Author : Madeleine Watson
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 38,68 MB
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1398474371
“Have you ever jumped from a jet with a parachute that doesn’t open? Tried to sabotage an election, perhaps?” When Nadia Nightingale is snatched from her home and recruited to be a secret agent, she isn’t sure who to trust. Thrown headfirst into a murder case, it’s a game of clues and secrecy where one wrong move could lead to her downfall. But behind the chaos and betrayal, Nadia soon realises that a much bigger plot is unfolding...
Author : Soheir Khashoggi
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 20,76 MB
Release : 2006-05-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780765350978
After a romance with her wealthy employer's son renders her a heartbroken single mother, servant girl Karima Ismail eventually achieves stardom as one of Egypt's most famous singers, but her life is shattered by her daughter's disappearance.
Author : Clyde Brolin
Publisher : Bonnier Publishing Ltd.
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 46,1 MB
Release : 2017-04-20
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1911274562
Discover the untapped power of the human mind How do champions like Lewis Hamilton, Novak Djokovic and Usain Bolt suppress their fear of failure and find the belief to win? How did Michael Phelps and Jessica Ennis-Hill visualise their own future? What exactly is 'The Zone'? And how do you get there? Drawing on over one hundred exclusive interviews with the world's elite stars of sports ranging from boxing to rugby union, Formula One to the Paralympics, Clyde Brolin sets out to discover the secrets of true success and show how they can be used by all of us in our own lives, whoever we are. 'PEOPLE LOOK AT CHAMPIONS AND THINK THEY'RE A DIFFERENT BREED, BUT WE ALL UNDERESTIMATE WHAT WE'RE CAPABLE OF' CHRIS HOY 'THE MAGIC LIVES INSIDE EVERY ONE OF US - DESPITE OUR ENVIRONMENT, OUR STRUGGLES AND OUR DOUBTS' CATHY FREEMAN
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Publisher : princeton alumni weekly
Page : 1054 pages
File Size : 17,72 MB
Release : 1948
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Page : 664 pages
File Size : 40,28 MB
Release : 1986
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Ancestors and descendants of immigrant Robert Earl Thrasher born ca. 1600 at Bradford on Avon. Settled in Virginia in early 1600's.
Author : Jeanice Brooks
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 30,80 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1580469671
The first collection ever of essays and reviews by the renowned pedagogue, composer, and conductor, providing fresh perspectives on her musical influence and impact. The impact of Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979) on twentieth-century music was vast: as composer, keyboard performer, conductor, impresario, and pedagogue. Her extensive musical networks included figures such as Fauré, Stravinsky, and Poulenc, and her advocacy helped establish the compositions of her sister Lili Boulanger. Few today realize, though, that Boulanger wrote numerous essays and reviews at various times in her career. These offer unparalleled insight into her thinking and illuminate aspects of musical culture in Europe and America from the rare point of view of an internationally prominent female artist. Nadia Boulanger: Thoughts on Music provides a translation and critical edition of selected writings chosen for their quality and interest. The previously published articles and essays have never been reissued since their original appearance; the remaining materials are presented to readers here for the first time. The volume renders all these materials widely available, providing an important new resource for teaching and scholarship on twentieth-century music as well as an engaging collection of musical essays for the general reader.
Author : Geraldine Franklin
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 16,19 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Author : Janina Wierzoch
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 29,3 MB
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3839451876
In recent years, the US-led invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq have had an impact on the UK rivalled only by Brexit and the global financial crisis. For people at home, the wars were ever-present in the media yet remained distant and difficult to apprehend. Janina Wierzoch offers an analytical survey of British contemporary war narratives in novels, drama, film, and television that seek to make sense of the experience. The study shows how the narratives, instead of reflecting on the UK`s role as invader, portray war as invading the British home. Home loses its post-Cold War sense of »permanent peace« and is recast as a home/front where war once again becomes part of what it means to be »us«.
Author : Judith Hannan
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 16,42 MB
Release : 2012-04-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1933880309
When eight-year-old Nadia cracks her jaw on a piece of Halloween candy unmasking a rare bone cancer, mother and daughter are launched on a revelatory journey of treatment, recovery and survival
Author : Nadia Murad
Publisher : Crown
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 24,9 MB
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1524760455
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE • In this “courageous” (The Washington Post) memoir of survival, a former captive of the Islamic State tells her harrowing and ultimately inspiring story. Nadia Murad was born and raised in Kocho, a small village of farmers and shepherds in northern Iraq. A member of the Yazidi community, she and her brothers and sisters lived a quiet life. Nadia had dreams of becoming a history teacher or opening her own beauty salon. On August 15th, 2014, when Nadia was just twenty-one years old, this life ended. Islamic State militants massacred the people of her village, executing men who refused to convert to Islam and women too old to become sex slaves. Six of Nadia’s brothers were killed, and her mother soon after, their bodies swept into mass graves. Nadia was taken to Mosul and forced, along with thousands of other Yazidi girls, into the ISIS slave trade. Nadia would be held captive by several militants and repeatedly raped and beaten. Finally, she managed a narrow escape through the streets of Mosul, finding shelter in the home of a Sunni Muslim family whose eldest son risked his life to smuggle her to safety. Today, Nadia's story—as a witness to the Islamic State's brutality, a survivor of rape, a refugee, a Yazidi—has forced the world to pay attention to an ongoing genocide. It is a call to action, a testament to the human will to survive, and a love letter to a lost country, a fragile community, and a family torn apart by war.
