Author: Lady Isabel BurtonPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 438
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The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton
Author: Lady Isabel BurtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton, the Story of Her Life, Told in Part by Herself and in Part by W. H. Wilkins
Author: William Henry WilkinsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
A Tail of Love
Author: Alice SharpePublisher:
ISBN: 9780786294626
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
It had been two years since he left, but I remembered everything about Rick...right down to his scent. And I'm just the dog.
Together We Burn
Author: Isabel IbañezPublisher: Wednesday Books
ISBN: 1250803365
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Isabel Ibañez's Together We Burn is a lush, enchanting standalone fantasy inspired by medieval Spain, filled with romance, adventure and just the right amount of danger. An ancient city plagued by dragons Eighteen-year-old Zarela Zalvidar is a talented flamenco dancer and daughter of the most famous Dragonador in Hispalia. People come for miles to see him fight in their arena, which will one day be hers. But disaster strikes during one celebratory show, and in the carnage, Zarela’s life changes in an instant. A flamenco dancer who must become a dragon hunter to save her family legacy With the Dragon Guild trying to wrest control of her inheritance from her, Zarela has no choice but to train to become a Dragonador. But when the most talented dragon hunter left in the land -- the infuriatingly handsome Arturo Díaz de Montserrat -- withholds his help, Zarela cannot take no for an answer. Without him, her world will burn.
Still at Birth
Author: Caroline SugdenPublisher: Slattery Media Group
ISBN: 9781921778223
Category : Pregnancy
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
STILL AT BIRTH details the highly emotional personal journey of Caroline Sugden, from euphoria at the anticipation of the birth to the nightmare following the death of her baby daughter, Isabelle Rose. In 2004, Caroline and Mark Sugden joined the ranks of millions of first-time mums and dads. At 39.75 weeks their perfect baby was born. Isabelle Rose was a lovely baby with 10 fingers and 10 toes, but she did not get to take her first breath. In one horrific moment, Caroline, Mark and Isabelle Rose went from being a loving family unit to being mere statistics, joining the 2000 families who suffer stillbirth each year in Australia alone. In this book, Caroline shares the most intimate details of her experiences in order to empower and help other couples who are given nothing but empty rhetoric about the unexplained death of their baby. She also discusses the subsequent physical, psychological and emotional hurdles which are part of the process of deciding to have another baby.
Isabel of the Whales
Author: Hester VelmansPublisher: Yearling
ISBN: 030753300X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Eleven-year-old Isabel is a “plain old” girl living in Provincetown, Massachusetts, who believes that she is destined to accomplish something special. When her fifth-grade class goes on a whale-watch field trip, something amazing happens: Dozens of different species of whales surround the boat, bumping the deck and sending Isabel flying into the ocean. Isabel is shocked to hear the whales speaking to her—she is a mermaid, they tell her, a “Chosen One” who has the ability to turn from a human into a whale and back again. She is destined to live among the whales long enough to learn their ways, and teach them about the human world. Living among her pod is fun, at first, but Isabel has an important mission. She will change the whales’ future forever, and learn a lot about herself in the process.
The New World
Author: The romance of Isabel lady Burton, the story of her life, told in part by herself, and in part by W.H. Wilkins
Author: Lady Isabel BurtonCaste
Author: Isabel WilkersonPublisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 0593230272
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 545
Book Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • “An instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far.”—Dwight Garner, The New York Times The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America and shows how our lives today are still defined by a hierarchy of human divisions—now with a new Afterword by the author. #1 NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR: Time ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, O: The Oprah Magazine, NPR, Bloomberg, The Christian Science Monitor, New York Post, The New York Public Library, Fortune, Smithsonian Magazine, Marie Claire, Slate, Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews Winner of the Carl Sandberg Literary Award • Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize • National Book Award Longlist • National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist • Dayton Literary Peace Prize Finalist • PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction Finalist • PEN/Jean Stein Book Award Longlist • Kirkus Prize Finalist “As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in the aisles, guiding us to our assigned seats for a performance. The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power—which groups have it and which do not.” In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched, and beautifully written narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid hierarchy of human rankings. Beyond race, class, or other factors, there is a powerful caste system that influences people’s lives and behavior and the nation’s fate. Linking the caste systems of America, India, and Nazi Germany, Wilkerson explores eight pillars that underlie caste systems across civilizations, including divine will, bloodlines, stigma, and more. Using riveting stories about people—including Martin Luther King, Jr., baseball’s Satchel Paige, a single father and his toddler son, Wilkerson herself, and many others—she shows the ways that the insidious undertow of caste is experienced every day. She documents how the Nazis studied the racial systems in America to plan their outcasting of the Jews; she discusses why the cruel logic of caste requires that there be a bottom rung for those in the middle to measure themselves against; she writes about the surprising health costs of caste, in depression and life expectancy, and the effects of this hierarchy on our culture and politics. Finally, she points forward to ways America can move beyond the artificial and destructive separations of human divisions, toward hope in our common humanity. Original and revealing, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents is an eye-opening story of people and history, and a reexamination of what lies under the surface of ordinary lives and of American life today.
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