Download or read book The Margravine a Story of the Turf written by William George Craven and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Three Cups of Tea written by Greg Mortenson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-03-02 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones and his humanitarian campaign to use education to combat terrorism in the Taliban’s backyard Anyone who despairs of the individual’s power to change lives has to read the story of Greg Mortenson, a homeless mountaineer who, following a 1993 climb of Pakistan’s treacherous K2, was inspired by a chance encounter with impoverished mountain villagers and promised to build them a school. Over the next decade he built fifty-five schools—especially for girls—that offer a balanced education in one of the most isolated and dangerous regions on earth. As it chronicles Mortenson’s quest, which has brought him into conflict with both enraged Islamists and uncomprehending Americans, Three Cups of Tea combines adventure with a celebration of the humanitarian spirit.
Download or read book Among the Maples written by S. A. Jackson and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book From Here written by Luma Mufleh and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2024-05-21 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her coming-of-age memoir, refugee advocate Luma Mufleh writes of her tumultuous journey to reconcile her identity as a gay Muslim woman and a proud Arab-turned-American refugee. Now in paperback. With no word for “gay” in Arabic, Luma may not have known what to call the feelings she had growing up in Jordan during the 1980s, but she knew well enough to keep them secret. It was clear that not only would her family have trouble accepting her, but trapped in a conservative religious society, she could’ve also been killed if anyone discovered her sexuality. Luma spent her teenage years increasingly desperate to find a way out, and finally found one when she was accepted into college in the United States. Once there, Luma begins the agonizing process of applying for political asylum, which ensures her safety—but causes her family to break ties with her. Becoming a refugee in America is a rude awakening, and Luma must rely on the grace of friends and strangers alike as she builds a new life and finally embraces her full self. Slowly, she’s able to forge a new path forward with both her biological and chosen families, eventually founding Fugees Family, a nonprofit dedicated to the education and support of refugee children in the United States. As hopeful as it is heartrending, From Here is a coming-of-age memoir about one young woman’s search for belonging and the many meanings of home for those who must leave theirs.
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Download or read book It Takes a Hero written by Elizabeth Boyle and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rebecca will have to take a page from her own book to keep the dashing Rafe Danvers from spoiling her success. But how does one play hard-to-get with a man one cannot resist? Rebecca Tate never intended to cause a revolution with her notoriously popular Miss Darby novels, merely to earn enough to support herself and her ailing uncle. But now it seems every eligible debutante in London is emulating her spunky heroine and refusing to marry...ever! Still, Rebecca's enjoying her newfound success as Miss Darby's anonymous creator, and she's not about to let anyone interfere—not even the rakishly appealing Raphael Danvers. Having survived the perils of war and espionage, Rafe is less than thrilled by a disgruntled society matron's wish that he unmask the unknown author and halt the scandalous scribblings. The assignment becomes more attractive, however, when the trail leads to the enticing Miss Tate. Suddenly the dashing adventurer can't get enough of the charming troublemaker—and her resorting to some rather Darbyesque trickery to distract him serves only to intensify his desire. But will a rogue's determined pursuit result in a happy romantic ending . . . or lead them both into a dangerous intrigue?
Download or read book Hester s History A Novel Reprinted from All the Year Round written by Hester and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book All the Year Round written by and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Her Lost Words written by Stephanie Marie Thornton and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-03-28 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From A Vindication of the Rights of Woman to Frankenstein, a tale of two literary legends—a mother and daughter—discovering each other and finding themselves along the way, from USA Today bestselling author Stephanie Marie Thornton. 1792. As a child, Mary Wollstonecraft longed to disappear during her father’s violent rages. Instead, she transforms herself into the radical author of the landmark volume A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, in which she dares to propose that women are equal to men. From conservative England to the blood-drenched streets of revolutionary France, Mary refuses to bow to society’s conventions and instead supports herself with her pen until an illicit love affair challenges her every belief about romance and marriage. When she gives birth to a daughter and is stricken with childbed fever, Mary fears it will be her many critics who recount her life’s extraordinary odyssey… 1818. The daughter of infamous political philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft, passionate Mary Shelley learned to read by tracing the letters of her mother’s tombstone. As a young woman, she desperately misses her mother’s guidance, especially following her scandalous elopement with dashing poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. Mary struggles to balance an ever-complicated marriage with motherhood while nursing twin hopes that she might write something of her own one day and also discover the truth of her mother’s unconventional life. Mary’s journey will unlock her mother’s secrets, all while leading to her own destiny as the groundbreaking author of Frankenstein. A riveting and inspiring novel about a firebrand feminist, her visionary daughter, and the many ways their words transformed our world.
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Download or read book Marked In Haste A Story of to day written by Blanche Roosevelt and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-01-23 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Download or read book A Thirst for Empire written by Erika Rappaport and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-28 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the global tea industry influenced the international economy and the rise of mass consumerism Tea has been one of the most popular commodities in the world. Over centuries, profits from its growth and sales funded wars and fueled colonization, and its cultivation brought about massive changes—in land use, labor systems, market practices, and social hierarchies—the effects of which are with us even today. A Thirst for Empire takes a vast and in depth historical look at how men and women—through the tea industry in Europe, Asia, North America, and Africa—transformed global tastes and habits and in the process created our modern consumer society. As Erika Rappaport shows, between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries the boundaries of the tea industry and the British Empire overlapped but were never identical, and she highlights the economic, political, and cultural forces that enabled the British Empire to dominate—but never entirely control—the worldwide production, trade, and consumption of tea. Rappaport delves into how Europeans adopted, appropriated, and altered Chinese tea culture to build a widespread demand for tea in Britain and other global markets and a plantation-based economy in South Asia and Africa. Tea was among the earliest colonial industries in which merchants, planters, promoters, and retailers used imperial resources to pay for global advertising and political lobbying. The commercial model that tea inspired still exists and is vital for understanding how politics and publicity influence the international economy. An expansive and original global history of imperial tea, A Thirst for Empire demonstrates the ways that this fluid and powerful enterprise helped shape the contemporary world.
Download or read book Better Than Coffee written by Dr. Shon Shree Lewis and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2019-02-08 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For all you coffee and tea lovers, this book is a heartwarming love story of a family, once divided by anger, brokenness, and shame from a history of unhealthy addictions, who recovers with God's healing. These family and friends meet regularly trying to resolve their troubles over "Coffee Talk," learn later, that although coffee provides them with temporary comfort, God becomes their ultimate comfort, for every walk of their lives. Over time, these family and friends learn to reprioritize their way of living as God's healing begins to rebuild and establish new relationships in their lives. Although they are still able to enjoy their family and friends' get-togethers, having "coffee talks" "tea talks" become a fun way to share their happiness as they learn how to get free from unhealthy addictions, brokenness, or despair in their lives from God's help and the support of one another. Although the characters are fictional, the power of God and Christianity is real. May each reader be inspired to love God and enjoy coffee or tea, and to share their blessings and life's adventures with their loved ones. LEXICAL EVALUATION: "Glad to have found this book. Truly, it's a can't put down book. The author's writing is pretty standard. There were easy to discern words and readers would be able to understand the Christian Relationship entailed in this book. There isn't any Lexical contempt in her writing". --Sarah Clark Wilson (Authors Press Senior Literary Book Scout)
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