Broken Homes

Author : Ben Aaronovitch
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780575132498

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Broken Homes by Ben Aaronovitch Pdf

Book 4 in the Rivers of London series, from Sunday Times Number One bestselling author Ben Aaronovitch. A mutilated body in Crawley. Another killer on the loose. The prime suspect is one Robert Weil - an associate of the twisted magician known as the Faceless Man? Or just a common garden serial killer? Before PC Peter Grant can get his head round the case, a town planner going under a tube train and a stolen grimoire are adding to his case-load. So far so London. But then Peter gets word of something very odd happening in Elephant and Castle, on an housing estate designed by a nutter, built by charlatans and inhabited by the truly desperate. Is there a connection? And if there is, why oh why did it have to be South of the River? Praise for the Rivers of London novels: 'Ben Aaronovitch has created a wonderful world full of mystery, magic and fantastic characters. I love being there more than the real London' NICK FROST 'As brilliant and funny as ever' THE SUN 'Charming, witty, exciting' THE INDEPENDENT 'An incredibly fast-moving magical joyride for grown-ups' THE TIMES Discover why this incredible series has sold over two million copies around the world. If you're a fan of Terry Pratchett or Douglas Adams - don't panic - you will love Ben Aaronovitch's imaginative, irreverent and all-round irresistible novels.

Author : Ben Aaronovitch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1625676158

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Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch Pdf

10th Anniversary Edition of Midnight Riot by #1 Sunday Times bestselling author Ben Aaronovitch, the first book in the international bestselling Rivers of London series! Restored to its original British title Rivers of London, this Author's Preferred Edition includes revised text never before seen by US readers and a new introduction by the author. My name is Peter Grant and until recently I was just another probationary constable in that mighty army for justice known to all right thinking people as the Metropolitan Police and by everyone else as the filth. My only concerns in life were avoiding a transfer to the Case Progression Unit - We do paperwork so other coppers don't have to - and where to get a hot coffee while on late shift. Then one night, in pursuance of a murder inquiry, I tried to take a witness statement from a man who was dead, but disturbingly voluble and that brought me to the attention Chief Inspector Nightingale, the last wizard in Britain. And that, as they say, is where the story really starts. Now I'm in plain clothes and the first apprentice wizard in fifty years, and my world has become somewhat more complicated. Now I'm dealing with nests of vampires in Purley, negotiating a truce between the warring god and goddess of the River Thames and digging up graves in Covent Garden - and that's just the routine stuff. Because there's something festering at the heart of the city I love, a malicious, vengeful spirit that takes ordinary Londoners and twists them into grotesque mannequins to act out its drama of violence and despair. The spirit of riot and rebellion has awakened in the city, and it's fallen to me to bring order out of chaos - or die trying. Which, I don't mind telling you, would involve a hell of a lot of paperwork.

Author : Peter Bill,Jackie Sadek
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781800467606

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Broken Homes by Peter Bill,Jackie Sadek Pdf

There is ‘no place like home’ sighs Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz. A sentiment with heightened meaning in Britain 2020. There is no book like Broken Homes either.

Author : Paul Kropp
Publisher : High Interest Publishing Inc.
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Children of divorced parents
ISBN : 0973123745

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My Broken Family by Paul Kropp Pdf

"When Maddy's parents split up, her life falls apart. She holds on to her dancing and in time, realizes how strong love is. Today's reluctant readers will enjoy this version of 'Split Up'" Cf. Our choice, 2003.

Author : Ben Aaronovitch
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780698143715

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Broken Homes by Ben Aaronovitch Pdf

Ben Aaronovitch's bestselling Rivers of London urban fantasy series • “The perfect blend of CSI and Harry Potter.” —io9 A mutilated body in Crawley. A killer on the loose. The prime suspect is one Robert Weil, possibly an associate of the twisted wizard known as the Faceless Man. Or maybe just a garden-variety serial killer. Before apprentice wizard and Police Constable Peter Grant can even get his head 'round the case, two more are dropped in his lap: a town planner has gone under a tube train, and there's a stolen grimoire for Grant to track down. So far, so London. But then Peter gets word of something very odd happening on a housing estate designed by a nutter, built by charlatans, and inhabited by the truly desperate. Is there a connection? And if there is, why oh why did it have to be South of the River—in the jurisdiction of some pretty prickly local river spirits?

