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A fierce, beautiful, and unflinching memoir from a wildly talented debut author.
While growing up in housing projects in Puerto Rico and Miami Beach, Jaquira Diaz found herself caught between extremes: as her family split apart and her mother battled schizophrenia, she was surrounded by the love of her friends; as she longed for a family and home, she found instead a life upended by violence. From her own struggles with depression and sexual assault...
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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"--
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2019
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English
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*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
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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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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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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 astonishing true story of three fearless female resisters during WWII whose youth and innocence belied their extraordinary daring in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands. It also made them the underground's most invaluable commodity. Recruited as teenagers, Hannie Schaft, and Dutch sisters Truus and Freddie Oversteegen fulfilled their harrowing missions as spies, saboteurs, and Nazi assassins with remarkable courage, but their stories have remained...
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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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HighBridge
Pub. Date
2021
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Unabridged
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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,...
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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,...
13) An Ordinary Girl
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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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VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
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Shonen Jump edition.
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173 pages : chiefly illustrations (colour) ; 20 cm
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English
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Taiki's new doubles partner puts him on an intense training regimen that makes his dream of reaching nationals start to feel a little more achievable. Then Taiki meets another badminton player with eyes for Chinatsu. Will this new rival spell the end for Taiki's romantic aspirations?
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Ellie is super excited for first day at Winkopolis Elementary School. After spending her whole life being homeschooled by super-genius inventor parents, she can't wait to hang out with normal kids and learn normal things. But Ellie soon learns that her super powers make her stand out in a not-so-super way. Can she save the world and fit in with her new friends? Or is blending in the one thing this superhero can't do?
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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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Would you dare to take a leap of faith to pursue your passions?
For the lively spirit not to die, would you transition to live it through other stories!
Everyone has a story to tell, and everyone's story is unique.
This book will take you on the journey of an ordinary girl with an extraordinary story,
which has transpired into this masterpiece.
With every page, an unleashing of emotion, or truth, of realization and appreciation is made.
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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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