Category: Contemporary Womens Fiction

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The Fortunes of Garin
via Mary Johnston

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"The Fortunes of Garin" is a romance and event in eleventh-century France that features a portrait of a innovative "Ugly Princess". This medieval experience was once written in 1915 through novelist and suffragist Mary Johnston (1870 - 1936).

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Welcome to the Lapp farm close to Wickenburg in southern Iowa. Come to go to and convey your humorousness. liable Emma Lapp goals concerning the related destiny that occurs to all teenage Amish women. ultimately, she's going to fall in love, marry and feature a wide family members, yet she's been provided the teacher's task for a time period. that implies operating clear of domestic and leaving Nurse Hal to maintain the loved ones whereas she's nonetheless attempting to excellent her cooking abilities. That concerns Emma. She does not imagine Nurse Hal is able to tackle the duties of homemaker and proceed her nursing tasks while. although, Emma desires to take her position within the adult global and educating university may be a thrilling challenge.

Emma became seventeen and is taken into account a very good capture by way of numerous eligible bachelors. As Emma places it, each guy locally is sizing her up for his spouse. the lads make it seen they wish to be her targeted pal. She spent her adolescence transforming into up with Levi Yoder. Now he thinks he has first declare on her. Emma's now not so convinced approximately that after she reveals herself tempted through Eli Yetzy, the deacon's son. he is wildly into rumspringa so he imitates English teenagers and does issues which are opposed to Emma's ideals. She desires to shrink back from him yet unearths him beautiful. Emma is basically burdened whilst a college board member, widower Amos Coblentz, takes a liking to her. even as, Bobby Keim attempts to get her recognition. Emma turns into so approximately which guy she desires to spend her lifestyles with that her nights are riddled with unsettling desires that tangle jointly in her brain. Filmy male faces circulation approximately like robust obvious gauze in a gradual breeze, competing for her cognizance whereas she attempts to sleep. at midnight of evening, those desires appear very genuine whereas the first light leaves much more room for doubt and confusion as Emma's Gossamer desires preserve her in turmoil.

The hiring of a brand new assistant triggers an influence fight among an getting older television convey writer and her former protégée.

Rising-star showrunner Stacey McCreedy has one target: to go away at the back of her nerd-girl origins and develop into an influence participant — like Ann Dalloni, her former mentor and present generating associate. Ann, in the meantime, is feeling her age and wasting her brain. yet she’ll be damned if she cedes keep an eye on in their hit primetime television convey to Stacey.

After Ann hires Jenna, a tender actress hoping to restart her stalled occupation, as an assistant, the connection among Ann and Stacey deteriorates right into a blood feud. quickly, Jenna needs to decide upon whom to aid and whom to betray to accomplish her personal ends. And Stacey will discover if she possesses the killer intuition that’s had to remain on top.

Suspenseful and darkly comedian, The Showrunner offers a latest spin to the vintage showbiz issues of girl ambition and pageant among generations.

Loyalty is a likely uncomplicated concept. However, while puzzled, it might outline a dating in robust and profound ways.“The people” chronicles the heartbreaking conditions whilst top pals locate themselves trying out the bounds of private integrity and belief. after all false impression, jealousy and envy lead to disillusionment and sorrow.

Jessica Lavender and Michelle wealthy, either hugely profitable at thirty-eight years previous, were inseparable because the age of ten. Therefore, it made excellent experience for Jessica to suggest her pal for the celebrated activity as inside clothier for the recent Stanton foreign inn chain. As publicist for the motels, Jessica had the ear of billionaire Ian Stanton. What she didn't have, she figured out, was once the loyalty of her closest friend. 

That wisdom begins a sequence of occasions that places Jessica’s well-merited luck and health in jeopardy. whereas these round her think Michelle can be accountable for a sequence of injuries that plague her, Jessica reminds unswerving in her friendship as she fights to carry directly to the pal she loves. with out knowing it, she strikes them either towards a stunning outcome. 

At age twelve, Ateesh is compelled into an prepared marriage with an abusive guy. whilst she gadgets, she is advised that she "needs a man's identify on her, to guard her." whereas in a single period that might were the tip of her tale, right here it is only the start for a tender girl made up our minds to make her personal judgements. She engages assistance from different robust girls who, regardless of concerns approximately relatives honor, finally aid Ateesh receive a divorce and input the trail to a brand new lifestyles that results in collage. studying there approximately glossy relationships, independence and keep watch over develop into much more very important to her. instead of undergo the oppressive keep watch over of one other guy, she comes to a decision to take advantage of males to realize independence from them.

This choice leads her to go into into a number of "temporary marriages," a kind of prostitution sanctioned via society and faith via a skewed interpretation of the Koran and Islamic legislations. We stick with Ateesh within the coming years as her international turns into more and more advanced and divided—one existence in the back of closed doorways as a siqeh and one other as a school scholar and researcher operating for women's equality.

Based on interviews performed via the writer, Ateesh's tale represents the compelling debts of criminal and cultural injustices that be successful in smooth Iran.

Born in Tehran, lawyer and professor Nadia Shahram deliberate to be the Iranian Barbara Walters. Interrupted via the 1979 revolution, she moved to the USA the place she advocates for Muslim women's rights.

