Missing Girls

Author : Megan Miranda
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781501146244

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All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda Pdf

Like the spellbinding psychological suspense in The Girl on the Train and Luckiest Girl Alive, Megan Miranda’s novel is a nail-biting, breathtaking story about the disappearances of two young women—a decade apart—told in reverse. It’s been ten years since Nicolette Farrell left her rural hometown after her best friend, Corinne, disappeared from Cooley Ridge without a trace. Back again to tie up loose ends and care for her ailing father, Nic is soon plunged into a shocking drama that reawakens Corinne’s case and breaks open old wounds long since stitched. The decade-old investigation focused on Nic, her brother Daniel, boyfriend Tyler, and Corinne’s boyfriend Jackson. Since then, only Nic has left Cooley Ridge. Daniel and his wife, Laura, are expecting a baby; Jackson works at the town bar; and Tyler is dating Annaleise Carter, Nic’s younger neighbor and the group’s alibi the night Corinne disappeared. Then, within days of Nic’s return, Annaleise goes missing. Told backwards—Day 15 to Day 1—from the time Annaleise goes missing, Nic works to unravel the truth about her younger neighbor’s disappearance, revealing shocking truths about her friends, her family, and what really happened to Corinne that night ten years ago. Like nothing you’ve ever read before, All the Missing Girls delivers in all the right ways. With twists and turns that lead down dark alleys and dead ends, you may think you’re walking a familiar path, but then Megan Miranda turns it all upside down and inside out and leaves us wondering just how far we would be willing to go to protect those we love.

Author : Lois Metzger
Publisher : Turtleback
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2001-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0613359836

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Missing Girls by Lois Metzger Pdf

During eighth grade, Carrie moves in with her grandmother, becomes friends with an withdrawn classmate, and comes to terms with her mother's death.

Author : Emmanuelle Walter
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-29
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781443445184

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Stolen Sisters by Emmanuelle Walter Pdf

In 2014, the nation was rocked by the brutal violence against young Aboriginal women Loretta Saunders, Tina Fontaine and Rinelle Harper. But tragically, they were not the only Aboriginal women to suffer that year. In fact, an official report revealed that since 1980, 1,200 Canadian Aboriginal women have been murdered or have gone missing. This alarming official figure reveals a national tragedy and the systemic failure of law enforcement and of all levels of government to address the issue. Journalist Emmanuelle Walter spent two years investigating this crisis and has crafted a moving representative account of the disappearance of two young women, Maisy Odjick and Shannon Alexander, teenagers from western Quebec, who have been missing since September 2008. Via personal testimonies, interviews, press clippings and official documents, Walter pieces together the disappearance and loss of these two young lives, revealing these young women to us through the voices of family members and witnesses. Stolen Sisters is a moving and deeply shocking work of investigative journalism that makes the claim that not only is Canada failing its First Nations communities, but that a feminicide is taking place.

Author : Jessica McDiarmid
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501160295

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Highway of Tears by Jessica McDiarmid Pdf

In the vein of the astonishing and eye-opening bestsellers I'll Be Gone in the Dark and The Line Becomes a River, this stunning work of investigative journalism follows a series of unsolved disappearances and murders of Indigenous women in rural British Columbia.

Author : Linda O'Neal,Philip Tennyson,Rick Watson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 0882822683

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The Oregon City Girls by Linda O'Neal,Philip Tennyson,Rick Watson Pdf

Recounts the disappearances and murders of twelve-year-old Ashley Pond and her best friend Miranda Gaddis, who were sexually abused and murdered within two months of each other by Ward Weaver.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Infant girls
ISBN : MINN:31951D036474191

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India's Missing Girls by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations Pdf

Author : Megan Miranda
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781501107986

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All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda Pdf

