Mothers Lovers And Other Strangers

Author : Bhaichand Patel
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781447248071

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Mothers, Lovers and Other Strangers by Bhaichand Patel Pdf

The past is a ruthless hunter ... Ravi’s idyllic childhood ended the day he watched his mother, Radha, climb into a truck in the wee hours of the morning. Abandoned with his disease-stricken father, Mahesh, Ravi is hurtled into adulthood and the big, bad world. But respite from hardship is brief as father and son are parted and Ravi escapes to Mumbai to find fame and fortune in the big city. Here, in the hustle and bustle of the metropolis, Ravi can forget his past and concentrate on building a future as a successful Bollywood composer. He meets Sandhya, a beautiful, educated young socialite and is engaged to marry her. But when a body is found on the railway tracks, Ravi’s charmed existence is threatened by police enquiries that probe into his past.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9382616098

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Mother, Lovers and Other Languages by Anonim Pdf

Author : Carol Malyon
Publisher : The Porcupine's Quill
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0889841691

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Lovers & Other Strangers by Carol Malyon Pdf

Carol Malyon writes of women's lives, of their relationships with lovers, mothers, children, other women. She explores the relationships between memory and truth. "Lovers & Other Strangers" consists of small stories, snapshots of women's lives in specific times and situations. The setting and characters vary but the theme remains fixed: that there is a fundamental and irreconcilable discord between men and women, in their view of the world, their modes of communication, the way they view themselves, the way they view others. Carol Malyon's stories are nearly all unconventionally brief and intense in feeling. They are essentially a poet's stories but they most definitely are not that revolting hybrid prose-poetry'. This writing is hard, direct, forceful. She is among those writers who are forcing us to reconsider the nature and form of the short story in Canada. The stories are often prickly. They illuminate, but illuminate darkly. Malyon gazes down into the emotional chasm which seems to seperate men and women, parents and children, and the images she brings to the surface are not quite like anything you've read before ... though you recognize them and know they're true. Perhaps the only Canadian stories at all comparable are those of Carol Shields in "Various Miracles" and "The Orange Fish."

Author : Gina Sorell
Publisher : Prospect Park Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781938849909

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Mothers and Other Strangers by Gina Sorell Pdf

"My father proposed to my mother at gunpoint when she was nineteen, and knowing that she was already pregnant with a dead man’s child, she accepted." Thus begins this riveting story of a woman's quest to understand her recently deceased mother, a glamorous, cruel narcissist who left her only child an inheritance of debts, threats, and mysteries.

Author : Richard B. Miller
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780231541558

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Friends and Other Strangers by Richard B. Miller Pdf

Friends and Other Strangers argues for expanding the field of religious ethics to address the normative dimensions of culture, interpersonal desires, friendships and family, and institutional and political relationships. Richard B. Miller urges religious ethicists to turn to cultural studies to broaden the range of the issues they address and to examine matters of cultural practice and cultural difference in critical and self-reflexive ways. Friends and Other Strangers critically discusses the ethics of ethnography; ethnocentrism, relativism, and moral criticism; empathy and the ethics of self-other attunement; indignation, empathy, and solidarity; the meaning of moral responsibility in relation to children and friends; civic virtue, war, and alterity; the normative and psychological dimensions of memory; and religion and democratic public life. Miller challenges distinctions between psyche and culture, self and other, and uses the concepts of intimacy and alterity as dialectical touchstones for examining the normative dimensions of self-other relationships. A wholly contemporary, global, and interdisciplinary work, Friends and Other Strangers illuminates aspects of moral life ethicists have otherwise overlooked.

