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Download or read book Isle of Woman written by Piers Anthony and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1994-09-15 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fantasy history of the human race told through the experiences of a single human family reincarnated through the ages.
Book Synopsis The Island of Sea Women by : Lisa See
Download or read book The Island of Sea Women written by Lisa See and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “A mesmerizing new historical novel” (O, The Oprah Magazine) from Lisa See, the bestselling author of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, about female friendship and devastating family secrets on a small Korean island. Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls living on the Korean island of Jeju, are best friends who come from very different backgrounds. When they are old enough, they begin working in the sea with their village’s all-female diving collective, led by Young-sook’s mother. As the girls take up their positions as baby divers, they know they are beginning a life of excitement and responsibility—but also danger. Despite their love for each other, Mi-ja and Young-sook find it impossible to ignore their differences. The Island of Sea Women takes place over many decades, beginning during a period of Japanese colonialism in the 1930s and 1940s, followed by World War II, the Korean War, through the era of cell phones and wet suits for the women divers. Throughout this time, the residents of Jeju find themselves caught between warring empires. Mi-ja is the daughter of a Japanese collaborator. Young-sook was born into a long line of haenyeo and will inherit her mother’s position leading the divers in their village. Little do the two friends know that forces outside their control will push their friendship to the breaking point. “This vivid…thoughtful and empathetic” novel (The New York Times Book Review) illuminates a world turned upside down, one where the women are in charge and the men take care of the children. “A wonderful ode to a truly singular group of women” (Publishers Weekly), The Island of Sea Women is a “beautiful story…about the endurance of friendship when it’s pushed to its limits, and you…will love it” (Cosmopolitan).
Book Synopsis Island of the Blue Dolphins by : Scott O'Dell
Download or read book Island of the Blue Dolphins written by Scott O'Dell and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1960 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Far off the coast of California looms a harsh rock known as the island of San Nicholas. Dolphins flash in the blue waters around it, sea otter play in the vast kep beds, and sea elephants loll on the stony beaches. Here, in the early 1800s, according to history, an Indian girl spent eighteen years alone, and this beautifully written novel is her story. It is a romantic adventure filled with drama and heartache, for not only was mere subsistence on so desolate a spot a near miracle, but Karana had to contend with the ferocious pack of wild dogs that had killed her younger brother, constantly guard against the Aleutian sea otter hunters, and maintain a precarious food supply. More than this, it is an adventure of the spirit that will haunt the reader long after the book has been put down. Karana's quiet courage, her Indian self-reliance and acceptance of fate, transform what to many would have been a devastating ordeal into an uplifting experience. From loneliness and terror come strength and serenity in this Newbery Medal-winning classic.
Download or read book The Isle of Women written by Hank Manley and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-07-19 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vicious hegemony has descended on charming Isla Mujeres, a tiny island off the coast of Cancun. A gang of Cubans has formed an extortion ring to suck the profits from the shopkeepers, restaurateurs, and bar owners. By what insidious method does the Cuban Mafia control the populace of the Isle of Women? The murderous Mexican Rafael Zapata offers Rhonda and Morgan Early, and their friend Daisy Bain, one million dollars to defeat the Cubans. The three adventurers travel to Isla Mujeres and attempt to gather information on the gang so they can form a plan of attack. Their efforts are completely stonewalled. Daisy concocts a scheme to learn about the gang. She fails and is tortured for her efforts. Morgans impatience with their progress to ascertain the strength of the gang, the location of the headquarters, and the name of the leader backfires. Rhonda is left to single-handedly save her beloved husband and best friend. Can she summon help among the women of the island? How can she ultimately defeat the cabal of ruthless Cubans who have infested every business on the peaceful island?
Book Synopsis A History of Women's Lives on the Isle of Wight by : Daisy Plant
Download or read book A History of Women's Lives on the Isle of Wight written by Daisy Plant and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2019-12-27 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This look at everyday life for women on a small island off the British coast brings the female experience to the forefront of history. Ask somebody to give you the name of a woman from history and they’ll probably mention a queen. But most women’s lives were lived far from a palace, and this unique history delves into the experiences of a diverse range of women living on the Isle of Wight between 1850 and 1950. It covers many aspects of their world, from education to health to relationships to leisure activities, and reveals that—just like the women of today—each had her own thoughts, feelings, and preferences. The only thing they had in common was that they were utterly ordinary—but what is ordinary? Is it a single mother nursing her child through a deadly disease? Is it giving up on your own dreams to take on the role of mother when yours passes on? Is it becoming one of the greatest artists of the modern era, only to wind up with none of your paintings on display in any of the most prestigious museums? As this book shows, the ordinary can be extraordinary, and women don’t have to be queens to have stories worth telling.
Book Synopsis The Isle of Youth by : Laura van den Berg
Download or read book The Isle of Youth written by Laura van den Berg and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Beautiful, strange, and compulsively readable stories from an already-celebrated young writer"--
Download or read book Isle of Woman written by Piers Anthony and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 617 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times–bestselling author of the Xanth novels: An epic drama of two souls whose tragedies and triumphs span human history. Piers Anthony’s Isle of Woman is a monumental epic of unprecedented drama and scope, retelling the saga of humankind in a unique and dramatic way. The culmination of more than a quarter century of research, it is a stunningly ambitious achievement from a master of imaginative fiction. At once grand in scope and intimate in human detail, Isle of Woman tells the story of a man and a woman born at the dawn of human history, separated by fate, yet united by an unquenchable passion that even time could not conquer: Blaze, the fire worker who raised his kind of savagery, and Ember, the beautiful green-eyed woman who forever haunted his dreams. Through their eyes and those of their descendents, we witness humanity’s odyssey from savagery to civilization as they are reborn again and again throughout history. We share with these two eternal lovers an unforgettable odyssey of triumph, tragedy, and discovery that takes them from the African savannah to the ancient Middle East, from the South Pacific to the caves of northern Europe, from the court of imperial China to India during the British Raj, ending in a stunning reunion in an America in ruins only a few short years from now.
