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La Promise: Rachel, la mystique
Margaret Papillon
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2012
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Ha ti ann es 1978-2004 - Rachel Assali, fille de Rudolph Assali, un grand homme d'affaires d'origine palestinienne et de Rebecca Berthold, est issue de la haute bourgeoisie de P tion-Ville, a 25 ans et n'est toujours pas mari e contrairement toutes les demoiselles de la famille. Pourtant, elle est belle damner un saint. On ne lui conna t aucune aventure et ce fait inqui te beaucoup sa grand-m re maternelle. Les c libataires les plus en vue du pays, la laissent totalement indiff rente. Apr s de brillantes tudes l' tranger, elle tait revenue plus blouissante que jamais, mais aussi sans aucun d sir de se caser. Son p re est un homme influent qui r ve de se lancer dans la politique. La chambre de commerce dont il fait partie organise souvent de fastueuses f tes et c'est au cours de l'une d'entre elles, chez Laurent Schomberg et son pouse Amanda, des amis intimes de ses parents, que la jeune femme va faire la connaissance de Charles Lindsay; le s duisant diplomate, Charg d'affaires de l'ambassade am ricaine Port-au-Prince qui assure l'int rim au poste d'ambassa- deur, car le titulaire de ce poste a t victime d'une crise cardiaque qui le force faire une tr s longue convalescence. Elle semble ne pas tre indiff rente la cour que lui fait le jeune homme tomb amoureux d'elle d s le premier jour de leur rencontre. Mais, Charly d couvre tr s vite que l'attitude un peu froide que lui oppose Rachel, qui pourtant lui rend ses sentiments, est li e un terrible secret. Rachel est une promise aux loas du panth on vaudou. Elle est mystique. vingt mille lieux du syncr tisme religieux qui a cours dans l' le, Charly se croit assez fort pour vaincre toutes les adversit s. Il est m me pr t se battre contre les esprits pour vivre avec celle qu'il aime. Mais est-il au courant de la force et de la puissance de ces loas jaloux et vindicatifs ? Sait-il quel genre de tourments il s'expose ? Dans une Ha ti faite de sensualit et de pr jug s de toutes sortes, Charles Lindsay va tre plong dans un univers tout fait fantastique o la r alit se confond avec le r ve. L' le aux mille passions se r v lera lui de mani re tonnante. Le mysticisme et la politique qui r gnent en ma tre dans la vie de chaque habitant de ce pays auront-ils raison de lui ?La promise, un roman plein de volupt et de sensualit qui vous emportera sur les ailes du plaisir dans le pays de toutes les tentations
Murder at Rutherford Hall: Rachel Markham Mystery Series
P. B. Kolleri
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2013
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The Holocaust Scream: Rachel Rosenberg - Nazi Concentration Camp Survivor - The Holocaust and That Scream
Robert Urban M. D.
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2013
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Are you ready to meet the Polish Anne Frank who survived? Rachel Rosenberg is a Holocaust survivor of 4 Nazi concentration camps. Learn about her remarkable experience during the Holocaust and its long-term aftereffects. Some of Rachel's struggles within the Nazi SS final solution were similar to the tragic experience of Anne Frank. Both found poignant but fleeting young love. Each had an attic experience and both were chronicler-victims of World War 2. While Anne Frank survives in her diary, Rachel survived and is telling her story.Rachel endured 6 long years in Hitler's death camps. Rachel's remarkable saga didn't end with her liberation at the end of World War 2. Rachel had lost her idyllic community, her strong Jewish spiritual roots, her adolescence and most of her immediate family. So thorough and diabolical was the Nazi Holocaust that Rachel even lost her birthday Rachel tells us about those terrible personal moments in the camps when Life and Love struggled against Death personified. On one of these struggles with Death, Rachel's Love experienced that scream. That powerful Holocaust Scream is her biggest hurt. You can find out about that scream for yourself. Prepare to cry.Rachel was clever and resourceful. She was able to hide in the camps. How could she do that? You will find out.When the camp gates were finally thrust open, Rachel had to reconnect to all those things that we take for granted. It wasn't easy. Rachel had to take charge in order to get through the post-war turmoil. Rachel became a beacon of help to many in need. Rachel and her husband Carl were interviewed by movie director Steven Spielberg. Some of her concentration camp and ghetto experiences served as background for the movie, "Schindler's List."Learn about Rachel's encounters with Nazis in the United States.Rachel is witty and charming. Her attitude toward her Holocaust experience is truly remarkable. Find out how Rachel feels about the German people.Rachel is an example of the "leading lady" persona. What does it mean to be a "leading lady?"Rachel's story unfolds like a kaleidoscope of images. There is a rhythm to her story, one that defies organization. The rhythm creates a remarkable connection with the reader. You will sense the rhythm as you resonate with it. Get ready.The story includes several dialogues with Rachel. In the dialogues, Rachel tells her story in her own words as much as possible. These dialogues reveal Rachel's keen memory, insight, honesty and vulnerability.Rachel has some advice for those who may be in terrible circumstances. You can meet this remarkable women and follow the gripping tale of her life's struggles. It's time for you to meet Rachel. Come on in.
