The Child Snatcher

Author : Aria Johnson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781501119149

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The Child Snatcher by Aria Johnson Pdf

With the same gripping tension of The Girl on the Train and The Good Girl, The Child Snatcher tells the suspenseful story of a mother trying to save her lazy son from himself and then from an enigmatic woman of dubious character who seems determined to systematically destroy her small family. Claire Wilkins is at her wits’ end with her son, Brandon, a college dropout who spends his time lounging around the house. Claire, tired of seeing him waste his life playing video games and trolling the Internet, gives him an ultimatum: get a job, get back to school…or get out. Brandon decides to move in with a total stranger that he met in an online porn chatroom. This mysterious young woman, Ava, abruptly leads him down a dark path into a dangerous world. Terrified for her now distant son, Claire tries to entice Brandon to return home and discovers the true nature of his toxic and abusive relationship with Ava. But her world explodes when Brandon does the unthinkable. Her only glimmer of hope is discovering that Brandon and Ava are expecting a child. Claire believes she coddled Brandon too much and that she was a terrible mother. But maybe she can get a second chance and be a much better grandparent. Unfortunately, Ava’s plan for hers and Brandon’s child does not include Claire. In fact, Ava’s plan is so nefarious that Claire is willing to risk everything, including her life, to save her innocent grandson. A spellbinding race against time, The Child Snatcher is a timely and terrifying thrill ride that will haunt you long after you’ve turned the final page.

Author : Aria Johnson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781593096960

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"Claire Wilkins is at her wits' end with her son, Brandon, a college dropout who spends his time lounging around the house. Tired of seeing him waste his life playing video games and trolling the Internet, Claire gives him an ultimatum: get a job, get back to school...or get out...." page [4] of cover.

Author : Bobbi Lawrence,Olivia Taylor-Young
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : True Crime
ISBN : STANFORD:36105043796031

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The Child Snatchers by Bobbi Lawrence,Olivia Taylor-Young Pdf

Each year an estimated 100,000 children experience the trauma of being "stolen." Twenty percent of these children will never be heard from again. These children are not kidnapped by strangers. They are snatched by one of their divorced or separated parents. Often they are taken violently; sometimes they are taken at gunpoint; occasionally lives are lost. And always, a parent is left behind struggling with a legal system that prefers to look the other way. The Child Snatchers explores this widespread social problem, a problem that crosses all boundaries, in a deeply personal way, with insight and compassion. Part One is a true story that dramatizes the seemily inpenetrable maze the vicious act of child snatching erects. Part Two is an extensive information and resource guide that shows a clearer path through this maze.--Back cover

Author : Robert Swindells
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1992-11-26
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780141926995

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The Ice Palace by Robert Swindells Pdf

Ivan lives in a land where the winter is dark and fearful. Starjik, King of Winter, steals Ivan's little brother and Ivan braves the bitter cold to find him.

Author : Gibson, Matthew
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447344797

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Pride and Shame in Child and Family Social Work by Gibson, Matthew Pdf

What role does emotion play in child and family social work practice? In this book, researcher Matthew Gibson reviews the role of shame and pride in social work, providing invaluable new insights from the first study undertaken into the role of these emotions within professional practice. The author demonstrates how these emotions, which are embedded within the very structures of society but experienced as individual phenomena, are used as mechanism of control in relation to both professionals themselves and service users. Examining the implications of these emotional experiences in the context of professional practice and the relationship between the individual, the family and the state, the book calls for a more humane form of practice, rooted in more informed policies that take in to consideration the realities and frailties of the human experience.

Author : Martin Guggenheim
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2007-09-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 0674038029

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What's Wrong with Children's Rights by Martin Guggenheim Pdf

"Children's rights": the phrase has been a legal battle cry for twenty-five years. But as this provocative book by a nationally renowned expert on children's legal standing argues, it is neither possible nor desirable to isolate children from the interests of their parents, or those of society as a whole. From foster care to adoption to visitation rights and beyond, Martin Guggenheim offers a trenchant analysis of the most significant debates in the children's rights movement, particularly those that treat children's interests as antagonistic to those of their parents. Guggenheim argues that "children's rights" can serve as a screen for the interests of adults, who may have more to gain than the children for whom they claim to speak. More important, this book suggests that children's interests are not the only ones or the primary ones to which adults should attend, and that a "best interests of the child" standard often fails as a meaningful test for determining how best to decide disputes about children.

Author : Helena Duggan
Publisher : Usborne Publishing Ltd
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781474958530

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The Trouble With Perfect by Helena Duggan Pdf

Strange things are happening in the town that used to be Perfect. Things are being stolen... then children start going missing too. And everyone is blaming Violet's best friend, Boy. But Boy's not BAD - is he? To find out what's going on, Violet must uncover secrets from the past and battle a gruesome zombie monster. Town is in trouble - double trouble - and it's up to Violet to save it. A reissue of this quirky and creepy sequel to the bestselling A Place Called Perfect, for fans of Roald Dahl, Neil Gaiman and Tim Burton. "Your heart is in your mouth and you're knee-deep in adventure..." MG Leonard, author of Beetle Boy

Author : Richard A. Gardner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:39015016199369

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Child Custody Litigation by Richard A. Gardner Pdf

The book discusses the psychodynamic processes by which prolonged child custody litigation causes psychological damage to both children and their parents, the alternative methods for resolving custody conflicts, mediation, psychotherapeutic approaches of the treatment of children and parents who have been traumatized by protracted custody litigation and proposals for change in the legal system.

