Download or read book The Girl in the Yellow Scarf written by Sandra Chapman and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1968, a young black woman was brutally murdered on the streets of Martinsville, Indiana. Carol Jenkin's stabbing death appeared racially motivated. For thirty years there were no arrests. The case sat dormant until unsettled rumors, a family pursuit of justice and a new State Police Cold Case unit all came together to confront the past. Investigative Reporter, Sandra Chapman was on the case too, uncovering startling new facts and prompting a break in the murder mystery that eluded so many for decades. A child witness, a long-held secret and the admirable determination of the victim's family all play into this suspenseful, dramatic true crime story. It's skillfully recounted by the reporter who live it - and often told through the eyes of a daughter who had to make a painful choice - between her own father and the lives impacted by the Martinsville Mystery forever.

Download or read book The Girl with the Yellow Dress written by Giancarlo Gabbrielli and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of a man and a woman who knew each other as adolescents and meet again after many years. At their fortuitous encounter, they realize they still love each other, but they must fight destiny and distance to be together again in the face of personal differences and social expectations. The writing has a particular stylistic flare and romantic sense. The flowing narrative and poetic language make this novel a most enjoyable read.

Download or read book The Girl in the Yellow Scarf written by C. R. Frigard and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-01-13 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He's black, Ivy League educated, from a prominent family in Harlem. She's white, homeless, from a subsistence farm in Kentucky. They are worlds apart but share a passion - music.For the past five years Mike Monroe has struggled toward an MBA, expecting to take over the family business. But within months of graduating realizes he just can't do it, and drops out of NYU to pursue his dream as a musician/composer. Alienating his entire family with his decision, he ends up stuck in a dingy piano bar in Mid-Town Manhattan.Finding solace in serving at a soup kitchen, Mike meets Sarah, a demure yet formidable homeless girl who, although suffering from poor health, is a gifted artist and singer. When reaching out to Sarah, Mike learns her extraordinary life story, inspiring his composing. Could their passion to make music lead to love, reconciliation with family and restored health? In the tradition of Nicholas Sparks and Charles Martin, The Girl in the Yellow Scarf delves into the sacrifices involved in realizing a dream in gritty 1980's New York.

Download or read book The Girl in the Yellow Scarf written by Sandra Chapman and published by . This book was released on 2012-04-17 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A "Seven Dollar Secret" an impossible choice... In 1968, a young black woman was brutally murdered on the streets of Martinsville, Indiana. Carol Jenkins' stabbing death appeared racially motivated. For thirty years, there were no arrests. The case sat dormant until unsettled rumors, a family's pursuit of justice, and a new State Police Cold Case unit all came together to confront the past. Investigative Reporter, Sandra Chapman was on the case too, uncovering startling new facts, and prompting a break in the murder mystery that eluded so many for decades. A child witness, a long-held secret and the admirable determination of the victim's family all play into this suspenseful, dramatic true crime story. It's skillfully recounted by the reporter who lived it - and often told through the eyes of a daughter who had to make a painful choice - between her own father and the lives impacted by the Martinsville Mystery forever.--p. 4 of cover.

Download or read book Oath Bound written by Rachel Vincent and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times–Bestselling Author: The conclusion to the trilogy set in a “paranormal universe full of interesting characters with awesome powers” (RT Book Reviews). The Tower Syndicate will fall . . . if they can survive. The secret daughter of the head of an infamous Skilled crime family, Sera Brandt has hidden her past, her potential, and especially her powers. But when a tragedy strikes her other family, Sera needs justice. And the only way to get it is to reveal her heritage—including a rare Skill—and take the reins of the Tower Syndicate from her cunning and malicious aunt. Kristopher Daniels might have the answer. He’s fought the syndicate to protect his sisters, but he’d never realized just how close to the new heir he needed to get. Neither is used to trusting. But there’s something between them that can’t be ignored. So Sera is on the run with a man she can’t figure out, a target on her back and the new knowledge of just how powerful she really is . . . Praise for the Unbound novels “Offers a little something for everyone: a convincing magical system for urban fantasy fans; for romance readers, a love that time and distance can’t break; and a twist-and-turn plot for mystery buffs. . . . A gritty, dangerous world of sorcerous bindings and forbidden love.” —Shelf Awareness “A world of syndicates, bindings, magic, and blood . . . the story builds to an action-packed conclusion.” —Publishers Weekly

