Book Description
After his best friend's daughter, Laura, sets her sights on his son, Alec, Pete Dizinoff sees his plans for a perfect son not just unraveling but being destroyed completely and sets out to derail the romance.
Author : Lauren Grodstein
Publisher : Algonquin Books
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 16,3 MB
Release : 2009-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1565129679
After his best friend's daughter, Laura, sets her sights on his son, Alec, Pete Dizinoff sees his plans for a perfect son not just unraveling but being destroyed completely and sets out to derail the romance.
Author : Tommy Dades
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 14,42 MB
Release : 2009-05-05
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 0061876321
“One of the most spectacular cases of police corruption in the city.” —New York Times Friends of the Family is a look deep inside the most notorious case to rock the NYPD: The story of Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa, the two police detectives who moonlighted as mob hit men. As told by Tommy Dades and Michael Vecchione—the cop and District Attorney investigator who solved New York’s coldest case—along with co-writer David Fisher, Friends of the Family is shocking true crime in the tradition of Nicolas Pileggi’s Wiseguys and Underboss by Peter Mass—a chilling, in-depth examination of what the New York Daily News calls “the worst betrayal of the badge in the NYPD’s history.”
Author : Fred Saberhagen
Publisher : JSS Literary Productions, LLC
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 36,87 MB
Release : 2020-01-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1937422194
Dr Emile Corday, aka Dracula, is summoned to the aid of the Sutherland family, descendants of his great love, Mina Harker. Corday finds himself facing a rebellious faction of American vampires out to see him and anyone he cares for annihilated. Leading his adversaries is the evil and alluring enchantress Morgan Le Fay. Corday, the Sutherland family, and policeman Joe Koegh will cross paths again in Saberhagen’s Dracula series.
Author : D. Lea Jacobs
Publisher : Howells House
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 48,95 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780929590196
Jacobs writes historical fiction under a different name, but here tries his hand at nonfiction to tell the story of Ed Robb, one of the first and most successful FBI undercover agents to work against the Mafia organized crime network. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Author : Lisa Jewell
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 33,61 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0140295976
Meet the Londons, a family in need of a friend � Gerry and Bernie London are proud parents of Tony, Sean and Ned, three wayward lads whose lives have suddenly reached crisis points: Newly divorced Tony is fantasizing about someone he really shouldn�t; prize-winning novelist Sean�s got a hot new girlfriend and a dose of writer�s block; and Ned�s just back from Australia, without the girl he took with him � or a clue what he�s going to do with his life. If that wasn�t enough for one household, the Londons also have a new lodger � a mysterious rockabilly called Gervase. Will he turn out to be a friend � or foe � to the family?
Author : Alison Shaw
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,1 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Abduction
ISBN : 9781551990248
A fascinating blend of true-crime story and psychological thriller, this book casts painfully revealing light on the life and mind of a sociopath.
Author : Elaine Weiss
Publisher : Volcano Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 37,9 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781884244223
Offers practical answers to extraordinarily complex questions raised by abuse. Provides a checklist of warning signs of domestic abuse.
Author : Helen Doss
Publisher : Northeastern University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 21,8 MB
Release : 2014-12-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1555538495
Doss's charming, touching, and at times hilarious chronicle tells how each of the children, representing white, Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean, Mexican, and Native American backgrounds, came to her and husband Carl, a Methodist minister. She writes of the way the "unwanted" feeling was erased with devoted love and understanding and how the children united into one happy family. Her account reads like a novel, with scenes of hard times and triumphs described in vivid prose. The Family Nobody Wanted, which inspired two films, opened doors for other adoptive families and was a popular favorite among parents, young adults, and children for more than thirty years. Now this edition will introduce the classic to a new generation of readers. An epilogue by Helen Doss that updates the family's progress since 1954 will delight the book's loyal legion of fans around the world.
Author : Alice Munro
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 40,39 MB
Release : 2012-04-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307814599
A “wickedly funny” (Newsweek) collection of ten short stories from Nobel Prize–winning author Alice Munro, “one of the most eloquent and gifted writers of contemporary fiction” (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times). “Each of her collections demonstrates such linguistic skill, delicacy of vision, and . . . moral strength and clarity.”—Chicago Tribune A woman haunted by dreams of her dead mother. An adulterous couple stepping over the line where the initial excitement ends and the pain begins. A widow visiting a Scottish village in search of her husband’s past—and instead discovering unsetting truths about a total stranger. The miraculously accomplished stories in this collection not only astonish and delight, but also convey the unspoken mysteries at the heart of all human experience. The mastery—the almost numinous ability to say the unsayable—makes Friend of My Youth a genuine literary event.
Author : Ann Palmer
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 35,4 MB
Release : 2012-04-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0857005677
When a child is diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD), what the family really need, and often lack, is positive reassurance and understanding from those closest to them. This book is packed with advice on how extended family members and friends can provide the necessary support. Explaining the diagnosis and characteristics of ASD, this helpful guide uses examples from real families to illustrate the complex feelings that parents and each member of the family are likely to go through after a child is diagnosed. It gives practical tips on help that might be needed most, details the possible changes that will take place as the family adjusts and concludes with a comprehensive guide to other useful sources of information. This book will help strengthen relationships between parents and their extended family and friends, enabling a reliable support system to develop which will remain crucial to the child throughout their life.