Author : Lynne Olson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 22,75 MB
Release : 2001
Category : African American women civil rights workers
ISBN : 0684850125
Provides portraits and cameos of over sixty women who were influential in the Civil Rights Movement, and argues that the political activity of women has been the driving force in major reform movements throughout history.
Author : Sarah Hall
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 20,63 MB
Release : 2010-11-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0571267629
'The Lake District's answer to The Handmaid's Tale.' Guardian England is in a state of environmental and economic crisis. Under the repressive regime of The Authority, citizens have been herded into urban centres, and all women of child-bearing age fitted with contraceptive devices. A woman known as 'Sister' leaves her oppressive marriage to join an isolated group of women in a remote northern farm at Carhullan, where she intends to become a rebel fighter. But can she follow their notion of freedom and what it means to fight for it? 'At the vanguard of the new wave of futuristic dystopian literature . . . an accomplished, provocative novel.' Literary Review 'Hall's fierce and shocking writing captures the cruel beauty of Cumbria.' Telegraph 'A dystopian vision of a disturbingly near future in which the floods have risen and the oil has run out . . . entirely modern and brutally fresh.' Independent
Author : Philip Teir
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 16,82 MB
Release : 2015-07-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1487000456
On the surface, the Paul family are living the liberal, middle-class Scandinavian dream. Max Paul is a renowned sociologist and his wife Katriina has a well-paid job in the public sector. They live in an airy apartment in the centre of Helsinki. But look closer and the cracks start to show. As he approaches his sixtieth birthday, the certainties of Max's life begin to dissolve. He hasn't produced any work of note for decades. His wife no longer loves him. His grown-up daughters — one in London, one in Helsinki — have problems of their own. So when a former student turned journalist shows up and offers him a seductive lifeline, Max starts down a dangerous path from which he may never find a way back. Funny, sharp, and brilliantly truthful, Teir's debut has the feel of a big, contemporary, humane American novel, but with a distinctly Scandinavian edge.
Author : Sara Weaver
Publisher :
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 24,36 MB
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780983456841
Sara Weaver, the oldest daughter of Randy and Vicki Weaver, writes of her family, the tragedy at Ruby Ridge, and the hope, joy and freedom she found in her Savior, Jesus Christ.
Author : Kate Messner
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 32,41 MB
Release : 2015-12-29
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0545639239
Ranger, the time-traveling golden retriever, is back for the third book in Kate Messner's new chapter book series. This time, he helps two kids navigate the Underground Railroad! Ranger is a time-traveling golden retriever with search-and-rescue training. In this adventure, he goes to a Maryland plantation during the days of American slavery, where he meets a young girl named Sarah. When she learns that the owner has plans to sell her little brother, Jesse, to a plantation in the Deep South, it means they could be separated forever. Sarah takes their future into her own hands and decides there's only one way to run -- north.
Author : Jordan D. Fiore
Publisher :
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 29,21 MB
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN :
"Again the internal evidence is enough to convince the reader that 'G. Mourt' was George Morton"--Page xii
Author : Ida Cowen
Publisher : Dutton Childrens Books
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 44,1 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Espionage, British
ISBN : 9780525671503
A biography of the woman who, during World War I, led an espionage group whose goal was to help free the Jews of Palestine from the oppression of Turkish rule.
Author : Sarah Burleton
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,99 MB
Release : 2012-03-08
Category : Abused children
ISBN : 9781470052553
"In the blink of an eye, Mom ran up behind me and pushed me into the fence. Instinctively, I reached out my arms to stop my fall and ended up grabbing the live fence. My hands clamped around the thin wires, and my body collapsed to the ground as the electricity coursed through it. I opened my eyes and saw my mother standing over me with the strangest smile on her face. "Oh, my God, I'm going to die!" I thought in panic. Imagine never being able to close your eyes and remember the feel of your mother's arms wrapped around you. Now imagine closing your eyes and remembering your mother's tears splashing down on your face as she is on top of you, crying as she is trying to choke you to death. My mother left me these memories and many more during my traumatic childhood. After many years of struggling with trying to understand "Why Me?" I took back control of my life and started saying, "It was me, now what am I going to do?" The answer is my book, "Why Me?." It is my childhood journey through the terrors of physical and mental abuse from first grade until the day I moved out. It is my way of letting the world know what was really going on behind closed doors' -- Cover p. [4].
Author : Sarah Mazor
Publisher : Mazorbooks
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 23,9 MB
Release : 2020-03-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781950170326
Story of Passover
Author : Genevieve White
Publisher : Brentwood Christian Press
Page : pages
File Size : 23,39 MB
Release : 2010
Category :
ISBN : 9781595815781
