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Hibiscus vit dans une petite île des Caraïbes. Curieuse, la fillette incite ses copains à aller visiter un lieu maudit, le terrible domaine Delacabossière.
Lorsqu'elle découvre que les fantmes des esclaves et des négriers hantent depuis deux siècles cette ancienne plantation coloniale, Hibiscus se lance dans l'aventure. Prête à tout pour punir le maître de l'époque qui a refusé d'admettre l'abolition de l'esclavage, saura-t-elle rendre...
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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,...
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Introducing Moon Girl! When her Lower East Side, New York, neighborhood needs saving, a 13-year- old Black, super-genius transforms into her Marvel Super Hero alter-ego: Moon Girl! Her best friend Casey is there to manage her social media, and her giant red T-Rex, Devil Dinosaur, is by her side for muscle. Moon Girl is confident, determined, and ready for action in her turbo-powered roller skates. The World of Reading This is... series is designed...
13004) An Arrow Through the Heart: One Woman's Story of Life, Love, and Surviving a Near-Fatal Heart Attack
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This groundbreaking memoir was first mentioned on Oprah Winfrey's life-saving 2002 show announcing cardiovascular disease as a leading cause of death among young women. That tragic fact is still true. With both depth and humor, Deborah Daw Heffernan recounts her first year of recovery from the massive heart attack that ambushed her in a gentle yoga class - during the prime of her life and despite her impeccable health history. Ranging from high-stakes...
13005) Velvet Undercover
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Perfect for fans of Jennifer Donnelly and Libba Bray comes this page-turning historical spy thriller from Teri Brown, author of the Born of Illusion series. Samantha Donaldson's family has always done its duty for the British Crown. In the midst of World War I, seventeen-year-old Sam follows in their footsteps, serving her country from the home front as a messenger for the intelligence organization MI5. After her father disappears on a diplomatic...
13006) The Secrets We Keep
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'Truly gripping… I loved it.' Jill Mansell, Sunday Times bestseller A heartbreakingly beautiful novel which captures the endurance and strength of ordinary people in the darkest of times, and the courage of one woman who put her life on the line to join the resistance. Perfect for fans of The Nightingale and The Secret Messenger. 1944, the Cote d'Azur.Artist Marguerite Segal is recruited by British Intelligence into befriending Etienne Valade, a...
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How to strengthen your relationship with God as its foundation-with lessons from Beverly LaHaye, Julie Clinton, Joyce Penner, and other inspiring women.
How do you achieve spiritual intimacy with your spouse? How does this contribute to sexual fulfillment? Can a broken marriage not only be repaired, but the relationship renewed and trust restored? What are men's and women's five love needs? What are the barriers that hinder change? Here are insights...
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¿Qué pasaría si dejáramos de poner nuestra confianza en las cosas de este mundo y, en cambio, pusiéramos nuestra confianza en el único que es verdaderamente digno de confianza?
A medida que comiences a aplicar el material de cada capítulo, descubrirás:
• el verdadero significado de la confianza
• la diferencia entre el miedo negativo y el miedo positivo, y
• cómo cambiar la herramienta del miedo del Enemigo con una confianza fuerte.
Sé...
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Black gospel music grew from obscure nineteenth-century beginnings to become the leading style of sacred music in black American communities after World War II. Jerma A. Jackson traces the music's unique history, profiling the careers of several singers--particularly Sister Rosetta Tharpe--and demonstrating the important role women played in popularizing gospel.Female gospel singers initially developed their musical abilities in churches where gospel...
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Susan Nye Hutchison (1790-1867) was one of many teachers to venture south across the Mason-Dixon Line in the Second Great Awakening. From 1815 to 1841, she kept journals about her career, family life, and encounters with slavery. Drawing on these journals and hundreds of other documents, Kim Tolley uses Hutchison's life to explore the significance of education in transforming American society in the early national period. Tolley examines the roles...
