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Elisabeth Elliot (1926–2015) is one of the most widely known Christians of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. After the death of her husband, Jim, and four other missionaries at the hands of Waorani tribesmen in Ecuador, Elliot famously returned to live among the same people who had killed her husband. Her legacy, however, extends far beyond these events. In the years that followed, Elliot became a prolific writer and speaker, touching the lives of countless people around the world. Author Lucy S. R. Austen takes listeners on an in-depth journey through the life of Elisabeth Elliot.

The history of women in medieval Wales before the English conquest of 1282 is one largely shrouded in mystery. This misfortune touches even the most well-known royal woman of the time, Joan of England, the wife of Llywelyn the Great of Gwynedd. This first-ever account of Siwan, as she was known to the Welsh, interweaves the details of her life and relationships with a gendered re-assessment of Anglo-Welsh politics by highlighting her involvement in affairs, discussing events in which she may well have been involved but have gone unrecorded and her deployment of royal female agency.

He Never Came Home is a collection of 22 personal essays written by girls and women who have been separated from their fathers by way of divorce, abandonment, or death. The contributors to this collection come from a wide range of different backgrounds in terms of race, socioeconomic status, religion, and geographic location. Their essays offer deep insights into the emotions related to losing one’s father, including sadness, indifference, anger, acceptance—and everything in between.

Legend has it that as the American colonies hurtled toward independence, representatives of the Continental Congress, including George Washington, walked into Betsy Ross’s Philadelphia upholstery shop and commissioned the first flag of the Revolutionary nation. Although this story has long...

It’s the sixties. Everything’s groovy. Teenagers bask in the freedom of a country transformed. Counterculture is on the rise, and the times, they-are-a-changing. Everything, that is, except the author’s young life. She doesn’t swoon for the Beatles or scream for the Stones. She doesn’t protest the Vietnam War or fight for women’s rights. Instead, from age seven to sixteen, she accompanies her father to a dilapidated barn on the edge of a dusty little town located on the outskirts of San Francisco, where she works after school building a ship that is supposed to set her free.

Alice Paul has long been an elusive figure in the political history of American women. Raised by Quaker parents in Moorestown, New Jersey, she would become a passionate and outspoken leader of the woman suffrage movement. In 1913 she reinvigorated the American campaign for a constitutional suffrage amendment and, in the next seven years, dominated that campaign and drove it to victory with bold, controversial action - wedding courage with resourcefulness and self-mastery.

Carve Her Name with Pride is the inspiring story of the half-French Violette Szabo who was born in Paris in 1921 to an English motorcar dealer, and a French Mother. She met and married Etienne Szabo, a Captain in the French Foreign Legion in 1940. Shortly after the birth of her daughter, Tania, her husband died at El Alamein. She became a FANY (First Aid Nursing Yeomanry) and was recruited into the SOE and underwent secret agent training. Her first trip to France was completed successfully even though she was arrested and then released by the French Police.

Satisfy your craving for extraordinary authors and exceptional fiction: Meet the women writers who defied convention to craft some of literature’s strangest tales, from Frankenstein to The Haunting of Hill House and beyond. Frankenstein was just the beginning: horror stories and other weird fiction wouldn’t exist without the women who created it. From Gothic ghost stories to psychological horror to science fiction, women have been primary architects of speculative literature of all sorts. And their own life stories are as intriguing as their fiction.

«Non intendevo scrivere questo libro. Un'autobiografia, alla mia età, mi sembrava presuntuosa». Ma questa ragazza nera cresciuta nella provincia americana, studiosa di filosofia, allieva di Adorno e di Marcuse, militante comunista e vicina alle Pantere Nere, attiva nelle battaglie contro il razzismo e contro il sistema «militare- industriale carcerario» americano, a poco più di vent'anni era già una stella polare per i movimenti in favore dei diritti civili.

Giulia ha diciannove anni e davanti a sé una storia ancora tutta da scrivere e riempire di colori ed esperienze. Poi un motorino, una curva presa male in un pomeriggio qualunque, e la realtà che conosceva viene cancellata di colpo. Davanti a lei si apre un'altra vita, che include una nuova compagna di viaggio: una carrozzina. Nel corso di nove lunghi mesi in ospedale, Giulia deve imparare a guardare il mondo da un nuovo punto di vista, a muoversi, a sentirsi se stessa.

Dorothy Carvello knows all about the music biz. She was the first female A&R executive at Atlantic Records and one of the few in the room at RCA and Columbia. Featuring never-before-heard stories about artists like Michael Jackson, Madonna, Steven Tyler, Bon Jovi, INXS, Marc Anthony, Phil Collins, and many more, this audiobook is a must-hear for anyone who has ever wondered what it's really like to be a woman in a male-dominated industry.

