Author: Joyce Roberge
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1524530603
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
The sun shone brightly on a little town in New England where nine-year-old Sarah lived with her brother, James, and their mother, Teresa. Just two weeks prior, there had been great joy in their little town. It was May 1945, and the end of World War II was being celebrated. When Sarah awoke that morning, she found that there was no food in the house. Her mother had lost her job to the soldiers coming home from the war. It was thought better to hire the men back as most of the women did not need the jobs to support them.
Finding Sarah
Author: Joyce Roberge
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1524530603
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
The sun shone brightly on a little town in New England where nine-year-old Sarah lived with her brother, James, and their mother, Teresa. Just two weeks prior, there had been great joy in their little town. It was May 1945, and the end of World War II was being celebrated. When Sarah awoke that morning, she found that there was no food in the house. Her mother had lost her job to the soldiers coming home from the war. It was thought better to hire the men back as most of the women did not need the jobs to support them.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1524530603
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
The sun shone brightly on a little town in New England where nine-year-old Sarah lived with her brother, James, and their mother, Teresa. Just two weeks prior, there had been great joy in their little town. It was May 1945, and the end of World War II was being celebrated. When Sarah awoke that morning, she found that there was no food in the house. Her mother had lost her job to the soldiers coming home from the war. It was thought better to hire the men back as most of the women did not need the jobs to support them.
Finding the Mystic Within You
Author: Peggy Wilkinson OCDS
Publisher: ICS Publications
ISBN: 1939272084
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
To those without time or inclination for intensive spiritual reading and study, this handbook is a find! The work is firmly grounded in Scripture and Christian teachings on growth through contemplation. The wisdom of St. Teresa of Avila and St. John of the Cross has been distilled to help us understand the stages and experiences of the inner journey. The reader is guided through the classic works of these time-tested directors, in a logical, easily understood fashion. Enlightenment, encouragement, and energy are drawn from these pages, and a sense of adventure beckons the reader to new perspectives. For over a quarter century the author, married and mother of eight, has been nourished by these masters and by the way of life of the Secular Order of Discalced Carmelites. Drawing on her experience in counseling and teaching contemplative meditation, she meets the need for a practical modern guidebook.
Publisher: ICS Publications
ISBN: 1939272084
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
To those without time or inclination for intensive spiritual reading and study, this handbook is a find! The work is firmly grounded in Scripture and Christian teachings on growth through contemplation. The wisdom of St. Teresa of Avila and St. John of the Cross has been distilled to help us understand the stages and experiences of the inner journey. The reader is guided through the classic works of these time-tested directors, in a logical, easily understood fashion. Enlightenment, encouragement, and energy are drawn from these pages, and a sense of adventure beckons the reader to new perspectives. For over a quarter century the author, married and mother of eight, has been nourished by these masters and by the way of life of the Secular Order of Discalced Carmelites. Drawing on her experience in counseling and teaching contemplative meditation, she meets the need for a practical modern guidebook.
Finding Cholita
Author: Billie Jean Isbell
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252091558
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Finding Cholita is fictionalized ethnography of the Ayacucho region of Peru covering a thirty-year period from the 1970s to today. It is a story of human tragedy resulting from the region's long history of discrimination, class oppression, and then the rise and fall of the communist organization Shining Path. The story's narrator, American anthropologist Dr. Alice Woodsley, attempts to locate her goddaughter, Cholita, who is known to have joined Shining Path and to have murdered her biological father, who fathered her through rape. Searching for Cholita, Woodsley devotes herself to documenting the stories of the countless Andean peasant women who were raped by soldiers, often going beyond witnessing as she helps the women relieve the pain of their sexual horror.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252091558
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Finding Cholita is fictionalized ethnography of the Ayacucho region of Peru covering a thirty-year period from the 1970s to today. It is a story of human tragedy resulting from the region's long history of discrimination, class oppression, and then the rise and fall of the communist organization Shining Path. The story's narrator, American anthropologist Dr. Alice Woodsley, attempts to locate her goddaughter, Cholita, who is known to have joined Shining Path and to have murdered her biological father, who fathered her through rape. Searching for Cholita, Woodsley devotes herself to documenting the stories of the countless Andean peasant women who were raped by soldiers, often going beyond witnessing as she helps the women relieve the pain of their sexual horror.
