Author: Valentina Giambanco
Publisher: Quercus
ISBN: 163506063X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Something evil has crept into the small, tranquil community of Ludlow, deep in the mountains of Washington state. "SUPERB." --PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (STARRED REVIEW) "COMPELLING AND REALISTIC." --NEW YORK JOURNAL OF BOOKS "CRIME FICTION FOR CONNOISSEURS." --WILLIAM SHAW In the dead of winter, homicide detective Alice Madison is sent to the remote town of Ludlow, Washington, to investigate an unspeakable crime. Together with her partner, detective sergeant Kevin Brown, and crime scene investigator Amy Sorensen, Madison must first understand the killer's motives, but the dark mountains that surround Ludlow are the perfect refuge for anyone trying to keep their secrets. When the killer strikes again, the three Seattle police officers find themselves under siege. And as they become targets, Madison and her team realize that in the freezing woods around the pretty town, a cunning evil hungers for their deaths.
Sweet After Death
Author: Valentina Giambanco
Publisher: Quercus
ISBN: 163506063X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Something evil has crept into the small, tranquil community of Ludlow, deep in the mountains of Washington state. "SUPERB." --PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (STARRED REVIEW) "COMPELLING AND REALISTIC." --NEW YORK JOURNAL OF BOOKS "CRIME FICTION FOR CONNOISSEURS." --WILLIAM SHAW In the dead of winter, homicide detective Alice Madison is sent to the remote town of Ludlow, Washington, to investigate an unspeakable crime. Together with her partner, detective sergeant Kevin Brown, and crime scene investigator Amy Sorensen, Madison must first understand the killer's motives, but the dark mountains that surround Ludlow are the perfect refuge for anyone trying to keep their secrets. When the killer strikes again, the three Seattle police officers find themselves under siege. And as they become targets, Madison and her team realize that in the freezing woods around the pretty town, a cunning evil hungers for their deaths.
Publisher: Quercus
ISBN: 163506063X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Something evil has crept into the small, tranquil community of Ludlow, deep in the mountains of Washington state. "SUPERB." --PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (STARRED REVIEW) "COMPELLING AND REALISTIC." --NEW YORK JOURNAL OF BOOKS "CRIME FICTION FOR CONNOISSEURS." --WILLIAM SHAW In the dead of winter, homicide detective Alice Madison is sent to the remote town of Ludlow, Washington, to investigate an unspeakable crime. Together with her partner, detective sergeant Kevin Brown, and crime scene investigator Amy Sorensen, Madison must first understand the killer's motives, but the dark mountains that surround Ludlow are the perfect refuge for anyone trying to keep their secrets. When the killer strikes again, the three Seattle police officers find themselves under siege. And as they become targets, Madison and her team realize that in the freezing woods around the pretty town, a cunning evil hungers for their deaths.
My Sweet Encounter with Death
Author: Ana Christina
Publisher: WestBowPress
ISBN: 1490820159
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
“Then I felt his body leaning over mine and his fingers holding my nostrils shut. I could not breathe. My teeth were clenched. His fingers remained sealing my nose, when suddenly my mouth and jaw opened up and I gasped for air. Startled, he released his grip on my nose and left the room, leaving me paralyzed, naked, and curled up on the floor.” A few years ago, Ana Christina was left for dead. Despite the horrific circumstances, it was a blessing in disguise - the Lord delivered her from the hands of her perpetrator. “Ana Christina shares in such a vulnerable way that she takes her readers on a journey. Her incredible path leaves one with the realization that the human soul is unconquerable. Her honest, open way of revealing herself literally gives her readers the permission and courage to get real with themselves, experiencing a journey of self discovery, self disclosure and eventually the uncovering of self immortality.” - Jeffery Olsen, Author of KNOWING and WHERE ARE YOU?
Publisher: WestBowPress
ISBN: 1490820159
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
“Then I felt his body leaning over mine and his fingers holding my nostrils shut. I could not breathe. My teeth were clenched. His fingers remained sealing my nose, when suddenly my mouth and jaw opened up and I gasped for air. Startled, he released his grip on my nose and left the room, leaving me paralyzed, naked, and curled up on the floor.” A few years ago, Ana Christina was left for dead. Despite the horrific circumstances, it was a blessing in disguise - the Lord delivered her from the hands of her perpetrator. “Ana Christina shares in such a vulnerable way that she takes her readers on a journey. Her incredible path leaves one with the realization that the human soul is unconquerable. Her honest, open way of revealing herself literally gives her readers the permission and courage to get real with themselves, experiencing a journey of self discovery, self disclosure and eventually the uncovering of self immortality.” - Jeffery Olsen, Author of KNOWING and WHERE ARE YOU?
