If Ridley Jones had slept ten minutes later or had taken the subway instead of waiting for a cab, she would still be living the beautiful lie she used to call her life. She would still be the privileged daughter of a doting father and a loving mother. Her life would still be perfect--with only the tiny cracks of an angry junkie for a brother and a charming drunk with shady underworld connections for an uncle to mar the otherwise flawless whole. But that's not what happened. Instead, those inconsequential decisions lead her to perform a good deed that puts her in the right place at the...
If Ridley Jones had slept ten minutes later or had taken the subway instead of waiting for a cab, she would still be living the beautiful lie she used...
The highly anticipated follow-up to the New York Times bestseller Beautiful Lies. Charged with relentless intensity and kinetic action, and playing out with unnerving suspense on the streets of New York and London, Sliver of Truth delves deep into the shadowy world of Ridley Jones, a terrified but determined young woman at once hunting down a ghost from her past and running for her life.
The highly anticipated follow-up to the New York Times bestseller Beautiful Lies. Charged with relentless intensity and kinetic acti...
When Ridley Jones steps off a New York street corner to save the life of a young child, she is thrown into a world of violence, deception & fear. Her world is turned upside down. But just as she has a chance to pick up the pieces another seemingly ordinary act leads her into dark territory she never knew existed.
When Ridley Jones steps off a New York street corner to save the life of a young child, she is thrown into a world of violence, deception & fear. Her ...
Love hurts. Sometimes it even kills. It's like any other day in New York for freelance writer Ridley Jones. She collects some prints from her local photo lab expecting nothing more than a set of routine photographs. But when she looks more closely a shadowy figure of a man appears in almost every picture she's taken in the last year.
Love hurts. Sometimes it even kills. It's like any other day in New York for freelance writer Ridley Jones. She collects some prints from her local ph...
On the surface, Annie's life in a wealthy Florida suburb is happy. Her husband, Gray, loves her fiercely; together, they dote on their beautiful young daughter, Victory. But the bubble surrounding Annie is pricked when the demons of her past resurface. These are demons she can't fully recall because of a highly dissociative state that allowed her to forget the violence of her earlier life as Ophelia March and to start over, under Gray's protection, as Annie Powers. Disturbing events--the appearance of a familiar dark figure on the beach, the mysterious murder of her psychologist--trigger...
On the surface, Annie's life in a wealthy Florida suburb is happy. Her husband, Gray, loves her fiercely; together, they dote on their beautiful young...
Isabel Raine thought she had everything-a successful career, a supportive family, and a happy marriage to the man she loved. Then one ordinary morning, her husband, Marcus, picks up his briefcase, kisses her good-bye, and simply vanishes. That day, all her calls to him go straight to voice mail; the messages she leaves at his office go unreturned, too. Panicking after finally receiving a call from his cell phone in which all she can hear is a man's terrified cry, Isabel calls the police. But they aren't interested. Men leave, they tell her. They leave all the time. Desperate to find her...
Isabel Raine thought she had everything-a successful career, a supportive family, and a happy marriage to the man she loved. Then one ordinary morning...
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Padagogik - Padagogische Soziologie, Note: 1,7, Technische Universitat Dortmund, Veranstaltung: Hauptseminar: Sozialgeschichte, 15 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In dieser Hausarbeit werden folgende Fragen behandelt: Wie hat sich die Kindheit und Jugend in den letzten Jahrhunderten verandert, was sind die Ursachen dafur, wie sind die Begriffe "Kindheit" und "Jugend" uberhaupt entstanden und was haben sie heute fur einen Wert in unserer Gesellschaft? Insgesamt geht es in dieser Hausarbeit um den Vergleich von fruher...
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Padagogik - Padagogische Soziologie, Note: 1,7, Technische Universitat Dortmund, Veranstaltung: Hauptse...
A thrilling novel from New York Times bestselling author Lisa Unger about the hunt for a missing girl and one community's intricate yet fragile bonds. Everybody knows everybody in The Hollows, a quaint, charming town outside of New York City. It's a place where neighbors keep an eye on one another's kids, where people say hello in the grocery store, and where high school cliques and antics are never quite forgotten. As a child, Maggie found living under the microscope of small-town life stifling. But as a wife and mother, she has happily returned to The Hollows's insular...
A thrilling novel from New York Times bestselling author Lisa Unger about the hunt for a missing girl and one community's intricate yet f...
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich Sport - Sportpadagogik, Didaktik, Note: keine, Technische Universitat Dortmund (Sportpadagogik), Veranstaltung: Einfuhrung in die Sportpadagogik und -didaktik, 12 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In der heutigen Zeit haben Jugendliche meiner Ansicht nach mit vielen Aufgaben und Problemen zu kampfen, unter anderem mit sich selbst - also ihrem Selbstkonzept. Sie stecken in einer Phase voller Erwartungen, Anforderungen und Widerspruchen und sind auf der Suche nach einer eigenen Identitat. Mit Sicherheit ist dies keine...
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich Sport - Sportpadagogik, Didaktik, Note: keine, Technische Universitat Dortmund (Sportpadagogik), Verans...
Fresh from a tour promoting her last case, reclusive true crime writer Lydia Strong receives an anonymous cry for help, begging her to find and protect Tatiana Quinn, "and all the other girls in need of rescue." Maybe the plea strikes close to her heart; maybe her investigator's intuition starts buzzing. She takes it on. But this simple case of a missing teenager soon becomes much more. Someone wants Lydia to drop the case, someone powerful, someone anxious enough to engineer the reappearance of one of Lydia's first--and most dangerous--adversaries. Now, in addition to tracing the roots...
Fresh from a tour promoting her last case, reclusive true crime writer Lydia Strong receives an anonymous cry for help, begging her to find and protec...