***A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*** A New York Times Book Review “Editors’ Choice” Entertainment Weekly — Thriller Round-Up The Wall Street Journal — 5 Killer Books Hollywood Reporter — Hot Summer Books…16 Must Reads “This thriller’s all of your fave page-turners (think: Luckiest Girl Alive, The Girl on the Train, Gone Girl) rolled into one.” —TheSkimm “Both [Gillian] Flynn’s and Miranda’s main characters also reclaim the right of female characters to be more than victim or femme fatale… All the Missing Girls is set to become one of the best books of 2016.” —Los Angeles Review of Books “Extremely interesting…a novel that will probably be called Hitchcockian.” —The New York Times Book Review “Are you paying attention? You’ll need to be; this thriller will test your brain with its reverse chronological structure, and it’s a page-turner to boot.” —Elle Like the spellbinding psychological suspense in The Girl on the Train and Luckiest Girl Alive, Megan Miranda’s novel is a nail-biting, breathtaking story about the disappearances of two young women—a decade apart—told in reverse. It’s been ten years since Nicolette Farrell left her rural hometown after her best friend, Corinne, disappeared from Cooley Ridge without a trace. Back again to tie up loose ends and care for her ailing father, Nic is soon plunged into a shocking drama that reawakens Corinne’s case and breaks open old wounds long since stitched. The decade-old investigation focused on Nic, her brother Daniel, boyfriend Tyler, and Corinne’s boyfriend Jackson. Since then, only Nic has left Cooley Ridge. Daniel and his wife, Laura, are expecting a baby; Jackson works at the town bar; and Tyler is dating Annaleise Carter, Nic’s younger neighbor and the group’s alibi the night Corinne disappeared. Then, within days of Nic’s return, Annaleise goes missing. Told backwards—Day 15 to Day 1—from the time Annaleise goes missing, Nic works to unravel the truth about her younger neighbor’s disappearance, revealing shocking truths about her friends, her family, and what really happened to Corinne that night ten years ago. Like nothing you’ve ever read before, All the Missing Girls delivers in all the right ways. With twists and turns that lead down dark alleys and dead ends, you may think you’re walking a familiar path, but then Megan Miranda turns it all upside down and inside out and leaves us wondering just how far we would be willing to go to protect those we love.

Author : Presley Monroe Christley-Haltom
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781365216190

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2 Missing Girls by Presley Monroe Christley-Haltom Pdf

Beware this is an epic adventure story! Two twin sisters Presley and Haley Brown run away from home to be out on their own. What they don't realize is what is waiting on them out there. They come across many friends and foes along their way. They take their adventure to the sea and to the sky and everywhere in between. They meet ghost, vampires, fairies, and more, and have to figure out who are their friends, and who might just be an enemy. The girls are in the fight of their life just to try and make it back home. Mr. and Mrs. Brown are terrified of what just may have happened to the girls. Presley Brown has the ability to push her sister Haley to fight on through her fear and distract her from wanting to go home. So sit back and prepare yourself for this amazing adventure story, and don't forget...MAGIC IS REAL!

Author : Hua-Lun Huang
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786488346

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The Missing Girls and Women of China, Hong Kong and Taiwan by Hua-Lun Huang Pdf

In the past century, tens of millions of women and girls have disappeared in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. There are many reasons: the women variously were sold as “foreign spouses”; imprisoned for their political beliefs; taken to night clubs or massage parlors to work as “escorts”; provided as “comfort women” to soldiers; or murdered by female corpse dealers and sold as “ghost brides” to families looking to give their deceased sons wives in the afterlife. The youngest girls fell victim to infanticide, the tragic result of a “one child” law in a male-dominated society. As a result of the gender imbalance these disappearances created, countless young males now suffer from the “marriage squeeze,” remaining single without families of their own. This sociological study explores the institutional factors, develops a typology for these populations, and lays a foundation for the examination of lost populations in the future.

Author : Melanie Florence
Publisher : North Winds Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1443190047

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Missing Nimama by Melanie Florence Pdf

A beautiful, transcendent story of a mother-daughter connection that persists through tragedy and across time. Kateri is a young Cree girl, growing up in the care of her grandmother. We see her reaching important milestones: her first day of school, first dance, first date, wedding, first child. Her mother is absent, but not gone, watching her child growing up without her. Told in alternating voices of child and mother, Missing Nimâmâ is a story of love, loss, and acceptance, showing the human side of a national tragedy. Dreamlike illustrations by François Thisdale enrich Kateri's emotional journey. An afterword by the author provides a simple, age-appropriate context for young readers. Includes Cree words and glossary.

