A Missing Mother

Download or read book Mother, Missing written by Joyce Carol Oates and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2005 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of America's best loved and most prolific novelists: the story of a woman coming to terms with the violent death of her mother, and uncovering all the hidden secrets stowed away over the years. Nikki Eaton is a journalist on the local newspaper. She loves wearing short skirts and nail polish. She's having an affair with a married man, and every time she visits her mother, she feels pangs of guilt for the lifestyle she leads. One day her life is turned upside-down. Worried because her mother hasn't returned her phone-calls, she drives over to her childhood home, only to discover her mother has been murdered and lies stone-cold on the garage floor. From this catalclysmic event unfolds the next year of Nikki's life as she reassess her relationship with her mother and discovers secrets about her past which reveal the cracks in the comfortable, suburban existence her family has built up around itself. This is a dark and unsettling novel from one of America's finest writers.

Download or read book Missing Mothers written by Martha Bordwell and published by Crooked Lake Press. This book was released on 2019-04 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martha is 6 when her mother dies during childbirth. Martha never stops missing her mother. Buoyed by marriage to her college sweetheart, she anticipates becoming a mother herself. But infertility threatens that dream, so she and her husband enter the unfamiliar territory when they adopt infants from South Korea and Guatemala.

Download or read book Missing Mommy written by Rebecca Cobb and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daddy comforts and reassures a very young boy after Mommy dies.

Download or read book Local Woman Missing written by Mary Kubica and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller "Dark and twisty, with white-knuckle tension and jaw-dropping surprises." —Riley Sager, New York Times bestselling author of Home Before Dark In this smart and chilling thriller, master of suspense Mary Kubica, author of Just the Nicest Couple, takes domestic secrets to a whole new level, showing that some people will stop at nothing to keep the truth buried. People don't just disappear without a trace… Shelby Tebow is the first to go missing. Not long after, Meredith Dickey and her six-year-old daughter, Delilah, vanish just blocks away from where Shelby was last seen, striking fear into their once-peaceful community. Are these incidents connected? After an elusive search that yields more questions than answers, the case eventually goes cold. Now, eleven years later, Delilah shockingly returns. Everyone wants to know what happened to her, but no one is prepared for what they'll find… Don't miss Mary Kubica's chilling upcoming novel, She's Not Sorry, where an ICU nurse accidentally uncovers a patient's frightening past... Look for these other edge-of-your-seat thrillers by New York Times bestselling author Mary Kubica: The Good Girl Pretty Baby Don’t You Cry Every Last Lie When the Lights Go Out The Other Mrs. Just The Nicest Couple She's Not Sorry

Download or read book The Search for Mother Missing written by Janine Vance and published by Adoption Truth & Transparency. This book was released on with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can't travel yet? Let's go to Korea! In this contemporary tale detailing a two-week trip that explores intercountry adoption from South Korea, twin sisters naively travel to their birth city of Seoul in search of their Korean family. Little incidents along the way serve as a catalyst, leading them into a worldwide modern-day adoptee-rights movement seeking truth and transparency. The intent of this book is to inspire and uplift anyone who has been removed from their birth family to know that there is a community of like-minded individuals who've experienced the same circumstances.

Download or read book Missing Mom written by Daniel L. Murphy and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an odd and twisting true story about kidnapping, robbery, and murder; and yet it is strangely uplifting. This true story begins on a sunny July morning in 2003, just outside of Flint Michigan, when an eighty year old grandmother has mysteriously disappeared from the face of the earth. Days later the charred remains of her car were identified, after being completely destroyed by an intentional fire; but she was nowhere to be found. She was my mom...

Download or read book A Mother’s Tears for a Missing Son written by Dolly Hills and published by Publication Consultants. This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Mother's Tears for a Missing Son is a first hand account of my personal journey when my son mysteriously disappears in remote Alaska wilderness. It describes the adventures of a free spirited young man who lived on the edge of life and whose choices brought him and his family to an unforeseen outcome of bizarre twists and turns. The expansiveness of the environment offers a setting where the unexpected can happen at a moment's notice. A Mother's Tears for a Missing Son is a story of hope, faith, and trust, with a determination to never give up. I struggled to maintain endurance and courage, through an intense time of grief. As the story unravels, I realized the many opportunities for growth as I navigated my way through a devastating experience with resilience and came to understand the need to fully embrace and process the grief – while enduring personal tragedy. Ultimately, a sense of peace predominates.