Author: Elise Sharron
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781630212254
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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When sisters to Tameka and Tessa are born the world did not stand on its feet and applaud them. For these girls who were from the moment of conception unwanted their lives became out sticking together and figuring out how to stay alive at the abusive hands of their mother and father. The two decide that, as twins they should have their own language, something that made them different but also a way for them to escape into a world where only the two of them existed and everything was okay. After suffering years of abuse the girls find themselves out on the streets and desperate. The decide that robbing and hustling like their parents did would be the only way but when petty crimes turn into bank heists the girls make the ultimate sacrifice promising that if they get caught they would both stay silent until one of them dies. On this day we watch the reflection as Tameka speaks for the first time after years of incarceration because on this day she finds out that her sister has died in prison. To hear the woman give the accounts of their childhood while loving and supporting her sister every step of the way it shines a light on the human ability to endure pain while also capturing the humanity of our most simplistic emotion, love. The sisters held up their promise to each other and when Tameka finally does speak, everyone will listen.
Author: Leslie Kane
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838631874
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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An analysis of West German literature as it tries to come to terms with the holocaust and its impact on post-war German society.
Author: Diane Chamberlain
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250010713
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 353
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From bestselling author Diane Chamberlain, a novel in which a young woman discovers that the sister she believed to be dead is alive and has a new identity and a dark secret
Author: Debra Webb
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1488026696
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241
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Re-read USA Today bestseller Debra Webb's thrilling fan-favorite Vows of Silence. Lacy, Cassidy, Kira and Melinda are friends bound by a deadly secret. One of them is a killer.At least that's what each one suspects. Ten years ago, Melinda's abusive husband, CharlesAshland, was murdered. The gun was Lacy's. But it didn't matter. Together, the womendisposed of the body, which has never been found…until now. The powerful Ashland family,whose patriarch is poised for the vice presidency, wants justice. Cassidy, an attorney, insists the women have nothing to fear. Then she is killed. A midnight caller is stalkingthe remaining friends, taunting them that he knows the truth. And the truth is somethingpolice chief Rick Summers is quite interested in learning from Lacy, despite the wildchemistry that's causing havoc with his judgment. Another death delivers a chilling newwarning, for the price they've paid for their vow of silence has been murder. Originally published in 2012.
Author: Karin Hoffecker
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 1491807202
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
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In After the Silence, Kate Daniels is a high school English teacher living in Danville, Illinois. She suffers from disabling panic attacks that begin to affect her at home and school. With encouragement from her friend Leah, she seeks psychological counseling with Dr. Theresa Stile. Together, they embark on a two- year journey where Kate comes to terms with her family history and a past she has repressed. When Kate meets Michael Weston, she is forced to confront what lies beneath her paralyzing fear of intimacy. But will she be brave enough to take a risk to have the future she desperately wants? In an uncanny coincidence, a ghost from the past appears when one of her students reveals a terrifying secret. A secret Kate knows must be exposed to save them both.
Author: Harriet T. Comstock
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 270
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'The Shield of Silence' is a romance-adventure novel by Harriet Theresa Comstock. The Ship boded no good to Silver Gap as any one could tell. It had brought the plague and the flood; it brought bad crops and raids on hidden stills; it waited until its evil cargo had done its worst and then it sailed away in the night, bearing its pitiful load of dead, or its burden of fear and hate. Surely there was good and sufficient reason for dreading the appearance of The Ship, and on a certain autumn morning it appeared and soon after the two women, unknown to each other, came to Ridge House and this story began.
Author: Jesse Ball
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307908496
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257
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From the celebrated author of The Curfew (“A spare masterwork of dystopian fiction” —The New York Times Book Review), Jesse Ball’s Silence Once Begun is an astonishing novel of unjust conviction, lost love, and a journalist’s obsession. Over the course of several months, eight people vanish from their homes in the same Japanese town, a single playing card found on each door. Known as the “Narito Disappearances,” the crime has authorities baffled—until a confession appears on the police’s doorstep, signed by Oda Sotatsu, a thread salesman. Sotatsu is arrested, jailed, and interrogated—but he refuses to speak. Even as his parents, brother, and sister come to visit him, even as his execution looms, and even as a young woman named Jito Joo enters his cell, he maintains his vow of silence. Our narrator, a journalist named Jesse Ball, is grappling with mysteries of his own when he becomes fascinated by the case. Why did Sotatsu confess? Why won’t he speak? Who is Jito Joo? As Ball interviews Sotatsu’s family, friends, and jailers, he uncovers a complex story of heartbreak, deceit, honor, and chance. Wildly inventive and emotionally powerful, Silence Once Begun is a devastating portrayal of a justice system compromised, and evidence that Jesse Ball is a voraciously gifted novelist working at the height of his powers. This ebook edition includes a Reading Group Guide.