I'll Find You
Author: Nancy Bush
Publisher: Kensington Books
ISBN: 1420134620
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Tormented by her memories, Callie Cantrell must help former L.A. cop West Laughlin find his young nephew whose disappearance is shockingly linked to the tragic death of her husband and son - and to a killer who is not done with her yet.
Publisher: Kensington Books
ISBN: 1420134620
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Tormented by her memories, Callie Cantrell must help former L.A. cop West Laughlin find his young nephew whose disappearance is shockingly linked to the tragic death of her husband and son - and to a killer who is not done with her yet.
The Jeweler's Shop
Author: Pope John Paul II
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573695346
Category : Marriage
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573695346
Category : Marriage
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
The Ladies of Longbourn
Author: Rebecca Collins
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1402234392
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
"A masterpiece that reaches the heart."— Beverley Wong, author of Pride & Prejudice Prudence The bestselling Pemberley Chronicles series continues the saga of the Darcys and Bingleys from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and introduces imaginative new characters. Anne-Marie Bradshaw is the granddaughter of Charles and Jane Bingley. Her father now owns Longbourn, the Bennet's estate in Hertfordshire. A young widow after a loveless marriage, Anne-Marie and her stepmother Anna, together with Charlotte Collins, widow of the unctuous Mr. Collins, are the Ladies of Longbourn. These smart, independent women challenge the conventional roles of women in the Victorian era, while they search for ways to build their own lasting legacies in an ever-changing world. The ladies find strength, companionship, and friendship together as they work to build a children's hospital, deal with a deadly outbreak of influenza, and help a gentle lady flee a violent and destructive marriage. Jane Austen's original characters - Darcy, Elizabeth, Bingley, and Jane - provide a framework of solid values and commentary to anchor a dramatic story full of wit and compassion. "Interesting stories, enduring themes, gentle humour, and lively dialogue."— Book News
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1402234392
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
"A masterpiece that reaches the heart."— Beverley Wong, author of Pride & Prejudice Prudence The bestselling Pemberley Chronicles series continues the saga of the Darcys and Bingleys from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and introduces imaginative new characters. Anne-Marie Bradshaw is the granddaughter of Charles and Jane Bingley. Her father now owns Longbourn, the Bennet's estate in Hertfordshire. A young widow after a loveless marriage, Anne-Marie and her stepmother Anna, together with Charlotte Collins, widow of the unctuous Mr. Collins, are the Ladies of Longbourn. These smart, independent women challenge the conventional roles of women in the Victorian era, while they search for ways to build their own lasting legacies in an ever-changing world. The ladies find strength, companionship, and friendship together as they work to build a children's hospital, deal with a deadly outbreak of influenza, and help a gentle lady flee a violent and destructive marriage. Jane Austen's original characters - Darcy, Elizabeth, Bingley, and Jane - provide a framework of solid values and commentary to anchor a dramatic story full of wit and compassion. "Interesting stories, enduring themes, gentle humour, and lively dialogue."— Book News
Sleeping Dogs
Author: Elizabeth Ferrars
Publisher: Murder Room
ISBN: 1471907090
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
What happens to a woman after she has been acquitted of murder? Can she ever take up a normal life? And what happens when a journalist sees easy money in ghostwriting her memoirs? What happens when a helpful young woman, checking on the details of the story, gets caught up in the ugly world that surrounds Teresa Swale, legally acquitted - and possibly a victim herself - of murder? 'A consummate professional in clever plotting' Washington Post
Publisher: Murder Room
ISBN: 1471907090
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
What happens to a woman after she has been acquitted of murder? Can she ever take up a normal life? And what happens when a journalist sees easy money in ghostwriting her memoirs? What happens when a helpful young woman, checking on the details of the story, gets caught up in the ugly world that surrounds Teresa Swale, legally acquitted - and possibly a victim herself - of murder? 'A consummate professional in clever plotting' Washington Post
Among The Wild Mulattos and Other Tales
Author: Tom Williams
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1680030191
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 141
Book Description