Westonaria is a mining city that bares gold and a iteration of formidable adolescents the place Treasure is on most sensible of the pack. although, within the trivial city, Treasure doesn’t enable her damaged and poverty domestic holiday her spirits. One comes throughout her father Thabo Mohapi who cheats on and abuses the sickly Thato Mohapi (mother) who's a sufferer of his lashes.

Treasure’s lust for the style global and a lifetime of opulence starts to develop into an obsession. She runs clear of domestic to meet her ardour within the land of milk and honey that's Johannesburg. between her old style associates, Lintle Kente introduces her to the lavish way of life and fabric possessions from wealthy males.

With nice effect and social media frenzy, Treasure unearths her Innocence Shattered whilst she bumps right into a well known photographer that offers to get her foot within the door of the style undefined.

She starts to gain her desires while she is signed with a credible modelling service provider, and the celebrity trojan horse bites her. Treasure then reveals herself within the hands of a plush Sugar Daddy.

The strain and way of life of the wealthy and well-known will get to her, as she discovers that her Sugar Daddy isn't so candy. She is going via emotional turmoil and self-realization. Her highway to self-discovery starts off as she walks clear of her Sugar daddy and faces a brand new lifestyles with NOTHING.

Meisterhaft und einfühlsam schildert Curtis Sittenfeld den unfreiwilligen Aufstieg einer Frau bis an die Spitze einer Weltmacht, ihre Selbstzweifel und die Widersprüche ihres Lebens. Mit dieser fiktiven aber dem wahren Leben kunstvoll angelehnten Geschichte gelingt der US-Bestsellerautorin das ehrliche, kontrovers diskutierte Porträt der völlig zu Unrecht unterschätzten Laura Bush – ein Roman voller Charme und Esprit.

Ellie Rifkin is a nineteen-year-old university pupil from a privileged Jewish historical past while she meets forty-one-year-old professor Gerard Babineau. Already twice-divorced, he's a difficult drinker, an ex-peacetime marine, and a practising Catholic from southern Louisiana who's indignant and intricate and popular for his writing. particularly quick they marry, have a toddler, and whilst Ellie is back pregnant, Babineau stops to assist a motorist at the road and is heavily injured, constrained eternally to a wheelchair. Their lives switch, and the 2 needs to face tough truths approximately their courting. Set in New England and Alabama, scuffling with Gravity starts as an exploration of the complexities of affection among an older guy and more youthful girl, and finally increases higher questions of human connection, dedication, religion, marital and parental accountability, and the character of destiny. after all, Ellie discovers the significance, for her personal sake and that of her teenagers, of shaping her personal destiny.

“This hugely charged tale … covers a large emotional spectrum, …without changing into a cleaning soap opera. . .”– Library Journal.

“…[a] meticulous and wrenching story of affection and the desire to outlive. …This streamlined and effective novel … is certainly a sad and haunting tale.”- Booklist

„Herz der unsichtbaren Tränen“ behandelt das Dunkle und das Helle im Leben. Der Roman ist das literarisch verarbeitete Unwohlsein mit bestimmten Dingen dieser Welt, bisweilen auch literarisch verarbeiteter Schrecken. Die erzählerische Grundlinie dieses Buches beschreibt die Jahre von Alessandra: Kindheit und Aufwachsen eines Mädchens, das seitens der Stiefeltern kaum Liebe erfährt. Im Gegenteil: Sie wird eingesperrt, gedemütigt, und guy versucht, ihr das Innerste, ihre Seele, zu rauben. Zwei Personen (Anna, die Ziehmutter, und Katharina, die Leiterin eines Jugendamtes) sind es, die offenbar immer nur das Schlechteste für die Hauptfigur ersinnen. Zugleich verschwinden Menschen, geschehen Morde. --- Im Mittelpunkt dieses Romanes steht aber die stolze Alessandra, erst ein ganz kleines, dann ein junges Mädchen ... und später eine reife Frau. Sie behauptet sich trotz aller erlittenen Verwundungen und deshalb möglichen Verwüstungen ihrer Seele dennoch, indem sie sich durch den Weg der „Inneren Emigration“ zu schützen weiß. Dabei hilft ihr eine Gestalt aus einer anderen Welt: Vincent. Nur so kann sie Mordanschlägen entkommen und zugleich mit ihrer Zeugenschaft von den im Haus der Ziehmutter geschehenen Verbrechen weiterleben. Vincent ist Geheimnis und Rettung zugleich. Alessandra wird mit ihm zusammen die Dinge aufklären, die ihr Leben in Unruhe versetzen. --- Ein Buch wie ein Traum. Alessandra wehrt sich gegen das Verbrechen und die Demütigungen zweier so hartherziger Frauen. Morde geschehen. Vincent, Engel des Todes und imaginative and prescient größter Liebe, hilft ihr, über das Grausame zu triumphieren. --- Alena Lovisha entstammt dem Frankenland, und zwar der quarter Unterfranken. Nach diversen Lebens- und Berufsstationen (sowie dem Großziehen ihrer Kinder) ist sie heutzutage für viele Menschen eine Ratgeberin in speedy allen Lebensfragen geworden. Zugleich kennt sie sich im Wirtschaftsgeschehen aus, wobei eines ihrer Interessensgebiete im advertising and marketing liegt. Alena Lovisha befasst sich mit dem Leben im weitesten Sinne. Mit »Herz der unsichtbaren Tränen« legt sie ihren ersten Roman vor.

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