Author: Susan TynerPublisher:
ISBN: 9781944964573
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
What's SHE Doing Here?
Author: Susan TynerPublisher:
ISBN: 9781944964573
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
What is She Doing Here?
Author: Kate ClanchyPublisher: Picador USA
ISBN: 9780330443821
Category : Refugees
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
What Is She Doing Here? is a memoir of the five years the poet Kate Clanchy spent living closely with Antigona, a Kosovan refugee. Antigona becomes her project, her protégée, her cleaner, her nanny, and slowly, through hours of conversation and negotiations of difference, her friend. Through the story of the women's growing understanding is woven the dramatic tale of Antigona's great escape - from Milosevic, from her forced, violent marriage, and from the most traditional pastoral society in Europe - and the growing toll of her losses, as she and her rebellious teenage daughters negotiate London. Antigona's wit and vertiginous perspectives on contemporary life illuminate and transform the way the writer thinks, bringing many hard truths uncomfortably close to home. 'Kate Clanchy has written not just a heart-stopping story, but one that is essential for our times.' Anne Enright
She Works His Way
Author: Michelle MyersPublisher: Baker Books
ISBN: 1493433547
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Dear friend, We know it deeply. It is so hard to juggle work, home, and spiritual life. As working women, we've wrestled with tough questions: · How can I be effective in my work, and stay committed to the Gospel? · How can I be dedicated to my family, when my job is so demanding? · Why am I working so hard, and still so unfulfilled? Sound familiar? Like you, we see a culture that promotes success at all costs, and working women are falling for it. It's happening every day. Priorities are shifting. Things are getting done . . . but are we doing what matters most? And that's why we wrote this book. This is the story of how we traded the lies of the world for the truth of our loving Father--the lessons we learned that challenged culture's "good things" so we could find the greatest thing. The book you're holding in your hands is really a conversation--a conversation that pushes back against our culture with a Gospel-centered approach to work and womanhood, for the glory of God and the good of others. Let's get to work. His way. Michelle + Somer "This is the book for every working woman!"--ALLI WORTHINGTON, bestselling author and business coach
Antigona and Me
Author: Kate ClanchyPublisher: Swift Press
ISBN: 1800751850
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
' An absolutely wonderful book' - Deborah Moggach In a London street at the turn of the twenty-first century, two neighbours start to chat over the heads of their children. Kate Clanchy is a writer, privileged and sheltered. Antigona is a refugee from Kosovo. On instinct, Kate offers Antigona a job as a nanny, and Antigona accepts. Over the next five years and a thousand cups of coffee Antigona's extraordinary story slowly emerges. She has escaped from a war, she has divorced a violent husband, but can she escape the harsh code she was brought up with? At the kitchen table where anything can be said, the women discover they have everything, as well as nothing, in common.
Lippincott's Monthly Magazine
Author: Wake
Author: Anna HopePublisher: Random House
ISBN: 0812995147
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Anna Hope’s brilliant debut unfolds over the course of five days, as three women must deal with the aftershocks of World War I and its impact on the men in their lives. Wake: 1) Emerge or cause to emerge from sleep. 2) Ritual for the dead. 3) Consequence or aftermath. London, 1920. The city prepares to observe the two-year anniversary of Armistice Day with the burial of the unknown soldier. Many are still haunted by the war: Hettie, a dance instructress, lives at home with her mother and her brother, who is mute after his return from combat. One night Hettie meets a wealthy, educated man and finds herself smitten with him. But there is something distracted about him, something she cannot reach. . . . Evelyn works at the Pensions Exchange, through which thousands of men have claimed benefits from wounds or debilitating distress. Embittered by her own loss, she looks for solace in her adored brother, who has not been the same since he returned from the front. . . . Ada is beset by visions of her son on every street, convinced he is still alive. Helpless, her loving husband has withdrawn from her. Then one day a young man appears at her door, seemingly with notions to peddle, like hundreds of out-of-work veterans. But when he utters the name of her son, Ada is jolted to the core. The lives of these three women are braided together, their stories gathering tremendous power as the ties that bind them become clear, and the body of the unknown soldier moves closer and closer to its final resting place. Advance praise for Wake “Hope’s unblinking prose is reminiscent of Vera Brittain’s classic memoir Testament of Youth in its depiction of the social and emotional fallout, particularly on women, of the Great War. . . . Hope reaches beyond the higher echelons of society to women of different social classes, all linked by their reluctance to bid goodbye to the world the conflict has shattered.”