The Neighbor

Author : Lisa Gardner
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780553906639

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The Neighbor by Lisa Gardner Pdf

A young mother, blond and pretty, vanishes from her South Boston home, leaving behind only one witness—her four-year-old daughter—and one suspect—her handsome, secretive husband. From the moment Detective Sergeant D. D. Warren arrives at the Joneses’ snug little bungalow, instinct tells her that something is seriously off with the wholesome image the couple has worked so hard to create. With the clock ticking on the life of a missing woman and a media firestorm building, D.D. must decide whether Jason Jones is hiding his guilt—or just trying to hide. But first she must stand between a potential killer and his next victim—an innocent child who may have seen too much.

Author : Joseph Souza
Publisher : Kensington Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781496716224

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The Neighbor by Joseph Souza Pdf

Two neighboring couples are caught in a dangerous tangle of betrayal and deception in this “taut, twisty psychological thriller. Totally riveting” (James Hayman, New York Times bestselling author of The Girl on the Bridge). When Leah and her husband, Clay, move from Seattle to Maine, she envisions a vibrant new neighborhood packed with families—playmates for the twins and new couple friends to bond with. But while Clay works long hours to establish his brewery, Leah is left alone each day in a nearly deserted housing development where the only other occupants prefer to keep to themselves. Bored and adrift, Leah finds herself watching Clarissa and Russell Gaines next door, envying their stylishly decorated home and their university careers. But Leah’s obsession with the intriguing, elegant Clarissa grows until she’s not just spying from afar but sneaking into their house, taking small objects…and reading Clarissa’s diary. It contains clues to a hidden turmoil Leah never guessed at—and a connection to a local college girl who’s disappeared. “Scary and disturbing with dark psychological twists and turns, it horrifies while it fascinates. I couldn’t turn away!”—Lisa Jackson, # 1 New York Times bestselling author

Author : Suzy Ultman
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Board books
ISBN : 1452177120

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Be My Neighbor? by Suzy Ultman Pdf

In this house-shaped board book, a family of cats moves into a new house and sets about meeting their neighbors while gathering the ingredients for a batch of cookies.

Author : Adam Zachary Newton
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780791491447

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The Fence and the Neighbor by Adam Zachary Newton Pdf

The Fence and the Neighbor traces the contours of two thinkers, Emmanuel Levinas and Yeshayahu Leibowitz, who crossed the divide between Talmud and philosophy "proper." Adam Zachary Newton shows how the question of nationalism that has so long haunted Western philosophy—the question of who belongs within its "fence," and who outside—has long been the concern of Jewish thought and its preoccupation with law, limits, and the place of Israel among the nations. To those unfamiliar with Talmudic thought Newton shows how deeply its language and concerns shape Levinas. He also offers an introduction to Leibowitz, a conservative religious thinker who was an outspoken gadfly and radically critical voice in the Israeli political scene. Together, their common origin in Jewish Eastern Europe, a common concern with national allegiance, and the common fence of religious Judaism that makes them intellectual neighbors are voiced in penetrating and original dialogue.

Author : L. Alison Heller
Publisher : Flatiron Books
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250205827

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The Neighbor's Secret by L. Alison Heller Pdf

“Addictive, suspenseful and masterfully written...will delight fans of Big Little Lies.” —Michele Campbell “[A] witty, hyperlocal mystery...With a light, Liane Moriarty-esque touch...” —New York Times L. Alison Heller, whose work has been praised by Liane Moriarty as "warm, witty...refreshingly true to life,” explores the ultimate sacrifices of parenting in The Neighbor’s Secret, a propulsive and juicy novel filled with gripping twists and instantly recognizable characters. How well do you really know your neighbors? With its sprawling yards and excellent schools, Cottonwood Estates is the perfect place to raise children. The Cottonwood Book Club serves as the subdivision’s eyes and ears, meeting once a month for discussion, gossip, and cocktails. If their selections trend toward twisty thrillers and salacious murder mysteries, it’s only because the members feel secure that such evil has no place in their own cul-de-sacs. Or does it? What happened to Lena’s family fifteen years ago was a tragic accident, and she will never admit otherwise. Devoted wife and mother Annie refuses to acknowledge—even to herself—the weight of a past shame. And new resident Jen wants friends, but as always, worry about her troubled son gets in the way. When late-night acts of vandalism target the women of the book club in increasingly violent and personal ways, they will be forced to decide how far to go to keep their secrets. At least they all agree on what’s most important: protecting their children at any cost—even if it means someone has to die.

