Seraphina Arden is loved by her friends but feared by polite society. 1 by Scarlett Peckham RELEASE DATE: ApWhen the rake is a woman instead of a man, society may not permit a happy ending.

Our panel today included Toby Cygman, Dennis Penner, and Trevor Lockhart. THE RAKESS From the Society of Sirens series, Vol. Time to Read is a production of the Winnipeg Public Library. Email us at with suggestions, comments, and questions.

We always love hearing from you! Join our Facebook group, or follow Winnipeg Public Library on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Thank you to everyone who read The Rakess with us and for those who left comments on our social media. Next month we will be discussing Dawn by Octavia Butler. Trevor: Love Between the Covers (a documentary on the romance novel industry, available through WPL on Kanopy)ĭennis: This is how you lose the time war by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone Toby: Mary and Maria, or The Wrongs of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft John Hetherginton, famous for causing a riot when he debuted the “top hat” in London in 1797 Our drinking water comes from Shoal Lake 40 First Nation, in Treaty Three Territory. We are recording today from the Millennium Library, located in Treaty One Territory, the home and traditional lands of the Anishinaabe (Ojibwe), Ininew (Cree), and Dakota peoples, and in the National Homeland of the Red River Métis.

You are listening to Time to Read, a Winnipeg Public Library podcast book club. Welcome, fair maidens and handsome gents, to our latest episode where we discuss Scarlett Peckham’s The Rakess. Description The scandalous women of the SOCIETY OF SIRENS are back with an explosive secrettheir ranks include a duchess in disguise Once upon a time she married in secret An activist painter of radicals and harlots, Cornelia Ludgate dismisses love and marriage as threats to freedom.

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