White Saris and Sweet Mangoes
Author: Sarah Lamb
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520935268
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
This rich ethnography explores beliefs and practices surrounding aging in a rural Bengali village. Sarah Lamb focuses on how villagers' visions of aging are tied to the making and unmaking of gendered selves and social relations over a lifetime. Lamb uses a focus on age as a means not only to open up new ways of thinking about South Asian social life, but also to contribute to contemporary theories of gender, the body, and culture, which have been hampered, the book argues, by a static focus on youth. Lamb's own experiences in the village are an integral part of her book and ably convey the cultural particularities of rural Bengali life and Bengali notions of modernity. In exploring ideals of family life and the intricate interrelationships between and within generations, she enables us to understand how people in the village construct, and deconstruct, their lives. At the same time her study extends beyond India to contemporary attitudes about aging in the United States. This accessible and engaging book is about deeply human issues and will appeal not only to specialists in South Asian culture, but to anyone interested in families, aging, gender, religion, and the body.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520935268
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
This rich ethnography explores beliefs and practices surrounding aging in a rural Bengali village. Sarah Lamb focuses on how villagers' visions of aging are tied to the making and unmaking of gendered selves and social relations over a lifetime. Lamb uses a focus on age as a means not only to open up new ways of thinking about South Asian social life, but also to contribute to contemporary theories of gender, the body, and culture, which have been hampered, the book argues, by a static focus on youth. Lamb's own experiences in the village are an integral part of her book and ably convey the cultural particularities of rural Bengali life and Bengali notions of modernity. In exploring ideals of family life and the intricate interrelationships between and within generations, she enables us to understand how people in the village construct, and deconstruct, their lives. At the same time her study extends beyond India to contemporary attitudes about aging in the United States. This accessible and engaging book is about deeply human issues and will appeal not only to specialists in South Asian culture, but to anyone interested in families, aging, gender, religion, and the body.
Sweet and Clean?
Author: Susan North
Publisher:
ISBN: 019885613X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
How dirty were our ancestors, really? Academic history has persuaded us that everyone in the early modern era thought bathing was unhealthy, so they didn't do it. Sweet and Clean? challenges this view, using a range of fascinating evidence to tell a different story about the washing of bodies and scrubbing of clothes in early modern England.
Publisher:
ISBN: 019885613X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
How dirty were our ancestors, really? Academic history has persuaded us that everyone in the early modern era thought bathing was unhealthy, so they didn't do it. Sweet and Clean? challenges this view, using a range of fascinating evidence to tell a different story about the washing of bodies and scrubbing of clothes in early modern England.
Short and Sweet and Pithy
Author: Eddie A. U. Akpan
Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1638147841
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 109
Book Description
Each of us is supported by three pillars; the physical, financial, and spiritual pillars. Our body is the chamber or enclosure that entitles us to operate in the physical world. Every day, take some minutes to sing, read, give thanks for all things, do calisthenics, and your pillars will remain strong for a long time. Hercules is endowed with superlative physique; good for him, but even if his wisdom exceeds King Solomon’s, he would not be a happy camper if he has no skills that people can pay for. Turning things around, a wealthy but unwise Hercules would get into more trouble than he can pay for. We need three solid pillars (health, money, and wisdom) so that we can hold our head high like an eagle and shoulders straight like an arrow. In the spiritual world, all things are possible.
Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1638147841
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 109
Book Description
Each of us is supported by three pillars; the physical, financial, and spiritual pillars. Our body is the chamber or enclosure that entitles us to operate in the physical world. Every day, take some minutes to sing, read, give thanks for all things, do calisthenics, and your pillars will remain strong for a long time. Hercules is endowed with superlative physique; good for him, but even if his wisdom exceeds King Solomon’s, he would not be a happy camper if he has no skills that people can pay for. Turning things around, a wealthy but unwise Hercules would get into more trouble than he can pay for. We need three solid pillars (health, money, and wisdom) so that we can hold our head high like an eagle and shoulders straight like an arrow. In the spiritual world, all things are possible.
