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Book Synopsis Three Tales of Love and Death by : Out el Kouloub
Download or read book Three Tales of Love and Death written by Out el Kouloub and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2000-05-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The heroines of Out El Kouloub's Three Tales tells the stories of Nazira, Zahira, and Zarifa, whose narratives afford the rest of the world a glimpse of the "veiled" culture: from an insider's perspective. Throughout the book, Out El Kouloub takes the reader to a variety of colorful. locations-through streets, bazaars, holy sites and homes of Cairo. Her stories take her characters into the intimate geographical and psychological space of different classes and upbringings that make up Egyptian life. This is an Egypt described not by an orientalist but by an Egyptian woman who has either lived or observed the' experiences that form the fabric of her written work. Three Tales is a companion volume to Ramza and Zanouba, also Kouloub, and each translated from the French by Nayra Atiya.
Book Synopsis Songs of Love and Death by : George R. R. Martin
Download or read book Songs of Love and Death written by George R. R. Martin and published by Gallery / Saga Press. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking and “wonderful” (Library Journal, starred review) anthology of fantasy, science fiction, and romance from New York Times bestselling and award-winning authors, edited by the acclaimed George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois. From epic fantasy, post-apocalyptic America, to faerie-haunted rural fields in 18th-century England, to an intergalactic empire, join star-crossed lovers as they struggle against the forces of magic and fate. A star-studded cross-genre anthology Songs of Love and Death features all-original tales from seventeen of the most prestigious names in romance, fantasy, and science fiction. Contributors include: -Neil Gaiman -Diana Gabaldon -Jim Butcher -Robin Hobb -Marjorie M. Liu -Jo Beverley -Mary Jo Putney -Peter S. Beagle -Jacqueline Carey -Carrie Vaughn -Yasmine Galenorn -MLN Hanover -Kristine Kathryn Rusch -Linnea Sinclair -Cecelia Holland -Tanith Lee -Melinda Snodgrass -Lisa Tuttle
Book Synopsis Love and Death in Renaissance Italy by : Thomas V. Cohen
Download or read book Love and Death in Renaissance Italy written by Thomas V. Cohen and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-01-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gratuitous sex. Graphic violence. Lies, revenge, and murder. Before there was digital cable or reality television, there was Renaissance Italy and the courts in which Italian magistrates meted out justice to the vicious and the villainous, the scabrous and the scandalous. Love and Death in Renaissance Italy retells six piquant episodes from the Italian court just after 1550, as the Renaissance gave way to an era of Catholic reformation. Each of the chapters in this history chronicles a domestic drama around which the lives of ordinary Romans are suddenly and violently altered. You might read the gruesome murder that opens the book—when an Italian noble takes revenge on his wife and her bastard lover as he catches them in delicto flagrante—as straight from the pages of Boccaccio. But this tale, like the other stories Cohen recalls here, is true, and its recounting in this scintillating work is based on assiduous research in court proceedings kept in the state archives in Rome. Love and Death in Renaissance Italy contains stories of a forbidden love for an orphan nun, of brothers who cruelly exact a will from their dying teenage sister, and of a malicious papal prosecutor who not only rapes a band of sisters, but turns their shambling father into a pimp! Cohen retells each cruel episode with a blend of sly wit and warm sympathy and then wraps his tales in ruminations on their lessons, both for the history of their own time and for historians writing today. What results is a book at once poignant and painfully human as well as deliciously entertaining.
Download or read book Ramza written by Out el Kouloub and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1994-06-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Out el Kouloub's Ramza is the story of one woman's rebellion against her life in the harem of a wealthy Egyptian family at the turn of the century. Although she flourishes in this world, secure in the safety it provides, she comes to despise its constraints. In describing her growing awareness of the life of women in her elite milieu, Ramza paints an intimate portrait of harem life, including the methods employed by the wives and concubines to ensure the power they seek for themselves and their children. Ramza is drawn to books, music, and eventually to the men's quarter. She dares to express her physical, social, and sexual repression. The novel is a heartfelt dramatization of a piece of Egyptian feminine and feminist history set at a time when Egyptian women were struggling to come forward. It was originally published by Gallimard Press in France in 1958.