Download or read book The Girl in the Yellow Poncho written by Kristal Brent Zook and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-23 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At five years old, Kristal Brent Zook sat on the steps of a Venice Beach, California, motel trying to make sense of her white father’s abandonment, which left her feeling unworthy of a man’s love and of white protection. Raised by her working-class African American mother and grandmother, Zook was taught not to count on anyone, especially men. Men leave. Men disappoint. In adulthood she became a feminist, activist, and “race woman” journalist in New York City. Despite her professional success, something was missing. Coming to terms with her identity was a constant challenge. The Girl in the Yellow Poncho is Zook’s coming-of-age tale about what it means to be biracial in America. Throughout, she grapples with in-betweenness while also facing childhood sexual assault, economic insecurity, and multigenerational alcoholism and substance abuse on both the Black and white sides of her family. Her story is one of strong Black women—herself, her cousin, her mother, and her grandmother—and the generational cycles of oppression and survival that seemingly defined their lives. Setting out on an inner journey that takes her across oceans and continents, Zook tells the story of a little girl who never gives up on love, even long after it seems to have been destroyed. In the end she triumphs, reconciling with her father and mother to create the family of her dreams through forgiveness and sheer force of will. A testament to the power of settling into one’s authentic identity, this book tells a story of a daughter’s lifelong yearning, a mother’s rediscovery of lost love, and the profound power of atonement and faith to heal a broken family.

Download or read book The Girl in the Yellow Dress written by Jane A. Adams and published by Severn House Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2022-08-02 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Was the wrong man hanged for a young woman's murder, or is a copycat killer on the loose? DCI Henry Johnstone and DS Mickey Hitchens must crack a darkly complex case when the community close ranks. 1930, Leicestershire. Everyone in the quiet market town of East Harborough is convinced that local miscreant Brady Brewer is responsible for the brutal murder of Sarah Downham. Despite Brewer's protestations of innocence, and his sister's pleas for help from DCI Henry Johnstone and DS Mickey Hitchens, Brewer is convicted and hanged. Two weeks after the hanging, a farmworker finds the body of another young woman less than a mile from where Sarah was found - and there are other disturbing similarities between the two murders. Is a copycat killer on the loose, or was Brewer innocent after all? Where is the missing yellow dress that Sarah wore the night she was murdered? As the locals close ranks, Henry and Mickey soon discover that reputations - and the truth - are all on the line . . .

Download or read book The Murders in Great Diddling written by Katarina Bivald and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2024-08-13 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best stories are the ones we didn't know needed to be told The small, rundown village of Great Diddling is full of stories—author Berit Gardner can feel it. The way the villagers avoid outsiders, the furtive stares and whispers in the presence of newcomers... Berit can sense the edge of a story waiting to be unraveled, and she's just the person to do it. In fact, with a book deadline looming over her and no manuscript (not even the idea for a manuscript, truth be told), Berit doesn't just want this story. She needs it. Then, while attending a village tea party, Berit becomes part of the action herself. An explosion in the library of the village's grand manor kills a local man, and the resulting investigation and influx of outsiders sends the quiet, rundown community into chaos. The residents of Great Diddling, each one more eccentric and interesting than any character Berit could have invented, rewrite their own narrative and transform the death of one of their own from a tragedy into a new beginning. Taking advantage of Great Diddling's new notoriety, the villagers band together to start a book and murder festival designed to bring desperately-needed tourists to their town. What they couldn't have predicted is how the new story they've begun to tell will change all their lives forever. Uplifting, charming, and laugh-out-loud funny, The Murders in Great Diddling by New York Times bestselling author Katarina Bivald is a celebration of the life-changing magic of books and the people who love them.