—The New York Times Book Review “Wake is a tender and timely novel, full of compassion and quiet insight. The author gives us a moving and original glimpse into the haunted peace after the Great War, her characters drawn by the gravity of the unmarked, the unknown, and perhaps, finally, the unhoped for.”—Chris Cleave, author of Little Bee “Wake is a compelling and emotionally charged debut about the painful aftermath of war and the ways—small, brave, or commonplace—in which we keep ourselves going. It touches feelings we know, and settings—dance halls, war fronts, queues outside the grocer’s—that we don’t. I loved it.”—Rachel Joyce, author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry “Wake is powerful and humane, a novel that charms and beguiles. Anna Hope’s characters are so real, flawed, and searching, and her prose so natural, one almost forgets how very great a story she is telling.”—Sadie Jones, author of The Uninvited Guests “Using telling detail, Hope creates a vibrant physical and emotional landscape in which her leading characters, and a sea of others, move irresistibly into the future, some having found resolution, others still in search. Fresh, confident, yet understated, Hope’s first work movingly revisits immense tragedy while also confirming her own highly promising ability.”—Kirkus Reviews
The Golden Sabre
Author: Jon ClearyPublisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0007554311
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
THE GOLDEN SABRE is a 1981 novel written by award-winning Australian author Jon Cleary. During the Russian Revolution of 1917, an American mining engineer and English governess flee across country.
McClure's Magazine
Author: Mission Gamma: Book One
Author: David R. George IIIPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743445619
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
THE TIME HAS COME...for a new era of exploration. With the Dominion War behind them, the crew of the U.S.S. Defiant journeys through the wormhole as Commander Elias Vaughn leads a "corps of discovery" to blaze new trails into the unexplored reaches of the Gamma Quadrant. THE TIME HAS COME ...for a civilization to reach a crossroads. As political forces throughout the Alpha Quadrant intersect at Deep Space 9™ to determine the future of Bajor, the planet's theological unity threatens to shatter. And for Colonel Kira Nerys, the path of the Prophets may become a road to ruin. THE TIME HAS COME...for a father and daughter to confront their past while a mother and son fight for the future, for lovers to be tested and for friendships to transform, and for worlds on opposite ends of the galaxy to face the dusk...or the dawn. TWILIGHT
She Is Sin Here
Author: Bhawani Singh BhatiPublisher: Orangebooks Publication
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
When Ratnakar comes in Ambet after a long time, he wonders by seeing a village full of women look completely opposite as described in his forefather’s book. When he compares women of his book and village next to the landlord Ragvendra Singh by singing his glorious past and bravery, how his forefather saved women whereas women back-stabbed them. He persuades him to impose all those rules again which describes in the books of his forefather. Before Hanja Ragvendra’s wife opposes his plan and tries to stop him Ratnakar already spoils all mind of men, which led all women out of the village, Hanja leaves his house leaving his son Prithvi Singh here. Ratnakar successfully implements all those evil customs which is old and defunct:- he starts killing newly born baby girls, force them to marry at age of five, Sati widows and stop women to go to school. She confines in her home and all the evils of society back in a village. Prithvi Singh a son of Hanja and Ragvendra Singh who created a gang of village boys against Ratnakar by collecting all boys who desperate to marry. He stops everything which brings happiness in a village; whether it is marriage or any happy events he disturbs all. When Ratnakar informs about his son to Ragvendra Singh both father and son fight, and their fight leads them nothing but dig out all the facts about the Ambet and their parental village Roop-Nagar which even Ratnakar do not know. And by knowing its glorious past where women were divine and equal and ahead of men.