... was a ghost of a girl when she arrived into foster mother Maggie Hartley's care. Pale, frail and withdrawn, it was clear to Maggie that Ruth had seen and experienced things that no 11-year-old should have to, that she ...
... at your body and fire shoots out of your eyeballs. In Girl on a Wire , Libby is candid about her experience and ... Westboro Baptist Church until she was twenty-five years old. She's participated in a BBC documentary titled ...
... to legal residents of the U.S. who are 18 years of age or older as of June 30th, 2009. Contest ends June 30th ... 11:59 PM, (EDT), June 30, 2009, by emailing bpgmarketing@randomhouse.com with the subject line "Idiot Girl" ...
... , as she tries to answer the big question: would it all change her, or would she stay that same old girl? 'A relatable read by a phenomenal writer' THE FACE 'There's no mistaking the writing of Sylvia Patterson' SUNDAY ...
... May 2006. At age thirty-three ("going on eighty"), Coste was finally heading to the big time. "The 33-Year-Old Rookie" is a real-life Rocky, an unforgettable and inspirational story of one man's unwavering pursuit of a ...
... and Tina's two children, thirteen-year-old Sarah and eleven-year-old Kody. Investigators began scouring the ... more astonishing-a compelling tribute to a young girl's resilience and courage and to her fierce determination ...
Is extrasensory perception - E.S.P - real? Can certain individuals tap into a running stream of cranial activity from the very future itself? Can such a person engage in such tremendously overwhelming action and not be ...
... -year-old Symphony, teenage motorcycle-loving Muscles, elegant Linda, forthright Judas and eight-year-old ... would see many understand MPD for the first time. THE GIRL IN THE GREEN DRESS is an unforgettable memoir from a ...
... back the curtain on life as a female butcher. When 16-year-old Jessica Wragg applied for a job at the local farm shop ... and bone and tendon, while battling sexism and ageism. Girl on the Block is a fish-out-of-water story ...
... of Auschwitz . In January of 1943, fourteen-year-old Basha Anush and her family were dragged from ... -and-a-half years of abuse, a death march into Germany, and months of roaming with other homeless girls when the Third ...
... determined to find the answer. Shunned by her mother, ten-year-old Grace has spent most of her childhood in care, moving ... but what is the key to saving Grace? The Girl with the Suitcase is the seventh book from well-loved ...
... Korcula off the coast near Split in the country now known as Croatia. At 18 years of age she agrees to a proxy marriage to a 27-year-old sugarcane farmer in Far North Queensland who had left the village as a small child ...
... reels in her prey, a "full-grown man," fourteen-year-old Kathy is headed for trouble. One cold, raw March ... their transgressions--and she did. And yet...this young girl, as scrappy a protagonist as any in our literature, ...
... to dream, plan and take action. I'm an ordinary girl who simply refused to give up on a dream, and that ... Alyssa Azar is unstoppable. When she was just eight years old, she walked the gruelling Kokoda Track, the youngest ...
... spent several years after Casey's suicide trying to understand what led his seventeen-year-old daughter to take ... have been helped if someone had recognized this. The Girl Behind the Door is an important book for parents, ...
... 'Guilty, your Honour.' That killer is Mary K. Pershall's beloved daughter Anna. She is twenty-eight years old, tall and beautiful, with an effervescent wit and a university degree in psychology. She also hears the voices ...
... , would that same mother later leave her ten year old daughter in a cruel convent home for unwed mothers ... by holding her fears and feelings within. 'The Laundry Girl' story is one of great courage, resilience and strength, ...
... an eternity, but eventually, the heavy doors opened, directly into the chaos inside. Sara Leibovitz, a 16-year-old Jewish girl, was a passenger on the train with her family. They spent their final moments together on the ...
... humour, Amanda takes us into her life as nine-year-old Miles gets his first flock, Reuben takes up the ... flugelhorn and she gives birth to a new baby girl. She is ...
