A collection of seventeen intriguing and mind-bending short stories that appeal to readers of crime stories and detective novels, parents of children, lovers of life, letter writers, dentists, and any one in between. The author, Susanna Piontek, was born in Bytom, Poland and immigrated to Germany in 1965. She earned an M.A. at Bochum University, specializing in language pedagogy research, history, and American studies. After working at the University of Saarbrucken for several years, she completed her education as a broadcast editor at a journalism school. Her works have been published in book form, anthologies, and magazines in Germany, the U.S., Israel, and Albania. Since 2006 Piontek is living in the United States as a freelance writer.
A woman lures predators into a deadly trap in this “stunning” novel of victim turned vigilante (Book Reader Magazine). When Rebecca's childhood abuser avoids prosecution, it sets her on a path to revenge and soon she is handing out retribution on any man who preys on the innocent. Twenty-three-year-old Rebecca poses as a child online and sets her trap, luring one sex offender after another to their deaths. Her thirst for revenge began when her childhood abuser succeeded in avoiding prosecution—and now she is handing out retribution on any man who preys on the innocent. When a severed head is found washed up on a windswept estuary beach, DI Gravel and his team are called in to investigate. In what might be his toughest case yet, DI Gravel finds himself asking if vigilante justice is ever justified . . . Previously published under the title A Mind to Kill, Before I Met Him is part of the DI Gravel series, though it can easily be read as a stand-alone novel.
Have We Met Before By: Zinah Brown Romantic drama brings two strangers together through the process of organ donation. Divine intervention and love at first sight. Excitement, laughter, and love that develops between two strangers. The possibilities exist for someone who is looking for love – and love finds them when they least expect it. When you place yourself in a situation when your common sense tells you to stop and your heart tells you to go, your friend will be there, no matter what.
From its first edition in 1979, Perspectives in Sociology has provided generations of undergraduates with a clear, reassuring introduction to the complications of sociological theory. This revised and updated edition features: a concise introduction to the major debates of the twentieth century, placing them in historical and philosophical context information on thinkers of the nineteenth and early twentieth century whose relevance to modern social thought is only now being recognized, e.g. Nietszche, Saussure, Simmel connections drawn between post-structuralist thinkers like Foucault and Derrida and the founding figures of sociology: Marx, Weber and Durkheim a completely rewritten chapter on the ‘Synthesisers’ - Bourdieu, Habermas and Giddens - and their attempts to generate a consensus from the apparently conflicting theories of their predecessors a new chapter reviewing the rise of British sociology, with particular reference to the political context and the changing role of ‘class’ in sociological thinking a new chapter describing the attempts of sociological theorists to explain current concerns, problems, and issues in the areas of gender, (homo)sexuality, and ethnicity in the context of the postcolonial world. While retaining its emphasis and wealth of information on the founding figures of sociology, this fifth edition now features a new easy-to-read format, (with particular attention paid to the linking and cross-referencing of chapters), and includes much new material on contemporary social theory with particular reference to its attempts to tackle current problems and issues in the areas of gender, sexuality, and ethnicity in the postcolonial context.
Offers practical advice to retirees while challenging them to approach this period of life with fidelity to the inner values of their hearts, so they can truly live with purpose in later life.
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