Woman with Birthmark

Woman with Birthmark

Author: Hakan Nesser

Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

Published: 2009-04-14

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 030737811X

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International Bestseller Chief Inspector Van Veeteren is on the case once more in this breathless thriller of deception, blackmail, and cold murder. Van Veeteren and his associates are left bewildered by the curious murder of a man shot twice in the heart and twice below the belt. An utterly dull man, the only suspicious activity his surviving wife can report is a series of peculiar phone calls. Repeatedly the telephone would ring, offering no answer but an obscure pop song from the 1960s. This siren song would be linked to an identical murder, but the true connection remains unknown. With a cool, critical eye, Van Veeteren pursues his subject across the country, wading through outrageous leads and fruitless tips in this chilling mystery from master crime novelist Håkan Nesser.


The Birthmark

The Birthmark

Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2023-12-28

Total Pages: 147

ISBN-13:

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The Birthmark deals with the husband's deeply negative obsession of his wife's outer appearances and what does that entail for these two young couples. The birthmark represents various things throughout the story. Two of the main representations are imperfection and mortality. American novelist and short story writer Nathaniel Hawthorne's (1804–1864) writing centers on New England, many works featuring moral allegories with a Puritan inspiration. Hawthorne has also written a few poems which many people are not aware of. His works are considered to be part of the Romantic movement and, more specifically, Dark romanticism. His themes often centre on the inherent evil and sin of humanity, and his works often have moral messages and deep psychological complexity.


The Gate of Remembrance

The Gate of Remembrance

Author: Frederick Bligh Bond

Publisher:

Published: 1918

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13:

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"Richard Beere, 1493-1524. Began Edgar Chapel; built crypt under Lady Chapel and dedicated it to St Joseph; built a chapel of the Holy Sepulchre at south end of nave; built the Loretto chapel; added vaulting under central tower and flying buttresses at east end of choir; built St Benignus' Church and rebuilt Tribunal. Richard Whiting, 1525-1539. Completed Edgar Chapel."--Wikipedia.


Sam's Birthmark

Sam's Birthmark

Author: Martha Griffin

Publisher: Griffin Group Publishing

Published: 2013-02-28

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780692019207

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A story about a boy with a birthmark and how every child in the world is unique and special in their own way.


Birthmark

Birthmark

Author: Lorraine Dusky

Publisher: M Evans & Company

Published: 1979

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13: 9780871312990

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Marked for life emotionally, intellectually, and politically by her baby's birth twelve years ago, the author tells of her obsession with finding the daughter whom she gave away and has never seen


Woman with Birthmark

Woman with Birthmark

Author: Håkan Nesser

Publisher: MacMillan

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780333989876

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Inspector Van Veeteren and his associates are left bewildered by the curious murder of man shot twice in the heart and twice below the belt. Revenge seems to be the motive in a chilling tale of deception, blackmail and murder.


Birthmark

Birthmark

Author:

Publisher: Dewlogic

Published:

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 0983022194

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With a few handwritten notes Chellise Harvey, a New York Editor inherited from her Aunt Ella, her simple life takes a defining turn. It is the first of four true chronicles of a series of unfortunate incidences stepping from a single act of rape - that of her great-great grandmother Ophelia in 1891 by an Irish rail worker. It is a story "the sisters," her Aunts Tia, Ronella and her mother doesn't want her to know. Getting the pieces will be difficult, especially from her Aunt Tia, the conservative who denies the tragic events ever happened. But Chellise refuses to let the past alone. She’ll chase generations down the line to her own and that of another - a Matt Sweeney, direct descendant of the rapist. They’ll begin a dance that would eventually prove traumatic. Wrapped in the 1891 crime, it will become too late for her to realize that preventing another would be impossible? A new deadlier secret is born and the relationship between her and the sisters is tested.


Birthmarks

Birthmarks

Author: Sandra Lee Patton

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2000-11

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 0814766811

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"[An] empathetic study of the meanings of cross-racial adoption to adoptees."—Law and Politics Book Review Can White parents teach their Black children African American culture and history? Can they impart to them the survival skills necessary to survive in the racially stratified United States? Concerns over racial identity have been at the center of controversies over transracial adoption since the 1970s, as questions continually arise about whether White parents are capable of instilling a positive sense of African American identity in their Black children. Through in-depth interviews with adult transracial adoptees, as well as with social workers in adoption agencies, Sandra Patton, herself an adoptee, explores the social construction of race, identity, gender, and family and the ways in which these interact with public policy about adoption. Patton offers a compelling overview of the issues at stake in transracial adoption. She discusses recent changes in adoption and social welfare policy which prohibit consideration of race in the placement of children, as well as public policy definitions of "bad mothers" which can foster coerced aspects of adoption, to show how the lives of transracial adoptees have been shaped by the policies of the U.S. child welfare system. Neither an argument for nor against the practice of transracial adoption, BirthMarks seeks to counter the dominant public view of this practice as a panacea to the so-called "epidemic" of illegitimacy and the misfortune of infertility among the middle class with a more nuanced view that gives voice to those directly involved, shedding light on the ways in which Black and multiracial adoptees articulate their own identity experiences.


The Birth-Mark

The Birth-Mark

Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2017-02-21

Total Pages: 24

ISBN-13: 9781543257793

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Aylmer is a brilliant and recognized scientist and philosopher who has dropped his focus from his career and experiments to marry the beautiful Georgiana (who is physically perfect except for a small red birthmark in the shape of a hand on her cheek). As the story progresses, Aylmer becomes unnaturally obsessed with the birthmark on Georgiana's cheek. One night, he dreams of cutting the birthmark out of his wife's cheek and then continuing all the way to her heart. He does not remember this dream until Georgiana asks about what his sleep-talking meant. When Aylmer remembers the details of his dream, Georgiana declares that she would risk her life having the birthmark removed from her cheek rather than to continue to endure Aylmer's horror and distress that comes upon him when he sees her.


Birthmarked

Birthmarked

Author: Caragh M. O'Brien

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2011-04-28

Total Pages: 371

ISBN-13: 0857071408

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A stunning adventure brought to life by a memorable heroine, this dystopian debut will have readers racing all the way to the dramatic finish. In the future, in a world baked dry by the harsh sun, there are those who live inside the walled Enclave and those, like sixteen-year-old Gaia Stone, who live outside. Following in her mother's footsteps Gaia has become a midwife, delivering babies in the world outside the wall and handing a quota over to be 'advanced' into the privileged society of the Enclave. Gaia has always believed this is her duty, until the night her mother and father are arrested by the very people they so loyally serve. Now Gaia is forced to question everything she has been taught, but her choice is simple: enter the world of the Enclave to rescue her parents, or die trying. Praise for Birthmarked: 'Readers who enjoy adventures with a strong heroine standing up to authority against the odds will enjoy this compelling tale.' School Library Journal 'Reminiscent of both 1984 and a Brave New World, this gripping page-turner is a perfect intro to futuristic, dystopian fiction . . . Readers accompany the novel's inspiring heroine on an undertaking brimming with danger, intrigue, and romance.' Education.com Also by Caragh M. O'Brien: Prized Promised