Unsure about her upcoming marriage and eager to see what lies beyond the walls of Prague's Jewish quarter in 1778, fifteen-year-old Rivka Lieberman takes great risks to venture outside, where her many new experiences include friendship with a Christian boy.
When she agrees to become a ghost bride for the wealthy Lim family's son, who recently died under mysterious circumstances, Li Lan must dive into a shadowy parallel world of the Chinese afterlife to find the truth.
"Follows a young couple over one life-changing weekend during which the husband flees lower Manhattan with his newborn daughter for a weekend in the Caribbean, while his wife tries to recapture who she was before the baby"--Provided by OCLC.
Kim faces many changes her senior year in high school, including Nat's hasty wedding, childbirth, and ultimate decision about the baby, the first holidays without her mother, new problems for cousin Maya, and a significant surprise from her past.
Warned about a family curse that strikes whenever one of them marries happily, Lily Burns nevertheless falls in love and elopes before experiencing a profound reality shift where she is single again and her beloved husband has no memory of her and is married to someone else.
When seventeen-year-old Maxine's best friend gets married, Maxine suddenly decides that she and her boyfriend Brian should too, but things do not turn out the way she expected, and both she and Brian realize that they are not as grown up as they thought.
Elizabeth Bennett marries the brooding, passionate Mr. Darcy and is thrown into the world of London society, but her happiness is destroyed when her friendship with the Marchioness of Englebury causes jealousy among Elizabeth's elite circle.
A scholarly edition of William Shakespeare's play "The Merchant of Venice" that includes detailed notes and commentary, an illustrated introduction to the play's historical, cultural, and performance contexts, an in-depth survey of critical approaches to the play, and a bibliography of references and further reading.
Contains thirty-six readings that reflect the various opinions that exist in American society regarding marriage and family diversity; grouped by topic in five general categories.