... whose tragic death at only twenty-two years old shocked the entertainment world and solidified her ... opening, moving, and as unforgettable as its subject, Baby Girl is a necessary read for anyone who has been touched by ...
... a doctor she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi to McLean Hospital. She spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital that was as renowned ...
Twenty-two-year-old Wendy Doniger arrived in Calcutta in August 1963 on a scholarship to study Sanskrit and Bengali. It was her first visit to the country. Over the coming year--a lot of it spent in Tagore's ...
... with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to ... spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital renowned for its ...
... One of the most famous accounts of living under the Nazi regime comes from the diary of a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl, Anne Frank. Edited by her father Otto H. Frank and German novelist Mirjam Pressler, this is a true ...
... Drinking. Drugs. Happening at the speed of light. Seventeen-year old Laura, quaking within her skin while the bursting punk rock ... Social Aspects of Disabilities Social Groups Gender Studies Gender Studies: Women and Girls
... never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital to be treated for depression. She spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital ...
... childhood. A heartbreaking journey. The extraordinary true story of surviving the unimaginable... In 1945, seven-year-old Barbie and her sister Eva were trapped, terrified, in war-torn Germany. With their father missing ...
... essays range from a childhood in war-torn Iran, including the trauma of a night spent in prison as a six-year-old, to learning English so she could make friends, to dating in the days of Corona. This is about growing up ...
... it was going to be you.' I am Lex Gracie: but they call me Girl A . I grew up with my family on the moors. I escaped when I was fifteen years old. NOW SOMETHING IS PULLING ME BACK RIGHTS SOLD IN 36 TERRITORIES SOON TO BE ...
The new fostering memoir from the Sunday Times bestselling author Casey Watson Six-year-old Amelie lives with her mother, Kelly, who suffers from bipolar disorder. After Kelly attempts to burn down their family house, it ...
... belief that didn't change even when, holding their week-old son, she sat in court and watched him face charges for ... she agreed. At seventeen years old, she became a wife. Over the next nine years, Caroline's identity and ...
... continues to ravage the Middle East, The Girl Who Escaped Isis provides an astonishing perspective on ... the Yazidi community in Kocho, Iraq. She was 19 years old when ISIS attacked her village, killed the men, captured ...
In 1954, in a remote mountain village in South America, a little girl was abducted. She was four years old. Marina Chapman was stolen from her housing estate and then abandoned deep in the Colombian jungle. That she ...
... Volner (as she was then known), barely thirty years old and in charge of some of the most important ... the power of justice and the rule of law, The Watergate Girl is a revelation about our country, our politics, and our ...
... tattoo. The unforgettable, moving true story of the little girl who survived Auschwitz's 'Angel of Death', Dr Mengele. Lidia was just three years old when she arrived in Auschwitz-Birkenau with her mother, a ...
... sees it. She's kind of an Everygirl. The Anti-Cool Girl that we all want to be. She's funny, honest and ... Author Rosie Waterland is a media phenomenon. Only 25 years old, she rose to fame in 2014 with her laugh- ...
... had been at Denver House for just three weeks when an older girl asked if she'd like to go to a party, then ... protect her, the horrific abuse continued for the next few years, even after she left the unit. But in her heart ...
... much about what had happened to the twenty-four-year-old: she was a Craigslist escort who had been fleeing ... advertised on Craigslist and its competitor, Backpage. Lost Girls is a portrait of the victims of the Long ...
... call to Crime Stoppers led to an identification. Two-year-old Khandalyce Pearce had left Alice Springs in 2008 with her ... down the perpetrator, who not only killed the girls but stole the young mother's identity to defraud ...
... as possible - without being lectured or patronised. After all, as the 81-year old Vogue magazine cover star, actress Jane Fonda says, 'Older women are the fastest growing demographic in the world. It's time to recognise ...
In 2005, Chloe Higgins was seventeen years old. She and her mother, Rhonda, stayed home so that she could revise ... and travels the world for three months per year. The Girls , a memoir of family, grief and sexuality ...
