Download or read book Behind Closed Doors in My Father s House written by Collen Dixon and published by the FIN group. This book was released on 2002-02 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover what happens when "The Sopranos' meet "Dynasty" and "Sugar Hill." You get "Behind Closed Doors... In My Father's House."This sizzling novel begins at the conclusion of "Simon Says," and takes the reader on a thrilling journey of the misadventures of the four privileged Cavanaugh siblings: Conrad, Joseph, Christian and Madison. Each stunningly beautiful, and tragically flawed.When Harry, the family patriarch, falls ill, he has to decide which one of his dysfunctional children to pass the helm of the family business to. Lending to the difficulty of rendering this decision is the fact that the family business is dirty business. They are a Black DC Mafia family, teetering on the brink of phenmenal wealth given the blossoming crack market, and threatening to implode due to family squabbles, treachery and bloodlust.
Download or read book Behind Closed Doors written by Maria Messina and published by Feminist Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories of Sicily, immigration, and the lives of Sicilian women in the early 20th century.
Download or read book Behind Closed Doors written by Maria Messina and published by The Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 2007-07-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten stories of impoverished Sicilian women in the early 20th century—“honed, polished, devastatingly direct . . . verismo at its unsentimental best” (Kirkus Reviews). The Sicilian writer Maria Messina’s captivating and brutal stories of the women of her home island are presented in a “lyrical and immediate” English translation by Elise Magistro (Publishers Weekly). Messina, who died in 1944, was the foremost female practitioner of verismo—the Italian literary realism pioneered by fellow Sicilian Giovanni Verga. Published between 1908 and 1928, Messina’s fiction represents the massive Sicilian immigration to America occurring at that time. The individuals in these stories are caught between the traditions they respect and a desire to move beyond them. Women are shuttered in their houses, virtual servants to their families, left behind while working men immigrate to the United States in fortune-seeking droves. A cultural album that captures the lives of peasant, working-class, and middle-class women, “Messina’s words will leave their mark. Their power makes them impossible to forget” (The Philadelphia Inquirer).
Download or read book Behind Closed Doors written by Susan R. Sloan and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2007-10-15 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raised in a large, loving Irish Catholic family, Valerie O'Connor is a sheltered and innocent young woman who comes of age in the 1950s. When, at age 18, she meets and falls deeply in love with Jack Marsh, a dashing veteran of the Air Force, little does she know that she is about to begin a relationship that is doomed from the start. Their many years of marriage are filled with Jack's drunken rages followed by morning-after remorse, and scenes of escalating violence witnessed by children too terrified to speak out lest they become Jack's next victims. A powerful story of a marriage begun with the best intentions but cursed by a legacy of violence that will have shocking consequences.
Download or read book Behind Closed Doors written by Sue Smethurst and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four children by her father. Thirty years of horrific sexual abuse. Now updated with a new epilogue, detailing Katherine’s brave stand at the Royal Commission In March 2009, Joseph Fritzl was sentenced to life in jail for the systematic imprisonment, torture and rape of his daughter Elisabeth over 24 years, fathering seven children. The case shocked the world. But just a month before, the story of Australia’s own house of horrors was emerging in a Victorian country town. Under a blanket of suppression orders, a man in his late sixties was quietly arrested, charged – and later convicted – for the systematic rape, abuse and imprisonment of his only daughter, ‘Katherine’, which spanned decades. He fathered four of her children. Until recently, this shocking story had been buried under a complex legal web and Katherine’s insistence on silence so that she could rebuild her shattered life and protect her children. In Behind Closed Doors, Katherine speaks out and tells the story of how she survived – and how such degrading abuse went unnoticed for so long. Now, a new epilogue reveals the evidence Katherine gave at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, detailing the betrayal she felt at having been ignored for so long.
Download or read book BEHIND CLOSED DOORS written by Susan Joyner-Stumpf and Ann Landrum Stockstill and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-01-08 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BEHIND CLOSED DOORS will actually open doors for you. It is the hope of Ann Landrum Stockstill and Susan Joyner-Stumpf that you will find this book informative enough to give you the tools of what to look for in any relationship that could possibly be dealing with Narcissistic, Psychopathic and Sociopathic personalities. At that point, you can make your own decision if the abuse is something you can live with or not. This book also deals with Childhood Sexual Abuse that I suffered as a child as well as Domestic Violence, other forms of abuse, and Bullying. Become a Survivor, not a Victim. You deserve more than pain, heartache, fear and sorrow. OPEN the door to those CLOSED doors and be free again.