Author : Jenny Schuetz
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780815739296

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Fixer-Upper by Jenny Schuetz Pdf

Practical ideas to provide affordable housing to more Americans Much ink has been spilled in recent years talking about political divides and inequality in the United States. But these discussions too often miss one of the most important factors in the divisions among Americans: the fundamentally unequal nature of the nation’s housing systems. Financially well-off Americans can afford comfortable, stable homes in desirable communities. Millions of other Americans cannot. And this divide deepens other inequalities. Increasingly, important life outcomes—performance in school, employment, even life expectancy—are determined by where people live and the quality of homes they live in. Unequal housing systems didn’t just emerge from natural economic and social forces. Public policies enacted by federal, state, and local governments helped create and reinforce the bad housing outcomes endured by too many people. Taxes, zoning, institutional discrimination, and the location and quality of schools, roads, public transit, and other public services are among the policies that created inequalities in the nation’s housing patterns. Fixer-Upper is the first book assessing how the broad set of local, state, and national housing policies affect people and communities. It does more than describe how yesterday’s policies led to today’s problems. It proposes practical policy changes than can make stable, decent-quality housing more available and affordable for all Americans in all communities. Fixing systemic problems that arose over decades won’t be easy, in large part because millions of middle-class Americans benefit from the current system and feel threatened by potential changes. But Fixer-Upper suggests ideas for building political coalitions among diverse groups that share common interests in putting better housing within reach for more Americans, building a more equitable and healthy country.

Author : Chris Taylor
Publisher : LCT Productions Pty Limited
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781925441154

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Broken Homes - Book Nine of the Barrington Family Series by Chris Taylor Pdf

A man running away from his past… All his life, Vaughan Barrington believed his biological mother had died giving birth to him. Adopted into a loving family, he’s gotten over his trust issues and become an integral part of the Barrington dynasty. Until now. The recent discovery that his biological mother is not only very much alive but is none other than Elizabeth Craigdon, the matriarch of the venerable Craigdon family, has rocked Vaughan to the core. In shock, he hops a plane to Bali in an effort to distance himself from Elizabeth and to give himself time alone to process the staggering news. Ruby Ashworth is in Bali on a mission of her own. She’s been ordered by her father to get close to Vaughan Barrington in an effort to access company secrets that might sabotage the Barrington Mining operations. Ruby’s father has an ax to grind against Frank Barrington and he can think of no better way to get revenge than through the man’s adopted son. Oblivious to Ruby’s true identity, Vaughan finds himself falling for the gorgeous and sexy blond. She’s everything he could dream of and is a nice distraction from his problems back home. As Ruby’s feelings deepen for Vaughan, she’s overcome with guilt. She owes it to her father to seek revenge, but how can she go through with it when her heart’s no longer in it? Still, it’s too late to back out now. Her father is pressuring her to come through for him. All she can hope is that Vaughan doesn’t find out about her deception, and if he does, that he finds it in his heart to forgive her. USA Today bestselling author, Chris Taylor doesn’t disappoint. Come on a journey with the Barrington family. The highs and lows, the love and laughter, tears and heartbreak. The Barrington family series has it all. Start reading today!

Author : Joanna C. Colcord
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547372295

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Broken Homes: A Study of Family Desertion and its Social Treatment by Joanna C. Colcord Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Broken Homes: A Study of Family Desertion and its Social Treatment" by Joanna C. Colcord. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Elisa Morgan
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780849965258

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The Beauty of Broken by Elisa Morgan Pdf

Find beauty and hope by facing and dealing with the messiness of family life. The family is an imperfect institution. Broken people become broken parents who make broken families. But actually, broken is normal and exactly where God wants us. In The Beauty of Broken, Elisa Morgan, one of today’s most respected female Christian leaders, for the first time shares her very personal story of brokenness—from her first family of origin to the second, represented by her husband and two grown children. Over the years, Elisa’s family struggled privately with issues many parents must face, including: alcoholism and drug addiction infertility and adoption teen pregnancy and abortion divorce, homosexuality, and death Each story layers onto the next to reveal the brokenness that comes into our lives without invitation. “We’ve bought into the myth of the perfect family,” says Elisa. “Formulaic promises about the family may have originated in well-meaning intentions, but such thinking isn’t realistic. It’s not helpful. It’s not even kind.” Instead she offers hope in the form of “broken family values” that allow parents to grow and thrive with God. Values such as commitment, humility, relinquishment, and respect carry us to new places of understanding. Owning our brokenness shapes us into God’s best idea for us and enables us to discover the beauty in ourselves and each member of our family.

Author : Deborah Potts
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781786990570

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Broken Cities by Deborah Potts Pdf

From Britain’s ‘Generation Rent’ to Hong Kong’s notorious ‘cage homes’, societies around the world are facing a housing crisis of unprecedented proportions. The social consequences have been profound, with a lack of affordable housing resulting in overcrowding, homelessness, broken families and, in many countries, a sharp decline in fertility. In Broken Cities, Deborah Potts offers a provocative new perspective on the global housing crisis arguing that the problem lies mainly with demand rather than supply. Potts shows how market-set rates of pay and incomes for vast numbers of households in the world’s largest cities in the global South and North are simply too low to rent or buy any housing that is legal, planned and decent. As the influence of free market economics has increased, the situation has worsened. Potts argues that the crisis needs radical solutions. With the world becoming increasingly urbanized, this book provides a timely and urgent account of one of the most pressing social challenges of the 21st century. Exploring the effects of the housing crisis across the global North and South, Broken Cities is a warning of the greater crises to come if these issues are not addressed.