Download or read book The Girl I Left Behind written by Andie Newton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-03 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the USA Today bestselling author of The Girl from Vichy 'A powerful debut!' Gill Paul, author of The Secret Wife. 'A captivating story with a twist of romance threaded throughout' Glynis Peters, author of The Secret Orphan. 'A compelling tale of friendship, courage and espionage in a frightening and uncertain world' Charlotte Betts, author of The Dressmaker's Secret. What would you risk to save your best friend? As a young girl, Ella never considered that those around her weren't as they appeared. But when her childhood best-friend shows Ella that you can't always believe what you see, Ella finds herself thrown into the world of the German Resistance. On a dark night in 1941, Claudia is taken by the Gestapo, likely never to be seen again, unless Ella can save her. With the help of the man she loves, Ella must undertake her most dangerous mission yet and infiltrate the Nazi Party. Selling secrets isn't an easy job. In order to find Claudia, Ella must risk not only her life, but the lives of those she cares about. Will Ella be able to leave behind the girl of her youth and step into the shoes of another? Perfect for fans of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, The German Midwife and Kate Furnivall. Praise for The Girl I Left Behind: 'A gripping historical page-turner about an audacious eighteen-year-old girl in Nazi Germany, who finds herself at the heart of the Reich. It's a thrilling tale of female friendship, young love, and extraordinary courage, laced with chilling reminders of the fate Ella will face if her treachery is discovered. A powerful debut!' Gill Paul, author of The Secret Wife. 'The Girl I Left Behind made me cry and left me wanting more, which to me are signs of a truly wonderful book, one that will stay with me long after I've finished reading' Lana Kortchik, author of The Story of Us. 'Wonderful story where it has you on the edge of your seat but have the tissues with you!' NetGalley Reviewer. 'The author has a gift for creating a sense of place whether the setting was on a snowy mountain or the streets of Germany in the early 1940s' NetGalley Reviewer. 'Excellent story. Strong characters' NetGalley Reviewer.

Download or read book Folk Tales How I Came How I Stayed How I Left written by Nael Almoosawi and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2023-09-29 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Folk Tales is a collection of 60 tales written in a stylish poetic language distributed between three books, referred to as Folk Tales: How I Came, Folk Tales: How I Stayed and Folk Tales: How I Left. The tales are referred to as songs and highly driven by the bard imagination, such tales assumes the tongue of the bard who sings songs for a vast audience around the lands of England, excelling in his profession for entertainment and moral purposes, the bard tends to deviate from the logical aspect of life into a much more exaggerated or imaginative elements of storytelling to entertain the listener and teach kind values. The book is surely designed to delight the reader and soften the hardened hearts.

Download or read book The Night Mark written by Tiffany Reisz and published by MIRA. This book was released on 2017-03-28 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A South Carolina widow travels back in time to 1921 and meets a familiar lighthouse keeper in this romance by the bestselling author of The Bourbon Thief. Faye Barlow is drowning. After the death of her beloved husband, Will, she cannot escape her grief and most days can barely get out of bed. But when she’s offered a job photographing South Carolina’s storied coast, she accepts. Photography, after all, is the only passion she has left. In the quaint beach town, Faye falls in love again when she sees the crumbling yet beautiful Bride Island lighthouse and becomes obsessed with the legend surrounding The Lady of the Light—the keeper’s daughter who died in a mysterious drowning in 1921. Like a moth to a flame, Faye is drawn to the lighthouse for reasons she can’t explain. While visiting it one night, she is struck by a rogue wave and a force impossible to resist drags Faye into the past—and into a love story that is not her own . . . Fate is changeable. Broken hearts can mend. But can she love two men separated by a lifetime? Praise for The Bourbon Thief “[Reisz’s] prose is quite beautiful, and she can weave a wonderful tight story.” —New York Times– and USA Today–bestselling author Jennifer Probst “Reisz fills the narrative with rich historic details; memorable, if vile, characters; and enough surprises to keep the plot moving and readers hooked.” —Booklist “Beautifully written and delightfully insane . . . . Reisz vividly captures the American South with a brutal honesty.” —RT Book Reviews, Top Pick

