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Domestic Arrangements
by Norma Klein Judy BlumeOriginally published in 1982, Domestic Arrangements is the story of a fourteen-year-old New York teen named Tatiana, an unintentional ingénue who becomes notorious for filming a nude scene for a major movie. Tatiana's newfound fame--which includes interviews, magazine covers, and publicists--is set against the backdrop of an increasingly adult personal life, as her parents file for divorce, her sister becomes increasingly jealous of her sibling's success, and she finally chooses between an old boyfriend and new, older loves. A stunning example of Norma Klein's fearless take on the complexities of adolescence, Domestic Arrangements is an indelible portrait of a girl on the cusp of adulthood, learning to balance the challenges of life in the spotlight with love, family, and friendship. This edition features a brand new introduction by Norma's long-time friend, renowned children's author Judy Blume.Norma Klein was best known for young adult works that dealt with family problems, childhood and adolescent sexuality, as well as social issues like racism, sexism, and contraception. Her first novel, Mom, the Wolf Man and Me (1972), was about the daughter of an unmarried, sexually active woman. Her subsequent works included Sunshine, It's Okay If You Don't Love Me, Breaking Up, and Family Secrets. Because of their subject matter, many of her books sparked considerable controversy, and a 1986 American Library Association survey found that nine of her novels had been removed from libraries. In an interview that same year with the New York Times, Klein said: 'I'm not a rebel, trying to stir things up just to be provocative. I'm doing it because I feel like writing about real life.' She died in 1989 at the age of fifty.
Domestic Monastery: Creating Spiritual Life at Home
by Ronald Rolheiser"A dose of grace for parents" This short easy-to-read book shows the simplicity of leading a contemplative life outside the monastery. What is a monastery? A monastery is a place set apart—a place to learn the blessings of powerlessness, and that time is not ours but God's. Our home and our duties can, just like a monastery, teach us those things. The vocation of monastic men and women is to physically withdraw from the world to provide for contemplation and reflection. But the principle is equally valid for those of us who cannot go off to monasteries -- we too can find spiritual peace and grace at home. In ten brief and powerful chapters, Fr. Ron explores how monastery life can apply to those who don't live in a cloister: Monasticism and Family Life The Domestic Monastery Real Friendship Lessons from the Monastic Cell Ritual for Sustaining Prayer Tensions within Spirituality A Spirituality of Parenting Spirituality and the Seasons of Our Lives The Sacredness of Time Life's Key Question Our home, our duties and routines, our relationships, and the way we use our time, are the monasteries of our lives. It is through these practices that we build our relationship with God, that we find opportunities for contemplation, and deserts for reflection. In this beautiful little book Ronald Rolheiser turns on its head the idea that religious life is the preserve of monks and nuns. Our cloisters are the walls of our home and our work, the streets we walk, and the people with whom we share our lives. The domestic is the monastic.
Domestic Revolutions: A Social History of American Family Life
by Steven MintzThe American family has undergone a series of transformations from its socially sanctified role as the center of society to today's private, independent unit. The authors explain just how the family has adapted and endured these changes.
Domestic Violence (Routledge Library Editions: Domestic Abuse #5)
by Deborah Lockton Richard WardFirst published in 1997, this book marks a culmination of a three year research programme focused upon the incidence of domestic violence in Leicester. The study examined the levels of violence, the details of applicants and respondents and the nature of complaints, as well as the policies applied and the problems faced by those enforcing the law. The books sets the findings in the context of the policies on protection of victims of domestic violence, the problems they face and protection after 1997. This book will be of interest to those studying law, social work, sociology and women’s studies.