A Night at the Sweet Gum Head: Drag, Drugs, Disco, and Atlanta's Gay Revolution
Author: Martin Padgett
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 1324007133
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
An electric and intimate story of 1970s gay Atlanta through its bedazzling drag clubs and burgeoning rights activism. Coursing with a pumped-up beat, gay Atlanta was the South's mecca—a beacon for gays and lesbians growing up in its homophobic towns and cities. There, the Sweet Gum Head was the club for achieving drag stardom. Martin Padgett evokes the fantabulous disco decade by going deep into the lives of two men who shaped and were shaped by this city: John Greenwell, an Alabama runaway who found himself and his avocation performing as the exquisite Rachel Wells; and Bill Smith, who took to the streets and city hall to change antigay laws. Against this optimism for visibility and rights, gay people lived with daily police harassment and drug dealing and murder in their discos and drag clubs. Conducting interviews with many of the major figures and reading through deteriorating gay archives, Padgett expertly re-creates Atlanta from a time when a vibrant, new queer culture of drag and pride came into being.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 1324007133
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
An electric and intimate story of 1970s gay Atlanta through its bedazzling drag clubs and burgeoning rights activism. Coursing with a pumped-up beat, gay Atlanta was the South's mecca—a beacon for gays and lesbians growing up in its homophobic towns and cities. There, the Sweet Gum Head was the club for achieving drag stardom. Martin Padgett evokes the fantabulous disco decade by going deep into the lives of two men who shaped and were shaped by this city: John Greenwell, an Alabama runaway who found himself and his avocation performing as the exquisite Rachel Wells; and Bill Smith, who took to the streets and city hall to change antigay laws. Against this optimism for visibility and rights, gay people lived with daily police harassment and drug dealing and murder in their discos and drag clubs. Conducting interviews with many of the major figures and reading through deteriorating gay archives, Padgett expertly re-creates Atlanta from a time when a vibrant, new queer culture of drag and pride came into being.
Sweet Promises
Author: J. R. Miller
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 0802068189
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 489
Book Description
Companion volume to earlier work: Skyscrapers hide the heavens. Previously published articles are concerned with developments in the various regions of Canada from the days of New France to the present. They deal with the early military alliances, relations at the time of the fur trade, civil Indian policy, treaties and reserves, the Northwest Rebellion, the impact of religion and agricultural and educational policies, the emergence of native political organization, differing attitudes towards the environment, and the struggle for aboriginal rights and contemporary land claims disputes. Introduction provides an overview of the history of Indian-white relations over five centuries.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 0802068189
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 489
Book Description
Companion volume to earlier work: Skyscrapers hide the heavens. Previously published articles are concerned with developments in the various regions of Canada from the days of New France to the present. They deal with the early military alliances, relations at the time of the fur trade, civil Indian policy, treaties and reserves, the Northwest Rebellion, the impact of religion and agricultural and educational policies, the emergence of native political organization, differing attitudes towards the environment, and the struggle for aboriginal rights and contemporary land claims disputes. Introduction provides an overview of the history of Indian-white relations over five centuries.
Sweet Sorrow
Author: Sherry Cormier
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538114186
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
Few of us know how to navigate the territory of traumatic loss successfully. Sweet Sorrow shows how we can respond and grow stronger from loss and suffering. Written by a psychologist and certified bereavement trauma specialist in the decade following the loss of her husband, father, mother, and only sibling, this carefully considered work provides perspective on grief and healing over time. This longer-term approach allows readers to have a more complete and accurate picture of the oscillations of grief over time. The book describes not only the immediate agony of the author’s losses, but also the process of starting over and making a successful new life as a single person full of hope and joy. Sweet Sorrow combines the author’s psychological expertise and clinical experience with the compelling art of memoir to illuminate the surprising ways in which loss survivors can grow and even thrive to achieve wholeness after heartbreaking, traumatic losses. Using findings from post-traumatic growth, as well as evidence-based psychological approaches, Sweet Sorrow illustrates through story and example, ways for grief survivors to start over, to manage chaos and stress, to let go, and to heal with new strategies and re-storying. Sweet Sorrow also provides resources and recommendations for self-care, as well as tips and suggestions for all of us trying to respond creatively and helpfully to those around us suffering loss. Ultimately, Sweet Sorrow is a book of inspiration intended to accompany readers through the processes of loss and grief much like a helpful Sherpa might guide a lost traveler.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538114186
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
Few of us know how to navigate the territory of traumatic loss successfully. Sweet Sorrow shows how we can respond and grow stronger from loss and suffering. Written by a psychologist and certified bereavement trauma specialist in the decade following the loss of her husband, father, mother, and only sibling, this carefully considered work provides perspective on grief and healing over time. This longer-term approach allows readers to have a more complete and accurate picture of the oscillations of grief over time. The book describes not only the immediate agony of the author’s losses, but also the process of starting over and making a successful new life as a single person full of hope and joy. Sweet Sorrow combines the author’s psychological expertise and clinical experience with the compelling art of memoir to illuminate the surprising ways in which loss survivors can grow and even thrive to achieve wholeness after heartbreaking, traumatic losses. Using findings from post-traumatic growth, as well as evidence-based psychological approaches, Sweet Sorrow illustrates through story and example, ways for grief survivors to start over, to manage chaos and stress, to let go, and to heal with new strategies and re-storying. Sweet Sorrow also provides resources and recommendations for self-care, as well as tips and suggestions for all of us trying to respond creatively and helpfully to those around us suffering loss. Ultimately, Sweet Sorrow is a book of inspiration intended to accompany readers through the processes of loss and grief much like a helpful Sherpa might guide a lost traveler.