Author: Joanne Lee
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781912624300
Category : Dysfunctional families
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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A deadly secret. A horrifying discovery. For over 20 years, Joanne Lee's mother kept the remains of not one, but three newborn babies hidden in a bin in her wardrobe.She had buried a fourth baby in newspaper and ragsin St Helens Cemetery.For the first time since exposing her mother's crimes, Joanne breaks her silence over her family's horrific ordeal and her fight for justice for the siblings she never knew. Growing up in chaotic circumstances on Merseyside, Joanne suffered at the hands of a violent boyfriend and controlling relatives, as her mother lapsed into a downward spiral of drinking and casual sex following the break-up of her marriage. But the consequences of her mother's messy lifestyle turned out to be far worse than Joanne could ever have imagined. She already knew of the baby buried in a shallow makeshift grave next to the family plot. But when Joanne came across a red plastic bin in her mother's wardrobe in 2009, she realised that the family home held an even more sinister secret. In Silent Sisters, the daughter who was falsely accused of murdering her own baby sister will tell her full story for the first time, detailing her struggle to understand her mother, to piece together the truth and to give the four babies the proper burial they deserve.
Author: Wilhelm Hauff
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 13811
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Good Press Publishing presents you this meticulously edited horror collection carefully selected gothic classics, greatest supernatural mysteries, ghost stories and macabre tales:_x000D_ Introduction: _x000D_ Supernatural Horror in Literature by H. P. Lovecraft_x000D_ Edgar Allan Poe:_x000D_ The Tell-Tale Heart _x000D_ The Murders in the Rue Morgue..._x000D_ Bram Stoker:_x000D_ Dracula_x000D_ The Jewel of Seven Stars..._x000D_ Mary Shelley:_x000D_ Frankenstein_x000D_ The Mortal Immortal..._x000D_ Gaston Leroux:_x000D_ The Phantom of the Opera_x000D_ Washington Irving:_x000D_ The Legend of Sleepy Hollow_x000D_ Rip Van Winkle..._x000D_ H. P. Lovecraft:_x000D_ The Call of Cthulhu_x000D_ The Dunwich Horror..._x000D_ Henry James:_x000D_ The Turn of the Screw..._x000D_ Arthur Conan Doyle:_x000D_ The Hound of the Baskervilles..._x000D_ Robert Louis Stevenson:_x000D_ Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde..._x000D_ H. G. Wells:_x000D_ The Island of Doctor Moreau_x000D_ Matthew Gregory Lewis:_x000D_ The Monk_x000D_ Ann Radcliffe:_x000D_ The Mysteries of Udolpho_x000D_ Wilkie Collins:_x000D_ The Woman in White_x000D_ The Haunted Hotel_x000D_ The Dead Secret..._x000D_ Charles Dickens:_x000D_ The Mystery of Edwin Drood_x000D_ The Hanged Man's Bride_x000D_ The Haunted House..._x000D_ Oscar Wilde:_x000D_ The Picture of Dorian Gray..._x000D_ Richard Marsh:_x000D_ The Beetle_x000D_ Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu:_x000D_ Carmilla_x000D_ Uncle Silas..._x000D_ Nikolai Gogol:_x000D_ Dead Souls..._x000D_ Rudyard Kipling:_x000D_ The Phantom Rickshaw..._x000D_ James Malcolm Rymer:_x000D_ Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street_x000D_ Robert E. Howard:_x000D_ Cthulhu Mythos_x000D_ The Weird Menace Stories..._x000D_ M. R. James:_x000D_ Ghost Stories of an Antiquary_x000D_ A Thin Ghost and Others_x000D_ John Meade Falkner:_x000D_ The Nebuly Coat_x000D_ The Lost Stradivarius_x000D_ Nathaniel Hawthorne:_x000D_ Rappaccini's Daughter_x000D_ The Birth Mark..._x000D_ Lucy Maud Montgomery:_x000D_ The Closed Door_x000D_ The Red Room..._x000D_ Edith Nesbit:_x000D_ The Ebony Frame_x000D_ From the Dead_x000D_ Jane Austen:_x000D_ Northanger Abbey_x000D_ Charlotte Brontë:_x000D_ Jane Eyre_x000D_ Emily Brontë:_x000D_ Wuthering Heights_x000D_ Mary Louisa Molesworth:_x000D_ The Shadow in the Moonlight..._x000D_ John Buchan:_x000D_ The Wind in the Portico_x000D_ Witch Wood_x000D_ Cleveland Moffett:_x000D_ The Mysterious Card_x000D_ Possessed_x000D_ George W. M. Reynolds:_x000D_ Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf_x000D_ Lafcadio Hearn:_x000D_ A Ghost..._x000D_ Jerome K. Jerome:_x000D_ Told After Supper_x000D_ Catherine Crowe:_x000D_ Ghosts and Family Legends_x000D_ H. H. Munro:_x000D_ The Wolves of Cernogratz_x000D_ John Kendrick Bangs:_x000D_ Ghosts That Have Haunted Me_x000D_ Francis Marion Crawford:_x000D_ The Dead Smile..._x000D_ Frederick Marryat:_x000D_ The Were-Wolf...
Author: Sara Ackerman
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press Inc
ISBN: 1509213597
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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Ever since Evelyn Westby was cursed, she hasn't been able to speak to anyone outside her family. That hasn't stopped men from seeking her favor, especially the handsome and eligible Lord Alexander Newgate. But when her sister elopes and her betrothal is then canceled, Evie will do anything to win back her fiancé, even travel to war-torn France to find the gypsy who cursed her. Alfred Coombes takes his fate into his own hands when he quits his employment to follow the call of adventure. On the road, he meets Lady Evelyn Westby and sees she needs a protector. Sacrificing his own journey, he becomes her guardian. Treacherous weather and a sinister smuggler throw them together, and he must decide whether to continue his journey or take a chance on a new adventure with a captivating beauty.