... -gallon drum for my stove and a shower rose and a bucket in a tree for the bathroom!' When 22-year-old Jenny Old followed her heart to the vastness of the Gulf of Carpentaria, she had no idea of the primitive conditions ...
... to heal her shame. She could start to recover by uncovering the secrets she had kept hidden for years. Blackout Girl is the heartbreaking, enlightening, and inspiring story of Jennifer's narrow escape from her own self ...
... schizophrenia. When they got word that four 24-year-old identical quadruplets in Lansing, Michigan, had all been ... study, their sterling image did not falter. Girls and Their Monsters chronicles the extraordinary lives of ...
... Female Athlete Project. When Chloe Dalton was eight years old, she would kick a rugby ball around the ... , she replied matter-of-factly, 'Girls don't play rugby.' Sixteen years later, Chloe Dalton won Olympic gold playing ...
... in Provence is the much-loved account of an English couple living their dream abroad. When they buy a 200-year-old farmhouse in the South of France, Peter Mayle and his wife little expect the delights that await them - ...
... abroad a reality: throwing caution to the wind, they bought a glorious two hundred year-old farmhouse in the Lub ron Valley and began a new life. In a year that begins with a marathon lunch and continues with a host of ...
... , inspirational figures from the world of science, art, math, literature, philosophy and comedy. Eight-year-old Quinn, a young boy with Asperger's Syndrome, tells young readers about the achievements and characteristics ...
When Peter Larson, a 44 year old principal at an architectural firm decides to leave his job to restart his family's seventh generation farm near Ithaca, New York, he encounters doubting ghosts of his former self, ...
... of the continent lay in ruins, his country was shamed and the 'thousand years' came to a fiery end. Others experienced worse, but for a ten-year-old with explosions all about him and with the world seeming to be burning ...
... 's parents began taking him to their local Scientology centre when he was five years old. After high school, he signed a billion-year contract and was admitted into Scientology's elite inner circle, the Sea Organization ...
... thousand women and children, were imprisoned by the Japanese in Ambararwa Prison Camp. Two years later, in February 1944, when Jan was 21 years old, her life was torn apart when, with nine other young women, all of them ...
... sufferers, I stood alone in front of the shambles of my life which had stopped when I was seventeen years old and from which nothing could be salvaged or repaired." We are grateful that Schupack confided his memories to ...
... d changed it to protect her from the "nosy old biddies" who might try to discover her identity. ... Girl With Three Birthdays tells the story of an adoptee who always believed she was the answer to a couple's seventeen-year ...
... everyone knows what you mean. But 9/11 wasn't the only momentous event that year. In Australia a group of orange- ... that happened fourteen years later in 1915. It is easier to animate young men dying than old men signing a ...
... out what their lives were like and how the attack of September 11, 2001 changed their lives. In the stories that emerge we ... Gender Studies Gender Studies: Women and Girls Politics & Government Political Activism Terrorism ...
... events. She writes about Germany after 9/11, about her work on her last great book City of Angels , and also about her exhausting confrontation with old age. One Day a Year is a compelling and personal glimpse into the ...
... It's a marvel.' Richard Glover The Anti Cool Girl was shortlisted for the 2016 Indie Book Awards and for ... the 2016 ABIA Awards for Biography of the Year, and in addition was the Winner of the 2016 ABIA ...
... , Sarah Malik came of age in the shadow of September 11. At the age of twenty, she moved out of home ... experiments in the world of 'wellness' and therapy. Desi Girl explores the power of writing from the margins, and how ...
... was 15 when she lied to get a junior office job as a Girl Friday in 1975 - she took the job because she thought she only ... About the Author Kristine Philipp is an unemployable old punk. She graduated with BA Hons in cinema ...
... experiences as a pioneer. Written for an older audience, Pioneer Girl is her first-person narrative of the ... to Dakota Territory over a sixteen-year period. Using revised Pioneer Girl manuscripts edited by Wilder’s daughter ...
