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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Coming from a moderately traditional Muslim family, twenty-seven-year-old Samira Abdel-Aziz has endured her fair share of arranged matches—first dates she calls “doorknock appeals,” where she and her possible suitors eat snacks in her living room in the company of both sets of parents. Her general rule: no shoes with tassels, no cheesy leather jackets, no mustaches. A girl has to have some standards, right? The truth is, Samira is already experiencing...
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Series
Aunties (Jesse Q Sutanto) volume 3
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"After an ultra-romantic honeymoon across Europe, Meddy Chan and her husband Nathan have landed in Jakarta to spend Chinese New Year with her entire extended family. Chinese New Year, already the biggest celebration of the Lunar calendar, gets even more festive when a former beau of Second Aunt's shows up at the Chan residence bearing extravagant gifts-he's determined to rekindle his romance with Second Aunt and the gifts are his way of announcing...
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Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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"Marriage is at the centre of Jane Austen's novels. The pursuit of husbands and wives, advantageous matches and, of course, love itself, motivate her characters and continue to fascinate readers today. But what were love and marriage like in reality for the people of Regency England? Rory Muir uncovers the excitements and disappointments of courtship and the pains and pleasures of marriage, drawing on the period's fiction as well as fascinating first-hand...
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Publisher
Nube de Tinta
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
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"¿Y si encontrases al amor de tu vida... en una vida distinta? Audrey Cameron vive en Estados Unidos en el año 2023; sus días transcurren en la tienda de sus padres, soñando con entrar en una universidad de Bellas Artes y tratando de superar la ruptura con su ex. Lucy Sinclair vive en la Inglaterra del siglo XIX y no sabe cómo escapar de la propuesta de matrimonio de un hombre adinerado que su padre quiere que acepte. Cuando Audrey despierta...
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