Innocent Prey

Author : Maggie Shayne
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781460340219

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Innocent Prey by Maggie Shayne Pdf

A detective and a self-help guru search for a judge’s kidnapped daughter in this romantic suspense novel by a New York Times–bestselling author. Self-help superstar Rachel de Luca and Detective Mason Brown have finally given in to their overwhelming attraction to each other, but neither of them is ready to let physical passion turn into full-blown romance, so they carefully maintain an emotional distance. Then a judge’s daughter disappears, and Mason has a terrible sense that it’s connected to the most recent case they solved together: the abduction of Rachel’s assistant. The discovery of a string of missing women—all young, all troubled—seems like a promising lead. But there’s no clear connection between the missing girls and the high-profile young woman Mason is trying to find. He realizes that once again he must rely on his own well-honed instincts and Rachel’s uncanny capacity to see through people’s lies to catch a predator and rescue his captives. But can they do it before Rachel becomes the next victim? Praise for Wake to Darkness “In this thrilling follow-up to Sleep with the Lights On, Shayne amps up both the creep factor and the suspense. She continues to build on the sexual tension between the main characters, fostering a humming anticipation that builds as the story unfolds. She pairs this with an intriguing plot that will have readers guessing till the last page.” —RT Book Reviews

Author : Bernie Ward
Publisher : Pinnacle Books
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0786000759

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Innocent Prey by Bernie Ward Pdf

Relates the story of ex-football hero Fred Waterfield and his brutish cousin David Allen Gore, describing their grisly 1983 killing spree during which they raped, tortured, and dismembered their victims. By the author of Families Who Kill. Original.

Author : Michael Anthony Corey
Publisher : Rowman and Littlefield
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Religion
ISBN : 076181812X

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Evolution and the Problem of Natural Evil by Michael Anthony Corey Pdf

Is the evolutionary process intelligently designed? If so, why did the Creator choose such an evil-infested means to create the biosphere? What is the intrinsic nature of evil itself? Is natural evil necessary? Is evil compatible with the existence of God? Will the world's evils ever be totally redeemed? What place does humanity occupy in the cosmic scheme of things? Evolution and the Problem of Natural Evil attempts to answer these and other timeless questions by proposing a bold new conceptual synthesis that aggressively marries the tenets of modern developmental psychology to the basic concepts of classical theism. The end result of this novel approach is deeply encouraging, insofar as it places the problem of evil, as well as the general fate of human existence, in a much larger and more optimistic context than has traditionally been imagined.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951D00314564Y

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Fun by Anonim Pdf

Author : David Finkelhor
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2008-03-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780190451066

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Childhood Victimization by David Finkelhor Pdf

Children are the most criminally victimized segment of the population, and a substantial number face multiple, serious "poly-victimizations" during a single year. And despite the fact that the priority emphasis in academic research and government policy has traditionally gone to studying juvenile delinquents, children actually appear before authorities more frequently as victims than as offenders. But at the same time, the media and many advocates have failed to note the good news: rates of sexual abuse, child homicide, and many other forms of victimization declined dramatically after the mid-1990s, and some terribly feared forms of child victimization, like stereotypical stranger abduction, are remarkably uncommon. The considerable ignorance about the realities of child victimization can be chalked up to a field that is fragmented, understudied, and subjected to political demagoguery. In this persuasive book, David Finkelhor presents a comprehensive new vision to encompass the prevention, treatment, and study of juvenile victims, unifying conventional subdivisions like child molestation, child abuse, bullying, and exposure to community violence. Developmental victimology, his term for this integrated perspective, looks at child victimization across childhood's span and yields fascinating insights about how to categorize juvenile victimizations, how to think about risk and impact, and how victimization patterns change over the course of development. The book also provides a valuable new model of society's response to child victimization - what Finkelhor calls the Juvenile Victim Justice System - and a fresh way of thinking about barriers that victims and their families encounter when seeking help. These models will be very useful to anyone seeking to improve the way we try to help child victims. Crimes against children still happen far too often, but by proposing a new framework for thinking about the issue, Childhood Victimization opens a promising door to reducing its frequency and improving the response. Professionals, policymakers, and child advocates will find this paradigm-shifting book to be a valuable addition to their shelves.

