Angela Stoldt had anger issues...One day she became so enraged at her neighbor that she stabbed him to death. She then placed several of his body parts in her oven and stove in an effort to cremate him...When her hare-brained scheme didn't work, she enlisted the aid of her own children to scatter her neighbor's body parts around them advising them to tell anyone who asked that the body parts were "from a deer"...She remains one of the most uncouth and violent female killers in recent memor...

**A NEW YORK TIMESBEST BOOK OF THE YEAR SO FAR • A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE • In this masterful, groundbreaking work, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Heather Ann Thompson shines surprising new light on an infamous 1984 New York subway shooting that would unveil simmering racial resentments and would lead, in unexpected ways, to a fractured future and a new era of rage and violence."A gripping and powerful account of one of the 20th century...

Conceived out of wedlock, Ann was just two months old when placed in the care of a Catholic orphanage. From the beginning, she was taught her mother was sinful and that she would be too unless the devil was beaten from her soul. She was sexually abused from an early age and forced to work long hours on the orphanage farm. At night, three or four nuns performed the grisly ritual of stripping Ann naked, tying her to the four posts of a bed and savagely attacking her with belts, hoops and sti...

Ann just two months old when she was placed in a Catholic orphanage in Christchurch, New Zealand. She was physically and sexually abused by religious and lay staff at the orphanage and forced to work long hours on the orphanage farm and laundries. This is one of the first books to look at abuse within New Zealand Catholic institutions. I was stolen from my mother arms by St Vincent De Paul who were working for the nuns. I was abused from 18months right through until I left at the age of 25...

...distills a wealth of information and online resources into a slender, handy volume that’s brimming with hands-on procedures conveyed in lucid, straightforward prose. [The author] writes in plain, moving terms of the possibility of love and bonding that comes with caring for a loved one. — Kirkus Reviews Written by a certified death doula, Whole Soul Caregiving is a pithy and powerful book full of practical tips, compassionate advice, and personal anecdotes to help you provide better car...

My childhood abuse in the orphanage, is New Zealand's shameful, dirty secret of physical, mental and sexual abuse of innocent children by nuns, lay staff, the older girls and the priest and bullying at two orphanages in Christchurch New Zealand. From the age of five to ten old I was made to work on their farm and laundry at Mount Magdala – St. Joseph Girls Orphanage then from ten to nineteen years old I worked in the Nazareth house kitchen and laundry. I was conceived out of wedlock, becau...

A "freeze frame" volume showcasing the range of current debate and ideas surrounding one of the most familiar of Shakespeare's tragedies. Each chapter has been carefully selected for its originality and relevance to the needs of students, teachers and researchers. Key themes and topics covered include:The Text and its StatusHistory and TopicalityCritical Approaches and Close ReadingAdaptation and AfterlifeAll the essays offer new perspectives and combin...

This book is meant to be used as a tool to get you started on creating a daily habit as you start to walk with God. It can be used as a stand-alone guide or in conjunction with a journal. It contains 30 scriptural verses focused to help you on a personal walk, a walk within your marriage, and a walk within your family.

This title was first published in 2003. 'The art of suffering' is one of many strands of literature on suffering published in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This book explores through the art of suffering the way in which the meaning for suffering, which the seventeenth century inherited from the Middle Ages and which centres on the role of suffering as a manifestation of the hand of God in the process of salvation, is refined and enhanced by successive puritan writers only to cr...

The Meadow is a story of how love can cross the barrier of time and space to unite two people and ultimately sort life into its proper place. The Meadow is an imaginary place that Amy created in a meditation exercise; or is it really? The meadow belongs to Dan and it is his favorite place in all the world to be. They meet and love in the wonderful meadow, but something is not quite right. It takes a sketch of the meadow to bring them to the realization that they are not living at the same ...

Stretch and swim like a garter snake with this adorable, STEM nonfiction picture book, part of a series that encourages very young readers to learn—through gentle interactivity and play—about the animals who share their worldStretch, bend, twist! You may haves seen a small, slim garter snake disappear between rocks or flowers. Did you know that garter snakes spray smelly stuff to scare off predators, sniff with their tongues, and cuddle together for winter...

Elizabeth Scott had never wanted to write a book. She had never even considered such a thing, but suddenly one day she found her head full of ideas about a love so deep and profound that it could span time and unite lovers. She felt compelled to write it down. The more she wrote the more ideas just came to her. She would wake in the night with thoughts and conversations that she had to write in the book. Finally it was fi nished and published. Just a short, time-travel love story, but it h...