Download or read book Saving Soraya written by Deborah Guttentag and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nomi, with her English family, explores the mysterious behavior of their French country cottage landlords, and discovers Soraya, a Jewish-Iranian girl hiding in a barn.
Download or read book Soraya and the Mermaid written by Salima Alikhan and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-06 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's not easy being the weirdest kid in fourth grade. Soraya finds her escape reading comic books about a space superhero who saves the day. But everything changes when Soraya's class goes on a field trip to an aquarium. Is that really a mermaid in the big tank, talking to Soraya and asking for her help? Can Soraya rise to the occasion and save the day like her superhero idol?
Download or read book Soraya written by Soraya and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2007-09-12 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From the moment I met Soraya I knew she was a winner, an amazingly talented and beautiful woman with something very spe-cial. Her total dedication in everything she did and her selfless efforts to help others were and still are an inspiration not only to those of us who have had the privilege to be around her, but also to the thousands of people who still maintain her name and mission. Soraya's courage to face every challenge is something that I will never forget . . . her words of hope and her music will live on in our souls." --Ricky Martin "Sometimes in life you meet someone special, and you know in that moment that they have a greater view on life . . . Soraya was one of those people. She remains a strong and positive memory for me." --Bob Waldron, President, Yoplait USA "Soraya's music is infinitely intimate and precious, crafted and executed with the love and care of an artisan. There are few complete artists, but Soraya is one of them-- a composer, guitarist, producer, arranger, and singer with a particularly emotive voice. The measure of her worth in the eyes of the music industry was obvious during the 2004 Latin Grammys, when she won the Grammy for the newly created Best Singer-Songwriter category, besting icons like Juan Gabriel, Serrat, and Leon Gieco. Many will remember Soraya as a spokesperson, an educator, and a source of inspiration for so many people who battle cancer. Yet her most lasting legacy is the one she continues to transmit through her songs, her music, and her guitar." --Leila Cobo, Billboard?magazine
Download or read book Soraya written by Taraneh Saba and published by Covenant Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soraya was a thirteen-year-old runaway from her foster home when she met KC, a human trafficker who took her under his wings and pretended to love her, only to force her into prostitution. Soraya endured much abuse in the hands of her clients and KC, who would severely beat her every time she tried to leave that life. After five years of torturous life, when Soraya turned eighteen, she finally left KC. That is when he tracked her down and shot her five times in the chest at close range. Soraya, however, survived and testified at KC’s trial. The book also describes Soraya’s life after the trial and her tenuous relationship with her mother, who had been in prison while Soraya was growing up.
Download or read book Saving Sorya written by Nguyen Thi Thu Trang and published by Macmillan Children's Books. This book was released on 2023-06-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2023 Carnegie Medal for Illustration Based on a true story, this Eisner-nominated middle grade graphic novel tells the story of a young conservationist who overcomes the odds to save a sun bear. When endlessly curious Chang discovers a bear farm near her home in Vietnam, she decides to do everything she can to save wild animals by becoming a conservationist. After teaching herself survival skills and learning all she can about the rainforest, Chang is finally accepted as a rescue centre volunteer. Her toughest challenge yet comes when she makes a vow to return Sorya - the sun bear she raised from infancy - back into the wild. Because despite being a different species, Sorya is Chang's best friend. And letting a friend go is never easy, even when it's the right thing to do. Written by scientist and environmental activist Trang Nguyen, with stunning artwork by Jeet Zdung and STEM facts galore, Chang's daring story is for any young reader, animal lover, or intrepid explorer who's ready for adventure!
Download or read book The Carpetbaggers of Kabul and Other American Afghan Entanglements written by Jennifer L. Fluri and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2017-01-15 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2001 invasion of Afghanistan by United States and coalition forces was followed by a flood of aid and development dollars and “experts” representing well over two thousand organizations—each with separate policy initiatives, geopolitical agendas, and socioeconomic interests. This book examines the everyday actions of people associated with this international effort, with a special emphasis on small players: individuals and groups who charted alternative paths outside the existing networks of aid and development. This focus highlights the complexities, complications, and contradictions at the intersection of the everyday and the geopolitical, showing how dominant geopolitical narratives influence daily life in places like Afghanistan—and what happens when the goals of aid workersor the needs of aid recipients do not fit the narrative. Specifically, this book examines the use of gender, “need,” and grief as drivers for both common and exceptional responses to geopolitical interventions.Throughout this work, Jennifer L. Fluri and Rachel Lehr describe intimate encounters at a microscale to complicate and dispute the ways in which Afghans and their country have been imagined, described, fetishized, politicized, vilified, and rescued. The authors identify the ways in which Afghan men and women have been narrowly categorized as perpetrators and victims, respectively. They discuss several projects to show how gender and grief became forms of currency that were exchanged for different social, economic, and political opportunities. Such entanglements suggest the power and influence of the United States while illustrating the ways in which individuals and groups have attempted to chart alternative avenues of interaction, intervention, and interpretation.
