Author: Rosetta
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1524634034
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Labour of LoveOne Womans Struggle for Survival on a Tumultuous Journey is an autobiography about one womans solitary journey through lifea journey that was certainly both tumultuous and a labor of love. It is a must read that will make you laugh and cry at the same time. Labour of Love tells the story of a mothers struggle for survival. It will inspire anyone going through challenges brought on by circumstances beyond their control. It will not only encourage readers but also give them hope for the futurehope that they too can make it through tumultuous times and believe that anything is possible in life if you persist. Based on a true-life story that will send shivers through readers spines, Labour of Love recounts unforeseen struggles and encompasses both joyous laughter and abject sadness. It is a story about a world filled with dreams and hopes. Readers, especially mothers going through difficulties, will find some of the content of this book disturbing. Mothers will, perhaps, relate to some of some of the trials recounted in this autobiography. For all those who need inspiration and encouragement not to be disheartened in a world where struggle for survival continues, seemingly without end, here is Labour of LoveOne Womans Struggle for Survival on a Tumultuous Journey.
Labour of Love—One Woman’S Struggle for Survival on a Tumultuous Journey
Author: Rosetta
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1524634034
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Labour of LoveOne Womans Struggle for Survival on a Tumultuous Journey is an autobiography about one womans solitary journey through lifea journey that was certainly both tumultuous and a labor of love. It is a must read that will make you laugh and cry at the same time. Labour of Love tells the story of a mothers struggle for survival. It will inspire anyone going through challenges brought on by circumstances beyond their control. It will not only encourage readers but also give them hope for the futurehope that they too can make it through tumultuous times and believe that anything is possible in life if you persist. Based on a true-life story that will send shivers through readers spines, Labour of Love recounts unforeseen struggles and encompasses both joyous laughter and abject sadness. It is a story about a world filled with dreams and hopes. Readers, especially mothers going through difficulties, will find some of the content of this book disturbing. Mothers will, perhaps, relate to some of some of the trials recounted in this autobiography. For all those who need inspiration and encouragement not to be disheartened in a world where struggle for survival continues, seemingly without end, here is Labour of LoveOne Womans Struggle for Survival on a Tumultuous Journey.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1524634034
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Labour of LoveOne Womans Struggle for Survival on a Tumultuous Journey is an autobiography about one womans solitary journey through lifea journey that was certainly both tumultuous and a labor of love. It is a must read that will make you laugh and cry at the same time. Labour of Love tells the story of a mothers struggle for survival. It will inspire anyone going through challenges brought on by circumstances beyond their control. It will not only encourage readers but also give them hope for the futurehope that they too can make it through tumultuous times and believe that anything is possible in life if you persist. Based on a true-life story that will send shivers through readers spines, Labour of Love recounts unforeseen struggles and encompasses both joyous laughter and abject sadness. It is a story about a world filled with dreams and hopes. Readers, especially mothers going through difficulties, will find some of the content of this book disturbing. Mothers will, perhaps, relate to some of some of the trials recounted in this autobiography. For all those who need inspiration and encouragement not to be disheartened in a world where struggle for survival continues, seemingly without end, here is Labour of LoveOne Womans Struggle for Survival on a Tumultuous Journey.
Labour of Love - One Woman's Struggle for Survival on a Tumultuous Journey
Author: Rosetta
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781524634025
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Labour of Love: One Woman's Struggle for Survival on a Tumultuous Journey is an autobiography about one woman's solitary journey through life - a journey that was certainly both tumultuous and a labour of love. It is a must read that will make you laugh and cry at the same time. Labour of Love tells the story of a mother's struggle for survival. It will inspire anyone going through challenges brought on by circumstances beyond their control. It will not only encourage readers but also give them hope for the future - hope that they too can make it through tumultuous times and believe that anything is possible in life if you persist. Based on a true-life story that will send shivers through readers' spines, Labour of Love recounts unforeseen struggles and encompasses both joyous laughter and abject sadness. It is a story about a world filled with dreams and hopes. Readers, especially mothers going through difficulties, will find some of the content of this book disturbing. Mothers will, perhaps, relate to some of some of the trials recounted in this autobiography. For all those who need inspiration and encouragement not to be disheartened in a world where struggle for survival continues, seemingly without end, here is Labour of Love: One Woman's Struggle for Survival on a Tumultuous Journey.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781524634025
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Labour of Love: One Woman's Struggle for Survival on a Tumultuous Journey is an autobiography about one woman's solitary journey through life - a journey that was certainly both tumultuous and a labour of love. It is a must read that will make you laugh and cry at the same time. Labour of Love tells the story of a mother's struggle for survival. It will inspire anyone going through challenges brought on by circumstances beyond their control. It will not only encourage readers but also give them hope for the future - hope that they too can make it through tumultuous times and believe that anything is possible in life if you persist. Based on a true-life story that will send shivers through readers' spines, Labour of Love recounts unforeseen struggles and encompasses both joyous laughter and abject sadness. It is a story about a world filled with dreams and hopes. Readers, especially mothers going through difficulties, will find some of the content of this book disturbing. Mothers will, perhaps, relate to some of some of the trials recounted in this autobiography. For all those who need inspiration and encouragement not to be disheartened in a world where struggle for survival continues, seemingly without end, here is Labour of Love: One Woman's Struggle for Survival on a Tumultuous Journey.
