End of the Race" steals readers away to the shores of Traverse Bay, Michigan. Olympic swimming hopeful, Annika Wolfson is training for the China Olympic team when Brian, her husband and coach, takes off on a sailing trip and vanishes. Annika, distraught, bewildered and still grieving a miscarriage, searches past and present for an explanation. The Olympic training schedule staring from the wall only magnifies his absence. Why would Brian abandon her, their six year old daughter, and the race for the Gold that was their life? Is he alive?
As the racial and civil upheaval following the assassination of Martin Luther King tear apart the Midwestern college town of Norton Bluffs, white Principal Cassie Daniel's junior high school becomes a battleground for suburban fear, university idealism, and black anger. Shaped by the integrated backwater where she grew up, Cassie must fight not only the racial and class attitudes that split her faculty, but also the idealism of her own husband in order to defen d the children from that same neighborhood, whose adolescence is being consumed by the conflict,
Raised in Chicago's Latino working class community during the Sixties, Alicia Barron uncovers her mother's Caucasian roots when she inherits a time-worn mansion, the remnant of the estate of a Chicago industrialist who, she discovers, is her grandfather. Her search of the house takes her into the lives of past generations of women whose love carried them across forbidden boundaries, and into the conflict of class, nationality, and race that is the history of the city itself. The identity she finds there, however, leads to increasing conflict with her first great love, Ricardo Moreno, who wants Alicia to reject her gringo roots.
Myra Benning gazes across the meadow to the sea and the Santa Barbara Channel Islands beyond, unbelieving that she, awkward daughter of the Minnesota prairie, could have ended up in such a place-and with a successful husband and two golden children to boot. Little does she know, her golden world is about to collapse. Faced with her husband's infidelity, she makes decisions that, instead of saving her family, carry it into deeper waters, unearthing secrets and shame beneath the idyllic Benning family surface. She is faced with making decisions in the murky world where there is no certainty. What happened? What is imagined and what real? Who is guilty and of what?
Professional photographer, Veronica Lorimer, wakens to the sound of a rock crashing through the front window of the Puget Sound island retreat she shares with retired prosecuting attorney, Charlotte McAllister. The police blame a local vagrant, but Veronica and Charlotte suspect their own pasts and Veronica's estranged family.
Son of a murderer, Ned Haskins has resigned himself to an outsider's existence until he meets Erica Romano, daughter of the town's new doctor. They create a life for themselves as forest rangers in the North Cascades-- until the release of Ned's father from prison disrupts the harmony. Ned's renewed fatalism triggers a chain of disasters that brings both face-to-face with the destructive power of their pasts and throws their future into doubt."-- cover.
Fully acknowledging that Judaism, as described in both the Bible and the Talmud, was patriarchal, Judith Hauptman demonstrates that the rabbis of the Talmud made significant changes in key areas of Jewish law in order to benefit women. Reading the texts with feminist sensibilities, recognizing that they were written by men and for men and that the
In this unique volume Judith Abrams, author of the highly regarded series The Talmud for Beginners, examines the episodes recorded in rabbinic literature that suggest the actions of the women of those times.
Now in its fourth edition, this text focuses on managing in a global environment and workforce diversity. It discusses contemporary issues for managers such as quality of work life, work/family issues and gender in the workplace.
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