Download or read book Ordinary Girls written by Jaquira Díaz and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2020-06-16 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the Must-Read Books of 2019 According to O: The Oprah Magazine * Time * Bustle * Electric Literature * Publishers Weekly * The Millions * The Week * Good Housekeeping “There is more life packed on each page of Ordinary Girls than some lives hold in a lifetime.” —Julia Alvarez In this searing memoir, Jaquira Díaz writes fiercely and eloquently of her challenging girlhood and triumphant coming of age. While growing up in housing projects in Puerto Rico and Miami Beach, Díaz found herself caught between extremes. As her family split apart and her mother battled schizophrenia, she was supported by the love of her friends. As she longed for a family and home, her life was upended by violence. As she celebrated her Puerto Rican culture, she couldn’t find support for her burgeoning sexual identity. From her own struggles with depression and sexual assault to Puerto Rico’s history of colonialism, every page of Ordinary Girls vibrates with music and lyricism. Díaz writes with raw and refreshing honesty, triumphantly mapping a way out of despair toward love and hope to become her version of the girl she always wanted to be. Reminiscent of Tara Westover’s Educated, Kiese Laymon’s Heavy, Mary Karr’s The Liars’ Club, and Terese Marie Mailhot’s Heart Berries, Jaquira Díaz’s memoir provides a vivid portrait of a life lived in (and beyond) the borders of Puerto Rico and its complicated history—and reads as electrically as a novel.

Download or read book Ordinary Girl written by Donna Summer and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ordinary Girl is legendary singer-songwriter Donna Summer's delightfully candid memoir about her journey from signing in a Boston church to her unexpected reign as the Queen of Disco, and the tragedy and spiritual rebirth that followed.

Download or read book Three Ordinary Girls written by Tim Brady and published by Citadel Press. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The book's teenage protagonists and their bravery will enthrall young adults, who may find themselves inspired to take up their own causes.” —Washington Post An astonishing World War II story of a trio of fearless female resisters whose youth and innocence belied their extraordinary daring in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands. It also made them the underground’s most invaluable commodity. May 10, 1940. The Netherlands was swarming with Third Reich troops. In seven days it’s entirely occupied by Nazi Germany. Joining a small resistance cell in the Dutch city of Haarlem were three teenage girls: Hannie Schaft, and sisters Truus and Freddie Oversteegen who would soon band together to form a singular female underground squad. Smart, fiercely political, devoted solely to the cause, and “with nothing to lose but their own lives,” Hannie, Truus, and Freddie took terrifying direct action against Nazi targets. That included sheltering fleeing Jews, political dissidents, and Dutch resisters. They sabotaged bridges and railways, and donned disguises to lead children from probable internment in concentration camps to safehouses. They covertly transported weapons and set military facilities ablaze. And they carried out the assassinations of German soldiers and traitors–on public streets and in private traps–with the courage of veteran guerilla fighters and the cunning of seasoned spies. In telling this true story through the lens of a fearlessly unique trio of freedom fighters, Tim Brady offers a fascinating perspective of the Dutch resistance during the war. Of lives under threat; of how these courageous young women became involved in the underground; and of how their dedication evolved into dangerous, life-threatening missions on behalf of Dutch patriots–regardless of the consequences. Harrowing, emotional, and unforgettable, Three Ordinary Girls finally moves these three icons of resistance into the deserved forefront of world history.

Download or read book Ordinary Girl in a Tiara written by Jessica Hart and published by Carina Press. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newly single Caro Cartwright has decided that when it comes to life (and men), ordinary is good. Until her best friend, Princess Lotty, begs her to stage a diversion by masquerading as Prince Philippe of Montluce's latest squeeze…. Playboy Philippe thinks their attempt is doomed. How can he pretend to be in love with someone like Caro, who's so…unglamorous? Then Caro starts winning hearts left, right and center—including his. Can Philippe convince Caro not to settle for normal—but for an extraordinary life as princess of Montluce?