Ladies of Magna Carta
Author: Sharon Bennett Connolly
Publisher: Pen and Sword History
ISBN: 1526745267
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
An innovative take on Magna Carta history that examines the impact and influence of women. 39. No man shall be taken, imprisoned, outlawed, banished or in any way destroyed, nor will we proceed against or prosecute him, except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land. This clause in Magna Carta was in response to the appalling imprisonment and starvation of Matilda de Braose, the wife of one of King John’s barons. Matilda was not the only woman who influenced, or was influenced by, the 1215 Charter of Liberties, now known as Magna Carta. Women from many of the great families of England were affected by the far-reaching legacy of Magna Carta, from their experiences in the civil war and as hostages, to calling on its use to protect their property and rights as widows. Ladies of Magna Carta looks into the relationships—through marriage and blood—of the various noble families and how they were affected by the Barons’ Wars, Magna Carta, and its aftermath—the bonds that were formed and those that were broken. Including the royal families of England and Scotland, the Marshals, the Warennes, the Braoses, and more, Ladies of Magna Carta focuses on the roles played by the women of the great families whose influences and experiences have reached far beyond the thirteenth century.
Publisher: Pen and Sword History
ISBN: 1526745267
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
An innovative take on Magna Carta history that examines the impact and influence of women. 39. No man shall be taken, imprisoned, outlawed, banished or in any way destroyed, nor will we proceed against or prosecute him, except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land. This clause in Magna Carta was in response to the appalling imprisonment and starvation of Matilda de Braose, the wife of one of King John’s barons. Matilda was not the only woman who influenced, or was influenced by, the 1215 Charter of Liberties, now known as Magna Carta. Women from many of the great families of England were affected by the far-reaching legacy of Magna Carta, from their experiences in the civil war and as hostages, to calling on its use to protect their property and rights as widows. Ladies of Magna Carta looks into the relationships—through marriage and blood—of the various noble families and how they were affected by the Barons’ Wars, Magna Carta, and its aftermath—the bonds that were formed and those that were broken. Including the royal families of England and Scotland, the Marshals, the Warennes, the Braoses, and more, Ladies of Magna Carta focuses on the roles played by the women of the great families whose influences and experiences have reached far beyond the thirteenth century.
