Download or read book Shame Shame I Know Your Name written by Heather Harlen and published by Northampton House Press. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's been a few months since small-town event planner Marina Konyeshna survived a pursuit by international human traffickers, then a mine collapse. Marina's friends have questioned the empty whipped-cream vodka bottles and the new tattoo, but she thinks they're overreacting. Her love life is perking up, but it's not clear how long her new guy will wait on the sidelines while she buries herself in work.Marina can't pack her bags fast enough when a blast from the past offers her the opportunity to work with Russia's richest woman. In Moscow, Marina's at first thrilled to find herself taken for a glamorous Moscow pop singer, who could be her twin . But she soon finds there's more to being a celebrity than designer clothes and red carpet events. What follows is a return to the dark world of human trafficking, this time peering into the Red Market, where the human body is currency in ways she never imagined possible. Determined to take these criminal syndicates down with the help of some old and new friends, Marina must learn what it takes to survive - physically, mentally, emotionally, and culturally - thousands of miles from home.
Download or read book God Knows Your Name written by Catherine Campbell and published by Monarch Books. This book was released on 2012-07-25 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea that God is interested in us as individuals is an unfamiliar concept to many, while rejection has become a fact of life. This book encourages the reader to embrace the truth of a personal God; one with whom we do not need to struggle to gain recognition, who intervenes and acts on our behalf. A God who knows our name! Each of the six chapters contains two sections, dealing with situations of rejection. Each tells the story of an individual from the Bible narrative, explaining how God stepped in to change their situation, thus revealing how important they were to Him. The second, connecting story, tells of a present day individual in similar circumstances and how God also positively intervened in their lives. These are true stories, using carefully researched material for authenticity and accuracy. The stories are told with remarkable power and conviction.
Download or read book The Chronicles of Tania written by Lacey Webs and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-04-17 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans. Tania wanted to know whether he had had the stitches removed from his sides yet. You see the life she was living, in no way resembled the one she wistfully planned in her youth. Then there was her relentless search to find Mr Right, only to find Mr Right in a good light. Falling foul of her ousted sister-in-law Freda, with her latest get-rich-quick scheme; and her on-going, but failing, battle of the bulge, dashing all hopes of her achieving her true calling as a sex goddess. Finally, her yearning for a perfect, incorruptible, miserable David Grayson, her colleague/fantasy lover. Throw in her family into this mix, who if they were described as dysfunctional, it would be viewed as an elevation in status!
Download or read book No Easy Answers written by Donald R. Gallo and published by Laurel Leaf. This book was released on 1999-01-12 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology features stories about individuals who find themselves in situations that test their strength of character. They are called upon to make moral choices, face the consequences of their actions, and consider what it means to "do the right thing. " From computer blackmail, peer pressure, and gang violence to drug use, unwanted pregnancy, guilt and atonement, these characters face decisions that may affect the rest of their lives. There are many tough choices; there are no easy answers.
Download or read book Shame written by Salman Akhtar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-29 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A late-comer to psychoanalytic theorizing, 'shame' results from a disjunction between the ego and the ego-ideal. A complex psychosocial experience, it is comprised of a painful exposure of one's vulnerable aspects, rupture of self-continuity, and a sense of isolation. The figure-ground harmony of 'going-on-being' is disrupted and the individual feels alone and watched by others. Shame pushes for hiding and thus intensifies the experience of isolation. Seeking to advance clinicians' empathy and therapeutic skills in this realm, in this book ten distinguished analysts discuss shame from various perspectives. These include its developmental substrate, its vicissitudes during adolescence, and its manifestations in the course of aging and infirmity. The authors discuss shame from a cross-cultural viewpoint and note how shame-driven search for power and glory can turn malignant and societally destructive. They also address shamelessness, the link between shame and laziness, and the shame that underlies the inability to apologize.
