Download or read book Tea in the Harem written by Mehdi Charef and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lives of second-generation Algerians in a Paris housing project, the basis of the award-winning film.¶"Writing that is both dazzling and economical and a moral and aesthetic elegance that does not judge. The greatest attribute of this extraordinary first novel is its thirst for life."--Le Quotidien de Paris

Download or read book A Time for Tea written by Piya Chatterjee and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2001-11-29 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this creative, ethnographic, and historical critique of labor practices on an Indian plantation, Piya Chatterjee provides a sophisticated examination of the production, consumption, and circulation of tea. A Time for Tea reveals how the female tea-pluckers seen in advertisements—picturesque women in mist-shrouded fields—came to symbolize the heart of colonialism in India. Chatterjee exposes how this image has distracted from terrible working conditions, low wages, and coercive labor practices enforced by the patronage system. Allowing personal, scholarly, and artistic voices to speak in turn and in tandem, Chatterjee discusses the fetishization of women who labor under colonial, postcolonial, and now neofeudal conditions. In telling the overarching story of commodity and empire, A Time for Tea demonstrates that at the heart of these narratives of travel, conquest, and settlement are compelling stories of women workers. While exploring the global and political dimensions of local practices of gendered labor, Chatterjee also reflects on the privileges and paradoxes of her own “decolonization” as a Third World feminist anthropologist. The book concludes with an extended reflection on the cultures of hierarchy, power, and difference in the plantation’s villages. It explores the overlapping processes by which gender, caste, and ethnicity constitute the interlocked patronage system of villages and their fields of labor. The tropes of coercion, consent, and resistance are threaded through the discussion. A Time for Tea will appeal to anthropologists and historians, South Asianists, and those interested in colonialism, postcolonialism, labor studies, and comparative or international feminism. Designated a John Hope Franklin Center book by the John Hope Franklin Seminar Group on Race, Religion, and Globalization.

Download or read book Allison and the Torrid Tea Party written by C. M. Stunich and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-07 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holy fucking hearts.Did you just read that?!If you did, I need your advice.I met fallen angel princes; I met a Savage Duke; I met a Cheshire Cat.And remember--how could you possibly forget--I'm the fabled Alice from the prophecy.Just a twisted, dark version of the girl in Lewis Carroll's old books.Except in those books, there was a happy ending.In those books, Alice wasn't dating nine very different, very beautiful men.But now that I've met the King of Hearts and the Mad Hatter, I'm not sure who the real bad guys are.I'm the only one who can turn Underland back into Wonderland again.But if I have a chance to escape the blood, the death, and the intrigue in this place, should I take it?I'm Allison Liddell, and I've got a choice to make: stay here and fight the darkness, defeat the Anti-Alice, and survive the Torrid Tea Party ... or run.Tweedledee says I can change the world.So if you're reading this, will you help me decide what I should do?I want to go home, but I can't leave this place as broken as I found it, now can I?ALLISON AND THE TORRID TEA PARTY (Book 2 of 3 in the "Harem of Hearts" series) -- is a full-length reverse harem/new adult/dark romance novel, a gritty retelling of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland". Don't expect a children's tale; these characters are nothing like their more innocent counterparts. This book contains: drugs, cursing, violence, sex ... and love found in the darkest shadows.

Download or read book BANISHED TO THE HAREM written by Carol Marinelli and published by Harlequin / SB Creative. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 【A story by USA Today bestselling author becomes a comic!】Natasha went to the London police to report the theft of her car, and she met Rakhal, the crown prince of a Middle Eastern country. His beautiful face and hypnotic eyes captured her heart instantly and drew her into a sensual night. She knew it could only ever be a memory for her. Yet, despite everything, Rakhal whisked her away to his own country the next morning. Will Natasha and Rakhal be able to find a love between two worlds?

Download or read book The Harem Master written by Megan Derr and published by Less Than Three Press, LLC. This book was released on 2015 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lord Demir has spent his life trying to appease a brutal, selfish king, and keep the concubines under his care alive—and now he is on the verge of losing everything. The council wants to abolish the harems, there are no heirs to the throne, and the foreigners control the Steward. One wrong move will tip tensions into civil war. Crown Prince Ihsan returns to find his home in turmoil, and the royal court so full of vipers it's impossible to say which of them will strike first. Removing his father from the throne, one way or another, should be a simple matter. Staying alive and proving himself a worthy king will be far more difficult. Crown Princess Euren has spent the last five years in hiding so that she could not be used against her father or Ihsan. But she is the daughter of a soldier, never meant to wear a crown, never trained to fight battles where words are the weapon of choice. If she hopes to keep herself and her loved ones alive, she'll have to learn fast.