Author : Horst Krüger
Publisher : Random House
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781473579613

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The Broken House by Horst Krüger Pdf

'Exquisitely written... haunting... Few books, I think, capture so well the sense of a life broken for ever by trauma and guilt' Sunday Times 'An unsparing, honest and insightful memoir, that shows how private failure becomes national disaster' Hilary Mantel Twenty years after the end of the war, Horst Krüger attempted to make sense of his childhood. He had grown up in a quiet Berlin suburb. Here, people lived ordinary lives, believed in God, obeyed the law, and were gradually seduced by the promises of Nazism. He had been 'the typical child of innocuous Germans who were never Nazis, and without whom the Nazis would never have been able to do their work'. With tragic inevitability, this world of respectability, order and duty began to crumble. Written in accomplished prose of lingering beauty, The Broken House is a moving coming-of-age story that provides a searing portrait of life under the Nazis.

Author : Rebecca Kelley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0991305884

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Broken Homes & Gardens by Rebecca Kelley Pdf

After returning from an unsuccessful work abroad scenario teaching English in the Czech Republic, Joanna puts down roots in the damp drizzly neighborhoods of Portland, Oregon. Jetlagged anddisappointed, she sets up camp in her sister Laura's tiny laundry room. Weeks later, Joanna attends a house party at Ted's, Laura's new beau. While reading What to Expect When You are Expecting (even though becoming pregnant is the farthest thing from Joanna's mind), Joanna is caught by surprise when Ted's best friend Malcolm, out of nowhere, approaches her. Lanky, dark-eyed, and strangely weird, Malcolm banters with Joanna, intriguing her with his dry, unconventional approach to flattery. Later that evening they fall asleep in each other's arms in a self-fashioned shed that Malcolm made with his own hands. Only one slight problem: in less than 24 hours Malcolm is leaving for the Peace Corps.

Author : Luis Alberto Urrea
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316516259

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The House of Broken Angels by Luis Alberto Urrea Pdf

In this "raucous, moving, and necessary" story by a Pulitzer Prize finalist (San Francisco Chronicle), the De La Cruzes, a family on the Mexican-American border, celebrate two of their most beloved relatives during a joyous and bittersweet weekend. "All we do, mija, is love. Love is the answer. Nothing stops it. Not borders. Not death." In his final days, beloved and ailing patriarch Miguel Angel de La Cruz, affectionately called Big Angel, has summoned his entire clan for one last legendary birthday party. But as the party approaches, his mother, nearly one hundred, dies, transforming the weekend into a farewell doubleheader. Among the guests is Big Angel's half brother, known as Little Angel, who must reckon with the truth that although he shares a father with his siblings, he has not, as a half gringo, shared a life. Across two bittersweet days in their San Diego neighborhood, the revelers mingle among the palm trees and cacti, celebrating the lives of Big Angel and his mother, and recounting the many inspiring tales that have passed into family lore, the acts both ordinary and heroic that brought these citizens to a fraught and sublime country and allowed them to flourish in the land they have come to call home. Teeming with brilliance and humor, authentic at every turn, The House of Broken Angels is Luis Alberto Urrea at his best, and cements his reputation as a storyteller of the first rank. "Epic . . . Rambunctious . . . Highly entertaining." -- New York Times Book Review"Intimate and touching . . . the stuff of legend." -- San Francisco Chronicle"An immensely charming and moving tale." -- Boston GlobeNational Bestseller and National Book Critics Circle Award finalistA New York Times Notable BookOne of the Best Books of the Year from National Public Radio, American Library Association, San Francisco Chronicle, BookPage, Newsday, BuzzFeed, Kirkus, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Literary Hub

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Subcommittee on Family and Human Services
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Broken homes
ISBN : MINN:31951D002833838

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Broken Families by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Subcommittee on Family and Human Services Pdf

Author : Ruth J. Mason
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-03
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781685704667

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Broken Families and Children by Ruth J. Mason Pdf

Families are experiencing a lack of presence of men and women who have abandoned their families and homes, thus leaving a single parent to raise their children. The Bible reveals that man is the head of the household, but a complete family consists of a mother and father. Children always rely on their parents for guidance in life. Married couples must think twice before starting a family.