Download or read book Ana Turns written by Lisa Gornick and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2023-11-07 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featured in Buzz Books 2023 Great Reads Fall/Winter "A wealth of keen insight and just the right touch of delightful humor." —Sigrid Nunez, author of The Friend A kaleidoscopic story, unspooling over the twenty-four hours of a very contemporary woman’s sixtieth birthday. Nine years have passed since Ana Koehl had sex with her pot-addicted anesthesiologist husband, seven since she began an affair with a gonzo journalist. She’s gratified by her work as a book doula, but burdened by her belief that she need always be on call. Her elderly mother’s birthday greeting is an inflation-adjusted calculation of the cost of raising Ana in a mice-infested house, her brother has hijacked the will of their recently deceased starchitect father, her adult child is changing rapidly before her eyes, and her best friend advocates for “the truth in lies.” Gazing out at the dark moat of Central Park from behind her desk, Ana sees that she can no longer postpone making peace with her past or confronting her present. Narrated by Ana and the key figures in her life—her husband, her brother, her lover’s wife, to name a few—Ana Turns spirals through issues from capital punishment to the dynamiting of the Bamiyan Buddhas, culminating in a watershed dinner party, with Ana’s family members’ true colors on full display. By day’s end, the bounds of her own collaboration and forgiveness illuminated, Ana turns towards a vision of what she wants next in this blink of a life.

Download or read book TAKING TURNS written by Ja Huss and published by Science Future Press. This book was released on 2017-01-11 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I've never been afraid of the dark...but that doesn't mean I wanted to live in it. And maybe everyone wants what they can't have, but I should've thought it over before I accepted the key and unlocked the door to their forbidden world. Number One is mostly silent. He watches me with them very carefully. His gaze never wanders. His interest never wanes. Number Two is mostly gentle. But it's the other side of him I like best. The wild side. Number Three is mostly reserved. He refuses to cross the line. Even when I beg. It was carnal, it was sensual, and it was erotic. That's it. That's all it was supposed to be. A trip into the dark. A peek into the forbidden. I just didn't expect to like them.

Download or read book Importing Madame Bovary written by E. Amann and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-12-11 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After its succès de scandale in France in 1856, Flaubert's Madame Bovary was widely adapted, sometimes so closely they were dismissed as plagiarism yet they achieved canonical status in their national traditions. This study traces Madame Bovary's journey abroad and asks why the novel was given such import in foreign literatures.

Download or read book Ovidia Yu written by Ovidia Yu and published by Epigram Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fall in love with Singapore’s most prominent feminist playwright. Ovidia Yu dissects all things female—from breasts to virginity, motherhood to lesbian love—and lays them bare in this omnibus collection of her finest works, including The Woman in a Tree on the Hill, the only Singapore play to win the Edinburgh Fringe First award.

Download or read book Real Women Have Curves written by Josefina López and published by Dramatic Publishing. This book was released on 1996 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Set in a tiny sewing factory in East L.A., this is the outrageously funny story of five full-figured Mexican-American women who are racing to meet nearly impossible production deadlines in order to keep their tiny factory from going under. And while they work, hiding from the INS (Immigration and Naturalization Service), they talk ... about their husbands and lovers, their children, their dreams for the future. The story is told from the point of view of Ana, the youngest among them. Just graduated from high school, Ana dreams of getting out of the barrio and going off to college and becoming a famous writer. Although she needs the money, Ana doesn't like working at the factory and has little respect for the coworkers, who make fun of her ambitions and what they consider her idealistic feminist philosophies. However, Ana keeps coming to her job and chronicling her experiences in a journal. As the summer unfolds, she slowly gains an understanding and appreciation of the work and the women, eventually writing an essay that wins her a journalism fellowship which will take her to New York City. This play, a microcosm of the Latina immigrant experience, celebrates real women's bodies, the power of women, and the incredible bond that happens when women work together."--Publisher description.

Download or read book Collage written by Osa Danielson Coffey and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Chattahoochee Valley Murders written by Thomas Linnell and published by Linrich Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-16 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Gunn goes to Columbus Georgia, from a call from the Police Chief of Columbus to come to Columbus. When Thomas gets there more murders with his attention. Can Thomas get behind the chaos or will it be the end?

Download or read book The Cancer Within written by Cristina A. Pop and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-13 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cancer Within examines cervical cancer in Romania as a point of entry into an anthropological reflection on contemporary health care. Fashioned by patriarchal relations, lived religion, and the historical trauma of pronatalism, Romanian women's responses to reproductive medicine and cervical cancer prevention are complicated by neoliberal reforms to medical care.

