Battered Dreams


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San Marcos, Texas. A picture perfect American landscape. Communities dominated by Friday Night Football, modest homes, and happy families. Until the serenity of small town life is broken by one family’s discovery of bodies in an abandoned well. Local police try to keep the discovery quiet; they seldom deal with murder and aren’t prepared when one of the bodies turns out to be a local high school boy. The multiple murders drive home the sinister reality that they are no longer innocent of the crimes that plague large cities. Based on the skill involved, the Serial Crimes Tracking Unit realizes that this is not the killer’s first time. As the SCTU digs deep to discover the killer, they uncover more victims. Anger and fear begin to cause panic in what was once a quiet community. Aislinn Cain and the members of her team need to find the killer before the town implodes with terror and the citizens begin doling out their own brand of justice.




Battered Women in the Courtroom


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For the first time, a study of the ways in which judges respond to abused women.




Angolite


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This Road I Traveled


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Come take a walk with me on this road I travel that was a daunting yet blessed journey. Being the mother of a special-needs daughter, along with four children, every day is busy with challenges, but what happens when I get sick and Iâe(tm)m told that I have only a year to live? What will happen to my children? Who will raise my special-needs daughter? When the doctors lose hope, then I will trust my faith in God more than I ever have before. I pray that my journey can inspire your belief that God is still in charge, and he has the final say when you believe.




Demon Boxes


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Soleil Burns is adjusting to being a single parent to the most powerful wizard the world has ever known. She’s in training to get her private investigator license to accompany her private exorcist license, and she’s now also a small business owner. Into the chaos of regular life comes an ancient artifact of incredible power. Soleil’s family tells her demon boxes haven’t been seen on earth for nearly ten thousand years. Soleil needs to find out how and why one has shown up in modern day St. Louis before someone gets killed by the hordes of demons and other spectral beings pouring forth from it. As more boxes appear around the city, Soleil’s exorcism business is booming, but she must discover who is sending them before the hell princes take over the city. Ensuring even her magic isn’t strong enough to send them back across the Stygian Divide. She will have to get help from her family and friends to help solve this mystery before it’s too late.




No Place for Abuse


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In this thoroughly revised and updated edition, Catherine Clark Kroeger and Nancy Nason-Clark share with readers a further ten years of experience in listening to the voices of women from around the world and especially to those in the church. They help us hear their cries and find concrete ways to respond so that no home will be a place of abuse.




Tortured Dreams


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When the US Marshals Serial Crimes Tracking Unit comes knocking at Aislinn Cain's door, she is given a chance to use her past to save other people's futures. She has survived attacks by two different serial killers and devoted her life to studying the darker side of human history. A new killer is using medieval torture methods to slay his victims. She can give them a glimpse into his twisted world, but not without a cost. If she opens herself, she risks falling into the depths of her own darkness. Can she afford to help, knowing that the cost could be her own humanity?




Slam


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A 1998 Sundance Film Festival winner, "Slam"--set in a war-zone housing project known as Dodge City and in the infamous Washington, D.C., city jail--presents a gritty, inspiring portrait of urban poverty and the redemptive power of art. The book includes the full screenplay, poetry from the film, behind-the-scenes diaries, and more.




The Dysfunctional Expansion


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Nadine is supposed to be in Mexico with Zeke looking at properties to buy and allow for Daniels’ Security to expand. Instead, when she got to the border, she learned her passport had been flagged and she was sent home while her husband crossed the border alone. But there is always something to be done in Kansas City and Alex has a new case. A professor recorded video of a UFO and then two strange men dressed all in black threatened his family and took the video. Nadine joins the investigation into the Men in Black. As they search, one of Daniels’ Security’s regular clients calls in with a weird problem; someone is taking her fence apart from the outside in the middle of the night. The client is convinced they are determined to dognap her dogs and Nadine is quick to dismiss it as a prank until she discovers the client lives in the same neighborhood as the professor and they know each other. It seems unlikely the two things are related, but Nadine has a feeling that something else, something bigger, is going on. Especially when her and Alex discover the real identities of the men in black. Now, they will have to dig through the conspiracies to find the truth behind the UFO encounter, the fence being taken down one board at a time, and the Men in Black.




Women's Rights, Human Rights


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This comprehensive and important volume includes contributions by activists, journalists, lawyers and scholars from twenty-one countries. The essays map the directions the movement for women's rights is taking--and will take in the coming decades--and the concomittant transformation of prevailing notions of rights and issues. They address topics such as the rapes in former Yugoslavia and efforts to see that a War Crimes Tribunal responds; domestic violence; trafficking of women into the sex trade; the persecution of lesbians; female genital mutilation; and reproductive rights.