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The compelling and disturbing true story of Vanessa George and the evil abuse she doled out upon the children of more than 300 families. As a nursery worker, wife and mother, she was a figure to place trust in. Yet her adulterous relationship and sick love triangle with Colin Blanchard and Angela Allen drew her into a dark world of violence and sexual abuse. To compete for Blanchard's attention she would do everything in her power to impress him, even if this meant committing unspeakable acts of sexual violence on children as young as two years old. What could have driven a mother to betray not only her daughters and loving husband, but the very families who entrusted her with their children...
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Thirty-something India native Mina Kumar returns to her former home of Madison, Ohio, to face her tragic past and move forward with her life. Everything is going well for Mina-she has a new job, a new home, and a new love. After securing a position as a secretary at a law firm, Mina is set up by her boss on a blind date with attorney Rob James. The relationship progresses quickly, and the two are soon engaged. But Mina hears things from Rob's friends and family that cause her to doubt him. She must learn the truth about Rob before she repeats the mistakes from her past and becomes a victim of abuse again. Told through a combination of telephone conversations, e-mail messages, and diary entries, this fascinating story of lies, deception, and cruelty takes you through one woman's journey to redemption.
This book explores the morality of love and sex, and how distortions of these sometimes develop into abuse. Hayes argues that there are strong similarities between different kinds of abusive relationships, and that these similarities arise out of the common narratives surrounding romantic love and the logic of intimate relationships.
Cheesemaker Joe Galletti has lost everything - except his belly, his taste buds and his well-appointed kitchen. As Joe's life is all about his ripening cheeses, his neighbors' lives are all about trying to hide their passions - some of them illicit, some illegal, and some creatively immoral...
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When the customers of the River Heights pharmacy take seriously ill after being delivered their medicine, Nancy is convinced that sabotage is involved and searches for the deadly drug.
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In nineteenth-century England, marriage between first cousins was both legally permitted and perfectly acceptable. After mid-century, laws did not explicitly penalize sexual relationships between parents and children, between siblings, or between grandparents and grandchildren. But for a widower to marry his deceased wife's sister was illegal on the grounds that it constituted incest. That these laws and the mores they reflect strike us today as wrongheaded indicates how much ideas about kinship, marriage, and incest have changed. In Family Likeness, Mary Jean Corbett shows how the domestic fiction of novelists including Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Vi...