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The massive orphan train exodus whisked three-year-old Teresa from the safety of her New York orphanage, where the worst thing the Foundling nuns did was wash her curly black hair, to a desolate house and cold-hearted "parents" in Kansas. There, she entered a small and strange Volga German world whose inhabitants spoke a language she had never heard. In this odd world, she encountered whippings and sexual abuse. Mail-Order Kid looks at the orphan train movement through the eyes of one small child who yearns to know her "real" mother.

Liz and Garret Adams sailed to Galveston, Texas, aboard Sloopy, their 36-foot sailboat, to celebrate their nephew’s college graduation. Tragedy shattered their joy when Celeste Rogers’ body was found on the beach a few hours before the ceremony. David Devlin, their nephew and the victim’s live-in boyfriend, was the prime suspect. Suffering from memory blackout, he was unable to provide an alibi. Determined to prove Dave’s innocence, Liz summoned the psychic gift that had led to killers in Mystic, Newport, and Key West.

The trek along the Oregon Trail brings never-ending challenges. Jenny Nation, her husband, and five-year-old daughter are only three weeks into the trip by wagon train when Daniel is killed. Frozen in grief and fear, Jenny must choose whether to press on or turn around and go back to Independence. She chooses to go on, knowing she'll have to drive the wagon alone, care for the oxen, hunt for food, and possibly fight Indians. Through stultifying heat, terrifying storms, a buffalo stampede, and the kidnapping of her daughter by the Comanches, Jenny refuses to give up.

WHAT WILL LAURA FIND AT CAMERON CASTLE -- LONG LIFE OR SUDDEN DEATH! Despite warnings from her friends that he is only a fortune hunter, beautiful heiress Laura Coles marries Donald Cameron. Fighting her fear, Laura agrees to settle at bleak Cameron Castle, her husband's ancestral home. But...

Heiress Emily and Gale Garvis wait in terror as the Ouija board begins to reveal who will die next.... Emily Garvis is sure that their dead father is sending them messages through the Ouija board. Her sister Gale, more practical, believes that they come instead from Emily's troubled subconscious...

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Emma Naomi, best known for Bridgerton. This definitive recording includes an introduction by Marilyn Butler. With its irrepressible heroine and playful literary games, Northanger Abbey is the most youthful and optimistic of Jane...

Irvin D. Yalom, einer der angesehensten Psychotherapeuten Amerikas, wurde am 13. Juni 2021 neunzig Jahre alt. Er gilt als Klassiker der existentiellen Psychotherapie, seine Lehrbücher und Romane erscheinen weltweit und erreichen Millionen. Seine Frau Marilyn Yalom, eine renommierte Kulturwissenschaftlerin und Autorin, starb im letzten Herbst nach 65jähriger Ehe. Als klar war, dass ihre Krankheit zum Tode führen würde, begannen beide ein Buch zu schreiben - das am Ende Irvin D. Yalom alleine fertigstellen musste.

Sophie lives a comfortable life with her family in Bath before discovering that her mother, Joan, gave a baby up for adoption 40 years ago. Of course she could have had no idea what effect that decision was to have, not only on her son's life, but also on her own and her future family's. Decisions made with the best of intentions, sometimes result in unintended consequences, as in this case.

This book is a collection of stories about culture, history, and nationhood as told by Métis women.

With the pervasiveness of vitriol and dishonesty today, language needs to be revived and restored. In Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies, Marilyn McEntyre exposes the commercial and political forces that affect public discourse in American culture and counters with 12 constructive “strategies of stewardship”.

Perhaps, you are one of three girls, or one of five boys that was sexually abused by the time you were 18 years old. Unfortunately, I fell into that nasty category. In preparing to write my first memoir, Identifying and Healing Childhood Sexual Abuse, I came upon a list of approximately 99 different after-effects that come as a result of sexual abuse. Finally, I held in my hands, a list of words that totally and completely described myself! I pray that this audiobook will give you the information that you need for a total and complete healing in your life!

The year is 1972. Following a fatal accident, 22-year-old Adrienne makes a chance discovery that propels her to Paris in an effort to uncover what happened to her mother, who had deserted the family home 10 years before. A man professing to be her father agrees to help her and travels with her to Paris. What Adrienne discovers is a saga that spans three decades, with its roots in the Nazi occupation of Paris in 1942.

Marilyn Siden has lived through much: the aftermath of World War II, Korea, and the horror of Vietnam. She's navigated good political administrations and struggling ones, a thriving economy and want. Her eight decades of experience living in the US have shown her the best America has to offer, and, unfortunately, the worst. But she never thought America would become a place of vitriol and despair.

In this spellbinding tale of deception and beauty, 14-year-old Cecile wakes up in a dream and finds herself in the Kingdom of Belamor, unaware that she is, in reality, the princess of this realm. Bravely journeying through the dark forest, she finds friends along the way, and is told of a mysterious woman known as the Spider Queen who enchanted the kingdom and had stolen her throne. And when at last Cecile confronts her powerful foe, she learns what it really takes to be the princess of Belamor.

In the wrong place at the wrong time when their hotel in Florence, Italy, is besieged by terrorists, the two strangers find themselves thrust together in Wade's honeymoon suite. Immediately attracted to each other, Wade conducts a siege of his own to win Theia's heart.

On the brink of middle age, Marilyn and Jack Woods do a 180, leaving their world of big-city radio and broadcasting to embark on a new adventure with the purchase of a Southern California farm. As they stumble and succeed over the two decades that follow, they experience losses, failures, and stunning successes while crafting a life among orange groves, lavender fields, and vineyards in San Diego County.

It’s tricky to know what’s normal if you’re not, but Stella’s upbringing is average enough, and her protective if paranoid family work on the principle that the less said about what she is, the very much safer she'll be. Life not surprisingly has its ups, downs, and disasters, but not until she's thrust into a hair-raising situation, face-to-face with the stark reality of medical experimentation and its horrifying consequences does she become certain of one thing. All this hero stuff just isn't her.

Relish the passionate transformation of a tough yet timid, pistol-packing female that was raised by a religious family in Detroit. Cheer for Madison’s success as she plunges into an agonizing journey, trying to choose between God’s direction and the devil’s deception. She craves God’s voice to calm the enslaved boiling rage that has traumatized her rational thinking since childhood.

The speaker is too high on LSD to explain what he means, but at one time he had been in love with Ruth's sister, Mary, whose sun sign is Aquarius. And it is Mary's disappearance that brought Ruth to Cranston House, a sinister run-down hotel occupied by Dr. Eric Palmer and his youthful drug...

Award-winning Great Plains writer Marilyn Coffey recounts her family’s intricate dance with the Teamsters, beginning with her dad’s tiny trucking company spawned on a front porch in 1929, in a David-and-Goliath encounter that spanned decades. In 1956, Tom Coffey knuckled under Jimmy Hoffa’s six-month-long Teamsters strike. He sold his 27-year-old truckline, Coffey’s Transfer Company, rather than sign Hoffa’s contract.