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Book Synopsis Murdering Stepmothers by : Anna Haebich
Download or read book Murdering Stepmothers written by Anna Haebich and published by UWA Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sensational rumours of the murder of three small children by their stepmother ignite the passions of Perth citizens in 1909. Shocked by horrific descriptions of how she poisoned the children, they demand her execution as one voice. But did she do it? Or was she a victim of the prejudices of her persecutors? Based on a true story and meticulously researched, this compelling novel is driven by passion, imagination and an eerie conjuring up of the past.
Download or read book Murdering Stepmothers written by and published by UWA Publishing. This book was released on with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Ballroom Murder by : Leigh Straw
Download or read book The Ballroom Murder written by Leigh Straw and published by Fremantle Press. This book was released on 2022-08-02 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In August 1925, Audrey Jacob shot dead her former fiancÉ, Cyril Gidley, in full view of hundreds of guests at a charity ball in Perth's Government House. When she was arrested, she still held the gun in her hand. It was a open and shut case of wilful murder—that is until Jacob assigned prosecutor Arthur Haynes to her defence. His ability to play the press and the jury for sympathy would lead to a sensational result. Not only did Jacob escape the gallows, she was found not guilty of Gidley's murder. Straw, the author of a number of books about notable Australian female criminals, tells a story that is rich with first-hand newspaper accounts from the day.
Download or read book Stepmonster written by Wednesday Martin and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2011-01-21 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An honest and groundbreaking guide to understanding the complicated emotions that develop between stepmothers and children. When faced with often overwhelming challenges, what woman with stepchildren is unfamiliar with that “stepmonster” feeling? Half of all women in the United States will live with or marry a man with children. To guide women new to this role—and empower those who are struggling with it—Wednesday Martin draws upon her own experience as a stepmother. She's frank about the harrowing process of becoming a stepmother, she considers the myths and realities of being married to a man with children, and she counteracts the cultural notion that stepmothers are solely responsible for the problems that often develop. Along the way, she interviews other stepmothers and stepchildren and offers up fascinating insights from literature, anthropology, psychology, and evolutionary biology that explain the little-understood realities of this unique parent-child relationship and—in an unexpected twist—shows why the myth of the Wicked Stepmother is the single best tool for understanding who real stepmothers are and how they feel.
Download or read book Female Aggression written by Helen Gavin and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-10-08 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This critique explodes the stereotypical assumption that men are more prone than women to aggression A cogent and holistic assessment of the theoretical positions and research concerning female aggression Examines the treatment, punishment and community response to female aggressive behavior Examines topics including sexual power, serial murder and the evolution of gendered aggression Treats female aggression in its own right rather than as a counterpart to male violence
Book Synopsis Dreams and Nightmares of a White Australia by : Catriona Elder
Download or read book Dreams and Nightmares of a White Australia written by Catriona Elder and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analysis of the assimilation issues and race relations in five novels from the 1950s and 1960s and three non-fiction and texts that were produced in academic and government circles regarding the 'half caste problem' in the 1930s and 1940s; includes overview of assimilation in Australia and definitions of assimilation; management of race relations in Australia; eugenic politics; Aboriginality; 1937 Aboriginal welfare conference; Citizenship for the Aborigines (1944); Australia's Colours Minority: Its place in the community (1947).
Download or read book Modern Loss written by Rebecca Soffer and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by the website that the New York Times hailed as "redefining mourning," this book is a fresh and irreverent examination into navigating grief and resilience in the age of social media, offering comfort and community for coping with the mess of loss through candid original essays from a variety of voices, accompanied by gorgeous two-color illustrations and wry infographics. At a time when we mourn public figures and national tragedies with hashtags, where intimate posts about loss go viral and we receive automated birthday reminders for dead friends, it’s clear we are navigating new terrain without a road map. Let’s face it: most of us have always had a difficult time talking about death and sharing our grief. We’re awkward and uncertain; we avoid, ignore, or even deny feelings of sadness; we offer platitudes; we send sympathy bouquets whittled out of fruit. Enter Rebecca Soffer and Gabrielle Birkner, who can help us do better. Each having lost parents as young adults, they co-founded Modern Loss, responding to a need to change the dialogue around the messy experience of grief. Now, in this wise and often funny book, they offer the insights of the Modern Loss community to help us cry, laugh, grieve, identify, and—above all—empathize. Soffer and Birkner, along with forty guest contributors including Lucy Kalanithi, singer Amanda Palmer, and CNN’s Brian Stelter, reveal their own stories on a wide range of topics including triggers, sex, secrets, and inheritance. Accompanied by beautiful hand-drawn illustrations and witty "how to" cartoons, each contribution provides a unique perspective on loss as well as a remarkable life-affirming message. Brutally honest and inspiring, Modern Loss invites us to talk intimately and humorously about grief, helping us confront the humanity (and mortality) we all share. Beginners welcome.