Domestic Violence as State Crime: A Feminist Framework for Challenge and Change (Crimes of the Powerful)
by Evelyn RoseDomestic Violence as State Crime presents a provocative challenge to the way that domestic violence is understood and addressed. Underpinned by a radical feminist perspective, the central argument of this book is that domestic violence against women constitutes a patriarchal state crime. By analysing the international, collective, structural, and institutional dimensions of this harm, the author outlines a spectrum of state complicity ranging from passive bystander to active producer, participant, and perpetrator. The wide-ranging analysis in this book draws on data from comparable liberal-democratic contexts including Australia, the United States, and the United Kingdom, in order to comprehensively show how domestic violence state criminality functions in practice – even in the present and in supposedly progressive contexts. This analysis provides valuable insight into why this epidemic-scale crime is ever resistant to a diversity of contemporary interventions. Drawing its concepts into a cohesive whole, the book then posits an overarching feminist typological theory of domestic violence as state crime. It also considers how domestic violence might be addressed if we confront its state crime dimensions and adopt a more holistic and transformative approach to remedy, redress, prevention, and justice. An accessible and compelling read, Domestic Violence as State Crime offers an innovative scholarly and activist contribution to the study of violence against women, feminism, criminology, and the broader critical study of law, politics, and society. It will appeal to anyone who is interested in thinking differently about domestic violence and the state.
Domestic Violence, Family Law and School: Children’s Right to Participation, Protection and Provision
by Maria Eriksson Linnéa Bruno Elisabet NäsmanDomestic Violence, Family Law and School discusses the ways in which domestic violence can impact on children's lives at pre-school and school. Disputes over parental responsibility, living arrangements or child contact can create difficulties not just for the child of disputing parents, but for all children at preschool or school, as well as for staff. This book uncovers new research on an under-explored area of children's lives and social work with vulnerable children and is shaped by a comparative lens that brings both similarities and differences between England, Wales and Sweden into focus. A theoretical framework for analyses of how welfare systems tackle domestic violence is elaborated and lessons for practice that can be drawn from the findings presented are highlighted.
Domestic Violence in the Anglophone Caribbean: Consequences and Practices
by Ann Marie Bissessar Camille HugginsDomestic violence continues to be a social problem that is rarely understood or discussed in many parts of the world. The same holds true in the Anglophone Caribbean. The Caribbean context is unique as it was birthed out of colonization, which was violent and brutal for those who were forced to migrate from another country as enslaved labor, as well as for those who were conquered out of their lands. Most Caribbean islands’ societies were created and developed by slaves, colonizers, and indentured servants. This history has left an indelible scar on all involved, which is exemplified by the antagonistic way people interact, whether it is between races, ethnicities, religions, or gender. Traditionally, domestic relationships and causal factors for domestic violence has been investigated from a myriad of perspectives including the ethnic lineage of the participants. However, in the Caribbean due to its historic origins, domestic violence should also be examined through the lens of its colonial past. This book examines the consequences of allowing domestic violence to perpetuate in the region. It then looks at some of practices used to provide support and find justice for victims and perpetrators in a Caribbean cultural context.
Domestic Violence Laws In The United States And India
by Sudershan Goel Barbara A. Sims Ravi SodhiDomestic Violence Laws in the United States and India is a comparative study of the domestic violence laws in India and the United States, seeking to illuminate the critical issues of intimate partner violence through the lenses of these two societies. Sims, Goel, and Sodhi believe society at large and systems of justice define and address domestic violence, and that both play significant roles in the form and prevalence of domestic violence . They juxtapose the ancient and traditional Indian laws with those of the United States as India seeks to take its place as a major, industrialized nation with progressive laws to protect the mostly female victims of domestic violence. Sims, Goel, and Sodhi explore the different ways domestic violence manifests itself, including dowry deaths in India, the "rule of thumb" law in the United States, and the multiple varieties of physical and mental violence in both societies.
