The Hero S Daughter

Author : Murdock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1998-05-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0517302969

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Hero's Daughter by Murdock Pdf

Author : Maureen Murdock
Publisher : Fawcett
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : UOM:39015032582184

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The Hero's Daughter by Maureen Murdock Pdf

Athena sprang full-grown from the head of Zeus, her father, who had swallowed Metis, her mother, for fear she would bear a child equal to him in courage. Following her dramatic birth, Athena associated herself only with Zeus . . . Though less mythic in stature, this is what happens to a father's daughter: the mother is metaphorically swallowed by the father as he steals the daughter for himself. Indeed, for many women the most important relationship in their lives has been with their fathers. Often the favored members of the household, these daughters reject their natural feminine side in order to gain their fathers' approval, assurance, protection, and love. But the price they pay for this alliance is costly: by identifying solely with the masculine, the women remain arrested in daughterhood. In this unique and fascinating look at a pervasive, though unexplored, issue, Jungian therapist Maureen Murdock at last reveals the unspoken truth about daughters and the immense power the fathers they idealize have over them. As Murdock demonstrates, these exclusive relationships can be more harmful than supportive -- the emotional enmeshment is so complete that the relationship is difficult to untangle. Every aspect of a woman's life is affected -- from fearing commitment to recklessly choosing a mate, among a host of many other professional and personal problems. Yet separating from a father means sacrificing the privileges of a favored daughter, a position most women wish to maintain. With revealing case studies, and through explorations of hidden truth in myths, dreams, and fairy tales, The Hero's Daughter makes clear that the rewards for this separation are great -- as a woman willlearn to take herself seriously, reclaim the authority she projects onto men, and establish a healthy, balanced sense of herself as a woman.

Author : Andreï Makine
Publisher : Skyhorse
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2003-08-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781628722727

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A Hero's Daughter by Andreï Makine Pdf

Set in the Soviet Union from World War II until the early 1990s, A Hero's Daughter portrays the rise and decline of the Soviet Union through the story of Ivan Dimitrovich Davidov and his family. For his extraordinary bravery and courage beyond the call of duty at the Battle of Stalingrad, Ivan is awarded his country's highest military honor: Hero of the Soviet Union. Married after the war to Tatyana, the medical orderly who found him barely breathing amid a pile of corpses after another apocalyptic battle late in the war, they have a daughter, Olya, who grows up in the glow of her father's reputation. In 1980, the beautiful Olya, now seventeen, assigned as an interpreter during the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games, commits and indiscretion with a French athlete, and throws her straight into the waiting arms of the KGB. As the years roll by, Olya, more and more deeply implicated in espionage, despairs at her fates as a "political prostitute," while her father, equally used by the State, becomes increasingly disillusioned and unruly, until he is arrested for drunken and disorderly conduct. Finally the lives of father and daughter intersect in an utterly moving and heartrending conclusion. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction—novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Author : Dawn Richards
Publisher : Random House
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781448173303

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Daddy is My Hero by Dawn Richards Pdf

My daddy looks quite normal, no different from the rest ... But my daddy is a HERO, the greatest dad, the best! A child plays dressing up with Dad, and together they go on some amazing adventures. As if by magic, Dad becomes a cowboy and a knight, fights pirates and flies a spaceship, all in the course of one special day together. This is a tender, touching tribute to all the heroic dads out there!

Author : Brad Meltzer
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-10
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780062196590

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Heroes for My Daughter by Brad Meltzer Pdf

In this companion to his acclaimed and inspirational bestseller, Heroes for My Son, national bestselling novelist Brad Meltzer brings together the stories of fifty-five remarkable individuals, from intellectual explorers such as Marie Curie, Sally Ride, and Jane Goodall to cultural champions like Billie Jean King; from implacable public figures such as Rosa Parks and Winston Churchill to artistic icons such as Leonardo Da Vinci and Stevie Wonder; and beyond. Heroes for My Daughter is Meltzer’s collection of inspirational, real-life figures for his daughter, and yours, to learn how to lead a powerful, motivated, fulfilling life.

Author : Mark Petrini
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0472104608

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The Child and the Hero by Mark Petrini Pdf

Explores the presentation of liminal figures in two major Latin poets

Author : Morgan Rice
Publisher : Morgan Rice
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781632919885

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Hero, Traitor, Daughter (Of Crowns and Glory—Book 6) by Morgan Rice Pdf

Author : Anita Rau Badami
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307363954

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The Hero's Walk by Anita Rau Badami Pdf

After the release of Anita Rau Badami's critically acclaimed first novel, Tamarind Mem, it was evident a promising new talent had joined the Canadian literary community. Her dazzling literary follow-up is The Hero's Walk, a novel teeming with the author's trademark tumble of the haphazard beauty, wreckage and folly of ordinary lives. Set in the dusty seaside town of Toturpuram on the Bay of Bengal, The Hero's Walk traces the terrain of family and forgiveness through the lives of an exuberant cast of characters bewildered by the rapid pace of change in today's India. Each member of the Rao family pits his or her chance at personal fulfillment against the conventions of a crumbling caste and class system. Anita Rau Badami explains that "The Hero's Walk is a novel about so many things: loss, disappointment, choices and the importance of coming to terms with yourself and the circumstances of your life without losing the dignity embedded in all of us. At one level it is about heroism - not the hero of the classic epic, those enormous god-sized heroes - but my fascination with the day-to-day heroes and the heroism that's needed to survive all the unexpected disasters and pitfalls of life."

