Download or read book Destruction of Innocence written by Rosalie Hollingsworth and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-04-02 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Rosalie's estranged husband first kidnaps their baby daughter, she feels helpless. Franco escapes with their child to his home country of Italy, and the government is not able or willing to intervene. It takes eight months for Rosalie to get Triana back and she's only able to do that by drugging Franco, and with difficulty, escaping and returning to the United States. She breathes a sigh of relief, thinking that she'll never lose her daughter again, how wrong she is. Six years later, the unthinkable happens: Franco kidnaps Triana and disappears into the remote jungles of South America. After receiving a letter, Rosalie returns to Rome to meet with her private investigator. She has little to go on, and two years have passed since Triana was taken, but she'll stop at nothing to find her. Failure is not in Rosalie's vocabulary. With letter after letter to authorities, she continues to search for her daughter. She is determined to find her child and save her from a sociopath father who subjects his daughter to encounters with death and devastating experiences in Destruction of Innocence.
Download or read book The Destruction of Innocence written by Sandra Boyle and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2014-07-04 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Destruction of Innocence concerns the ill-fated meeting between the young and innocent Lady Emily Smythe and the handsome and ruthless Lord Duncan Gascoigne. Set in the 19th century, their different backgrounds ill-prepare the unworldly and naive Emily for the horror ahead with the cruel and merciless nobleman. Their relationship leads to debt and debauchery, with tragic consequences.
Download or read book Murder of Innocence written by Joel Kaplan and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2017-03-08 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early on a May morning in 1988, Laurie Dann, a thirty-year-old, profoundly unhappy product of the wealthy North Shore suburb of Chicago, loaded her father's car with a cache of handguns, incendiary chemicals, and arsenic-laced food. Driven by fear and hate, she was going to make something terrible happen. Before the end of the day, Dann had blazed a murderous trail of poison, fire, and bullets through the unsuspecting town of Winnetka, Illinois, and other North Shore suburbs. She murdered an eight-year-old boy and critically wounded 5 other children inside an elementary school. It finally took a massed force of armed police to end the killing. The shocking story of innocence destroyed by a rich young babysitter inexplicably gone mad made headlines all across the nation and inspired at least two psychotic killers to follow her example. What lead her to do it? Could she have been stopped? The case raised a host of agonizing questions that have remained unanswered—until now. In this book, three Chicago Tribune reporters who covered the Laurie Dann tragedy have pulled together all the available police evidence, unearthed valuable psychiatric information, and interviewed at length scores of people who knew Dann, many of whom had never before spoken to the media about this case. Despite clear and ominous warning signs, a young woman of beauty and privilege was allowed to deteriorate and go slowly berserk—and no one stopped her. Her parents, her doctors, and the police officers who knew her pathological behavior all failed her at critical times. By its passivity and silence, a community comfortable and quiet on the surface, yet reluctant to admit its underlying flaws, became an unwitting accomplice to the final rampage of Laurie Dann. MURDER OF INNOCENCE is a searing portrayal of a family—and a society—unable to cope, and of a young woman who wanted all too desperately only to be loved.
Download or read book Actual Innocence written by Jim Dwyer and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten true tales of people falsely accused detail the flaws in the criminal justice system that landed these people in prison
Download or read book Songs of Innocence written by William Blake and published by . This book was released on 1789 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Loss of Innocence written by Larry Murley and published by . This book was released on 2014-03-15 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story of America's early involvement in the Vietnam War. One young man's journey into that covert world.
Download or read book Rite of Passage written by Richard Wright and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1995-12-19 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Johnny, you're leaving us tonight . . . " Fifteen-year-old Johnny Gibbs does, well in school, respects his teachers, and loves his family. Then suddenly, with a few short words, his idyllic life is shattered. He learns that the family he has loved all his life is not his own, but a foster family. And now he is being sent to live with someone else. Shocked by the news, Johnny does the only thing he can think of: he runs. Leaving his childhood behind forever, Johnny takes to the streets where he learns about living life--the hard way. Richard Wright, internationally acclaimed author of Black Boy and Native Son, gives us a coming-of-age story as compelling today as when it was first written, over fifty years ago. ‘Johnny Gibbs arrives home jubilantly one day with his straight ‘A’ report card to find his belongings packed and his mother and sister distraught. Devastated when they tell him that he is not their blood relative and that he is being sent to a new foster home, he runs away. His secure world quickly shatters into a nightmare of subways, dark alleys, theft and street warfare. . . . Striking characters, vivid dialogue, dramatic descriptions, and enduring themes introduce a enw generation of readers to Wright’s powerful voice.’—SLJ. Notable 1995 Children's Trade Books in Social Studies (NCSS/CBC)
Download or read book Up Above the World written by Paul Bowles and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2006-06-13 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the terrace of an elaborate hilltop apartment overlooking a Central American capital, four people sit making polite conversation. The American couple -- an elderly physician and his young wife -- are tourists. Their host, whom they have just met, is a young man of striking good looks and charm. The girl, his mistress, is very young and very beautiful. Sitting there, watching the sunset, the Slades seem to be enjoying the sort of fortunate chance encounter that travelers cherish. But amid the civilities and small talk, the host's casual remark to the American woman proves prophetic: "It's not exactly what you think." Masterfully -- with the poetic control that has always characterized his work -- Paul Bowles leads the reader beneath the surface of hospitality and luxury into a tortuous maze of human relationships and shifting moods, until what seems at first a merely casual encounter is seen to be one rooted in viciousness and horror.
