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Ordinary Girls

Author : Jaquira Daz
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1643750828
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (437 download)

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Download or read book Ordinary Girls written by Jaquira Daz and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2020-06-16 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the Must-Read Books of 2019 According to O: The Oprah Magazine * Time * Bustle * Electric Literature * Publishers Weekly * The Millions * The Week * Good Housekeeping “There is more life packed on each page of Ordinary Girls than some lives hold in a lifetime.” —Julia Alvarez In this searing memoir, Jaquira Díaz writes fiercely and eloquently of her challenging girlhood and triumphant coming of age. While growing up in housing projects in Puerto Rico and Miami Beach, Díaz found herself caught between extremes. As her family split apart and her mother battled schizophrenia, she was supported by the love of her friends. As she longed for a family and home, her life was upended by violence. As she celebrated her Puerto Rican culture, she couldn’t find support for her burgeoning sexual identity. From her own struggles with depression and sexual assault to Puerto Rico’s history of colonialism, every page of Ordinary Girls vibrates with music and lyricism. Díaz writes with raw and refreshing honesty, triumphantly mapping a way out of despair toward love and hope to become her version of the girl she always wanted to be. Reminiscent of Tara Westover’s Educated, Kiese Laymon’s Heavy, Mary Karr’s The Liars’ Club, and Terese Marie Mailhot’s Heart Berries, Jaquira Díaz’s memoir provides a vivid portrait of a life lived in (and beyond) the borders of Puerto Rico and its complicated history—and reads as electrically as a novel.

Three Ordinary Girls

Author : Tim Brady
Publisher : Citadel Press
ISBN 13 : 0806540400
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Three Ordinary Girls written by Tim Brady and published by Citadel Press. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The book's teenage protagonists and their bravery will enthrall young adults, who may find themselves inspired to take up their own causes.” —Washington Post An astonishing World War II story of a trio of fearless female resisters whose youth and innocence belied their extraordinary daring in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands. It also made them the underground’s most invaluable commodity. May 10, 1940. The Netherlands was swarming with Third Reich troops. In seven days it’s entirely occupied by Nazi Germany. Joining a small resistance cell in the Dutch city of Haarlem were three teenage girls: Hannie Schaft, and sisters Truus and Freddie Oversteegen who would soon band together to form a singular female underground squad. Smart, fiercely political, devoted solely to the cause, and “with nothing to lose but their own lives,” Hannie, Truus, and Freddie took terrifying direct action against Nazi targets. That included sheltering fleeing Jews, political dissidents, and Dutch resisters. They sabotaged bridges and railways, and donned disguises to lead children from probable internment in concentration camps to safehouses. They covertly transported weapons and set military facilities ablaze. And they carried out the assassinations of German soldiers and traitors–on public streets and in private traps–with the courage of veteran guerilla fighters and the cunning of seasoned spies. In telling this true story through the lens of a fearlessly unique trio of freedom fighters, Tim Brady offers a fascinating perspective of the Dutch resistance during the war. Of lives under threat; of how these courageous young women became involved in the underground; and of how their dedication evolved into dangerous, life-threatening missions on behalf of Dutch patriots–regardless of the consequences. Harrowing, emotional, and unforgettable, Three Ordinary Girls finally moves these three icons of resistance into the deserved forefront of world history.

The Good Girls

Author : Sonia Faleiro
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 0802158218
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book The Good Girls written by Sonia Faleiro and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a summer night in 2014, Padma and Lalli went missing from Katra Sadatganj, an eye-blink of a village in western Uttar Pradesh. Hours later they were found hanging in the orchard behind their home. Who they were, and what had happened to them, was already less important than what their disappearance meant to the people left behind. Slipping deftly behind political maneuvering, caste systems and codes of honor in a village in northern India, The Good Girls returns to the scene of their short lives and shameful deaths, and dares to ask: What is the human cost of shame?

Ordinary Girls

Author : Blair Thornburgh
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062447874
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (624 download)

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Download or read book Ordinary Girls written by Blair Thornburgh and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2019* *A Booklist Editors' Choice for Books for Youth 2019* Perfect for fans of Sarah Mlynowski and Jenny Han, this heartfelt and humorous contemporary take on Sense and Sensibility follows two sisters—complete opposites—who discover the secrets they’ve been keeping make them more alike than they’d realized. For siblings as different as Plum and Ginny, getting on each other’s nerves is par for the course. But when the family’s finances hit a snag, sending chaos through the house in a way only characters from a Jane Austen novel could understand, a distance grows between them like never before. Plum, a self-described social outcast, finally has something in her life that doesn’t revolve around her dramatic older sister. But what if coming into her own means Plum isn’t there for Ginny when she, struggling with a hard secret of her own, needs her most?

