Our Lady Of The Night
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Our Lady Of The Night
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Author : Mayra Santos-Febres
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2009-07-28
Our Lady Of The Night written by Mayra Santos-Febres and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-28 with Fiction categories.
From internationally-acclaimed novelist Mayra Santos-Febres comes a carnal, epic novel about the life of Isabel “La Negra” Luberza--a legendary Puerto Rican madam who, by the end of World War II, became the most powerful woman on the island. Born into poverty and then abandoned by her mother, Isabel "La Negra" Luberza blossoms into a supremely sensual young woman. Obsessed with attaining aristocratic status—armed with incredible physical presence, indomitable ambition, and keen intelligence—she meets Fernando Fornarís, the man who will forever change her life. With a parcel of land given to her by her rich, white married lover, Isabel transforms herself into a hard-edged and merciless businesswoman—abandoning her own newborn son to become Puerto Rico's most feared and respected madam, a collector of society's secrets, a queen of the notorious brothel that emerges as the island's true political and economic heart. Set against the rich backdrop of the Caribbean and the United States during the tumultuous years of World War II, Mayra Santos-Febres's Our Lady of the Night is a breathtaking novel of passion, power, and the devastating price of achieving everything one wishes for.
Nuestra Se Ora De La Noche
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Author : Mayra Santos-Febres
language : es
Publisher: Espasa Calpe Mexicana, S.A.
Release Date : 2006
Nuestra Se Ora De La Noche written by Mayra Santos-Febres and has been published by Espasa Calpe Mexicana, S.A. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Fiction categories.
Doña Isabel Luberza Oppenheimer es una de las mujeres más poderosas, respetadas y temidas de su ciudad. Pero no siempre ha sido así. Isabel La Negra, Isabelita, fue una niña abandonada por su madre, que trabajaba de lavandera, y a los ocho años ya servía como criada en una casa noble de la ciudad hasta que, en su pubertad, el señor quiso meterse en su cama y se vio obligada a trabajar como costurera primero y vendedora de licor ilegal después. La historia de Isabel es la historia de una lucha descarnada por ascender socialmente, sobreponerse a la desgracia y obtener el respeto de los suyos y la independencia y libertad que da el dinero. Ambientada en el Puerto Rico de los años treinta, es también la historia de su renuncia al amor de un hombre de ojos verdes de muy diferente clase social a la suya.
Our Lady Of The Lost And Found
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Author : Diane Schoemperlen
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2002-07-30
Our Lady Of The Lost And Found written by Diane Schoemperlen and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-07-30 with Fiction categories.
One Monday morning in April, a middle-aged writer walks into her living room to water the plants and finds a woman standing beside her potted fig tree. Dressed in a navy blue trench coat and white Nikes, the woman introduces herself as "Mary. Mother of God.... You know. Mary." Instead of a golden robe or a crown, she arrives bearing a practical wheeled suitcase. Weary after two thousand years of adoration and petition, Mary is looking for a little R & R. She's asked in for lunch, and decides to stay a week. As the story of their visit unfolds, so does the story of Mary-one of the most complex and powerful female figures of our time-and her changing image in culture, art, history, as well as the thousands of recorded sightings that have placed her everywhere from a privet hedge to the dented bumper of a Camaro. As this Everywoman and Mary become friends, their conversations, both profound and intimate, touch upon Mary's significance and enduring relevance. Told with humor and grace, Our Lady of the Lost and Found is an absorbing tour through Mary's history and a thoughtful meditation on spirituality, our need for faith, and our desire to believe in something larger than ourselves.
Our Lady Of Everyday Life
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Author : María Del Socorro Castañeda-Liles
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018
Our Lady Of Everyday Life written by María Del Socorro Castañeda-Liles and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Religion categories.
"Our Lady of Everyday Life is an ethnographic study of three generations of Mexican origin women (college students, mothers, and older women) and their experiences growing up Catholic. The book focuses on their relationship with Our Lady of Guadalupe as central to what Castañeda-Liles calls their "Mexican Catholic imagination."
Our Lady Of Babylon
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Author : John Rechy
language : en
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Release Date : 2013-05-07
Our Lady Of Babylon written by John Rechy and has been published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-07 with Fiction categories.