Download or read book CROWNED AN ORDINARY GIRL written by Natasha Oakley and published by Harlequin / SB Creative. This book was released on 2015-01-23 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten years ago, Marianne had no choice but to accept the betrayal of the man she’d devoted everything to. When she saw the press conference for his engagement and realized that he was actually Prince Sebastian II, she couldn’t believe anything about his love had been real. But her failed love affair is a thing of the past now, and Mariannefocuses on her career as a historian. Unfortunately a cruel twist of fate brings him back into her life. Though she can’t help wishing they’d never met, her feelings for him have only grown stronger….

Download or read book An Ordinary Girl written by Betty Neels and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2017-02-13 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ordinary girl. An extraordinary love? Professor James Forsyth is intrigued when he first meets Philomena Selby. She's so shy and kind – he's used to much more demanding women! There was no doubt James is very handsome but Philly knows he has a fiancée and as a plain country girl, she can't hope to match such a glamorous woman. But James has been struck by Philly's inner beauty…and surely she's much more the woman he wants as his wife…? Originally published in 2001.

Download or read book An Ordinary Girl written by Barbara Elsborg and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ash is an ordinary girl, leading an ordinary life, but behind her smile she hides a secret so damning she's sure no one could ever love her. Noah is a war photographer who's come back from Afghanistan with a secret so dark he can't escape its smothering grip. Both need redemption. Ash looks for it by making people happy. Noah seeks it under the whip of a Dom. They're damaged souls, drowning in guilt, unable to escape the legacies of their pasts. Then their worlds collide in an explosion of fireworks so strong it singes not only them, but those around them. It's said love heals all wounds, but sometimes before love enters the heart, the intense fire of passion has to burn a path, lighting the way.

Download or read book Ordinary Girls written by Blair Thornburgh and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2019* *A Booklist Editors' Choice for Books for Youth 2019* Perfect for fans of Sarah Mlynowski and Jenny Han, this heartfelt and humorous contemporary take on Sense and Sensibility follows two sisters—complete opposites—who discover the secrets they’ve been keeping make them more alike than they’d realized. For siblings as different as Plum and Ginny, getting on each other’s nerves is par for the course. But when the family’s finances hit a snag, sending chaos through the house in a way only characters from a Jane Austen novel could understand, a distance grows between them like never before. Plum, a self-described social outcast, finally has something in her life that doesn’t revolve around her dramatic older sister. But what if coming into her own means Plum isn’t there for Ginny when she, struggling with a hard secret of her own, needs her most?

Download or read book Sentiments of an Ordinary Girl written by Alisha Bhupen and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2021-03-06 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all want to belong. Somewhere, maybe to someone. If you find a single moment of relatability while reading Sentiments of an Ordinary Girl and feel less alone for a second, or feel joyous, or even acceptance, then know that you have a friend in me, that there is someone, somewhere on this planet, who cares.

Download or read book No Ordinary Girl written by and published by HP Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When best friends, Cleo, Emma and Rikki find themselves accidentally stranded on a mysterious island something very strange happens. While swimming through an eerie underwater channel, the moon has a magical effect on the water changing the three girls forever. One by one the three friends discover that when they come into contact with water they grow a fishtail and become mermaids! Cleo, Emma and Rikki just want to be normal teenage girls and live normal lives, but as they start to come to terms with their new tails, not to mention their magical powers over H20, they begin to realise that they may never be normal again!

Download or read book The Good Girls written by Sonia Faleiro and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a summer night in 2014, Padma and Lalli went missing from Katra Sadatganj, an eye-blink of a village in western Uttar Pradesh. Hours later they were found hanging in the orchard behind their home. Who they were, and what had happened to them, was already less important than what their disappearance meant to the people left behind. Slipping deftly behind political maneuvering, caste systems and codes of honor in a village in northern India, The Good Girls returns to the scene of their short lives and shameful deaths, and dares to ask: What is the human cost of shame?

Download or read book An Ordinary Wonder written by Buki Papillon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary literary debut about a Nigerian boy's secret intersex identity and his desire to live as a girl. Oto leaves for boarding school with one plan: excel and escape his cruel home. Falling in love with his roommate was certainly not on the agenda, but fear and shame force him to hide his love and true self. Back home, weighed down by the expectations of their wealthy and powerful family, the love of Oto's twin sister wavers and, as their world begins to crumble around them, Oto must make drastic choices that will alter the family's lives for ever. Richly imagined with art, proverbs and folk tales, this moving and modern novel follows Oto through life at home and at boarding school in Nigeria, through the heartbreak of living as a boy despite their profound belief they are a girl, and through a hunger for freedom that only a new life in the United States can offer. An Ordinary Wonder is a powerful coming-of-age story that explores complex desires as well as challenges of family, identity, gender, and culture, and what it means to feel whole.

