Marrying Anita
Title | Marrying Anita PDF eBook |
Author | Anita Jain |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 322 |
Release | 2010-11-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1608196372 |
After three years of dating, Anita Jain finally got fed up with the New York singles scene. As her Indian parents continued to pressure her to find a mate, Jain couldn't help asking herself the question: is arranged marriage really any worse than Craigslist? Full of romantic chance encounters, nosy relatives, and dozens of potential husbands, Marrying Anita is a refreshingly honest look at our own expectations and the modern search for the perfect mate.
The New Jewish Wedding
Title | The New Jewish Wedding PDF eBook |
Author | Anita Diamant |
Publisher | Scribner |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 1985 |
Genre | Reference |
ISBN | 9780671628826 |
Complete, authoritative, and indispensable, The New Jewish Wedding provides the couple with options--some new, some old--to create a wedding combining spiritual meaning and joyous celebration. Step-by-step, Diamant guides readers through planning the cermony and the party that follows--from finding a rabbi and wording the invitations to hiring a caterer.
The Pilot's Wife
Title | The Pilot's Wife PDF eBook |
Author | Anita Shreve |
Publisher | Hachette UK |
Pages | 237 |
Release | 2014-11-27 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0349140820 |
An Oprah's Book Club selection, this gripping and powerfully wrought novel from the bestselling author of The Weight of Water is a stunning meditation on grief, betrayal and 'the ultimate unknowability of those closest to us' (Daily Telegraph) Who can guess what a woman will do when the unthinkable becomes her reality? Being married to a pilot has taught Kathryn Lyons to be ready for emergencies, but nothing has prepared her for the late-night knock on her door and the news of her husband's fatal crash. As Kathryn struggles through her grief, she is forced to confront disturbing rumours about the man she loved and the life that she took for granted. Torn between her impulse to protect her husband's memory and her desire to know the truth, Kathryn sets off to find out if she ever really knew the man who was her husband. In her determination to test the truth of her marriage, she faces shocking revelations about the secrets a man can keep and the actions a woman is willing to take. 'Enthralling' -Anita Brookner, author of the Booker Prize-winning Hotel du Lac 'Compellingly told, brilliantly observed, lyrically written and when you get to the last page you simply want to run out and buy everything she's ever written' -Sunday Independent
Believing
Title | Believing PDF eBook |
Author | Anita Hill |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 369 |
Release | 2022-09-27 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0593298314 |
“An elegant, impassioned demand that America see gender-based violence as a cultural and structural problem that hurts everyone, not just victims and survivors… It's at times downright virtuosic in the threads it weaves together.”—NPR Winner of the 2022 ABA Silver Gavel Award for Books From the woman who gave the landmark testimony against Clarence Thomas as a sexual menace, a new manifesto about the origins and course of gender violence in our society; a combination of memoir, personal accounts, law, and social analysis, and a powerful call to arms from one of our most prominent and poised survivors. In 1991, Anita Hill began something that's still unfinished work. The issues of gender violence, touching on sex, race, age, and power, are as urgent today as they were when she first testified. Believing is a story of America's three decades long reckoning with gender violence, one that offers insights into its roots, and paths to creating dialogue and substantive change. It is a call to action that offers guidance based on what this brave, committed fighter has learned from a lifetime of advocacy and her search for solutions to a problem that is still tearing America apart. We once thought gender-based violence--from casual harassment to rape and murder--was an individual problem that affected a few; we now know it's cultural and endemic, and happens to our acquaintances, colleagues, friends and family members, and it can be physical, emotional and verbal. Women of color experience sexual harassment at higher rates than White women. Street harassment is ubiquitous and can escalate to violence. Transgender and nonbinary people are particularly vulnerable. Anita Hill draws on her years as a teacher, legal scholar, and advocate, and on the experiences of the thousands of individuals who have told her their stories, to trace the pipeline of behavior that follows individuals from place to place: from home to school to work and back home. In measured, clear, blunt terms, she demonstrates the impact it has on every aspect of our lives, including our physical and mental wellbeing, housing stability, political participation, economy and community safety, and how our descriptive language undermines progress toward solutions. And she is uncompromising in her demands that our laws and our leaders must address the issue concretely and immediately.
Marrying Off Mother and Other Stories
Title | Marrying Off Mother and Other Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Gerald Durrell |
Publisher | Arcade Publishing |
Pages | 220 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Short stories |
ISBN | 9781559701808 |
Collection of eight short stories by the author observing absurdity that abounds in the world.
"But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes"
Title | "But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes" PDF eBook |
Author | Anita Loos |
Publisher | |
Pages | 266 |
Release | 1928 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
Romantic history of girl who prefers a saxophone player to a millionaire as told by Lorelai.
A Private View
Title | A Private View PDF eBook |
Author | Anita Brookner |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 253 |
Release | 2012-08-15 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0307826295 |
Brookner explores the complications that arise when one solitary man comes up against a woman who seems determined to invade his solitude. George Bland is an aging bachelor whose existence has been virtually a mirror image of his name--up until now. For into George's life walks Katy Gibb, young, abrasively self-assured, who incites in George the most alarming feelings.