Sleeping Cruelty

Author : Lynda La Plante
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1471130940
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sleeping Cruelty written by Lynda La Plante and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir William Benedict has always desired acceptance from society's elite. Coming from a working-class background, the now very wealthy entrepreneur owns millions, alongside a small slice of paradise by way of an island in the Caribbean. William gets what he wishes for when the fast-rising Tory MP, Andrew Maynard enters his life. After pouring money in to Maynard's political campaign, William suddenly finds that he has the social status he has always craved. But his joy is premature… After a political scandal erupts, William is shunned by the socialites that he believed were his friends. With his reputation in tatters, the entrepreneur turns to Justin Chalmers, and his sister, Laura, for help. William's island will no longer be a tranquil paradise, but the backdrop for his revenge.

Author : Lynda La Plante
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780754023722
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sleeping Cruelty written by Lynda La Plante and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warren Fielding is funding James Mobery's political campaign, but when Mobery commits suicide on the eve of the election, Fielding's reputation collapses in ruins. He turns from respected entrepreneur to social outcast, and has to face his friends, who are all to ready to discard him.

Author : Plante Lynda La
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780330456470
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sleeping Cruelty (special Sales) written by Plante Lynda La and published by . This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robin C. Sager
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807163112
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Marital Cruelty in Antebellum America written by Robin C. Sager and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2016-07-06 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Marital Cruelty in Antebellum America, Robin C. Sager probes the struggles of aggrieved spouses shedding light on the nature of marriage and violence in the United States in the decades prior to the Civil War. Analyzing over 1,500 divorce records that reveal intimate details of marriages in conflict in Virginia, Texas, and Wisconsin from 1840--1860, Sager offers a rare glimpse into the private lives of ordinary Americans shaken by accusations of cruelty. At a time when the standard for an ideal marriage held that both partners adequately perform their respective duties, hostility often arose from ongoing domestic struggles for power. Despite a rise in the then novel expectation of marriage as a companionate relationship, and even in the face of liberalized divorce grounds, marital conflicts often focused on violations of duty, not lack of love. Sager describes how, in this environment, cruelty was understood as a failure to fulfill expectations and as a weapon to brutally enforce more traditional interpretations of marital duty. Sager's findings also challenge historical literature's assumptions about the regional influences on violence, showing that married southerners were no more or less violent than their midwestern counterparts. Her work reveals how definitions and perceptions of cruelty varied according to the gender of victim and perpetrator. Correcting historical mischaracterizations of women's violence as trivial, rare, or defensive, Sager finds antebellum wives both capable and willing to commit a wide variety of cruelties within their marriages. Her research provides details about the reality of nineteenth-century conjugal unions, including the deep unhappiness buried within them.

Author : Karo Hämäläinen
Publisher : Soho Press
ISBN 13 : 161695681X
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cruel is the Night written by Karo Hämäläinen and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three phones ring in a London apartment. The calls go unanswered because their recipients are all dead. It's been 10 years since Robert has seen his once-best friend, Mikko. The two had an falling-out because Robert, a banker, made millions off of unethical interest rate manipulation. Mikko is an investigative journalist who has dedicated his career to bringing down corrupt financiers and politicians. Mikko's wife, Veera - with whom Robert once had a secret affair - and Robert's young trophy wife, Elise, are also joining the fray. And by the end of the night, there will only be one survivor.

Author : Kjell Eriksson
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312366671
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cruel Stars of the Night written by Kjell Eriksson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-05 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second book by this bestselling Swedish author to be translated into English. Police Inspector Ann Lindell and her colleagues are baffled by the murders of elderly men.

Author : Di Meiliuguang
Publisher : Funstory
ISBN 13 : 1647815223
Total Pages : 969 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cruel Emperor Pestered Me at Night written by Di Meiliuguang and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2019-12-13 with total page 969 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She was as clear as water, and as warm and fragrant as a flower.The love in his dark eyes made her follow him, desperate.He was a prince, his emotions were as indifferent as the wind. He had everything he wanted from her, she did everything for him, and he had accepted her as his queen, but it wasn't her.She left him with a body full of wounds. She didn't want the position of imperial concubine that he had given her, so she returned to the dragon race.

Author : Austin Dragon
Publisher : Well-Tailored Books
ISBN 13 : 1946590150
Total Pages : 43 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Cruel Cyber Summer Night (A Liquid Cool Novella) written by Austin Dragon and published by Well-Tailored Books. This book was released on 2023-02-01 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Metropolis wasn't a bad place, but it wasn't a good one either. A CRUEL CYBER SUMMER NIGHT is a novella in the LIQUID COOL sci-fi/cyberpunk detective series. It's a world of colossal skyscrapers. Hovercars fly above in the dark, rainy skies and gray people walk below on the grimy, hard streets in the "Neon Jungle." Uber-governments and megacorporations fight for control of the super-city, but so does crime. In the distance, I could see the light show of red and blue flashing sirens. Did this mean that the official days of “cyber summer” had begun? The season of summer was a relative term in Metropolis, since it rained all the time. Metropolis had its crime: tech hustlers, neon gangsters, samurai street soldiers, cyborg psychos, etc. “Cyber summer” was that time of the year when the “normal” mayhem of the streets increased. I was in one of three professions that lived in the mayhem: police, hospitals, and private detectives like me. There are a million victims and perpetrators in this High-Tech, Low-Life World. "I was headed to see the client and as long as I avoided any laser-gun shootouts, I’d consider the night a good one."

Author : Maggie Nelson
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0393343146
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Cruelty written by Maggie Nelson and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2012-08-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is criticism at its best." —Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times Writing in the tradition of Susan Sontag and Elaine Scarry, Maggie Nelson has emerged as one of our foremost cultural critics with this landmark work about representations of cruelty and violence in art. From Sylvia Plath’s poetry to Francis Bacon’s paintings, from the Saw franchise to Yoko Ono’s performance art, Nelson’s nuanced exploration across the artistic landscape ultimately offers a model of how one might balance strong ethical convictions with an equally strong appreciation for work that tests the limits of taste, taboo, and permissibility.

Author : Jacey K Dew
Publisher : Crimson Notebook Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1738771083
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cruel Souls written by Jacey K Dew and published by Crimson Notebook Publishing. This book was released on 2024-07-31 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consequences from last night must be dealt with. With so much unknown, questions must be answered. The search for answers brings unintended consequences. Rayleen may have survived the kidnapping, but a soul transfer is a whole other struggle. Dominique does her best to guide her family through changes, while planning her own future. Jaiden reunites with someone from her past. Will they bring joy or terror, or something in-between?