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The Strange Woman is a tale about passion, obsession, friendship, and the healing power of nature, played out in a place where past and present meet.
In a remote Yorkshire valley, in 1621, a baby girl is born to the poet Edward Fairfax and his wife, Dorothy. The baby dies four months later. Her death triggers shocking events that reverberate to this day.
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Legends, superstitions, and mysteries set the stage in Vallée Fleurie, a small town situated between mountains and forests.
A simple breeze caused unexplainable sensations. The flight of a butterfly could change the course of history.
Envy, hate, ambition and family conflicts are at the center of the events.
Lydia, a skeptical person must try to interpret premonitory dreams and confusing messages from a subtle, yet disturbing, presence.
Flirting...
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Houghton Mifflin Company
Pub. Date
[1941]
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English
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From about 1820 through the War Between the States, this book has it all, in fascinating detail. Ben Ames Williams does a brilliant job of detailing the inner life, twisted pleasure, and motivations of a disturbed, and very strange woman. And also the reactions of her family and various victims.
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Acme DVD Works
Pub. Date
1946.
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English
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The strange woman: A strong-willed young lady in 19th century Maine affects the lives of three very different men.
Dishonored lady: A glamorous but neurotic art director for a leading women's magazine finds herself under suspicion of murder.
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An abandoned Southwark warehouse burns next door to a women's shelter for victims of spousal abuse. Within it lies the charred corpse of a female body burned beyond all recognition. At the same time, workers at Guy's Hospital anxiously discuss the disappearance of a hospital administrator — a beautiful, emotionally fragile young woman who's vanished without a trace.
And in an old, dark, rambling London house, nine-year-old
Harriet's
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"When Lady Henrietta Sedley declares her twenty-ninth year her own, she has plans to inherit her father's business, to make her own fortune, and to live her own life. But first, she intends to experience a taste of the pleasure she'll forgo as a confirmed spinster. Everything is going perfectly ... until she discovers the most beautiful man she's ever seen tied up in her carriage and threatening to ruin the Year of Hattie before it's even begun. When...
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Digimon ; 29
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English
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Yolei creates a counter to the strange woman's music (because she worked with Matt's band). She transforms into a Digimon called Arukenimon and a fight breaks.
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Digimon ; 28
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English
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The DigiDestined arrive at the giant Giga House, where the strange woman lies in wait. As they draw closer to her, the group is attacked by different kinds of insect digimon.
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Digimon ; 25
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English
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The strange woman changes control spires into digimon. She turns one into a Golemon who tries to destroy a dam where Mimi and Palmon are. The DigiDestined cannot destroy Golemon and are forced to get Ken and Stingmon's help to destroy Golemon.
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"While building a pipeline near the Okavango Delta, a contractor unearths the skeleton of a long-dead Bushman. Kubu and Scottish pathologist, Ian MacGregor, are sent to investigate, and MacGregor discovers eight more skeletons. Then an elder of the nearby village is murdered at his home. The local police believe it was a robbery, but Kubu thinks otherwise. So does a strange woman who claims it was an angry river spirit. The situation gets more confusing...
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"The Tenants of Malory" is a sensational novel about two warring families, Verney and Fanshaw, and their mixed relationship. Arthur, the nephew of Lord Verney, cannot choose between his feelings for Margaret Fanshaw and in his favor. Through this novel, the author asks the question – How many moral principles are people willing to sacrifice for a brief sense of superiority? It took a few seconds to give Tom the opportunity to explain the scene,...
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"Call me the Puppeteer." Young Zoe - homebound and bored - is fascinated by the strange woman who lives across the hall, even more so when she finds her collection of masks and guns. But curiosity is never a good idea when the vigilante-medium Hollow Girl is your neighbour, and Zoe is about to bear witness to terror beyond belief. Because when someone becomes an open door for the dead, they can't always control who or what comes through.
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Lawyer Greg Monarch has to resort to some dirty tricks to save a former partner accused of murder in California. The partner was framed by nuclear polluters he was exposing. The moral of the story is that sometimes it is necessary to bend the rules to achieve justice. By the author of A Death in White Bear Lake.
19) Seer
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The Seer, a short story, is actually the first two chapters of Stoker's seventh novel, The Mystery of the Sea. The tale is set in Cruden Bay, a locale Stoker used in other works, as well. The narrator encounters a strange woman during his stay at the Kilmarnock Arms, a small hotel that was actually located in the town of Cruden Bay and that Stoker himself frequented. The strange woman educates the narrator about the Second Sight, giving the listener...
20) Upon Arrival
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Celeste and Marla are the type of friends who know each others' thoughts without having to hear them spoken. So, as the two friends sit and enjoy their weekly tradition of drinking tea in their favorite cafe, Marla knows that Celeste is particularly troubled by the mysterious woman who has appeared at the abandoned train station outside of the cafe, as is her habit. Celeste loses herself in her thoughts about the strange woman, not knowing why, but...
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