Set in the suburbs and cities of the Midwest, Mid-South, and Texas, these stories explore the lives of characters biracial, black, white, and all sorts of in-between. The intersections and collisions of contemporary life are in full effect here, where the distinctions between fast food and fine art, noble and naked ambitions, reality and reality shows have become impossible to distinguish. Read these stories and understand why Steve Yarbrough said Williams “writes like Paul Auster if he were funnier or like Stanley Elkin might have if he’d ever been able to stop laughing.” " Tom Williams has done the near impossible in penning a book that is both undeniably entertaining and deeply thoughtful, Millhauser meets Bukowski meets Ellison." --Alan Heathcock, author of Volt “Sure, we need the nudge of category to help us all think straight, but we also need the rangy trickster, Tom Williams, to do the bang-up boundary work of imaginary anthropology in these deadpan dead-on gems. These infiltrating texts take us sideways, through and through, turn us inside-out.” . --Michael Martone, author of Michael Martone and Four for a Quarter
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1680030191
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 141
Book Description
Set in the suburbs and cities of the Midwest, Mid-South, and Texas, these stories explore the lives of characters biracial, black, white, and all sorts of in-between. The intersections and collisions of contemporary life are in full effect here, where the distinctions between fast food and fine art, noble and naked ambitions, reality and reality shows have become impossible to distinguish. Read these stories and understand why Steve Yarbrough said Williams “writes like Paul Auster if he were funnier or like Stanley Elkin might have if he’d ever been able to stop laughing.” " Tom Williams has done the near impossible in penning a book that is both undeniably entertaining and deeply thoughtful, Millhauser meets Bukowski meets Ellison." --Alan Heathcock, author of Volt “Sure, we need the nudge of category to help us all think straight, but we also need the rangy trickster, Tom Williams, to do the bang-up boundary work of imaginary anthropology in these deadpan dead-on gems. These infiltrating texts take us sideways, through and through, turn us inside-out.” . --Michael Martone, author of Michael Martone and Four for a Quarter
The Trade
Author: Thomas Kirkwood
Publisher: Thomas Kirkwood
ISBN: 1461141478
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Small candles nestled in a silver candelabrum are ceremoniously lit to announce the start of a medieval auction. Sadly, however, we are not in the middle ages but in the first decade of this century. The auction is a nightly event somewhere in Eastern Europe. On the block are naked teenage girls, the latest casualties of the global flesh market. These sex slaves are not fiction: "Natasha girls" already number over a million, an atrocity that has joined weapons smuggling and drug trafficking as one of the largest and most lucrative criminal activities on earth.Krist�na Sondheim, at age 16, was among the first Natasha girls, but managed to break free of her captor and begin a new life in the States. That life turns ugly when she is sentenced to 25 years for the murders of her husband and young daughter - murders she did not commit. The novel opens with Krist�na's breathtaking escape from Abbyville, a women's prison built on land adjacent to Sing Sing. All we know at this point is that there is some link between the prologue and this remarkable woman; and that she knows her daughter, who witnessed Arthur Sondheim's murder, is alive somewhere in Eastern Europe.Krist�na becomes the focus of both the public and the FBI because of her escape. What is not known is that she and her little girl are also the focus of Stepan Obruchev, the man from whose sexual servitude she had escaped, the man responsible for her husband's murder, her daughter's kidnapping and the set-up that landed her in prison. Obruchev, one of the Trade's major players, has contacts everywhere. He must find the girl, Teresa, who knows too much. He must find Krist�na before she is hunted down by Interpol. She will lead him to the child; he will have his revenge while eliminating the threat that he will be revealed - both as a killer and a kingpin in the Trade. Thus begins an international race across continents, a frantic attempt by Krist�na to evade both Obruchev and the law in order to rescue her daughter. Her heart-stopping quest takes her and the FBI on a terrifying journey into the bowels of the Natasha Trade. In Genoa, Special Agent Connor and his international team have her cornered. Krist�na again escapes; her courage and cunning evoke the most suspenseful scenes in The Fugitive. With the help of Natasha rescue groups throughout Europe, she spots her ragged daughter traveling with a tribe of Gypsies. Connor becomes convinced he is dealing with more than an escaped convict. His attention shifts to the Russian Mafia, the seedy criminal element calling the shots in the former East Bloc. He learns who Obruchev is, learns that he is looking for Krist�na. Together with the Austrian police he carries out a sting to penetrate Obruchev's operation in Slovenia. Posing as an insatiable buyer of teenage girls, he picks up the evil man's trail. What has been kept from the reader to this point is that Obruchev's auctioneer, Rasputin, a fake priest and castrato, seeks to dominate his inferiors - those driven by lust. What better way to do this than to set up Obruchev for the cops and take over his business? Rasputin kidnaps Teresa before her mother can free her. In a note tied to Teresa's dog, Krist�na learns of a farm in Slovenia where she must go to find her daughter. Rasputin sends the same message to Obruchev, knowing the FBI will follow. All roads lead to the farm, desolate and enveloped in fog, for a nail-biting yet ultimately exhilarating denouement.