Download or read book Harem written by Dora Levy Mossanen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rich in visual imagery, Harem vividly depicts the exotic bazaars and dangerous alleys of the city and palace chambers brimming with conspiracy and betrayal—as well as love and redemption. A seductive and intriguing journey from the humble Persian Jewish quarter to the fascinating world of shahs, soothsayers, eunuchs, and sultanas, Harem follows three generations of strong-willed and cunning women: Rebekah—a poor girl married to the abusive blacksmith, Jacob the fatherless—who emerges from her disastrous match with a mysterious brand between her breasts; Gold Dust, Rebekah's treasured daughter, who enters the opulent and perilous world of the harem and captivates the shah with her singing bones; and Gold Dust's daughter, the revered and feared albino princess Raven, who will one day rule the empire.

Download or read book Fear written by Gabriel Chevallier and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2014-05-20 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NYRB Classics Original Winner of the Scott Moncrieff Prize for Translation A young soldier learns the true meaning of fear amidst the carnage of World War I in this literary masterpiece and “one of the most effective indictments of war ever written” (Wall Street Journal) 1915: Jean Dartemont heads off to the Great War, an eager conscript. The only thing he fears is missing the action. Soon, however, the vaunted “war to end all wars” seems like a war that will never end—whether mired in the trenches or going over the top, Jean finds himself caught in the midst of an unimaginable, unceasing slaughter. After he is wounded, he returns from the front to discover a world where no one knows or wants to know any of this. Both the public and the authorities go on talking about heroes—and sending more men to their graves. But Jean refuses to keep silent. He will speak the forbidden word. He will tell them about fear. John Berger has called Fear “a book of the utmost urgency and relevance.” A literary masterpiece, it is also an essential and unforgettable reckoning with the terrible war that gave birth to a century of war.

Download or read book Allison s Adventures in Underland written by C. M. Stunich and published by . This book was released on 2017-12-17 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Um. Um. Um.Are you reading this?If you are, I need your help.I was at a party; I was running; I fell.And get this--this is the part you'll never believe--I fell down a rabbit hole.Like Alice in those old books.Except in those books, there wasn't blood everywhere.In those books, the characters weren't all male, attractive, and interested in me.Forget everything you know about the Mad Hatter, the White Rabbit, the March Hare ...This isn't Wonderland; this is Underland.Violence, sex, drugs, and magic ... that's all there is in this place.There's me, Allison, and there are the men that want me, the enemies that hunt me, and the darkness that's quickly rolling in.And only I can stop it.So if you're reading this, will you help me?Please. I just want to escape this place and go ... home.ALLISON'S ADVENTURES IN UNDERLAND (Book 1 of 3 in the "Harem of Hearts" series) -- is a full-length reverse harem/new adult/dark romance novel, a gritty retelling of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland". Don't expect a children's tale; these characters are nothing like their more innocent counterparts. This book contains: drugs, cursing, violence, sex ... and love found in the darkest shadows.

Download or read book Tea Time with the Dead written by M. Sinclair and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-22 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I hadn't been wrong about the trouble I'd felt brewing. Now, the problem was here to stay unless we could figure out a plan. A plan to stop Nero from trying to take New Orleans from me. A plan to stop Asmodeus from kidnapping me to the demonic realm. Hell. A plan to figure out what I was going to do about these six men in my life.So how better to spend it than having a tea party for the dead! Right? Seems logical. Trust me, there is a solid reason for holding such a morbid sounding event. Now if only I could figure out how to follow all these ridiculous rules of etiquette. *PNR/Fantasy RH* This is a light-hearted, semi-satirical, and fairly fast-paced reverse harem. You can bet that our characters will be swearing up a storm in New Orleans and expect elements of horror such as gore, violence, and an array of other topics dealing with death. Sexual themes are suitable for mature audiences. +18 The Dead and Not So Dead series is a trilogy. Book 2 will end on a cliff hanger.

Download or read book The Angst Ridden Executive written by Manuel Vazquez Montalban and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing one of crime fiction’s most legendary detectives, and greatest writers, to America When Antonio Jauma, a director of the multinational conglomerate Petnay, is murdered, his widow seeks out private investigator Pepe Carvalho, who had met and forgotten the playboy executive after their single chance encounter—back when Carvalho still worked for the CIA. Jauma was a “womanizer,” according to a friend, “of the least pleasant sense,” and the police have decided that the murder is the work of an unhappy pimp. But Carvalho doggedly pursues his own phlegmatic investigation, with time out for his signature book burning (Sartre’s Critique of Dialectical Reasoning; Sholokov’s And Quiet Flows the Don), cooking (leek soup and a freshly-caught steamed turbot), and running with his girlfriend Charo, whose last name he can’t remember.