La conosciamo tutti. Ma la conosciamo davvero? Il suo marchio è su piatti, tazze, teiere, capi dabbigliamento, macaron e perfino bottiglie di gin. I francobolli con la sua effigie sono gli unici a non aver bisogno del paese dorigine stampato sopra. Il suo stile, borsetta al gomito e completi pastello, l'ha resa un'icona globale. Ogni suo gesto, sguardo o movimento è osservato, studiato, analizzato.

Catrinel Marlon, prima di essere scoperta per puro caso a sedici anni da uno scout di modelle, è cresciuta a Iași, città rumena al confine con la Moldavia. Nata a metà degli anni '80, e ancora bambina nel periodo immediatamente successivo alla morte di Ceaușescu, Catrinel trascorre l'infanzia e l'adolescenza in un ambiente semirurale, in una città di provincia, con la mamma, il papà e la sorella di qualche anno più piccola. I genitori, entrambi ex campioni di atletica, non se la passano bene e le conseguenze di un Paese in crisi economica e politica si riflettono anche sulle vicende familiari.

Gürpınar'ın diğer kitaplarında da gördüğümüz ironiyi ve toplum eleştirisini, Meyhanede Kadınlar'da da görüyoruz. Özellikle Cumhuriyet'ten sonra kadınlara sağlanan haklarla birlikte toplum içinde daha fazla görülmeye başlayan kadınların yaşadıklarını esprili bir dille anlatıyor yazar. İşte size kitap için bazı yorumlar: '' Bir bardak çayıma eşlik eden bir kıtap oldu Benım için, Gürpınarın tarzı, komedi ile iğnelemek eleştirmkti.

In Sisters Loved and Treasured: Stories of Unbreakable Bonds, award-winning ABC News journalist and New York Times best-selling author Deborah Roberts curates a giftable collection of conversations, meditations, and anecdotes from her own sisters, celebrity friends, and everyday people alike who share deeply personal accounts of how their relationships as sisters shaped their lives.

From a prize-winning historian, a new portrait of an extraordinary activist and the turbulent age in which she lived Goddess of Anarchy recounts the formidable life of the militant writer, orator, and agitator Lucy Parsons. Born to an enslaved woman in Virginia in 1851 and raised in Texas-where...

100 Donne Vestite di Rosso è un'opera dell'artista e ambasciatrice UNICEF Alessia Cotta Ramusino, che intreccia narrazione e impegno sociale attraverso cento brevi storie che raccontano le vite di altrettante donne, legate dal tragico destino di essere vittime di violenza. Ne emerge un quadro struggente e profondo della loro realtà, capace di suscitare un'intensa riflessione e una forte empatia.

Myslíte, že znáte Agathu Christie? Opravdu? Pro svět byla legendární autorkou nejprodávanějších knih. Ve 30. letech 20. století však cestovala se svým manželem, známým archeologem Maxem Mallowanem, který zkoumal ruiny a starověké divy Sýrie a Iráku. Když se jí přátelé zeptali, jaký je ten podivný "jiný život", rozhodla se odpovědět na jejich otázky tím, že si zapíše svá dobrodružství do této knihy. Autorka tento život popsala jako meandrující kroniku života během archeologických vykopávek.

Jedna z nejdůležitějších knih, jaké kdy byly napsány o našem spojení se světem přírody. Kniha Gorily v mlze je strhující zprávou o třinácti letech Dian Fosseyové v odlehlém africkém deštném pralese a jejím mimořádném úsilí zajistit jeho budoucnost. Příběh lásky, aniž by byl milostným příběhem, příběh války, aniž by byl o násilí, příběh o snaze jedné ženy naplnit své sny a zároveň zajistit přežití horských goril v přirozeném prostředí Afriky. I když autorčina práce skončila tragicky její vraždou, kniha zůstává neocenitelným svědectvím jedné z nejdéle trvajících terénních studií primátů.

Ah, ma parli italiano? Ti puoi innamorare di chi vuoi? Ti fai la doccia con il velo? Tutte queste domande Tasnim le ha ricevute davvero. Avrebbe potuto semplicemente riderci su, metterle da parte, arrabbiarsi e invece ha risposto a ciascuna di loro. Perché a lei le domande piacciono. Se chiedi infatti, è perché vuoi sapere, e non c'è niente di male nel voler sapere, anzi! Basta che tu lo faccia con educazione. Anche se la domanda può suonare ridicola.