Author : Maggie Shayne
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781474007221

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Innocent Prey (A Brown and de Luca Novel, Book 4) by Maggie Shayne Pdf

To save innocent lives, they'll have to risk their own.

Author : Philip D. King
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781610972246

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Surrounded by Bitterness by Philip D. King Pdf

How did the ancient Hebrew writers understand their emotional experiences of being in distress? Were their feelings similar to those of an English speaker who feels down, or were there other embodied experiences they used to make sense of physical, social, and emotional distress? This research establishes a cognitive linguistic methodology for addressing these questions, and investigates the use of embodied experiences of VERTICALITY, CONSTRAINT, FORCE, DARKNESS, and BAD TASTE in the conventional language of classical Hebrew lament to understand and reason about situations of distress.

Author : ZA! Rhena Richards
Publisher : Fulton Books, Inc.
Page : 69 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-19
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781637109854

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I Will Go With You by ZA! Rhena Richards Pdf

The author ZA! Rhena Richards remembered, quiet, and solemn times in her life, where her thoughts and focus became clear, as the global pandemic COVID-19 of 2020 ransacked and took hostage all rigorous lives, all lifestyles, and the comforts of "normalcy," but this time, something was very different. She realized she had a purpose and needed to respond. The quiet of her became peaceful, and she took comfort in seeking this in remembrance.--a sullen, tender-aged child sat alone on the veranda of her grandmother's house. As she pined for her mother daily, she gazed into the light blue sky. All of the occupants were inside. She heard a clear audible voice, "Where are you from? What is your name?" She does not answer, but she heard the questions. Returning to the veranda, the following morning, she hears the same clear voice again, ask, "Where are you from? What is your name?" She hears the questions, and again she does not answer, but this time she begins to immediately reflect on the questions, even throughout the night where the windows were open and the house fan span, circulating heat across her skin as the mosquitoes feasted on it. Stooping to sit on the veranda on the new, born, morning, the same voice repeated the questions. Finally responding. She said, "I don't know" (in her head). The soft wind-like voice said, "Go and ask her with the skirt on." "I'm scared," she said, "they don't like me." The clear voice said, "I will go with you. Pull, tug on her skirt." The sullen tender-aged child went inside and looked for her with the skirt and pulled it and asked, "Where am I from? What's my name?" A warm, smiling caramel-colored face embedded with alabaster eyes, shone down, and told her. The little girl walked back outside, poised herself on the steps, and said, "America, Rhena. I want to go to America. My Mommy is there. How do I get there?" In her head the little girl asked and finally smiled. The still, quiet voice said, "I will go with you."

Author : Seanan McGuire
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101635452

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Midnight Blue-Light Special by Seanan McGuire Pdf

The second book in New York Times-bestselling Seanan McGuire's witty urban fantasy InCryptid series about a family of cryptozoologists who act as a buffer between humans and the magical creatures living in secret around us. "The only thing more fun than an October Daye book is an InCryptid book." —Charlaine Harris, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Sookie Stackhouse series Normal, adjective: Conforming to the standard or common type. See also "ordinary." Abnormal, adjective: Deviating from the common type, such as playing monster-human on the rooftops of Manhattan. See also "Verity Price." The Price family has spent generations studying the monsters of the world, working to protect them from humanity—and to protect humanity from them. Verity Price is just trying to do her job, keeping the native cryptid population of Manhattan from getting into trouble, and doing a little ballroom dancing on the side. Enter Dominic De Luca, an operative for the Covenant of St. George, and Verity's on-again, off-again boyfriend. When he tells her that the Covenant is sending a full team to assess how ready the city is for a purge, Verity finds herself between a rock and a hard place. Stay, and risk her almost-certain death, or flee, and leave the cryptids of New York with nothing between them and the Covenant. With allies and enemies on every side, and no safe way to turn, it's going to take some quickstepping for Verity to waltz out of this one. There's just one question on everyone's mind: Is this the last dance for Verity Price?

