Author: Lin Weich
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1525509586
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
Behind her back they call her “The Black Widow”. Daphne McNeil has been widowed four times in ten years. Each time, her husbands have left her considerable sums of money. She finds that she must use these inheritances to support her beloved charities. The money does not go far enough and with increasing financial pressures, she becomes desperate. When Steve Johnson, a forensic scientist, discovers human remains in an isolated lake near Daphne’s drug and alcohol rehabilitation center, he unwittingly puts himself in danger. He begins to suspect the beautiful widow is not as innocent as she seems. Will he become her next victim?
Widow's Luck
Author: Lin Weich
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1525509586
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
Behind her back they call her “The Black Widow”. Daphne McNeil has been widowed four times in ten years. Each time, her husbands have left her considerable sums of money. She finds that she must use these inheritances to support her beloved charities. The money does not go far enough and with increasing financial pressures, she becomes desperate. When Steve Johnson, a forensic scientist, discovers human remains in an isolated lake near Daphne’s drug and alcohol rehabilitation center, he unwittingly puts himself in danger. He begins to suspect the beautiful widow is not as innocent as she seems. Will he become her next victim?
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1525509586
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
Behind her back they call her “The Black Widow”. Daphne McNeil has been widowed four times in ten years. Each time, her husbands have left her considerable sums of money. She finds that she must use these inheritances to support her beloved charities. The money does not go far enough and with increasing financial pressures, she becomes desperate. When Steve Johnson, a forensic scientist, discovers human remains in an isolated lake near Daphne’s drug and alcohol rehabilitation center, he unwittingly puts himself in danger. He begins to suspect the beautiful widow is not as innocent as she seems. Will he become her next victim?
A World of Widows
Author: Margaret Owen
Publisher: Zed Books
ISBN: 9781856494205
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
A World of Widows provides a global overview of the status for widowhood. Neglected by social policy researches, international human rights activists and the women's movement, the status of the world's widows - legal, social, cultural, and economic - is an urgent issue given the extent and the severity of the discrimination against them. Margaret Own explores the process of becoming a widow; poverty and social security in the context of widowhood; differing laws and customs regarding widow's inheritance; the situation of widows who remarry and issues of sexuality and health. She also looks at the needs of specific groups of widows - refugees, older widows, child widows - and widowhood in the context of AIDS. Throughout, she shows the prevalence of discrimination against widows in inheritance rights, land ownership, custody of children, security of home and shelter, nutrition and health. The book concludes with a summary of widowhood as a human rights issues and an overview of widows themselves organising for change.
Publisher: Zed Books
ISBN: 9781856494205
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
A World of Widows provides a global overview of the status for widowhood. Neglected by social policy researches, international human rights activists and the women's movement, the status of the world's widows - legal, social, cultural, and economic - is an urgent issue given the extent and the severity of the discrimination against them. Margaret Own explores the process of becoming a widow; poverty and social security in the context of widowhood; differing laws and customs regarding widow's inheritance; the situation of widows who remarry and issues of sexuality and health. She also looks at the needs of specific groups of widows - refugees, older widows, child widows - and widowhood in the context of AIDS. Throughout, she shows the prevalence of discrimination against widows in inheritance rights, land ownership, custody of children, security of home and shelter, nutrition and health. The book concludes with a summary of widowhood as a human rights issues and an overview of widows themselves organising for change.
The Widow's Offering
Author: William Pitt Scargill
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English essays
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English essays
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Sister Novelists
Author: Devoney Looser
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1635575303
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 593
Book Description
For readers of Prairie Fires and The Peabody Sisters, a fascinating, insightful biography of the most famous sister novelists before the Brontës. Before the Brontë sisters picked up their pens, or Jane Austen's heroines Elizabeth and Jane Bennet became household names, the literary world was celebrating a different pair of sisters: Jane and Anna Maria Porter. The Porters-exact contemporaries of Jane Austen-were brilliant, attractive, self-made single women of polite reputation who between them published 26 books and achieved global fame. They socialized among the rich and famous, tried to hide their family's considerable debt, and fell dramatically in and out of love. Their moving letters to each other confess every detail. Because the celebrity sisters expected their renown to live on, they preserved their papers, and the secrets they contained, for any biographers to come. But history hasn't been kind to the Porters. Credit for their literary invention was given to their childhood friend, Sir Walter Scott, who never publicly acknowledged the sisters' works as his inspiration. With Scott's more prolific publication and even greater fame, the Porter sisters gradually fell from the pinnacle of celebrity to eventual obscurity. Now, Professor Devoney Looser, a Guggenheim fellow in English Literature, sets out to re-introduce the world to the authors who cleared the way for Austen, Mary Shelley, and the Brontë sisters. Capturing the Porter sisters' incredible rise, from when Anna Maria published her first book at age 14 in 1793, through to Jane's fall from the pinnacle of fame in the Victorian era, and then to the auctioning off for a pittance of the family's massive archive, Sister Novelists is a groundbreaking and enthralling biography of two pioneering geniuses in historical fiction.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1635575303
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 593
Book Description
For readers of Prairie Fires and The Peabody Sisters, a fascinating, insightful biography of the most famous sister novelists before the Brontës. Before the Brontë sisters picked up their pens, or Jane Austen's heroines Elizabeth and Jane Bennet became household names, the literary world was celebrating a different pair of sisters: Jane and Anna Maria Porter. The Porters-exact contemporaries of Jane Austen-were brilliant, attractive, self-made single women of polite reputation who between them published 26 books and achieved global fame. They socialized among the rich and famous, tried to hide their family's considerable debt, and fell dramatically in and out of love. Their moving letters to each other confess every detail. Because the celebrity sisters expected their renown to live on, they preserved their papers, and the secrets they contained, for any biographers to come. But history hasn't been kind to the Porters. Credit for their literary invention was given to their childhood friend, Sir Walter Scott, who never publicly acknowledged the sisters' works as his inspiration. With Scott's more prolific publication and even greater fame, the Porter sisters gradually fell from the pinnacle of celebrity to eventual obscurity. Now, Professor Devoney Looser, a Guggenheim fellow in English Literature, sets out to re-introduce the world to the authors who cleared the way for Austen, Mary Shelley, and the Brontë sisters. Capturing the Porter sisters' incredible rise, from when Anna Maria published her first book at age 14 in 1793, through to Jane's fall from the pinnacle of fame in the Victorian era, and then to the auctioning off for a pittance of the family's massive archive, Sister Novelists is a groundbreaking and enthralling biography of two pioneering geniuses in historical fiction.
Twisted Mirrors: Reflections of Monstrous Humanity
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 1848881118
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Twisted Mirrors is a collection of papers which examine the monstrous in relation to humanity. Culled from an international conference, these essays were written by scholars from a variety of fields and represent a broad cross-section in the scholastic investigation of the monstrous.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 1848881118
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Twisted Mirrors is a collection of papers which examine the monstrous in relation to humanity. Culled from an international conference, these essays were written by scholars from a variety of fields and represent a broad cross-section in the scholastic investigation of the monstrous.
Fits and Starts
Author: T. A. Fitzgerald (O.F.M.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Encyclopaedia of Superstitions, Folklore, and the Occult Sciences of the World
Author: Cora Linn Daniels
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Calabazas
Author: James Cabell Brown
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arizona
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arizona
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
The Merry Widow
Author: Franz Lehár
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Operas
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Operas
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
The Widow's Walk
Author: Charles Rabou
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description