Download or read book Women Mysticism and Hysteria in Fin de Si cle Spain written by Jennifer Smith and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women, Mysticism, and Hysteria in Fin-de-Siècle Spain argues that the reinterpretation of female mysticism as hysteria and nymphomania in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Spain was part of a larger project to suppress the growing female emancipation movement by sexualizing the female subject. This archival-historical work highlights the phenomenon in medical, social, and literary texts of the time, illustrating that despite many liberals' hostility toward the Church, secular doctors and intellectuals employed strikingly similar paradigms to those through which the early modern Spanish Church castigated female mysticism as demonic possession. Author Jennifer Smith also directs modern historians to the writings of Emilia Pardo Bazán (1851-1921) as a thinker whose work points out mysticism's subversive potential in terms of the patriarchal order. Pardo Bazán, unlike her male counterparts, rejected the hysteria diagnosis and promoted mysticism as a path for women's personal development and self-realization.

Download or read book Hot Sour Salty Sweet written by Sherri L. Smith and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2008-02-12 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ana Shen has what her social studies teacher calls a “marvelously biracial, multicultural family” but what Ana simply calls a Chinese American father and an African American mother. And on eighth-grade graduation day, that’s a recipe for disaster. Both sets of grandparents are in town to celebrate, and Ana’s best friend has convinced her to invite Jamie Tabata–the cutest boy in school–for a home-cooked meal. Now Ana and her family have four hours to prepare their favorite dishes for dinner, and Grandma White and Nai Nai can’t agree on anything. Ana is tired of feeling caught between her grandparents and wishes she knew whose side she was supposed to be on. But when they all sit down for their hot, sour, salty, and sweet meal, Ana comes to understand how each of these different flavors, like family, fit perfectly together.

Download or read book Protect Series Boxed Set written by Jessa James and published by KSA Publishing Consultants. This book was released on with total page 613 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The High Priestess - 1: Damen Aetos. Mob boss. Madman. And soon to be my husband. He doesn’t care that I’m a virgin. Doesn’t care about my beauty. Nothing matters to him but my last name. By marrying me, the Madman ensures that a centuries-old bargain will be met. The fact that he gets me -- gets to do anything to me that he wants -- is just icing on the cake for him. But I have secrets too, lurking beneath my pretty surface. Secrets, lies, and a power greater than either of us can imagine. The question is, when The High Priestess comes calling, how will he respond? Provoke – 2: I meet her in a wedding dress, walking down the aisle towards my sworn enemy. Our eyes catch from across the room. And monster that I am, I know I have to have her. Not just because she is precious to my sworn enemy… but also because her wide blue eyes tell me things. That she’s afraid of me. That she’s even more afraid of my enemy. That she’ll do almost anything to escape him. I seize on her fear. I abduct her, while she’s screaming and fighting me. And that’s when our story begins. Punish – 3: Stolen and abducted… yet in the same stroke, saved. On one hand, I escaped certain death at the hands of people who have already hurt me. On the other, now I’m trapped with him. The rival of my abuser, who is every bit as terrifying. Dark and sinfully handsome, he wants me. He wants me to turn my back on the religion that has raised me. He wants me to spread my legs for him and him alone. He wants to punish me. He wants to teach me to like his lessons. Or else he’ll kill my little sister and turn me over to the men who controlled me before. Either way, I will have to make sacrifices. Sacrifices that have lasting consequences. I walk on the knife’s edge between falling prey again and completely losing myself. And if I’m not careful, I may end up worse than dead... Possess – 4: There is something blooming between my captor and I, hot and wet and fragile. Lust. Obsession. Maybe it’s even love. But there are still secrets that stand between us, looming large over whatever happiness we might find together. Dangerous secrets. Things worth killing over. If I reveal my secret to Dryas, he very well might die to protect me. The last thing I want is to confront those that hurt me without him at my side. But I might not get a choice, if Dryas has his way... Protect – 5: I wake up in the wreckage, ready to fight for Rue. Only she is gone, stolen away by my archenemy. I start to see red. No one touches my girl and expects to live. The deck is stacked against us. Emotions are running high. There is one thing that no one else realizes, though. Rue is mine, and I will get her back if it is the last f*cking thing I do.

