Author: Caroline Paine
Publisher: Salzwasser-Verlag
ISBN: 9783375138318
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1859.

Author: Caroline Paine
Publisher:
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Category : Middle East
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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Category : Middle East
Languages : en
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Author: Caroline Paine
Publisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781357112332
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 322

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Author: Roberta Rich
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 145165748X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352

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Not since Anna Diamant’s The Red Tent or Geraldine Brooks’s People of the Book has a novel transported readers so intimately into the complex lives of women centuries ago or so richly into a story of intrigue that transcends the boundaries of history. A “lavishly detailed” (Elle Canada) debut that masterfully captures sixteenth-century Venice against a dramatic and poetic tale of suspense. Hannah Levi is renowned throughout Venice for her gift at coaxing reluctant babies from their mothers using her secret “birthing spoons.” When a count implores her to attend his dying wife and save their unborn son, she is torn. A Papal edict forbids Jews from rendering medical treatment to Christians, but his payment is enough to ransom her husband Isaac, who has been captured at sea. Can she refuse her duty to a woman who is suffering? Hannah’s choice entangles her in a treacherous family rivalry that endangers the child and threatens her voyage to Malta, where Isaac, believing her dead in the plague, is preparing to buy his passage to a new life. Told with exceptional skill, The Midwife of Venice brings to life a time and a place cloaked in fascination and mystery and introduces a captivating new talent in historical fiction.

Author: Marilyn Booth
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822348691
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 425

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An interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring the harem as it was imagined, represented, and experienced in Middle Eastern and North African societies, and by visitors to those societies.

Author: Annick Cojean
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 0802121721
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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Follows a fifteen-year-old girl who, after presenting Gaddafi with a bouquet of flowers during a visit to her school, was summoned to his compound where she, along with a number of young women, was violently abused, raped, and degraded.

Author: George Ripley
Publisher:
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 878

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Author: Annie West
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 0373528582
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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Sheikh Prince Amir has vowed to redeem his scandalous family name--so the last thing he needs on a tour of his desert kingdom is to have a sensuous blonde with more spirit than clothes presented for his harem. Fiery Cassie might have been kidnapped by bandits and dolled up as the Sheikh's love slave, but she refuses to be any man's plaything. Yet spending a week in Amir's desert tent pretending to be his mistress would get under any girl's skin. Especially when she is under his sheets....

Author: Libbie Hawker
Publisher: Running Rabbit Press
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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The son of the god must take her rightful place on Egypt's throne. Hatshepsut longs for power, but she is constrained by her commitment to maat – the sacred order of righteousness, the way things must be. Her mother claims Hatshepsut is destined for Egypt's throne – not as the king's chief wife, but as the king herself, despite her female body. But a woman on the throne defies maat, and even Hatshepsut is not so bold as to risk the safety of the Two Lands for her own ends. As God's Wife of Amun, she believes she has found the perfect balance of power and maat, and has reconciled herself to contentment with her station. But even that peace is threatened when the powerful men of Egypt plot to replace her. They see her as nothing but a young woman, easily used for their own ends and discarded. But she is the son of the god Amun, and neither her strength nor her will can be so easily discounted. As the machinations of politics drive her into the hands of enemies and the arms of lovers, onto the battlefield and into the childbed, she comes face to face with maat itself – and must decide at last whether to surrender her birthright to a man, or to take up the crook and flail of the Pharaoh, and claim for herself the throne of the king.