Author : Suad Amiry
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593466940

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Mother of Strangers by Suad Amiry Pdf

Set in Jaffa in between 1947 and 1951, this “fable-like historical novel of young love ... darkly humorous and touching” (Oprah Daily) is based on a true story during the beginning of the destruction of Palestine and displacement of its people. Based on the true story of two Jaffa teenagers, Mother of Strangers follows the daily lives of Subhi, a fifteen-year-old mechanic, and Shams, the thirteen-year-old student he hopes to marry one day. In this prosperous and cosmopolitan port city, with its bustling markets, cinemas, and cafés on the hills overlooking the Mediter­ranean Sea, we meet many other unforgettable charac­ters as well, including Khawaja Michael, the elegant and successful owner of orange groves above the harbor; Mr. Hassan, the tailor who makes Subhi’s treasured English suit, which he hopes will change his life; and the very mischievous and outrageous Uncle Habeeb, who insists on introducing Subhi to the local bordello. With a thriving orange export business, Jaffa had always been a city welcoming to outsiders—the “Mother of Strangers”—where Muslims, Jews, and Christians lived peacefully together. Once the bombardment of the city begins in April 1948, Suad Amiry gives us the grim but fascinating details of the shock, panic, and destruc­tion that ensues. Jaffa becomes unrecognizable, with neighborhoods flattened, families removed from their homes and separated, and those who remain in constant danger of arrest and incarceration. Most of the popula­tion flees eastward to Jordan or by sea to Lebanon in the north or to Egypt and Gaza in the south. Subhi and Shams will never see each other again. Suad Amiry has written a vivid and devastating ac­count of a seminal moment in the history of the Middle East—the beginning of the end of Palestine and a por­trait of a city irrevocably changed.

Author : Carole Burns
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780393244342

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Off the Page: Writers Talk About Beginnings, Endings, and Everything In Between by Carole Burns Pdf

A guide where today’s best writers reveal their secrets. How do writers approach a new novel? Do they start with plot, character, or theme? A. S. Byatt starts with color. E. L. Doctorow begins with an image. In Off the Page, authors tell us how they work, giving insight into their writing process. Gathered from some of today’s best writers—Paul Auster, Martin Amis, Gish Jen, Dan Chaon, Alice McDermott, and many others interviewed on washingtonpost.com’s “Off the Page” series—host Carole Burns has woven their wisdom into chapters illuminating to any writer or reader. How does place influence authors? How do they make a sex scene work? How do they tell when the work is done? Walter Mosley defying genre; Shirley Hazzard on love; Michael Cunningham on compassion: these and more from Richard Ford, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Charles Baxter will deepen your appreciation for the art of writing and excite you to try new ways of writing yourself.

Author : Pellegrino D'Acierno
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Art
ISBN : 0815303807

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The Italian American Heritage by Pellegrino D'Acierno Pdf

A collection of 27 original essays, some formal and some personal, document the history of Italian American culture for general readers and for teachers of multicultural studies. They investigate Italian-American identity and contributions to American culture through accounts of everyday life, fiction, films, poetry, music, customs, traditions, social mores, religion, and other features. Among the contributors are an anthropologist, a playwright, several poets and novelists, a singer, an opera critic, and several literary critics and cultural historians. The chronology begins of course with 1492; the lexicon does not indicate pronunciation. Double spaced. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : LC Giroux
Publisher : L.C. Giroux
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Love , Stranger than Fiction by LC Giroux Pdf

Psst… I’ve got a secret and I want to share it. If you join my reader’s group I’ll send you Pay Back, the second book in my Lovers and Other Strangers series, and the Lovers and Other Strangers series: The Short Stories free. To sign up all you have to do is go to my website! You can find all of my books listed there along with longer excerpts. Hope to see you soon! Love was for other people. Wren Frey has watched her brother and her best friend get married and live happily ever after. For her and her daughter she knows that day will never come. Other people he can trust, it's himself he can't Ian Wills spent half his life fighting in the marines, as a vice-principal the battles are different but the victories are more personal. This friends to lovers story shows sometimes the sweetest rewards come to those that need them most.