Download or read book The Stoning of Soraya M written by Freidoune Sahebjam and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-04-27 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soraya M.’s husband, Ghorban-Ali, couldn’t afford to marry another woman. Rather than returning Soraya’s dowry, as custom required before taking a second wife, he plotted with four friends and a counterfeit mullah to dispose of her. Together, they accused Soraya of adultery. Her only crime was cooking for a friend’s widowed husband. Exhausted by a lifetime of abuse and hardship, Soraya said nothing, and the makeshift tribunal took her silence as a confession of guilt. They sentenced her to death by stoning: a punishment prohibited by Islam but widely practiced. Day by day—sometimes minute by minute—Sahebjam deftly recounts these horrendous events, tracing Soraya’s life with searing immediacy, from her arranged marriage and the births of her children to her husband’s increasing cruelty and her horrifying execution, where, by tradition, her father, husband, and sons hurled the first stones. A stark look at the intersection between culture and justice, this is one woman’s story, but it stands for the stories of thousands of women who suffered—and continue to suffer—the same fate. It is a story that must be told.
Download or read book Rage Becomes Her written by Soraya Chemaly and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ***A BEST BOOK OF 2018 SELECTION*** NPR * The Washington Post * Book Riot * Autostraddle * Psychology Today ***A BEST FEMINIST BOOK SELECTION*** Refinery 29, Book Riot, Autostraddle, BITCH Rage Becomes Her is an “utterly eye opening” (Bustle) book that gives voice to the causes, expressions, and possibilities of female rage. As women, we’ve been urged for so long to bottle up our anger, letting it corrode our bodies and minds in ways we don’t even realize. Yet there are so, so many legitimate reasons for us to feel angry, ranging from blatant, horrifying acts of misogyny to the subtle drip, drip drip of daily sexism that reinforces the absurdly damaging gender norms of our society. In Rage Becomes Her, Soraya Chemaly argues that our anger is not only justified, it is also an active part of the solution. We are so often encouraged to resist our rage or punished for justifiably expressing it, yet how many remarkable achievements would never have gotten off the ground without the kernel of anger that fueled them? Approached with conscious intention, anger is a vital instrument, a radar for injustice and a catalyst for change. On the flip side, the societal and cultural belittlement of our anger is a cunning way of limiting and controlling our power—one we can no longer abide. “A work of great spirit and verve” (Time), Rage Becomes Her is a validating, energizing read that will change the way you interact with the world around you.
Download or read book The Mismatch written by Sara Jafari and published by Dell. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A kiss is never just a kiss in The Mismatch, a cross-generational story about love, family, faith, and finding yourself. “Enlightening, poignant, and romantic . . . The Mismatch transported me back to that feeling of first love and first heartbreak.”—Sophie Cousens, New York Times bestselling author of This Time Next Year Now that Soraya Nazari has graduated from university, she thinks it’s time to get some of the life experience she feels she’s lacking, partly due to her strict upbringing—and Magnus Evans seems like the perfect way to get it. Where she’s the somewhat timid, artistic daughter of Iranian immigrants, Magnus is the quintessential British lad. They have little in common, so there’s no way Soraya could ever fall for him. What’s the harm in having some fun as she navigates her postgrad life? And he could give her some distance from her increasingly complicated home life, where things are strained by her father’s struggles, her mother’s unhappiness and her eldest sister’s estrangement under a vague cloud of shame fifteen years earlier. Distracting herself with Magnus is easy at first. But just as Soraya realizes there’s more to Magnus than she thought, long-buried secrets, and hard questions, begin to surface—will any of her relationships survive the truth coming out? Moving between modern-day London and revolutionary Iran, The Mismatch is a gorgeously written coming-of-age story that follows a young woman as she finds love in a most unexpected place, and a path in life amid two different cultures.
Download or read book Starlight Stables Saving Starlight Book 4 written by Soraya Nicholas and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poppy’s world is falling apart. Her aunt and uncle have had an ominous visit from the bank and they have lost an important riding sponsor. It means they might have to sell Starlight Stables. Could Poppy be about to lose everything – her beloved Starlight Stables, her beautiful horse Crystal, her friends Milly and Katie. And will her aunt have to give up her Olympic dreams? Poppy is determined to do everything she can to help. She just has to win the upcoming show-jumping competition so she can give them the prize money. But it means she will have to jump higher than she ever has before to save everything she loves. An exciting and enjoyable Australian series about the friendship and adventures of three horse-crazy girls.
