The Unnamed Child

Author : José Antonio Alías García
Publisher : Editorial Alvi Books
ISBN 13 : 1687755620
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Unnamed Child written by José Antonio Alías García and published by Editorial Alvi Books. This book was released on 2019-08-22 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First book of a mystical epic, written in the form of a story, which describes the extraordinary journey of the soul. A child without a name that will become Akula, a town that is destroyed by four calamities, a magic flute, a journey towards the Unknown in which Akula will discover the secrets of the Universe and will know himself.

Author : Jim Hoffmann
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1600080340
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Boy in the Box written by Jim Hoffmann and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2007 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Late morning. It is a cold Monday, February 25, 1957, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The battered body of a young boy is found nude in a J.C. Penny Bassinet box. Was it murder? Or a terrible accident? Forever known as the Boy in the Box Case, many seasoned investigators have tried and failed to determine exactly what happened to this child now known as America's Unknown Child. This case caught the attention of a nation fifty years ago. Find out why it still does today.

Author : Lucius Joy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781935932284
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rose and Odette written by Lucius Joy and published by . This book was released on 2021-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two sets of sisters, one set Jewish and the other Christian, are separated by decades in time. But they come together in one miraculous story of family, faith, and friendship. During World War II, Rose and Odette Aboulafia, very real young Jewish sisters living in Paris, France, were murdered during the Holocaust. Gassed in the ovens of Auschwitz, their remains were discarded, their lives forgotten. Almost 80 years later, Tori and Tilly Austin, fictional sisters in a small southern town, discover and unravel the story of the Aboulafia family. It happens through Tori's school project on the Holocaust and brings life-altering changes to the entire Austin family.

Author : ANONYMOUS
Publisher : THE PUBLISHER
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 69 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Boy In The Box: The Unsolved Case Of Philadelphia's Unknown Child written by ANONYMOUS and published by THE PUBLISHER. This book was released on 2024-03-04 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Stout
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0762798688
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Boy in the Box written by David Stout and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2008-09-02 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On February 25, 1957, the nude, badly bruised body of a young boy was found in a cardboard box in trash-strewn woods of north Philadelphia. Posters of the “Boy in the Box” soon dotted the city and police stations nationwide—to no avail. In November 1998 the remains were exhumed for DNA analysis, and the boy was reburied as “America's Unknown Child.” The Boy in the Box is the first book to examine America's most famous unsolved case of child murder—one that led to the “Stranger Danger” child safety campaign and a Law & Order episode. Written in a fast-paced style and featuring never-before-seen photos, it examines half a century of shocking and mysterious events surrounding the discovery of the body. David Stout presents a timeline interwoven with flashbacks, theories, media reports, first-hand interviews, and urban myths—taking us back to the year America lost its innocence forever.

Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher : anboco
ISBN 13 : 3736405448
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Child's Garden of Verses written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by anboco. This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Child's Garden of Verses is a collection of poetry for children by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. The collection first appeared in 1885 under the title Penny Whistles, but has been reprinted many times, often in illustrated versions. It contains about 65 poems including the cherished classics "Foreign Children," "The Lamplighter," "The Land of Counterpane," "Bed in Summer," "My Shadow" and "The Swing." The classical scholar Terrot Reaveley Glover published a translation of the poems into Latin in 1922 under the title Carmina non prius audita de ludis et hortis virginibus puerisque.

Author : Cormac McCarthy
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307762483
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Child of God written by Cormac McCarthy and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-08-11 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road • In this taut, chilling story, Lester Ballard—a violent, dispossessed man falsely accused of rape—haunts the hill country of East Tennessee when he is released from jail. While telling his story, Cormac McCarthy depicts the most sordid aspects of life with dignity, humor, and characteristic lyrical brilliance. "Like the novelists he admires-Melville, Dostoyevsky, Faulkner-Cormac McCarthy has created an imaginative oeuvre greater and deeper than any single book. Such writers wrestle with the gods themselves." —Washington Post Look for Cormac McCarthy's latest bestselling novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris.