Author : Shusha Guppy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2004-06-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780857710956

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The Blindfold Horse by Shusha Guppy Pdf

In this eloquent memoir, Shusha Guppy recreates the lost world of her childhood in Tehran before the oil boom and the eventual overthrow of the Shah. Long before the momentous Iranian Revolution of 1979, which placed the country under strict religious rule, Shusha Guppy grew up in a Persia delicately balanced between traditional Islamic society and the transforming forces of westernisation. Guppy's magical tales about relatives and friends, music and drama, religious holidays and celebrations are interwoven with myth and legend, poetry and anecdote and provide a rare and optimistic portrayal of Iran; quite at odds with prevailing views of the country today. Through these glimpses of everyday life she makes subtle yet astute social and political observations at a significant time in Iran's history, when the country was caught between the oppressive but stable disciplines of the past and the unsettling freedoms of the future. This is an enlightening and moving testimony of a vanished world: a story as vibrant as Iran itself.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Subcommittee on Child and Human Development
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Children of divorced parents
ISBN : PURD:32754076790520

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Parental Kidnaping, 1979 by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Subcommittee on Child and Human Development Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Subcommittee on Child and Human Development
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Children of divorced parents
ISBN : UOM:39015082034656

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Parental kidnapping, 1979 by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Subcommittee on Child and Human Development Pdf

Author : Robert Alvin Waters,Zack C. Waters
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780817318222

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The Kidnapping and Murder of Little Skeegie Cash by Robert Alvin Waters,Zack C. Waters Pdf

Informed by thousands of pages of newly released FBI files, The Kidnapping and Murder of Little Skeegie Cash tells the gripping story of the only crime investigated by J. Edgar Hoover himself, the sensational 1938 murder of a five-year-old boy from the Florida Everglades. In his long and storied career, J. Edgar Hoover investigated only one case personally, the 1938 kidnapping and murder of five-year-old Floridian James “Skeegie” Cash. What prompted the director himself to fly from Washington, DC, to a rain-drenched hamlet on the edge of the Everglades? Congress had slashed FBI funding, forcing Hoover to lay off half his agents. The combative Hoover believed if he could bring Skeegie’s killer to justice, the halo of positive publicity would revive the fortunes of the embattled FBI. In The Kidnapping and Murder of Little Skeegie Cash, Robert A. Waters and Zack C. Waters bring to life the drama of the abduction, the payment of a $10,000 ransom, the heartbreaking manhunt for Skeegie and his kidnapper, the arrest and confession of Franklin Pierce McCall, and the killer’s trial and execution. Hordes of reporters swarmed into the little village south of Miami, and for thirteen days until McCall confessed, the case dominated national headlines. The authors capture the drama and the detail as well as the desperate and sometimes extralegal lengths to which Hoover went to crack the case. Using the Freedom of Information Act, the authors obtained more than four thousand pages of FBI files and court documents to reconstruct this important but forgotten case. The tragedy that played out in the swamps of Dade County constituted the backdrop for a political struggle that would involve J. Edgar Hoover, the United States Congress, and even president Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Hoover and the president prevailed, and within two years the FBI grew from 680 employees to more than 14,000. No books and few articles have been published about this historic case.

Author : Simon Constantine
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351185493

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Sinti and Roma in Germany (1871-1933) by Simon Constantine Pdf

This book concerns the persecution of the Sinti and Roma in Germany during the Second Empire (1871–1918) and Weimar Republic (1919–1933). It traces the ways in which discriminatory treatment towards 'Gypsies' developed in a state ostensibly committed to individual liberty and equal treatment under the law, and how government policies in this period furthered their economic marginalisation and social exclusion. It will provide much-needed detail on a crucial period, one which is ordinarily addressed only fleetingly, and by way of introduction, to studies of how the Sinti and Roma communities were treated by National Socialists.

Author : Rachel Givney
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781760144555

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Secrets My Father Kept by Rachel Givney Pdf

A novel that will stay with you. An ending that will shock you. Kraków, Poland, 1939. As Hitler prepares to invade, an inquisitive and intelligent young woman tries to find her mother who disappeared 15 years go. Standing in her way is her father, who refuses to talk about what happened... A captivating story about the struggle of pioneering women in a male-dominated time, and the lengths people will go to, to protect their family. ‘Intimate and character-driven, uniting romance and mystery with a clever twist.’ The Age

Author : Ruth Downie
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781620403235

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Tabula Rasa by Ruth Downie Pdf

The medicus Ruso and his wife Tilla are back in the borderlands of Britannia, this time helping to tend the builders of Hadrian's Great Wall. Having been forced to move off their land, the Britons are distinctly on edge and are still smarting from the failure of a recent rebellion that claimed many lives. Then Ruso's recently arrived clerk, Candidus, goes missing. A native boy thinks he sees a body being hidden inside the wall's half-finished stonework, and a worrying rumor begins to spread. When the soldiers ransack the nearby farms looking for Candidus, Tilla's tentative friendship with a local family turns to anger and disappointment. It's clear that the sacred rites to bless her marriage to Ruso will have to wait. Tensions only increase when Branan, the family's youngest son, also vanishes. He was last seen in the company of a lone and unidentified soldier who claimed he was taking the boy to see Tilla. As Ruso and Tilla try to solve the mystery of the two disappearances-while at the same time struggling to keep the peace between the Britons and the Romans-an intricate scheme involving slavery, changed identities, and fur trappers emerges, and it becomes imperative that Ruso find Branan before it's too late.