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 1256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Story teller s World written by R. K. Narayan and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 1989 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Essential R.K. Narayan. Forty Essays, Travel Pieces, Character Sketches And Short Stories From India S Greatest Living Novelist, The Majority Collected Here For The First Time. The Three Sections Of The Book- The Fiction-Writer , Short Essays And Malgudi Sketches And Stories -Provide A Rare Glimpse Into R.K. Narayan S Beginnings As A Writer And His Evolution Into A World-Renowned Novelist. More Importantly, Each Essay And Story Is In Itself A Triumph Of Narayan S Genius As A Close And Perceptive Observer Of The Small And Ordinary Things Of Life. Finally, Taken Together, The Pieces In This Collection (On Crowds, Films, Restaurants, Clothes, Cats, The English Language And School-Children Among Others) Give The Reader Fresh Insights Into The Distinctive Aspects Of The Indian South Which Finally Achieved Immortality In The Fictional World Of Malgudi. With An Introduction By Syd Harrex
Download or read book White Teeth written by Zadie Smith and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2003-05-20 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The blockbuster debut novel from "a preternaturally gifted" writer (The New York Times) and author of On Beauty and Swing Time—set against London's racial and cultural tapestry, reveling in the ecstatic hodgepodge of modern life, flirting with disaster, and embracing the comedy of daily existence. Zadie Smith’s dazzling debut caught critics grasping for comparisons and deciding on everyone from Charles Dickens to Salman Rushdie to John Irving and Martin Amis. But the truth is that Zadie Smith’s voice is remarkably, fluently, and altogether wonderfully her own. At the center of this invigorating novel are two unlikely friends, Archie Jones and Samad Iqbal. Hapless veterans of World War II, Archie and Samad and their families become agents of England’s irrevocable transformation. A second marriage to Clara Bowden, a beautiful, albeit tooth-challenged, Jamaican half his age, quite literally gives Archie a second lease on life, and produces Irie, a knowing child whose personality doesn’t quite match her name (Jamaican for “no problem”). Samad’s late-in-life arranged marriage (he had to wait for his bride to be born), produces twin sons whose separate paths confound Iqbal’s every effort to direct them, and a renewed, if selective, submission to his Islamic faith. “[White Teeth] is, like the London it portrays, a restless hybrid of voices, tones, and textures…with a raucous energy and confidence.” —The New York Times Book Review
Download or read book It s Not About the Burqa written by Mariam Khan and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When was the last time you heard a Muslim woman speak for herself without a filter? It's Not About the Burqa is an anthology of essays by Muslim women about the contemporary Muslim female experience. In 2016, Mariam Khan read that David Cameron had linked the radicalization of Muslim men to the ‘traditional submissiveness’ of Muslim women. Mariam felt pretty sure she didn’t know a single Muslim woman who would describe herself that way. Why was she hearing about Muslim women from people who were neither Muslim, nor female? Years later the state of the national discourse has deteriorated even further, and Muslim women’s voices are still pushed to the fringes – the figures leading the discussion are white and male. Taking one of the most politicized and misused words associated with Muslim women and Islamophobia, It’s Not About the Burqa is poised to change all that. Here are voices you won’t see represented in the national news headlines: seventeen Muslim women speaking frankly about the hijab and wavering faith, about love and divorce, about feminism, queer identity, sex, and the twin threats of a disapproving community and a racist country. With a mix of British and international women writers, from activist Mona Eltahawy's definition of a revolution to journalist and broadcaster Saima Mir telling the story of her experience of arranged marriage, from author Sufiya Ahmed on her Islamic feminist icon to playwright Afshan D'souza-Lodhi's moving piece about her relationship with her hijab, these essays are funny, warm, sometimes sad, and often angry, and each of them is a passionate declaration calling time on the oppression, the lazy stereotyping, the misogyny and the Islamophobia. What does it mean, exactly, to be a Muslim woman in the West today? According to the media, it’s all about the burqa. Here’s what it’s really about. Shortlisted for Foyles Non-Fiction Book of the Year 'An incredibly important collection of essays that explores the pressures of being a Muslim woman today . . . passionate, angry, self-effacing, nuanced and utterly compelling in every single way' - Nikesh Shukla, editor of The Good Immigrant 'Engrossing . . . fascinating . . . courageous' – Observer
