The Vanishing Wife

Author : Barry Finlay
Publisher : Keep on Climbing
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0993891004

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The Vanishing Wife by Barry Finlay Pdf

How far will a man go when his family is threatened? Mason Seaforth is about to find out. He is a mild mannered accountant living a quiet, idyllic life in the quiet community of Gulfport, Florida with his wife, Samantha. At least, it's quiet and idyllic until Sami, as she's known to her friends, vanishes the night of their 20th anniversary. Mason is thrown into a life that is meant for other people as he and their brash friend, Marcie Kane, try everything to find out what has happened to Sami. A search of Sami's computer uncovers notes describing a past that Sami has buried for more than 20 years. Mason and Marcie are thrust into a race against a sadistic killer to discover what has happened to Mason's wife. He reluctantly exchanges his spreadsheets for a Glock 17 and he and Marcie follow a trail left behind by Sami which unexpectedly leads them deeper and deeper into a dark world in Canada. Mason is required to make decisions that he could never imagine himself making and each one has deadlier consequences than the last. The wrong one could result in the death of his entire family.

Author : Lara Ehrlich
Publisher : Red Hen Press
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781597098830

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Animal Wife by Lara Ehrlich Pdf

In this award-winning debut collection, fifteen magical realism stories portray girls and women searching for an escape from their everyday lives. “In villages where women bore most of the weight of a constricted life, witches flew by night on broomsticks,” said Italo Calvino of the way imagination bridges the gap between everyday existence and an idealized alternative . . . The fifteen stories of Animal Wife are unified by girls and women who cross this threshold seeking liberation from family responsibilities, from societal expectations, from their own minds. A girl born with feathers undertakes a quest for the mother who abandoned her. An indecisive woman drinks Foresight, only to become stymied by the futures branching before her. A proofreader cultivates a cage-fighting alter ego. A woman becomes psychologically trapped in her car. A girl acts on her desire for a childhood friend as a monster draws closer to the shore. A widow invites a bear to hibernate in her den . . . Animal Wife was selected as the winner of the Red Hen Fiction Award by New York Times– bestselling author Ann Hood, who says, “From the first sentence Animal Wife grabbed me and never let go. Sensual and intelligent, with gorgeous prose, it made me dizzy with its exploration and illumination of the inner and outer lives of girls and women.” Praise for Animal Wife “Whimsy and fantasy meet the way things really turn out in stories from a strong new voice.” —Kirkus Reviews “Strange, funny, fearsome, Animal Wife is a gorgeous book, weird in its very bones.” —Elizabeth McCracken, author of Bowlaway: A Novel “Lara Ehrlich has written a collection of stories that allow for escapism.” —F(r)iction “I was particularly intrigued by the way Lara beautifully portrays the inner struggle between wildness and domesticity, the surreal elements of each story lending a mythical complexity to these conflicts. Really lovely and thought-provoking. Perfect for fans of Aimee Bender, Karen Russell, and Angela Carter.” —Joy Baglio, founder of Pioneer Valley Writer’s Workshop

Author : Jac Jemc
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1936873680

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My Only Wife by Jac Jemc Pdf

In her debut novel, Jac Jemc explores the question, "Do we make up our stories or do they make us?"

Author : Sadeqa Johnson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781982149123

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Yellow Wife by Sadeqa Johnson Pdf

From the New York Times bestselling author of House of Eve—a 2023 Reese’s Book Club Pick! *A Best Book of the Year by NPR and Christian Science Monitor* Called “wholly engrossing” by New York Times bestselling author Kathleen Grissom, this “fully immersive” (Lisa Wingate, #1 bestselling author of Before We Were Yours) story follows an enslaved woman forced to barter love and freedom while living in the most infamous slave jail in Virginia. Born on a plantation in Charles City, Virginia, Pheby Delores Brown has lived a relatively sheltered life. Shielded by her mother’s position as the estate’s medicine woman and cherished by the Master’s sister, she is set apart from the others on the plantation, belonging to neither world. She’d been promised freedom on her eighteenth birthday, but instead of the idyllic life she imagined with her true love, Essex Henry, Pheby is forced to leave the only home she has ever known. She unexpectedly finds herself thrust into the bowels of slavery at the infamous Devil’s Half Acre, a jail in Richmond, Virginia, where the enslaved are broken, tortured, and sold every day. There, Pheby is exposed not just to her Jailer’s cruelty but also to his contradictions. To survive, Pheby will have to outwit him, and she soon faces the ultimate sacrifice.

