Download or read book A Sister to Honor written by Lucy Ferriss and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New from the author of The Lost Daughter Afia Satar is studious, modest, and devout. The daughter of a landholding family in northern Pakistan, Afia has enrolled in an American college with the dream of returning to her country as a doctor. But when a photo surfaces online of Afia holding hands with an American boy, she is suddenly no longer safe even from the family that cherishes her. Rising sports star Shahid Satar has been entrusted by his family to watch over Afia in this strange New England landscape. He has sworn to protect his beloved sister from the dangerous customs of America, from its loose morals and easy virtue. Shahid was the one who convinced their parents to allow her to come to the United States. He never imagined he d be ordered to cleanse the stain of her shame... READERS GUIDE INCLUDED "
Download or read book The Trouble with Honour written by Julia London and published by . This book was released on 2015-03-20 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Passion & Scandal...Four sisters will rescue themselves from ruin... Debutante Miss Honour Cabot, the eldest stepdaughter of the Earl of Beckington, awaits her family's ruin. Upon the earl's death she and her sisters stand to lose their home - and their place in society - to their stepbrother and his social-climbing fiancée. Desperate times call for daring measures as Honour makes a devil's bargain with the only rogue in London who can help. An illegitimate son of a duke, notorious gambler George Easton grows his fortune through dangerous risks. But now he and Honour are dabbling in a perilous dance of seduction that puts her reputation and his jaded heart on the line. And unexpected desire threatens to change the rules of their secret game... Book 1 of THE CABOT SISTERS
Download or read book I Have a Sister My Sister Is Deaf written by Jeanne Whitehouse Peterson and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1984-05-23 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young deaf child who loves to run and jump and play is affectionately described by her older sister. ‘Can give young children an understanding of the fact that deaf children . . . share all the interests of children with normal hearing.' 'C. ‘A friendly, affirmative look [at the everyday experiences of the two sisters].' 'BL. 1979 Coretta Scott King Award Honor Book A Reading Rainbow Selection Children's Books of 1977 (Library of Congress)
Download or read book To My Sister written by Marci and published by . This book was released on 2017-11 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sisters are more than just family: they are confidantes, mentors, and friends. They light up the lives of the people around them with their joy and love, and they can always be counted on to be there when they're needed, no matter what. With this adorable book, you can let your sister know how much she means to you. Featuring Marci's endearing Children of the Inner Light(R) characters, this is a gift of love that sisters everywhere will treasure forever.
Download or read book One Crazy Summer written by Rita Williams-Garcia and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-01-26 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleven-year-old Delphine has it together. Even though her mother, Cecile, abandoned her and her younger sisters, Vonetta and Fern, seven years ago. Even though her father and Big Ma will send them from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to stay with Cecile for the summer. And even though Delphine will have to take care of her sisters, as usual, and learn the truth about the missing pieces of the past. When the girls arrive in Oakland in the summer of 1968, Cecile wants nothing to do with them. She makes them eat Chinese takeout dinners, forbids them to enter her kitchen, and never explains the strange visitors with Afros and black berets who knock on her door. Rather than spend time with them, Cecile sends Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern to a summer camp sponsored by a revolutionary group, the Black Panthers, where the girls get a radical new education. Set during one of the most tumultuous years in recent American history, one crazy summer is the heartbreaking, funny tale of three girls in search of the mother who abandoned them—an unforgettable story told by a distinguished author of books for children and teens, Rita Williams-Garcia.
Download or read book Other Words for Home written by Jasmine Warga and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestseller and Newbery Honor Book! A gorgeously written, hopeful middle grade novel in verse about a young girl who must leave Syria to move to the United States, perfect for fans of Jason Reynolds and Aisha Saeed. Jude never thought she’d be leaving her beloved older brother and father behind, all the way across the ocean in Syria. But when things in her hometown start becoming volatile, Jude and her mother are sent to live in Cincinnati with relatives. At first, everything in America seems too fast and too loud. The American movies that Jude has always loved haven’t quite prepared her for starting school in the US—and her new label of “Middle Eastern,” an identity she’s never known before. But this life also brings unexpected surprises—there are new friends, a whole new family, and a school musical that Jude might just try out for. Maybe America, too, is a place where Jude can be seen as she really is. This lyrical, life-affirming story is about losing and finding home and, most importantly, finding yourself.