Download or read book Harem written by Colin Falconer and published by . This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colin Falconer is the best selling author of WHEN WE WERE GODS and AZTEC and over twenty other novels. His books have been translated into seventeen languages. "A page-turner . . . This peek behind the walls of the seraglio will seduce lovers of large-scale historical fiction." - Booklist He had everything a man might dream of; wealth, power and the choice of hundreds of the most beautiful women in his Empire. Why then did he forsake his harem for the love of just one woman, and marry her in defiance of the centuries-old code of the Osmanlis? This is the astonishing story of Suleiman, the one they called the Magnificent, and the woman he loved. Suleiman controlled an empire of thirty million people, encompassing twenty different languages. As a man, he was an enigma; he conquered all who stood against him with one of the world's first full time professional armies - yet he liked to write poetry; he ravaged half of Europe but he rebuilt Istanbul in marble; he had teams of torturers and assassins ready to unleash at a whim - yet history remembers him as a great lawmaker. ''Harem' literally means 'Forbidden': Forbidden to men. Once the Sultan was the only man - the only complete man - who could pass through its iron-studded doors. But what was that world really like? For a woman living in the Harem the only way out was to somehow find her way into the Sultan's bed and bear him a son. But the young Sultan was often away at war and when he did return he neglected his harem for just one favourite wife. But one young Russian concubine inside his seraglio was not content to allow fate decide the course of her life. She was clever and she was ruthless. And she had a plan. Into this world are drawn two unforgettable characters; a beautiful young Italian noblewoman, captured by corsairs and brought to the Harem as a concubine; and the eunuch who loved her once, long ago, in Venice. Loved her? He still stopped loving her . From medieval Venice to the slave markets of Algiers, from the mountains of Persia to the forbidden seraglio of the Ottoman's greatest sultan, this is a tale of passion and intrigue in a world where nothing is really as it seems.

Download or read book Green Tea and Black Death written by Amy Sumida and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-08-11 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One sip from the Grayel has made Vervain Lavine immortal. She's finally truly a goddess but that doesn't mean she can't die, just that the task of killing her has become much harder for those gods who want her dead. That list seems to be getting longer and the latest name on it is Xi Wangmu, The Chinese Plague and Tiger Goddess. Xi Wangmu has come to Hawaii and she's brought Black Death with her. As the Godhunter races to catch a tiger by her toe, more and more obstacles are thrown in her way. From an unhappy alpha werewolf to the headaches of her human family, it looks like Vervain's going to need a little help this time. Being a goddess isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Download or read book Postcolonial Paris written by Laila Amine and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2018-06-12 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expanding the narrow script of what it means to be Parisian, Laila Amine explores the novels, films, and street art made by Maghrebis, Franco-Arabs, and African Americans, including fiction by Charef, Chraïbi, Sebbar, Baldwin, Smith, and Wright, and such films as La haine, Made in France, Chouchou, and A Son.

Download or read book Bonds of Cupidity written by Raven Kennedy and published by Random House. This book was released on 2023-09-28 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She found love. Now, she needs to try and keep it. She spent years in the Veil as an invisible cupid. Unable to talk, touch or love anyone, which made her a little bitter. Now, Emelle has a life . . . and a bounty on her head. The fae prince wants her dead, and her three gorgeous genfins are arrested. The royal culling trials are about to begin, but Emelle isn't going to let everything be taken from her without a fight. There's rebellion in the air, a princess who's not all she appears to be and a lamassu fae who claims to be Emelle's mate. Love is getting complicated. But to a cupid, it always is. Bonds of Cupidity is Book Two in the fun, addictive and sexy Heart Hassle series Gild, Glint and Gleam, Sunday Times bestsellers, April 2023

Download or read book Blood Crown written by Elizabeth Brown and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Deafening Silence written by Rowan Thalia and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nine years she suffered, but no more. Her new name is Mia Harlow, and she is ready to live again.It took a near death experience, but Mia got away. She's rebuilt her life from the ground up, and after three long years, she's found a reason to live again. Everything is going great until her neighbor is attacked, and the past threatens to engulf Mia again. Just when she thinks all is lost, three amazing men waltz into her life. Their complementary personalities and differing strengths bind the broken pieces that her ex-husband left behind.While Mia is healing and learning what love is supposed to be, a serial killer is on the prowl. Molly Manhunter stalks the city looking for rapists. She ensnares them with the one thing they've been accused of abusing - sex, and uses it to extinguish their lives. Molly is determined to fight against the silence that gets swept under the rug of justice, and Mia is caught up in the search for her neighbor's abuser. Will the two women cross paths? When push comes to shove, will Mia's newfound bonds weather the storm? Can one woman break the Deafening Silence, or will she become another victim to the system?Deafening Silence book one in the Manhunter trilogy. It is a dark reverse harem romance about an abuse survivor. The MC will not choose between her love interests. Expect dark elements and explicit scenes. If such scenes will offend or trigger you, please do not buy this book.

Download or read book The Judgement written by Ruby Vincent and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-16 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All is not right at Breakbattle Academy. And it's not just because the Elites discovered my secret. Cole, Landon, and Michael were never supposed to know. But then, I was also never supposed to forgive them... or fall in love. I'm losing control. I can't stop now. I can't undo what I've done. I came here for one purpose, but I may lose what is most important in the process. And if someone has their way, I will lose everything else. The balance of power is shifting. What began as peaceful protests are spiraling into something more dangerous... even deadly. The Elite Class can't stop what's coming next, but I've sacrificed everything to be one of them. What will my boys have to sacrifice for me? The Execution is a reverse harem high school bully romance. This is year three in the series and features language, dark themes, and sexual scenes. If you're cool with that, dive in!