Author : Amy Bourret
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429929529

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Mothers and Other Liars by Amy Bourret Pdf

How far will a mother go to save her child? Ten years ago, Ruby Leander was a drifting nineteen-year-old who made a split-second decision at an Oklahoma rest stop. Fast forward nine years: Ruby and her daughter Lark live in New Mexico. Lark is a precocious, animal loving imp, and Ruby has built a family for them with a wonderful community of friends and her boyfriend of three years. Life is good. Until the day Ruby reads a magazine article about parents searching for an infant kidnapped by car-jackers. Then Ruby faces a choice no mother should have to make. A choice that will change both her and Lark's lives forever.

Author : LC Giroux
Publisher : L.C. Giroux
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Second Chance at Salvation by LC Giroux Pdf

Psst… I’ve got a secret and I want to share it. If you join my reader’s group I’ll send you Pay Back, the second book in my Lovers and Other Strangers series, and the Lovers and Other Strangers series: The Short Stories free. To sign up all you have to do is go to my website! You can find all of my books listed there along with longer excerpts. Hope to see you soon! They say you get stronger in the broken places but when it comes to your heart that can be hard to believe. Sarina Camenitti just wanted to get her car fixed and get on with her life, falling in love was not on the itinerary. She'd done that once and it almost killed her, literally. Ransom Sheppard had loved once, it ended badly and he was a man that prided himself on not making the same mistake twice. Both had failed at love the first time around. If they can learn to trust again, maybe the second chance would be even sweeter.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1997-09
Category : Theater
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020780370

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Playbill by Anonim Pdf

Author : Adrian Thatcher
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1850759480

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Marriage After Modernity by Adrian Thatcher Pdf

This book offers nothing less than a new vision for Christian marriage at a time of unprecedented social and theological change. It breaks new ground in drawing on earlier traditions of betrothal and informal marriage in welcoming some forms of pre-marital cohabitation, and provides a new defence of the link between marriage and procreation by sketching a theology of liberation for children. Christian principles for the use of contraception by married and not-yet-married couples are restated, and a comprehensive theology of marriage is worked out, based on re-worked biblical models. Marriage as a Christian sacrament, mutually administered in a lifelong partnership of equals is affirmed. A chapter on divorce brings new light to bear on legitimate theological grounds for 'the parting of the ways'. The question of whether marriage is a heterosexual institution is addressed, and particular attention is paid throughout the book to overcoming the distorting effect of the overwhelming androcentric bias of much Christian thought on marriage, to the experience of wives, and to all those women and men for whom marriage is not their vocation.

Author : Kaye Ballard
Publisher : Backstage Books
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2005-12-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0823084787

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How I Lost 10 Pounds in 53 Years by Kaye Ballard Pdf

An unforgettable memoir from a legendary trouper From burlesque to vaudeville to big bands and nightclubs, from movies to television to Broadway, Kaye Ballard has seen it all and done it all. Now she tells it all, in a gossipy, upbeat memoir filled with great anecdotes about hanging out at the Actor’s Studio with Marlon Brando...playing Greenwich Village cabarets in the 1950s...performing with Lenny Bruce at the Hungry I...doing live television in the 1950s andThe Mothers-in-Lawin the 1960s. Meet Lucille Ball, Carol Burnett, Bette Davis, Barbra Streisand, Doris Day, Judy Garland, Rogers and Hammerstein, Paul Lynde, Jimmy Durante, Bert Lahr, and practically everyone else in showbiz in the last sixty years, through the eyes and distinctive voice of the inimitable Kaye Ballard. Affectionate, amazing, and impossible to put down,How I Lost 10 Pounds in 53 Yearsis a wonderful tribute to a legendary trouper and her times. • More than 100 never-before-seen photos • Kaye Ballard, a showbiz legend, shares her amazing stories for the first time • Blurbs from Phyllis Diller, Walter Cronkite, Rex Reed, many more!

Author : Elizabeth Stuart,Adrian Thatcher
Publisher : Gracewing Publishing
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0802842283

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Christian Perspectives on Sexuality and Gender by Elizabeth Stuart,Adrian Thatcher Pdf

This collection of articles present a variety of broadly-Christian responses to issues such as sexuality and gender, sexuality and spirituality, gay and lesbian sexuality, sexuality and violence, sexuality and singleness, and the family.