The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
Author : Emilie Autumn
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 14,49 MB
Release : 2017-06
Category :
ISBN : 9780998990910
The Gown
Author : Emilie Autumn
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 19,56 MB
Release : 2017-11-10
Category :
ISBN : 9780998990941
Book Description
A young woman is driven to madness by the periodically reoccurring appearance of a hospital gown that first traumatized her as a child.
Mr. and Mrs. Sunday's Suppers
Author : Lorraine Wallace
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 10,33 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 1118175298
Book Description
Lorraine Wallace, wife of Fox Sunday News anchor Chris Wallace, presents recipes that are sure to bring everyone together on any occasion, from weeknight meals to holidays to game day. She includes reinvented classics as well as delicious vegetarian and gluten-free options.
Gothic Charm School
Author : Jillian Venters
Publisher : William Morrow Paperbacks
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 11,56 MB
Release : 2009-06-23
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780061669163
Book Description
An essential, fully illustrated guidebook to day-to-day Goth living There's more to being a Goth than throwing on some black velvet, dyeing your hair, and calling it a day (or a night). How do you dress with morbid flair when going to a job interview? Is there such a thing as growing too old to be a Goth? How do you explain to your grandma that it's not just a phase? Jillian Venters, a.k.a. "the Lady of the Manners," knows how to be strange and unusual without sacrificing politeness and etiquette. In Gothic Charm School, she offers the quintessential guide to dark decorum for all those who have ever searched for beauty in dark, unexpected places, embraced their individuality, and reveled in decadence . . . and for families and friends who just don't understand.
Asylum
Author : Susy Smith
Publisher : Babylon Books
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 33,2 MB
Release : 2021-08-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1954871171
Book Description
In the aftermath of the Big Crash, the President of the United States declares martial law. The National Guard rounds up citizens who are never heard from again. While fear and chaos reign, a small band of revolutionaries rise up to resist. Lacy Monroe, barely out of high school, never saw herself as a leader. All that changed after the Big Crash. When the rest of her family fled, she remained on the farm, the last piece of land in the state holding out against the hostile government. Alone and vulnerable, she endures a horrific attack, yet survives and offers sanctuary to others like herself—until an old friend turns her world upside-down. Jace Cooper has harbored a secret for years—he is completely in love with his best friend’s sister. The world is crumbling around them, no one knows how long they will survive, and all he wants is to protect Lacy and stay with her. With the National Guard circling ever closer, hunger and sickness taking a toll, and betrayal and jealousy threatening to destroy the group from the inside, the struggle to hold onto the farm pushes them to the brink. And Lacy is keeping a secret so devastating it could drive Jace to unthinkable actions. Is the farm a safe asylum—or will the fight for freedom destroy them?
Boston's Wayward Children
Author : Peter C. Holloran
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 30,5 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780838632970
Book Description
This study explores the origin and development of the American social welfare system. It demonstrates that the system of orphanages, child-placing agencies, reformatories, juvenile courts, and child guidance clinics established in Victorian Boston was a foundation for the New Deal and remains the basis of contemporary social work with the young.
She Wolf
Author : Sheri Lewis Wohl
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,80 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781626397415
Book Description
When the hunter becomes the hunted, more than love might be lost.
The Asylum
Author : Karen Coles
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 12,6 MB
Release : 2021-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1787395162
Book Description
Perfect for fans of The Familiars and The Glass House, this is the intoxicating story of one woman's fight for freedom in Victorian England. ????? 'Outstanding gothic psychological thriller!' ????? 'Fantastic character and fantastic story. Buy this book' ????? 'Beautifully written and incredibly addictive' ????? 'I can’t stop thinking about it' ___________ WHO IS MAUD LOVELL AND WHERE HAS SHE COME FROM? Maud has been at Angelton Lunatic Asylum for 5 years. She has no memory of her past or how she came to be here. They say she is violent and unstable, hysterical and untrustworthy. But when she's hypnotised, the memories come flooding back. And now it's time for revenge. Welcome to Angelton Lunatic Asylum. Once you're in, it's murder getting out . . . ___________ PRAISE FOR THE ASYLUM: 'Haunting and mesmerising' – Essie Fox, author of The Last Days of Leda Grey 'Vivid, disturbing and visceral, The Asylum is this year's must-read!' – Ruby Speechley, author of A Mother Like You 'This twisty rollercoaster story made me desperate for Maud's salvation and yearn for her revenge. Utterly compelling' – Kerry Fisher, author of The Woman I Was Before 'Evocative, menacing and darkly sinister. A brilliantly executed gothic thriller that will leave you breathless' – Jane Isaac, international bestselling crime fiction author 'A historic novel that seethes with claustrophobia, trauma and thoughts of revenge. What a sophisticated and gripping tale' – Fiona Mitchell, author of The Swap
Steampunk
Author : Claire Nally
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 22,72 MB
Release : 2019-06-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1350113204
Book Description
What is steampunk? Fashion craze, literary genre, lifestyle - or all of the above? Playing with the scientific innovations and aesthetics of the Victorian era, steampunk creatively warps history and presents an alternative future, imagined from a nineteenth-century perspective. In her interdisciplinary book, Claire Nally delves into this contemporary subculture, explaining how the fashion, music, visual culture, literature and politics of steampunk intersect with theories of gender and sexuality. Exploring and occasionally critiquing the ways in which gender functions in the movement, she addresses a range of different issues, including the controversial trope of the Victorian asylum; gender and the graphic novel; the legacies of colonialism; science and the role of Ada Lovelace as a feminist steampunk icon. Drawing upon interviews, theoretical readings and textual analysis, Nally asks: why are steampunks fascinated by our Victorian heritage, and what strategies do they use to reinvent history in the present?
Forgotten
Author : Terri Skye
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 50,42 MB
Release : 2020-10-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1665580615
Book Description
Forgotten follows the journey of a young woman through the mental health system. The story begins when she was six years old and diagnosed with anxiety, OCD, depression and anorexia. She was one of the youngest on the ward. It shows the bitter truth behind being a patient at such a young age in a mental health institution. She takes you through various stages of her life such as her school years where she struggled but didn’t understand why, she describes how frightened she was in such a catching way you can almost feel yourself in her little shoes. She takes you through her life of adolescence where it becomes apparent that friends are important and she has a moment of clarity in her life. It takes a turn for the worst when she falls in love and is beaten up and hides it from her parents The most gripping chapter that will startle most readers and hopefully help anyone who is in a similar situation to realise that it isn’t ok to be treated in that way. She was diagnosed with Asperger’s and bipolar at the age of 30 after over 20 years of fighting for help.
