Hurting Distance

Author : Sophie Hannah
Publisher : Soho Press
ISBN 13 : 1569477124
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hurting Distance written by Sophie Hannah and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A psychological thriller from the New York Times–bestselling author: “No one writes twisted, suspenseful novels quite like Sophie Hannah” (Liane Moriarty). Naomi Jenkins, a successful professional woman prone to panic attacks, has a terrible secret she’s been keeping for three years. Also secret is Naomi’s current relationship with Robert Haworth, who is married, albeit unhappily. When Robert doesn’t show up for one of their trysts, Naomi fears for him—but the police don’t take it seriously, since Robert’s wife claims he isn’t missing. Naomi is desperate, and comes up with a plan: If she convinces the police that Robert is a danger to others, they will have to track him down. Using details from her own troubled past, she spins a story for them—but twists and turns lie ahead that she never expected. “Naomi’s concern for her married lover’s well-being grows when his wife insists he is fine, just away. Naomi uses the story of a rape from her past to get the police to sit up and take notice. What makes this novel work so well is that more than one character has a bit of a screw loose—even the detectives on the case are grappling with some crippling personal issues—and it takes the full ride of the novel to find out who is playing whom.” —Time Out

Author : Sophie Hannah
Publisher : Soho Press
ISBN 13 : 1569475210
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hurting Distance written by Sophie Hannah and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When Naomi Jenkins arrives at the police station, she is sure that Robert, her married boyfriend, has come to harm. Detective Constable Simon Waterhouse and Detective Sergeant Charlie Zailer are not convinced, however, especially when Robert's wife insists he is not missing." "So Naomi hatches a desperate plot, drawing on a past rape experience. As she digs further for the truth, Naomi discovers that Robert's disappearance is more closely tied to her past than she could have imagined."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Jonathan Hull
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312314132
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Distance from Normandy written by Jonathan Hull and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-12-03 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mead parachuted into Normandy on D-Day and fought his way to Germany, through some of the most brutal violence of World War II. But his most difficult battle was lost years later, when his beloved wife Sophie succumbed to cancer. Since then, he has waged a private war against both loneliness and the terrible memory of a day in 1945 that went horribly wrong-and has haunted him ever since. His grandson Andrew, a scared and angry high school sophomore, has been expelled and is heading down a path of self-destruction. Mead agrees to take the boy in for three weeks, to set him right. At first, the two circle warily around each other, finding little in common. Then Andrew befriends a widow named Evelyn, and Mead busies himself fending off the match, even as he feels a reluctant attraction to this cheerful woman who seems to understand his grandson. One afternoon, rummaging through the garage, Andrew discovers an antique Luger, the deadly memento of his grandfather's war. In a final effort to save his grandson from himself, Mead takes the teenager on a journey to the beaches, bunkers, and cemeteries of Normandy, where both of them confront the secrets they have been trying to forget.

Author : Maarit Piipponen
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030534138
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transnational Crime Fiction written by Maarit Piipponen and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on contemporary crime narratives from different parts of the world, this collection of essays explores the mobility of crimes, criminals and investigators across social, cultural and national borders. The essays argue that such border crossings reflect on recent sociocultural transformations and geopolitical anxieties to create an image of networked and interconnected societies where crime is not easily contained. The book further analyses crime texts’ wider sociocultural and affective significance by examining the global mobility of the genre itself across cultures, languages and media. Underlining the global reach and mobility of the crime genre, the collection analyses types and representations of mobility in literary and visual crime narratives, inviting comparisons between texts, crimes and mobilities in a geographically diverse context. The collection ultimately understands mobility as an object of study and a critical lens through which transformations in our globalised world can be examined.

Author : Sophie Hannah
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101460962
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Truth-Teller's Lie written by Sophie Hannah and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-09-28 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A superbly creepy, twisty thriller” (The Times (London)) by the internationally best-selling author of The Other Woman’s House and The Wrong Mother Naomi Jenkins knows all about secrets: three years ago something so terrible happened to her that she's never told anyone about it. Now, Naomi has another secret: her relationship with the unhappily married Robert Haworth. When Robert vanishes without explanation, Naomi knows he must have come to harm. But the police are less convinced, particularly when Robert's wife insists he is not missing. In desperation, Naomi decides that if she can't persuade the detectives that Robert is in danger, she'll convince them that he is a danger to others. Naomi knows how to describe the actions of a psychopath; all she needs to do is dig up her own traumatic past. The second book in Sophie Hannah’s beloved Zailer and Waterhouse series, The Truth-Teller’s Lie is a chillingly smart suspense novel sure to appeal to fans of Tess Gerritsen and Gillian Flynn.

Author : Steve Corbett
Publisher : Moody Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0802493440
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Helping Without Hurting in Church Benevolence written by Steve Corbett and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 2015-09-22 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a low-income person asks your church for help, what do you do next? God is extraordinarily generous, and our churches should be, too. Because poverty is complex, however, helping low-income people often requires going beyond meeting their material needs to holistically addressing the roots of their poverty. But on a practical level, how do you move forward in walking with someone who approaches your church for financial help? From the authors of When Helping Hurts comes Helping Without Hurting in Church Benevolence, a guidebook for church staff, deacons, or volunteers who work with low-income people. Short and to the point, this tool provides foundational principles for poverty alleviation and then addresses practical matters, like: How to structure and focus your benevolence work How to respond to immediate needs while pursuing long-term solutions How to mobilize your church to walk with low-income people With practical stories, forms, and tools for churches to use, Helping Without Hurting in Church Benevolence is an all-in-one guide for church leaders and laypeople who want to help the poor in ways that lead to lasting change.