Author : John Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2002-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1401073964

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The Vanished Wife by John Smith Pdf

Author : Richard Edward Dennett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Tales, Bakongo
ISBN : STANFORD:36105047672550

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Notes on the Folklore of the Fjort (French Congo). by Richard Edward Dennett Pdf

Author : Claudia Emerson
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2005-09-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0807130834

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Late Wife by Claudia Emerson Pdf

In Late Wife, a woman explores her disappearance from one life and reappearance in another as she addresses her former husband, herself, and her new husband in a series of epistolary poems. Though not satisfied in her first marriage, she laments vanishing from the life she and her husband shared for years. She then describes the unexpected joys of solitude during her recovery and emotional convalescence. Finally, in a sequence of sonnets, she speaks to her new husband, whose first wife died from lung cancer. The poems highlight how rebeginning in this relationship has come about in part because of two couples’ respective losses. The most personal of Claudia Emerson’s poetry collections, Late Wife is both an elegy and a celebration of a rich present informed by a complex past.

Author : Sharon Shinn
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2003-08-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101549698

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The Shape-Changer's Wife by Sharon Shinn Pdf

From the national bestselling author of The Samaria Trilogy...this is the novel that launched Sharon Shinn's career and inspired Peter S. Beagle to call her "the most original writer of fantasy since Robin McKinley." Aubrey was a student of the fine art of wizardry. But the more knowledge he acquired, the more he wanted to learn. He traveled in search of the greatest master of all, the gifted shape-changer Glyrenden. From him, Aubrey expected to discover the secret of long-lost spells and the mysteries of arcane magic. But there was one discovery he never expected, a mystery he risked every thing to solve. Her name was Lilith...

Author : Brit Bennett
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780525536970

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The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett Pdf

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2020 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES * THE WASHINGTON POST * NPR * PEOPLE * TIME MAGAZINE* VANITY FAIR * GLAMOUR 2021 WOMEN'S PRIZE FINALIST “Bennett’s tone and style recalls James Baldwin and Jacqueline Woodson, but it’s especially reminiscent of Toni Morrison’s 1970 debut novel, The Bluest Eye.” —Kiley Reid, Wall Street Journal “A story of absolute, universal timelessness …For any era, it's an accomplished, affecting novel. For this moment, it's piercing, subtly wending its way toward questions about who we are and who we want to be….” – Entertainment Weekly From The New York Times-bestselling author of The Mothers, a stunning new novel about twin sisters, inseparable as children, who ultimately choose to live in two very different worlds, one black and one white. The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Many years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for white, and her white husband knows nothing of her past. Still, even separated by so many miles and just as many lies, the fates of the twins remain intertwined. What will happen to the next generation, when their own daughters' storylines intersect? Weaving together multiple strands and generations of this family, from the Deep South to California, from the 1950s to the 1990s, Brit Bennett produces a story that is at once a riveting, emotional family story and a brilliant exploration of the American history of passing. Looking well beyond issues of race, The Vanishing Half considers the lasting influence of the past as it shapes a person's decisions, desires, and expectations, and explores some of the multiple reasons and realms in which people sometimes feel pulled to live as something other than their origins. As with her New York Times-bestselling debut The Mothers, Brit Bennett offers an engrossing page-turner about family and relationships that is immersive and provocative, compassionate and wise.

Author : Seraphina Nova Glass
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781488078101

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Such a Good Wife by Seraphina Nova Glass Pdf

Betrayal was just the beginning… Melanie Hale is a devoted mother to her two children, a diligent caregiver to her ailing mother-in-law and a trusted neighbor in their wealthy Louisiana community. Above all, she’s a loving partner to her wonderful husband, Collin. Then there are the parts of herself that Mel keeps hidden. She’s exhausted, worried and unfulfilled. So much so that one night, after a writers’ group meeting, Mel begins an affair with a successful local author named Luke. Suddenly she’s transformed into a role she doesn’t recognize—a woman who deceives with unseemly ease. A woman who might be capable of just about anything. When Mel finds Luke’s dead body in his lavish rented house, she realizes just how high the stakes have become. Not only does she have to keep her affair a secret in order to preserve her marriage, but she desperately needs to avoid being implicated in Luke’s death. But who would want to kill him? Who else in her life is keeping secrets? And most terrifying of all, how far will they—and she—go to keep those secrets hidden? Looking for another heart-pounding thriller? Find out how far the shady residents of the Sycamores will go to keep the stranger in their midst from uncovering their deadly secrets in bestselling author Seraphina Nova Glass’s upcoming thriller, THE VACANCY IN ROOM 10! Other thrillers from Seraphina to keep you up all night: The Vanishing Hour On a Quiet Street Someone’s Listening