Download or read book BEHIND CLOSED DOORS written by Ann Landrum Stockstill and Susan Joyner-Stumpf and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-01-08 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BEHIND CLOSED DOORS will actually open doors for you. It is the hope of Ann Landrum Stockstill and Susan Joyner-Stumpf that you will find this book informative enough to give you the tools of what to look for in any relationship that could possibly be dealing with Narcissistic, Psychopathic and Sociopathic personalities. At that point, you can make your own decision if the abuse is something you can live with or not. This book also deals with Childhood Sexual Abuse that I suffered as a child as well as Domestic Violence, other forms of abuse, and Bullying. Become a Survivor, not a Victim. You deserve more than pain, heartache, fear and sorrow. OPEN the door to those CLOSED doors and be free again.
Download or read book Behind Closed Doors written by Monia Hejaiej and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tunis has a long history of city life reaching back to ancient times. The Arabic language is firmly rooted among its inhabitants and most embrace the morals and culture of Islam. Behind Closed Doors presents forty-seven tales told by three Beldi women, members of a historic and highly civilized community, the city's traditional elite. Tale-telling is important to all Beldi women, and the book examines its role in their shared world and its significance in the lives of the three tellers. Tales are told at communal gatherings to share and pass on Beldi women's secret lore of love, marriage and destiny. Ghaya Sa'diyya and Kheira tell stories which echo their life experience and have deep meanings for them. Their tales reflect accepted moral codes, and yet many depict attitudes, relationships, and practices that contradict established norms. Whereas Kheira presents a conservative and moralistic view of the role of women, Sa'diyya's heroines are alive with sexual energy, and Ghaya's stories also offer racy and rebellious comments on a woman's lot. These contradictory visions offer a kaleidoscopic view of the position of women in the rich life of a historic North African city.
Download or read book Behind Closed Doors written by S. M. and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behind Closed Doors is a heartwarming story that talks about survival and a mother’s suffering. SM bravely opens her door and shares her experience on how she overcame her dark shadows while liberating herself from her inner fears and standing for what’s right. Abandoned at 2 days old and raised in a violent household while being sexually abused for 5 years, SM came to find her strength through her books believing that someday, she will be freed from life’s turmoil and be saved by her prince charming. At 17 she fell in love and at 20 wed the man of her dreams in the hope that he is the answer to her prayers, unfortunately life doesn’t turn out according to plan and ended up discovering that her prince charming was a wolf in a sheep’s clothing and the abuses continued. Endurance was the mode to survive not for herself but for her two sons. She found the courage to run away and took the role as father and mother while rebuilding her life once again.
Download or read book World War II Behind Closed Doors written by Laurence Rees and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-05-04 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this revelatory chronicle of World War II, Laurence Rees documents the dramatic and secret deals that helped make the war possible and prompted some of the most crucial decisions made during the conflict. Drawing on material available only since the opening of archives in Eastern Europe and Russia, as well as amazing new testimony from nearly a hundred separate witnesses from the period—Rees reexamines the key choices made by Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt during the war, and presents, in a compelling and fresh way, the reasons why the people of Poland, the Baltic states, and other European countries simply swapped the rule of one tyrant for another. Surprising, incisive, and endlessly intriguing, World War II Behind Closed Doors will change the way we think about the Second World War.
Download or read book Behind Closed Doors in White South Africa written by D. Russell and published by Springer. This book was released on 1997-10-15 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The intent in this book is to tear away the veil of secrecy that surrounds incestuous abuse in white South Africa by presenting five in-depth personal accounts of this heinous form of sexual exploitation as told by the survivors. Each of these accounts includes an analysis of important incest-related issues raised by the survivor's story. Another objective is to explore the connections between the often cruel sexual exploitation of girls by their white male relatives and the brutal exploitation of black people by white men in South Africa.