Blind Malice: A Rachel Myers Murder Mystery
Annis Ward Jackson
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2013
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In Blind Malice, first in a series of 10 murder mysteries set along the Blue Ridge Parkway in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina, Annis Ward Jackson introduces Rachel Myers, a native of the area who has come home from Arizona for her father's funeral. The service is barely over when questions surrounding his death and his financial affairs begin to pile up.Old friends help Myers in her quest but in the final act, she must go it alone against an opponent who has had decades to hone his desire for vengeance.Myers is not a professional detective but her natural ability for solving intricate puzzles, her tenacity, and her faith in that little spark that says she's on the right track, enable her to uncover shocking secrets from her father's past and come face to face with the menace that led to his death.Some praise for this series: CleanReadingMimi.com says: "This is a great series for mystery buffs The author is really good at weaving the story and setting up the characters so you care deeply about each of them."Readmedeadly.com says: "For nature lovers, Annis Ward Jackson's Rachel Myers series, set in the Blue Ridge mountains of Appalachia, can be as addictive as popcorn
Christmas Tree Wars: Rachel Myers Murder Mysteries
Annis Ward Jackson
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2013
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The New River Blues: Rachel Myers Murder Mysteries
Annis Ward Jackson
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2013
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THE NEW RIVER BLUES, fourth in Annis Ward Jackson's Rachel Myers Murder Mystery series, finds the amateur and reluctant detective plunged into an investigation with international implications.All Rachel wants is a few quiet Saturdays at home. What she gets is murder.The wild and scenic New River in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina is threatened by mysterious polluters and Rachel's friend and fellow musician makes it his mission to stop them.Friend and lover, Detective Robert Barnett, is out of town so Rachel must go it alone.Ride the rapids with Rachel Myers and enjoy some of the most beautiful scenery in the eastern United States while she searches for the murderer. Or will she become the victim this time?
Appalachian Trail Mix: Rachel Myers Murder Mysteries
Annis Ward Jackson
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2013
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Mountain Mourning: Rachel Myers Murder Mysteries
Annis Ward Jackson
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2013
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Squidoo.com suggests this book as "a good mystery story to pass the time on the auto train."In Mountain Mourning, the sixth in Annis Ward Jackson's Rachel Myers Murder Mystery series, the amateur sleuth receives a letter and a packet of information from a man she has only met twice and who has recently died under questionable, if not suspicious, circumstances.Grant Taylor, a teacher at a private prep school, had become curious about the mysterious disappearance thirty years before of a young female teacher at another exclusive private academy and he pleads for Rachel's help.After Myers decides to continue Taylor's search, she finds the young teacher's remains in a lonely grave off the Blue Ridge Parkway.The "reluctant" detective probes her list of suspects and unveils their motives. Then comes the task of deciding which one is the murderer. Myers has never been more challenged or more perplexed as she confronts a steadily dwindling list of suspects.The real murderer is as much a shock to Myers as it will be to the reader.
