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"Jaquira Díaz writes an unflinching account of growing up as a queer biracial girl searching for home as her family splits apart and her mother struggles with mental illness and addiction. From her own struggles with depression and drug abuse to her experiences of violence to Puerto Rico's history of colonialism, every page vibrates with music and lyricism"--
"In this searing memoir, Jaquira Díaz writes fiercely and eloquently of her challenging...
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En estas autobiografia, Jaquira Díaz escribe ferozmente y elocuentemente sobre su desafiante infancia y como alcanza la majoria de edad en Puerto Rico. Mientras crecía en proyectos de vivienda en Puerto Rico y Miami Beach, Díaz se encontró atrapada entre extremos. Cuando su familia se separó y su madre luchó contra la esquizofrenia, fue apoyada por el amor de sus amigos. Mientras anhelaba una familia y un hogar, su vida se vio afectada por la...
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2021
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Para las muchachas que fuimos, para la muchacha que fui, para las muchachas de todo el mundo que son como nosotras solíamos ser. Para las muchachas que nunca se vieron reflejadas en los libros. Para las muchachas ordinarias.
Jaquira Díaz siempre se encontró entre extremos en lugares permeados por la violencia. A pesar de añorar tener una familia unida y un hogar seguro, éstos eran difíciles de
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Book Preview: #1 Truus Oversteegen, born in 1923, was a witness to the worldwide struggles of the Great Depression. She remembered the miseries and struggles of those times as if they were still happening outside her window in Haarlem.
#2 Trijntje Oversteegen, the mother of Truus and Freddie, was a leftist who raised her daughters with leftist values. When the Great Depression hit,...
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"The girls' names were Padma and Lalli, but they were so inseparable that people in the village called them Padma Lalli. Sixteen-year-old Padma sparked and burned. Fourteen-year-old Lalli was an incorrigible romantic. They grew up in Katra Sadatganj, an eye-blink of a village in western Uttar Pradesh crammed into less than one square mile of land. It was out in the fields, in the middle of mango season, that the rumors started. Then one night in the...
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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,...
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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…?
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Super-child Ellie Ultra has been home schooled by her genius inventor parents, so now she is hoping that starting third grade at Winkopolis Elementary School will let her meet and hang out with normal kids--but when her super abilities make it difficult to fit in with the other children, she takes one of her parents' inventions that she hopes will help her tone down her super powers.
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Soccer prodigy? Star gymnast? Academic whiz kid? There just aren't enough hours in the day for a twelve year old girl. Alyssa doesn't know what she wants to be when she grows up but she knows that she DOESN'T want to be homeschooled, that's for sure! Weird things are starting to happen at school and now it's affecting her friends...what in the world?! Mind control?! And robberies?! Alyssa just wants to be ordinary, you know? Tame her curly hair, sprout...
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An Ordinary Girl with an Extraordinary God takes you on a journey of sixteen real-life stories where God was tangible in real ways. He shows His lavishness and deep, deep care, as well as His power and protection, playfulness, miracles with grace and mercy in these stories to encourage you, warm your heart, and build you up. May these personal journeys stir the desire within you to draw closer to God. Hope against hope to believe something good may...
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Two brand-new, tantalizing stories from two bestselling authors. An Ordinary Girl by Betty Neels. When Professor James Forsyth meets Philomena Selby it's love at first sight. But Philly knows James has a fiancée and that she can't hope to match such a glamorous woman. But James sees Philly's inner beauty, and he's determined to convince her that she'll be the only wife he'll ever have! A Perfect Proposal by Liz Fielding Wasn't it madness to marry...
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What happens when an ordinary girl finds the extraordinary love of God? By a well in Samaria, one girl found out when she came face to face with Jesus. Today's young women may be in a different culture, but they have something in common with that girl by the well: Sometimes they go looking for love in all the wrong places. Just as the Samaritan woman carried an empty jar to the well, they carry their empty hearts, looking for that one person, one...
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The story of an ordinary girl who becomes an entrepreneur
We meet the protagonist when she is fifteen, while going to the city for the first time. We follow her in her search for fulfillment through the work outside the family, beyond the usual expectations of a girl at the time when to be something different than a mother was difficult, if not impossible.
We live through her tragedies, suffering and her love of life that is essentially accurately...
16) How an Ordinary Girl Finds Extraordinary Love: A Wise Dog's Observations on the Hooman Experience
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"My name is GG. And you might as well know it up front-I am a dog." The first line of this memoir only teases at the depth of wisdom shared by this big black part-lab, part-hound rescue mutt. Follow GG as she tells the tale (pun intended) of her observations on how we hoomans can find endless joy in spite of turmoil and experience great love despite tragedy.
We all know the chaos that is all too familiar in this world. Have we not all experienced...
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Esther was an ordinary girl, in extraordinary circumstances... just like you!
If you feel like your life is boring, not very important, and God would never use you, you have a lot in common with a girl from the Bible named Esther. That's her story. A girl just like you and me who knew what it was like to be alone, afraid, and stuck. A girl who didn't think she could make a difference, but ended up becoming Queen Esther. That is where this Bible study...
18) After you
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Louisa Clark is no longer just an ordinary girl living an ordinary life. After the transformative six months spent with Will Traynor, she is struggling without him. When an extraordinary accident forces Lou to return home to her family, she can't help but feel she's right back where she started. Her body heals, but Lou herself knows that she needs to be kick-started back to life. Which is how she ends up in a church basement with the members of the...
19) Me before you
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"They had nothing in common until love gave them everything to lose. Louisa Clark is an ordinary girl living an exceedingly ordinary life--steady boyfriend, close family--who has never been farther afield than their tiny village. She takes a badly needed job working for ex-Master of the Universe Will Traynor, who is wheelchair bound after a motorcycle accident. Will has always lived a huge life--big deals, extreme sports, worldwide travel--and now...
20) Faithful
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Growing up on Long Island, Shelby Richmond is an ordinary girl until one night an extraordinary tragedy changes her fate. Her best friend's future is destroyed in an accident, while Shelby walks away with the burden of guilt. What happens when a life is turned inside out? When love is something so distant it may as well be a star in the sky? Faithful is the story of a survivor, filled with emotion--from dark suffering to true happiness--a moving portrait...
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