Detective and mystery stories. The Homicide Department is upside down--Richard Christie is in the hospital, Artie Dolan is headed away on vacation, John Potocki's life is falling apart, and Colleen Greer is so worried about her boss's health, she can hardly think. A young boy in…
A young boy in Pittsburgh's North Side neighborhood dies of a suspicious overdose. In this same neighborhood, four young kids have been abandoned and are living on their own. Connecting these people and their stories is Nick Banks, who is just out of prison.
As thirteen-year-old Nellie tries to solve the mystery surrounding a baby left at her church nursery, she gets some unexpected help from the dog her aunt has recently adopted.
Shelley Seale's narrative non-fiction book follows the lives of just such children as those brought to life in the movie Slumdog Millionaire. The Weight of Silence: Invisible Children of India depicts Seale's journey into orphanages and through the streets and slums of India whe…
This dissertation examines material, embodied, disciplinary regimes of person shaping in Tuscan, civic-religious institutions circa 1570-1650. In particular, I analyze how three homes for abandoned children, Florence’s Innocenti and Santa Maria e San Niccolò del Ceppo and Prato’…
In 1631, Marie Guyart (later, Marie de l'Incarnation) stepped over the threshold of the Ursuline convent in Tours, into the cloister and out of the world, leaving behind the family business, her aging father and - what jars the modern reader - her 11-year-old son. 'The Cruelest …
In 1631, Marie Guyart (later, Marie de l'Incarnation) stepped over the threshold of the Ursuline convent in Tours, into the cloister and out of the world, leaving behind the family business, her aging father and - what jars the modern reader - her 11-year-old son. 'The Cruelest …
Abandonment defined thirty-three years of correspondence between Marie de l'Incarnation and the son she had left behind in favor of religious life.