Download or read book John Wilkes Booth written by Asia Booth Clarke and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features a biographical sketch of the American actor John Wilkes Booth (1838-1865). Notes that Booth shot and killed the U.S. President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865.
Download or read book I Should Have Honor written by Khalida Brohi and published by Random House. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fearless memoir about tribal life in Pakistan—and the act of violence that inspired one ambitious young woman to pursue a life of activism and female empowerment “Khalida Brohi understands the true nature of honor. She is fearless in her pursuit of justice and equality.”—Malala Yousafzai, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize From a young age, Khalida Brohi was raised to believe in the sanctity of arranged marriage. Her mother was forced to marry a thirteen-year-old boy when she was only nine; Khalida herself was promised as a bride before she was even born. But her father refused to let her become a child bride. He was a man who believed in education, not just for himself but for his daughters, and Khalida grew up thinking she would become the first female doctor in her small village. Khalida thought her life was proceeding on an unusual track for a woman of her circumstances, but one whose path was orderly and straightforward. Everything shifted for Khalida when she found out that her beloved cousin had been murdered by her uncle in a tradition known as “honor killing.” Her cousin’s crime? She had fallen in love with a man who was not her betrothed. This moment ignited the spark in Khalida Brohi that inspired a globe-spanning career as an activist, beginning at the age of sixteen. From a tiny cement-roofed room in Karachi where she was allowed ten minutes of computer use per day, Brohi started a Facebook campaign that went viral. From there, she created a foundation focused on empowering the lives of women in rural communities through education and employment opportunities, while crucially working to change the minds of their male partners, fathers, and brothers. This book is the story of how Brohi, while only a girl herself, shone her light on the women and girls of Pakistan, despite the hurdles and threats she faced along the way. And ultimately, she learned that the only way to eradicate the parts of a culture she despised was to fully embrace the parts of it that she loved. Praise for I Should Have Honor “Khalida Brohi’s moving story is a testament to what is possible no matter the odds. In her courageous activism and now in I Should Have Honor, Khalida gives a voice to the women and girls who are denied their own by society. This book is a true act of honor.”—Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook and founder of LeanIn.Org and OptionB.Org
Download or read book A Brother s Honor written by Brenda Jackson and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Passion, business, and family secrets collide in the New York Times–bestselling author’s romance series debut—now a feature film. The Granger brothers left their family’s Virginia estate years ago. Called back home by their dying grandfather, they face a failing business, a legacy of secrets, and a deathbed promise to make things right. As the eldest brother, attorney Jace Granger is determined to save Granger Aeronautics. But the new CEO needs help untangling years of mismanagement. Smart, sexy Shana Bradford is the right person for the job—and the right woman to turn Jace’s world upside down. But the passion between them is jeopardized when old secrets begin to emerge. A woman from Jace’s past suddenly reappears. And an explosive discovery changes everything Jace thinks he knows about his family’s scandalous history. Now Jace needs to finally face the past . . . or risk losing his future.
Download or read book To Shine with Honor written by Joseph Scott Amis and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first volume of the To Shine with Honor trilogy, Galien de Coudre, scholarly third son in a family of minor nobility, comes of age in the perilous world of late 11th century France, where powerful noblemen massacre the other and innocents in unending petty warfare over lands and silver, despite the efforts of the Church to control their violence. Galien, educated for the priesthood, trained at arms and horse by his father and older brothers, all knights, finds his once-certain future as a high Church official compromised by family misfortunes. Through a series of oft-wrenching events, he discovers his own destiny as events in France and the distant Holy Land draw inexorably toward the great war of faiths known in history as the First Crusade.
Download or read book A Defense of Honor Haven Manor Book 1 written by Kristi Ann Hunter and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Katherine "Kit" FitzGilbert turned her back on London society more than a decade ago, she determined never to set foot in a ballroom again. But when business takes her to London and she's forced to run for her life, she stumbles upon not only a glamorous ballroom but also Graham, Lord Wharton. What should have been a chance encounter becomes much more as Graham embarks on a search for his friend's missing sister and is convinced Kit knows more about the girl than she's telling. After meeting Graham, Kit finds herself wishing things could have been different for the first time in her life, but what she wants can't matter. Long ago, she dedicated herself to helping women escape the same scorn that drove her from London and raising the innocent children caught in the crossfire. And as much as she desperately wishes to tell Graham everything, revealing the truth isn't worth putting him and everyone she loves in danger.
