Download or read book In Her Own Sweet Time written by Rachel Lehmann-Haupt and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-11-12 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At thirty-one, Rachel Lehmann-Haupt thought she had everything: a great boyfriend, an exciting career, and the promise of marriage and children in her future. But the relationship ended and she found herself consumed by a rapidly approaching deadline: age thirty-five, the time at which most pregnancies are deemed ''high risk.'' Lehmann-Haupt traveled around the world and into the heart of America to explore the latest fertility choices available - as well as grapple with her own ambitions, anxieties, and personal values. A witty, poignant, and profoundly honest account of one woman's efforts to reconcile modern love with modern life, In Her Own Sweet Time resonates with a generation that wants it all - career, family, the perfect partner - but one that hasn't yet figured out how to fit it all together.

Download or read book In Our Own Sweet Time written by George Wratney and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This amusing tale is a biography, of sorts. For it is a biography not of one individual but of a portion of the generation of kids born in America in the mid-1940s. Their adventures and misadventures, missteps and mischief, and learning and yearning spring forth as they thrive in what many today consider far simpler and happier times. And, in this nostalgic look at part of America's past, the reader might discover ways to help future generations of children grow into their own sweet time and prevent perils imposed by others.

Download or read book Bucking the Rules written by Kat Murray and published by Brava. This book was released on 2013 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite having no desire to settle down and lead a conventional life, bar owner Jo Tallen finds herself unexpectedly attracted to family-oriented single father and rodeo star Trace Muldoon.

Download or read book The Feminine Principle in the Sikh Vision of the Transcendent written by Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-09-24 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is a critical analysis of Sikh literature from a feminist perspective. It begins with Guru Nanak's vision of Transcendent Reality and concludes with the mystical journey of Rani Raj Kaur, the heroine of a modern Punjabi epic. The eight chapters of the book approach the Sikh vision of the Transcendent from historical, scriptural, symbolic, mythological, romantic, existential, ethical and mystical perspectives. Each of these discloses the centrality of the woman, and show convincingly that Sikh Gurus and poets did not want the feminine principle to serve merely as a figure of speech or literary device; it was intended rather to pervade the whole life of the Sikhs. The present work bolsters the claim that literary symbols should be translated into social and political realities, and in so doing puts a valuable feminist interpretation on a religious tradition which has remained relatively unexplored in scholarly literature.

Download or read book Shotgun Wedding written by Karen Wiesner and published by Writers Exchange E-Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-23 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trevor and Eden were married right out of high school. She'd believed she was pregnant, but that hadn't been her sole motivation. Wildly in love with Trevor Johnson, she'd worried he was becoming disenchanted with her, his attention consumed by the needy and seductive Delaney Foster who came to Amethyst every year with her family. In the years Eden and Trever have been married, she's never felt quite secure in the belief that he married her by choice, in love. During the Christmas season, plagued by unspoken guilt and doubts, she finds herself again competing with a soon-to-be divorced, distraught, and disgustingly gorgeous Delaney. Eden is obsessively aware she's no longer as young, thin, or sexy as she'd been before she had three sons. To top off her growing stress, Eden has discovered she and Trevor's oldest son and his girlfriend, in their senior year of high school, are sexually active. The last thing they need is another shotgun wedding and the potential that a marriage undertaken for the sake of a baby isn't necessarily one of choice or love.

Download or read book Cold Touch written by Leslie Parrish and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-07-05 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since being gifted-or cursed-with the ability to touch a lifeless body and relive the deceased's final moments, Olivia Wainwright has died a hundred deaths. And every glimpse into this darkness draws her deeper into danger. Though he doesn't believe in psychics, Savannah Detective Gabe Cooper offers her a glimmer of light. As their bond deepens, Olivia will have to choose between her cold gift and the warmth Gabe can provide. And Gabe can't refuse when she needs his help solving a crime that's haunted her for over a decade-her own murder.

Download or read book OUR RULES written by CC MacKenzie and published by More Press. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Story of Love Found, Family and Hope Seven days and seven nights in Mexico... sun, sand, sea... and no sex? Photographer Anders Bergen doesn't suffer fools gladly. He's a man at the pinnacle of his career and a man who cannot escape his past... Model Tanith Rucker never takes a second chance of life for granted. However, she's a woman struggling with innate shyness and a secret passion. Anders made a fool of her once. She's determined he won't do it twice. They say opposites attract... maybe love will make fools of them both...