Author : Leah Stewart
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781501103520

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The New Neighbor by Leah Stewart Pdf

"In the tradition of Zoe Heller's What Was She Thinking? Notes on a Scandal, a darkly sophisticated novel about an old woman's curiosity that turns into a dangerous obsession as she becomes involved in her new neighbor's complicated and cloaked life"--

Author : Einat Tsarfati
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781683353768

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The Neighbors by Einat Tsarfati Pdf

As a young girl climbs the seven stories to her own (very boring!) apartment, she imagines what’s behind each of the doors she passes. Does the door with all the locks belong to a family of thieves? Might the doorway with muddy footprints conceal a pet tiger? Each spread reveals—in lush detail—the wilds of the girl’s imagination, from a high-flying circus to an underwater world and everything in between. When the girl finally reaches her own apartment, she is greeted by her parents, who might have a secret even wilder than anything she could have imagined!

Author : Karen Cleveland
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593358047

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The New Neighbor by Karen Cleveland Pdf

Secrets, jealousy, and paranoia collide when a seemingly perfect new family moves into a neighborhood with ties to the CIA in this gripping thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Need to Know. “Karen Cleveland ingeniously melds domestic intrigue with the lightning pace of a spy thriller, showing us the devastating personal costs of intelligence work.”—Tess Gerritsen, New York Times bestselling author of Listen to Me ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: PopSugar Idyllic neighborhood, perfect family, meaningful career. CIA analyst Beth Bradford has it all— Until she doesn’t. Now, facing an empty nest and a broken marriage, Beth is moving from the cul-de-sac she’s long called home, and the CIA is removing her from the case that’s long been hers: tracking an elusive Iranian intelligence agent known as The Neighbor. Madeline Sterling moves into Beth’s old house. She has what Beth once had: an adoring husband, three beautiful young children, and the close-knit group of neighbors on the block. Now she has it all. And Beth—who can’t stop watching the woman stepping in to her old life—thinks the new neighbor has something else too: ties to Iranian intelligence. Is Beth just jealous? Paranoid? Or is something more at play? After all, most of the families on the cul-de-sac have some tie to the CIA. They’re all keeping secrets. And they all know more about their neighbors than they should. It would be the perfect place to insert a spy—unless one was there all along.

Author : Slavoj Žižek,Eric L. Santner,Kenneth Reinhard
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780226707402

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The Neighbor by Slavoj Žižek,Eric L. Santner,Kenneth Reinhard Pdf

In Civilization and Its Discontents, Freud made abundantly clear what he thought about the biblical injunction, first articulated in Leviticus 19:18 and then elaborated in Christian teachings, to love one's neighbor as oneself. "Let us adopt a naive attitude towards it," he proposed, "as though we were hearing it for the first time; we shall be unable then to suppress a feeling of surprise and bewilderment." After the horrors of World War II, the Holocaust, Stalinism, and Yugoslavia, Leviticus 19:18 seems even less conceivable—but all the more urgent now—than Freud imagined. In The Neighbor, three of the most significant intellectuals working in psychoanalysis and critical theory collaborate to show how this problem of neighbor-love opens questions that are fundamental to ethical inquiry and that suggest a new theological configuration of political theory. Their three extended essays explore today's central historical problem: the persistence of the theological in the political. In "Towards a Political Theology of the Neighbor," Kenneth Reinhard supplements Carl Schmitt's political theology of the enemy and friend with a political theology of the neighbor based in psychoanalysis. In "Miracles Happen," Eric L. Santner extends the book's exploration of neighbor-love through a bracing reassessment of Benjamin and Rosenzweig. And in an impassioned plea for ethical violence, Slavoj Žižek's "Neighbors and Other Monsters" reconsiders the idea of excess to rehabilitate a positive sense of the inhuman and challenge the influence of Levinas on contemporary ethical thought. A rich and suggestive account of the interplay between love and hate, self and other, personal and political, The Neighbor will prove to be a touchstone across the humanities and a crucial text for understanding the persistence of political theology in secular modernity.

