Bird in a Gilded Cage
Bird in a Gilded Cage

Author: Susan Griffin

Publisher:

Published: 2014-06-24

Total Pages: 464

ISBN-13: 9781493605231

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The class divide during Edwardian Britain is at the heart of this dramatic story of Beth Hamilton-Green and her fight for freedom.Fighting to break free from her overbearing and manipulative parents, who are intent on her marrying the man of their choice, Beth is pressured towards leading a life devoid of any freedom that fits in with the social standing of the era. In contrast Beth's wayward brother James has no such restrictions on the way he leads his life and is free to sow his wild oats with whomever he pleases.Determined not to succumb to her parents' demands Beth befriends the headstrong Suffragette, Alice Sparks, and finds herself drawn into the fight for the emancipation of women. Alice's declaration of undying love for Beth throws her into confusion just as the handsome and mysterious Finn McGuiness appears in her life. But the real fight has only just begun, as Beth becomes embroiled in a powerful struggle for her own survival, where her beliefs and emotions are threatened and the resulting events lead to dramatic consequences. A passionate story of love, a woman's fight for equality in the early twentieth century and friendships pushed to the very limits of endurance.

Birds in a Gilded Cage
Birds in a Gilded Cage

Author: Judith Glover

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

Published: 2015-06-18

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1473606799

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'She's only a bird in a gilded cage, A beautiful sight to see; You may think she's happy and free from care, She's not, tho' she seems to be' After Dinah Garland's husband died in the Boer War, she thought she would never be able to love again, until she meets the confident and daring Warwick Enderby. But those around her are not so disarmed by Warwick's charm and are determined to delve into Mr Enderby's secrets. Dinah's brother Francis has secrets of his own in the shape of Cecilia Desatti, a young headstrong Italian whose beauty torments him. And young Laura Bates, on the verge of womanhood, has to conceal her love for the boyish Algie from her stern father. Each becomes trapped by the demands of private emotion and social background. When their secrets are revealed, will it bring heartache or happiness? Set in the years immediately before the First World War, Birds in a Gilded Cage is the final novel in the Sussex Quarter that began with The Stallion Man.

The Golden Cage
The Golden Cage

Author: Anna Castagnoli

Publisher:

Published: 2019-09-19

Total Pages: 56

ISBN-13: 9781911496144

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Valentina the emperor's daughter is an obsessive collector of exotic birds. Her servants track down every bird she desires - just one remains unfound: a bird that talks. Servants search far and wide to fulfill her impossible quest - and she beheads those who fail. In Valentina's palace, heads roll every day! Will the golden cage ever be filled? A deliciously dark European fairy tale with words as rich as its bold and luxurious illustrations.

Premka: White Bird in a Golden Cage: My Life with Yogi Bhajan
Premka: White Bird in a Golden Cage: My Life with Yogi Bhajan

Author: Pamela Saharah Dyson

Publisher:

Published: 2020-01-08

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 9780578621883

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Premka: White Bird in a Golden Cage is a compelling and beautifully unfolding tale, offering a haunting look into a teacher/student relationship. This intimate memoir, written by one of Yogi Bhajan's prized teachers and exalted students, is full of devotion, love, dedication, betrayal, loss and the healing unification of the self. It also reads as a love letter to a unique time in history-the '60s in Los Angeles and New Mexico, where love, music, art, spiritual exploration, often led to self-transformation. As a historical treatise and a spiritual mystery, this book offers unique insight into the origins of the Western Sikh movement and the proliferation of Yogi Bhajan's kundalini yoga.

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Author: Maya Angelou

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2010-07-21

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 030747772X

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Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local “powhitetrash.” At eight years old and back at her mother’s side in St. Louis, Maya is attacked by a man many times her age—and has to live with the consequences for a lifetime. Years later, in San Francisco, Maya learns that love for herself, the kindness of others, her own strong spirit, and the ideas of great authors (“I met and fell in love with William Shakespeare”) will allow her to be free instead of imprisoned. Poetic and powerful, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings will touch hearts and change minds for as long as people read. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings liberates the reader into life simply because Maya Angelou confronts her own life with such a moving wonder, such a luminous dignity.”—James Baldwin From the Paperback edition.

