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A young girl at the mercy of her abusive stepfather and the religious community that protects him - Bad Things in the Night is a moving true story of pain and triumph. As a child Beth was imprisoned within a Jehovah's Witness family, kept away from her mother, forbidden from wearing a school skirt above her knees by day, abused by her stepfather at night. Years later, when she summons the courage to report her stepfather to the police for the first time, she is forced to relieve her childhood torment. Will Beth's fight for justice be worth the suffering reawakened?
Beth Ellis wrote this popular book that continues to be widely read today despite its age.
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When the hallowed halls of academia become the stage for murder, newly appointed Dean Beth Ellis's search for the truth leads her to unexpected discoveries about her own heart. For Beth Ellis, Grafton College and its faculty and students are her home and family. But the president of the college rubs everyone the wrong way, the new English professor on campus isn't much more popular, and Beth has her hands full trying to keep the peace as various campus factions quarrel. Still, she didn't expect a tenure battle to end in murder. Sally Sullivan left the Chicago police homicide division and returned to her hometown where, as chief of police, she expected her greatest challenges to be dealing wi...
"An English Girl's First Impressions of Burmah" by Beth Ellis is a travelogue and commentary of Burma from the perspective of a privileged girl from England. As a young traveler, Ellis' ideas weren't altered or tainted by politics or social understandings that plague adults. Instead, her views are innocent, happy, and well-meaning, which gives the book a charming and, at times, humorous tone that made it a success among young readers.
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Author Mary Beth Ellis took an unusual route to her college degree-through a Catholic women's college. At Saint Mary's College of Notre Dame, IN, she faces her first date, first roommate, and first drink. An amusing, engaging literary memoir.