Author : Andreï Makine
Publisher : Arcade Publishing
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1559706872

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A Hero's Daughter by Andreï Makine Pdf

Makine is considered internationally as one of the most important writers of this time. Here, the harsh realities of World War II and the postwar era are unsparingly depicted.

Author : Sue Thornham
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781839021169

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What If I Had Been the Hero? by Sue Thornham Pdf

Sue Thornham's study explores issues in feminist filmmaking through an examination of a wide range of films by women filmmakers, ranging from the avant-garde to mainstream Hollywood, and from the 1970s to the present day, discussing directors including Sally Potter, Jane Campion, Julie Dash, Patricia Rozema and Lynne Ramsay.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1842
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0024066258

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The M. D.'s Daughter, a Novel of the Nineteenth Century by Anonim Pdf

Author : Angeline Boulley
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-16
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781250766571

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Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley Pdf

A PRINTZ MEDAL WINNER! A MORRIS AWARD WINNER! AN AMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH LITERATURE AWARD YA HONOR BOOK! A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB YA PICK An Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller Soon to be adapted at Netflix for TV with President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama's production company, Higher Ground. “One of this year's most buzzed about young adult novels.” —Good Morning America A TIME Magazine Best YA Book of All Time Selection Amazon's Best YA Book of 2021 So Far (June 2021) A 2021 Kids' Indie Next List Selection An Entertainment Weekly Most Anticipated Books of 2021 Selection A PopSugar Best March 2021 YA Book Selection With four starred reviews, Angeline Boulley's debut novel, Firekeeper's Daughter, is a groundbreaking YA thriller about a Native teen who must root out the corruption in her community, perfect for readers of Angie Thomas and Tommy Orange. Eighteen-year-old Daunis Fontaine has never quite fit in, both in her hometown and on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. She dreams of a fresh start at college, but when family tragedy strikes, Daunis puts her future on hold to look after her fragile mother. The only bright spot is meeting Jamie, the charming new recruit on her brother Levi’s hockey team. Yet even as Daunis falls for Jamie, she senses the dashing hockey star is hiding something. Everything comes to light when Daunis witnesses a shocking murder, thrusting her into an FBI investigation of a lethal new drug. Reluctantly, Daunis agrees to go undercover, drawing on her knowledge of chemistry and Ojibwe traditional medicine to track down the source. But the search for truth is more complicated than Daunis imagined, exposing secrets and old scars. At the same time, she grows concerned with an investigation that seems more focused on punishing the offenders than protecting the victims. Now, as the deceptions—and deaths—keep growing, Daunis must learn what it means to be a strong Anishinaabe kwe (Ojibwe woman) and how far she’ll go for her community, even if it tears apart the only world she’s ever known.

Author : Anita Rau Badami
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2002-02-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345450920

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The Hero's Walk by Anita Rau Badami Pdf

In a small, dusty town in India, Sripathi Rao struggles as a copywriter to keep his family afloat in their crumbling ancestral home. But his mother berates him for not becoming a lawyer, his son prefers social protest to work, his unmarried sister seethes with repressed desire, and his wife, though subservient, blames him for refusing to communicate with their daughter Maya, who defied tradition, rejecting her proper Brahmin fiancé for a Caucasian husband. Then a phone call brings tragedy: Maya and her husband have been killed in an accident leaving Sripathi to be their daughter’s guardian. Sripathi reluctantly travels to Vancouver to bring the child back to India. Nandana has not spoken a word since her parents’ death. Terrified, she resists her distant grandfather. Filled with guilt about his daughter but unable to express his feelings, Sripathi finds everything in his life falling apart. But with Nandana’s arrival, his world slowly, unexpectedly, finds new hope. The Hero’s Walk is a remarkably intimate novel that fills the senses with the unique textures of India. With humor and keen insight, Anita Rau Badami draws us into her story of the graceful heroism of the ordinary.

Author : Claudia Ann Miller,Gayle White
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0806131101

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Shannon Miller by Claudia Ann Miller,Gayle White Pdf

Describes the hardships and challenges Shannon Miller overcame to become an Olympic gold medalist

Author : Amanda Stevens
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781426869570

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The Hero's Son by Amanda Stevens Pdf

Valerie Snow had come to Memphis for justice. Thirty years ago her father had been wrongly convicted of a terrible crime, and Valerie was convinced that he'd been set up by the arresting officers. She was determined to find the real killer—but he might have found her first. Detective Brant Colter had spent his life in the shadow of his heroes—his father, his uncle and his mentor. After all, they'd arrested the kidnapper and murderer of a young boy. Hadn't they? Now Brant was forced to choose between protecting Valerie and possibly exposing his heroes as criminals. But Valerie had her own secrets. Even as he fell for her, was she deceiving him, too?