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Book Shadow of Innocence

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  • Author : Meg O'Brien
  • Publisher : Mira Books
  • Release : 2004-03
  • ISBN : 9780778300540
  • Pages : 394 pages

Download or read book Shadow of Innocence written by Meg O'Brien and published by Mira Books. This book was released on 2004-03 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Shadow of Innocence

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  • Author : Sarah Hoad
  • Publisher : AuthorHouse
  • Release : 2012-06-12
  • ISBN : 1468504703
  • Pages : 339 pages

Download or read book Shadow of Innocence written by Sarah Hoad and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Shadow of innocence' is the fourth book in a young adult, fantasy/thriller series. Three women have already told their stories and through them we know there is one more woman that hold the prophesy. The fourth girl is Heidi Harrison, a disturbed young girl growing up in the suburbs of Adelaide, Australia. Heidi is trying desperately to raise her younger sister and protect her from their drug abused mother. Upon meeting the enchanting neighbor next door, Heidi discovers that she is not like most fourteen year old's, not only does she see spirits but she also has the ability to bring harm to those who thrust it upon her. While discovering herself and fleeing from a tormented past, Heidi runs away from Adelaide to Melbourne where she has to learn how to survive on her own. She is hunter not only by a spirit in her dreams but a demon she is secretly attracted too and the immortals who have invaded her life. She is the fourth girl that holds their destiny, the final, the most complicated.

Book Shadow of Innocence

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  • Author : Ric Wasley
  • Publisher : Kunati Books
  • Release : 2007-04
  • ISBN : 1601640064
  • Pages : 306 pages

Download or read book Shadow of Innocence written by Ric Wasley and published by Kunati Books. This book was released on 2007-04 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Private investigator and Vietnam veteran Mick McCarthy and his partner Bridget Connolly travel to Newport, Rhode Island, to help a friend who is charged with murder.

Book Shadow of Innocence

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  • Author : Sharon Collins
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2017-06-02
  • ISBN : 9781521374573
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book Shadow of Innocence written by Sharon Collins and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-02 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life was hard enough for young Charlie Parker. Living in a small town in upstate New York with an alcoholic father and an out of touch mother he struggled with his personal demons. He thought he had a handle on his life and his future until a child killer made an appearance in his small town. Charlie and his best friend Dan O'Connor would spend their adolescence in the shadow of this killer, who seemed to be able to get away with murder.

Book Shadow of Shame

Download or read book Shadow of Shame written by Naaotua Swayne and published by . This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the award-winning author of The Dancing Tortoise comes another riveting novel detailing the lives of contemporary Ghanaians. Shadow of Shame :Innocence is the fascinating story of teenage pregnancy and the conflict between young love and age old traditions. When May, a final year student, falls pregnant she suffers terrible persecution from her mother as well as being unable to take her final year exams. Forced to leave home, she goes to stay with her paternal grandmother. Fiifi, the father of her child does not escape punishment either. His father disowns him, and he too is foced to abandon his university education and look for a job. Years later, Liza, the daughter born from thier misadventure, is sent to live with a relative of Fiifi's in England, a visit that is full of excitement, adventure and intrigue. But will history repeat itself? The narrative weaves back and forth in time between the cities of Accra and London with Naaotua's typical wit and grace. Yet again she has created a thought-provoking, heart-warming story with a cast of characters so colourful they stay with you way beyond the final page. For more details of Naaotua's work please visit www.happyeverafter.org.uk

Book Real Power

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  • Author : Janet O. Hagberg
  • Publisher : Sheffield Publishing
  • Release : 2002-09-02
  • ISBN : 1879215713
  • Pages : 311 pages

Download or read book Real Power written by Janet O. Hagberg and published by Sheffield Publishing. This book was released on 2002-09-02 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Janet O. Hagberg has written a dynamic book about power -real, personal power- for forward-looking people and organizations who want to harness their own power for the common good. "I wrote this book," says Hagberg, "to transform the way we think about power and leadership. It takes people on a journey beyond achievement and sucess to a stance in which power comes from their inner core and they lead from their souls." There is no doubt that the world is ready for a new model of leadership. In this third edition, Janet Hagberg addresses much that she has learned from her readers. The result is a deepening of the descriptions of each stage, a new way to think about the dark side of each stage, new stories of each stage derived from her readers, a connection to the spirituality expressed at each stage, as well a description of "The Wall" between Stages Four and Five. Throughout the book, the author adds more of her personal story to illustrate her experiences and observations of each of the stages of power.

