Author: Wendy Hornsby
Publisher: SCB Distributors
ISBN: 1564747387
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Just a few hours before she is murdered, a foreign stranger claims she is a close relative of investigative filmmaker Maggie MacGowen. It is a truism that “it’s a wise child who knows its father.” The same can apply to a mother, since we must believe and take for granted as true what our family tells us about our own early years. But what if you “remember” places you’ve never been, speak a language you’ve never been taught? What if your nearest and dearest are all involved in a conspiracy to cover up your true origins? In The Paramour’s Daughter, Maggie MacGowen is thrown into this parallel universe, trying to remember “the ghosts of comfort, fear, or love” from her earliest years. She must question everything she’s ever known about herself and her life-and deal with a large cast of previously unknown blood relatives, some of whom may not have affectionate feelings for the little girl who vanished so long ago. Especially when large sums of euros are involved.... “Edgar-winner Hornsby's enthralling seventh Maggie MacGowen mystery takes the documentary filmmaker to France. . . . Readers will almost be able to taste the food and drink the author so vividly describes.” -Publishers Weekly (7/19/10)
The Paramour's Daughter
Author: Wendy Hornsby
Publisher: SCB Distributors
ISBN: 1564747387
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Just a few hours before she is murdered, a foreign stranger claims she is a close relative of investigative filmmaker Maggie MacGowen. It is a truism that “it’s a wise child who knows its father.” The same can apply to a mother, since we must believe and take for granted as true what our family tells us about our own early years. But what if you “remember” places you’ve never been, speak a language you’ve never been taught? What if your nearest and dearest are all involved in a conspiracy to cover up your true origins? In The Paramour’s Daughter, Maggie MacGowen is thrown into this parallel universe, trying to remember “the ghosts of comfort, fear, or love” from her earliest years. She must question everything she’s ever known about herself and her life-and deal with a large cast of previously unknown blood relatives, some of whom may not have affectionate feelings for the little girl who vanished so long ago. Especially when large sums of euros are involved.... “Edgar-winner Hornsby's enthralling seventh Maggie MacGowen mystery takes the documentary filmmaker to France. . . . Readers will almost be able to taste the food and drink the author so vividly describes.” -Publishers Weekly (7/19/10)
Publisher: SCB Distributors
ISBN: 1564747387
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Just a few hours before she is murdered, a foreign stranger claims she is a close relative of investigative filmmaker Maggie MacGowen. It is a truism that “it’s a wise child who knows its father.” The same can apply to a mother, since we must believe and take for granted as true what our family tells us about our own early years. But what if you “remember” places you’ve never been, speak a language you’ve never been taught? What if your nearest and dearest are all involved in a conspiracy to cover up your true origins? In The Paramour’s Daughter, Maggie MacGowen is thrown into this parallel universe, trying to remember “the ghosts of comfort, fear, or love” from her earliest years. She must question everything she’s ever known about herself and her life-and deal with a large cast of previously unknown blood relatives, some of whom may not have affectionate feelings for the little girl who vanished so long ago. Especially when large sums of euros are involved.... “Edgar-winner Hornsby's enthralling seventh Maggie MacGowen mystery takes the documentary filmmaker to France. . . . Readers will almost be able to taste the food and drink the author so vividly describes.” -Publishers Weekly (7/19/10)
Inside My Shadow Box
Author: Kerrie Bullard
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 149908014X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
Inside My Shadow Box allows the readers to feel as if they are alongside the author as she writes of her many adventures as a child growing up in Sweetwater, Texas, as a bride and mother at seventeen years of age, as a woman who suffered at the hands of family violence and a cheating husband, as a police officer who was the first of her kind in the county where she worked, as a police officer working on homicide cases, and as a state investigator working on child deaths and in the FLDS raids that caused the arrest and imprisonment of Warren Jeffs. The author allows you to feel some of her personal feelings during very sad and precious moments in her life as well as allowing you as the reader to understand her thoughts on unsolved cases. There is no doubt that you as a reader will experience a variety of emotions while reading this book. You will understand the human side of a police officer and state investigator and understand why sometimes, although it seems there is enough to bring one to justice, there just isn’t. It is the author’s hope that after reading this book, you will come away with a feeling that you know and understand the meaning of the book’s title, Inside My Shadow Box. The shadow box reflects what is stored inside, and what the author has written about are many things she has stored inside through the years of her life until the release of this book.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 149908014X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
Inside My Shadow Box allows the readers to feel as if they are alongside the author as she writes of her many adventures as a child growing up in Sweetwater, Texas, as a bride and mother at seventeen years of age, as a woman who suffered at the hands of family violence and a cheating husband, as a police officer who was the first of her kind in the county where she worked, as a police officer working on homicide cases, and as a state investigator working on child deaths and in the FLDS raids that caused the arrest and imprisonment of Warren Jeffs. The author allows you to feel some of her personal feelings during very sad and precious moments in her life as well as allowing you as the reader to understand her thoughts on unsolved cases. There is no doubt that you as a reader will experience a variety of emotions while reading this book. You will understand the human side of a police officer and state investigator and understand why sometimes, although it seems there is enough to bring one to justice, there just isn’t. It is the author’s hope that after reading this book, you will come away with a feeling that you know and understand the meaning of the book’s title, Inside My Shadow Box. The shadow box reflects what is stored inside, and what the author has written about are many things she has stored inside through the years of her life until the release of this book.
