Babes In Captivity

Author : Pamela Redmond Satran
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1439139539

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Babes in Captivity by Pamela Redmond Satran Pdf

They've satisfied their biological clocks. They met six years ago in a mom's group. Deirdre, Juliette, Anne, and Lisa are each living The Dream in the suburbs outside of New York City: beautiful wedding, big house, picture perfect family. What more could a woman want? Plenty, though none of them has ever admitted it. Out loud, anyway. It all starts with Deirdre....When she learns that her ex-lover, musician Nick Ruby, has moved back East, she confides in her girlfriends that she regrets her lost singing career, and her lost love affair with Nick. And since there doesn't seem to be a "what's next" in her life, she's more than a little curious about "what if...?" So what's that ticking sound? Deirdre's confession -- and her plan to revive her dreams and make them reality -- has a startling ripple effect. It turns out none of the four is as happy as she seems: Anne fears her marriage is in jeopardy. Juliette desperately wants to have another baby but can't. And Lisa's facing decisions that her life -- literally -- depends on. The doors swing wide when these babes start breaking out...but at what price? There's no satisfaction guarantee for any one of them, but taking chances together sure beats going it alone.

Author : Nadia Murad
Publisher : Crown
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781524760458

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The Last Girl by Nadia Murad Pdf

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE • In this “courageous” (The Washington Post) memoir of survival, a former captive of the Islamic State tells her harrowing and ultimately inspiring story. Nadia Murad was born and raised in Kocho, a small village of farmers and shepherds in northern Iraq. A member of the Yazidi community, she and her brothers and sisters lived a quiet life. Nadia had dreams of becoming a history teacher or opening her own beauty salon. On August 15th, 2014, when Nadia was just twenty-one years old, this life ended. Islamic State militants massacred the people of her village, executing men who refused to convert to Islam and women too old to become sex slaves. Six of Nadia’s brothers were killed, and her mother soon after, their bodies swept into mass graves. Nadia was taken to Mosul and forced, along with thousands of other Yazidi girls, into the ISIS slave trade. Nadia would be held captive by several militants and repeatedly raped and beaten. Finally, she managed a narrow escape through the streets of Mosul, finding shelter in the home of a Sunni Muslim family whose eldest son risked his life to smuggle her to safety. Today, Nadia's story—as a witness to the Islamic State's brutality, a survivor of rape, a refugee, a Yazidi—has forced the world to pay attention to an ongoing genocide. It is a call to action, a testament to the human will to survive, and a love letter to a lost country, a fragile community, and a family torn apart by war.

Author : Sarah F. Wakefield
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780806148977

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Six Weeks in the Sioux Tepees by Sarah F. Wakefield Pdf

The Dakota War (1862) was a searing event in Minnesota history as well as a signal event in the lives of Dakota people. Sarah F. Wakefield was caught up in this revolt. A young doctor’s wife and the mother of two small children, Wakefield published her unusual account of the war and her captivity shortly after the hanging of thirty-eight Dakotas accused of participation in the "Sioux uprising." Among those hanged were Chaska (We-Chank-Wash-ta-don-pee), a Mdewakanton Dakota who had protected her and her children during the upheaval. In a distinctive and compelling voice, Wakefield blames the government for the war and then relates her and her family’s ordeal, as well as Chaska’s and his family’s help and ultimate sacrifice. This is the first fully annotated modern edition of Six Weeks in the Sioux Tepees. June Namias’s extensive introduction and notes describe the historical and ethnographic background of Dakota-white relations in Minnesota and place Wakefield’s narrative in the context of other captivity narratives.

Author : Nachman Ben-Yehuda
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780190208400

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Theocratic Democracy by Nachman Ben-Yehuda Pdf

The state of Israel was established in 1948 as a Jewish democracy, without a legal separation between religion and the state. Ever since, the tension between the two has been a central political, social, and moral issue in Israel, resulting in a cultural conflict between secular Jews and the fundamentalist, ultra-orthodox Haredi community. What is the nature of this cultural conflict and how is it managed? In Theocratic Democracy, Nachman Ben-Yehuda examines more than fifty years of media-reported unconventional and deviant behavior by members of the Haredi community. Ben-Yehuda finds not only that this behavior has happened increasingly often over the years, but also that its most salient feature is violence--a violence not random or precipitated by situational emotional rage, but planned and aimed to achieve political goals. Using verbal and non-verbal violence in the forms of curses, intimidation, threats, arson, stone-throwing, beatings, mass violations, and more, Haredi activists try to push Israel toward a more theocratic society. Driven by a theological notion that all Jews are mutually responsible and accountable to the Almighty, these activists believe that the sins of the few are paid for by the many. Making Israel a theocracy will, they believe, reduce the risk of transcendental penalties. Ben-Yehuda shows how the political structure that accommodates the strong theocratic and secular pressures Israel faces is effectively a theocratic democracy. Characterized by chronic negotiations, tensions, and accommodations, it is by nature an unstable structure. However, in his fascinating and lively account, Nachman Ben-Yehuda demonstrates how it allows citizens with different worldviews to live under one umbrella of a nation-state without tearing the social fabric apart.