Defenders of the Norman Crown
Author: Sharon Bennett Connolly
Publisher: Pen and Sword History
ISBN: 1526745305
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
A history of one of medieval England’s most powerful families, from its origins in Normandy to its demise during the reign of Edward III. In the reign of Edward I, when asked Quo Warranto—by what warrant he held his lands—John de Warenne, the 6th earl of Surrey, is said to have drawn a rusty sword, claiming “My ancestors came with William the Bastard, and conquered their lands with the sword, and I will defend them with the sword against anyone wishing to seize them.” John’s ancestor, William de Warenne, 1st Earl of Surrey, fought for William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. He was rewarded with enough land to make him one of the richest men of all time. In his search for a royal bride, the 2nd earl kidnapped the wife of a fellow baron. The 3rd earl died on crusade, fighting for his royal cousin, Louis VII of France . . . For three centuries, the Warennes were at the heart of English politics at the highest level, until one unhappy marriage brought an end to the dynasty. The family moved in the highest circles, married into royalty and were not immune to scandal. Defenders of the Norman Crown tells the fascinating story of the Warenne dynasty, of the successes and failures of one of the most powerful families in England, from its origins in Normandy, through the Conquest, Magna Carta, the wars and marriages that led to its ultimate demise in the reign of Edward III. Praise for Defenders of the Norman Crown “In this book Sharon not only provides the reader with a deep insight into the whole Warenne dynasty, but also opens a window into a turbulent period of English history.” —Aspects of History “A riveting insight into the rise and fall of the most influential family you’d otherwise never have heard of. . . . 5/5.” —HistoriaMag “Sharon Bennett Connolly’s detailed, meticulous research brings together a wealth of sources to give the reader a fascinating view of one of the powerful families on which the Crown depended for centuries. Politics and power, Marriages and mistresses, Lordship and land, Defenders of the Norman Crown has it all. [Connolly] has written a very fine book indeed—I loved it.” —Elizabeth Chadwick, bestselling author of historical fiction “A vivid portrayal of a powerful aristocratic family. . . . A highly readable and well-illustrated survey.” —Michael Jones, author of The Black Prince
Publisher: Pen and Sword History
ISBN: 1526745305
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
A history of one of medieval England’s most powerful families, from its origins in Normandy to its demise during the reign of Edward III. In the reign of Edward I, when asked Quo Warranto—by what warrant he held his lands—John de Warenne, the 6th earl of Surrey, is said to have drawn a rusty sword, claiming “My ancestors came with William the Bastard, and conquered their lands with the sword, and I will defend them with the sword against anyone wishing to seize them.” John’s ancestor, William de Warenne, 1st Earl of Surrey, fought for William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. He was rewarded with enough land to make him one of the richest men of all time. In his search for a royal bride, the 2nd earl kidnapped the wife of a fellow baron. The 3rd earl died on crusade, fighting for his royal cousin, Louis VII of France . . . For three centuries, the Warennes were at the heart of English politics at the highest level, until one unhappy marriage brought an end to the dynasty. The family moved in the highest circles, married into royalty and were not immune to scandal. Defenders of the Norman Crown tells the fascinating story of the Warenne dynasty, of the successes and failures of one of the most powerful families in England, from its origins in Normandy, through the Conquest, Magna Carta, the wars and marriages that led to its ultimate demise in the reign of Edward III. Praise for Defenders of the Norman Crown “In this book Sharon not only provides the reader with a deep insight into the whole Warenne dynasty, but also opens a window into a turbulent period of English history.” —Aspects of History “A riveting insight into the rise and fall of the most influential family you’d otherwise never have heard of. . . . 5/5.” —HistoriaMag “Sharon Bennett Connolly’s detailed, meticulous research brings together a wealth of sources to give the reader a fascinating view of one of the powerful families on which the Crown depended for centuries. Politics and power, Marriages and mistresses, Lordship and land, Defenders of the Norman Crown has it all. [Connolly] has written a very fine book indeed—I loved it.” —Elizabeth Chadwick, bestselling author of historical fiction “A vivid portrayal of a powerful aristocratic family. . . . A highly readable and well-illustrated survey.” —Michael Jones, author of The Black Prince
Heroines of the Medieval World
Author: Sharon Bennett Connolly
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445662655
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
The stories of women, famous, infamous and unknown, who shaped the course of medieval history.
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445662655
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
The stories of women, famous, infamous and unknown, who shaped the course of medieval history.
Cold Mountain
Author: Charles Frazier
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 0802197175
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
A wounded Confederate soldier treks across the ruins of America in this National Book Award–winning novel: “A stirring Civil War tale told with epic sweep.” —People Sorely wounded and fatally disillusioned in the fighting at Petersburg, a Confederate soldier named Inman decides to walk back to his home in the Blue Ridge mountains to Ada, the woman he loves. His journey across the disintegrating South brings him into intimate and sometimes lethal converse with slaves and marauders, bounty hunters and witches, both helpful and malign. Meanwhile, the intrepid Ada is trying to revive her father’s derelict farm and learning to survive in a world where the old certainties have been swept away. As it interweaves their stories, Cold Mountain asserts itself as an authentic odyssey, hugely powerful, majestically lovely, and keenly moving.
