The Woman with No Name

The Woman with No Name
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Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Total Pages : 336
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ISBN-10 : 9781728270845
ISBN-13 : 1728270847
Rating : 4/5 (45 Downloads)

Synopsis The Woman with No Name by : Audrey Blake

"Resilience, courage, and bravery outshine the enemy is this fast-paced, historical read." — Booklist Older, diminutive, overlooked...she becomes one of the most ferocious and feared espionage agents in the are against the Nazis. World War II London, 1942. Though she survived the bomb that destroyed her home, Yvonne Rudellat's life is over. She's estranged from her husband, her daughter is busy with war work, and Yvonne—older, diminutive, overlooked—has lost all purpose. Until she's offered a chance to remake herself entirely... The war has taken a turn for the worse, and the men in charge are desperate. So, when Yvonne is recruited as Britain's first female sabotage agent, expectations are low. But her tenacity, ability to go unnoticed, and aptitude for explosives set her apart. Soon enough she arrives in occupied France with a new identity, ready to set the Nazi regime ablaze. But there are adversaries on all sides. As Yvonne becomes infamous as the nameless, unstoppable woman who burns the enemy at every turn, she realizes she may lose herself to the urgent needs of the cause... Based on a true story, The Woman With No Name is a gripping story of secrets, spies, and the women behind the Resistance, from USA Today bestselling author Audrey Blake.

The Girl With No Name

The Girl With No Name
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 211
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ISBN-10 : 9781639360994
ISBN-13 : 1639360999
Rating : 4/5 (94 Downloads)

Synopsis The Girl With No Name by : Marina Chapman

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 abandoned deep in the Colombian jungle. That she survived is a miracle. Two days later, half-drugged, terrified, and starving, she came upon a troop of capuchin monkeys. Acting entirely on instinct, she tried to do what they did: copying their actions she slowly learned to fend for herself. So begins the story of her five years among the monkeys, during which time she gradually became feral; lost the ability to speak, lost all inhibition, lost any sense of being human, replacing human society with the social mores her new simian family. But society was eventually to reclaim her. At age ten she was discovered by a pair of hunters who took her to the lawless Colombian city of Cucuta where, in exchange for a parrot, they sold her to a brothel. When she learned that she was to be groomed for prostitution, she made her plans to escape. But her adventure was not over yet... In the vein of Slumdog Millionaire and City of God, this rousing story of a lost child who overcomes the dangers of the wild to finally reclaim her life will astonish readers everywhere.

The Girl With No Name

The Girl With No Name
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Publisher : Bookouture
Total Pages : 375
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781786813831
ISBN-13 : 1786813831
Rating : 4/5 (31 Downloads)

Synopsis The Girl With No Name by : Lisa Regan

All the Women of the Bible

All the Women of the Bible
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Publisher : Zondervan
Total Pages : 324
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ISBN-10 : 0310281512
ISBN-13 : 9780310281511
Rating : 4/5 (12 Downloads)

Synopsis All the Women of the Bible by : Herbert Lockyer

This volume, part of Lockyer's All Series, contains detailed indexing of the life and times of all the women of the Bible.

A Fistful of Icons

A Fistful of Icons
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Publisher : McFarland
Total Pages : 306
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ISBN-10 : 9780786498048
ISBN-13 : 0786498048
Rating : 4/5 (48 Downloads)

Synopsis A Fistful of Icons by : Sue Matheson

After a century of reinvention and, frequently, reinterpretation, Western movies continue to contribute to the cultural understanding of the United States. And Western archetypes remain as important emblems of the American experience, relating a complex and coded narrative about heroism and morality, masculinity and femininity, westward expansion and technological progress, and assimilation and settlement. In this collection of new essays, 21 contributors from around the globe examine the "cowboy cool" iconography of film and television Westerns--from bounty hunters in buckskin jackets to denizens of seedy saloons and lonely deserts, from Cecil B. DeMille and John Ford to Steve McQueen and Budd Boetticher, Jr.