High Country Coverup: Rachel Myers Murder Mysteries
Annis Ward Jackson
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2013
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HIGH COUNTRY COVERUP is the seventh in Annis Ward Jackson's Rachel Myers Murder Mystery series. In the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina, Gurney Styles sits in the Sheppard County jail, convicted and waiting to be sentenced for the stabbing death of a wealthy retiree. Styles' Melungeon wife, Dulcie, convinces Rachel Myers that her husband is innocent and Myers interrupts her August vacation to search for what really happened.With the aid of Detective Barnett, the reluctant detective delves deep into the private life of the widow and her slain husband. Myers learns a new lesson in just what a person is willing to risk to satisfy their financial avarice, and how easily a corrupt public official can manipulate the justice system.
Mahogany Rock Falls: A Rachel Myers Murder Mystery: (Rachel Myers Murder Mysteries)
Annis Ward Jackson
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2013
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Mahogany Rock Falls is the eighth in the Rachel Myers Murder Mystery series by Annis Ward Jackson. Fall has come to Sheppard County in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina. But all is not colorful foliage and apple butter and pumpkin patches.Amateur sleuth Rachel Myers goes on the prowl to find a nurse who went missing at the same time as a doctor whose body has been found in Satan's Casket at the foot of a waterfall on the Blue Ridge Parkway.Ghosts and goblins and witches abound in Sheppard County but the scariest ordeal Myers faces has nothing to do with Halloween.
Brown Mountain Breakdown: Rachel Myers Murder Mysteries
Annis Ward Jackson
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2013
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In Brown Mountain Breakdown, the ninth in Annis Ward Jackson's Rachel Myers Murder Mystery series, Myers and police detective Robby Barnett launch an effort to try and find what caused a long-time friend, a deputy sheriff, to committ suicide, or whether his death was murder. Rachel Myers unearths a disappearance and another questionable death and confronts the dangerous woman who is tied to all three.Parts of this book are based on two actual cases from the 1970's and 1980's.
Highland Games: Rachel Myers Murder Mysteries
Annis Ward Jackson
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2013
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HIGHLAND GAMES, number ten in Annis Ward Jackson's Rachel Myers Murder Mystery series, finds amateur sleuth Rachel Myers tired and weary from overseeing a new wing that's being added to the retirement center where she is administrator. And she hasn't been sleeping well. Then her attention is diverted by a more disturbing problem -- her inexplicable forgetfulness The possibility of early senility or Alzhiemers occur to Myers but Detective Robert Burnett suggests that she is the victim of a stalker.Detective Burnett moves in to help Myers come to terms with the problem and identify the culprit before the plot takes a more violent turn
Meet Amazing Americans Workbook: Rachel Carson
Like Test Prep
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2013
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The Adventures of Tamarita Rachel
Andrea Gardiner
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2013
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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING RACHEL WEISZ AND SAM CLAFLIN "From the first page...the reader is back in the moody, brooding atmosphere of Rebecca."--The New York TimesFrom Daphne du Maurier, the legendary author of Rebecca and Jamaica Inn, comes a gothic classic set in beautiful, mysterious, and eerie Cornwall.Philip Ashley's older cousin Ambrose, who raised the orphaned Philip as his own son, has died in Rome. Philip, the heir to Ambrose's beautiful English estate, is crushed that the man he loved died far from home. He is also suspicious. While in Italy, Ambrose fell in love with Rachel, a beautiful English and Italian woman. But the final, brief letters Ambrose wrote hint that his love had turned to paranoia and fear.Now Rachel has arrived at Philip's newly inherited estate. Could this exquisite woman, who seems to genuinely share Philip's grief at Ambrose's death, really be as cruel as Philip imagined? Or is she the kind, passionate woman with whom Ambrose fell in love? Philip struggles to understand Rachel's intentions, knowing Ambrose's estate, his future, and his sanity, hang in the balance.An atmospheric mystery full of doubt and paranoia, My Cousin Rachel is a suspenseful gothic treat for long-time fans and new readers of Daphne du Maurier.Praise for Daphne du Maurier: "Miss du Maurier is... a storyteller whose sole aim is to bewitch and beguile. And in My Cousin Rachel she does both, with Rebecca looking fondly over her shoulder."--New York Times"Double-distilled readers' delight."--Manchester Guardian
Mainely Murder: Rachel Myers Murder Mysteries: Rachel Myers Murder Mysteries
Annis Ward Jackson
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2013
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