Book Synopsis Tales of Love, Madness and Death by : Horacio Quiroga
Download or read book Tales of Love, Madness and Death written by Horacio Quiroga and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-04-30 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales of love, madness and death is the result of that tormented life and it is where he displays all his gifts. In these stories, the mystery is master and lord, although always immersed in everyday situations, which increases the impact. Madness and love are constantly intertwined, to inevitably lead to death. His stories, charged with implicit violence, produce an asphyxiating tension that is only released with the most unexpected of endings. The jungle and wild setting of the Missions that he knew, frame his stories.
Download or read book Evidence of Love written by John Bloom and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-12-20 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “fascinating” true story behind the HBO Max and Hulu series about Texas housewife Candy Montgomery and the bizarre murder that shocked a community (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Candy Montgomery and Betty Gore had a lot in common: They sang together in the Methodist church choir, their daughters were best friends, and their husbands had good jobs working for technology companies in the north Dallas suburbs known as Silicon Prairie. But beneath the placid surface of their seemingly perfect lives, both women simmered with unspoken frustrations and unanswered desires. On a hot summer day in 1980, the secret passions and jealousies that linked Candy and Betty exploded into murderous rage. What happened next is usually the stuff of fiction. But the bizarre and terrible act of violence that occurred in Betty’s utility room that morning was all too real. Based on exclusive interviews with the Gore and Montgomery families, Edgar Award finalist Evidence of Love is the “superbly written” account of a gruesome tragedy and the trial that made national headlines when the defendant entered the most unexpected of pleas: not guilty by reason of self-defense (Fort Worth Star-Telegram). Adapted into the Emmy and Golden Globe Award–winning television movie A Killing in a Small Town—as well as the new limited series Candy on Hulu and Love and Death on HBO Max—this chilling tale of sin and savagery will “fascinate true crime aficionados” (Kirkus Reviews).
Book Synopsis Circle of Love Over Death by : Matilde Mellibovsky
Download or read book Circle of Love Over Death written by Matilde Mellibovsky and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Circle of Love Over Death, Matilde Mellibovsky documents the testimonies of mothers whose children were stripped from them in Argentina during the turbulent 1970s. She not only describes the personal anguish of families over the torture, death or "disappearance" of their children, but also shows how the women gave emotional support to each other and the way in which, since 1976, they slowly but surely organized and built an international movement.
Book Synopsis The Game of Love and Death by : Martha Brockenbrough
Download or read book The Game of Love and Death written by Martha Brockenbrough and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this “inventive and affecting” historical young adult novel, a black girl and a white boy are pawns in a magical game between Love and Death (Publishers Weekly). Flora and Henry were born a few blocks from each other, innocent of the forces that might keep a white boy and an African American girl apart; years later they meet again and their mutual love of music sparks an even more powerful connection. But what Flora and Henry don’t know is that they are pawns in a game played by the eternal adversaries Love and Death, here brilliantly reimagined as two extremely sympathetic and fascinating characters. Can their hearts and their wills overcome not only their earthly circumstances, but forces that have battled throughout history? In the rainy Seattle of the 1920’s, romance blooms among the jazz clubs, the mansions of the wealthy, and the shanty towns of the poor. But what is more powerful: love? Or death? “Race, class, fate and choice—they join Love and Death to play their parts in Brockenbrough’s haunting and masterfully orchestrated narrative.” —Kirkus Reviews
Book Synopsis An Inquiry into Love and Death by : Simone St. James
Download or read book An Inquiry into Love and Death written by Simone St. James and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young woman searches for the truth behind her uncle’s mysterious death in a town haunted by a restless ghost in this gripping novel by the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Cold Cases. Oxford student Jillian Leigh works day and night to keep up with her studies—so to leave at the beginning of the term is next to impossible. But after her uncle Toby, a renowned ghost hunter, is killed in a fall off a cliff, she must drive to the seaside village of Rothewell to pack up his belongings. Almost immediately, unsettling incidents—a book left in a cold stove, a gate swinging open on its own—escalate into terrifying events that convince Jillian an angry spirit is trying to enter the house. Is it Walking John, the two-hundred-year-old ghost who haunts Blood Moon Bay? And who beside the ghost is roaming the local woods at night? If Toby uncovered something sinister, was his death no accident? The arrival of handsome Scotland Yard inspector Drew Merriken, a former RAF pilot with mysteries of his own, leaves Jillian with more questions than answers—and with the added complication of a powerful, mutual attraction. Even as she suspects someone will do anything to hide the truth, she begins to discover spine-chilling secrets that lie deep within Rothewell…and at the very heart of who she is.
