Download or read book She May Not Leave written by Fay Weldon and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Wickedly funny satire of modern love, work, and parenthood . . . deft plot twists and a final delicious surprise”—from the New York Times Notable author (People). Fay Weldon lets her incisive wit loose on a hot issue facing many modern families—child care, and what can happen when that involves having a nanny under your roof. Hattie and Martyn are the proud parents of newborn Kitty; both are in their early thirties, smart, handsome, and, for reasons of liberal principle, not married but partnered. All seems fine at first—healthy baby, happy couple—but when they have to decide who’ll look after little Kitty, things get complicated. Hattie’s dying to get back to work but Martyn fears employing foreign help might hurt his leftist political aspirations. Martyn capitulates when Agnieska arrives—a Polish nanny who happens to be both domestic goddess and first-rate belly dancer, the maker of a mean cup of cocoa who’s also educated in early childhood development. Having her in the house makes life livable again for the young couple, so when problems arise with her immigration papers Martyn and Hattie will do anything to keep her in the country. But will their decision to have Martyn marry her be the trouble-free solution they envision? “Long a chronicler of the war between the sexes, Weldon takes on motherhood and child rearing . . . [Her] trademark acid wit is very much in evidence here, especially on the final pages, which she embellishes with a delicious fillip.” —Entertainment Weekly “Dry, delicious . . . Weldon . . . is far from compassionate—acerbic would be the better word.” —The Washington Post

Download or read book Confessions of a Belly Dancer Heartland of America written by Raksanna Larcher Gore and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-05 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 3rd - Kansas City - Since the dawn of time, women have shared their stories. They share their ambitions and passions, their sorrows and worries, their dreams and their joys.They do this to learn, to teach, to encourage, and to grow. There is freedom in confession.In her travels around the world as a professional oriental (belly) dancer, Raksanna has met women in all stages of life and from all backgrounds. She has collected the confessions from women with one thing in common...the dance.Join women from around the world who have experienced first-hand the life changing, transformational power of the ancient art of belly dance. Celebrate their courage in having shared these stories live in Kansas City's City Stage at Union Station. Share their laughter and tears...and who knows, perhaps you, too, will feel the longing to confess.

Download or read book The Prince and the Dancing Girl written by Saeed Tiwana and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-02 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dazzling page-turner, this novel depicts some of the great and near-great of history. The locale spans three continents: it is the story of wise men, heroes and fools. Peopled by a sprawling cast of memorable characters-royalty, patriots, heroic men and courageous women. The story moves with a tremendous sweep from one adventure to another, and is a network of intrigue and misunderstandings and missed opportunities, It is a powerful portrait of the great Austrian dynasty of Europe containing scenes of wealth and privilege and dire responsibility. A prince strives to inspire his people with hope and courage, gathering his forces, and stimulating them into action. While he works hard in many ways to rescue his country from the plight into which it had been thrown and all the while searching for an even deeper understanding of life and wise judgment. Politicians, philosopher and pundits lend thoughts to the judgments made by rulers and commoners alike. Princesses and exotic women add their love for the arts and fashion and enticement. All of these qualities combined make a dynamic story line for a magnetic novel. A novel crowded with beauty and incident, the search for wisdom, ambition, and adventure. A living novel which unexpectedly makes you feel you are in a story filled with people you know personally.

Download or read book Confessions of a Belly Dancer Secrets of the Hieroglyph written by Raksanna Larcher Gore and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-10-10 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1st - Chicago - Since the dawn of time, women have shared their stories. They share their ambitions and passions, their sorrows and worries, their dreams and their joys.They do this to learn, to teach, to encourage, and to grow. There is freedom in confession.In her travels around the world as a professional oriental (belly) dancer, Raksanna has met women in all stages of life and from all backgrounds. She has collected the confessions of women who all have one thing in common...the dance.Join women from around the world who have experienced first-hand the life changing, transformational power of the ancient art of belly dance. Share their laughter and tears...and who knows, perhaps you too will feel the longing to confess.(Special Commemorative Edition)

Download or read book Confessions of a Belly Dancer The Motor City written by Raksanna Larcher Gore and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-09-02 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 4th - Detroit - Since the dawn of time, women have shared their stories. They share their ambitions and passions, their sorrows and worries, their dreams and their joys. They do this to learn, to teach, to encourage, and to grow. There is freedom in confession. In her travels around the world as a professional oriental (belly) dancer, Raksanna has met women in all stages of life and from all backgrounds. In this fourth installment of the series, she has collected the confessions from women with one thing in common...the dance. Join women from around the world who have experienced first-hand the life changing, transformational power of the ancient art of belly dance. Celebrate their courage in having shared these stories live in Detroit, the Motor City. Share their laughter and tears...and who knows, perhaps you, too, will feel the longing to confess.

