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Author : Megan Miranda
Release : 2016-06-28
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 968/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis All the Missing Girls by : Megan Miranda
Download or read book All the Missing Girls written by Megan Miranda. This book was released on 2016-06-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A...story about the disappearances of two young women--a decade apart--told in reverse"--Amazon.com.
Author : Rick Watson
Release : 2007-01-02
Genre : Family & Relationships
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 611/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Missing Girls by : Rick Watson
Download or read book The Missing Girls written by Rick Watson. This book was released on 2007-01-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Linda O'Neal recounts the events surrounding the 2002 disappearance of her step-granddaughter and her best friend, and shares what her private investigation has revealed about the case.
Author : John James Kennedy
Release : 2019
Genre : Political Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 423/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Lost and Found by : John James Kennedy
Download or read book Lost and Found written by John James Kennedy. This book was released on 2019. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1979, the Chinese government famously introduced The Single Child Policy to control population growth. Nearly 40 years later, the result is an estimated 20 million "missing girls" in the population from 1980-2010. In Lost and Found, John James Kennedy and Yaojiang Shi focus on village-level implementation of the one-child policy and the level of mutual-noncompliance between officials and rural families. Through in-depth interviews with rural parents and local leaders, they reveal that many had strong incentives not to comply with the birth control policy because larger families meant increased labor and income. In this sober exploration of China's Single Child Policy throughout the reform period, the authors more broadly show how governance by grassroots cadres with greater local autonomy has affected China in the past and the challenges for resolving center-versus-locality contradictions in governance that lie ahead.
Author : Julia Phillips
Release : 2019-05-14
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 422/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Disappearing Earth by : Julia Phillips
Download or read book Disappearing Earth written by Julia Phillips. This book was released on 2019-05-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of The New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year National Book Award Finalist Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize Finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Finalist for the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award National Best Seller "Splendidly imagined . . . Thrilling" --Simon Winchester "A genuine masterpiece" --Gary Shteyngart Spellbinding, moving--evoking a fascinating region on the other side of the world--this suspenseful and haunting story announces the debut of a profoundly gifted writer. One August afternoon, on the shoreline of the Kamchatka peninsula at the northeastern edge of Russia, two girls--sisters, eight and eleven--go missing. In the ensuing weeks, then months, the police investigation turns up nothing. Echoes of the disappearance reverberate across a tightly woven community, with the fear and loss felt most deeply among its women. Taking us through a year in Kamchatka, Disappearing Earth enters with astonishing emotional acuity the worlds of a cast of richly drawn characters, all connected by the crime: a witness, a neighbor, a detective, a mother. We are transported to vistas of rugged beauty--densely wooded forests, open expanses of tundra, soaring volcanoes, and the glassy seas that border Japan and Alaska--and into a region as complex as it is alluring, where social and ethnic tensions have long simmered, and where outsiders are often the first to be accused. In a story as propulsive as it is emotionally engaging, and through a young writer's virtuosic feat of empathy and imagination, this powerful novel brings us to a new understanding of the intricate bonds of family and community, in a Russia unlike any we have seen before.
Author : Lois Metzger
Release : 2001-01
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 832/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Missing Girls by : Lois Metzger
Download or read book Missing Girls written by Lois Metzger. This book was released on 2001-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During eighth grade, Carrie moves in with her grandmother, becomes friends with an withdrawn classmate, and comes to terms with her mother's death.
