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Defiant Dreams
Author | : Sola Mahfouz,Malaina Kapoor |
Publsiher | : Ballantine Books |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2024-05-07 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780593359785 |
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A searing, deeply personal memoir of a tenacious Afghan girl who educated herself behind closed doors and fought her way to a new life. “Stories like this inspire me. Seeing the way people like Sola Mahfouz think about the world reinforces my optimism about the future.”―BILL GATES Sola Mahfouz was born in Kandahar, Afghanistan, in 1996, the year the Taliban took over her country for the first time. They banned television and photographs, presided over brutal public executions, and turned the clock backward on women’s rights, practically imprisoning women within their own homes and forcing them to wear all-concealing burqas. At age eleven, Sola was forced to stop attending school after a group of men threatened to throw acid in her face if she continued. After that she was confined to her home, required to cook and clean and prepare for an arranged marriage. She saw the outside world only a handful of times each year. As time passed, Sola began to understand that she was condemned to the same existence as millions of women in Afghanistan. Her future was empty. The rest of her life would be controlled entirely by men: fathers and husbands and sons who would never allow her to study, to earn money, or even to dream. Driven by this devastating realization, Sola began a years-long fight to change the trajectory of her life, deciding that education would be her way out. At age sixteen, without even the basic ability to add or subtract, she began to teach herself math and English in secret. She progressed rapidly., Within just two years she was already studying subjects such as philosophy and physics. Faced with obstacles at every turn, Sola still managed to sneak into Pakistan to take the SAT. In 2016, she escaped to the United States, where she is now a quantum-computing researcher at Tufts University. An engrossing, dramatic memoir, co-written with young Indian American human rights activist Malaina Kapoor, Defiant Dreams is the story of one girl, but it’s also the untold story of a generation of women brimming with potential and longing for freedom.
A Defiant Dream
Author | : Melinda Cross |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 1989-01-01 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 026312083X |
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Defiant Dreams
Author | : Cheri Michaels,Copyright Paperback Collection (Library of Congress) |
Publsiher | : Simon Pulse |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Young adult fiction |
ISBN | : 0671551574 |
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Sixteen-year-old Serena McLairn, a beautiful Southern belle, tries not to let the Civil War ruin her life, but she soon finds herself behind Union lines, falling in love with a Yankee soldier
A Dream Defiant
Author | : Susanna Fraser |
Publsiher | : Harlequin |
Total Pages | : 119 |
Release | : 2013-07-29 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781426895906 |
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Spain, 1813 Elijah Cameron, the son of runaway slaves, has spent his whole life in the British army proving that a black man can be as good a soldier as a white man. After a victory over the French, Elijah promises one of his dying men that he will deliver a scavenged ruby necklace to his wife, Rose, a woman Elijah has admired for years. Elijah feels bound to protect her and knows a widow with a fortune in jewels will be a target. Rose dreams of using the necklace to return to England, but after a violent attack, she realizes that she needs Elijah's help to make the journey safely. Her appreciation for Elijah's strength and integrity soon turns into love, but he doubts she could want a life with him, knowing the challenges they'd face. As their relationship grows, she must convince Elijah that she wants him as more than a bodyguard. And she must prove that their love can overcome all obstacles, no matter the color of their skin. 28,000 words
The Defiant Middle
Author | : Kaya Oakes |
Publsiher | : Broadleaf Books |
Total Pages | : 191 |
Release | : 2021-11-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781506467696 |
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For every woman, from the young to those in midlife and beyond, who has ever been told, "You can't" and thought, "Oh, I definitely will!"--this book is for you. Women are expected to be many things. They should be young enough, but not too young; old enough, but not too old; creative, but not crazy; passionate, but not angry. They should be fertile and feminine and self-reliant, not barren or butch or solitary. Women, in other words, are caught between social expectations and a much more complicated reality. Women who don't fit in, whether during life transitions or because of changes in their body, mind, or gender identity, are carving out new ways of being in and remaking the world. But this is nothing new: they have been doing so for thousands of years, often at the margins of the same religious traditions and cultures that created these limited ways of being for women in the first place. In The Defiant Middle, Kaya Oakes draws on the wisdom of women mystics and explores how transitional eras or living in marginalized female identities can be both spiritually challenging and wonderfully freeing, ultimately resulting in a reinvented way of seeing the world and changing it. "Change, after all," Oakes writes, "always comes from the margins."
Deferred Dreams Defiant Struggles
Author | : Violet Showers Johnson,Gundolf Graml,Patricia Williams Lessane |
Publsiher | : Liverpool University Press |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2018-08-31 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781786948205 |
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This volume sheds light on how to construe the contemporary political vicissitudes of the Black experience and the ongoing struggle for agency, belonging, and civil rights. It offers a fresh look at familiar concepts such as activism and belonging and models innovative approaches for studying the African diasporic experience in the 21st century.
A Defiant Nation
Author | : Clifford Simmie Tyus |
Publsiher | : AuthorHouse |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 2017-08-09 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781546202837 |
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The book A Defiant Nation entails the resolution for America to get right with God before it is destroyed for its sinfulness. People of America are turning away from God on a continuous basis, and I believe this is the reason Americans are faced with so many difficult unsolvable problems, and the problems are getting worse by the year!
Defiant Captive
Author | : Kathy Jones |
Publsiher | : Zebra Books |
Total Pages | : 446 |
Release | : 1987-11-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0821722204 |
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Kathy Jones will capture readers' hearts with this swashbuckling story of passion and courage. From the moment he bought her, the Irish beauty swore she would never become the handsome pirate's slave--even if he tamed her wild heart.