Book A System of Pleas

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  • Author : Vanessa A. Edkins
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2019-03-06
  • ISBN : 0190689250
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book A System of Pleas written by Vanessa A. Edkins and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-06 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 95% of criminal convictions are by guilty plea. Trials are the rarity, and while much has been written on jury decision making and various parts of the trial process, the field has been largely silent on the practice that is most likely to affect an individual charged with a crime: plea bargaining. A System of Pleas: Social Science's Contributions to the Real Legal System brings together into one resource the burgeoning body of research on plea bargaining. Drawing attention to the fact that convictions today are nearly synonymous with guilty pleas, this contributed volume begins with an overview and history of plea bargaining, with chapters focusing on defendants, defense attorneys and prosecutors and plea bargains; influences on plea decision-making, including race, juvenile justice system involvement, and innocence; and the results of a "system of pleas", such as sentencing disparities and mass incarceration, collateral consequences, and disenfranchisement. A concluding chapter by the volume's editors examines ways to move forward within an entrenched system. An excellent reference tool for furthering both research and practice, A System of Pleas is a must-have for academics and legal professionals interested in the fields of criminal justice, psychology and law, and related disciplines.

Book Shadow s Talent

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  • Author : Tommy Muncie
  • Publisher : Tommy Muncie
  • Release : 2014-06-23
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Shadow s Talent written by Tommy Muncie and published by Tommy Muncie. This book was released on 2014-06-23 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shadow Hatcher is determined to change his life. Despite his unusually high aptitude for his dream career as an astronaut, Shadow’s lowly status in 23rd century England makes it nearly impossible to attain. This changes when Shadow witnesses a murder near his family’s farm. His daring witness testimony earns him the attention and respect of society’s most powerful people, the Talented, whose links to the ruling class can make Shadow’s dream come true. When his testimony results in the collapse of an illegal Dream Morphine racket, Shadow is thrown into a strange new world with dangers that he can barely begin to fathom. As he becomes more deeply involved in the world of the Talented, he must live with dark secrets and face constant dangers to prevent his family from paying the ultimate price for his success. A price someone now seems intent on making them pay...

Book Boundless Innocence in Thomas Traherne s Poetic Theology

Download or read book Boundless Innocence in Thomas Traherne s Poetic Theology written by Elizabeth S. Dodd and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-16 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seventeenth-century poet and divine Thomas Traherne finds innocence in every stage of existence. He finds it in the chaos at the origins of creation as well as in the blessed order of Eden. He finds it in the activities of grace and the hope of glory, but also in the trials of misery and even in the abyss of the Fall. Boundless Innocence in Thomas Traherne’s Poetic Theology traces innocence through Traherne’s works as it transgresses the boundaries of the estates of the soul. Using grammatical and literary categories it explores various aspects of his poetic theology of innocence, uncovering the boundless desire which is embodied in the yearning cry: ’Were all Men Wise and Innocent...’ Recovering and reinterpreting a key but increasingly neglected theme in Traherne’s poetic theology, this book addresses fundamental misconceptions of the meaning of innocence in his work. Through a contextual and theological approach, it indicates the unexplored richness, complexity and diversity of this theme in the history of literature and theology.

Book In Hawthorne s Shadow

Download or read book In Hawthorne s Shadow written by Samuel Chase Coale and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The world is so sad and solemn," wrote Nathaniel Hawthorne, "that things meant in jest are liable, by an overwhelming influence, to become dreadful earnest; gaily dressed fantasies turning to ghostly and black-clad images of themselves." From the radical dualism of Hawthorne's vision, Samuel Coale argues, springs a continuing tradition in the American novel. In Hawthorne's Shadow is the first critical study to describe precisely the formal shape of Hawthorne's psychological romance and to explore his themes and images in relation to such contemporary writers as John Cheever, Norman Mailer, Joan Didion, John Gardner, Joyce Carol Oates, William Styron, and John Updike. When viewed from this perspective, certain writers—particularly Cheever, Mailer, Oates, and Gardner—appear in a new and very different light, leading to a considerable reevaluation of their achievement and their place in American fiction. Mr. Coale's long interviews and conversations with John Cheever, John Gardner, William Styron, and others have provided insights and perspectives that make this book particularly valuable to students of contemporary American literature. Coale links contemporary writers to an on-going American romantic tradition, represented by such earlier authors as Melville, Harold Frederic, Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, and Carson McCullers. He explores the distinctly Manichean matter of much American romance, linking it to America's Puritan past and to the almost schizophrenic dynamics of American culture in general. Finally, he reexamines the post-modernist writers in light of Hawthorne's "shadow" and shows that, however similar they may be in some ways, they differ remarkably from the previous American romantic tradition.

