Contemporary Womens Fiction

N 'Ma Guinee recollects the perspective of up to date African ladies in the direction of relationships and matrimony. Rekia's response in the direction of a hearsay from her shut pal approximately her husband disloyalty caused a rash behaviour. hence she gave her consent to her sister's choice.

the writer of the unconventional "Bent yet now not damaged" is a tender lady who has skilled her proportion of life's tribulations, struggles, and disappointments. figuring out that girls world wide have confronted and are dealing with quite a few matters yet are too afraid to discuss them, Charley has formulated her own "public diary". She has taken a few of her so much life-altering studies and has selected to percentage them with the realm. "The worst factor a lady can do is plow through anything and act as if it by no means occurred. That purely factors extra difficulties in any case" she says. Charley's venture is to permit girls recognize that they are no longer on my own and to supply desire after disappointment.

Excellence in Media “Silver Angel Award”

Virginia, the younger daughter of a filthy rich doctor’s kinfolk, sees her existence without end altered by way of the nice melancholy. pressured to renounce her personal room in order that family can stream in, her resentment at these situations is altered as she is helping her father, who spends his spare time giving scientific cognizance to the folks of “Soo City.” Soo urban is a makeshift camp close to the Soo Line tracks. yet her father’s goodwill clashes with robust those who want the camp destroyed. The violent strike of employees within the grain mill district brings tragedy to the strikers, and the daddy is significantly wounded whereas aiding the folk of Soo urban because the police are clearing out the camp. What occurs subsequent will astound you!

“In this seamless and well-researched narrative, Tatlock presents a compelling examine the melancholy via a child’s eyes. while, she thoroughly conveys the exuberance, naïveté, humor and optimism ordinary of younger teens.” --CBA industry

Short-listed for the 2004 Dartmouth e-book Award

Sara has the best occupation: as a photographer for a smooth shuttle journal, she is ready to pursue her ardour for images whereas even as appeasing her mom, who desires her to have a "real job." yet Sara’s perfect international comes crashing down while she is clinically determined with macular degeneration. As her imaginative and prescient starts off to go to pot, she faces the devastating prospect of getting to renounce either her profession and her ardour.

Hoping to prevent surgical procedure, Sara is brought to Sitara - an acupuncturist bothered by means of doubts and kinfolk scars. because the friendship among Sara and Sitara develops, the 2 girls look for how one can take care of the earlier and the present.

Debra erzählt David, dass in diesem Sommer keinerlei Warnungen von den Geheimdiensten vorliegen würden. Er ist trotzdem skeptisch. Eines Tages überfallen Terroristen einen Bus mit deutschen Touristen und greifen das Schloss in Schottland an …
Sandra arbeitet als name lady, um ihr Studium zu finanzieren. Sie erzählt David, dass einer ihrer Professoren von ihrer kleinen Nebentätigkeit erfahren hat und sie erpresst. Wochen später greift dieser Hochschullehrer an die Tür seines Arbeitszimmers und fällt tot um. Er hat einen Stromschlag erlitten. Sandra nimmt den nächsten Flieger nach Afrika. Wer hat die Türklinke unter Strom gesetzt?
Harald, der Prinz aus Norwegen und Ehemann der Thronfolgerin, wird entführt. Die Terroristen wollen ihn gegen inhaftierte Gesinnungsgenossen austauschen. David weiß natürlich, dass die Regierung einem derartigen Deal nicht zustimmen kann. Wo könnte der Prinz sein?
Global Media, ein internationaler Konzern, scheint sich für die Sea Gull Studios zu interessieren. Dadurch wird David misstrauisch. Könnte der Jäger zum Gejagten werden?
Bei Summerfields soll das Klo von John Lennon versteigert werden. Leider bricht das Ding auseinander, als es die Putzfrau abwischen will. was once nun?

while not anyone is calling is situated round Ebony Emerson, a tender lady who has been bodily, emotionally, and sexually abused through those that have been imagined to safeguard her so much. Ebony reclaims her existence and set her blinders to make a brand new existence and a brand new relatives for herself. while not anyone is calling is a complicated prepared with minimum profanity and sexual content material. whilst not anyone is calling tackles a subject that's skilled by means of youth everywhere in the world.