Domestic Violets: A Novel
by Matthew Norman&“Reminiscent of Richard Russo&’s earlier work. . . . Wonderfully fast-paced, hilariously genuine, difficult to put down . . . an ideal first novel.&” —Booklist Tom Violet always thought that by the time he turned thirty-five, he&’d have everything going for him. Fame. Fortune. A beautiful wife. A satisfying career as a successful novelist. A happy dog to greet him at the end of the day. The reality, though, is far different. He&’s got a wife, but their problems are bigger than he can even imagine. And he&’s written a novel, but the manuscript he&’s slaved over for years is currently hidden in his desk drawer while his father, an actual famous writer, just won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His career, such that it is, involves mind-numbing corporate buzzwords, his pretentious arch-nemesis Gregory, and a hopeless, completely inappropriate crush on his favorite coworker. Oh . . . and his dog, according to the vet, is suffering from acute anxiety. Tom&’s life is crushing his soul, but he&’s decided to do something about it. (Really.) Domestic Violets is the brilliant and beguiling story of a man finally taking control of his own happiness— even if it means making a complete idiot of himself along the way. &“Thoroughly entertaining.&” —Publishers Weekly &“A fast, fun, hilarious read.&” —Jessica Anya Blau, author of The Summer of Naked Swim Parties and Drinking Closer to Home &“Domestic Violets leaves the reader satisfied by the intriguing plot written in a comic spirit; it also endears the author and hero to the reader for maximum poignancy.&” —New York Journal of Books &“All this misery makes for good comedy . . . charmingly drawn.&” —Washington Post
Domestirexia: Poems
by JoAnna NovakA poetry collection contorting the idea of home away from being a site of comfort and nourishment by coaxing the reader to think about domesticity in knotty new waysDomestirexia goes beyond the entanglement of "domestic" and "anorexia&” exploring a behind-closed-doors sensuality, borne in the concept of making home.Home can be a space of both resistance and discomfort that one desires or takes pleasure in enjoying. Rote notions of home and the domestic are reimagined in these poems as estranging, excessive, and populated by unknowable characters. Exploring themes of family, sacrifice, disease, death, money, cooking, romance, sex, art, and the visceral qualities of the everyday, the poems twist themselves into binds for the reader to undo or surrender to.Quarantined at her in-law&’s house during Covid, Novak wrote these poems while watching The Great British Baking Show, reading The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, skimming Grimm Brothers fairy tales, and babysitting an infant. These are poems about wanting to misbehave. Light voyeurism at home, with gin and cake.
Dominicana
by Angie CruzUna extraordinaria novela de iniciación sobre una mujer joven que encuentra su voz en el mundo ahora en una edición en Español. / An extraordinary coming-of-age story of a young woman finding her voice in the world, now in a Spanish language edition. El último día de 1964, la quinceañera Ana Canción se casa con Juan Ruiz, un hombre veinte años mayor que ella, en el campo dominicano. Al día siguiente se vuelve Ana Ruiz, una esposa confinada a un apartamento de un cuarto en Washington Heights. Juan la engaña, abusa y controla, hasta le prohíbe aprender inglés. Después de un intento fallido de fuga, Ana se entera de que está embarazada. Su madre y su esposo comparan su embarazo a ganar la lotería, su niña tendrá ciudadanía estadounidense. Juan vuelve a la República Dominicana cuando la guerra civil comienza, dejando a César, su hermano, cuidando a Ana. Durante ese descanso del confinamiento ella se enamora genuinamente, lo cual despierta su voluntad de pelear por independizarse de su abusador y por su derecho de permanecer en su patria adoptiva. Un retrato atemporal de feminidad y ciudadanía, que sigue vigente en esta época de migración forzada. On the last day of 1964, fifteen-year-old Ana Canción marries Juan Ruiz, a man twice her age, in the Dominican countryside. The following day she becomes Ana Ruiz, a wife confined to a one-bedroom in Washington Heights. Juan is unfaithful, abusive, and controlling, he even forbids her from learning English. After a failed escape, Ana learns she is pregnant. Both her mother and husband compare her pregnancy to winning the lottery, her child will have American citizenship. Juan returns briefly to the Dominican Republic when the civil war begins, leaving César, his brother, to care for Ana. During that respite from confinement she experiences true love, which awakens her will to fight for independence from her abuser and for the right to stay in her adopted homeland. A timeless portrait of womanhood and citizenship, which rings true in this era of forced migration.
Dominic's Pride (Virtues & Vices #3)
by J. L. Campbell"Women. Money. Parties. Dominic Whitehorn’s life revolves around these staples until he wakes up to the reality that he’s broke, and living in a foreign land. He hates his overbearing brother, and can’t stand his mother’s lectures. The only other source of help is his father, who suffers a heart attack. With tighter reins on the family business, and his loan called in, Dominic’s problems multiply. To make matters worse, the woman he’s interested in believes he’s a lightweight, and another claims he’s the father of her baby. Ashley Dennis knows Nick is a troubled soul because she’s been there. They make an unlikely couple, but will her example and conviction be the catalyst he needs to turn his life around? ***Dominic’s Pride is inspirational fiction with a focus on family and relationships. "
Domino Sundays
by Vivian FernandezYolando's grandfather has a new dominoes partner—it's Yolanda! She plays her first game in the park.