Book Synopsis Isle of Swords by : Wayne Thomas Batson
Download or read book Isle of Swords written by Wayne Thomas Batson and published by Thomas Nelson Inc. This book was released on 2008-09-09 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young man awakens on an island, alone and seriously injured, with no memory, and as he searches for his identity he finds himself caught between two notorious pirates battling for a legendary treasure reportedly hidden by monks.
Book Synopsis Of Women Borne by : Cynthia R. Wallace
Download or read book Of Women Borne written by Cynthia R. Wallace and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The literature of Adrienne Rich, Toni Morrison, Ana Castillo, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie teaches a risky, self-giving way of reading (and being) that brings home the dangers and the possibilities of suffering as an ethical good. Working the thought of feminist theologians and philosophers into an analysis of these women's writings, Cynthia R. Wallace crafts a literary ethics attentive to the paradoxes of critique and re-vision, universality and particularity, and reads in suffering a redemptive or redeemable reality. Wallace's approach recognizes the generative interplay between ethical form and content in literature, which helps isolate more distinctly the gendered and religious echoes of suffering and sacrifice in Western culture. By refracting these resonances through the work of feminists and theologians of color, her book also shows the value of broad-ranging ethical explorations into literature, with their power to redefine theories of reading and the nature of our responsibility to art and each other.
Book Synopsis The Isle of Pines, 1668 by : Worthington Chauncey Ford
Download or read book The Isle of Pines, 1668 written by Worthington Chauncey Ford and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Women of Colonial Latin America by : Susan Migden Socolow
Download or read book The Women of Colonial Latin America written by Susan Migden Socolow and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-16 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A highly readable survey of women's experiences in Latin America from the late fifteenth to the early nineteenth centuries.
Download or read book The Isle of Gold written by Seven Jane and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An orphan disguised as a pirate sets sail for a mystical island in hopes of unraveling the mysteries of her past.
Book Synopsis The Girl and the Game by : M. Ann Hall
Download or read book The Girl and the Game written by M. Ann Hall and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new edition of her groundbreaking social history The Girl and the Game (2002), M. Ann Hall updates her lively narrative of how women resisted masculine hegemony in Canadian sport and, in turn, how their efforts were opposed and sometimes supported by men. The second edition of The Girl and the Game begins with an important new chapter on aboriginal women and their interaction with early sport and ends with a new chapter on how trends and issues facing contemporary women in Canadian sport have their origins in the past. Other new sections focus on gender and the residential school system, the promotion of women's track and field, the 1928 summer Olympics and the Matchless Six, and aboriginal sportswomen. As in the first edition, Hall introduces her audience to more obscure Canadian female athletes rather than focusing her discussion on household names. The introduction to the new edition has been updated to reflect the content changes in the narrative. To increase appeal to the course market, chapter titles are more descriptive, the text has been revised to include more subsections, and the 52 black and white images are placed throughout the text.
Book Synopsis The Right to Rule and the Rights of Women by : Arianne Chernock
Download or read book The Right to Rule and the Rights of Women written by Arianne Chernock and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-08 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals Queen Victoria as a ruler who captivated feminist activists - with profound consequences for nineteenth-century culture and politics.
Book Synopsis What Happened to the Women? by : Ruth Rubio-Marín
Download or read book What Happened to the Women? written by Ruth Rubio-Marín and published by SSRC. This book was released on 2006 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens to women whose lives are affected by human rights violations? What happens to their testimony in court or in front of a truth commission? Women face a double marginalization under authoritarian regimes and during and after violent conflicts. Yet reparations programs are rarely designed to address the needs of women victims. What Happened to the Women? Gender and Reparations for Human Rights Violations emphasizes the necessity of a gender dimension in reparations programs to improve their handling of female victims and their families. A joint project of the International Center for Transitional Justice and Canada's International Development Research Centre, What Happened to the Women? includes studies of gender and reparations policies in Guatemala, Peru, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, and Timor-Leste. Contributors represent a wide range of fields related to transitional justice and include international human rights lawyers, members of truth and reconciliation commissions, and NGO representatives.
Book Synopsis Darwin and Women by : Charles Darwin
Download or read book Darwin and Women written by Charles Darwin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-05 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Darwin and Women focusses on Darwin's correspondence with women and on the lives of the women he knew and wrote to. It includes a large number of hitherto unpublished letters between members of Darwin's family and their friends that throw light on the lives of the women of his circle and their relationships, social and professional, with Darwin. The letters included are by turns entertaining, intriguing, and challenging, and are organised into thematic chapters, including botany and zoology as well as marriage and servants, that set them in an accessible narrative context. Darwin's famous remarks on women's intelligence in Descent of Man provide a recurring motif, and are discussed in the foreword by Gillian Beer, and in the introduction. The immediacy and variety of these texts make this an entertaining read which will suggest avenues for further research to students.
Book Synopsis The Isle of Pines (1668) by : Henry Neville
Download or read book The Isle of Pines (1668) written by Henry Neville and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-09-21 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Isle of Pines (1668) by Henry Neville