“A funny, sexy, stylistically elegant, tongue-in-cheek rewriting of history” from the New York Times–bestselling author of City of Night (Booklist). A retelling of the stories of the fallen women of history, recounted by an eighteenth-century lady who realizes that these women’s lives bear a remarkable resemblance to her own. Told by a mystic that her dreams are memories of past lives, she must face the public to vindicate all women falsely accused of crimes. “Mr. Rechy’s renditions of these seemingly familiar stories can . . . be surprisingly fresh, creating an ominous sense of tragedy and doom.” —The New York Times Book Review “With a colorful ribbon of feminist revisionism festooning its New Age wrapping, Rechy’s latest novel indulges in past-life grandiosity and some scandalous speculation about the erotic lives of Adam, Medea and Jesus, among others.” —Publishers Weekly “Subversive and quite funny . . . A fictional absolution of women known historically as ‘whores’ . . . framed by a deadly serious look at erotic history and a formidable exploration of the power of words and their interpretation to alter our existence.” —Booklist “Rechy writes gracefully, and sometimes poignantly, of the fate of fallen women over the centuries.” —The Washington Post
Our Lady Of The Flowers
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Author : Jean Genet
language : en
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Release Date : 1994-01-12
Our Lady Of The Flowers written by Jean Genet and has been published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-01-12 with Fiction categories.
The shattering novel of underground life the New York Times called “a cry of rapture and horror . . . the purest lyrical genius.” Jean Genet’s debut novel Our Lady of the Flowers, which is often considered to be his masterpiece, was written entirely in the solitude of a prison cell. A semi- autobiographical account of one man’s journey through the Paris demi-monde, dubbed “the epic of masturbation” by no less a figure than Jean-Paul Sartre, the novel’s exceptional value lies in its exquisite ambiguity.
The Pilgrim Of Our Lady Of Martyrs
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1896
The Pilgrim Of Our Lady Of Martyrs written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1896 with categories.
The House Of Raby Or Our Lady Of Darkness
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Author : Jane Margaret (Winnard) Hooper ("Mrs. George Hooper.")
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1884
The House Of Raby Or Our Lady Of Darkness written by Jane Margaret (Winnard) Hooper ("Mrs. George Hooper.") and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1884 with categories.
Our Lady Of The Artichokes And Other Portuguese American Stories
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Author : Katherine Vaz
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2008-10-01
Our Lady Of The Artichokes And Other Portuguese American Stories written by Katherine Vaz and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-01 with Fiction categories.
The stories in this prize-winning collection evoke a complete world, one so richly imagined and finely realized that the stories themselves are not so much read as experienced. The world of these stories is Portuguese-American, redolent of incense and spices, resonant with ritual and prayer, immersed in the California culture of freeway and commerce. Packed with lyrical prose and vivid detail, acclaimed writer Katherine Vaz conjures a captivating blend of Old World heritage and New World culture to explore the links between families, friends, strangers, and their world. ø From the threat of a serial killer as the background for a young girl?s first brush with death to the fallout of a modern-day visitation from the Virgin Mary; from an AIDS-stricken squatter refusing to vacate an empty Lisbon home to a mother?s yearlong struggle with the death of her synesthetic daughter, these deft stories make their world ours.
Our Lady Of The Nile
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Author : Scholastique Mukasonga
language : en
Publisher: Archipelago
Release Date : 2014-09-16
Our Lady Of The Nile written by Scholastique Mukasonga and has been published by Archipelago this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-16 with Fiction categories.
Friendship, deceit, fear, and persecution at an elite boarding school for young women in Rwanda, fifteen years before the 1994 genocide of the Tutsi . . . “Mukasonga’s masterpiece” (Julian Lucas, NYRB) Scholastique Mukasonga drops us into an elite Catholic boarding school for young women perched on the edge of the Nile. Parents send their daughters to Our Lady of the Nile to be molded into respectable citizens and to escape the dangers of the outside world. Fifteen years prior to the 1994 Rwandan genocide, we watch as these girls try on their parents’ preconceptions and attitudes, transforming the lycée into a microcosm of the country’s mounting racial tensions and violence. In the midst of the interminable rainy season, everything unfolds behind the closed doors of the school: friendship, curiosity, fear, deceit, prejudice, and persecution. With masterful prose that is at once subtle and penetrating, Mukasonga captures a society hurtling towards horror.