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Language
English
Description
"Two half sisters, Effia and Esi, unknown to each other, are born into two different tribal villages in 18th century Ghana. Effia will be married off to an English colonial, and will live in comfort in the sprawling, palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle, raising half-caste children who will be sent abroad to be educated in England before returning to the Gold Coast to serve as administrators of the Empire. Her sister, Esi, will be imprisoned beneath...
5) Half life
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
On the morning that changes everything, Aruna Ahmed Jones walks out of her ground-floor Victorian apartment in London wearing only jeans and a t-shirt, carrying nothing more substantial than a handbag, and keeps on walking. Leaving behind the handsome Dr. Patrick Jones, her husband of less than a year, Aruna heads to Heathrow, where she boards a plane bound for Singapore and her old life. Educated and beautiful, Aruna has a desperate need to risk...
6) Otello
Publisher
Deutsche Grammophon
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Italiano
Description
The Met's production of Verdi's Otello from 1995, with Placido Domingo in one of his greatest roles opposite the stunning Renee Fleming in her first breakaway Met success.
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
A 1910s mixed marriage between Hope Newfield of Los Angeles and Leon Po-yo, a Chinese nobleman who is her student. They move to China where he becomes a revolutionary and she a journalist. But in China there is racism and she returns to the United States with the children. She will go back, only to discover each has his own destiny.
Author
Publisher
Brandeis University Press
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Explores family dynamics in order to illuminate the larger social and psychological dimensions of mixed marriages. Stories of 254 mixed-married intermarried and converted adults, how their religious identity evolved over the course of marriage.
11) If I'm Jewish and you're Christian, what are the kids?: a parenting guide for interfaith families
Author
Publisher
UAHC Press
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
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