Download or read book Nocturne written by James Attlee and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Nobody who has not taken one can imagine the beauty of a walk through Rome by full moon,” wrote Goethe in 1787. Sadly, the imagination is all we have today: in Rome, as in every other modern city, moonlight has been banished, replaced by the twenty-four-hour glow of streetlights in a world that never sleeps. Moonlight, for most of us, is no more. So James Attlee set out to find it. Nocturne is the record of that journey, a traveler’s tale that takes readers on a dazzling nighttime trek that ranges across continents, from prehistory to the present, and through both the physical world and the realms of art and literature. Attlee attends a Buddhist full-moon ceremony in Japan, meets a moon jellyfish on a beach in Northern France, takes a moonlit hike in the Arizona desert, and experiences a lunar eclipse on New Year’s Eve atop the snowbound Welsh hills. Each locale is illuminated not just by the moonlight he seeks, but by the culture and history that define it. We learn about Mussolini’s pathological fear of moonlight; trace the connections between Caspar David Friedrich, Rudolf Hess, and the Apollo space mission; and meet the inventors of the Moonlight Collector in the American desert, who aim to cure all kinds of ailments with concentrated lunar rays. Svevo and Blake, Whistler and Hokusai, Li Po and Marinetti are all enlisted, as foils, friends, or fellow travelers, on Attlee’s journey. Pulled by the moon like the tide, Attlee is firmly in a tradition of wandering pilgrims that stretches from Basho to Sebald; like them, he presents our familiar world anew.

Download or read book Confessions of a Belly Dancer New York City written by Raksanna Larcher Gore and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-10-09 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2nd - Off Broadway NYC - Since the dawn of time, women have shared their stories. They share their ambitions and passions, their sorrows and worries, their dreams and their joys. They do this to learn, to teach, to encourage, and to grow. There is freedom in confession. In her travels around the world as a professional oriental (belly) dancer, Raksanna has met women in all stages of life and from all backgrounds. She has collected the confessions of women who all have one thing in common...the dance. Join women from around the world who have experienced first-hand the life changing, transformational power of the ancient art of belly dance. Celebrate their courage in having shared these stories live, Off Broadway, in NYC and in this volume two of Confessions of a Belly Dancer. Share their laughter and tears ... and perhaps you, too, will feel the need to confess. (Volume 2, New York City)

Download or read book The Forward Male World class day game for the male in his 20s written by Mike Mehlman and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-04-05 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Forward Male presents a collection of essential essays on day game approach for the male in his 20s. The author introduces a manifold array of novel ideas and implementations that revolutionize game theory and dismantle prior established notions. This work is best described as a necessary and remarkable coalescence of kinetic outflow following years of "silent wolf" approaching in which the author has had zero online presence or awareness. The Forward Male's nexus of insights serves to challenge and upend convictions of even the most seasoned approach veterans while simultaneously providing layers of value to the novice male.

Download or read book No Reservations Part Two written by Viola Grace and published by Viola Grace. This book was released on 2021-09-16 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her mates are her own with one waiting in the wings, now she needs to finish what she started and get a little revenge at the same time. Olivia has been rescued from years of torture and is working to settle into a life with her mates, and the omega next door, and another feline alpha who wants to join their group. She is gaining confidence, friends, and now there is one thing to do…go on dates with her mates. Oh, and she had to finish a very important memoir. Putting her pain on the page is difficult, but the reaction is beyond what she could imagine. A bidding war for her memoir spurs legal action and before long she finds herself in court. Does she have the right to tell her story with all the documentation that the Omega Centre found, or does her sleepy home town get to remain oblivious to their part in the most heinous act of aggression on an omega in the last two decades. Is honesty the best policy or should she forget about the pain? Life continues and she finds that getting surprised by another heat is uncomfortable while she is having dinner with the in-laws and her mates can’t get her home. She is really glad that Ford has been helping her make friends because she really needs one now.

Download or read book Belly Dancing for Beginners written by Liz Byrski and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011-05-27 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gayle and Sonya are a study in contrasts: one reserved and cautious, the other confident and outspoken. But their very different lives will be turned upside down when they impulsively join a belly dancing class. Marissa, their teacher, is sixty, sexy, and very much her own person, and as Gayle and Sonya learn about the origins and meaning of the dance, much more than their muscle tone begins to change. Gayle, crippled by the secrets at the heart of her marriage, is forced to face who and what she has become; the seriously single Sonya begins to explore her isolation from her family; and even Marissa, accustomed to seeing other women changed by the dance, must finally confront a horrifying event from her own past.

Download or read book Thank You written by Liggy Webb and published by Grosvenor House Publishing. This book was released on 2011-11-29 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Would you like to be happier, healthier, more positive and motivated in life? Research has indicated that people who practise gratitude on a daily basis are capable of being 25% happier. From the author of The Happy Handbook and How to Work Wonders, Liggy Webb's new book will entertain, motivate and inspire you to look at life from a totally different perspective. Filled with practical tips, fascinating research, anecdotal stories, inspirational quotes and a gratitude journal, this book is the ultimate tonic!