Book Politics  Innocence  and the Limits of Goodness

Download or read book Politics Innocence and the Limits of Goodness written by Peter Johnson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-21 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1988. Moral innocence is of enduring interest because it seems to embody our ideals in their purest form. The place of moral innocence in politics is the central theme of Peter Johnson’s subtle and original book. Are there moral dispositions which are not only incompatible with politics but actually endanger it? If it is sometimes necessary to act badly in order to achieve desirable objectives, what moral standpoints would exclude such a course at action? Peter Johnson demonstrates convincingly why philosophical accounts of morality, past and present, are unable to explain moral innocence: its full impact on politics can only be grasped by putting aside traditional theories. Literature provides the key to a deeper understanding of the relationship between politics and morality. Melville’s Billy Budd, Shakespeare’s Henry VI, and Graham Greene’s The Quiet American reveal moral innocence at work in political circumstances of great intensity. Through these and other literary figures, we see at last the specific character of moral innocence and why it is connected with political disaster. This closely reasoned yet deeply passionate book illuminates a problem of great contemporary interest and nowhere more so than in American public life. Original in theme and content, it confronts central issues of concern to the modern mind, not simply to academics, both teachers and taught, but to all those interested in how they might be governed.

Book The Storyteller s Shadows

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  • Author : Bill Reed
  • Publisher : Reed Independent
  • Release : 2018-03-03
  • ISBN : 0648175693
  • Pages : 416 pages

Download or read book The Storyteller s Shadows written by Bill Reed and published by Reed Independent. This book was released on 2018-03-03 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a volume containing 14 original plays – including three shadow-play adaptions of Gogol, Morton and Runyon classics – the author resurrects a sadly neglected theatre genre – the shadow play combining traditional shadow techniques with normal acting to create ‘full-bodied’ mainstream plays.

Book H  lderlin and the Poetry of Tragedy

Download or read book H lderlin and the Poetry of Tragedy written by Jeremy Tambling and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hölderlin (1770-1843) is the magnificent writer whom Nietzsche called 'my favourite poet'. His writings and poetry have been formative throughout the twentieth century, and as influential as those of Hegel, his friend. At the same time, his madness has made his poetry infinitely complex as it engages with tragedy, and irreconcilable breakdown, both political and personal, with anger and with mourning. This study gives a detailed approach to Hölderlin's writings on Greek tragedy, especially Sophocles, whom he translated into German, and gives close attention to his poetry, which is never far from an engagement with tragedy. Hölderlin's writings, always fascinating, enable a consideration of the various meanings of tragedy, and provide a new reading of Shakespeare, particularly Julius Caesar, Hamlet and Macbeth; the work proceeds by opening into discussion of Nietzsche, especially The Birth of Tragedy. Since Hölderlin was such a decisive figure for Modernism, to say nothing of modern Germany, he matters intensely to such differing theorists and philosophers as Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Blanchot and Jacques Derrida, all of whose views are discussed herein. Drawing upon the insights of Hegelian philosophy and psychoanalysis, this book gives the English-speaking reader ready access to a magnificent body of poetry and to the poet as a theorist of tragedy and of madness. Hölderlin's poetry is quoted freely, with translations and commentary provided. This book is the first major account of Hölderlin in English to offer the student and general reader a critical account of a vital body of work which matters to any study of poetry and to all who are interested in poetry's relationships to madness. It is essential reading in the understanding of how tragedy pervades literature and politics, and how tragedy has been regarded and written about, from Hegel to Walter Benjamin.

Book Organiz d Innocence

Download or read book Organiz d Innocence written by Rudd E. Margaret and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-14 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1956, this book has been described by the author as something of a biographical novel, somewhere between formal scholarly criticism and a more creative form of writing. It looks at the meaning of Blake’s visions and how the troubles of his life affected his poems known as the prophetic books. It focuses on the story of the universal human spirit that these books present.