Ordinary Girl

Author : Donna Summer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Ordinary Girl written by Donna Summer and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ordinary Girl is legendary singer-songwriter Donna Summer's delightfully candid memoir about her journey from signing in a Boston church to her unexpected reign as the Queen of Disco, and the tragedy and spiritual rebirth that followed.

Not Your Ordinary Wolf Girl

Author : Emily Pohl-weary
Publisher : Penguin Canada
ISBN 13 : 0143190407
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Not Your Ordinary Wolf Girl written by Emily Pohl-weary and published by Penguin Canada. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighteen-year-old rock star Sam Lee isn’t like other girls. She’s the super-talented bass player and songwriter for an all-girl indie band and an incurable loner. Then one night after a concert in Central Park, she’s attacked by a “wild dog.” Suddenly, this long-time vegetarian is craving meat—the bloodier, the better. Sam finds herself with an unbelievable secret and no one she trusts to share it. So begin the endless lies to cover up the hairy truth ... When a new girl gang appears in the city—with claws and paws—Sam suspects there’s a connection to her own inner beast. Trapped in a tug-of-war between her animal and human selves, forced to choose between the guy who sparks her carnal appetite and the one who makes her feel like a normal teenage girl, Sam has to unravel the mysteries of the werewolf world before her bandmates, the media, and her mother catch up to her.

The Girls of Atomic City

Author : Denise Kiernan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451617534
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book The Girls of Atomic City written by Denise Kiernan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the contributions of the thousands of women who worked at a secret uranium-enriching facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee during World War II.

The Magdalen Girls

Author : V.S. Alexander
Publisher : Kensington Books
ISBN 13 : 1496706137
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (967 download)

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Download or read book The Magdalen Girls written by V.S. Alexander and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2016-12-27 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dublin, 1962. Within the gated grounds of the convent of The Sisters of the Holy Redemption lies one of the city’s Magdalen Laundries. Once places of refuge, the laundries have evolved into grim workhouses. Some inmates are “fallen” women—unwed mothers, prostitutes, or petty criminals. Most are ordinary girls whose only sin lies in being too pretty, too independent, or tempting the wrong man. Among them is sixteen-year-old Teagan Tiernan, sent by her family when her beauty provokes a lustful revelation from a young priest. Teagan soon befriends Nora Craven, a new arrival who thought nothing could be worse than living in a squalid tenement flat. Stripped of their freedom and dignity, the girls are given new names and denied contact with the outside world. The Mother Superior, Sister Anne, who has secrets of her own, inflicts cruel, dehumanizing punishments—but always in the name of love. Finally, Nora and Teagan find an ally in the reclusive Lea, who helps them endure—and plot an escape. But as they will discover, the outside world has dangers too, especially for young women with soiled reputations. Told with candor, compassion, and vivid historical detail, The Magdalen Girls is a masterfully written novel of life within the era’s notorious institutions—and an inspiring story of friendship, hope, and unyielding courage.

Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie

Author : Jordan Sonnenblick
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545231167
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (452 download)

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Download or read book Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie written by Jordan Sonnenblick and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brave and beautiful story that will make readers laugh, and break their hearts at the same time. Now with a special note from the author! Steven has a totally normal life (well, almost).He plays drums in the All-City Jazz Band (whose members call him the Peasant), has a crush on the hottest girl in school (who doesn't even know he's alive), and is constantly annoyed by his younger brother, Jeffrey (who is cuter than cute - which is also pretty annoying). But when Jeffrey gets sick, Steven's world is turned upside down, and he is forced to deal with his brother's illness, his parents' attempts to keep the family in one piece, his homework, the band, girls, and Dangerous Pie (yes, you'll have to read the book to find out what that is!).

15 Views of Miami

Author : Jaquira Díaz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781941681060
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book 15 Views of Miami written by Jaquira Díaz and published by . This book was released on 2020-06 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 15 Views of Miami is a literary portrait of the Magic City told in fifteen loosely linked stories by fifteen award-winning authors. The stories sprawl from Hialeah to Homestead and reflect the diversity of a large and often misunderstood city. Contributors include John Dufresne, Patricia Engel, Jennine Capó Crucet, Phillippe Diederich, and more.