Download or read book The Mystery of the City of Incas written by KS MItchell and published by Vinspire Publishing, LLC . This book was released on 2023-11-28 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Penelope and Quintus Grey Reyes travel to Machu Picchu over Christmas break, they expect plenty of history in the Lost City of the Incas, but they get a mystery instead. A Peruvian girl, Mayra, asks the twins to help solve the disappearance of her great-uncle nearly 100 years ago - a great-uncle who just happened to guide explorer Hiram Bingham to Machu Picchu for the first time in 1911. As the twins trace the footsteps of the missing man, they learn not everyone wants this mystery solved. Meanwhile, their grandfather is arrested for returning ancient artifacts to Machu Picchu that are found to be fake, and Pen and Quin are certain this new mystery is connected to their own. When Supay, the Inca god of death, appears on a doorway, the twins wonder if they should abandon the mystery, but their search leads them on a twisting train ride back to Machu Picchu that nearly brings an end to their search and their lives. When the trail leads to a nearby mountain and a dangerous path, the twins are close to solving both cases, but can they finish the case or will they also disappear in the City of Incas?

Download or read book Dragons of the Watch written by Donita K. Paul and published by WaterBrook. This book was released on 2011-10-04 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trapped in a forgotten city, bound by secrets, Ellie and Bealomondore must enlist the dragons of the watch to find freedom. Ellie knows exactly where she is going. She just wants to experience the pomp and circumstance of a royal wedding, then settle into a simple life with a country husband. With too many choices, Bealomondore’s future is a tangle of possibilities. He is respected, well-known, and admired among the elite of Chiril, but Wulder demands he narrow his focus and follow his Creator, one step at a time. Both Ellie and Bealomondore’s plans are thwarted when they find themselves lost in an isolated city. As they discern the needs of a group of wild children and a very old man, clues began to surface and a bigger picture is revealed. With the help of the dragons of the watch, can the two tumanhofers find the way out—and perhaps discover their connection to something greater than themselves?

Download or read book Unwanted Girl written by MK Schiller and published by Lyrical Press. This book was released on 2016-01-19 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a man loves a woman Recovering addict Nick Dorsey finds solace in his regimented life. That is until he meets Shyla Metha. Something about the shy Indian beauty who delivers take-out to his Greenwich Village loft inspires the reclusive writer. And when Shyla reveals her desire to write a book of her own, he agrees to help her. The tale of a young Indian girl growing up against a landscape of brutal choices isn’t Nick’s usual territory, but something about the story, and the beautiful storyteller, draws him in deep. Shyla is drawn to Nick, but she never imagines falling for him. Like Nick, Shyla hails from a village, too...a rural village in India. They have nothing in common, yet he makes her feel alive for the first time in her life. She is not ready for their journey to end, but the plans she’s made cannot be broken...not even by him. Can they find a way to rewrite the next chapter?

Download or read book The Invisible Mountain written by Carolina De Robertis and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-08-25 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the first day of the year 1900, a small town deep in the Uruguayan countryside gathers to witness a miracle—the mysterious reappearance Pajarita, a lost infant who will grow up to begin a lineage of fiercely independent women. Her daughter, Eva, a stubborn beauty intent on becoming a poet, overcomes a shattering betrayal to embark on a most unconventional path. And Eva's daughter, Salomé, awakens to both her sensuality and political convictions amid the violent turmoil of the late 1960s. The Invisible Mountain is a stunning exploration of the search for love and a poignant celebration of the fierce connection between mothers and daughters.

Download or read book The Girl from Fort Wicked written by Dee Brown and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-10-23 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A post–Civil War adventure of love, money, and determination from the bestselling author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. Captain Westcott receives the news that a wagon train has been raided. Two officers have been wounded and four civilians killed—among the dead is the woman who was traveling to the western frontier to become his wife. Authorities believe that the prize was six thousand dollars, and that the local Arapaho Indians are responsible—a curious assumption given that the greenbacks in this area are the preserve of soldiers, not the tribes. But it soon becomes apparent that there’s more to this raid than money. Having no time to lose, Westcott promptly sets out to hunt the band of raiders, on a mission that will contain more surprises than he could ever have expected. Alive with suspense, The Girl from Fort Wicked is a riveting portrayal of America’s rugged frontier landscape, its language, and its unusual characters from celebrated author Dee Brown, whose groundbreaking classic Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee changed the way many Americans perceived frontier history. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Dee Brown including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.

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