Don Joaquin's Pride
by Lynne GrahamA wealthy Guatemalan man’s plot for revenge on a gold digger doesn’t go as planned in this classic contemporary romance by a USA Today–bestselling author.Joaquin Del Castillo was as proud as his Latino heritage, and he instantly acted to right the wrong he believed had been done to his elderly, loyal employee. He would lure the girl who owed the old man money to Guatemala, and here she would stay until she agreed to repay her debt!But something about Joaquin’s captive didn’t add up. On the surface, Lucy appeared to be a glamorous gold digger, but underneath she was . . . innocent. Joaquin’s pride unleashed consequences he hadn’t expected—his contempt for her was rivaled by his blazing desire!Originally published in 2000.
Doña Barbara
by Rómulo GallegosRómulo Gallegos is best known for being Venezuela’s first democratically elected president. But in his native land he is equally famous as a writer responsible for one of Venezuela’s literary treasures, the novel Doña Barbara. Published in 1929 and all but forgotten by Anglophone readers, Doña Barbara is one of the first examples of magical realism, laying the groundwork for later authors such as Gabriel García Márquez and Mario Vargas Llosa. Following the epic struggle between two cousins for an estate in Venezuela, Doña Barbara is an examination of the conflict between town and country, violence and intellect, male and female. Doña Barbara is a beautiful and mysterious woman—rumored to be a witch—with a ferocious power over men. When her cousin Santos Luzardo returns to the plains in order to reclaim his land and cattle, he reluctantly faces off against Doña Barbara, and their battle becomes simultaneously one of violence and seduction. All of the action is set against the stunning backdrop of the Venezuelan prairie, described in loving detail. Gallegos’s plains are filled with dangerous ranchers, intrepid cowboys, and damsels in distress, all broadly and vividly drawn. A masterful novel with an important role in the inception of magical realism, Doña Barbara is a suspenseful tale that blends fantasy, adventure, and romance. Hailed as “the Bovary of the llano” by Larry McMurtry in his new foreword to this book, Doña Barbarais a magnetic and memorable heroine, who has inspired numerous adaptations on the big and small screens, including a recent television show that aired on Telemundo.
¿Dónde están los lobos?
by Tony LewisCon la agencia viene el personal de su tío: un zombi que apenas puede mantenerse unido, un zombi del tamaño de una cabina telefónica y con un coeficiente intelectual de un solo dígito, un profesor loco y Ronnie, que tiene la capacidad de hacerse invisible. Skullenia parece ser el último lugar que necesitaría una agencia de detectives. Al menos eso es lo que piensa Ollie, hasta que el Conde Jocular lo encarga para ayudar a resolver una serie de desapariciones inexplicables. ¿Pero Ollie ha mordido más de lo que puede masticar? Con la ayuda de su variado equipo y algunos personajes francamente ridículos, intenta resolver este desconcertante misterio.
Dónde guardar un libro gigante
by Diego FonsecaPapá siempre tiene grandes sorpresas. Ahora fue un libro.Uno grande como un gigante. Mejor: ¡como un gigante en hombros de otro gigante!Me encanta, si bien tiene un gran inconveniente: no hay lugar en casa donde Debí dejarlo en el patio.Es un libro de cuentos clásicos, dijo Papá. Si yo voy dentro de sus páginas encontraré los corsarios de la Malasia, cerditos y brujas, miguitas de pan perdidas, vaqueros y soldados.Una tarde hice la prueba. Un murmullo surgió apenas abrí un par de hojas. El de una ballena! ¡Y luego un delfín y peces voladores!Volví a casa muy entusiasmada. Papá me sentó en su regazo y se río con mis zapato al hada madrina de una hacendosa niña ceniza. Esos bravos indios con sus arcos y flechas cabalgando sobre los potros más veloces sobre la pradera interminable de un planeta púrpura.Al final, Papá se puso serio.—No olvides que debes hallar un lugar donde guardar ese libro —me dijo—.Esa es tu responsabilidad.Lo sabía y lo haría, pero no en ese momento. Tenía todavía demasiado por Unos días después, ya sabía entrar y salir velozmente de las historias y pasar sin pausa las enormes páginas. Podía personificar a una capitana en un bergantín volando por los mares del Océano Pacífico. O tal vez disfrazarme de mariposa y suspirar al oído de una niña que un lobo ladino planeaba devorarse a su abuela.También me las arreglaba para ayudar a plantar habichuelas mágicas a un niño que quería robar la gallina millonaria del ogro dormilón.