Author : Sophie McKenzie
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781471111778

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Trust in Me by Sophie McKenzie Pdf

The bestselling author of Close My Eyes returns with a chilling psychological thriller. Julia has always been the friend that Livy turns to when life is difficult. United fifteen years ago by grief at the brutal murder of Livy's sister, Kara, they've always told each other everything. Or so Livy thought. So when Julia is found dead in her home, Livy cannot come to terms with the news that she chose to end her own life. The Julia that Livy knew was vibrant and vivacious, a far cry from the selfish neurotic that her family seem determined to paint her as. Troubled by doubt but alone in her suspicions, Livy sets out to prove that Julia was in fact murdered. But little does she realise that digging into her best friend's private life will cause her to question everything she thought she knew about Julia. And the truth that Livy discovers will tear the very fabric of her own life apart.

Author : Jenny Quintana
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781509839537

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The Missing Girl by Jenny Quintana Pdf

A stunning debut thriller, The Missing Girl by Jenny Quintana is a gripping novel full of twists and turns, and a desperate hunt to solve a decades-old mystery. Anna Flores was just a child when her adored teenage sister disappeared. Unable to deal with the pain, Anna took the first opportunity she had to run from her fractured family, eventually building a life for herself abroad. Now, thirty years on, her mother has died, and Anna must return home to sort through her possessions. In doing so, she has to confront the huge hole her sister's disappearance left in their lives, leaving just one question unanswered: what really happened to Gabriella? Because not knowing is worse than the truth. Isn’t it? 'A captivating mystery at heart but also a poignant study of grief, loss and the unbreakable bonds of family . . . A triumph.' – Caz Frear, author of Sweet Little Lies.

Author : John James Kennedy,Yaojiang Shi
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190917425

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Lost and Found by John James Kennedy,Yaojiang Shi Pdf

In 1979, the Chinese government famously introduced The Single Child Policy to control population growth. Nearly 40 years later, the result is an estimated 20 million "missing girls" in the population from 1980-2010. In Lost and Found, John James Kennedy and Yaojiang Shi focus on village-level implementation of the one-child policy and the level of mutual-noncompliance between officials and rural families. Through in-depth interviews with rural parents and local leaders, they reveal that many had strong incentives not to comply with the birth control policy because larger families meant increased labor and income. In this sober exploration of China's Single Child Policy throughout the reform period, the authors more broadly show how governance by grassroots cadres with greater local autonomy has affected China in the past and the challenges for resolving center-versus-locality contradictions in governance that lie ahead.

Author : Brianna Jonnie
Publisher : Lorimer
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-18
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781459414518

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If I Go Missing by Brianna Jonnie Pdf

Combining graphic fiction and non-fiction, this young adult graphic novel serves as a window into one of the unique dangers of being an Indigenous teen in Canada today. The text of the book is derived from excerpts of a letter written to the Winnipeg Chief of Police by fourteen-year-old Brianna Jonnie — a letter that went viral and was also the basis of a documentary film. In her letter, Jonnie calls out the authorities for neglecting to immediately investigate missing Indigenous people and urges them to "not treat me as the Indigenous person I am proud to be," if she were to be reported missing. Indigenous artist Neal Shannacappo provides the artwork for the book. Through his illustrations he imagines a situation in which a young Indigenous woman does disappear, portraying the reaction of her community, her friends, the police and media. An author's note at the end of the book provides context for young readers about Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada.

Author : Becky Citra
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04
Category : JUVENILE FICTION
ISBN : 9781554693467

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Missing by Becky Citra Pdf

"Thea and her dad are always on the move, from one small Cariboo town to another, trying to leave the past behind. They never stay long enough in one place for Thea to make friends, but when her dad gets work renovating a guest ranch on Gumboot Lake, she dares to hope that their wandering days are over. At the ranch she makes friends with Van, a local boy, and works hard to build the trust of an abused horse. When Thea unearths a decades-old mystery, she finally starts to come to terms with the losses in her own life"--P. [4] of cover.