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Book Synopsis Sisters & Husbands by : Connie Briscoe
Download or read book Sisters & Husbands written by Connie Briscoe and published by Hachette Digital, Inc.. This book was released on 2009-06-02 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten years have passed since Sisters and Lovers, and Beverly, now 39, is engaged to Julian, a man her family and friends agree is the epitome of a great catch: he's gorgeous, loyal, trustworthy, successful, and very much in love with her. Since this is Beverly's third engagement in the past five years, after breaking off the previous two at the last moment, everyone's happy that she's finally settling down. For Beverly and Julian, nothing could be better than being in love and planning their wedding. That is until Beverly's oldest sister's marriage falls apart and dampens the mood of what should have been the happiest time in Beverly's life. Now, second-guessing her impending nuptials, Beverly is forced to wonder if marriage really works. Will she stick it out? Or will her fears cloud her judgment once again?
Book Synopsis Nelly's Mail Order Husband by : Ruth Ann Nordin
Download or read book Nelly's Mail Order Husband written by Ruth Ann Nordin and published by Ruth Ann Nordin. This book was released on with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Valentine Silverton has enjoyed comfort and luxury his entire life. Then, all at once, the family fortune vanishes, and he’s a pauper. The only recourse he has is to find a wealthy heiress. But he doesn’t want to just find just any wealthy heiress. He wants to find one he can fall in love with. Since there are no suitable prospects in his area, he takes his friend’s advice and becomes a mail-order husband. Nelly Larson grew up on a farm, and she loves everything about it. She loves the life so much, in fact, that she got her own homestead. The last thing she wants is to be strapped to one of the men in town who think her place is in the kitchen. She’s going to keep her independence, and keeping her independence will require her to avoid marriage at all costs. Nelly’s sisters, however, can’t believe Nelly will truly be happy if she doesn’t get married. Romance, after all, is one of life’s most wonderful experiences. When they come upon Valentine’s ad, they know he’ll be perfect for her. So they take matters into their own hands and answer his ad on Nelly’s behalf. Valentine thinks Nelly is the one answering his ad, and at once, he’s intrigued by her. He has no idea what a homestead is, but he assumes that a young woman who owns land and runs her own business must have lots of money. Excited, he runs off to Omaha to marry her. The day comes when the two meet, and it’s at that time they realize they’ve been set up. Since Valentine has no money, he can’t leave Omaha. He has to marry Nelly. Even if she doesn’t have much, she has a place to live and food to eat. In exchange for marriage, he promises Nelly he won’t hinder her independence. Thankfully, she agrees to marry him. But Valentine kind of likes Nelly, and he’s determined to show her that some things are worth giving up total independence for…and love just happens to be one of them.
Book Synopsis Fowler's Concise Dictionary of Modern English Usage by : Henry Watson Fowler
Download or read book Fowler's Concise Dictionary of Modern English Usage written by Henry Watson Fowler and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2016 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fowler's Concise Dictionary of Modern English Usage is an invaluable quick-reference work, providing clear, practical and up-to-date guidance on questions of grammar, spelling, style, and word choice. Jeremy Butterfield has judiciously revised the text to reflect the English usage practices and concerns of the 21st century.
Book Synopsis Sister Mother Husband Dog (Etc.) by : Delia Ephron
Download or read book Sister Mother Husband Dog (Etc.) written by Delia Ephron and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delia Ephron brings her trademark wit and effervescent prose to a series of unforgettable, moving and provocative essays. The emotional lynchpin is the author's stirring, eloquent response to the death of Nora Ephron, her older sister and frequent writing companion. In 'Sister', she deftly captures the love, rivalry, respect and intimacy that made up her relationship with her sister in a way that is at once deeply personal and comfortingly universal. Other essays in the collection run the gamut from a hysterical piece about love and the movies - how romantic comedies completely destroyed her twenties - to the joy of girlfriends and best friendship, the magical madness and miracle of dogs, keen-eyed observations about urban survival, and a serious and affecting memoir of life with her mother - growing up the child of alcoholics. Ephron's sparkling wit and humanity is present on every emotionally resonant page.
