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8703) Love in exile
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
©2016
Language
English
Description
Sabahat, a beautiful young Muslim woman, is known in her family for her intelligence, drive, and stubbornness. She believes there is more in store for her life than a good marriage and convinces her parents to let her pursue her education, rare for young Turkish women in the 1920s. But no one--least of all Sabahat herself--expects that in the course of her studies she will fall for a handsome Armenian student named Aram. After precious moments alone...
Author
Publisher
Douglas & McIntyre
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"When Jane Munro’s husband is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, the Griffin-award-winning poet must chart a path through the depths of grief, learning to live with loss and to take solace and find freedom in the restorative powers of writing. Open Every Window is a genre-bending prose account of the unravelling of a life—two lives—when Munro’s husband Bob, twenty years her senior, is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. Evoking Joan Didion’s The Year...
Author
Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
©2013
Language
English
Description
Is homosexuality unnatural? Does the Bible condemn it? Are people born gay (and should it matter either way)? Corvino approaches such questions with precision, sensitivity, and good humor. In the process, he makes a fresh case for moral engagement, forcefully rejecting the idea that morality is a "private matter." This book appears at a time when same-sex marriage is being hotly debated across the U.S. Many people object to such marriage on the grounds...
8706) The weight of salt
Author
Series
Angelina Purrello saga volume 1
Publisher
Edwards Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Angelina Pirrello comes of age in 1906, in Ybor City, Florida, where her life is defined by her Sicilian father, Domenico. After falling in love with Rolando, her plan to define her own life is shattered when her father arranges her marriage to a man she dislikes.
8708) That's a family!
Series
Publisher
Distributed by] New Day Films
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Shows the many different shapes that families take today. Children describe their own families and explain concepts like "birth mom," "mixed race," "gay and lesbian," and "stepdad."
8710) A very sordid wedding
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Marriage equality comes to small town Texas. A serial killer, drag queens, and a dysfunctional family collide driving toward an explosive night as a memorial service at the bar and an Anti-Equality rally at the church both go off the rails.
Author
Publisher
Harlequin Intrigue
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Undercover connection: "Much to their mutual annoyance, FBI agent Jacob Wolff and Miami detective Jasmine Adair discover they're both undercover to bust a notorious organized crime group. But amid a glamorous South Beach nightclub opening, their key informant is found dead, leaving Jacob and Jasmine the dangerous job of infiltrating the ring. With desire igniting between them, can they set aside their distrust and work together to bring down the brutal...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"As a candidate in 2008, Barack Obama distanced himself from same-sex marriage, saying he believed marriage was "a sacred union" between a man and a woman. In 2012, he did just the opposite, proclaiming it was "important" for him to affirm the right of same-sex couples to marry. This dramatic about-face put the most powerful man in the world at the front of the battle for gay rights, giving LGBT Americans and their advocates an invaluable ally in...
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"A captivating, nuanced portrait of the life of Véra Nabokov, who dedicated herself to advancing her husband's writing career, playing a vital role in the creation of his greatest works. Véra Nabokov (1902-1991) was in many ways the epitome of the wife of a great man: keenly aware of her husband's extraordinary talent, she decided to make his success her ultimate goal, throughout fifty-two years of marriage until his death in 1977. The first reader...
Author
Publisher
Devir
Pub. Date
2010
Language
עברית
Description
Nemat tells the heart-pounding story of her life as a young girl in Iran during the early days of Ayatollah Khomeini's brutal Islamic Revolution--arrested, tortured, and sentenced to death for "political crimes."--Publisher description.
Neʻemat bat shesh-ʻeśreh nidonah la-maṿet be-1982 bi-gelal biḳoret ʻal memshelet ha-Ayyatollah. Shomer ha-keleʼ hitsil et ḥayeha aval darash mimenah le-hitaslem ule-hinaśe lo. Be-sof hu norah u-met; hi...
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