty is.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateJun 6, 2017
    ISBN9780062683281
    Author

    Andrea Portes

    Andrea Portes is the bestselling novelist of two critically lauded adult novels, Hick, her debut, which was made into a feature film starring Chloë Grace Moretz, Alec Baldwin, Blake Lively, Eddie Redmayne, and Juliette Lewis, and Bury This. Her first novel for young adult readers, Anatomy of a Misfit, was called “perfection in book form” by Teen Vogue. Her other YA novels include The Fall of Butterflies and Liberty: The Spy Who (Kind of) Liked Me. Andrea Portes’s spooky, timeless middle grade debut is Henry & Eva and the Castle on the Cliff. Andrea grew up on the outskirts of Lincoln, Nebraska. Later, she attended Bryn Mawr College. Currently she lives in Los Angeles with her husband, Sandy Tolan, their son, Wyatt, and their dog, Rascal. You can visit her online at www.andreaportes.squarespace.com.

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      I read this close after Marge Piercy's fictional account of women during the French Revolution, 'City of Darkness', and I now have a new-found appreciation of Piercy's ability to portray women such as Pauline Leon and Clare Lacombe in a sympathetic light! Leon, Lacombe and Theroigne de Mericourt were three working-class women who enthusiastically suported the Revolution in a bid to escape the poverty and confines of their lives; in contrast, Germaine de Stael, Theresia Cabarrus (later Tallien) and Juliette Recamier were beautiful and clever mascots of the new republican era, leading society and fashion from their salons and through their lovers.What I found most interesting is that, even in the midst of chaos, women were still kept firmly 'in their place' - the home; intelligent women could have their say, and even exert a degree of influence, but only as represented by a husband or impressionable lover. Germaine de Stael, though maintaining in her journal that she did not interfere with her husband's business, was the brains of the marriage; and Theresia Tallien persuaded her lover to aid in the escape of many of her royalist friends, despite the fact that when she met him, he had been sent to Bordeaux from Paris to 'purge' the area of counter-revolutionaries! The revolutionary zeal of powerless women like Pauline and Theroigne was tolerated until their behaviour became a threat to the men in power, and then their fellow citizens turned against them. 'Fraternity' was to be taken literally during the French Revolution, and women instructed to support the Republic by caring for their families, not by toting pistols and speaking out in public!I warmed to the eloquence and perseverance of Germaine, the noble spirit and wiles of Theresia, and the youth and beauty of Juliette (really more a celebrity of the Directory than the Revolution), but I will admit that Pauline and the other more outspoken women did come across as rather overbearing - though it is hard to comprehend their situations from a modern perspective.Detailed, engaging and generous biographies from Moore - recommended.