The Feminine Mystique

The Feminine Mystique
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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages : 587
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ISBN-10 : 9780393322576
ISBN-13 : 0393322572
Rating : 4/5 (76 Downloads)

Synopsis The Feminine Mystique by : Betty Friedan

The book that changed the consciousness of a country—and the world. Landmark, groundbreaking, classic—these adjectives barely describe the earthshaking and long-lasting effects of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique. This is the book that defined "the problem that has no name," that launched the Second Wave of the feminist movement, and has been awakening women and men with its insights into social relations, which still remain fresh, ever since. A national bestseller, with over 1 million copies sold.

The Bride with No Name

The Bride with No Name
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Publisher : Silhouette
Total Pages : 213
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ISBN-10 : 9781426820472
ISBN-13 : 142682047X
Rating : 4/5 (72 Downloads)

Synopsis The Bride with No Name by : Marie Ferrarella

From the moment he pulled the unconscious woman from the sea, Trevor Marlowe knew his life would never be the same. But even the celebrated restaurateur couldn't have predicted how passionately he'd fall for his beautiful, mysterious mermaid. Even if she couldn't tell him who she was. She couldn't remember her life before the compeling stranger rescued her. She only knew that this kind, sexy man who called her Venus made her feel as if she were the most special woman in the world. He made her believe they had a future together—even if she had no clue about her past….

The Woman Warrior

The Woman Warrior
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 226
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ISBN-10 : 9780307759337
ISBN-13 : 0307759334
Rating : 4/5 (37 Downloads)

Synopsis The Woman Warrior by : Maxine Hong Kingston

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An exhilarating blend of autobiography and mythology, of world and self, of hot rage and cool analysis. First published in 1976, it has become a classic in its innovative portrayal of multiple and intersecting identities—immigrant, female, Chinese, American. • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER “A classic, for a reason.” —Celeste Ng, bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere and Our Missing Hearts, via Twitter As a girl, Kingston lives in two confounding worlds: the California to which her parents have immigrated and the China of her mother’s “talk stories.” The fierce and wily women warriors of her mother’s tales clash jarringly with the harsh reality of female oppression out of which they come. Kingston’s sense of self emerges in the mystifying gaps in these stories, which she learns to fill with stories of her own. A warrior of words, she forges fractured myths and memories into an incandescent whole, achieving a new understanding of her family’s past and her own present.

Song Yet Sung

Song Yet Sung
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 376
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ISBN-10 : 1594489726
ISBN-13 : 9781594489723
Rating : 4/5 (26 Downloads)

Synopsis Song Yet Sung by : James McBride

A tale set against a backdrop of slave rights conflicts in the nineteenth-century Chesapeake Bay region finds young runaway Liz Spocott inadvertently inspiring a slave breakout from the attic prison of a notorious slave thief who vengefully calls slave catcher Denwood Long out of retirement. 100,000 first printing.

Portrait of a Shadow

Portrait of a Shadow
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Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Total Pages : 151
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ISBN-10 : 9781250863287
ISBN-13 : 1250863287
Rating : 4/5 (87 Downloads)

Synopsis Portrait of a Shadow by : Meriam Metoui

A missing sister. A mysterious boy. And a painting that holds the truth beneath its peeling edge... Inez is missing, but missing things can always be found. Mae knows this as a fact, even though the police investigation has come to a standstill, even though her parents are moving on. But when she goes to clear out her older sister’s studio, she finds a mess of research and a white canvas that seems even older than the ornate frame it is set in. The closer Mae gets to the canvas, the more difficult it is to pull her eyes away from its mottled surface, its heavy layers of white paint, its peeling top corner she is tempted to pull to see what’s beneath. But she doesn’t. Not yet. Mae decides to trace her sister’s last steps in the hopes of finding answers, certain that Inez’s disappearance is related to the painting. And she knows she is desperate enough to let the strange boy who claims to have been Inez’s neighbor tag along. Even if his good looks don't help distract from his avoidance of her questions. So begins a scavenger hunt piecing together what they can find from what Inez left behind. One that leads to centuries-old questions best left unasked and secrets best kept in the dark. From the author of A Guide to the Dark comes another romantic and eerie mystery about the lengths we are willing to go for the truth and the ones we love.