The Silent Sisterhood At nineteen, Tia Sharp leaves her very protective, comfortable lifestyle, family and friends to move from London, England to Ottawa, Ontario. Tia will discover an even stronger bond with her father-in-law, a man who is everything her own father is not, making her life in Canada complete. With help from her hard-nosed producer, she will also her dreams and turn the sadness of her marriage into something positive for television viewers drawn each week to the plot twists of The Saga. With her beloved family and friends by her side, Tia will make the impossible possible.... Tia's friend, Kate Lee, is beautiful inside and out. Loyal to everyone she loves, Kate was raised to believe that a person's character is everything, and she carries herself gracefully. An only child to a single-parent mother, Kate was very lonely until she met her best friend at six years old. They have been inseparable as their families have become close. Kate has never known pain until the loss of her baby unveils her inner strength, simultaneously unmasking her vulnerability, making everything seem suddenly unbearably sad. Her boyfriend, Jaden Blake, has no one to turn to when tragedy strikes the couple, so he turns to the very thing that destroyed his family as a child: drugs and alcohol, forsaking the love he shares with Kate and the future they have planned... Brooke Williams had no choice but to grow up fast, with a mother grief-stricken by the tragic death of Brooke's father, Jack. Alone since Jack's death, Brooke believes the reasons for this solitude are all her fault. She has never known true friendship or love. She will meet Kate, Jaden and Tia, and together they will build a lasting friendship until a shameful secret and a powerful man's need to hold and control his family will try to tear apart everything that Brooke has built with her mother and her best friends. Nathan Carter has it all: a successful career and beautiful women to share his bed at any time or day. A romantic man, who grew up hearing the love stories that his mother told him and his siblings, he truly believes that his angel is out there and they will meet and fall in love. She will be everything he has ever desired. His jealousy and thoughtlessness take away the two women and his children whom he loves more than life itself... The very sexy, charming, sophisticated lawyer will be outside looking into the life he has thrown away on the day of his son's birth. With the encouragement, love, and support of his mother-in-law, Nathan finds the strength and the will power to win back not only his wife and children, but also a family and a love that has always been there since the very day he was struck with the waves of emotion, we called love... at Amsterdam airport....

Nabokov’s Women: The Silent Sisterhood of Textual Nomads is the first book-length study to focus on Nabokov’s relationship with his heroines. Essays by distinguished Nabokov scholars explore the multilayered and nomadic nature of Nabokov’s women: their voice and voicelessness, their absentness, the paradigm of power and sacrifice within which they are situated, the paradox of their unattainability, their complex relationship with textual borders, the travel narrative, with the author himself. By design, Nabokov’s woman is often assigned a short-term tourist visa with a firm expiration date. Her departure is facilitated by death or involuntary absence, which watermarks her into the male protagonist’s narrative, granting him an artistic release or a gift of self-understanding. When she leaves the stage, her portrait remains ambiguous. She can be powerfully enigmatic, but not self-actualized enough to be dynamic or, for even where the terms of her existence are deeply considered or her image beheld reverently, her recognition seems to be limited to the “Works Cited” register of the male narrator’s personal life. As a result, Nabokov’s texts often feature a nomadic woman who seems to live without a narratorial homeland, papers of her own, or storytelling privileges. This volume explores the “residency status” of Nabokov’s silent nomads—his fleeting lovers, witches, muses, mermaids, and nymphets. As Nabokov scholars analyze the power dynamic of the writer’s narrative of male desire, they ponder—are these female characters directionless wanderers or covert operatives in the terrain of Nabokov’s text? Whereas each essay addresses a different aspect of Nabokov’s artistic relationship with the feminine, together they explore the politics of representation, authorization, and voicelessness. This collection offers new ways of reading and teaching Nabokov and is poised to appeal to a wide range of student and scholarly audiences. Chapter 4, "Nabokov's Mermaid: 'Spring in Fialta'" by Elena Rakhimova-Sommers, is not available in the ebook format due to digital rights restrictions. You can find the earlier version of the chapter in the journal Nabokov Studies.

In an era of "fertility for all" and dominated by Mom's Clubs and helicopter parents, Silent Sorority reveals the difficult business of rebuilding a life when infertility treatments prove fruitless.

In The Silent Sister, Riley MacPherson has spent her entire life believing that her older sister Lisa committed suicide as a teenager. Now, over twenty years later, her father has passed away and she's in New Bern, North Carolina cleaning out his house when she finds evidence to the contrary. Lisa is alive. Alive and living under a new identity. But why exactly was she on the run all those years ago, and what secrets are being kept now? As Riley works to uncover the truth, her discoveries will put into question everything she thought she knew about her family. Riley must decide what the past means for her present, and what she will do with her newfound reality, in this engrossing New York Times bestselling mystery from Diane Chamberlain.

The much anticipated second story in the Watchers of the Throne Series. As Guilliman, Regent of Terra, heads off to lead the Indomitus Crusade, he leaves behind a world still in turmoil, beset by cult activity. Stripped of its huge armies for the galactic offensive, recovery is precarious. The Custodians do what they can while keeping the Palace secure, and the Sisters of Silence rebuild their citadel on Luna. When the warship Phalanx returns, it seems that stability will at last be assured. However, as reconquest forces push out further into the slums, they come across signs that another mysterious foe is active. The truth dawns – not every enemy is corrupted by Chaos, for there are many on Terra who do not share Guilliman’s vision of a new order and the prospect of a Terran civil war looms...

"Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880) was for a time one of America's most beloved authors, known for household manuals and children's poems, including the immortal "Over the River and Through the Wood." But in 1833, having converted to the abolitionist cause, Child published An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans, the first book-length condemnation of slavery printed in the United States. Child's book created an immediate uproar and catapulted her into the life of an activist. Lydia Maria Child became one of the most consequential radicals of nineteenth-century America. In this biography of Child, Lydia Moland foregrounds Child's struggles of conscience and the meaning they held for her life-and, potentially, for ours. In her first career, Lydia Maria Child achieved what almost no woman in history had before-she was a self-sufficient female author. What, then, made her throw it all away to write An Appeal? The scandal of that book caused sales of her other books to plummet, polite society to cast her out, her beloved husband David to be jailed for libel, and the two rendered penniless. Yet Child soon drew untold numbers to the cause of abolition with her writings and her deeds. Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Charles Sumner both credit her with their conversion. During the Civil War, the Union Army distributed her words to 300,000 troops to help weary soldiers justify their sacrifice. She spirited endangered abolitionists out of the country, protected activists from angry pro-slavery mobs with her own body, and helped Harriet Jacobs edit Jacobs's autobiography, the most influential slave narrative by a woman in American history. Moland's biography restores this brave and brilliant woman to her proper place in American history while showing how her example answers these urgent questions: When confronted by sanctioned evil or systematic injustice, how should a citizen live? What prompts moral change? When do we have a duty to disobey unjust laws? Child's story is one from the past with much to teach us about our present"--