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This vintage book contains a complete guide to wood finishing, with information on methods, materials, and tools for natural, stained, varnished, waxed, oiled, enamelled, and painted finishes. With helpful illustrations and simple instructions, this volume is ideal for those with little previous experience, and is not to be missed by DIY enthusiasts. Contents include: "Wood Finishing in General", "Preparation of New and Old Surfaces", "Stains in General",...
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Jad traces the transformation of the Palestinian women's movement from the 1930s to the post-Oslo period and through the Second Intifada to examine the often-fraught relationship between women and nationalism in Palestine. Offering one of the first intensive studies of Islamist women's activism, Jad also explores the impact of emerging feminist NGOs in depoliticizing the secular Palestinian women's movement. Studying these two developments together...
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The Tudor period was notable for religious turmoil. Under Queen Elizabeth I, the slowly reforming Protestant Church of England finally gained a level of stability, but many people, from paupers to Lords, clung to Catholicism. Most crossed their fingers and attended Protestant services. Others, the 'recusants', remained defiant and refused to conform. This book takes a fresh look into the life and death of one prominent Catholic recusant, Margaret...
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After the Civil War, many Americans did not identify strongly with the concept of a united nation. Francesca Morgan finds the first stirrings of a sense of national patriotism--of "these United States--in the work of black and white clubwomen in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.Morgan demonstrates that hundreds of thousands of women in groups such as the Woman's Relief Corps, the National Association of Colored Women, the Universal...
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Lihi Ben Shitrit is an assistant professor in the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Georgia.
A comparative look at female political activism in today's most influential Israeli and Palestinian religious movements
How do women in conservative religious movements expand spaces for political activism in ways that go beyond their movements' strict ideas about male and female roles? How and why does this activism happen...
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Offering fresh insights into the history of labor policy, the New Deal, feminism, and southern politics, Landon Storrs examines the New Deal era of the National Consumers' League, one of the most influential reform organizations of the early twentieth century.Founded in 1899 by affluent women concerned about the exploitation of women wage earners, the National Consumers' League used a strategy of "ethical consumption" to spark a successful movement...
13017) Alone atop the Hill: The Autobiography of Alice Dunnigan, Pioneer of the National Black Press
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In 1942 Alice Allison Dunnigan, a sharecropper's daughter from Kentucky, made her way to the nation's capital and a career in journalism that eventually led her to the White House. With Alone Atop the Hill, Carol McCabe Booker has condensed Dunnigan's 1974 self-published autobiography to appeal to a general audience and has added scholarly annotations that provide historical context. Dunnigan's dynamic story reveals her importance to the fields of...
13018) The Trials of Kate Hope
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When she was not yet a teenager, Kate Hope started "reading law" in the office of "Judge" Hope, her half-blind grandfather, a grumpy eighty-nine-year-old lawyer with problems. One big problem is that he believes in justice for all, not just those who can afford it. He also needs a partner. Together they find a loophole in Colorado law, and Kate becomes a lawyer-technically. She has a law license hanging on the wall in her office, but she has no idea...
13019) We Walk Alone
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Ann Aldrich flings a provocative assertion at her readers in 1955 when she opens her groundbreaking account of lesbian life in New York City by saying this book is the "result of fifteen years of participation in society as a female homosexual." After the release of We Walk Alone, Aldrich became both a heroine and a scapegoat in some of the period's most contentious public debates over what exactly "lesbian culture" was. Her non-fiction pulp literally...
13020) A Fatal Encounter in Tuscany
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Agatha Christie meets Julie Caplin in this exciting new cosy crime series that captures the glamour of the 1930s with the gorgeous escapist destinations! Look out for more Miss Ashford mysteries and get your passports ready as you travel with her to some of the most sought-after destinations on the continent… Book 1: Mystery in ProvenceBook 2: Mystery in SantoriniBook 3: Mystery in SalzburgBook 4: Mystery in Tuscany Competition: Miss Marple;Poirot;Miss...
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