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As President Bush is preparing to invade Iraq, Wall Street Journal correspondent Asra Nomani embarks on a dangerous journey from Middle America to the Middle East to join more than two million fellow Muslims on the hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca required of all Muslims once in their lifetime. Mecca is Islam's most sacred city and strictly off limits to non-Muslims. On a journey perilous enough for any American reporter, Nomani is determined to take...
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Between 1930 and 1932, Henry Ford sent 450 of his Detroit employees plus their families to live in Gorky, Russia, to operate a new manufacturing facility. This is the true story of one of those families-Carl and Elisabeth Werner and their young daughter Margaret-and their terrifying life in Russia under brutal dictator Joseph Stalin.
Margaret was seventeen when her father was arrested on trumped-up charges of treason. She and her mother were left...
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This wide-ranging collection of essays and poetry reveals the day-to-day lives and experiences of a diverse collection of women in the western United States, from Buddhists in Nebraska to Hutterites in South Dakota to "rodeo moms." A woman chooses horse work over housework; neighbors pull together to fight a raging wildfire; a woman rides a donkey across Colorado to raise money after the tragedy at Columbine. Women recall harmony found at a drugstore,...
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The Queens of STEAM series explores the life and work of women who've made a big impact in a specific area of STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math). In this edition, newly independent readers meet Bertha Parker, an indigenous american of Abenaki and Seneca descent, who made her mark as a trailblazing Archaeologist in 1930 when she discovered the skull of an exstinct ground sloth in a Nevada cave. All hail, Bertha Parker! ...
5) Summary of American Girls by Jessica Roy: One Woman's Journey into the Islamic State and Her Sister'
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DISCLAIMER This book does not in any capacity mean to replace the original book but to serve as a vast summary of the original book.Summary of American Girls by Jessica Roy: One Woman's Journey into the Islamic State and Her Sister's Fight to Bring Her HomeIN THIS SUMMARIZED BOOK, YOU WILL GET:Chapter astute outline of the main contents.Fast & simple understanding of the content analysis.Exceptionally summarized content that you may skip in the original...
6) The Capture and Escape From the Sioux: The Ordeals of an American Pioneer Woman Captured by India
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"A famous account of abduction and escape from hostile Indians in the old West.
In July, 1864 hostile Oglala Sioux Indians attacked the wagon train of the pioneering Kelly and Larimer families approximately 80 miles west of Fort Laramie, Wyoming. Several people were killed or wounded but Sarah Larimer and Fanny Kelly, together with some of their children, were taken into captivity by the Indians. On the second night of their captivity Sarah Larimer...
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The popular host of the Money Moves podcast and youngest person ever to trade on the New York Stock Exchange provides winning tips for women to help them shift their financial mindset, become confident about their money, set them on a path to financial security, and live their best lives.
In 2017, when she was only twenty-two, Lauren Simmons became the youngest full-time female trader at the New York Stock Exchange, and the second African American...
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The author of reflective, funny, and thought-provoking articles and stories exploring life as an African American woman raised in the south. Kimberly, native of Jacksonville, Florida mother, wife, marketer and stylist has received numerous awards to include the APTA Innovation Award for Best Comprehensive Marketing Campaign. She Is currently a featured author on the Hallmark Mahogany platform.
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Beginning as an Internet language exchange, a French man and an American woman unexpectedly find themselves engaged in a new kind of love.Based on a true story, this is a humorous, honest, sensual, and touching portrait of two people breaking free of their inner prisons to discover a unique way of relating outside of the box.It's an exploration of a dynamic interaction of love and freedom, full of laughter, tears, magic and delight.
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An injured American woman traces her relationships with men and her broken body as she convalesces in a Paris hospital in this witty debut.
Vivienne Yellow is an American woman who lies in traction in a Parisian hospital, her leg shattered after she was hit by a truck. Through hazy wormholes of memory, colored by her own morphine-stoked sexual longings, we are drawn into her past: Exactly what happened to her as she tried to cross rue de Cherche...
13) Morn
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In the heart of the American West, where the sun beats down relentlessly and the land stretches out endlessly, a tale of love, loss, and the indomitable spirit of a Native American woman unfolds. "Morn" by Helen Hunt Jackson is a poignant and unforgettable novel that transports readers to a time of great change and conflict. As the white settlers encroach upon the traditional lands of the Serrano people, Morn, a young woman of extraordinary strength...
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WORTH: A Story of Favor and Forgiveness is a memoir about an African American woman that centers on a 1979 visit with Good Times actress Esther Rolle. Born into an upper middle-class family in Orlando, Florida, Ann Champion experiences travel, gifts, and other benefits that come with her privileged lifestyle. After her parents' divorce, things change as her once prosperous life dissipates, and the family is introduced to a world of poverty. Through...
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Bree Washington, a young African-American woman, has always wanted to become a doctor. When her father loses his job, she is forced to find other means to raise money to continue her schooling. Loving to dance, she becomes an exotic dancer. Bree figures her dancing days will be history after she gets her medical degree.Though being a doctor gives her a sense of fulfillment, Bree fears life is passing her by. Alone without any family of her own, more...
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"A remarkable experience of little reported events.
The Second Empire of France was, by the early 1860's in good health. France had acquitted itself well in the Crimea and in the war against Austria. The idea of a European monarch on the throne of Mexico was not a new one. France was attracted to the idea of a 'Latin' influence in America and thus the opening chords were struck of what would eventually be-to quote the author-'A Dance of Doom', the...
17) Venetian Bind
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In Venetian Bind, Detective Marko Korb and his associate Kelan Su, a Chinese-American woman, must hunt down a murderer and prevent a devastating terrorist attack in the romantic city of Venice. Korb, a fat, egotistical, and brilliant detective, and Kelan Su, a former Chicago police officer, licensed attorney, and martial arts expert, arrive in Venice to investigate the murder of Stefan Pakuli?, a former Serbian paramilitary leader and accused war...
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Growing up an Italian-American in the Bensonhurst neighborhood of New York city, Marianna De Marco longed for college, culture, and upward mobility. Her daydreams circled around WASP (White Anglo Saxon Protestant) heroes on television-like Robin Hood and the Cartwright family-but in Brooklyn she never encountered any. So she associated moving up with Ocean Parkway, a street that divides the working-class Italian neighborhood where she was born from...
19) Birch Hall
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A young woman swept off her feet, and swept away to a distant land...in a world on the brink of war...BIRCH HALL tells the story of Natalie Kumansky, a Russian-American woman in San Francisco who meets Sir John Carrington and quickly becomes his wife. As she settles into life as the Lady of Birch Hall, the shadow of war darkens their new life together. Through the grim realities of the conflict -- from air raids to the loss of friends and family --...
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"The president died earlier this morning in his sleep."That's the startling news Carla Hamilton, fashion model turn politician-and the first African American woman to serve as vice president of the United States-receives a month after an election that will turn the country over to a new president. Carla understands she will occupy the Oval Office for only six weeks.But in Washington, D.C., six weeks is a lifetime.Hours after being sworn in, Carla...