No Ordinary Women

Author : Janice Sanford Beck
Publisher : Rocky Mountain Books Ltd
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0921102828

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Artist, photographer, writer, world traveler and, above all, explorer, Mary Schaffer Warren overcame the limited expectations of women at the turn of the nineteenth century in order to follow her dreams.Mary, born into a wealthy Quaker family in Pennsylvania, was a precocious child who excelled at school. She was much more interested in the arts and traveling. A trip across Canada in 1889 proved the turning point in Mary's life. Not only did she meet her future husband-doctor and botanist Charles Schaffer-she also fell hopelessly in love with the mountains.After Charles' death, Mary embarked on explorations into the Canadian Rockies at a time when it was not thought proper for a woman to do so. Her most famous trips of 1907 and 1908 resulted in the rediscovery of Maligne Lake and the highly regarded book Old Indian Trails of the Canadian Rockies. Mary eventually settled in Banff and there married her handsome young guide Billy Warren.Since her death in 1937, she continues to inspire young people and women in particular.

Author : Sinéad McCoole
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0299195007

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"Constance Markievicz had some advice for women activists: 'Leave your jewels in the bank, and buy a revolver.' Most of the women who became involved in the fight for Ireland's freedom did not have jewels to swap for guns, but the change in their circumstances and lives would be just as radical. Setting aside their roles as dutiful daughters, wives, and mothers, they became dispatch carriers, gunrunners, spies. Guns in hand, they fought alongside their male comrades in arms, displaying a courage and resolution that astonished and sometimes offended public opinion of the time." "What they were doing was considered 'unladylike and disreputable' - a notion that explains why their stories became hidden histories; in many cases families were unaware that their great-aunts and grannies had prison records." "But the evidence is there in their prison diaries and autograph books, in the graffiti that remain on the walls of Kilmainham Gaol, and in the archive lists of women prisoners of 1916, the War of Independence, and the Civil War. From this wealth of material and interviews with survivors, Sinead McCoole has produced a portrait of the girls and women whose indomitable spirit overcame hunger strikes, harsh prison conditions, and the tragedy of huge personal loss."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Deborah Ellis
Publisher : Groundwood Books Ltd
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781554981762

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No Ordinary Day by Deborah Ellis Pdf

Shortlisted for the SYRCA 2013 Diamond Willow Award, selected as an American Library Association 2012 Notable Children's Book, a Booklist Editors' Choice, nominated for the OLA Golden Oak Tree Award, and a finalist for the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Awards: Young Adult/Middle Reader Award, the Governor General's Literary Awards: Children's Text and the Canadian Library Association Book of the Year for Children Award There's not much that upsets young Valli. Even though her days are spent picking coal and fighting with her cousins, life in the coal town of Jharia, India, is the only life she knows. The only sight that fills her with terror are the monsters who live on the other side of the train tracks -- the lepers. Valli and the other children throw stones at them. No matter how hard her life is, she tells herself, at least she will never be one of them. Then she discovers that she is not living with family after all, that her "aunt" was a stranger who was paid money to take Valli off her own family's hands. She decides to leave Jharia ... and so begins a series of adventures that takes her to Kolkata, the city of the gods. It's not so bad. Valli finds that she really doesn't need much to live. She can "borrow" the things she needs and then pass them on to people who need them more than she does. It helps that though her bare feet become raw wounds as she makes her way around the city, she somehow feels no pain. But when she happens to meet a doctor on the ghats by the river, Valli learns that she has leprosy. Despite being given a chance to receive medical care, she cannot bear the thought that she is one of those monsters she has always feared, and she flees, to an uncertain life on the street. Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.3 Describe in depth a character, setting, or event in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., a character's thoughts, words, or actions). CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.3 Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or events in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., how characters interact). CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.6 Explain how an author develops the point of view of the narrator or speaker in a text.

Author : Mary T. S. Schäffer
Publisher : Rocky Mountain Books Ltd
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781897522493

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Old Indian Trails of the Canadian Rockies by Mary T. S. Schäffer Pdf

"We seemed to have reached that horizon, and the limit of all endurance, to sit with folded hands and listen calmly to the stories of the hills we so longed to see, the hills which had lured and beckoned us for years before this long list of men had ever set foot in the country." - Mary T.S. Schäffer Mary T.S. Schäffer was an avid explorer and one of the first non-Native women to venture into the heart of the Canadian Rocky Mountains, where few women - or men - had gone before. First published in 1911, Old Indian Trails of the Canadian Rockies is Schäffer's story of her adventures in the traditionally male-dominated world of climbing and exploration. It also sheds light on Native and non-Native relations at the early part of the 20th century. Full of daring adventure and romantic depictions of camp life, set against the grand backdrop of Canada's mountain landscapes, the book introduces readers to various characters from the annals of Canadian mountaineering history, including Arthur Philemon Coleman, Billy Warren, Sid Unwin, Bill Peyto and Jimmy Simpson. Old Indian Trails of the Canadian Rockies is certain to entertain and enlighten 21st-century readers, historians, hikers and climbers.