... author's nearly four years in the 3rd United States Infantry Regiment--a.k.a. "The Old Guard" or "Escort to ... Inauguration to the recovery efforts following the September 11 attacks. Author: Mark Joseph Mongilutz. Format: ...
... and unlikely feminist whose power is still felt today When Marilyn Monroe stepped over a subway grating as The Girl in The Seven Year Itch and let a gust of wind catch the skirt of her pleated white dress, an icon was ...
... lived off the land on his own for 60 years, quietly doing jobs for farmers without being asked. ... long line and a small hook baited with bread, and the little girl who swallowed a sapphire she found on the side of the road ...
... them like a boy. This meant taking risks: playing on the old mine poppet heads, climbing rooftops and roaming around on my bike. I ... me. Nor did I let attendance at a private girls' school and the local church rein me in. ...
... A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 'Women's sports have needed a manifesto for a long time. With Good for a Girl we finally have one' Malcolm Gladwell Lauren Fleshman was of the most ...
... War II. As you climbed the rickety stairs of an old woolshed at Sydney harbour in 1944, you would hear the ... Mrs Mac', one of Australia's wartime legends. A smart girl from a poor mining town who loved to play with her ...
... a guide to keep you alive. Like the grimoires of old, full of life-saving wisdom, these pages record the things ... to infuse magic into daily life, Grimoire Girl also includes bewitching illustrations and practical ways you ...
... the good of us all? In A Good Time to be a Girl , Helena Morrissey sets out how we might achieve the next big ... in 2016. She was appointed CBE in the 2012 New Year's Honours list for her contribution to the role of women in ...
... Book Of The Year Award * A Financial Times Best Sports Book of 2023 Fueled by her years as an elite ... of their age. Written with heart and verve, Good for a Girl is Fleshman's story of falling in love with running, being ...
... of separation, led her back to her mother. The Little Girl Who Could Not Cry is a moving memoir of survival but, ... story in the Auschwitz museum, which she visits every year. It was also the focus of a documentary by ...
... every minute of it. Sonia spent the next two years working in some of the remotest parts of the ... the country she calls home. Put Your Feet in the Dirt, Girl is a modern outback medical memoir full of heart, energy, ...
... community groups. Jessica plans on launching a talk show in the next year, as well as a clothing line for plus-sized teens and adults entitled CURVY GIRL. Jessica has reached more than 1,000,000 people with her creative ...
... the first tiny whisper. A voice that would carry me for years to come. 'I'm going to be ok. There's ... , she fell from 14,000 feet and survived. In The Girl Who Fell From the Sky Emma tells us the inspirational story ...
... foreign policy in support of Hitler; and the shocking four-year affair between socialite Unity Mitford and Adolf Hitler. Eye-opening and instructive, Hitler’s Girl re-evaluates 1930s England to help us understand our own ...
... by an older man, which carved a direct path into the Irish sex trade, where she remained for several years until finally ... bedded in true understanding and compassion. Any Girl is a ferociously honest, intensely tender and ...
Happy Old Me is a moving yet uplifting account of one year in Hunter Davies' life, navigating bereavement and finding hope in the future. On 8th February 2016, Margaret Forster lost her life to cancer of the spine. The ...
... rise to the top in a man's world, Laker Girl is an unprecedented glimpse into the glamorous world of the ... -scenes journal of the 2009-10 Lakers season, a year in which the franchise captured its 16th world championship. ...
... Allende relata qu ocurri durante esa fat dica semana. El martes 11 de septiembre la autora de este libro parti en su autom vil ... impact al mundo entero. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Fifty years after the coup, Salvador Allende's ...
... text or the most important meeting of your career, your Girl Logic serves a purpose: It helps push you, question ... Hot (2015), Confirmed Kills (2016), and Iliza: Elder Millennial (2018). She is the creator and star of ...