Author : Caleb Caudell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0645066427

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The Neighbor by Caleb Caudell Pdf

Jessie Clemons is out of cash and on the run, from his job, his neighbors, the cops and his life. The Neighbor is a Middle American odyssey in which truck stops and farmhouses stand in for the Aegean Islands and the neon signs of convenience stores are the sirens of dissipation. Told in a unique double-narrative form, with sardonic humour and grim realism, Caleb Caudell's debut novel is an unflinching look at the desolations and consolations of the hidden people of the heartland.

Author : Kasya Denisevich
Publisher : Chronicle Books LLC
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-22
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781452177830

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Neighbors by Kasya Denisevich Pdf

Neighbors is a contemplative picture book about the lives of our neighbors—who are all around us and ever-present, yet somehow surprisingly elusive. They're everywhere: next door, above, and even below. More often than not, they are a mystery, a presence suggested by low hums, footfalls, or perhaps a slammed door. This book explores the ways that we think about those we exist among, but who remain strangers until we make the brave—and affirming—decision to connect. • From debut author-illustrator Kasya Denisevich • An exploration of neighbors coexisting together in one very special apartment building • Dynamic black-and-white illustrations blur the line between imagination, dreams, and reality. As Neighbors illustrates so beautifully, that moment of connection is a portal to a world of possibility. This unique book uses both visual storytelling and compelling text to consider how we map the landscape of the vast world around us, starting with the person just on the other side of the apartment wall. • Explores what it means to exist in a world of strangers, friends, and neighbors who are both alike and completely different from each other • Perfect for children ages 3 to 5 years old • Makes a great pick for parents and grandparents, as well as librarians, teachers, and educators • You'll love this book if you love books like Be Kind by Pat Zietlow Miller, The Berenstain Bears Learn About Strangers by Stan and Jan Berenstain, and The Big Umbrella by Amy June Bates.

Author : Carly Anne West
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-11
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781338280098

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Missing Pieces (Hello Neighbor, Book 1) by Carly Anne West Pdf

Lock your doors! From the creators of the blockbuster horror video game Hello Neighbor comes the story that started it all. Unravel the mystery in this gripping prequel novel!

Author : Laird Koenig
Publisher : Avon Books
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1978-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0380412853

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The Neighbor by Laird Koenig Pdf

Author : Fiona Cummins
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781760785802

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The Neighbour by Fiona Cummins Pdf

FOR SALE: A lovely family home with good-sized garden and treehouse occupying a plot close to woodland. Perfect for kids, fitness enthusiasts, dog walkers . . . And, it seems, the perfect hunting ground for a serial killer. On a hot July day, Garrick and Olivia Lockwood and their two children move into 25 The Avenue looking for a fresh start. They arrive in the midst of a media frenzy: they’d heard about the local murders in the press, but Garrick was certain the killer would be caught and it would all be over in no time. Besides, they’d got the house at a steal and he was convinced he could flip it for a fortune. The neighbours seemed to be the very picture of community spirit. But everyone has secrets, and the residents in The Avenue are no exception. After six months on the case with no real leads, the most recent murder has turned DC Wildeve Stanton’s life upside down, and now she has her own motive for hunting down the killer – quickly. The Neighbour is a thrilling standalone novel by the author of Rattle, Fiona Cummins.

Author : Kiel Phegley
Publisher : Hello Neighbor
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1338537628

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The Neighbor's Notebook by Kiel Phegley Pdf

Explore the mythology, gameplay, and lore in the official guidebook to Hello Neighbor! Discover the puzzles and passages in the neighbor's house, learn about the neighbor's tragic past, and uncover hidden secrets embedded in the game.