Anita: 1504 books
The Revolution Is for the Children
The Politics of Childhood in Havana and Miami, 1959-1962
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Since 1959, the Cuban revolutionary government has proudly proclaimed that "the revolution is for the children." Many Cuban Americans reject this claim, asserting that they chose exile in the United States to protect their children from the evils of "Castro-communism." Anita Casavantes...
Culinary Fictions
Food in South Asian Diasporic Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2009
For South Asians, food regularly plays a role in how issues of race, class, gender, ethnicity, and national identity are imagined as well as how notions of belonging are affirmed or resisted. Culinary Fictions provides food for thought as it considers the metaphors literature, film, and TV shows...
My Olympic Life
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
Growing up in a family active in promoting civil rights, Anita L. DeFrantz knew the importance of letting her voice be heard as an African American and as a woman. Her activism for individual rights and her ascent as a leader began in earnest at Connecticut College, where she was sophomore class president,...
Rilke's Book of Hours
Love Poems to God
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
**A FINALIST FOR THE PEN/WEST TRANSLATION AWARD
The 100th Anniversary Edition of a global classic, containing beautiful translations along with the original German text.**
While visiting Russia in his twenties, Rainer Maria Rilke, one of the twentieth century's greatest poets, was moved...
Asperger’S Syndrome
When Life Hands You Lemons, Make Lemonade
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2011
Aspergers Syndrome and Anitas visceral life story will reach out and grab you. A MUST READ for Aspergers, their families, friends, educators, employers, and fellow employees.
--New York Times Bestselling Author Joe Weber
While Aspergers Syndrome: When Life Hands You Lemons, Make Lemonade...
by Anita Moorjani
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
If life is about the journey and not the destination, could it be that this is heaven —this physical life we are living here on Earth? What we experience in our daily lives often feels like anything but heaven. But what if we understood how powerful we are —that we are powerful enough to mold...
Choosing a Jewish Life, Revised and Updated
A Handbook for People Converting to Judaism and for Their Family and Friends
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2007
"As a rabbi and a convert, I appreciate this book deeply for its sensitivity to the complex feelings of those who are exploring paths to becoming Jewish, and for the deep love of Judaism it conveys. I will give it to every interfaith couple, and recommend that they give it to their parents. It...
Pitching My Tent
On Marriage, Motherhood, Friendship, and Other Leaps of Faith
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2003
From the bestselling author of The Red Tent and Good Harbor, a collection of intimate, autobiographical reflections on the milestones, revelations, and balancing acts of life as a wife, mother, friend, and member of a religious community.
Before The Red Tent won her international literary acclaim,...
by Anita Joe
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2018
It is said that everyone who comes to God has a his-tory of brokenness on some level. Rising like the Sun, is a riveting account of Anita Joe’s life story of rising from brokenness to wholeness. Experiencing sexual and verbal abuse along with rejection was a pain like no other. One moment with the...
by Anita White
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Direct, plain and often with much humor I believe God speaks to us individually according to our personality types. As I read God's Word He speaks to me in a very real way. I often write these thoughts down in my journal or Facebook notes to ponder over at a later date. The more my friends asked me...
Journey into the Great Mystery
Spiritual Search and Sacred Energies
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Journey into the Great Mystery is the true story of Anita Runyans midlife foray into mystical realms as she transforms from skeptic to spiritual seeker. Her journey begins with the study of core teachings from mystics of all the great religions and continues with various encounters with sacred energies.
This...
by Caryl Wyatt, Anita le Roux
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Caryls story is a rare gift as it provides insight into an epidemic that brews behind closed doors in more homes than we would care to imagine. If statistics are accurate (the prevalence of abuse is much higher because domestic violence is notoriously under-reported), then up to 25% of the female population...
by Anita Navin
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
Netball Practices and Training offers a comprehensive guide to planning netball training sessions with an emphasis on decision-making. Ensuring a player is equipped with the technical and tactical skills should not be the only focus of a coach, and by integrating practices that incorporate decision-making,...
by Anita Waggoner
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
Farewell to Freedom is a story about a beautiful wealthy forty-seven year old woman named Cheyenne Stevens who files for divorce when her successful car dealer husband announces that he's in love with another woman.Cheyenne Stevens flees to Las Vegas to get away from the heartbreak of...