Book Synopsis Her Sister's Husband by : Smokey Moment
Download or read book Her Sister's Husband written by Smokey Moment and published by Smokey Moment. This book was released on 2020-09-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paula, Penny, Pebbles... 3 sisters, 3 lives, 1 problem! Paula wants out of her marriage of convenience! And she will do anything to accomplisg it! Her solution...Set her husband up with a woman who can step into her shoes and raise her son, so she can whisk off to be with her longtime lover! The problem...Her husband has no idea! If you have something to do, this book will prevent that! Impossible to put down! So get ready! Paula wants out! Period! But getting out isn't so easy when you have a toddler and a husband who don't deserve the betrayal! But Paula is knee deep in betrayal. And getting out is her only option. She comes up with a plan that blows the lid off of her secret and sets forth a chain of events that could tear her family apart and destroy what little is left of her relationship with her sisters. Her sister Pebbles is living her best life. One call from her long lost sister, sends her running to her aid. But Paula doesn't tell the whole story, and Pebbles scrambles to help her. Only to find out that the betrayal included her! There are many dark secrets. Many untold truths. And the biggest shocking secret of all will nearly destroy Pebbles. Read along in this forbidden romance tale of one sister's unconventional way to end her marriage. A story shrouded in secrets, lies, deceit, sex and selfish agendas. An intense page-turner! See what can happen when a man is caught between three sisters with a unforgiven things and plenty of pain. A well-written story with strong characters. Get ready!
Book Synopsis The Sisters Are Alright by : Tamara Winfrey Harris
Download or read book The Sisters Are Alright written by Tamara Winfrey Harris and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2015-07-06 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GOLD MEDALIST OF FOREWORD REVIEWS' 2015 INDIEFAB AWARDS IN WOMEN'S STUDIES What's wrong with black women? Not a damned thing! The Sisters Are Alright exposes anti–black-woman propaganda and shows how real black women are pushing back against distorted cartoon versions of themselves. When African women arrived on American shores, the three-headed hydra—servile Mammy, angry Sapphire, and lascivious Jezebel—followed close behind. In the '60s, the Matriarch, the willfully unmarried baby machine leeching off the state, joined them. These stereotypes persist to this day through newspaper headlines, Sunday sermons, social media memes, cable punditry, government policies, and hit song lyrics. Emancipation may have happened more than 150 years ago, but America still won't let a sister be free from this coven of caricatures. Tamara Winfrey Harris delves into marriage, motherhood, health, sexuality, beauty, and more, taking sharp aim at pervasive stereotypes about black women. She counters warped prejudices with the straight-up truth about being a black woman in America. “We have facets like diamonds,” she writes. “The trouble is the people who refuse to see us sparkling.”
Book Synopsis Once We Were Sisters by : Sheila Kohler
Download or read book Once We Were Sisters written by Sheila Kohler and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-01-17 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ONE OF PEOPLE MAGAZINE’S BEST NEW BOOKS “A searing and intimate memoir about love turned deadly.” —The BBC “An intimate illumination of sisterhood and loss.” —People When Sheila Kohler was thirty-seven, she received the heart-stopping news that her sister Maxine, only two years older, was killed when her husband drove them off a deserted road in Johannesburg. Stunned by the news, she immediately flew back to the country where she was born, determined to find answers and forced to reckon with his history of violence and the lingering effects of their most unusual childhood—one marked by death and the misguided love of their mother. In her signature spare and incisive prose, Sheila Kohler recounts the lives she and her sister led. Flashing back to their storybook childhood at the family estate, Crossways, Kohler tells of the death of her father when she and Maxine were girls, which led to the family abandoning their house and the girls being raised by their mother, at turns distant and suffocating. We follow them to the cloistered Anglican boarding school where they first learn of separation and later their studies in Rome and Paris where they plan grand lives for themselves—lives that are interrupted when both marry young and discover they have made poor choices. Kohler evokes the bond between sisters and shows how that bond changes but never breaks, even after death. “A beautiful and disturbing memoir of a beloved sister who died at the age of thirty-nine in circumstances that strongly suggest murder. . . . Highly recommended.” —Joyce Carol Oates
Book Synopsis The Elementary Structures of Kinship by : Claude Levi-Strauss
Download or read book The Elementary Structures of Kinship written by Claude Levi-Strauss and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2016-05-10 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Lévi-Strauss’s first major work, Les Structures élémentaires de la Parenté, has acquired a classic reputation since its original publication in 1949; and it has become the constant focus of academic debate about central theoretical concerns in social anthropology. It is, however, a long and difficult book for many students to read in French, and its arguments have consequently become known, even among professional anthropologists, largely through critical analysis. It was republished in a revised French edition in 1967 with a new foreword by the author, and it is this text with his further emendations that has been used in this translation. Lévi-Strauss applies his intellectual powers to the perennial problem of incest, which he elucidates by means of the concept of exchange as formulated by Marcel Mauss in his famous analysis of the gift (Essai sur le don, 1925). He distinguishes two elementary modes of exchange which govern not only the conventional variety of goods and services but also the transfer of women in marriage: these are “restricted” and “generalized” exchange. With a mass of ethnographic evidence he demonstrates how the formidable intricacy of marriage customs, comprising moral and jural ideas and institutions (which appear to be essentially arbitrary), can be seen as local and historical rules of exchange. Charles Lévi-Strauss traces these rules throughout a vast range of simple societies, chiefly in Australia and mainland Southeast Asia but also in the Americas, in Oceania, and in other parts of the world. To this survey he adds two extended sections on the great civilizations of China and India. He continues with a briefer consideration of the passage from elementary to complex structures, with particular reference to African societies, and concludes with a stimulating chapter on the principles of kinship, exchange as the universal basis for marriage prohibitions, and the formal relations between the sexes as part of a universe of communication. Although much of the work is technical, consisting of detailed analyses of types of social organization with which social anthropologists will be most familiar, it also contains much that will be of interest to psychologists, linguists, and philosophers, and to all who are interested in the possibility and the technique of the structural analysis of human activity. After the successes, moreover, of Lévi-Strauss’s subsequent books—notably Structural Anthropology, Tristes Tropiques, Totemism, and The Savage Mind—this new edition of the work which founded his present outstanding reputation will have additional value as a further means of contact with one of the original minds of this century. The translation has been made by James Harle Bell and John Richard von Sturmer, of the University of New England, Australia, and by Rodney Needham, of the University of Oxford. Dr. Needham also acted as general editor and supplied the work with a new general index. He is the translator of Lévi-Strauss’s Le Totemisme aujourd’hui and author of Structure and Sentiment (1962) and numerous papers which have contributed to the recognition of Professor Lévi-Strauss’s work in the English-speaking world.
