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Jalisa O'Neil, Lyda Lawrence and Valen Monet are three beautiful and intelligent women who are in their prime. Jalisa and Valen are married to Quinton and Roger while Lyda is engaged to Anthony. Quinton, Anthony and Roger think they're taking care of their mates by smothering them with materialistic things and giving them a life in lap of luxury. Big houses, nice cars and money galore give Jalisa, Lyda and Valen persona's of being well off, loved and cherished ... Read more
Seated in her nest of ashes, Cinderella embodies human misery. The essence of inner and outer nobility, she is the envy of her cruel stepmother and her ugly sisters. Using this familiar story, Ann and Barry Ulanov explore the psychological and theological aspects of envy and goodness. In their interpretation of the tale, they move back and forth between internal and external issues - from how feminine and masculine parts of persons fit or do not fit together to how individuals conduct their ... Read more
This is a vividly shocking misery memoir about Ann Kenny’s abusive childhood in rural Ireland. A foster child in a household where she wasn’t wanted, although her two older sisters were loved, Ann received constant physical abuse and neglect.
Features 19 megahit ditties by the likes of Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift, Usher, Ke$ha and others! Contains: Airplanes * Alejandro * Baby * Bad Romance * Billionaire * Breakeven * California Gurls * Cooler Than Me * Hey, Soul Sister * Live like We're Dying * Loving You Is Easy * Mine * Misery * Need You Now * There Goes My Baby * Today Was a Fairytale * What Ya Want from Me * When I Look at You * Your Love Is My Drug.
The angel Alexiel loved God, but she rebelled against Heaven when she saw how disgracefully the other angels were behaving. She was finally captured, and as punishment sent to Earth to live an endless series of tragic lives. She now inhabits the body of Setsuna Mudo, a troubled teen in love with his sister Sara. Setsuna's misery mirrors the chaos among the angels, and their combined passions threaten to destroy both Heaven and Earth.
Hephzibah: You've no idea what it's like having a freak for a sister. Rebecca: Born first, prettier, Hephzi's always been the more popular one. The Father: When he was busy with his bottle we were usually safe. Usually. The Mother: Her specialist subject was misery and lessons of painful silence ...Hepzibah and Rebecca are twins. One beautiful, one disfigured. Trapped with their loveless parents, they dream of a normal life. But when one twin tragically dies, the other must find ... Read more
Sometimes the Dashwood girls do not seem like sisters. Elinor is all calmness and reason, and can be relied upon for practical, common sense opinions. Marianne, on the other hand, is all sensibility, full of passionate and romantic feeling. She has no time for dull common sense - or for middle-aged men of thirty-five, long past the age of marriage. True love can only be felt by the young, of course. And if your heart is broken at the age of seventeen, how can you ever expect to recover from the ... Read more
Zana Muhsen, born and bred in Birmingham, is of Yemeni origin. When her father told her she was to spend a holiday with relatives in North Yemen, she jumped at the chance. Aged 15 and 13 respectively, Zana and her sister discovered that they had been literally sold into marriage, and that on their arrival they were virtually prisoners. They had to adapt to a completely alien way of life, with no running water, dung-plastered walls, frequent beatings, and the ordeal of childbirth on bare floors ... Read more
Mother Teresa tells the inspiring story of the most revered and loved woman of our times. Born in Albania in 1910, Mother Teresa joined the Missionary Sisters of Loreto and was sent to India to teach in a high school. In Calcutta she saw the staggering poverty, disease and misery of the poor often left to die in the streets. Mother Teresa felt called by God to live among these outcasts to nurse and care for them and enable them to die in dignity. Elaine Murray Stone tells the incredible ... Read more
Fourteen-year-old Trixie Jackson hoped she had a future to look forward to. But when she is sacked from the local factory she is forced to work as a housekeeper for one of her father’s friends — a man she instinctively dislikes.Kept under lock and key, her life soon becomes a living hell. But in her haste to escape she injures herself and ends up in hospital. However, her troubles are only just beginning. When her mother is involved in a tragic accident and dies, Trixie and her younger sister ... Read more
This is not a misery memoir, not sensationalist and not a celebrity memoir. In these luminous pages, Kevin Crossley-Holland, well-known poet and one of the country's most distinguished writers for children, visits the foreign land of childhood. From nights spent listening to stories told by his composer father and going to the 1948 Olympics through to idyllic cycle rides and discovering the first thrill of girls - these pages are full of anecdote, observation, and the old made new. This is ... Read more
-- ask me, Annie. Ask me what's the worst thing I've done. Ask, goddammit. Because then you'll know I'll never go beyond last night.Tonight, Annie is driving alone from North Sea to Montauk and back again, as she has every night since her husband, Mason, challenged what she believed about herself and about their marriage. Eating junk food and listening to talk radio, Annie tries to shut out her rage, her pain, but Mason's voice persists within her, as urgent as the ... Read more
Southern Rhodesia, 1966. When fifteen-year-old Elizabeth Tarrant is left orphaned after the brutal murder of her parents, she is sent to England to live with her uncle, a virtual stranger, in London. Jack Merrick, a top theatrical agent and impresario, is 42 years old and homosexual. He suddenly finds his life in upheaval with the burden of his late sister's child who he hasn't seen in over 10 years. As he tries unsuccessfully to put his personal life on hold to care for Elizabeth, he ... Read more
"Two and Two Halves...and a Dog" provides an antidote to the huge amounts of 'misery' literature inflicted upon us in its depiction of a happy childhood in Blackburn. It is a vivid evocation of a vanished way of life, many can still recall. It offers review coverage in local press and radio; POS available. Covering an eighteen year period in which horses and carts are displaced by motor vehicles, black and white television joins the wireless as home entertainment and children are ... Read more
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