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A collection of eleven short stories explores the loves, loneliness, joy,roblems, and grief of Afro-American women.
Author : Becky Birtha
Publisher : Seal Press (CA)
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 28,44 MB
Release : 1993-12-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781878067418
A collection of eleven short stories explores the loves, loneliness, joy,roblems, and grief of Afro-American women.
Author : Ayala Malach Pines
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 38,26 MB
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1136915990
Falling in Love is the first book to unlock the mysteries of how and why we fall in love. Renowned psychologist Ayala Pines shows us why we fall for the people we do, and argues convincingly that we love neither by chance nor by accident. She offers sound advice for making the right choices when it comes to this complicated emotion. Packed with helpful suggestions for those seeking love and those already in it, this book is about love's many puzzles. The second edition furthers the work of the popular and successful first edition. With expanded research, theory, and practice, this book once again provides one of a kind understandings of the experience of love. The new edition offers updated references to recent research, new chapter exercises, and "case examples" of romantic stories to begin each chapter.
Author : Ethel Waxham
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 28,59 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780826317865
A rich portrait of a woman's life in the American West of the early 1900s--a love story that reads like a novel.
Author : Lily King
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 48,77 MB
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0802148557
#ReadWithJenna Book Club Pick as Featured on Today Emma Roberts Belletrist Book Club Pick A New York Times Book Review’s Group Text Selection "I loved this book not just from the first chapter or the first page but from the first paragraph... The voice is just so honest and riveting and insightful about creativity and life." —Curtis Sittenfeld An extraordinary new novel of art, love, and ambition from Lily King, the New York Times bestselling author of Euphoria Following the breakout success of her critically acclaimed and award-winning novel Euphoria, Lily King returns with another instant New York Times bestseller: an unforgettable portrait of an artist as a young woman. Blindsided by her mother’s sudden death, and wrecked by a recent love affair, Casey Peabody has arrived in Massachusetts in the summer of 1997 without a plan. Her mail consists of wedding invitations and final notices from debt collectors. A former child golf prodigy, she now waits tables in Harvard Square and rents a tiny, moldy room at the side of a garage where she works on the novel she’s been writing for six years. At thirty-one, Casey is still clutching onto something nearly all her old friends have let go of: the determination to live a creative life. When she falls for two very different men at the same time, her world fractures even more. Casey’s fight to fulfill her creative ambitions and balance the conflicting demands of art and life is challenged in ways that push her to the brink. Writers & Lovers follows Casey—a smart and achingly vulnerable protagonist—in the last days of a long youth, a time when every element of her life comes to a crisis. Written with King’s trademark humor, heart, and intelligence, Writers & Lovers is a transfixing novel that explores the terrifying and exhilarating leap between the end of one phase of life and the beginning of another.
Author : Dave Armstrong
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 591 pages
File Size : 40,8 MB
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1312358300
Many revisions of the King James (Authorized) Bible of 1611 exist; even revisions of revisions have been done (ASV to NASB / RV to RSV / KJV to NKJV, etc.). The present work is a similar "hybrid." I don't know Greek, and am therefore not qualified in the slightest to actually translate (and did not translate a single word). But I know English (as a professional author) and know the Bible (as a longtime Christian apologist) very well. This work, accordingly, isn't technically a new translation at all, but rather a "selection" or collection of what I personally felt were the best renderings that maintained the KJV style as much as possible without the archaisms. When I updated the olde English language, I sought to maintain a "high" Victorian 18th-19th century style of (British) English. This NT "selects" from the following six translations (all in the public domain): 1) KJV (1611; rev. 1769), 2) Rheims (1582; rev. 1750), 3) Young's Literal (1887), 4) Weymouth (1903), 5) 20th Century (1904), 6) Moffatt (1922).
Author : J. H.
Publisher :
Page : 860 pages
File Size : 20,84 MB
Release : 1867
Category : English poetry
ISBN :
Author : Liz Greene
Publisher : Weiser Books
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 17,67 MB
Release : 2009-02-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1578634261
Looks at the characteristics, mythology and sensuality of each sign of the zodiac and offers advice on finding one's true love. Reissue.
Author : Jonathan Y. Rowe
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 36,57 MB
Release : 2012-10-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 056730616X
Jonathan Rowe examines David and Jonathan's friendship in the context of what ancient readers would have understood as the 'natural' loyalty to their families. He focuses on the conflicting moral goods between which the men choose, seeking to understand the dynamics of the narrative consonant with ancient society. Rowe discusses theoretical issues of interpretation and summarises how Bakhtin's theory of heteroglossic voices can be utilised to understand the narrative. He deliberates over the key aspects of family life in the world described by the Old Testament, surveys approaches to the study of the family among anthropologists and, finally, states how anthropology can inform the interpretation of the biblical text. Starting from the concept of 'hegemonic masculinity', Rowe examines how men in general are presented positively, and then shows how Jonathan, David and Saul measure up to these standards. Rowe concludes that although Jonathan was disloyal to his family, something that implied readers would have censured, the books of Samuel present this disloyalty as honourable, thus making a theological point about fidelity to the house of David.
Author : Michael O'Mara Books
Publisher : Michael O'Mara Books
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 29,11 MB
Release : 2014-07-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1782433643
Compiled by a range of English literature experts and avid readers, and with a foreword by Lionel Shriver, author of We Need To Talk About Kevin, The Book Lovers' Companion is sure to inspire any book lover.
Author : B.B. Dandekar
Publisher : Arena books
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 18,54 MB
Release : 2014-03-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1909421391
Rampaging Lovers is an espionage-thriller set in South Africa, England and France against the curtain of apartheid.Joshua Samuelson, an Indian and 18 years old, meets with Laura on a deserted beach 20 miles south of Durban. She will not marry him, but leaves him with a parting gift that is to haunt him forever.Now, fifteen years later, a lecherous bachelor and a doctor in Hampstead, Joshua is being tracked by Slagter, the South African hit-man, for information he does not possess. Farnsworth, Head of the South African desk of MI-6, assigns Julia, granddaughter of the eleventh Earl of Bromfield, to protect Joshua--and find out why Saul, Laura's husband, should have sent a RED ALERT to Pretoria, before his burnt-out body is found in an abandoned building in Clapham.The novel, with nerve-tingling suspense, binds the many finely-etched, memorable characters in a plot with surprising twists. The careful plotting, the prose and vivid descriptiveness, and superb writing, have been admired by many US professionals in the publishing field. It transcends the ordinary class of the genre because it probes deeper into the human heart, and then rips out what it finds there with an almost brutal candour.It is a literary novel that explores, with brilliance, the roots of racial tensions, not only in South Africa but in England as well.