Author : Royal Byron Stratton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : Indian captivities
ISBN : HARVARD:32044036482610

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Captivity of the Oatman Girls by Royal Byron Stratton Pdf

Author : Royal B. Stratton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Indian captivities
ISBN : NYPL:33433081690772

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Captivity of the Oatman Girls by Royal B. Stratton Pdf

Author : Pamela Redmond
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2006-03-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781416528593

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Suburbanistas by Pamela Redmond Pdf

From the acclaimed author of Younger and Babes in Captivity, a funny and moving novel about friendship, fame, and the fight for one suburb's future! Greetings from New Jersey Stella Powers is an A-list movie star who has just landed an Oscar-worthy role and a hot new rock-star husband when her mother's death brings her world tumbling down. Floundering as her life becomes one tabloid horror after another, Stella finds herself stuck in the New Jersey suburb she fled twenty years ago. But Homewood is no longer the sleepy town she remembers: housing prices are skyrocketing and glitzy new stores -- and people -- are moving in. To Stella and her young daughter, this is good news. Wish you weren't here. The bad news: Stella's childhood best friend, Mary Jean, who married Stella's old boyfriend and raised four kids in Homewood, can no longer afford to live there. Mary Jean is determined to wrest back the town but needs Stella on her side. The stakes for both women are high, but how can these old friends reconnect after so much time has passed? Or more importantly, how can they not?

Author : Thomas A. Robinson,Lanette D. Ruff
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190208424

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Out of the Mouths of Babes by Thomas A. Robinson,Lanette D. Ruff Pdf

The 1920s saw one of the most striking revolutions in manners and morals to have marked North American society, affecting almost every aspect of life, from dress and drink to sex and salvation. Protestant Christianity was being torn apart by a heated controversy between traditionalists and the modernists, as they sought to determine how much their beliefs and practices should be altered by scientific study and more secular attitudes. Out of the controversy arose the Fundamentalist movement, which has become a powerful force in twentieth-century America. During this decade, hundreds (and perhaps thousands) of young girl preachers, some not even school age, joined the conservative Christian cause, proclaiming traditional values and condemning modern experiments with the new morality. Some of the girls drew crowds into the thousands. But the stage these girls gained went far beyond the revivalist platform. The girl evangelist phenomenon was recognized in the wider society as well, and the contrast to the flapper worked well for the press and the public. Girl evangelists stood out as the counter-type of the flapper, who had come to define the modern girl. The striking contrast these girls offered to the racy flapper and to modern culture generally made girl evangelists a convenient and effective tool for conservative and revivalist Christianity, a tool which was used by their adherents in the clash of cultures that marked the 1920s.

Author : Hugh Broughton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1214 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1662
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0020666128

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The Works of the Great Albionean Divine ... Mr Hugh Broughton, Etc. [With a Biographical Preface by John Lightfoot and an Engraved Portrait.] by Hugh Broughton Pdf

Author : Margot Mifflin
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780803211483

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The Blue Tattoo by Margot Mifflin Pdf

"Based on historical records, including the letters and diaries of Oatman's friends and relatives, The Blue Tattoo is the first book to examine her life from her childhood in Illinois including the massacre, her captivity, and her return to white society - to her later years as a wealthy banker's wife in Texas."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1793
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OSU:32435053907770

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Scots Magazine, and Edinburgh Literary Miscellany by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1793
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433081674172

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Gentleman's Magazine: and Historical Chronicle by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1793
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : CHI:79253948

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The Gentleman's Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Edward Cave
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 770 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1793
Category : Books and bookselling
ISBN : OXFORD:555090487

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The Gentleman's Magazine: Or, Monthly Intelligencer by Edward Cave Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1793
Category : Early English newspapers
ISBN : UOM:39015010951799

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Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review by Anonim Pdf

The "Gentleman's magazine" section is a digest of selections from the weekly press; the "(Trader's) monthly intelligencer" section consists of news (foreign and domestic), vital statistics, a register of the month's new publications, and a calendar of forthcoming trade fairs.