Author : Elaine S. Dalton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1629721514

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Author : Sinéad McCoole
Publisher : O'Brien Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0862788838

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Updated edition with many more biographies and a new introduction by the author. Spies, snipers, couriers, gun-runners, medics, women played a major role in the fight for Ireland's freedom, risking loss of life and family for a cause to which they were totally committed. This book highlights a time when vast numbers of Irish women were politicised and imprisoned for their beliefs, with a special emphasis on one prison, Kilmainham Gaol. They came from every class in society and all walks of life: titled ladies and shop assistants, doctors, housewives, laundry workers, artists and teachers. Some were married with children, others widowed and some mere schoolchildren. These are hidden stories that vividly recreate the characters, personalities and courage of Ireland's revolutionary women.

Author : Varlarie Byron
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-27
Category : English drama
ISBN : 1849631018

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No Ordinary Woman by Varlarie Byron Pdf

Valerie Byron's back story reads like a script pitched at the TV and movie stars whose lives and loves she shared in the swinging sixties. But it is true - and told with all the candour and raw honesty of a beautiful woman remembering heady days and passionate nights with celebrities on both sides of the Atlantic. She was part of Britain's ground-breaking ITV company, Granada, which made global successes of Coronation Street and many an edgy drama. In America, she worked in the film business and continued to bewitch those who sought to bed her. This is a book that could only have been written by an older, wiser woman but one who knows herself and is at ease with a life well lived.

Author : Suzanne Brockmann
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781488031670

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No Ordinary Man by Suzanne Brockmann Pdf

NO ORDINARY MAN A scorching reader favorite romantic suspense, first published in 1996. Jess Baxter doesn’t know much about her newest tenant, the elusive Rob Carpenter, except that he’s the sexiest guy she's ever met. But then the murders start—all women who look like her. And the killer’s profile matches Rob precisely. Is Rob an innocent victim, or has Jess fallen for a killer? Originally published in 1996.

Author : Doris Kearns Goodwin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781476750576

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No Ordinary Time by Doris Kearns Goodwin Pdf

Presents a social history of the United States in 1940, along with a moment-by-moment account of Roosevelt's leadership and the private lives of the president and First Lady, whose remarkable partnership transformed America. (This book was previously featured in Forecast.)

Author : David McLaughlan
Publisher : Barbour Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Devotional literature
ISBN : 1634091191

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No Ordinary People by David McLaughlan Pdf

You can learn so much from the successes and failures, lives, humility, and obedience of unnamed Biblical people--and you will find great insights in No Ordinary People: The Unknown Men and Women of the Bible Devotional. This brand-new book features 100 in-depth, easy-to-read entries on the people behind the scenes, the everyday men and women, not the kings, queens, miracle workers, or leaders. These people, from the Good Samaritan to Pilate's wife, played a powerful role in God's plan for humanity and their stories were recorded for your benefit today. No Ordinary People can share important, even life-changing, principles for your quiet time.

Author : Rosemary Griggs
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781800466111

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A Woman of Noble Wit by Rosemary Griggs Pdf

Few women of her time lived to see their name in print. But Katherine was no ordinary woman. She was Sir Walter Raleigh’s mother. This is her story.

Author : David Johnson
Publisher : Grand Central Pub
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0446526398

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No Ordinary Lives by David Johnson Pdf

Collects the stories of Americans who were profiled in the author's "Everybody Has a Story" column, tracing his two decades of encounters with more than eight hundred individuals, many of whose perspectives changed his life.

Author : Rita Marie Robinson
Publisher : Mantra Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Spiritual life
ISBN : 1846940680

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Ordinary Women Extraordinary Wisdom by Rita Marie Robinson Pdf

Ordinary Women, Extraordinary Wisdom is a collection of intimate, heartfelt conversations with women spiritual teachers who live and look like ordinary people. They have kids, husbands, jobs, and bills to pay. What makes them extraordinary is that each woman has awakened to her true nature. And while that sounds like enlightenment, it doesn't look like the old stereotype of transcendence, detachment, and bliss. Quite the contrary. This is the feminine half of the spiritual journey--bringing it down to earth and embracing all of what it means to be human.

Author : Susan Sygall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0692253459

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No Ordinary Days by Susan Sygall Pdf

Author : Carol Jo Brazo
Publisher : Multnomah
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Christian life
ISBN : 0880707445

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No Ordinary Home by Carol Jo Brazo Pdf

Organized around the author's experiences, this book sensitively addresses stay-at-home mothers' needs for encouragement, recognition & mentorship, & explores what a Christ-centered home is like.