Download or read book Discovering Wounded Justice written by Belinda D'Alessandro and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alyssa Giordano, a first generation American, never thought being a woman in this day and age would be a disadvantage... until she met her first boss. Her grandmothers, one Irish, the other Italian, fought so hard to be seen by other women as their husbands equals. But Alyssa s grandfathers, and her father, knew who really ran things. Barely a year into her career, the young lawyer couldn t believe that Duncan Kennedy would accuse her of a double cross and sack her after she d rebuffed his advances. Nor could she believe that his partner, Lydia Price, refused to support her. As she leaves behind her first job in the only career which she d ever wanted, Alyssa, pride wounded, loses faith in the one thing she d grown up believing in: justice. After struggling to get her career (and her life) back in order, Giordano finally hits the big time and finds that roles are reversed. Kennedy is labeled a swindler and a leading journalist, a woman no less, holds his fate in her hands. But as he vanishes in a cloud of lies and creditors before he can be brought to justice, Giordano s faith in it, justice, freefalls again. Later uncovering reports of Kennedy s untimely death, Alyssa s faith in justice returns and she begins to believe she is rid of the cruel menace who almost destroyed her. Until the day he walks back into her life to seemingly ask for her help in restoring his reputation... and tries to take her life...

Download or read book The Art of the Author Interview written by Sarah Anne Johnson and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2005 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical guide to one of the most rewarding forms of literary journalism.

Download or read book Ravensong A Novel written by Lee Maracle and published by Canadian Scholars’ Press. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WHERE DO YOU BEGIN TELLING SOMEONE THEIR WORLD IS NOT THE ONLY ONE? While Stacey, a 17-year-old Native girl, struggles to save her family and community from a devastating influenza epidemic, a white classmate’s suicide hints that the village is threatened by forces more sinister and powerful than the epidemic itself. Ravensong, the first novel of celebrated author Lee Maracle, tells an extraordinary story about a young woman’s quest for answers, combining both tragedy and joy in its unforgettable depiction of an urban Native community in the 1950s. Maracle speaks unflinchingly of the gulf between two cultures: a gulf that Raven says must be bridged. Evocative and prescient, filled with oral traditions, humour, and deep insight, Ravensong is more than just a novel—it is a necessary story for our time.

Download or read book Ticket to Minto written by Sohrab Homi Fracis and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2018-10-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ticket to Minto, Sohrab Homi Fracis's premier fiction collection, offers readers a passage to an unfamiliar destination-a world suspended between East and West, India and America, home and away. With piercing insight, Fracis expertly reveals the underlying differences between immersion in India's culture-Hindu, Muslim, or Parsi-and life as an Indian in America. Alternating between East and West, the stories in Ticket to Minto serve as companion pieces, interrelated across continents in both theme and content. A middle-aged man's search for love in Bombay is contrasted with an Indian American family's hopes for the marriage of their westernized daughter. A university student rushes to save the life of a servant in his homeland only to find his own life threatened while attending graduate school in America. Poignant and daring, Ticket to Minto underlines the harsh realization that the immigrant never truly arrives but is in constant limbo between two worlds. As one character relates, "There's a part of me that's American and a part that's Indian. I'm clear about that and comfortable with it, except that sometimes people want me to be just the one or the other."

Download or read book Red Jacket written by Pamela Mordecai and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2015-02-28 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2015 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize 2015 — Short-listed As she comes into adulthood, Grace confronts the mystery of her own identity and the story of her birth mother in this sprawling, large-hearted novel. Growing up on the Caribbean island of St. Chris, Grace Carpenter never feels like she really belongs. Although her large, extended family is black, she is a redibo. Her skin is copper-coloured, her hair is red, and her eyes are grey. A neighbour taunts her, calling her “a little red jacket,” but the reason for the insult is never explained. Only much later does Grace learn the story of her birth mother and decipher the mystery surrounding her true identity. “A compelling tale of faith and family, ranging from the dusty landscapes of West Africa to the rich flavours of the Caribbean.” — WILL FERGUSON, Giller Prize–winning author of 419

Download or read book Sterling Dictionary of Idioms written by Vijaya Kumar and published by Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd. This book was released on 1998 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meaning and appropriate usage of idioms, provides carefully written examples, relying on simplicity and clarity.