Download or read book Circle of Innocence written by Lynda Drews and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-03-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Door County--the "Cape Cod" of Wisconsin--evil is lurking... Detective Sydney Bernhardt hates to admit no male, other than her dog, has crossed her bedroom threshold in nearly two years. As Syd jogs along Lake Michigan's shoreline, she discovers the child-like body of Carli Lacount--the stepdaughter of a local Café owner. This suspicious death sparks Syd into action to uncover the truth behind Carli's sexually confused past--and to reclaim Syd's own life. Is she ready to forgive her spurned lover, attorney Eli Gaudet? Or should she accept the advances of the victim's uncle, who shares a common pain. Then a pre-teen girl matching Carli's physical description is abducted. Syd now struggles to find a connection, probing the murky secrets hidden inside the peninsula and surrounding islands. But as Syd follows this complex trail, she unknowingly becomes both a confidante and prey for that evil.
Download or read book Agents of Innocence A Novel written by David Ignatius and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-02-14 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A "superlative spy novel" (New York Times) by the author of the bestselling espionage thrillers Body of Lies and The Director. Agents of Innocence is the book that established David Ignatius's reputation as a master of the novel of contemporary espionage. Into the treacherous world of shifting alliances and arcane subterfuge comes idealistic CIA man Tom Rogers. Posted in Beirut to penetrate the PLO and recruit a high-level operative, he soon learns the heavy price of innocence in a time and place that has no use for it.
Download or read book Beyond Innocence written by Phoebe Zerwick and published by Atlantic Monthly Press. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deeply reported, gripping narrative of injustice, exoneration, and the lifelong impact of incarceration, Beyond Innocence is the poignant saga of one remarkable life that sheds vitally important light on the failures of the American justice system at every level In June 1985, a young Black man in Winston-Salem, N.C. named Darryl Hunt was falsely convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the rape and murder of a white copyeditor at the local paper. Many in the community believed him innocent and crusaded for his release even as subsequent trials and appeals reinforced his sentence. Finally, in 2003, the tireless efforts of his attorney combined with an award-winning series of articles by Phoebe Zerwick in the Winston-Salem Journal led to the DNA evidence that exonerated Hunt. Three years later, the acclaimed documentary, The Trials of Darryl Hunt, made him known across the country and brought his story to audiences around the world. But Hunt’s story was far from over. As Zerwick poignantly reveals, it is singularly significant in the annals of the miscarriage of justice and for the legacy Hunt ultimately bequeathed. Part true crime drama, part chronicle of a life cut short by systemic racism, Beyond Innocence powerfully illuminates the sustained catastrophe faced by an innocent person in prison and the civil death nearly everyone who has been incarcerated experiences attempting to restart their lives. Freed after nineteen years behind bars, Darryl Hunt became a national advocate for social justice, and his case inspired lasting reforms, among them a law that allows those on death row to appeal their sentence with evidence of racial bias. He was a beacon of hope for so many—until he could no longer bear the burden of what he had endured and took his own life. Fluidly crafted by a master journalist, Beyond Innocence makes an urgent moral call for an American reckoning with the legacies of racism in the criminal justice system and the human toll of the carceral state.
Download or read book Cathedra Petri Book XIV From the death of Innocent III to the dawn of the reformation written by Thomas Greenwood and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Willy Wonka the Death Factory Part 2 written by Nate Taylor and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-12-28 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the events of "Willy Wonka & The Death Factory: The Golden Ticket," Charlie returns home to find that he isn't the boy he once was.
Download or read book The Loss of Innocence written by Deven Michaels and published by . This book was released on 2013-03-20 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is not your sweet coming of age story, Deven takes his readers down every dark turn, and sharp bend. Pulling no punches, his raw wounds still seep through every word written. From a young boy caught up in a turbulent home life, exposure to some of life's most depraved lessons. all the way to the top of the world, only to crash back to the bottom. He started rough, made his life what he wanted it to be, and then began again.Deven's story embodies human nature in all of its facets whether they be bright and happy or dark and miserable. His own lesson of resilience resonates as he, like the proverbial phoenix rises from the ashes of love and loss. All the way from a small farm boy to a roller coaster ride of independent wrestling stardom, Deven shows us the dirty little secrets that we all deny or hide. Proving the fact that it doesn't matter how hard you start, or how hard you fall, success is never giving up.
Download or read book To Kill a Mockingbird written by Harper Lee and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voted America's Best-Loved Novel in PBS's The Great American Read Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South—and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred One of the most cherished stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than forty million copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture, and was voted one of the best novels of the twentieth century by librarians across the country. A gripping, heart-wrenching, and wholly remarkable tale of coming-of-age in a South poisoned by virulent prejudice, it views a world of great beauty and savage inequities through the eyes of a young girl, as her father—a crusading local lawyer—risks everything to defend a black man unjustly accused of a terrible crime.
Download or read book The Things They Carried written by Tim O'Brien and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic work of American literature that has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene, The Things They Carried is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling. The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the character Tim O’Brien, who has survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three. Taught everywhere—from high school classrooms to graduate seminars in creative writing—it has become required reading for any American and continues to challenge readers in their perceptions of fact and fiction, war and peace, courage and fear and longing. The Things They Carried won France's prestigious Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize; it was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Download or read book True Innocence written by Joseph M Perkins and published by . This book was released on 2016-04-13 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suicide has gone to epidemic numbers 1,000,000 per year in last 5 years. This book has unique answers to Prevent and even STOP Suicide. It proves the TRUE INNOCENCE of every suicide victim (they truly are NOT themselves). The author's son committed suicide at age 24 and his story is in the contents. The warning signs including exposing the true enemy to each and every son and or daughter of God. Most especially HOW to eliminate Satan and his Demons of evil and saving life from not only physical death but spiritual death as well. Suicide is NEVER the right answer to any situation.