Ordinary Girl In A Tiara

Author : Jessica Hart
Publisher : Harlequin / SB Creative
ISBN 13 : 4596894957
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book Ordinary Girl In A Tiara written by Jessica Hart and published by Harlequin / SB Creative. This book was released on 2013-11-02 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vintage clothing lover Caro decides she wants an ordinary life with an ordinary man after a failed relationship with an upperclass, cheating fiance. But it's terribly difficult to be ordinary when you're friends with a princess! Caro is offered the chance of a lifetime: swap lives with her good friend Princess Lotty of Montluce! The catch? She needs to play the girlfriend to Lotty's unwilling fiance, Prince Philippe. Lotty and Philippe have dreams of their own and marriage to each other isn't in cards, but not if Dowager Blanche, Lotty's grandmother, has anything to say about it! Swapping lives sounds all well and good, however if Caro and Philippe can't play a convincing couple, it's over! Philippe is as far from ordinary as he can get?not exactly Caro's type. Can an eccentric fashion fan and a pompous prince pull it off in this dramedy of romantic deceptions? What happens when they both start to believe the lie?

The Ordinary Princess

Author : M. M. Kaye
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 110114257X
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Ordinary Princess written by M. M. Kaye and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002-03-18 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Along with Wit, Charm, Health, and Courage, Princess Amy of Phantasmorania receives a special fairy christening gift: Ordinariness. Unlike her six beautiful sisters, she has brown hair and freckles, and would rather have adventures than play the harp, embroider tapestries . . . or become a Queen. When her royal parents try to marry her off, Amy runs away and, because she's so ordinary, easily becomes the fourteenth assistant kitchen maid at a neighboring palace. And there . . . much to everyone's surprise . . . she meets a prince just as ordinary (and special) as she is! "This delightful fairy tale is sure to please young romantics . . . Neither Kaye's princess nor her book should be considered ordinary." (School Library Journal)

No Ordinary Sound

Author : Denise Lewis Patrick
Publisher : American Girl Publishing Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781609587512
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book No Ordinary Sound written by Denise Lewis Patrick and published by American Girl Publishing Incorporated. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1964 Detroit, nine-year-old Melody pursues her singing dreams unti a tragic event in Birmingham, Alabama, shakes her confidence.

Crescent City Girls

Author : LaKisha Michelle Simmons
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469622815
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Crescent City Girls written by LaKisha Michelle Simmons and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2015-05-28 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was it like to grow up black and female in the segregated South? To answer this question, LaKisha Simmons blends social history and cultural studies, recreating children's streets and neighborhoods within Jim Crow New Orleans and offering a rare look into black girls' personal lives. Simmons argues that these children faced the difficult task of adhering to middle-class expectations of purity and respectability even as they encountered the daily realities of Jim Crow violence, which included interracial sexual aggression, street harassment, and presumptions of black girls' impurity. Simmons makes use of oral histories, the black and white press, social workers' reports, police reports, girls' fiction writing, and photography to tell the stories of individual girls: some from poor, working-class families; some from middle-class, "respectable" families; and some caught in the Jim Crow judicial system. These voices come together to create a group biography of ordinary girls living in an extraordinary time, girls who did not intend to make history but whose stories transform our understanding of both segregation and childhood.

How Jane Won

Author : Sylvia B. Rimm
Publisher : Three Rivers Press
ISBN 13 : 9780609807200
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book How Jane Won written by Sylvia B. Rimm and published by Three Rivers Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than fifty successful women share their secrets of how they got where they are and describe their choices, mentors, opportunities, challenges, and other steps that they encountered on the road to fulfillment.

Radiant Influence

Author : Andy Lee
Publisher : Crossriver Media Group
ISBN 13 : 9781936501632
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Radiant Influence written by Andy Lee and published by Crossriver Media Group. This book was released on 2021-08-13 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She was an ordinary girl, in extraordinary circumstancesIf you feel like your life is boring, not very important, and God would never use you, you have a lot in common with a girl named Esther. That's her story. A girl just like you and me who knew what it was like to be alone, afraid, and stuck. A girl who didn't think she could make a difference. Esther's story is one of courage, faith, and identity. It's a tale of the incredible hand of an invisible God working in the lives of those who trust him. As she stepped out in faith, Esther discovered who God had made her, a woman of influence. She was more than a pretty face. In the hands of a mighty God, she became God's weapon to save his people. Do you need some courage and hope? Do you want your life to be filled with purpose? If so, come journey through the book of Esther and discover that you have more in common with this beauty queen than you think. Purpose comes in all shapes and sizes, and God has many purposes for his girls. He has purpose for us right where we are. Think eternal. Think blessing others. Ask yourself, "Why would God have me in the place I am today?" ...who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this.It's time . . . come learn how to make an eternal difference in your world and become a woman of radiant influence.

No Ordinary Olive

Author : Roberta Baker
Publisher : Little Brown & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780316073363
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (733 download)

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Download or read book No Ordinary Olive written by Roberta Baker and published by Little Brown & Company. This book was released on 2002 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spirit of "Eloise" and "Today I Feel Silly, " Baker pens a winning story about an irreverent little girl named Olive. Full color.