Publisher: Thomas Kirkwood
ISBN: 1461141478
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Small candles nestled in a silver candelabrum are ceremoniously lit to announce the start of a medieval auction. Sadly, however, we are not in the middle ages but in the first decade of this century. The auction is a nightly event somewhere in Eastern Europe. On the block are naked teenage girls, the latest casualties of the global flesh market. These sex slaves are not fiction: "Natasha girls" already number over a million, an atrocity that has joined weapons smuggling and drug trafficking as one of the largest and most lucrative criminal activities on earth.Krist�na Sondheim, at age 16, was among the first Natasha girls, but managed to break free of her captor and begin a new life in the States. That life turns ugly when she is sentenced to 25 years for the murders of her husband and young daughter - murders she did not commit. The novel opens with Krist�na's breathtaking escape from Abbyville, a women's prison built on land adjacent to Sing Sing. All we know at this point is that there is some link between the prologue and this remarkable woman; and that she knows her daughter, who witnessed Arthur Sondheim's murder, is alive somewhere in Eastern Europe.Krist�na becomes the focus of both the public and the FBI because of her escape. What is not known is that she and her little girl are also the focus of Stepan Obruchev, the man from whose sexual servitude she had escaped, the man responsible for her husband's murder, her daughter's kidnapping and the set-up that landed her in prison. Obruchev, one of the Trade's major players, has contacts everywhere. He must find the girl, Teresa, who knows too much. He must find Krist�na before she is hunted down by Interpol. She will lead him to the child; he will have his revenge while eliminating the threat that he will be revealed - both as a killer and a kingpin in the Trade. Thus begins an international race across continents, a frantic attempt by Krist�na to evade both Obruchev and the law in order to rescue her daughter. Her heart-stopping quest takes her and the FBI on a terrifying journey into the bowels of the Natasha Trade. In Genoa, Special Agent Connor and his international team have her cornered. Krist�na again escapes; her courage and cunning evoke the most suspenseful scenes in The Fugitive. With the help of Natasha rescue groups throughout Europe, she spots her ragged daughter traveling with a tribe of Gypsies. Connor becomes convinced he is dealing with more than an escaped convict. His attention shifts to the Russian Mafia, the seedy criminal element calling the shots in the former East Bloc. He learns who Obruchev is, learns that he is looking for Krist�na. Together with the Austrian police he carries out a sting to penetrate Obruchev's operation in Slovenia. Posing as an insatiable buyer of teenage girls, he picks up the evil man's trail. What has been kept from the reader to this point is that Obruchev's auctioneer, Rasputin, a fake priest and castrato, seeks to dominate his inferiors - those driven by lust. What better way to do this than to set up Obruchev for the cops and take over his business? Rasputin kidnaps Teresa before her mother can free her. In a note tied to Teresa's dog, Krist�na learns of a farm in Slovenia where she must go to find her daughter. Rasputin sends the same message to Obruchev, knowing the FBI will follow. All roads lead to the farm, desolate and enveloped in fog, for a nail-biting yet ultimately exhilarating denouement.
Impetuous
Author: Katherine Grey
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press Inc
ISBN: 1612176364
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Mateo de Montayas, an impoverished Spanish count, comes to England to recover a stolen family heirloom and to satisfy his hunger for revenge against the man who destroyed his family. Arriving in London, he learns his hated enemy died three years before but has left behind a daughter. What better way to retrieve the heirloom and exact revenge than to use her to his advantage' Teresa Darlington will do anything to keep scandal away from her frail mother and prove her father wasn't a thief, even risk her reputation in a race to find the missing heirloom before the Count does. But she didn't count on falling in love with the man determined to ruin her family. Can she find the heirloom before he does and protect her family, or will her heart lead her in a different direction'
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press Inc
ISBN: 1612176364
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Mateo de Montayas, an impoverished Spanish count, comes to England to recover a stolen family heirloom and to satisfy his hunger for revenge against the man who destroyed his family. Arriving in London, he learns his hated enemy died three years before but has left behind a daughter. What better way to retrieve the heirloom and exact revenge than to use her to his advantage' Teresa Darlington will do anything to keep scandal away from her frail mother and prove her father wasn't a thief, even risk her reputation in a race to find the missing heirloom before the Count does. But she didn't count on falling in love with the man determined to ruin her family. Can she find the heirloom before he does and protect her family, or will her heart lead her in a different direction'