Book Synopsis The Devil's Music by : Jane Rusbridge
Download or read book The Devil's Music written by Jane Rusbridge and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2009-07-06 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: _______________ 'This intricately structured, brilliantly observed modern take on a family saga is both passionate and moving and the prose snaps, crackles and pops with gorgeous detail' - Lesley Glaister 'Vividly and intensely written' - Jane Rogers, author of Mr Wroe's Virgins 'Pure pleasure to read' - Kathy Page, author of The Story of My Face 'A sharp exposé of the devastating effects of the taboos that govern motherhood ... This story is fresh, vivid - and startlingly contemporary' - Alison MacLeod, author of The Changeling _______________ A haunting, lyrical story of love, betrayal, and family secrets buried in the shifting landscape of memory It is 1958 and the Sputnik satellite has taken a dog up into space; back on earth, five-year-old Andy has a new sister, Elaine - a baby who, his father insists, is 'not quite all there'. While his parents argue over whether or not to send Elaine away, Andy sleeps beside her cot each night, keeping guard and watching as his mother - once an ambitious, energetic nurse - twists away into her private, suffocating sadness. Knots keep treasures safe, Andy's rope-maker grandfather tells him, and, as he listens to stories of the great Harry Houdini, Andy learns the Carrick Bend, the Midshipman's Hitch and the Monkey's Fist. Then a young painter, hired to decorate the family's house, seems to call Andy's mother back from the grief in which she is lost. But one day, at The Siding - the old railway carriage that serves as the family's seaside retreat - Andy is left in charge of his baby sister on a wind-chopped beach, where he discovers that not all treasures can be kept safe for ever. Three decades later Andrew returns from self-imposed exile to The Siding, the place where his life first unravelled. Looking back on the broken strands of his childhood, he tries, at last, to weave them together, aided by his grandfather's copy of The Ashley Book of Knots and the arrival of a wild-haired, tango-dancing sculptor - a woman with her own ideas about making peace with the past.
Download or read book Offshoot written by Donna Lee Brien and published by UWAP Scholarly. This book was released on 2018 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offshoot includes essays in life writing methodologies and approaches, as well as a series of creative work-poetry and prose-that engages with current life writing. This collection highlights the development and influence of the genre in the twenty-first century. Starting from the premise that life writing is a significant component of both contemporary artistic practice and scholarship, Offshoot provides a necessary re-evaluation of the mode, its contemporary sub-generic incarnations, as well as methodological and practical approaches. The book presents research on a wide range of approaches, including both traditional areas-such as literature and creative writing-and areas that have not previously been associated with life writing scholarship. With its multifaceted readings, Offshoot signals a shift in life writing research tending towards an expansive, hybrid, experimental, and rhizomic approach. [Subject: Life Writing, Education, Literature]
Book Synopsis Murder at Smutty Nose by : Edmund Lester Pearson
Download or read book Murder at Smutty Nose written by Edmund Lester Pearson and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Why Kids Kill Parents by : Kathleen M. Heide
Download or read book Why Kids Kill Parents written by Kathleen M. Heide and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1995 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Criminologist and psychotherapist Kathleen Heide focuses on families that breed violence and the relationship between patricide and child abuse. A discussion of maltreatment, who kills, youths at risk, and legal and psychological issues is followed by three detailed case studies and a discussion of intervention, society's contributions to both the.