... uncomfortable as it might be to face, her future. In Old Rage , one of Britain's best loved actors opens up ... bestseller and won the British Book Award for Author of the Year. Her memoir of her widowhood, Just Me , also a ...
... one of its greatest glories when obtained the gold medal in the London 2012 Olympic Games. Without a doubt, My ideal 11 has the necessary magic to put you on track to achieve your own goals. Author: Oribe Peralta. Format ...
... Her fifth novel, Swimming Home , won The Courier-Mail 2016 People's Choice Queensland book of the Year Award. Mary-Rose lives in Brisbane, Australia with her husband and son. Author: Mary-Rose MacColl. Format: Paperback ...
... fighting hard for gigs and for her band. As Hanna makes clear, being in a "girl band," especially a punk girl band, in those years was not a simple or safe prospect. Male violence and antagonism threatened at every turn ...
... with her boyfriend when her skull was crushed. A year later, following starless months in a coma and ... 's account and a defiant celebration of imperfection, Broken Girl is a powerful and poetic work of staggering loss and ...
... hard for gigs and for her band. As Hanna makes blindingly clear, being in a ‘girl band’, especially a punk girl band, in those years was not a simple or a safe prospect. Male violence and antagonism threatened at every ...
... hard for gigs and for her band. As Hanna makes blindingly clear, being in a ‘girl band’, especially a punk girl band, in those years was not a simple or a safe prospect. Male violence and antagonism threatened at every ...
... like an outsider, simply labeled as "the deaf girl." And after receiving a cochlear implant at the age ... neither. Supported by her family, particularly her deaf older sister Rachel, Abigail has come to understand that ...
... only happen to other people. YOUR OWN KIND OF GIRL reveals a childhood punctuated by grief, anxiety and compulsion ... Best Female Artist), Rolling Stone Woman of the Year (Contribution to Culture), Logie-nominated actor (for ...
... Jungle (1955) before landing the starring role in The Girl Can't Help It (1956). Mansfield followed this success ... 1957), winning a Golden Globe for New Star of the Year, and starred alongside Cary Grant in Kiss Them for ...
... Girl , Knoop tells her side of the story, revealing how she came to portray the young trans hustler turned literary wunderkind--a persona created by her sister-in-law, Laura Albert, to help sell her books. For six years ...
... to twin boys, George and Harry. But as they grew older, their preferences began to show, and by the age of ... swirl. Before long Georgie was insisting that she was a girl and became distressed that she had to hide who she ...
... . Following the trauma, she dropped out of school, was befriended by an older man and was forced into prostitution aged 16. Over the next six years, she was raped by over 500 men, starved, beaten, and transported around ...
... midst of the miraculous victory at Chancellorsville, "Old Joe Hooker, won't you come out of ... letters, reports, and anecdotes handed down over 150 years. It was a year like no other, filled with exhilaration at the imminent ...
... his Marine Corps buddies) joined the Marines the year after the bombing of Pearl Harbor and from ... Read as sobering history or as high adventure, With the Old Breed is a moving chronicle of action and courage. About The ...
... dried-up art supplies, an old vinyl raincoat. But what Eve discovers isn't just old CDs and outdated clothing, but a ... dig into their past to declutter their future. Year of No Clutter is a deeply inspiring-and frequently ...
... when they overheard her talking to a friend about liking girls. Half an hour later she found herself on the side ... publications about queer topics and more, and spent two years telling her coming-out story as a part of ...
... to former first lady Jackie Kennedy. The next thirteen years of her life were spent in Jackie's service, ... the most famous women of the twentieth century, Jackie's Girl is also a moving personal story of a young woman ...
... chiefs, and Russian priests. She spent fourteen years educating Athabascans, Aleuts, Inuits, and Russians ... Groups Gender Studies Gender Studies: Women and Girls Ethnic Studies Indigenous Peoples Education Teaching Skills ...
... later, she finds she can obliterate the intervening years and return to consider this young woman whom she wanted to forget completely. In writing A Girl's Story , which brings to life her indelible memories of that ...