Author : Pamela Jooste
Publisher : Doubleday UK
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,24 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
From the author of DANCE WITH A POOR MAN'S DAUGHTER, a novel which explores the friendship between two women in South Africa in the late 1960s, one of whom follows the conventional life expected of her, while the other devotes herself to working in a bush clinic.
Author : Pamela Jooste
Publisher : Random House
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 10,95 MB
Release : 2011-10-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1448111196
When Frieda first met Min, with her golden hair and ivory bones, what struck her most was that Min was wearing a pair of African sandals, the sort made out of old car tyres. She was a silent, unhappy girl, dumped on Frieda's exuberant family in Johannesburg for the summer of 1964 so that her mother could go off with her new husband. In a way, Min and Frieda were both outsiders - Min, raised in the bush by her idealistic doctor father, and Frieda, daughter of a poor Jewish saxophone player who lived almost on top of a native neighborhood. The two girls, thrown together - the 'white kaffir' and the poor Jewish girl - formed a strange but loyal friendship, a friendship that was to last even through the terrible years of oppression and betrayal during the time of South Africa under Apartheid.
Author : Pamela Jooste
Publisher : Random House
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 29,88 MB
Release : 2012-02-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1448127181
'I knew then that there were some things not even Ruby could keep from me for ever and this was one of them. We were coloured girls in a white world that didn't want us.' Born on the wrong side of a racial divide in apartheid-torn Cape Town, young sisters Ruby and Rose exist in a world where they are not welcome. As part of the Cape Coloured community they are considered socially inferior, yet even within their own social group the sisters live down the poor end of town. Their father was killed when they were very small, so when their mother dies after a protracted illness Ruby and Rose's fate falls into the hands of Aunt Olive. Ruby knows without being told that their aunt's home will not be opened up to them - charity does not extend to the poor relations who would cast a smudge on such a respectable house. Aunt Olive condemns her nieces to the local orphanage, relieving her conscience with monthly invitations to Sunday lunch. In the orphanage the girls grow up sheltered from a divided world that they do not yet fully understand, but the day approaches when Ruby and Rose must forge their own paths in life and confront the lessons that apartheid enforces. Like the award-winning Dance with a Poor Man's Daughter, this beautifully observed novel of sisterly love once again displays Pamela Jooste's poignant understanding of human nature.
Author : Renata Bowers
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 11,3 MB
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Dreams
ISBN : 9780984386239
Author : Susan Lewis
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 25,39 MB
Release : 2019-06-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0062906577
A young woman confronts a lifechanging diagnosis in a “rich, memorable . . . lyrical and highly emotional . . . tearjerker.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) Vivi Shager is living her dream. Raised with drive and ambition by a resolutely single mother, Vivi has a thriving law career, a gorgeous apartment in London, and a full calendar that keeps her busy at work and at play. Then on the day of her twenty-seventh birthday, an undiagnosed heart condition sends Vivi’s prospects for the future into a tailspin. After escaping her roots nearly a decade ago, she’s forced to return to her childhood home to be cared for by her devoted and enigmatic mother. Vivi has always known the woman is hiding something and now she’s determined to find out what it is. Though her condition makes her fragile and vulnerable and she’s afraid of what may happen, her spirit remains strong. Then comes an unexpected ray of light. Josh Raynor, a local veterinarian who his sisters claim is too handsome for his own good, brings a forbidden love to Vivi’s world. Josh and Vivi are soon inseparable, unaware of the past their families share. All Vivi knows is that Josh is wrestling with a demon of his own . . . Then quite suddenly the awful truth is staring Vivi in the face and it changes everything. ”Susan Lewis has a gift for telling warm family stories that also take you by surprise.” —Jane Corry, author of My Husband’s Wife “This page-turner challenges readers to evaluate their own lives and choices, and what really matters most.” —Emilie Richards, USA Today bestselling author of A Family of Strangers
Author : Courtney Acampora
Publisher : Silver Dolphin Books
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 42,23 MB
Release : 2019-01-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1684125588
Frida Catlo was one purr-fect painter! Meet one of history’s greatest figures in this adorable board book with an animal twist! Famous Meowxican painter Frida Catlo was a pioneer for female artists. She always painted from the heart, even in the face of health problems and personal struggles. With hilarious puns and colorful illustrations, this book brings Frida’s legacy to life for babies and parents alike! 2019 National Parenting Product Award Winner
Author : Pamela Jooste
Publisher : Random House
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 50,24 MB
Release : 2011-10-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1448110408
'Immensely moving and readable' The Times 'My name is Lily Daniels and I live in The Valley . . . Some of us, like my mother, don't live here any more. People say she went on the Kimberley train to try for white and I mustn't blame her because she could get away with it even if we didn't believe she would.' Through the sharp yet loving eyes of eleven-year-old Lily we see the whole vivid culture of the Cape Coloured community at the time when apartheid threatened its destruction. As Lily's beautiful but angry mother returns to Cape Town, determined to fight for justice for her family, so the story of Lily's past - and future - erupts. Dance with a Poor Man's Daughter is a powerful and moving tribute to a richly individual people.
Author : Kristen Ashley
Publisher : Rock Chick LLC
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 38,92 MB
Release : 2020-07-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Once upon a time, in a parallel universe, there existed the continent of Triton… The land was filled with beauty, but it was also splintered by war. Out of the chaos grew a conspiracy to reawaken the Beast, a fearsome creature who wrought only tragedy and devastation. The only way to stop him is to fulfill an ancient prophecy: Triton’s four strongest warriors must wed its four most powerful witches, binding all nations together and finally bringing peace to the land. This is the beginning of the story of their unions: the quiet maiden Silence and the savage king Mars. The cold warrior Cassius and the fiery witch Elena. The steadfast soldier True and the banished beauty Farah. And the pirate king Aramus and his mysterious queen Ha-Lah. Their unions will not be easy, but each couple must succeed… The fate of their world is at stake.
Author : Holly Chamberlin
Publisher : Yorktide, Maine Novel
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 34,87 MB
Release : 2022-03-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 149673727X
A mother and daughter escape to a beautiful coastal town in Maine to find healing in the wake of heartbreaking loss.
Author : Amy E. Butler
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 32,36 MB
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 079148887X
In Two Paths to Equality, Amy E. Butler provides a fascinating portrait of two of the major adversaries in the 1920s' battle over equal rights legislation for women in the United States—Alice Paul and Ethel M. Smith. While they shared the goal of full political and legal equality for women, they differed on how best to achieve it. Paul, the author of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) and leader of the National Woman's Party, fought to establish that women were the same as men under the law. Smith, legislative secretary of the National Women's Trade Union League and a recognized leader of the opposition to the ERA, believed the ERA did not adequately consider the impact of class and economic differences in women's lives and consequently would sacrifice the interests of one group of women to another. Smith and Paul's conflict is a telling story of the inextricable relationship between personal politics, collective action, and the intersection of law and culture on the social construction of gender. Comparing their perspectives on equality creates a new understanding of the people and issues at stake in the ERA debate.