Download or read book Ordinary Girl Society Groom written by Natasha Oakley and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eloise Lawton has finally found the family she's never known. But now she's cast adrift in the high-society world where there's only one person Eloise can depend on: broodingly handsome Jeremy Norland. As family loyalties and secrets unravel, Eloise realizes that if she falls in love with Jeremy she's in danger of losing everything she's fought so hard to find. Will Eloise have the courage to risk it all?

Download or read book Diary of an Ordinary Woman written by Margaret Forster and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-08-31 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margaret Forster presents the 'edited' diary of a woman, born in 1901, whose life spans the twentieth century. On the eve of the Great War, Millicent King begins to keep her journal and vividly records the dramas of everyday life in a family touched by war, tragedy, and money troubles. From bohemian London to Rome in the 1920s her story moves on to social work and the build-up to another war, in which she drives ambulances through the bombed streets of London. Here is twentieth-century woman in close-up coping with the tragedies and upheavals of women's lives from WWI to Greenham Common and beyond. A triumph of resolution and evocation, this is a beautifully observed story of an ordinary woman's life - a narrative where every word rings true.

Download or read book An Ordinary Girl written by Faye Robinson and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Ordinary Girl By: Faye Robinson Have you ever felt your life spiraling out of control? Or felt as though the trials of ordinary life are too strenuous to handle? You’re not alone. The chaos and insecurities of your life are nothing compared to the power of God, Who has an ultimate plan for you and your journey. In fact, the challenges, obstacles, and hiccups in life are His way of developing you, your soul, and your spirit. An autobiography filled with humor and spiritual force, An Ordinary Girl: My Path to Peace of Mind features honest reflections and real stories from the life of Faye Robinson. She examines her childhood interactions, her own maturation, and her family relationships. Although heartbreaking at times, the reality of Robinson’s life exposes the ways in which the Lord can guide a person through even the darkest of times. As Robinson shares her own experiences, she looks to inspire her readers and help them find their own inner strength and peace.

Download or read book An Ordinary Girl written by LisaMarie M. Atwood and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2022-06-10 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author LisaMarie M. Atwood was born an ordinary girl in an ordinary place and time. But her early home life was anything but ordinary as she lived out her days in the secret reality of childhood sexual abuse. The abuse she endured, the years of difficulty that followed, and God’s ultimate redemption of her experience render her uniquely qualified to share her extraordinary journey of survival and resilience. Hers is the story of Little Miss Much-Afraid, a defenseless child who suffered the despicable cruelty of incest for the first fourteen years of her life. The story winds its way through a confusing childhood fraught with dysfunction and shame, and follows that broken child into adulthood where her invisible wounds and interfering cast-offs take center stage in marriage, parenthood, and life. Within Atwood’s narrative is found a candid and moving account of suffering and salvation, rage and forgiveness, heartache and healing. It is a must-read for all those betrayed and defiled as children, those who feel forgotten and abandoned—left behind to piece through the rubble and the ash of their abuse. Throughout these pages, survivors will see that they are not alone, that the things they suffered are not their fault, and their responses to their suffering are neither uncommon nor unexpected. The story tells of God’s unparalleled provision and points others in the direction of True North, toward the great lover of our souls, who is Christ Jesus ... the One who longs to move in our lives and heal all those harmed by the unspeakable.

Download or read book An Ordinary Girl s Book written by Tina Mack and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-12-29 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In An Ordinary Girls Story a simple girl has taken her life and exposed some of the bare secrets. A collection of thoughts and life messages are outlined to try and help people understand people with borderline personality disorder. Living life with a personality disorder isnt the easiest, but understanding it is even harder for some people. This book will take you right inside the mind and let you see how some thoughts are processed. Exposing how misunderstood one could be. I hope you enjoy my story and my poems.