Tractate Sanhedrin, Mishnah and Tosefta
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Category : Jewish courts
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Jewish courts
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Tractate Sanhedrin, Mishnah and Tosefta
Author: Herbert Danby
Publisher:
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Category : Courts, Jewish
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Courts, Jewish
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
A Corner of Kent; Or, Some Account of the Parish of Ash-next-Sandwich ...
Author: James Robinson Planché
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Family Matters
Author: Nkiru Uwechia Nzegwu
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791481824
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Prior to European colonialism, Igboland, a region in Nigeria, was a nonpatriarchal, nongendered society governed by separate but interdependent political systems for men and women. In the last one hundred fifty years, the Igbo family has undergone vast structural changes in response to a barrage of cultural forces. Critically rereading social practices and oral and written histories of Igbo women and the society, Nkiru Uwechia Nzegwu demonstrates how colonial laws, edicts, and judicial institutions facilitated the creation of gender inequality in Igbo society. Nzegwu exposes the unlikely convergence of Western feminist and African male judges' assumptions about "traditional" African values where women are subordinate and oppressed. Instead she offers a conception of equality based on historical Igbo family structures and practices that challenges the epistemological and ontological bases of Western feminist inquiry.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791481824
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Prior to European colonialism, Igboland, a region in Nigeria, was a nonpatriarchal, nongendered society governed by separate but interdependent political systems for men and women. In the last one hundred fifty years, the Igbo family has undergone vast structural changes in response to a barrage of cultural forces. Critically rereading social practices and oral and written histories of Igbo women and the society, Nkiru Uwechia Nzegwu demonstrates how colonial laws, edicts, and judicial institutions facilitated the creation of gender inequality in Igbo society. Nzegwu exposes the unlikely convergence of Western feminist and African male judges' assumptions about "traditional" African values where women are subordinate and oppressed. Instead she offers a conception of equality based on historical Igbo family structures and practices that challenges the epistemological and ontological bases of Western feminist inquiry.
Tractate Sanherdrin, Mishnah and Tosefta
Author: Herbert Danby
Publisher:
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Category : Jewish courts
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Jewish courts
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Essays in Classical and Modern Hindu Law
Author: John Duncan Martin Derrett
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004054240
Category : Hindu law
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004054240
Category : Hindu law
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Children of the Earth Goddess
Author: Roland Hardenberg
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110532883
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description
The whole world is changing with incredible speed towards something radically new, yet people across the globe also show resistance to the forces that homogenize our lives. This book deals with a community that has found its niche in the remote Niamgiri mountain range of Odisha (India) and is struggling to preserve its way of life: the Dongria Kond. In recent years, they made the headlines as the real “Avatars” because they successfully fought a multinational company’s plans to mine the mountains. From the perspective of the Dongria Kond, these mountains are the seat of gods, and the whole environment is animated by spiritual forces. This highly complex cosmic order includes humans and non-humans and rests on a divine law (niam). This book captures the viewpoint of the Dongria Kond and provides deep insights into their vision of the world. It offers elaborate accounts of how the Dongria relate to the outside world, conceive of their own society and engage in complex rituals in order to (re-)establish the cosmos. The book confronts the reader with radically different imaginings of familiar human concerns: love, fertility, wealth, status and well-being.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110532883
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description
The whole world is changing with incredible speed towards something radically new, yet people across the globe also show resistance to the forces that homogenize our lives. This book deals with a community that has found its niche in the remote Niamgiri mountain range of Odisha (India) and is struggling to preserve its way of life: the Dongria Kond. In recent years, they made the headlines as the real “Avatars” because they successfully fought a multinational company’s plans to mine the mountains. From the perspective of the Dongria Kond, these mountains are the seat of gods, and the whole environment is animated by spiritual forces. This highly complex cosmic order includes humans and non-humans and rests on a divine law (niam). This book captures the viewpoint of the Dongria Kond and provides deep insights into their vision of the world. It offers elaborate accounts of how the Dongria relate to the outside world, conceive of their own society and engage in complex rituals in order to (re-)establish the cosmos. The book confronts the reader with radically different imaginings of familiar human concerns: love, fertility, wealth, status and well-being.
The Law Weekly
Author: Venbakkam C. Seshacharriar
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1602
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1602
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