Download or read book Time Missed written by Allan James and published by Author House. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I finished my psychoanalysis in 1991. It took about six years. Psychoanalysis was hard work, and I always imagined that finishing would feel like graduation—a cause for celebrating. I certainly felt pride at having faced my darkest fears. At times I thought of analysis as a graduate degree in self-knowledge. In some ways leaving T. (the first letter of my therapist’s last name) felt like when I left Memphis, my home town, and went a thousand miles northeast to college. I often said that I was relieved to be leaving my family—and 25 year later my analyst—to become independent. But in both cases I was afraid and at times homesick. This is a book about the first 15 months of my psychoanalysis. This book covers what T. called the “material” of my analysis—basically my life story. But it is also about the evolution of my relationship with T. My vision of my personal history changed radically in the course of analysis. But most of these changes were produced not by the ritual telling and retelling of events from my life but rather from the feelings I developed for T. For those who are considering seeking help from a therapist, I hope this account will give you the courage to make the plunge. For those people already in therapy, the purpose of this book is to offer encouragement. No matter how difficult or complicated your life may seem, it is possible to change things for the better. And for practicing therapists, and men and women training to become therapists, I hope this book helps you better understand your patients’ vulnerability and the tremendous power for good you have for the people who come to you for help.

Download or read book Rebel Without a Clause written by Abigail Drake and published by Wende Dikec. This book was released on 2022-09-18 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christmas elf Tinklebelle Holly is a screwup. Demoted to a job in the reindeer division after one infraction too many, she hates her job, hates her life, and despises the North Pole. But when a surprise visitor arrives from Elven High Council, and Tink is assigned to show him around, everything changes. Jax Grayson is a dark elf, and unlike anyone she’s ever met. Looking past his obvious hotness, Tink knows he has a secret, and the audit he’s supposedly performing doesn’t feel legit. After an unexpected tragedy occurs, Tink’s life is thrown into even greater turmoil, and it seems like Jax might be the only one Tink can truly trust. Can she help him figure out what’s happening on the North Pole, or will Jax be her worst mistake of all?

Download or read book When Saint Francis Saved the Church written by Jon M. Sweeney and published by Ave Maria Press. This book was released on 2015-09-04 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Saint Francis Saved the Church offers a surprising new look at the world’s most popular saint, showing how this beloved, but often-mythologized character created a spiritual vision for the ages and may very well have rescued the Christian faith. In When Saint Francis Saved the Church (paperback), popular historian Jon Sweeney presents an intriguing portrait of Francis beyond the readily familiar stories and images. In the tradition of Thomas Cahill’s How the Irish Saved Civilization, Sweeney reveals how the saint became a hinge in the history of the Christian faith and shows how in just fourteen years—from 1205 to 1219—the unconventional and stumbling wisdom of a converted troubadour changed the Church. Sweeney outlines Francis’s revolutionary approach to friendship, “the other” (people at the margins), poverty, spirituality, care (for people, creatures, and the natural world), and death. This vibrant book presents the unsullied life and message of Francis in its essential details, offering a sweeping, informative, remarkable look at how Francis and his movement quite literally saved the Christian faith—and continues to offer a spiritual vision with contemporary relevance.

Download or read book The Cat the Belly Dancer the Cello written by Georgia March and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the reader experiences Georgia March's magical The Cat, the Belly Dancer, & the Cello set at the beginning of twentieth-century Turkey, they will discover not everything is as it seems. Each chapter is a frozen snapshot covering another, waiting to be torn away. Unexpected danger ensnares two belly dancers from Istanbul who tackle it with lighthearted ease until their efforts are met with sinister results. Forced under someone else's microscope, the women come up against aspects of their own characters that bear examination. At the same time, a Canadian woman and her British boyfriend living in Spain venture through the centre of Turkey experiencing calamity and chaos in a country where both the language and customs bring new insight to the word foreign. Their personal backgrounds are also contrary to each other, meaning nothing is straight forward. This winding road leads them to Kas, a spellbinding place that captures their hearts and pocket books. Their lives become intricately intertwined with local Turks and they have the choice of learning to laugh at themselves or others will do it for them. At the same time, enjoy the anecdote of two cats with their own history, ideas on justice, and view of the world.

Download or read book Tales Told by a Closet Belly Dancer written by Jeanne Sandberg Fuller and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2015-10-26 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Light and lively. Part travelogue, part reminisces, part belly dances. You name it, it's here. Written in Jeanne Sandberg Fuller's delightful style this third book is a look at her adult life. The first two, The Day the Bathroom Ceiling Fell and Nice Girls Are the Best Kissers, are the stories of her childhood and young adult life and are also written in her inimitable if quirky style. Fuller gives her impressions as a dancer and artist as she visits Egypt, England, Greece, and Istanbul. The anecdotes of her family on these trips make us feel we're right there with her. She has been an avid fairy tale, myth, and history fan from the very beginning which makes the travels come alive in a most unique way. "Whether an armchair traveler or a world traveler this book will take you places as never seen before." -Diane Yost Roush, B.A. Albion College Retired International English Teacher

Download or read book The Last Lecture written by Randy Pausch and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.