Book Synopsis A Companion to Chrétien de Troyes by : Norris J. Lacy
Download or read book A Companion to Chrétien de Troyes written by Norris J. Lacy and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 2008 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fine collection...an excellent introduction to Chrétien's world and work. Highly recommended. CHOICE Chrétien de Troyes is arguably the creator of Arthurian romance, and it is on his work that later writers have based their interpretations. This book offers both crucial information on, and a comprehensive coverage of, all aspectsof the work of Chrétien de Troyes - the literary and historical background, patronage, his influence on other writers, manuscripts and editions of his work and, at the heart of the volume, major essays on the themes, techniques and artistic achievements in each of his compositions; the contributions, all from leading experts in Chrétien and related studies, have been commissioned especially for this volume and are designed to remain accessible to studentswhile also addressing specialists in Arthurian studies and Chrétien de Troyes. They reflect the most current critical and scholarly views on one of the greatest of medieval authors. CONTRIBUTORS: JOHN W. BALDWIN, JUNEHALL MCCASH, LAURENCE HARF-LANCNER, NORRIS J. LACY, DOUGLAS KELLY, KEITH BUSBY, PETER F. DEMBOWSKI, ROBERTA L. KRUEGER, DONALD MADDOX, SARA STURM-MADDOX, JOAN TASKER GRIMBERT, MATILDA TOMARYN BRUCKNER, TONY HUNT, RUPERT T. PICKENS, ANNIE COMBES, MICHELLE SZKILNIK, EMMANUELE BAUMGARTNER
Book Synopsis Christmas Presence: Three Tales of Love by : Donna Birdsell
Download or read book Christmas Presence: Three Tales of Love written by Donna Birdsell and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NAUGHTY OR NICE? Meet three sophisticated women who aren't above a little mischief under the mistletoe to relieve holiday stress. CHRISTMAS PRESENCE ~ Donna Birdsell Young widow Astrid Martin wants to boycott Christmas—but her husband's ghost won't let her! Before long she has a tree, even a gift-wrapping job at the mall, where she meets the man who holds the key to her Christmas future. SECRET SANTA ~ Lisa Childs When Maggie O'Brien receives gifts from a secret Santa, she suspects one of the three men in her life has finally wised up to how special she is. Who's the mystery man—her ex, her boss, or that good-looking car mechanic? Come Christmas morning, will true love be waiting under Maggie's tree? YOU'RE ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS ~ Susan Crosby Divorcée Lauren Wright opts for a Bahamas Christmas getaway—only to be stranded at the airport by weather. But a very personable fellow traveler makes the time fly—and temperatures rise. Bahamas or no Bahamas, things are about to get steamy….
Book Synopsis A Kiss of Death and Rebirth by : M Owens
Download or read book A Kiss of Death and Rebirth written by M Owens and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-08-17 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a necromancer, death is a central part of life... but what's a girl to do when her own early death is fast approaching? In creating a golem to help her with basic tasks in her final days, her memories of a past love throw off the spell. What results is a strange, beautiful woman, with free will and feelings of her own. Now, with her new companion supporting her, Celeste wants to make up for her enormous past mistakes in aiding her kingdom's bloody conquests. But... will there enough time?
Book Synopsis Queer Ghost Stories Volume Three by : Foxglove Lee
Download or read book Queer Ghost Stories Volume Three written by Foxglove Lee and published by Rainbow Crush. This book was released on with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who needs sleep? Not you! You’d rather stay up late reading these spine-chilling ghost stories! In these three tales of the paranormal, queer characters encounter the supernatural… with blood-curdling results! Get ready for a fright with three stories from Foxglove Lee’s Queer Ghost Stories series! Alisha never asked to be a sensitive, but when her nightmares coincide with strange goings-on in her building, she must take action. The victim of a brutal killing keeps coming to her in terrifying dreams. The night terrors won't stop until the murder is brought to light in our first story, Nightmare Heights. Our second haunting tale, Spooky Little Girl Like You, sees a young girl’s obsession turn terrifying after her tragic death is witnessed by everyone at summer camp. All Melinda wanted in life was Zachary’s undivided attention. Didn’t matter to her that he was five years older or that he was her camp counsellor or even that he was gay. She wanted to be with him always. Now, in death, will she get her wish? When you’re twenty-one years old, you don’t expect your closest friend to be in her nineties, but housemates Sindara and Eloise from our third story, Off with the Fairies, have more in common than they ever would have guessed. Sindara hears voices in the basement. She feels like she’s being watched by unseen eyes. Is their house haunted… and are they in serious danger? Delve into three tales of the paranormal by Foxglove Lee… if you dare!