Donde retumba el silencio: Premio Clarín Novela 2021
by Agustina CarideDos amigas de toda la vida, que compartieron muchos años los trabajos, los hijos, las vacaciones, las familias, se distancian de manera irreversible por diferencias políticas. Con casi ochenta años, Leonor sale a dar una vuelta por la ciudad silenciosa debido a la cuarentena obligada por el covid. Al regresar, ve el cartel de venta en el PH que está arriba del suyo, donde vive Elvira, una amiga entrañable con quien ya no se habla. Las disputas políticas han horadado la larga amistad que las había unido. Desde ese distanciamiento, Elvira y Leonor no pueden dejar de pensar la una en la otra y de recordar el momento en que se conocieron, en los años 70, en las casas colectivas del barrio Los Andes, y el modo como se fue tejiendo esa relación. De candente actualidad, Donde retumba el silencio es una elegía a la amistad, una novela que habla sutilmente de un presente atravesado por la "grieta" y de cómo la política y la historia se entreveran con la vida personal, la determinan, la modifican, al punto de hacernos perder lo que más queremos. Dijo el jurado del premio: «Donde retumba el silencio se incorpora a la sólida tradición de novelas de la intimidad, desarrolladas por escritoras como Virginia Woolf o Natalia Ginzburg.»Clara Obligado «Las vidas transcurren así como las cuenta Agustina Caride; no existen sino en su relación con los otros, los más cercanos, los conocidos y también con esos otros que, más allá, no se sabe, pero están.»Martín Kohan «Una novela que no lo dice todo [...], pensada y escrita para lectores, no para espectadores. Donde retumba el silencio es un libro donde todo retumba, no solo el silencio».Martín Caparrós
Donegal's Mistress
by Sherry Derr-WilleFinding her birth family was Kathy Dunstad's dream. When they found her it became more of a nightmare. Not only have they left her a wealthy woman, but also she must contend with skeletons in the closet as well as ghosts in the living room. Once she comes to grips with the dead, she must then deal with the living. There's more to consider than just her birth mother's family that offers financial stability. There is also her birth father that wants to give her emotional stability as well.
Donna (The Girls of Spindrift #2)
by V.C. AndrewsBook Two of the Girls of Spindrift. From the New York Times bestselling author of the Flowers in the Attic and My Sweet Audrina series, now Lifetime movies, continues a haunting new series featuring highly intelligent teenage girls who struggle to survive a specialized high school and find their place in a world that doesn&’t understand them. Such is the burden of being brilliant.Being gifted is not something Donna ever wanted. It&’s difficult enough to have a Latino father and Irish mother, and her genius only separates her even more from the other girls. They don&’t say it, but they blame her for everything that goes wrong, just because she&’s different. And on the precise day she tries her hardest to fit in, everything turns out a disaster. A fight breaks out, and somehow Donna ends up in the middle. It&’s not her fault, but it&’s her word against theirs, and this time, the other girls aren&’t going to stay quiet. The only solution might be to escape to the mysterious school her counselor is telling her about: Spindrift. The four Girls of Spindrift novellas together form a spinoff to Bittersweet Dreams—available now!