From experiences of the Spanish edition:

"...among the simplest works that Mexican fiction has produced."

—Héctor Gally, Sábado

"With homely beneficial properties, yet with a physique so shapely and fascinating that it units males (priests integrated) aflame through the novel, with an incandescent voluptuousness and pleasant amorality (surely explosive within the conservative Mexican society of her time and position) ...Otilia Rauda may be the protagonist of a Greek tragedy or of a cleaning soap opera made up of inconceivable happenings and as many turns of destiny as there are chapters used to inform the tale of her life."

—Jorge Ruffinelli, Punto y Aparte

Winner of Mexico's prestigious Xavier Villaurrutia prize in 1986, Otilia Rauda is right here translated into English for the 1st time as Otilia's Body. greatly thought of Sergio Galindo's most sensible paintings, the unconventional dramatizes a sexually liberated woman's obsession with an outlaw lover, performed opposed to the backdrop of Mexican heritage from 1910 to 1940. a superb instance of "intimist" fiction, Otilia's Body is noteworthy for its penetratingly defined characters who go beyond time and position to develop into universally recognizable.

Als die 40-jährige Sarah in einem Urlaub am Roten Meer den neun Jahre jüngeren Ibrahim kennenlernt, ist für beide klar, dass ihre Liebe keine Zukunft hat. Sarah will nach einer gescheiterten Ehe nicht noch einmal mit einem Mann zusammenleben, und der größte Traum von Ibrahim sind eigene Kinder. Trotzdem wagen die beiden eine Fernbeziehung. Doch nach einigen Jahren lässt Ibrahims Widerstand gegen die Heiratspläne seiner Mutter nach, und die bereits wartende Jungfrau wird geheiratet. Muss die Liebe zwischen Sarah und Ibrahim den Traditionen geopfert werden? Einfühlsam und kenntnisreich erzählt die Autorin die zehnjährige Geschichte einer schwierigen Liebe. Einer Liebe, die sich gegen die Vorurteile und Bedenken von Familie und Freunden sowie unter den schwierigen Bedingungen der unterschiedlichen Kulturen und Traditionen behaupten muss.

Chyna Danea Black by no means sought after for far in existence. She had every thing a girl may perhaps wish - aside from the affection and admire of her boyfriend, Tyreik. They’d been jointly because she used to be 16. She had excessive hopes for his or her courting; yet after a number of betrayals, it turns into painfully transparent that she’s chasing after a excessive she’ll by no means be ready to come again back.
Emotionally Unavailable is the lengthy awaited, hugely expected sequel to Keisha Ervin’s best-selling novel, Chyna Black. rather than letting love trample everywhere her like she has long ago, Chyna is scuffling with for her dignity, self-worth and most significantly, her middle. yet beginning over isn’t anything she desires to do. occasionally it’s more straightforward to stick and take care of the satan then the satan you don’t.

Synopsis & Characters

The in the partitions trilogy chronicles the lifetime of Emilya Hoffman Bowes Florencia—technological genius, collaborator within the most modern wave of “tek” improvements to hit the industry, and author of digital holidays. As booklet three, The Poet's Treasure opens, Emilya has lower back to urban Centre, a spot the place the population are informed they're the final of Earth's inhabitants, saved secure from the poisonous global open air by means of last in the confines in their tiny houses. Their tek allows them to snoop on the concepts and conversations of others round them—and perform a hectic, digital life the place specialty and actual relaxation are unknown.

Emilya is starting to see the gulf among the face-to-face relationships she is now experiencing and the digital life of the folk in urban Centre. She can not help yet ponder whether she will use her services in digital imaging to attract humans out of the illusory safeguard in their smartly edited icons and pre-packaged food—out into the majestic, wild international and actual group which are on hand past their walls.

For Emilya's husband, Vidde, urban Centre is as overseas as Mars will be to moonwalkers yet for the sake of affection, he wades into her global. whereas the intracacies and intrigues of the social order the following may possibly get away him--perhaps he sees "life" in urban Centre with a readability that has escaped Emilya hence far.