Download or read book The Stepmother written by Diana Diamond and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-07 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When sixty-five-year-old multimillionaire Steven Armstrong tells his three children that he is going to remarry, he expects them to be happy for him. But his new bride isn't the stepmother they have in mind. Charlene "Charlie" Hendricks is his vivacious, thirty-five-year-old personal trainer, the single mother of a teenage daughter. To Steven's midlife children, she is a gold digger who has seduced their father to steal their inheritance. If only there was some way to talk him out of his engagement." "Days before her wedding, Charlie, training for a triathlon, decides to go for a swim in the Atlantic Ocean. Somewhere in the water an engine begins to rev. Before long a mysterious figure on a speeding Jet Ski makes an attempt on her life. The children head the list of suspects - but which one plotted her death? The oldest son, who runs the family business? The daughter, whose art gallery depends on Steven's generosity? Or the Hollywood son, desperate for funding for his next picture?" "But Charlie refuses to give in to their campaign of intimidation. After the wedding, a second attack backfires and mistakenly kills her husband when their whaler is blown up, making her a wealthy heiress. Now Charlie is the most likely suspect, even though it appears that the bomb was intended for her. The children accuse her of murdering their father. Is Charlie a ruthless fortune hunter or the innocent victim of her husband's greedy heirs?"--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book The Stepmother written by Diana Diamond and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2006-05-02 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Steven Armstrong tells his children he has fallen in love, he expects them to be happy that his life as a lonely, sixty-five year old widower is over. Instead their father's intended thirty-three year old personal trainer Charlene Hendricks is exactly the kind of woman they fear. Through marriage she becomes not only the stepmother to his three grown children, but their rival for their father's world class fortune. Suddenly an attack is made on her life. All the children are suspect, but which one has the best motive? Then a second attack backfires and mistakenly kills her husband, making the stepmother a wealthy heiress. Now, it is the children who accuse her of murdering their father. Only by finding the real killer can she prove her innocence.
Book Synopsis The Third Rainbow Girl by : Emma Copley Eisenberg
Download or read book The Third Rainbow Girl written by Emma Copley Eisenberg and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2020-01-21 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *** A NEW YORK TIMES "100 Notable Books of 2020" *** A stunning, complex narrative about the fractured legacy of a decades-old double murder in rural West Virginia—and the writer determined to put the pieces back together. In the early evening of June 25, 1980 in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, two middle-class outsiders named Vicki Durian, 26, and Nancy Santomero, 19, were murdered in an isolated clearing. They were hitchhiking to a festival known as the Rainbow Gathering but never arrived. For thirteen years, no one was prosecuted for the “Rainbow Murders” though deep suspicion was cast on a succession of local residents in the community, depicted as poor, dangerous, and backward. In 1993, a local farmer was convicted, only to be released when a known serial killer and diagnosed schizophrenic named Joseph Paul Franklin claimed responsibility. As time passed, the truth seemed to slip away, and the investigation itself inflicted its own traumas—-turning neighbor against neighbor and confirming the fears of violence outsiders have done to this region for centuries. In The Third Rainbow Girl, Emma Copley Eisenberg uses the Rainbow Murders case as a starting point for a thought-provoking tale of an Appalachian community bound by the false stories that have been told about. Weaving in experiences from her own years spent living in Pocahontas County, she follows the threads of this crime through the complex history of Appalachia, revealing how this mysterious murder has loomed over all those affected for generations, shaping their fears, fates, and desires. Beautifully written and brutally honest, The Third Rainbow Girl presents a searing and wide-ranging portrait of America—divided by gender and class, and haunted by its own violence.
Book Synopsis North Carolina Reports by : North Carolina. Supreme Court
Download or read book North Carolina Reports written by North Carolina. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of North Carolina.
Book Synopsis Child Homicide by : Lita Linzer Schwartz
Download or read book Child Homicide written by Lita Linzer Schwartz and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2006-08-15 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From governments that enact population-limiting legislation or commit wholesale neonaticide, to families who purposely allow a weak, infirm, or unfavorably gendered infant to perish rather than expend limited resources, neonaticide, infanticide, and filicide, are practiced on every continent and by every level of cultural complexity. Taking
Book Synopsis Murder on Ponte Vecchio by : Nancy Avery Dafoe
Download or read book Murder on Ponte Vecchio written by Nancy Avery Dafoe and published by Rogue Phoenix Press. This book was released on 2020-06-13 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A model is murdered on the old bridge shortly after Vena Goodwin arrives in Florence, Italy. Third in the Vena Goodwin murder mystery series, the novel finds the young amateur sleuth again paired with a Carabiniere officer to untangle a web of murders. The narrative moves between contemporary Florence and its Renaissance past through echoes of artists in the city Vena discovers in her search for justice. Working with the Carabinieri, Vena comes to very different conclusions as to the murderer. Portraying the birth of art comingled with violence, Dafoe’s novel moves in tension between a man and woman, between artists, and between Dante’s Divine Comedy and what it has inspired.