Author : Sharon Bolton
Publisher : Orion
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781398709843

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The Fake Wife by Sharon Bolton Pdf

'I honestly believe this is one of the best books that I've read this year!' NetGalley Reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ You're not who you say you are. But neither is she. Olive Anderson has accepted that tonight she'll be dining alone, without her husband. So when a beautiful stranger appears at Olive's dinner table, telling the waiter she's her wife, Olive is immediately unsettled. But the stranger wants to talk, and isn't this what Olive wants on this lonely winter night? To vent to a perfect stranger? She's too ashamed to tell her real friends the truth - six months into the marriage they all warned her against, her life is a living nightmare. Perhaps Olive should have asked the fake wife who she's really married to. Perhaps she should have known this chance encounter had something to do with her secretive husband. Because there is a string of missing women connected to Mr Anderson, and by the morning, Olive will be the latest... The Fake Wife is an unputdownable thriller that will shock and surprise you like the best television boxsets. If you enjoyed Netflix shows like Behind Her Eyes, The Stranger and Obsession you will love The Fake Wife. Read what everyone is saying about The Fake Wife: 'OMG this latest book by Sharon Bolton is so good, definitely worth reading' Reader Review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'You'll never guess where this book is going' SAMANTHA DOWNING 'I swear the twists and turns you will not see coming!' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Totally gripping, with characters who draw you in' JP DELANEY 'One thing Sharon Bolton knows how to do is write a compulsive page-turner, and The Fake Wife is just that' Reader Review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'A thriller that had me desperate for answers. I loved it!' HARRIET TYCE 'Sharon Bolton has written another cracker! The twists! The tension! The characters!' Reader Review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Author : Donna Fielder
Publisher : Berkley
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0425266079

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The Vanished Wife by Donna Fielder Pdf

Kathy Munday Stobaugh thought she had married well… Charles Stobaugh was a handsome, well-dressed man who dreamed of owning a farm and liked to pay in cash. But Kathy soon discovered his flaws. She told stories of being beaten and locked in a barn, and eventually she moved out with their two children and requested a divorce—but Charles refused. So on December 29, 2004, Kathy drove over to convince him to sign the divorce papers. That was the last time anyone saw her. The next morning, her car was still in Charles’s driveway, but Kathy was nowhere to be found. He told his children their mother had gone off on a “me trip.” Charles gave the police several stories about what might have happened to his estranged wife, but then he lawyered up and got quiet. Despite the belief of law enforcement and Kathy’s family that he had murdered her, no evidence was found, and he went on with his life. Until, six years later, when two assistant district attorneys—without a body or any physical evidence—worked to achieve justice… INCLUDES PHOTOS

Author : Maggie Osborne
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2001-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780759522299

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A Stranger's Wife by Maggie Osborne Pdf

Lily Dale is released early from prison under one condition: she must temporarily impersonate the wife of powerful gubernatorial candidate Quinn Westin. Lily is identical to Westin's runaway wife, Miriam. The transformation from convict to society woman goes smoothly and Quinn and Lily find themselves drawn to each other--for real. But as Lily discovers more about her "twin's" disappearance, she wonders if she can trust this man she can't seem to resist.

Author : Olumide, Yetunde Mercy
Publisher : Langaa RPCIG
Page : 774 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789956763566

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The Vanishing Black African Woman: Volume One by Olumide, Yetunde Mercy Pdf

Skin-lightening is currently one of the most common forms of potentially harmful body modification practices in the world and African women are among some of the most widely represented users of skin-lightening products. The overall objective of this book is to provide up-to-date evidence-based recommendations for reducing the global burden of cosmetic skin bleaching and preventing injuries related to skin bleaching in sub-Saharan Africa and Africans in diaspora. The book aims to: offer an appraisal of all relevant literature on cosmetic bleaching practices to-date, focusing on any key developments; identify and address important medical, public health issues as well as historical, genetic, psychosocial, cultural, behavioural, socioeconomic, political, institutional and environmental determinants; provide guideline recommendations that would help attenuate the burden and possibly eliminate the injuries related to skin bleaching; discuss potential developments and future directions.

Author : Marion Harland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Women authors, American
ISBN : HARVARD:HN2A2L

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Mr. Wayt's Wife's Sister by Marion Harland Pdf