One Summer of Surrender
Author : Jess Michaels
Publisher : The Passionate Pen
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 24,67 MB
Release : 2016-11-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Author : Jess Michaels
Publisher : The Passionate Pen
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 24,67 MB
Release : 2016-11-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Author : Kelly O'Connor McNees
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 42,27 MB
Release : 2022-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1643139312
What if the most important decision of your life was not yours to make? This vivid and powerful novel follows two women whose paths intersect at a maternity home in the "Baby Scoop Era." In 1960, free-spirited Doreen is a recent high-school grad and waitress in a Chicago diner. She doesn't know Margie, sixteen and bookish, who lives a sheltered suburban life, but they soon meet when unplanned pregnancies send them to the Holy Family Home for the Wayward in rural Illinois. Assigned as roommates because their due dates line up, Margie and Doreen navigate Holy Family’s culture of secrecy and shame and become fast friends as the weight of their coming decision — to keep or surrender their babies — becomes clear. Except, they soon realize, the decision has already been made for them. Holy Family, like many of the maternity homes where 1.5 million women “relinquished” their babies in what is now known as the Baby Scoop Era, is not interested in what the birth mothers want. In its zeal to make the babies “legitimate” in closed adoptions, Holy Family manipulates and bullies birth mothers, often coercing them to sign away their parental rights while still under the effects of anesthesia. What happens next, as their babies are born and they leave Holy Family behind, will force each woman to confront the depths and limits of motherhood and friendship, and fight to reclaim control over their own lives. Written by the acclaimed author of The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott and Undiscovered Country, The Myth of Surrender explores a hidden chapter of American history that still reverberates across the lives of millions of women and their children.
Author : K.H. Wolff
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 14,32 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9401015260
Su"ender and catch: give so you can receive, where the giving is your whole self, in a total experience. This is scarcely new on the American scene, and it is ancient knowledge, East and West. The fears of total surrender, the fears of self-revelation and of total abandon, although genuine, are likewise not new. Yet Kurt H. Wolff does attempt something new here, an epistemologi cal essay with the help of this old idea: his subtitle is 'experience and inquiry today'. He tries to formulate an integrated view which incorporates in the theory of total experience not only the accepted component- esthetics, religion, the recent American experience - but also a metaphysics, a phenomenology, a theory of perception, a social philosophy and a methodology of the social sciences, even a philosophy of history and psychopathology. Phenomenology (especially Alfred Schutz), the critical Frankfurt school (especially Adorno and Marcuse), sociology (especially Georg Simmel), and existentialism (especially Camus) are tied in together. It all looks topsy-turvy at first. We have here scraps of a diary, fragments of correspondence, a stray adolescent love letter, notes on notes on field work, and notes and comments on tutorial seminars plus long excerpts from students' essays, a stray paper in a learned journal summarizing the core of the book, comments piled on comments and a web of self-references, literary criticisms, and pieces of poetry, plus a rich scholarly apparatus.
Author : Alice R. Humphrey
Publisher :
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,7 MB
Release : 1900
Category : Brazil
ISBN :
Author : Clifton Melvin Nichols
Publisher :
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 33,48 MB
Release : 1899
Category : Ohio
ISBN :
Author : W. T. Ellis
Publisher :
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 50,47 MB
Release : 1885
Category : Europe
ISBN :
Author : Leader Scott
Publisher :
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 20,49 MB
Release : 1879
Category : Apennines (Italy)
ISBN :
Author : Shannon Stacey
Publisher : Carina Press
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 21,30 MB
Release : 2019-08-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1488059756
Best friends. A fake relationship. And only one bed. New York Times bestselling author Shannon Stacey delivers the feel-good beach read you’ve been waiting for. Noah Stafford loves his life—his happy, single life. So what if he made up a fake girlfriend to stop his boss’s matchmaking? He kept things close to the truth—Carly really does have long, sexy legs and a killer sense of humor. She just happens to be his best friend. His wicked awesome and completely platonic best friend. But now his boss is having a destination wedding, and Noah is expected to attend…with Carly, his girlfriend. Carly Randall has no interest in living out a rom-com plot. But Noah is her best friend, so she agrees to help. Still, once they arrive on Cape Cod, she can’t explain the sudden butterflies she feels when he looks at her that way. Or why she doesn’t mind when Noah’s hands stray a little south of her back. What happens on the Cape stays on the Cape. Except not really, not at all, and once their sexy faux-cation is over, Noah and Carly return to a reality where everything’s changed. Going for it would mean risking their friendship…but forgetting how good they were together just isn’t an option. This book is approximately 27,000 words One-click with confidence. This title is part of the Carina Press Romance Promise: all the romance you’re looking for with an HEA/HFN. It’s a promise!
Author : Abra Taylor
Publisher : Harlequin Books
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 12,64 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780373251230
Summer Surrender by Abra Taylor released on Jun 22, 1984 is available now for purchase.
Author : Elbridge Streeter Brooks
Publisher :
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 28,29 MB
Release : 1896
Category : Thousand Islands (N.Y. and Ont.)
ISBN :