The Nesting Dolls

Download or read book The Nesting Dolls written by Gail Bowen and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2011-07-12 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just hours before her body is found in a car in a parking lot, a young woman hands her baby to a perfect stranger and disappears. The stranger is the daughter of Delia Wainberg, a lawyer in the same firm as Joanne Kilbourn's husband. One close look at the child suggests that there might be a family relationship, and soon the truth about the child Delia gave up for adoption years ago comes out. The boy must be Delia's grandson. Then his mother is found dead, sexually assaulted and murdered. Not only is there a killer on the loose, but the dead woman's partner is demanding custody of the child.

Download or read book The Nesting Dolls written by Alina Adams and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning nearly a century, from 1930s Siberia to contemporary Brighton Beach, a page turning, epic family saga centering on three generations of women in one Russian Jewish family—each striving to break free of fate and history, each yearning for love and personal fulfillment—and how the consequences of their choices ripple through time. Odessa, 1931. Marrying the handsome, wealthy Edward Gordon, Daria—born Dvora Kaganovitch—has fulfilled her mother’s dreams. But a woman’s plans are no match for the crushing power of Stalin’s repressive Soviet state. To survive, Daria is forced to rely on the kindness of a man who takes pride in his own coarseness. Odessa, 1970. Brilliant young Natasha Crystal is determined to study mathematics. But the Soviets do not allow Jewish students—even those as brilliant as Natasha—to attend an institute as prestigious as Odessa University. With her hopes for the future dashed, Natasha must find a new purpose—one that leads her into the path of a dangerous young man. Brighton Beach, 2019. Zoe Venakovsky, known to her family as Zoya, has worked hard to leave the suffocating streets and small minds of Brighton Beach behind her—only to find that what she’s tried to outrun might just hold her true happiness. Moving from a Siberian gulag to the underground world of Soviet refuseniks to oceanside Brooklyn, The Nesting Dolls is a heartbreaking yet ultimately redemptive story of circumstance, choice, and consequence—and three dynamic unforgettable women, all who will face hardships that force them to compromise their dreams as they fight to fulfill their destinies.

Download or read book Russian Nesting Dolls Stickers written by Freddie Levin and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-five fun-to-use stickers showcase the craft, including mother-and-child dolls, a balalaika, basket of berries, decorative Easter eggs, and more.

Download or read book Nesting Doll written by Rita Kiefer and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Nesting Doll, Rita Brady Kiefer celebrates the power of words to transform life while exploring the mysterious ways memory and language help shape each other. Throughout twenty poems, Kiefer brilliantly explores the way in which women and religious subjects interrelate, handling a great many psychological subtleties with ease and in straightforward verse. The title poem, "Nesting Doll," is emblematic of how we attempt to uncover layers of personality in order to discover what it means to inhabit a human body while at the same time exist in a community. This seven-part poem places at center stage women from Kiefer's individual history who resonate with women from our own. Another selection, a sequence of poems known as the "Sister Mailee Sequence," offers a lyric perspective on the poet's "previous life" as a Catholic nun. This particular piece calls into question the permanence of vocation and examines endless possibilities of the relationships between an individual's spiritual and sensuous lives. The final poem is an elegy for one of the four churchwomen murdered in El Salvador in 1980. Whether the poems in this volume originate from Marie Curie's thumbs ("near senseless from chemicals [she was that in love with looking]"), a campus tree that keeps returning ("4maybe5timescutdown"), or the voices of "my sweet . . . diaphonous . . . dead," the images created rely on the silences surrounding Kiefer's words as much as what is articulated. Whether reflecting tentative constructed human relationships or connections with the natural world, this collection of poems embraces uncertainty as a way of being.

Download or read book Sexing the Body written by Anne Fausto-Sterling and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2008-08-04 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This award-winning classic examines the construction of sexual identity in biology, society, and history. Why do some people prefer heterosexual love while others fancy the same sex? Is sexual identity biologically determined or a product of convention? In this brilliant and provocative book, the acclaimed author of Myths of Gender argues that even the most fundamental knowledge about sex is shaped by the culture in which scientific knowledge is produced. Drawing on astonishing real-life cases and a probing analysis of centuries of scientific research, Fausto-Sterling demonstrates how scientists have historically politicized the body. In lively and impassioned prose, she breaks down three key dualisms -- sex/gender, nature/nurture, and real/constructed -- and asserts that individuals born as mixtures of male and female exist as one of five natural human variants and, as such, should not be forced to compromise their differences to fit a flawed societal definition of normality.

Download or read book Sarandipitous Slippers written by Andra L. Beames and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-05 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is like Harry Potter, but for girls." "The jig reminds me of the dancing in the Titanic movie!" "I thought the combination of a story, the dance and a video was wonderful, as well as educational!" --Participants, FL Public Libraries Sara Charm's serendipitous adventures are a modern-day fairytale! Wearing magical dance slippers she travels back into time and uncovers the mystery of her Great Grandma, Katie O'Charm, an Irish fairy. Sara's shoes whisk her back to 1925 Ireland, 1910 Russia and 1955 Cuba. Wearing Irish Jig shoes she performs an Irish Step dance to her Papa's fiddling in the village pub. Tying on ballet slippers transforms her into the prima ballerina in the Russian Folk Tales drama. Clicking the heels of a pair of Latin pumps she feels her body swaying to the rhythms of a tango tune dancing Flamenco. Discovering that she is a fairy is only half of her story. It is only half of yours too! Order the unique instructional dance video and you too can learn to dance! Meet Sara! She will show you how step by step. It's fun and exciting! Order at www.sarandipitous.com.

Download or read book The Old Blood written by Tim Bohn and published by Tim Bohn. This book was released on 2015-04-20 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Please hurry, devochka. He's coming." When her parents died, Tally Petrenko was shipped off to her uncle. He was supposed to do one thing: take her to Pottersfield. Two years later, he still hasn't done it. Now it's too late. Grigori has found her. Tally is on the run from Grigori, an ancient evil that has been hunting her family for generations. He wants to kill her and steal her power -- a power she doesn't even realize she has. Tally must learn how to use her power, stay one step ahead of Grigori, and get to Pottersfield! Pottersfield is a shared-world setting created by Jason Asala and Tim Bohn. The Pottersfield Institute is the home base of a wide array of characters found in two multi-book series. Tim leads off first with The Old Blood, the first book of the Legacy of Magic series. In mid-2015 Jason follows up with the first book of his Civil War Leviathan series, The Last of the Virginia Regulars. You can find out a lot about the upcoming Pottersfield Irregulars books at pottersfield.posthaven.com