Download or read book Rage Behind Closed Doors written by Amber Moon and published by Writers Republic LLC. This book was released on 2022-03-18 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amber Moon, starts her autobiography from her youngest age of two about the different abuses she endured while growing up through her adolescence years into her teenage years. Throughout the novel, she expresses the actions and emotions how she overcame her abuse in hopes to help others. A nice day out. I was only 4. My brother Tim and I had been home with my dad all week while mother has been working at the hospital taking care of patients. She's a LPN. After breakfast my dad came out back and told us we were going to the "icebox" to go fish with Rob today and we needed to get inside and get ready. Oh how I can remember my brother being so happy. Me...I felt panic. As I knew this was going to be a day of drinking and torture as it always was when my dad and his friend are together. We had gotten to the sink hole of a fishing place, it was back behind a lot of trees. I can still remember the smell to this day and how dirty it was. I often wondered why we ate the fish from that place. The water was always filled with trash. Yes, refrigerators too. Yet everyone in Hornell fished there. My dad set up the fishing rods on the bank and told me to sit on the ground that I wasn't good enough to sit in a chair, they are used only for men. As I watched my father, Rob and my brother all sit down in one. I sat in a pile of muddy grass patch that had trash in it. Crying, my dad slapped me across the face and asked me, "Do you want another?" As he raised his hand over his head. I curled up my legs and hugged them close to my chest in hopes I would not get hit again. Instead he pulls out his Polaroid from the back seat of his truck and takes a picture. As he yells, "Come on you little pussy."
Download or read book My Father s House written by Dijorn Moss and published by Urban Books. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens on Sunday morning is only a glimpse into the life of a pastor. As spiritual leader and confidant, newly appointed Pastor Timothy Wells must overcome his insecurities to keep Gethsemane Community Church from folding. With a jealous associate pastor and his conniving wife waiting in the wings, Timothy must also counsel some of his members through their darkest hour. He will have to rely heavily on his faith if he is to rebuild his Father's House.
Download or read book Behind Closed Doors written by Natalie R. Collins and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2007-01-02 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For twenty years, they had been closer than sisters, sharing girlhood secrets, their hopes and dreams for the future—and a soul-searing promise. Melissa was the only one who knew what had really happened to Jannie beyond the sacred walls of the Mormon Temple the night that changed her life forever.... UNTIL HER BEST FRIEND VANISHED WITHOUT A TRACE. Now Melissa has gone missing, just days after entrusting Jannie with a mysterious box that someone would kill to possess. And someone has—leaving in their murderous wake an innocent victim and a trail of blood that leads to the heart of Jannie's hidden burden. Desperate to protect her secret, and to find out what has happened to Melissa, Jannie trusts no one. Not the stranger whose piercing green eyes have already seen too much, nor the family and friends whose familiar fold may be shielding a cold-blooded killer who is lurking BEHIND CLOSED DOORS.
Download or read book Intentional Faith written by Allen Jackson and published by HarperChristian + ORM. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Megachurch pastor Allen Jackson invites readers on a 100-day adventure of experiencing God through ten biblical practices that will reignite their faith and transform their lives. Many Christians experience low points in their faith, times when their spiritual lives have grown cold, stagnant, or routine. They feel frustrated and desperate to reconnect with God. Yet encouragement alone is not enough. We need God's power to bring transformation, and we need specific tools and a focused intent to know the Lord. Drawing upon years of pastoral ministry and his own experience, Allen Jackson has developed a 100-day plan to reinvigorate a believer's life, organized around ten declarations of intent, including: I Intend to Grow Spiritually, I Intend to Read the Gospels I Intend to Pray Daily I Intend to Honor God in My Home, and I Intend to Work with Integrity. A simple investment of twenty minutes a day will create an unstoppable momentum in readers' lives. Their hearts are opened to new possibilities with God where his purposes unfold and where the fruit of his rewards are found.
Download or read book Behind Closed Doors written by Anna Katharine Green and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Selective Memory written by Shobhaa De and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2015-08-15 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shobhaa Dé has been many things to many people: supermodel, celebrity journalist, bestselling author, friend, rival, colleague and confidante. In this engagingly candid memoir, a woman who has been a familiar face and name to millions (although few known to her) finally reveals the true self behind the public persona. Insiders know that besides her commitment to work and the frantic pace of her life, Shobhaa Dé's first priority in life has always been her family. Here she writes poignantly of her early years, and of her relationship with her parents and siblings, her husband and her children. Written in a consistently confident and candid voice, Selective Memory: Stories from My Life is remarkable for the honesty with which it captures the essence of a fascinating woman who has become a legend in her own time
