The challenges in author Hope-Anne Christies life brought her to where she is today. If the events hadnt happened the way they did, she believes she wouldnt be as spiritually aware or conscious of her lifes purpose. In The Unintended Journey of a Soul, she shares her healing journey, a journey that took many twists and turns throughout her lifetime. In this memoir, Christie trudges through the debris of her childhood which was marked by illness and physical, psychological, and sexual abuse. Some of her experiences felt like her life was about to change for the better, only to have her world come crashing down again. The peaks and valleys were almost more than she could bear. The Unintended Journey of a Soul exposes these experiences, raw and uncompromised. Christie also tells how from a young age, she had an inner knowing that an energy force was always with her and how at age fifty she discovered she was a healer of many, finally realizing her calling and her purpose. She reflects on her experiences intent on helping others start their own healing process. The Unintended Journey of a Soul narrates a story about the long, arduous path that brought Christie from darkness into light and from the depths of despair to heights unimaginable.
Outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare, the works of Agatha Christie stand as some of the most celebrated crime fiction of our era. This book takes ten of her most famous works and shows their relationship to ten of crime history's most famous and sensational cases--cases whose notoriety still resounds to this day. Addressing both novels and short stories, the author illuminates the relationship between Christie's Murder on the Orient Express and the sensational Lindbergh Kidnapping Case of 1932; the connections between Christie's Mrs. McGinty's Dead and the horrific true case of England's most loathed wife-killer, the American Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen--and eight more engrossing pairings of Christie's ingenious mystery puzzles with vintage true crime's most sensational events.
Outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare, the works of Agatha Christie stand as some of the most celebrated crime fiction of our era. This book takes ten of her most famous works and shows their relationship to ten of crime history's most famous and sensational cases--cases whose notoriety still resounds to this day. Addressing both novels and short stories, the author illuminates the relationship between Christie's Murder on the Orient Express and the sensational Lindbergh Kidnapping Case of 1932; the connections between Christie's Mrs. McGinty's Dead and the horrific true case of England's most loathed wife-killer, the American Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen--and eight more engrossing pairings of Christie's ingenious mystery puzzles with vintage true crime's most sensational events.
Women writers have historically been marginalized. This timely book offers an introduction to influential women writers spanning the globe and time periods with entries from antiquity to the present. The book addresses how history, race, class, and other social categories complicate any single defining category of the woman writer. Presenting a spectrum of diverse women writers and situating them within cultural and critical contexts, readers will understand what defines a successful woman writer, as well as a critical or subversive one.
About the Author Each of these ladies has gained, earned, acquired, sweated, cried, laughed, and mostly smiled through their over 25 years of experience in navigating suburbia. Through those years, they each stepped up to a multitude of varying roles as suburban moms: everything from Girl Scout leader to room mom, volunteer, school auction chair, to committee member, sports volunteer, and food drive chair, event chair, travel agent, tennis player, game night hostess, hosting a girl's trip, book club member... the list goes on. You name it, and these gals have probably done it, gaining wisdom, experience and joy along the way. Each author has their own "Suburban Mafia" of cherished friends reaching far and wide looking out for their best interest as well as their family's well-being! May this book - the culmination of their experiences and learnings - extend to all of their dear ones, on to their dear ones, and so on and so on...
The book opens with a description of Miss Marple's hometown, St. Mary Mead, a village south of London. The reader is introduced to many of the residents, from the Vicar to the fishmonger's delivery boys (all of whom are named Fred). From the Marple works Hart extracts references to the detective's past, and reconstructs her girlhood and the genesis of her career. The author also follows Miss Marple through the 1930s and World War II, and describes her appearance and personality, daily routine, travels and relationships with relatives and friends."--Publishers Weekly.
’Tis the season for a pair of Christmas novels that add a dash of murder to the Yuletide spirit. “Perry’s Victorian-era holiday mysteries [are] an annual treat.”—The Wall Street Journal A CHRISTMAS HOMECOMING “Could have been devised by Agatha Christie . . . [Anne Perry is] a modern master.”—Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Charlotte Pitt’s mother, Caroline, is spending the holiday with her young husband, Joshua Fielding, in Whitby, the fishing village where Dracula first touches English soil in Bram Stoker’s sensational novel. Joshua has arranged to produce a stage adaptation of Dracula, written by the daughter of millionaire Charles Netheridge, but tempers flare after a disastrous first read-through of the script. As wind and snow swirl around Netheridge’s lonely hilltop mansion, a black-cloaked stranger emerges from the storm. At the same time, a brooding evil makes itself felt, and instead of theatrical triumph, there is murder—shocking and terrifying. A CHRISTMAS GARLAND “In Anne Perry’s gifted hands, the puzzle plays out brilliantly.”—Greensboro News & Record The year is 1857, soon after the violent Siege of Cawnpore, and India is in the midst of rebellion. In the British garrison, a guard is killed, a prisoner escapes, and a luckless medical orderly named John Tallis is arrested as an accomplice simply because he was the only soldier unaccounted for when the crimes were committed. Though chosen to defend Tallis, young Lieutenant Victor Narraway is not encouraged to try very hard. His superiors merely want a show trial. But inspired by a simple Christmas garland, and his own stubborn faith in justice, Narraway is determined to figure out the truth, despite the appalling odds. In an alien world haunted by massacre, he is the accused man’s only hope.
Widowed at an early age, Maggie has never sought another long-term partner. Now she's moved from London to spend a year in a remote Scottish fishing village where her parents used to bring her and her siblings as children. The East Neuk in Fife is a little-known area of coast, an hour north of Edinburgh. But while the beautiful landscape is a perfect inspiration for Maggie's art, she finds the place more than a little isolating. Maggie wishes there was more companionship to her life than the occasional visit from her daughter and the odd night of passion with an old and very married friend. Meanwhile her elegant aunt is still much courted by suitors, despite turning eighty. And then Maggie meets Andy and realises that her own love life might be about to get a little more interesting...
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