Author : Jim Hoffmann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781985382442
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Boy in the Box: America's Unknown Child (3rd Edition) written by Jim Hoffmann and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-12 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the THIRD EDITION! It includes the author's tantalizing backstory to his research; the haunting of his home from the evidence boxes; the latest, up-to-date investigation of the most prolific lead since "M" - the Memphis Man - a resultant five years spent "down the rabbit hole" to another dead end, including a joint investigation with New Jersey author Louis Romano and Philadelphia's "Rutt Rutledge"; new evidence about "M" and much, much more. This work includes the original comprehensive book about one of America's greatest crimes: the Boy in the Box case. Using archived news stories, interviews with leading investigators and witnesses, and an analysis of the official Philadelphia Police Department's evidence box, "The Boy in the Box: America's Unknown Child (Revised Edition)" set the standard for other researchers to follow. It is a succinct outline of the facts, the events, and the players to one of the true crime genre's most prolific stories. Included in the work are photos, charts, and a painstakingly created timeline of key events in the case. Also included in this unique work is a second book, "Susquehanna Road," a Power Prose fictionalized edition of the story (and a completely new literary genre) dedicated to the little, unknown boy and the battle-hardened investigators who fought valiantly for him.

Author : Elena Ferrante
Publisher : Text Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1922253278
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Story of the Lost Child written by Elena Ferrante and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Story of the Lost Child is the long-awaited fourth volume in the Neapolitan novels (My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay). The quartet traces the friendship between Elena and Lila, from their childhood in a poor neighbourhood in Naples, to their thirties, when both women are mothers but each has chosen a different path. Their lives are still inextricably linked, for better or worse, especially when it comes to the drama of a lost child. Elena Ferrante was born in Naples. She is the author of seven novels: The Days of Abandonment, Troubling Love, The Lost Daughter, and the quartet of Neapolitan novels: My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, and The Story of the Lost Child. Frantugmalia, a selection of interviews, letters and occasional writings by Ferrante, will be published in 2016. She is one of Italy’s most acclaimed authors. Ann Goldstein has translated all of Elena Ferrante’s work. She is an editor at the New Yorker and a recipient of the PEN Renato Poggioli Translation Prize. Praise for Ferrante and the Neapolitan novels ‘[Ferrante’s] charting of the rivalries and sheer inscrutability of female friendship is raw. This is high stakes, subversive literature.’ Sunday Telegraph ‘Ferrante is an expert above all at the rhythm of plotting...Whether it’s work, family, friends or sex–and Ferrante, perhaps thanks to her anonymity as an author, is blisteringly good on bad sex–our greatest mistakes in life aren’t isolated acts; we rehearse them over and over until we get them as badly wrong as we can.’ Independent ‘Great novels are intelligent far beyond the powers of any character or writer or individual reader, as are great friendships, in their way. These wonderful books sit at the heart of that mystery, with the warmth and power of both.’ Harper’s ‘Elena Ferrante is one of the great novelists of our time. Her voice is passionate, her view sweeping and her gaze basilisk...In these bold, gorgeous, relentless novels, Ferrante traces the deep connections between the political and the domestic. This is a new version of the way we live now—one we need, one told brilliantly, by a woman.’ New York Times Sunday Book Review ‘When I read [the Neapolitan novels] I find that I never want to stop. I feel vexed by the obstacles—my job, or acquaintances on the subway—that threaten to keep me apart from the books. I mourn separations (a year until the next one—how?). I am propelled by a ravenous will to keep going.’ New Yorker ‘The best thing I’ve read this year, far and away...She puts most other writing at the moment in the shade. She’s marvellous.’ Richard Flanagan ‘The Neapolitan series stands as a testament to the ability of great literature to challenge, flummox, enrage and excite as it entertains.’ Sydney Morning Herald ‘The depth of perception Ms. Ferrante shows about her character’s conflicts and psychological states is astonishing...Her novels ring so true and are written with such empathy that they sound confessional.’ Wall Street Journal ‘The older you get, the harder it is to recapture the intoxicating sense of discovery that comes when you first read George Eliot, Nabokov, Tolstoy or Colette. But this year it came again when I read Elena Ferrante’s remarkable Neapolitan novels.’ Jane Shilling, New Statesman ‘There is nothing remotely tiring or trying about the experience of reading the Neapolitan novels, which I, and a great many others, now rank among our greatest book-related pleasures...it is writing that holds honesty dear.’ Weekend Australian ‘Dickens gave working people a voice. Ferrante, whoever she might be, presents a new paradigm for being female in the world...Ferrante’s great literary creations, Lenu and Lila, have the same emotional weight as Anne in Persuasion, Jo in Little Women, Maggie in The Mill on the Floss, Jane in Jane Eyre.’ Helen Elliott in the Monthly ‘This stunning conclusion further solidifies the Neapolitan novels as Ferrante’s masterpiece and guarantees that this reclusive author will remain far from obscure for years to come.’ Publishers Weekly ‘The Neapolitan novels are smart, thoughtful, serious literature. At the same time, they are violent, suspenseful soap operas populated with a vivid cast of scheming characters...Ferrante’s novels are deeply personal and intimate, getting to the very heart of what it means to be a woman, a friend, a daughter, a mother.’ Debrief Daily ‘Shattering and enthralling, intimate and vicious...The Neapolitan Novels are the kind of books that swallow me whole. As soon as I pick one up, I don’t want to breathe or move lest I break the spell...The Neapolitan Novels are among the most important in my reading life. I can’t recommend them highly enough.’ Readings ‘Ferrante captures the complexities of women, friendship and motherhood in ways that make your heart soar and ache in equal measures. If you haven’t already, treat yourself to this series.’ ELLE Australia ‘[Ferrante’s] Neapolitan novels contain real life – recognisable anxiety, joy, love and heartbreak. This is an incredibly difficult feat to achieve in the first place, let alone sustain, over four books. We will be talking about Elena and Lila for years to come.’ Sydney Morning Herald ‘There's a bright, sinewy humanness to Ferrante’s writing that is so alive it's alarming...The Story of the Lost Child is a full emotional experience, and a fitting end to a huge, arresting series.’ New Zealand Listener ‘I was one of the many who wept and wondered over Elena Ferrante’s The Story of the Lost Child. I plan to re-read the entire series soon.’ Favourite Feminist Reads from 2016, Feminist Writers Festival

Author : Meghann Meeusen
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496828682
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Children's Books on the Big Screen written by Meghann Meeusen and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2020-06-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Children’s Books on the Big Screen, Meghann Meeusen goes beyond the traditional adaptation approach of comparing and contrasting the similarities of film and book versions of a text. By tracing a pattern across films for young viewers, Meeusen proposes that a consistent trend can be found in movies adapted from children’s and young adult books: that representations of binaries such as male/female, self/other, and adult/child become more strongly contrasted and more diametrically opposed in the film versions. The book describes this as binary polarization, suggesting that starker opposition between concepts leads to shifts in the messages that texts send, particularly when it comes to representations of gender, race, and childhood. After introducing why critics need a new way of thinking about children’s adapted texts, Children’s Books on the Big Screen uses middle-grade fantasy adaptations to explore the reason for binary polarization and looks at the results of polarized binaries in adolescent films and movies adapted from picture books. Meeusen also digs into instances when multiple films are adapted from a single source such as The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and ends with pragmatic classroom application, suggesting teachers might utilize this theory to help students think critically about movies created by the Walt Disney corporation. Drawing from numerous popular contemporary examples, Children’s Books on the Big Screen posits a theory that can begin to explain what happens—and what is at stake—when children’s and young adult books are made into movies.