Book Through the Shadows of Forever

Download or read book Through the Shadows of Forever written by James Patrick Krach and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-08-12 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the Shadows of Forever is a supernaturally dark commentary on society, and the world in which we live. Follow one man's horrifying journey to survive in a world he chooses to live apart from. Follow another man's twisted journey through madness, as he searches for the answers to his own life forgotten. Watch as the two collide in an enlightenment of insanity. Welcome to the shadows.

Book The Victims of Innocence

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  • Author : Chet Pleban
  • Publisher : Gypsy Shadow Publishing
  • Release : 2020-03-28
  • ISBN : 161950359X
  • Pages : 355 pages

Download or read book The Victims of Innocence written by Chet Pleban and published by Gypsy Shadow Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-28 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judge Joan Cardwell is back. As an assistant prosecutor many years ago, she prosecuted a black man for rape. After seventeen years in prison, Larry Jenkins contacts the Innocence Project proclaiming his innocence and seeking a DNA test. At the insistence of Cardwell, Karen Braxton, the elected prosecutor, resists the DNA test. Her resistance leads to an evidentiary hearing. As the evidence develops in the Jenkins case, the prior murder prosecution of Garner Lee, the son of Cassandra and Senator Winston Lee surfaces. Questions are raised as to whether that murder case was fixed by Braxton, Cardwell, Cassandra and Senator Lee to protect the senator’s gubernatorial candidacy. Did the senator put Cardwell on the bench and would the favorable resolution of the murder case be a payback? As the Innocence Project and Jonathan Felbin gather the evidence for a DNA test, Braxton becaomes concerned. Something may not be right with the way Cardwell handled the Jenkins case. Did she prosecute and convict an innocent man who had spent the last seventeen years in prison for personal political gain? Was perjured testimony used to obtain the rape conviction? Although not involved in the decision to prosecute Larry Jenkins, Braxton was involved in the Garner Lee murder prosecution. Will her role along with the involvement of the Lees and Judge Cardwell be uncovered? Will Garner Lee who has repeatedly denied killing his girlfriend, Amy Deland, be exonerated with the identification of the real killer? Will Larry Jenkins be freed? Will Garner Lee and Larry Jenkins be vindicated? Or will Joan Cardwell, Karen Braxton, Cassandra and Winston Lee be allowed to remain in their offices as though they did nothing wrong?

Book Innocence  with bonus short story Wilderness

Download or read book Innocence with bonus short story Wilderness written by Dean Koontz and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2014-11-25 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Includes Dean Koontz’s short story “Wilderness”—first time in print! In Innocence, Dean Koontz blends mystery, suspense, and acute insight into the human soul in a masterfully told tale that will resonate with readers forever. He lives in solitude beneath the city, an exile from society, which will destroy him if he is ever seen. She dwells in seclusion, a fugitive from enemies who will do her harm if she is ever found. But the bond between them runs deeper than the tragedies that have scarred their lives. Something more than chance—and nothing less than destiny—has brought them together in a world whose hour of reckoning is fast approaching. Praise for Innocence “A thriller that’s both chilling and fulfilling.”—People (four stars) “Laced with fantastical mysticism, it’s an allegory of nonviolence, acceptance and love in the face of adversity. . . . The narrative is intense, with an old-fashioned ominousness and artistically crafted descriptions. . . . An optimistic and unexpected conclusion [mirrors] his theme. Something different this way comes from Mr. Koontz’s imagination. Enjoy.”—Kirkus Reviews “Mystery and terror, the paranormal and romance—all combine to make Innocence a challenging and emotional experience.”—New York Journal of Books “This novel really is something special. . . . This may just be the book Dean Koontz was born to write.”—Thriller Books Journal “Entrancing . . . as speedy a chase-thriller as any Koontz . . . has ever constructed. Written in Koontz’ late mellifluent and reflective manner . . . [Innocence is] fueled by deep disgust with the world’s evils [and] hope for redemption.”—Booklist (starred review) “[An] imaginative, mystical thriller from bestseller Koontz . . . This is the most satisfying Koontz standalone in a while.”—Publishers Weekly “Masterful storyteller Koontz delivers perhaps his most eerie and unusual tale to date. The timeline in this amazing story is compact, and readers will be swept along as they try to unravel hints and clues as to the true nature of both the protagonists and the unfolding drama. Unpredictably spine-chilling and terrifying, this is a story readers won’t soon forget.”—RT Book Reviews “Elegant . . . Fans of Koontz’s previous series will be left hoping that Addison and Gwyneth, too, will return.”—Library Journal