Book Synopsis Linguistics and Anthropology by : Marvin Dale Kinkade
Download or read book Linguistics and Anthropology written by Marvin Dale Kinkade and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1975-01-01 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paper by K.L. Hale separately annotated.
Book Synopsis The Paite, a Transborder Tribe of India and Burma by : H. Kamkhenthang
Download or read book The Paite, a Transborder Tribe of India and Burma written by H. Kamkhenthang and published by Mittal Publications. This book was released on 1988 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The History of Human Marriage by : Edward Westermarck
Download or read book The History of Human Marriage written by Edward Westermarck and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Hindus of the Himalayas by : Gerald Duane Berreman
Download or read book Hindus of the Himalayas written by Gerald Duane Berreman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gerald Berreman's ethnographic study of a hill village in India is widely regarded as a classic in the field of social anthropology. In this new edition, Berreman returns to this village after ten years to record the ethnographic continuity and change in village lifestyle. A new prologue addsimportant insights to the bases for the ethnographic descriptions and analyses by outlining the research conditions of this study. A new epilogue records Berreman's findings after revisiting the village--focusing on the trends found in the village and the surrounding region to draw implications forthe country at large.
Book Synopsis The History Of Human Marriage (6 Vols. Set) by : Edward Westermarck
Download or read book The History Of Human Marriage (6 Vols. Set) written by Edward Westermarck and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 2007 with total page 1952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis An address on marriage with a deceased wife's sister by : Christopher Wordsworth (bp. of Lincoln.)
Download or read book An address on marriage with a deceased wife's sister written by Christopher Wordsworth (bp. of Lincoln.) and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Marriage and Worship in the Early Societies A Treatise on Totemism and Exogamy by : Sir James George Frazer
Download or read book Marriage and Worship in the Early Societies A Treatise on Totemism and Exogamy written by Sir James George Frazer and published by Mittal Publications. This book was released on 1986 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Sisters & Lovers by : Connie Briscoe
Download or read book Sisters & Lovers written by Connie Briscoe and published by One World/Ballantine. This book was released on 1996 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three sisters live in Washington, D.C. One is reluctantly single, the second seems securely happy and married, while the third struggles to support her son and her useless husband.
Book Synopsis The Right Spouse by : Isabelle Clark-Decès
Download or read book The Right Spouse written by Isabelle Clark-Decès and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-30 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Right Spouse is an engaging investigation into Tamil (South Indian) preferential close kin marriages, so-called Dravidian Kinship. This book offers a description and an interpretation of preferential marriages with close kin in South India, as they used to be arranged and experienced in the recent past and as they are increasingly discontinued in the present. Clark-Decès presents readers with a focused anthropology of this waning marriage system: its past, present, and dwindling future. The book takes on the main pillars of Tamil social organization, considers the ways in which Tamil intermarriage establishes kinship and social rank, and argues that past scholars have improperly defined "Dravidian" kinship. Within her critique of past scholarship, Clark-Decès recasts a powerful and vivid image of preferential marriage in Tamil Nadu and how those preferences and marital rules play out in lived reality. What Clark-Decès discovers in her fieldwork are endogamous patterns and familial connections that sometimes result in flawed relationships, contradictory statuses, and confused roles. The book includes a fascinating narration of the complex terrain that Tamil youth currently navigate as they experience the complexities and changing nature of marriage practices and seek to reconcile their established kinship networks to more individually driven marriages and careers.