Download or read book Killing for Her written by Alexis Abbott and published by Pathforgers Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-22 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She’s the Bratva’s pawn. An untouched prize, exchanged from one boss to another. she’d be deadly if she hadn’t been sheltered from the mafia's wicked world. Now she’s being thrust into it. Forced into a marriage to a man with a terrible temper and a cruel sense of torture. She deserves better. Better than him. Better than me. But I never said I’d save her out of the goodness in my heart. I’ll save her. I’ll protect her. I will claim her. Even if it means the wrath of every family in Brighton Beach descends upon me. Killing for Her is a standalone dark romance novel in the Hostages series from bestselling romance author Alexis Abbott! Safe from cheating. ___ Search Tags: dark mafia, bdsm romance, bratva romance, romantic suspense, anti-hero romance, obsession, possessive alpha male, captive romance, abducted romance, bondage, submissive, alpha male, dominant bad boy, russian hitman, steamy age gap romance, mafia romance good girl, russian mafia romance, russian mafia romance books, a dark mafia romance, mafia romance russian, dark russian mafia romance, bratva mafia romance, mafia romance hea, mafia romance suspense, dark mafia romance age gap, dark mafia captive romance, captive romance, hostages romance, erotic thriller You might enjoy Alexis Abbott's novels if you're a fan of: Jane Henry, Nora Ash, Natasha Knight, Renee Rose, Anna Zaires, Winter Sloane, Julia Sykes, A. Zavarelli, Kitty Thomas, CD Reiss, Jeanne St. James, Nicole Fox, Clarissa Wild, and Chelle Bliss

Download or read book Road to Juneau written by Liam Quane and published by Beaten Track Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York: two years after the Third World War. Humanity is rebuilding its cities brick by brick; the damage done to the people, however, is a lot harder to repair. Dan Hardacre is one of those people. An aspiring stage actor and experienced draft-dodger, Dan struggles to find his place within the Utopic rebuild of New York City. When he’s not caught up with the duties of work, Dan lives a quiet life in mourning for his mother, Dyani, who went missing when he was a teenager. One night, Dan experiences a vivid, terrifying nightmare that puts him right on the front lines of the war for which he dodged the draft; it ends with him facing Death itself in the form of a metallic, faceless humanoid creature that calls itself the Valkyrie. To investigate the reason behind his haunting experience, Dan seeks out a meeting with his estranged father, who reveals the startling truth about Dan’s dream: it wasn’t a dream. With this newfound knowledge and the powers it brings, Dan makes it his mission to return to the scene of his nightmare. However, he soon comes to know that confronting the Valkyrie not only endangers him but the war-withstanding world he leaves behind.

Download or read book Concerning Municipal Ownership written by Arthur Hastings Grant and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Concerning Municipal Ownership written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Love in Saint Tropez written by Jovana Banovic and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2024-09-13 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love in Saint Tropez is a captivating narrative of self-discovery, resilience, and renewal, woven with threads of love and hope. It delves deep into the soul’s journey, revealing the profound truth that, despite life’s tumultuous ebbs and flows, we possess the innate strength to rise anew. At the heart of this enlightening tale is Ana, a mirror to our own experiences, embodying the universal quest for meaning and belonging. Confronted with the timeless question of life’s unyielding constant, Ana embarks on a transformative journey back to the enchanting locales of her heritage: Saint Tropez and London. These places, rich in familial legacy and moments of profound inspiration, become the backdrop against which she rediscovers her capacity to love, shedding the restrictive chains of her history. With courage and an open heart, Ana ventures down the road of self-discovery, a journey poised to alter the course of her life in the most beautiful and unexpected ways. “Travels record stamps in passports, photo galleries in folders, magnets on refrigerators... Love in Saint Tropez is a story about the journey in which we discover ourselves and ‘stamp’ them in our personal passport of life. It is about the knowing that we are ready to stand up and rise in life and that there is no thing so precious as a personal passport that we filled with missed chances, new opportunities and remained eternally in love with life.” – Branko Rosic, bestselling author. “Jovana’s Love in Saint Tropez is a story about the power of love and how it can transform our lives and relationships. It’s a reminder that sometimes we just need to take a chance and let love in. It’s a beautiful reminder that real love does exist.” – Kosta Petrov, bestselling author.

Download or read book Eden Castle written by Carmen Haugen and published by Covenant Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2024-08-12 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A castle is a fortress, but also a refuge with a high tower. It is a strategic stronghold to protect and empower against attack for such a time as this. Eden Castle is a collection of forty stories written and illustrated by the author. Inspired by the best-selling book of all time, the concepts here can make an impact on readers and strengthen faith, values, and purpose. Everyone enjoys a castle adventure and a little romance, and there are several here. There is a good variety of stories about people and youth of many lands and past ages. A few humorous tales of animals are included, along with stories of historical discovery, science, and biblical perspectives. This faith-building book is family-friendly and wholesome, sharing uplifting hope for the future. It is perfect for home-school families and anyone who would like an encouraging book that touches the heart deeply and stays in the memory.