Author : R. Tennent Shaw
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Bible
ISBN : UVA:X030740443

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Day Thoughts on the New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by R. Tennent Shaw Pdf

Author : Marc LiVecche
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780197515822

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The Good Kill by Marc LiVecche Pdf

War wounds the soul. It is not only the violence that warfighters suffer against them that harms, but also the violence that they do. These soul wounds have come to be known as moral injuries: psychic traumas that occur from having done or condoned that which goes against deeply held moral principles. It is not surprising that the committing of atrocities or the accidental killing of the innocent would hurt the soul of warfighters. The problem is that many warfighters at least tacitly follow the commonplace belief that killing another human being is always wrong--it's just that sometimes, as in war, it is necessary. This paradoxical commitment makes the very business of warfighting morally injurious. This problem is also a crisis. Clinical research among combat veterans has established a link between killing in combat and moral injury and between moral injury and suicide. Our warfighters, even those who have served honorably and with the right intentions, are dying by their own hands at devastating rates--casualties not of the physical threats of war, but of the moral ones. It does not have to be this way. The just war tradition, a moral framework for thinking about war that flows out of our Greco-Roman and Hebraic intellectual traditions, is grounded in the basic truth that killing comes in different kinds. While some kinds of killing, like murder, are always wrong, there are other kinds of killing that are morally neutral, such as unavoidable accidents, and still other kinds that are morally permitted--even, sometimes, obligatory. The Good Kill embraces this tradition to argue for the morality of killing in justified wars. Marc LiVecche does not deny the morally bruising realities of combat, but offers potential remedies to help our warfighters manage the bruising without becoming irreparably morally injured.

Author : D. Whitesmith
Publisher : David C Cook
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0781409462

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Innocent Prey by D. Whitesmith Pdf

Author : Floran Cazeau
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781466969278

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WILD NIGHT by Floran Cazeau Pdf

I had not gone anywhere, while still being at the same corner of the great boulevard observing life in its colors, its good or annoying notes, and its rhythm. I’m still in the same convoy of the living and the dead, looking at me and observing you at the same time, without any of us perceiving each other in this dull tumult that engorges us and hypnotizes us. I greet you all, and I come back with the same smile and another bunch of poems that is none other than notes of joy, sorrow, and love that sound and resound in our daily life. In any case, these notes do not rhyme with your taste or please your whim. I apologize because I did not invent them, as they fall naturally within the scope of my poetic contemplation. They come to me, and it is my duty to host them and distribute them all, in their folly and naive naturalism. As always I do not force you, but I invite you to read this book and find the notes that resemble you or remind you of a life, living experience, even a friend or forgotten memories.

Author : Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-01
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781613736999

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Ugly Prey by Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi Pdf

Ugly Prey tells the riveting story of poor Italian immigrant Sabella Nitti, the first woman ever sentenced to hang in Chicago, in 1923, for the alleged murder of her husband. Journalist Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi leads readers through the case, showing how, with no evidence and no witnesses, Nitti was the target of an obsessed deputy sheriff and the victim of a faulty legal system. She was also—to the men who convicted her and reporters fixated on her—ugly. For that unforgiveable crime, the media painted her as a hideous, dirty, and unpredictable immigrant, almost an animal. Featuring two other fascinating women—the ambitious and ruthless journalist who helped demonize Sabella through her reports and the brilliant, beautiful, 23-year-old lawyer who helped humanize her with a jailhouse makeover—Ugly Prey is not just a page-turning courtroom drama but also a thought-provoking look at the intersection of gender, ethnicity, and class within the American justice system.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 842 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Mormon Church
ISBN : WISC:89073243453

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The Latter-Day Saints' Millennial Star by Anonim Pdf