Author : David Hawkins
Publisher : Harvest House Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0736954384
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Relationship Doctor's Prescription for Healing a Hurting Relationship written by David Hawkins and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2006-09-01 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. David Hawkins uncovers the hidden reasons why couples may be hurting emotionally. He offers practical steps couples can take to heal their hurt and lays out a plan for preventing needless pain in the future. This concise and easily accessible manual also identifies several communication strategies that couples often use but that actually never work, and it offers more helpful alternatives: Focus on ways you can agree, not ways you disagree. Attack the problem, not the person. If you're winning arguments, you're losing the battle. Readers will find plenty of helpful alternatives to their destructive communication patterns and a full supply of easy-to-use steps to increase their emotional intimacy and restore the joy in their relationships.

Author : Ariel Glucklich
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198030401
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sacred Pain written by Ariel Glucklich and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-10-30 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why would anyone seek out the very experience the rest of us most wish to avoid? Why would religious worshipers flog or crucify themselves, sleep on spikes, hang suspended by their flesh, or walk for miles through scorching deserts with bare and bloodied feet? In this insightful new book, Ariel Glucklich argues that the experience of ritual pain, far from being a form of a madness or superstition, contains a hidden rationality and can bring about a profound transformation of the consciousness and identity of the spiritual seeker. Steering a course between purely cultural and purely biological explanations, Glucklich approaches sacred pain from the perspective of the practitioner to fully examine the psychological and spiritual effects of self-hurting. He discusses the scientific understanding of pain, drawing on research in fields such as neuropsychology and neurology. He also ranges over a broad spectrum of historical and cultural contexts, showing the many ways mystics, saints, pilgrims, mourners, shamans, Taoists, Muslims, Hindus, Native Americans, and indeed members of virtually every religion have used pain to achieve a greater identification with God. He examines how pain has served as a punishment for sin, a cure for disease, a weapon against the body and its desires, or a means by which the ego may be transcended and spiritual sickness healed. "When pain transgresses the limits," the Muslim mystic Mizra Asadullah Ghalib is quoted as saying, "it becomes medicine." Based on extensive research and written with both empathy and critical insight, Sacred Pain explores the uncharted inner terrain of self-hurting and reveals how meaningful suffering has been used to heal the human spirit.

Author : Beverly L. Bower
Publisher : Jossey-Bass
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Distance Education to E-Learning: Lessons Along the Way written by Beverly L. Bower and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 2004 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the postsecondary institutions most open to change, community colleges have in many regards led the way to distance education. Recent NCES data show that public two-year colleges account for almost half of the institutions in this country that offer distance education. In creating distance education opportunities community college are responding to the mounting demands of nontraditional learners, working professionals, and lifelong learners, while trying to compete effectively with various educational providers and answer the public and legislative call for cost effectiveness and reform. The volume proposed will examine the past and present landscape of issues and challenges associated with distance education from regional, state, and institutional perspectives. It will look at the current challenges and successes of faculty, student service professionals, presidents, and other administrative leaders as they endeavor to create a quality learning environment through distance education. In addition this issue will address the unresolved issues (e.g. intellectual property rights) and those on the horizon for the rapidly changing arena of distance education. This is the 128th volume of the Jossey-Bass quarterly report series New Directions for Community College.

Author : Sophie Hannah
Publisher : Soho Press
ISBN 13 : 1569477175
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Little Face written by Sophie Hannah and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Little Face is a wonderful work, a brilliant use of mirrors and the writer's magic. Chilling, tantalizing, and ultimately fair and deeply satisfying.”—Barbara D’Amato, author of Death of a Thousand Cuts “Hannah adapts to crime fiction with arresting aplomb: Her characters are vivid, the novel’s challenging double narrative is handled with flair, and its denouement is ingenious.”—The Sunday Times (London) “Outstandingly chilling.”—The Spectator “Superb . . . good, old-fashioned spine-tingling stuff, but also a fine modern thriller.”—The Times (London) “A terrifying mystery of manipulation, counter-manipulation and, finally, astounding revelation. It’s a haunting story told with bewitching skill.”—The Scotsman “Impressive.”—The Mail on Sunday The first time she goes out after their daughter is born, Alice leaves the two-week-old infant at home with her husband, David. When she returns two hours later, she insists that the baby in the crib is not her child. Despite her apparent distress, David is adamant that she is wrong. The police are called to the scene. Detective Constable Simon Waterhouse is sympathetic, but he doubts Alice’s story. His superior, Sergeant Charlie Zailer, thinks Alice must be suffering from some sort of delusion brought on by postpartum depression. With an increasingly hostile and menacing David swearing she must either be mad or lying, how can Alice make the police believe her before it’s too late? Sophie Hannah is an award-winning and best-selling poet in the United Kingdom. She has also previously published fiction. This is her first psychological crime novel. She lives in West Yorkshire with her husband and two children.