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Author: Sarah Beth Hopton Publisher: Indiana University Press ISBN: 0253034647 Category : True Crime Languages : en Pages : 290
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The true story of a woman in Victorian London who murdered her lover’s wife—and how her crime led some to believe she was Jack the Ripper. On October 24, 1890, a woman was discovered on a pile of rubbish in Hampstead, North London. Her arms were lacerated and her face bloodied; her head was severed from her body save a few sinews. Later that day, a blood-soaked stroller was found leaning against a residential gate, and the following morning the dead body of a baby was found hidden underneath a nettle bush. So began the chilling story of the Hampstead Tragedy. Eventually, Scotland Yard knocked on the door of No. 2 Priory Street, home to Mary Eleanor Pearcey, the pretty 24-year-old mistress whose dying request was as bizarre and mysterious as her life. Woman at the Devil’s Door is a thrilling look at this notorious murderer and the webs she wove.
Author: Sarah Beth Hopton Publisher: Indiana University Press ISBN: 0253034647 Category : True Crime Languages : en Pages : 290
Book Description
The true story of a woman in Victorian London who murdered her lover’s wife—and how her crime led some to believe she was Jack the Ripper. On October 24, 1890, a woman was discovered on a pile of rubbish in Hampstead, North London. Her arms were lacerated and her face bloodied; her head was severed from her body save a few sinews. Later that day, a blood-soaked stroller was found leaning against a residential gate, and the following morning the dead body of a baby was found hidden underneath a nettle bush. So began the chilling story of the Hampstead Tragedy. Eventually, Scotland Yard knocked on the door of No. 2 Priory Street, home to Mary Eleanor Pearcey, the pretty 24-year-old mistress whose dying request was as bizarre and mysterious as her life. Woman at the Devil’s Door is a thrilling look at this notorious murderer and the webs she wove.
Author: Sharan Newman Publisher: Forge Books ISBN: 1466817267 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 384
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1140 Anno Domini: A wealthy countess lies dying at the Convent of the Paraclete, brutally beaten by unknown assailants. Despite entreaties, she is unwilling to name her killer. Beautiful Catherine LeVendeur, the Paraclete's most learned young novice-scholar, vows to find out the identity of the woman's attacker. When her beloved Edgar comes to lead her from the convent to a life of the flesh, Catherine is torn between her quest for justice and the pledge she made him. Catherine doesn't want to break any of the vows she's made-and if she abandons her crusade for the truth, others will die, and the convent she loves may be destroyed... At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author: Adam Rex Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers ISBN: 1484731689 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 282
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The hilarious, genre-bending novel from bestselling author Adam rex that inspired the blockbuster feature film Home -- fully illustrated with "photos," drawings, newspaper clippings, and comics sequences. When twelve-year-old Gratuity ("Tip") Tucci is assigned to write five pages on "The True Meaning of Smekday" for the National Time Capsule contest, she's not sure where to begin; when her mom started telling everyone about the messages aliens were sending through a mole on the back of her neck? Maybe on Christmas Eve, when huge bizarre spaceships descended on Earth and the aliens -- called Boov -- abducted her mother? Or when the Boov declared Earth a colony, renamed it "Smekland" (in honor of glorious Captain Smek), and forced all Americans to relocate to Florida via rocketpod? In any case, Gratuity's story is much, much bigger than the assignment. It involves her unlikely friendship with a renegade Boov mechanic named J.Lo; a futile journey south to find Gratuity's mother at the Happy Mouse Kingdom; a cross-country road trip in a hovercar called Slushious; and an outrageous plan to save the Earth from yet another alien invasion.
Author: Paul B. Thompson Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC ISBN: 146460150X Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 162
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Sarah Wright and her father came to Salem Village to start a new life, but a strange affliction began tormenting some young girls in the village. After the doctor could not find a cause, he determined that it could only be one thing: Witchcraft. The Devil had come to Salem. As fear and panic spread, so did the accusations. After the executions began, Sarah's father was arrested on suspicion of witchcraft. Will Sarah be able to save her father? What is happening in Salem? Set in colonial America, follow Sarah Wright on her journey in this terrifying tale of the Salem witchcraft trials.
Author: Julia Flynn Siler Publisher: Knopf ISBN: 1101875267 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 447
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A revelatory history of the trafficking of young Asian girls that flourished in San Francisco during the first century of Chinese immigration (1848-1943), and the "safe house" on the edge of Chinatown that became a refuge for those seeking their freedom. From 1874, a house on the edge of San Francisco's Chinatown served as a gateway to freedom for thousands of enslaved and vulnerable young Chinese women and girls. Known as the Occidental Mission Home, it survived earthquakes, fire, bubonic plague, and violence directed against its occupants and supporters-- a courageous group of female abolitionists who fought the slave trade in Chinese women, challenging the corrosive, anti-Chinese prejudices of the time. Siler relates how the women who ran the house defied contemporary convention, even occasionally broke the law, by physically rescuing children from the brothels where they worked, or snatching them off the ships smuggling them in, and helped bring the exploiters to justice. She has also uncovered the stories of many of the girls and young women who came to the Mission and the lives they later led, sometimes becoming part of the home's staff themselves. A remarkable story of an overlooked part of our history, told with sympathy and vigor.--
Author: Jane Yolen Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0142401099 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 210
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30th Anniversary edition with a new introduction from the author Hannah is tired of holiday gatherings−all her family ever talks about is the past. In fact, it seems to her that's what they do every Jewish holiday. But this year's Passover Seder will be different−Hannah will be mysteriously transported into the past . . . and only she knows the unspeakable horrors that await. Winner of the National Jewish Book Award "A triumphantly moving book." --Kirkus Reviews, starred review
Author: Robert Griffin Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1453505393 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 154
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Mark McKay’s Life seemed unremarkable. That was until he hit his teenage years. At fourteen years old his massive penis plunged scrotum deep into its first sexual encounter. He didn’t ask for that to happen, the girl next door, Molly Summers insisted on it. What boy at his age would say no? Little did he know this would trigger a curse bestowed on his family in the late Middle Ages. The raw ecstasy he experienced and flood of emotions it brought, would lay the foundation for an unquenchable lust for sex. This thirst for instant gratification grew when he met a woman. Mrs. Case his art teacher decided to take him under her wing, and teach Mark many aspects of BDSM. When she had her fill of him, she cut off all ties. Left alone with a vivid imagination and a twisted lust for pleasure and pain and urged on by a voice that only he could hear, his frustrations turned to rage. Driven over the edge by his maddening lust and dissatisfaction, he loses all traces of morality. His demented psyche then compels him to enact unimaginable and heinous sex acts. Investigator John Martinez is then left to piece together the gruesome murders. Will Martinez uncover this mystery before the next victim has been chosen?
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