Author: Gina Magee
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 426
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At twenty-nine years old, Alex McGregor is enjoying a fabulous life: she's married, living in Dallas, Texas, and owns a successful homeopathy business in the bustling downtown area. When she finds herself suddenly facing a divorce, she decides to not only leave her cheating ex-husband behind in her rearview mirror, but also big-city life. Drawn to a small town in east Texas that she once knew well, Alex ventures back to put down new roots-and to confront her past. A past that has never stopped haunting her. Soon, Alex is unknowingly caught up in a web of the town's secrets and lies until a ghost from her past unexpectedly reappears to untangle her from it. That ghost is Taylor Kingston, the town's own prodigal son and Alex's first love. This is a passionate tale of romance, betrayal, an unsolved crime, and magic. Twisted Roots will keep you guessing until the very end.
Author: Susan Kesegich
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781723781827
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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A true story of incest, physical abuse and mental torment and how one young girl fought back! For 17 years Louise was married to this man she had come to hate. Along with her were her five innocent children. For every year of their lives they watched their father brutally batter their mother. Each of the children were subjected to one or more of the following types of abuse. Incest. Physical Beatings. Mental Abuse. Deprivation. Rape. For years this family lived in fear and in 1977 they were failed by the judicial system when they tried to escape. They were able to get away but he only got a slap on the wrist. In 1994, seventeen years later he would not walk away. During that seventeen year period he married a severely mentally handicapped cousin and raised five more children. This second family was more severely abused. Learn from this story how a police captain from a small southern town finally brought about justice for all these victims and touched the lives of both families. This is a story of survival and strength and a story for survivors everywhere.
Author: Gwen Dorsey
Publisher: Carpenter's Son Publishing
ISBN: 9781954437333
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Gwen's story highlights years of childhood abuse, and unfathomable family secrets. Her memoir is the path to inner healing and a joyous testimony of how God keeps His promises and will deliver you from your darkest times.
Author: V.C. Andrews
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743428587
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 422
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Psychological suspense.
Author: Carlos Alberto Montaner
Publisher: Algora Publishing
ISBN: 0875862616
Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 206
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A Cuban/Spanish journalist and author examines the historical and cultural influences that shaped Latin America and suggests how they have made it into the most impoverished, unstable and backward region in the Western world.
Author: Shelly Goodman Wright
Publisher: Tate Publishing
ISBN: 1618622102
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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'I want to tell you something now. I need you to listen closely and don't forget. I'm not sure how much time I have.' He stopped again and shook his head at the sky. He then pointed out a vivid star high above them in the moonless sky. 'There are magical places that exist in this world, Jess, places that the master architect created to balance good and evil. The time will come when you will leave this house and enter into another life that awaits you, a life you deserve and one with greater purpose. You don't know how special you really are.'Jessica's sole priority for the past thirteen years has been to keep her father alive in the hope he will wake up from his coma and save her. Threatening to cut off his life support at any sign of independence, her mother has controlled her life, even to the point of an arranged engagement to Seth, whom Jessica fears even more than her mother. When Jessica accepts this most outrageous demand yet and then discovers her father has 'passed away' anyway, she knows she has to escape. She runs until she is lost and bewildered in a Georgia swamp, where she discovers the existence of the wonderful place her father hinted at to her when she was only a child. In this magical, unreal world, just as she begins to discover the truth about her twisted family roots, three young men set their eyes on Jessica. One will win her heart, one will try to steal it, and one will try to kill her.
Author: Janet Hubbard
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1464205604
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 213
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"Burgundy: Twisted Roots is an intriguing and multi-layered novel about love, wine and intrigue, steeped in a deep knowledge of the seductive French lifestyle, from wild boar hunts to wine harves feasts, with side servings of skullduggery and inheritance laws." —MARTIN WALKER, bestselling author of the Bruno, Chief of Police series Max Maguire of the NYPD, daughter of a legendary NY cop and a French mother disowned by her aristocratic family when she married, met examining magistrate Olivier Chaumont over murder at the wedding of an old friend in the Champagne wine region. They remained on-again-off-again partners and lovers over more murder again, this time in Bordeaux. And now, six months later, Max is on her way to Burgundy where it's time to give up her promising career and commit—or split. Murder occurs. There's a mystery girl, American. Fractured families. Motives aplenty. But the story's real fascination lies in two things French: the wine culture and French inheritance laws which are convoluted and guaranteed to spark family wars, even unto death. And the French justice system functions differently which frustrates Max, an action-oriented, straightforward investigator, and causes some friction with Olivier. Janet Hubbard wraps up her Vengeance in the Vineyard trilogy with a surprise and solutions that will please readers.
Author: Emma Dabiri
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062966731
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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A Kirkus Best Book of the Year Stamped from the Beginning meets You Can't Touch My Hair in this timely and resonant essay collection from Guardian contributor and prominent BBC race correspondent Emma Dabiri, exploring the ways in which black hair has been appropriated and stigmatized throughout history, with ruminations on body politics, race, pop culture, and Dabiri’s own journey to loving her hair. Emma Dabiri can tell you the first time she chemically straightened her hair. She can describe the smell, the atmosphere of the salon, and her mix of emotions when she saw her normally kinky tresses fall down her shoulders. For as long as Emma can remember, her hair has been a source of insecurity, shame, and—from strangers and family alike—discrimination. And she is not alone. Despite increasingly liberal world views, black hair continues to be erased, appropriated, and stigmatized to the point of taboo. Through her personal and historical journey, Dabiri gleans insights into the way racism is coded in society’s perception of black hair—and how it is often used as an avenue for discrimination. Dabiri takes us from pre-colonial Africa, through the Harlem Renaissance, and into today's Natural Hair Movement, exploring everything from women's solidarity and friendship, to the criminalization of dreadlocks, to the dubious provenance of Kim Kardashian's braids. Through the lens of hair texture, Dabiri leads us on a historical and cultural investigation of the global history of racism—and her own personal journey of self-love and finally, acceptance. Deeply researched and powerfully resonant, Twisted proves that far from being only hair, black hairstyling culture can be understood as an allegory for black oppression and, ultimately, liberation.
Author: V.C. Andrews
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 067103992X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 468
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Willow DeBeers leaves her North Carolina town to make a new start with her mother and half-brother in Palm Beach, Florida.
Author: Nick Tosches
Publisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 0786750987
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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Celebrating the dark origins of our most American music, Country reveals a wild shadowland of history that encompasses blackface minstrels and yodeling cowboys; honky-tonk hell and rockabilly heaven; medieval myth and musical miscegenation; sex, drugs, murder; and rays of fierce illumination on Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, and others, famous and forgotten, whose demonology is America's own. Profusely and superbly illustrated, Country stands as one of the most brilliant explorations of American musical culture ever written.
