Showing results for "Lou" in Women's Fiction

If you could wish for one gift this Christmas, what would it be? Everyday Lou Suffern battled with the clock. He always had two places to be at the same time. He always had two things to do at once. When asleep he dreamed. In between dreams he ran through the events of the day while making plans for the next. When at home with his wife and family, his mind was always someplace else.

Perla, a young Jewish woman, was raised in an extreme ultra-orthodox society. When she turns 18, and her parents have a hard time finding a match for her, she is thrown into the arms of a cold, violent man who makes her life unbearable. A forbidden, chance encounter with a man, and the feelings that ensue, make her begin to question everything she has ever known - and even consider that, maybe, she does not have to choose this life that has been thrust upon her. But she knows that once she makes a drastic decision, there will be no way back into the arms of the Jewish community.

Er will sie. Sie will ihn. Ihr denkt, einfacher geht es nicht? Nun, dann kennt ihr Seth & Lou noch nicht! Lou. Was tust du, wenn du mit siebzehn Jahren zum ersten Mal so richtig verliebt bist? Genau, du schleichst dich in sein Schlafzimmer, um für immer mit ihm zusammen zu sein. Schon klar! Ich habe definitiv zu viele Groschenromane gelesen. Aber was ich nicht habe kommen sehen, ist, dass er mir am nächsten Tag das Herz bricht. Weil er sich an nichts mehr erinnern kann, was uns in der Nacht verbunden hat.

Did you ever know a woman who carried a heart full of secrets too personal to share? Some of them could be beautiful, such as indescribable love...painful, such as the suffering caused by an abusive parent or lover...hopeless, like unfulfilled dreams. The Secret Taker is such a woman. When she becomes a census taker, her employer, the federal government, requires her to keep the secrets of whatever she sees. The vow of confidentiality seems theoretically pure, but what if she observes hideous situations that need to be told?

In der Erzählung "Fenitschka" setzt sich Lou Andreas-Salomé, mit der auch für sie sehr bedeutsamen Problematik von Ehe und dem Bedürfnis nach weiblicher Selbstentfaltung im Kontext des damaligen Frauenbildes auseinander. Die Autorin schrieb diese Novelle um 1900, nach einem langen Aufenthalt in Paris. Deutlich erkennen wir in dieser Geschichte autobiographische Züge. Es geht um eine junge Russin, die nach einem langen Studium endlich zu leben beginnt und nun versucht, das Wesen der Liebe zu ergründen. In einer heimlichen Romanze meint sie, dieses Ideal endlich gefunden zu haben.

Abby and Manny Blair anticipate the birth of their first child. Nausea plagues Abby every morning, and fears keep her awake at night. Orphaned at age eighteen, she prays daily for a safe delivery and a future with her child. Now more than ever, Manny yearns for guidance from his own father. Good news can’t be shared with a man who’s been dead for years. Sheriff Williams delivered the devastating news of Mark Blair’s death at the hands of an unscrupulous card shark when Manny was only five years old.

As the Lotus Blooms is the fast-moving sequel to Logan’s first novel Finding Lien. The story follows Lien, traumatized from her ordeal as a victim of child trafficking in a Cambodian brothel, on her journey of recovery. Despite her recurring bouts of PTSD, this courageous young woman signs on with an NGO to work with a team to prevent trafficking and rescue victims.