Download or read book The Inheritance of Loss written by Kiran Desai and published by Atlantic Monthly Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas, lives an embittered judge who wants only to retire in peace from a world he has found too messy for justice, when his orphaned granddaughter, Sai, arrives on his doorstep. The judge's cook watches over her distractedly, for his thoughts are claimed by his son, Biju, who is hopscotching from one gritty New York restaurant to another, trying to stay a step ahead of the INS on an elusive search for a green card that "was not even green."" "When an Indian-Nepali insurgency in the mountains interrupts Sai's exploration of the many incarnations and facets of a romance with her Nepali tutor, and causes their lives to descend into chaos, they are forced to consider their colliding interests. The cook witnesses the hierarchy being overturned and discarded. The judge must revisit his past, his own journey and role in their intertwining histories."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Women s Sexuality and Modern India written by Amrita Narayanan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-31 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the first and second decade of the millennium, women across the world reconsidered the sexual roles they had been playing under patriarchy. The 2012 protests in India triggered some of this global change, ushering Indians squarely into the desired yet uncomfortable " third wave" feminism which demands the recognition of women as sexual subjects. Beginning from the premise that each country is in a unique relationship to patriarchy, Women's Sexuality in India: In a Rapture of Distress offers pictures of how individual Indian women locate their sexuality amidst the fantasies of Indian patriarchy, and of world culture that imagine their sexuality for them. Built from a data set of upper-middle class women, the book opens up a number of provocative questions. How is dismantling the patriarchy in the imagination different from fighting patriarchy in the outer world? What aspects of sex under patriarchy do women want to give up, and what would they like to keep? What conflicts unfold when daughters welcome as "sexual liberation" ideas that their mothers believed had "come from the west", a west that has been, until fairly recently, a hated colonial oppressor? How did the control of upper-middle class women's sexuality serve as an anchor for collective anxieties about the inherent instability of gender and sexuality? What is the nature of the spectator effect when post-sexual revolution countries listen to the sexuality narratives of countries like India that have not had a sexual revolution?
Download or read book Ida written by Gertrude Stein and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gertrude Stein wanted "Ida" to be known in two ways: as a novel about a woman in the age of celebrity culture and as a text with its own story to tell. With the publication of this workshop edition of "Ida," we have the novel exactly as it was published in 1941, and we also have the full record of its creation. Logan Esdale offers informative critical commentary and judiciously selected archival materials to illuminate Stein's experience of authorship from the novel's beginning in early summer 1937, through the various drafts and negotiations with her publisher, to the reviews that greeted the book's publication. Stein's careful and systematic preservation of all "Ida"-related materials for her archive at the Yale University Library was a conscious decision, and an invitation for us to study the complexity of her creative process.
Download or read book Mad e In India written by Tarika Roy and published by Om Books International. This book was released on 2021-09-25 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mad(e) In India is a frank and funny exploration of India and Indians. With disarming wit, this book explores Indianness and its many facets—who we are as a people and a nation, our quirks, superstitions, myriad gods and goddesses and holy men, our packed cities and streets, our obsession with film stars and filmy style, our jugaadu ways of solving all problems big and small, our diverse cuisines, cultural traditions and art forms, and the unity in diversity that bridges our superficial differences. The authors skillfully showcase the qualities that quintessentially make up the idea of India. Diverse and complex as India is, readers are sure to understand it better and delve into its warm and generous heart as they turn the pages. Written in a conversational style, generously spiced with humour and insight, and interspersed with a rich variety of Indian phrases, this book is an entertaining and light-hearted read.
Download or read book One Man s Life and Thoughts written by Chuck Johnson and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SING ONE SONG FOR ME Now it was just a simple casket made of pine and iron nails, Without a trace of carving or any polished brass for rails. It was assembled from a broken box splintered from abuse, Yet it had a simple beauty despite the way it had been used. It was placed before the altar on a stand of polished stone, A simple casket made of pine for a loved ones fi nal home. Only present there was silence not a choir was there to sing, Not one voice to sing his praises not a single human being. I cannot forget my sadness when they took the casket down, And placed it in a six foot hole beneath the cold, cold ground. Not one voice had sung his praises not a soul was there to see, And I wondered at my passing who would sing a song for me. Charles T. Johnson 9/20/96 “Sing One Song For Me” is a poem based on a song done by the Stanley Brothers called “Who Will Sing For Me.” It has been one of those songs that have always touched me deeply. I have spent a great deal of time alone, and I can relate to one asking if there will be anyone that will sing for me.
Download or read book The Book of Lisa written by Lisa Gaines and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Thornton Wilder written by Gertrude Stein and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letters trace the friendship between Stein and Wilder from late 1934 until Stein's death in 1946
Download or read book Those Broken Whispers Volume I written by Juju's Pearls, and published by Ukiyoto Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12-08 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the silence of unspoken thoughts, some truths linger, waiting for the courage of words to set them free, unlocking the power of unvoiced emotions.