Book Synopsis The Eaten Heart by : Giovanni Boccaccio
Download or read book The Eaten Heart written by Giovanni Boccaccio and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2007-08-02 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten young Florentines take refuge in the countryside from the Black Death and tell stories to pass the time. From the unfaithful wife who unwittingly eats her lover’s heart to the sly peasant plotting to seduce a whole nunnery, these are tales of lust, adventure and unexpected twists of fate. United by the theme of love, the writings in the Great Loves series span over two thousand years and vastly different worlds. Readers will be introduced to love’s endlessly fascinating possibilities and extremities: romantic love, platonic love, erotic love, gay love, virginal love, adulterous love, parental love, filial love, nostalgic love, unrequited love, illicit love, not to mention lost love, twisted and obsessional love....
Book Synopsis Return to the Dirt by : Geoff Sturtevant
Download or read book Return to the Dirt written by Geoff Sturtevant and published by . This book was released on 2016-01-23 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncommon tales of the common man. An unfortunate intellectual resigned to blue-collar work has grown disenchanted with life and distanced from his family. How much blood will it take to put his existence into perspective? Kevin delivers groceries; he's never strived for anything more. But as his path becomes entangled with The Organization, had he ever had a hand in his own destiny? A drug addict leaves his life of stoned introspection for a shot at the working world. But can he remain on the straight and narrow when real life is so much darker than the imagination? Both dark and humorous, Return To The Dirt is no ordinary day's work.
Book Synopsis Love and Death in the American Novel by : Leslie A. Fiedler
Download or read book Love and Death in the American Novel written by Leslie A. Fiedler and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "No other study of the American novel has such fascinating and on the whole right things to say." Washington Post
Download or read book Lecretia's Choice written by Matt Vickers and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-29 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A successful young lawyer in Wellington, Lecretia Seales met and fell in love with Matt Vickers in 2003. In Lecretia’s Choice, Matt tells the story of their life together, and how it changed when his proud, fiercely independent wife was diagnosed with a brain tumour and forced to confront her own mortality. The death she faced—slow, painful, dependent—was completely at odds with how she had lived her life. Lecretia wanted to die with dignity, to be able to say goodbye well, and not to suffer unnecessarily—but the law denied her that choice. With her characteristic spirit, she decided to mount a challenge in New Zealand’s High Court, but as the battle raged, Lecretia’s strength faded. She died on 5 June 2015, at the age of forty-two, the day after her family learned that the court had ruled against her. Lecretia’s Choice is not only a moving love story but compulsory reading for everyone who cares about the dignity we afford terminally ill people who want to die on their own terms. In 2015 Matt Vickers supported his wife, Lecretia Seales, in her campaign to gain the right to choose how she died. Lecretia’s Choice is his first book. ‘This is a brave, intimate book, both agonizing and uplifting, and unflinchingly honest.’ Andrew Solomon, National Book Award winner, president of PEN American Center ‘Matt Vickers asserts “stories are the most powerful force in the universe.” This is the story of his wife, Lecretia, and her extraordinary advocacy in the face of ordinary tragedy. It will help change the world.’ Barbara Coombs Lee, President of Compassion and Choices USA ‘A tragic story, heart-breaking; so beautifully written...Lecretia’s Choice was an almost un-put-downable book. Every home should have a copy, for a reminder, if nothing more, of what it is to have heart, humility and hope.’ Off the Tracks ‘A very human story... Articulate, thought provoking, honest and poignant.’ Page & Blackmore Booksellers ‘“The unwinding skein of her life was blowing free in the wind, and it tormented her.” If the case for assisted dying could be won through emotional appeals, this sentence would surely clinch it...Vickers is an assured writer who knows the importance of letting the moment speak for itself.’ Sydney Morning Herald