Donna Has Left the Building
by Susan Jane GilmanFrom the beloved, New York Times-bestselling author of Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress comes a hilarious, timely, and big-hearted new novel about rebuilding life in the face of disaster.Forty-five-year-old Donna Koczynski is an ex-punk rocker, a recovering alcoholic, and the mother of two teenagers whose suburban existence detonates when she comes home early from a sales conference in Las Vegas to the surprise of a lifetime. As her world implodes, she sets off on an epic road trip to reclaim everything she believes she's sacrificed since her wild youth: Great friendship, passionate love, and her art. But as she careens across the U.S. from Detroit to New York to Memphis to Nashville, nothing turns out as she imagines. Ultimately, she finds herself resurrected on the other side of the globe, on a remote island embroiled in a crisis far bigger than her own.Irresistibly funny, whip-smart, and surprisingly moving, DONNA HAS LEFT THE BUILDING spins an unforgettable tale about what it means to be brave -- and to truly love -- in a tumultuous world.
Donorboy
by Brendan HalpinA novel for secondary school English classes with great writing and important themes.
Don't Be a Stranger: A Novel
by Susan MinotA mesmerizing new novel from the author of Evening: the story of a woman swept into a love affair at mid-life • A luminous story about erotic obsession, the hunger for intimacy, communication, and oblivion that will appeal to readers of Miranda July's All Fours &“Minot exquisitely explores desire and denial, intimacy and illusion in a ravishing, haunting, and insightful tale of sexual ecstasy and emotional torment, integrity and creativity, self and motherhood.&” —Booklist (starred review)"Minot&’s writing is like a diamond knife on ice.&” —Elizabeth Strout, Pulitzer Prize winning authorIvy Cooper is 52 years old when Ansel Fleming first walks into her life. Twenty years her junior, a musician newly released from prison on a minor drug charge, Ansel&’s beguiling good looks and quiet intensity instantly seduce her. Despite the gulf between their ages and experience the physical chemistry between them is overpowering, and over the heady weeks and months that follow Ivy finds her life bifurcated by his presence: On the surface she is a responsible mother, managing the demands of friends, an ex-husband, home; but emotionally, psychologically, sexually, she is consumed by desire and increasingly alive only in the stolen moments-out-of-time, with Ansel in her bed.Don't Be a Stranger is a gripping, sensual, and provocative work from one of the most remarkable voices in contemporary fiction.
Don't Be Afraid to Discipline
by Ruth A. PetersDiscipline is not a four-letter word. As a respected child psychologist and mom with more than 20 years' experience, Dr. Ruth Peters knows that kids can be manipulative--and she offers parents a positive, no-nonsense approach to bringing about family harmony. Kids know exactly what to do when their parents relinquish authority--take advantage! Don't Be Afraid to Discipline focuses on several ineffective parenting styles that kids thrive on, such as the emotionally needy parents or the happiness-seeking parent. Dr. Peters also helps parents identify which tactics their children like to use best, whether it's provoking parental guilt or pitting Mom against Dad. Don't Be Afraid to Discipline helps parents avoid these common pitfalls by establishing clear, consistent, fair rules for both themselves and their kids. There are no surprises and no complaints, because the kids know exactly what will happen if they misbehave. The book features behavior management charts tailored for elementary middle and high schoolers, information on attention deficit disorder, specific advice on the special disciplinary problems of single parents and step-families, and a frank discussion about children who are seriously troubled. Don't Be Afraid to Discipline is a welcome approach to child misbehavior for weary parents in need of simple, direct answers.
Don't Bite Your Tongue: How to Foster Rewarding Relationships with Your Adult Children
by Ruth NemzoffAn empowering guide to creating rewarding relationships between parents and their adult children.Parents work hard to raise their children into adulthood, but popular wisdom tells them to bite their tongues and loosen the purse strings once their child is grown! But increasing life spans mean that parents and children can spend as many as five or six decades as adults together: actively parenting adult children is a reality for many families. Dr. Ruth Nemzoff, an expert in family dynamics, empowers parents to forge a close relationship with their children while respecting their independence. Nemzoff shows parents how to:Create an active relationship over long distancesDiscuss financial issues without using money as a form of controlVoice opinions about an adult-child’s child-rearing practicesRespond to major changes in an adult child’s life, such as choice of partner, religion, career, and moreDon’t Bite Your Tongue is a groundbreaking look at a relationship that’s been invisible for far too long.