Come into Jesus’ (Sweet) Heart
Author: Musa Bin Ismail
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1499017413
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
This writings expose the actual and true pristine teachings of Jesus to his community, the Israelites. For over 2000 years the brilliant Heavenly messages of God taught by Jesus to his community, the Israelites, had been unfortunately misunderstood by his community and subsequently profoundly distorted by the Christians after the teachings of Jesus left the shores of Palestine for glorious Rome. The Jews arrogantly rejected Jesus outright and accused him of being a false messiah (prophet) while the Christians, in the wilderness of history ( spearheaded by Saul, a Jew form Tarsus), mysteriously revered him as a begotten Son of God and elevated him as one of the Gods in the Trinity in the new faith called Christianity. Truly, Jesus had never heard the word Christianity nor uttered it in his entire life. He had never called his followers Christians. This writing illuminates to the whole of Christendom and the entire House of Israel, the Divine Messages from Heaven which Jesus took pain to dessiminate to the Israelites then. The author has unearthed the Words of God from the resplendent pages of the Bible and explained its true meanings and messages for the followers of Jesus to cherish and practise throught their lives and for the adamant Jews to see the Divineness in the messages and return to the fold of the Lord. To the Jews and the Christians, this writing is a rare opportunity for them to listen to the words of Jesus and to lead their lives in accordance with the Masters teachings. May they be blessed with the Heavenly enrichments and blessings from the Lord, the One and the Only Great Jealous God of the Universe.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1499017413
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
This writings expose the actual and true pristine teachings of Jesus to his community, the Israelites. For over 2000 years the brilliant Heavenly messages of God taught by Jesus to his community, the Israelites, had been unfortunately misunderstood by his community and subsequently profoundly distorted by the Christians after the teachings of Jesus left the shores of Palestine for glorious Rome. The Jews arrogantly rejected Jesus outright and accused him of being a false messiah (prophet) while the Christians, in the wilderness of history ( spearheaded by Saul, a Jew form Tarsus), mysteriously revered him as a begotten Son of God and elevated him as one of the Gods in the Trinity in the new faith called Christianity. Truly, Jesus had never heard the word Christianity nor uttered it in his entire life. He had never called his followers Christians. This writing illuminates to the whole of Christendom and the entire House of Israel, the Divine Messages from Heaven which Jesus took pain to dessiminate to the Israelites then. The author has unearthed the Words of God from the resplendent pages of the Bible and explained its true meanings and messages for the followers of Jesus to cherish and practise throught their lives and for the adamant Jews to see the Divineness in the messages and return to the fold of the Lord. To the Jews and the Christians, this writing is a rare opportunity for them to listen to the words of Jesus and to lead their lives in accordance with the Masters teachings. May they be blessed with the Heavenly enrichments and blessings from the Lord, the One and the Only Great Jealous God of the Universe.
The Death of Sweet Mister
Author: Daniel Woodrell
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
ISBN: 0316206156
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Shug Akins is a lonely, overweight thirteen-year-old boy. His mother, Glenda, is the one person who loves him -- she calls him Sweet Mister and attempts to boost his confidence and give him hope for his future. Shuggie's purported father, Red, is a brutal man with a short fuse who mocks and despises the boy. Into this small-town Ozarks mix comes Jimmy Vin Pearce, with his shiny green T-bird and his smart city clothes. When he and Glenda begin a torrid affair, a series of violent events is inevitably set in motion. The outcome will break your heart. "This is Daniel Woodrell's third book set in the Ozarks and, like the other two, Give Us a Kiss and Tomato Red, it peels back the layers from lives already made bare by poverty and petty crime."-Otto Penzler, Penzler Pick, 2001
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
ISBN: 0316206156
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Shug Akins is a lonely, overweight thirteen-year-old boy. His mother, Glenda, is the one person who loves him -- she calls him Sweet Mister and attempts to boost his confidence and give him hope for his future. Shuggie's purported father, Red, is a brutal man with a short fuse who mocks and despises the boy. Into this small-town Ozarks mix comes Jimmy Vin Pearce, with his shiny green T-bird and his smart city clothes. When he and Glenda begin a torrid affair, a series of violent events is inevitably set in motion. The outcome will break your heart. "This is Daniel Woodrell's third book set in the Ozarks and, like the other two, Give Us a Kiss and Tomato Red, it peels back the layers from lives already made bare by poverty and petty crime."-Otto Penzler, Penzler Pick, 2001