Download or read book Palace of Solitude written by Princess Soraya and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Day of Darkness written by Suzannah Rowntree and published by Bocfodder Press. This book was released on 2020-12-03 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All John Bessarion wants is to find his way home…but first he must fight his way past crusaders, djinn, and one deadly immortal assassin… Tripoli, 1289: Trapped by black magic in a hostile future, John Bessarion is determined to find his way back to a home and family that desperately need him. Yet when his quest leads him to a city trembling on the brink of destruction, John discovers that not everyone in this strange future has forgotten his name…or the terrible things he’s already done to protect his people. A djinn enslaved to an immortal assassin, Soraya fears she will never be anything more than a killer. Sent to infiltrate and betray a city under siege, she is helpless to subvert her mission until she stumbles across a face from her long-forgotten past. John and Soraya join forces to save the city, only to attract the attention of opposing sides in an ancient battle of evil against evil. Yet the greatest danger they face might not be the demons struggling for control of Tripoli...but the secrets buried in both their pasts. Is there any way home for killers like them? A Day of Darkness is Book 3 in the critically acclaimed Watchers of Outremer series (though it can be read as a standalone). City of Brass fans will love this stunning historical fantasy featuring time travel, palace intrigue, and immortal assassins! Experience the bloody twilight of the medieval crusader kingdoms—pick up A Day of Darkness today.
Download or read book Angoleth s Heir written by Meagan Poetschlag and published by Wheatmark, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-10-09 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life in New York City is already crazy enough. But for Soraya, the normal stress of a high school senior is only enhanced tenfold when she suddenly begins to lose control of an ability she never truly understood. Heightened emotions trigger something inside Soraya that wants to show itself. A part of Soraya bubbling beneath the skin surface. Only a magical bracelet keeps her from becoming something... inhuman. Or, maybe fate has other plans. Perhaps Soraya is not supposed to be a human at all. Rescued and mesmerized by a young man with crimson wings, Soraya suddenly wakes up on the other side of a portal to a parallel world—Angoleth—a place where dragons and magic rule the land. Not just any magic, however. Dark magic is making Angoleth's residents suffer. Can Soraya handle the truth of who and what she really is? Will it help her gain the control she needs or only leave her burning with even more questions and desires? To solve her problems at home, she will first have to dive deep into the troubles and dangers of a land she knows nothing about. A realm that could easily devour her whole. Is Soraya the heir Angoleth has been waiting for?
Download or read book Body Kindness written by Rebecca Scritchfield and published by Workman Publishing Company. This book was released on 2016-12-27 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine a graph with two lines. One indicates happiness, the other tracks how you feel about your body. If you’re like millions of people, the lines do not intersect. But what if they did? This practical, inspirational, and visually lively book shows you how to create a healthier and happier life by treating yourself with compassion rather than shame. It shows the way to a sense of well-being attained by understanding how to love, connect, and care for yourself—and that includes your mind as well as your body. Body Kindness is based on four principles. WHAT YOU DO: the choices you make about food, exercise, sleep, and more HOW YOU FEEL: befriending your emotions and standing up to the unhelpful voice in your head WHO YOU ARE: goal-setting based on your personal values WHERE YOU BELONG: body-loving support from people and communities that help you create a meaningful life With mind and body exercises to keep your energy spiraling up and prompts to help you identify what YOU really want and care about, Body Kindness helps you let go of things you can't control and embrace the things you can by finding the workable, daily steps that fit you best. Think of it as the anti-diet book that leads to a more joyful and meaningful life!
Download or read book The Little Book of Cord and Candle Magick written by Soraya Conway and published by Waverley Books Limited. This book was released on 2015-09-16 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new book of spells from Soraya that uses candles and cords. Cord and candle magick are a symbolic weaving together of our magickal intentions and they are also a way of storing magick and then releasing it. In this book Soraya gives guidance on how to use the cords and candles for spells for things such as achievement, balance, career, concentration, justice, restful sleep and many other important aims.
Download or read book Starlight Stables Barmah Brumbies BK6 written by Soraya Nicholas and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2018-01-02 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poppy, Milly and Katie are thrilled when they find out they’re off to Barmah National Park on a five-day trail ride. Visiting Storm’s home country, camping out, and maybe even seeing brumbies in the wild are just some of the exciting adventures the girls have to look forward to. But will another of Milly's reckless ideas lose them the chance of a lifetime?
Download or read book Hannah and Soraya s Fully Magic Generation Y Snowflake Road Trip across America written by James Ward and published by Cool Millennium. This book was released on 2020-09-21 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hannah and Soraya are in the business of making rock music with a social conscience. The way Britain currently works, that means they’re ‘snowflakes’, ‘social justice warriors’, ‘virtue signallers’. They’ve learned to live with the mudslinging, but not happily. Worse than that. It's starting to overwhelm them. Then, out of the blue, they suffer a string of personal and professional crises. Their solution? A change of scene designed to keep the lid on a looming family cataclysm and draw artistic inspiration from the pre-musical roots of rock (but without the Beats’ misogyny, plus in an eco-friendly car). Hannah and Soraya’s Fully Magic Generation-Y *Snowflake* Road Trip across America is about the value of family, friendship, human mortality, the siren call of social media, celebrity vs. anonymity, creative integrity, true love, drugs ‘n’ alcohol, literature, sexuality, the ‘special relationship’, what it means to be a millennial, what kind of world Generation Y is set to inherit, the very meaning of life itself in the 21st century. Amongst other things.
