TWO WOMEN ONE RUN A story that left years of mystery and a chase that pulled two women apart, with one sitting at the other end of the publisher's desk trying to make sense of it all, when all was thought to be lost. This is Alexa's story "Hanging By A Wire." "A woman has a dying mother with a lot of wealth. The family asked her to take care of the mother. She went to her lawyer, explained the situation. The lawyer prepared a Trust Fund but when she left the bank later found out she was in a joint account. She met a man online, saw his picture and fell in love.After months of online moonlighting, he persuaded her to help him with some offshore businesses that never existed. She agreed and kept going to the bank and performing odd wire transfers unaware of funding terrorism until the FBI pulled her from boarding at an airport. During the representation of their client, a female paralegal decides to dig a little deeper; backtracking her client's steps and embarks on a few breadcrumbs through her emails showing that there's more behind the truth than a misleading accusation. This new found discovery threatens the fabric of two women; nowhere to turn to, . . . but this hellish chase is on!
Seventeen-year-old Paige Taylor leads the perfect life. She has wonderful friends, an amazing boyfriend, a model family, and the promise of a long, memorable summer. But in an unexpected turn of events, Paige is forced to reevaluate her life and learn that her perfectly contrived world is flawed. Just when she feels like her whole family is betraying her, Paige struggles to find the support she needs to navigate the rocky road ahead. But what will Paige do when someone comes to town with the ability to change her life forever? Confessions from the Heart of a Teenage Girl portrays a girl's life falling apart and how she draws from her inner strength to fix it. This bittersweet novel takes readers on a journey of heartbreak, teen drama, friendship, love, and life.
How can we read crime scenes through photography? Making use of micro-histories of domestic murder and crime scene photographs made available for the first time, Alexa Neale provides a highly original exploration of what crime scenes can tell us about the significance of expectations of domesticity, class, gender, race, privacy and relationships in twentieth-century Britain. With 10 case studies and 30 black and white images, Photographing Crime Scenes in 20th-Century London will take you inside the homes that were murder crime scenes to read their geographical and symbolic meanings in the light of the development of crime scene photography, forensic analysis and psychological testing. In doing so, it reveals how photographs of domestic objects and spaces were often used to recreate a narrative for the murder based on the defendant's perceived identity rather than to prove if they committed the crime at all. Bringing the history of crime, British social and cultural history and the history of forensic photography to the analysis of the crime scene, this study offers fascinating details on the changing public and private lives of Londoners in the 20th century.
Rushing to her brother's rescue at the faro table, Marcella ends up being kidnapped by one of London's most notorious rakes. The owner of a score of gaming dens--more dangerous than Marcella can imagine. The price of her brother's debts is her virtue--one night spent with wolf. But it's nothing like she expects--and neither is the man, himself.
Presents a biography of mountain climber and adventurer Edmund Hillary, providing a chronicle of his life, from his childhood in New Zealand, to his ascent of Mount Everest. Includes photographs.
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