Rita: 1575 books

"When I wrote a tribute for my mother years ago, I never anticipated it would take a worldwide journey. Nonetheless, that is exactly what happened. The story I am about to share with you may read like fiction. I can assure you, there is nothing in the world that has ever been more true." --Mary Rita...

In August 1961, seventeen-year-old Rita Kuczynski was living with her grandmother and studying piano at a conservatory in West Berlin. Caught in East Berlin by the rise of the Berlin Wall while on a summer visit to her parents, she found herself trapped behind the Iron Curtain for the next twenty-eight...

Hand stitch an intricate garden of flowers with renowned Baltimore Album teacher Rita Verroca. Study Rita’s award-winning techniques with her detailed guide to appliqué, embroidery, inking, and trapunto. Five exquisite Baltimore Album quilts invite you to create your own masterpiece. Each pattern...

Hi, my name is Rita Michelson. I have always been a thicker female even as a child. I never thought I would be even remotely attractive to many men especially men that I found attractive physically but things surely changed as I hit puberty and I really started to fill out physically. This...

Beautiful Sylvia Gabriel has more cause than most to despise the Game of Kings. Chess has been the ruination of her life—ending her engagement, filching her fortune and reducing her to poor relation. But when she finds herself falling in love with chessmaster David Rutherford, the new Lord Donhill,...

In "You Should Know...   ...Love the Universe", author Rita Vincent shares poetic letters she's written which were inspired by moments of spiritual insight she experienced during her personal struggles with depression and anxiety.  These touching letters offer comfort and...

Empty nest, retired husband ... after thirty-three years of marriage as wife, mother, nursemaid, and family mediator, Lily Gold has had it! There must be more to life than making beds and cooking dinners. A lot more, she discovers, when she decides she needs something of her very own – a job.Re-entering...

A nova edição de Deslocamentos do feminino chega às livrarias em um momento pertinente, em que o debate sobre gênero toma corpo e a noção de feminilidade passa por transformações no campo da cultura. Neste livro, a psicanalista Maria Rita Kehl questiona as relações que se estabelecem entre...

Este ensaio de Maria Rita Kehl foi extraído da obra "O que resta da ditadura" (Org. Edson Teles e Vladimir Safatle), editada pela Boitempo, que reúne uma série de ensaios que esquadrinham o legado deixado pelo regime militar na estrutura jurídica, nas práticas políticas, na literatura,...

Ireland Is Changing Mother is the latest collection from Rita Ann Higgins: provocative and heart-warming poems of high jinx, jittery grief and telling social comment by a gutsy, anarchic chronicler of the lives of the Irish dispossessed, before as well as since the demise of the Celtic tiger. 'It...

Rita Maria Nikodim erlitt im Dezember 2009 einen schweren Schicksalsschlag, der ihr Leben von Grund auf veränderte: Sie brachte ihre Tochter tot zur Welt. Dieser Wendepunkt, der sie schließlich zu einem neuen, bewussteren Leben führte, hat sie veranlasst, ihr erstes Buch zu schreiben. Die Wienerin...

Set over four weeks in the brutal winter of 1954, Father Briar and the Angel is an historical romance unlike any other.When a beautiful young woman from the Pacific Northwest falls for a Jesuit priest (and he for her) who has recently been called to a parish in Northern Minnesota, she chooses to move...

São raríssimas as autoras portuguesas que abrem a porta da sua intimidade aos leitores. Ao fim de duas dezenas de títulos, Rita Ferro corre esse risco oferecendo-nos a narrativa diária de alguns meses da sua vida, sem artifícios literários, num dos períodos mais sombrios e no rescaldo de perdas...

Award-winning professor and author, Rita Sommers-Flanagan has written a book that will charm, irritate, amuse, and engage readers. It will also change minds and lives. This novel provides an entertaining and excellent read for book clubs, families, and everyone contemplating the meaning of life. It's...