The Golden Cage
The Golden Cage

Author: Hilde Bruch M.D.

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2001-05-02

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 0674253027

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First published more than twenty years ago, with almost 150,000 copies sold, The Golden Cage is still the classic book on anorexia nervosa, for patients, parents, mental health trainees, and senior therapists alike. Writing in direct, jargon-free style, often quoting her patients’ descriptions of their own experience of illness and recovery, Bruch describes the relentless pursuit of thinness and the search for superiority in self-denial that characterizes anorexia nervosa. She emphasizes the importance of early diagnosis and offers guidance on danger signs. Little-known when this groundbreaking book was first published, eating disorders have become all too familiar. Sympathetic and astute, The Golden Cage now speaks to a new generation.

Gilded Cage
Gilded Cage

Author: Nicole Fox

Publisher:

Published: 2021-02-24

Total Pages: 612

ISBN-13:

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I'LL LOCK HER IN A GILDED CAGE AND THROW AWAY THE KEY. The night we met, she thought she was tasting freedom.I devoured her once and left before I even knew her name. Four months later, Bratva business leads me to the house of my enemy with one objective:Burn it down and kill everyone inside. That's exactly what I plan to do...Until I find her cowering before me.The innocent girl from the club.My beautiful caged bird. I'm not here to save her--I'm here to ruin her.But something stops me in my tracks.Something I never expected. Did she say that's my baby in her womb? GILDED CAGE is the first book in the Kovalyov Bratva duet. Artem and Esme's story will conclude in Book 2, GILDED TEARS.

Unfinished Women Cry in No Man's Land While a Bird Dies in a Gilded Cage
Unfinished Women Cry in No Man's Land While a Bird Dies in a Gilded Cage

Author: Aishah Rahman

Publisher: Broadway Play Publishing In

Published: 2011-12-21

Total Pages: 50

ISBN-13: 9780881454895

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UNFINISHED WOMEN deals with the events in a home for unwed mothers on the last day of jazz musician Charlie Parker's life, March 12, 1955. The play digs beyond statistics and sociological theories to find the unarticulated, half-understood longings of teenage mothers. "UNFINISHED WOMEN is an underground classic. It reaches beyond statistics and sociological theories to find the unarticulated, half-understood longings of teen-age mothers ... The title implies the central conceit of the play: the juxtaposition of the Hide-A-Wee Home for Unwed Mothers (the unfinished women) and Pasha's boudoir, where Charlie Parker (the 'Bird'), the brilliant black saxophonist of years past, spent his last days. Many types of girls find themselves in this home: the child of middle-class upbringing who got 'caught'; the innocent who was raped; the savvy, street-smart girl who let the music make love to her, as well as the strict nurse who turned her illegitimate child into a 'niece.' Charlie Chan, that stereotype of Oriental inscrutability, presides over all, a comment on the power of images in our society. The play focuses on that moment when the girls must decide whether to keep their babies or to give them up for adoption. Despite their fantasies of rescue by 'caring' young fathers, they must decide alone. Meanwhile, Bird slowly dies in the plush boudoir of his longtime mistress, trapped in a narcotic fog and the lost dreams of his exploited talent." -From Margaret B Wilkerson's introduction to the play in 9 Plays by Black Women

The Well-Stocked and Gilded Cage
The Well-Stocked and Gilded Cage

Author: Lawrence Lenhart

Publisher:

Published: 2016-08-02

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781944853013

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A debut collection on the unexpected ties between humans, animals and the bigger world around us. Lenhart writes on the bleeding edge of creative non-fiction -- without ever losing his sense of humor. Or his sense of what's amiss in the world. Relentlessly fun, accessibly innovative and pleasingly smart.