Download or read book Keeping Secrets written by Sarah Shankman and published by Untreed Reads. This book was released on 2014-01-19 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What’s a nice Southern Jewish girl like Emma Fine doing married to an angry but beautiful and incredibly sexy black artist like Jesse Tree? Emma Tree’s marriage is falling apart. Jesse’s obsession with Skytop, the old inn he’s renovating, pulls him further away from her, and the distance forces Emma into some uneasy questions about their relationship and about herself. She packs her bags and travels home to Louisiana, to a family she loves but barely knows. And the answers she finds along the way help solve the puzzles that have haunted her all her life. Before Emma’s mother Helen died, she made her husband Jake Fine promise to look after the baby should anything happen to Helen. After her death, Jake left his Baltimore home to travel to West Cypress, Louisiana, where a new wife was waiting. For Rosalie Norris, Emma was a dream come true. Emma is a right and precocious child, but by the time she’s a teenager, she has outgrown the old-fashioned provincialism of West Cypress and Rosalie’s stiflingly overprotective and obsessive love. While teaching in California, Emma meets and eventually marries Jesse Tree. Theirs is a passionate and loving relationship despite the vast differences between them. It’s a secret Emma must keep from her family, but it’s nothing compared to the secrets they’ve kept hidden from Emma all these years. Sarah Shankman has written a hauntingly touching and darkly funny novel about the long-time coming of age of a 30-year-old woman in search of the truth about who she is, where she comes from, and where she’s going. It’s a story about the secrets of the past and how they determine the future, and a love story about two people from completely different worlds who meet, fall in love, collide, and crash—sending off sparks that neither of them, nor the readers who come to love them, will ever forget. QUOTES “In Keeping Secrets Sarah Shankman has created a character as wise and wonderfully funny as Fear of Flying’s Isadora Wing. This is a brilliant book, beautifully written, which reinforces with a spellbinding story what I’ve always known about Southern women: Keep your eye on them. They’ll blindside you with their bravery and slamdunk your heart.” Pat Conroy The Prince of Tides “Holly Golightly, turn in your jersey. Here comes Emma Tree. Keeping Secrets is a wonderment, a subtle earthy, joyous, darkling journey through a bright country, in which a fragmented and most appealing Southern girl sets out to discover herself and finds a woman of enormous richness, complexity, and wholeness. In Impersonal Attractions, Sarah Shankman showed us she has a near-perfect ear and eye for the contemporary dilemma. In Keeping Secrets, she proves—magnificently—that she also has the heart for it.” Anne Rivers Siddons Heartbreak Hotel

Download or read book Harlequin Presents August 2015 Box Set 2 of 2 written by Lynne Graham and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2015-08-01 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harlequin® Presents brings you four new titles! This Presentsbox set includes: THE GREEK DEMANDS HIS HEIR (NotoriousGreeks) by Lynne Graham Leo Zikos is pleased to have secured aperfectly convenient fiancée, until Grace Donovan's impeccable beauty tempts himto pursue one last night of freedom… But that night, and the positive pregnancy testthat follows, blows Leo's plans apart! THE PERFECT CAZORLA WIFE by Michelle Smart Charley Cazorla strides back into her soon-to-beex-husband's life with a plan. Except Raul has his own ideas! To save Charley'sbusiness, the Spaniard demands his own payment: she must resume her role as the perfectwife—in every sense! THE MARAKAIOS BABY (The MarakaiosBrides) by Kate Hewitt Margo Ferras knows that she must give updevishly seductive Leo Marakaios in order to protect her heart. But when she discoversthat she's pregnant with his child, Margo walks back into Leo's life and asks himto marry her! CLAIMED FOR HIS DUTY (Greek Tycoons Tamed) by Tara Pammi Stavros Sporades agreed to marry heiress Leah Huntingtonto protect her, but now she's demanding a divorce! Stavros wants proof Leah'stroubled past is behind her, but one night of desire reveals that she might have beeninnocent all along…

Download or read book Thor written by Scott Hudspeth and published by Scott Hudspeth. This book was released on 2020-04-24 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Story about my dog.

Download or read book The New York Times Book Reviews 2000 written by New York Times Staff and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2001 with total page 1284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology examines Love's Labours Lost from a variety of perspectives and through a wide range of materials. Selections discuss the play in terms of historical context, dating, and sources; character analysis; comic elements and verbal conceits; evidence of authorship; performance analysis; and feminist interpretations. Alongside theater reviews, production photographs, and critical commentary, the volume also includes essays written by practicing theater artists who have worked on the play. An index by name, literary work, and concept rounds out this valuable resource.