Download or read book The Lost Daughter written by Lucy Ferriss and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-02-07 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brooke O’Connor—elegant, self-possessed, and kind—has a happy marriage and a deeply loved young daughter. So her adamant refusal to have a second child confounds her husband, Sean. When Brooke’s high school boyfriend Alex—now divorced and mourning the death of his young son—unexpectedly resurfaces, Sean begins to suspect an affair. For fifteen years Brooke has kept a shameful secret from everyone she loves. Only Alex knows the truth that drove them apart. His reappearance now threatens the life she has so carefully constructed and fortified by denial. With her marriage—and her emotional equilibrium—at stake, Brooke must confront what she has been unwilling to face for so long. But the truth is not what Brooke believes it to be. Lucy Ferriss’s haunting novel reveals the profound ways in which remorse over the past can not only derail lives but also—sometimes—redeem them.
Download or read book Blackie and Emma written by Barbara Taylor Bradford and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-11-26 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I am that, to be sure. Shane O'Neill's the name, but the whole world calls me Blackie.' Opening five years before the start of A Woman of Substance, Blackie and Emma begins with 13-year-old Blackie O'Neill facing an uncertain future in rural County Kerry. Orphaned and alone, he has just buried his sister, Bronagh, and must leave his home to set sail for England, in search of a better life with his mother's brother in Leeds. There, he learns his trade as a navvy, amid the grand buildings and engineering triumphs of one of England's most prosperous cities, and starts to dream of greater things... And then, high on the Yorkshire moors, in the mists of a winter morning he meets a kitchen maid called Emma Harte. In Blackie and Emma, the true Blackie O'Neill is revealed. For the first time, readers discover his story: his tumultuous life, the obstacles facing him, the desire he has to throw off the impotence of poverty and move up in the world. Like his friend Emma, he is ambitious, driven, disciplined, and determined to make it to the top. And like Emma Harte, he is an unforgettable character for the millions who loved the book. Don't miss this stunning new novel from Barbara Taylor Bradford - available to pre-order now!
Download or read book Without Merit written by Colleen Hoover and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Colleen Hoover, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Starts with Us and It Ends with Us, comes a moving and haunting novel of family, love, and the power of the truth. Not every mistake deserves a consequence. Sometimes the only thing it deserves is forgiveness. The Voss family is anything but normal. They live in a repurposed church, newly baptized Dollar Voss. The once cancer-stricken mother lives in the basement, the father is married to the mother’s former nurse, the little half-brother isn’t allowed to do or eat anything fun, and the eldest siblings are irritatingly perfect. Then, there’s Merit. Merit Voss collects trophies she hasn’t earned and secrets her family forces her to keep. While browsing the local antiques shop for her next trophy, she finds Sagan. His wit and unapologetic idealism disarm and spark renewed life into her—until she discovers that he’s completely unavailable. Merit retreats deeper into herself, watching her family from the sidelines, when she learns a secret that no trophy in the world can fix. Fed up with the lies, Merit decides to shatter the happy family illusion that she’s never been a part of before leaving them behind for good. When her escape plan fails, Merit is forced to deal with the staggering consequences of telling the truth and losing the one boy she loves. Poignant and powerful, Without Merit explores the layers of lies that tie a family together and the power of love and truth.
Download or read book In the Name of Honor written by Richard North Patterson and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2011-05-24 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Military lawyer Paul Terry defends young Lieutenant Brian McCarran, who is accused of shooting his commanding officer, who claimed McCarran was having an affair with his wife.
Download or read book A Question of Honor written by Nita Abrams and published by Zebra Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1813 London, when Wellington and Napoleon are locked in a desperate battle for Spain, Captain Richard Drayton of England's intelligence network has sworn to ferret out a traitor. The Captain suspects his sister's governess, Rachel Maitland Ross, is not what she appears to be. When he is badly wounded and marked for death, and Rachel's true identity is still a mystery, he must trust her if he is to survive.
Download or read book Someone to Honor written by Mary Balogh and published by Berkley Books. This book was released on 2019 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abigail Westcott must contend with the infuriating charms of Gilbert Bennington, the officer who has escorted her wounded brother, Harry, home from the Napoleonic wars.