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 0802197175
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
A wounded Confederate soldier treks across the ruins of America in this National Book Award–winning novel: “A stirring Civil War tale told with epic sweep.” —People Sorely wounded and fatally disillusioned in the fighting at Petersburg, a Confederate soldier named Inman decides to walk back to his home in the Blue Ridge mountains to Ada, the woman he loves. His journey across the disintegrating South brings him into intimate and sometimes lethal converse with slaves and marauders, bounty hunters and witches, both helpful and malign. Meanwhile, the intrepid Ada is trying to revive her father’s derelict farm and learning to survive in a world where the old certainties have been swept away. As it interweaves their stories, Cold Mountain asserts itself as an authentic odyssey, hugely powerful, majestically lovely, and keenly moving.
Why Love Hurts
Author: Eva Illouz
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0745672116
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
Few of us have been spared the agonies of intimate relationships. They come in many shapes: loving a man or a woman who will not commit to us, being heartbroken when we're abandoned by a lover, engaging in Sisyphean internet searches, coming back lonely from bars, parties, or blind dates, feeling bored in a relationship that is so much less than we had envisaged - these are only some of the ways in which the search for love is a difficult and often painful experience. Despite the widespread and almost collective character of these experiences, our culture insists they are the result of faulty or insufficiently mature psyches. For many, the Freudian idea that the family designs the pattern of an individual's erotic career has been the main explanation for why and how we fail to find or sustain love. Psychoanalysis and popular psychology have succeeded spectacularly in convincing us that individuals bear responsibility for the misery of their romantic and erotic lives. The purpose of this book is to change our way of thinking about what is wrong in modern relationships. The problem is not dysfunctional childhoods or insufficiently self-aware psyches, but rather the institutional forces shaping how we love. The argument of this book is that the modern romantic experience is shaped by a fundamental transformation in the ecology and architecture of romantic choice. The samples from which men and women choose a partner, the modes of evaluating prospective partners, the very importance of choice and autonomy and what people imagine to be the spectrum of their choices: all these aspects of choice have transformed the very core of the will, how we want a partner, the sense of worth bestowed by relationships, and the organization of desire. This book does to love what Marx did to commodities: it shows that it is shaped by social relations and institutions and that it circulates in a marketplace of unequal actors.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0745672116
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
Few of us have been spared the agonies of intimate relationships. They come in many shapes: loving a man or a woman who will not commit to us, being heartbroken when we're abandoned by a lover, engaging in Sisyphean internet searches, coming back lonely from bars, parties, or blind dates, feeling bored in a relationship that is so much less than we had envisaged - these are only some of the ways in which the search for love is a difficult and often painful experience. Despite the widespread and almost collective character of these experiences, our culture insists they are the result of faulty or insufficiently mature psyches. For many, the Freudian idea that the family designs the pattern of an individual's erotic career has been the main explanation for why and how we fail to find or sustain love. Psychoanalysis and popular psychology have succeeded spectacularly in convincing us that individuals bear responsibility for the misery of their romantic and erotic lives. The purpose of this book is to change our way of thinking about what is wrong in modern relationships. The problem is not dysfunctional childhoods or insufficiently self-aware psyches, but rather the institutional forces shaping how we love. The argument of this book is that the modern romantic experience is shaped by a fundamental transformation in the ecology and architecture of romantic choice. The samples from which men and women choose a partner, the modes of evaluating prospective partners, the very importance of choice and autonomy and what people imagine to be the spectrum of their choices: all these aspects of choice have transformed the very core of the will, how we want a partner, the sense of worth bestowed by relationships, and the organization of desire. This book does to love what Marx did to commodities: it shows that it is shaped by social relations and institutions and that it circulates in a marketplace of unequal actors.
Women, Race, & Class
Author: Angela Y. Davis
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307798496
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
From one of our most important scholars and civil rights activist icon, a powerful study of the women’s liberation movement and the tangled knot of oppression facing Black women. “Angela Davis is herself a woman of undeniable courage. She should be heard.”—The New York Times Angela Davis provides a powerful history of the social and political influence of whiteness and elitism in feminism, from abolitionist days to the present, and demonstrates how the racist and classist biases of its leaders inevitably hampered any collective ambitions. While Black women were aided by some activists like Sarah and Angelina Grimke and the suffrage cause found unwavering support in Frederick Douglass, many women played on the fears of white supremacists for political gain rather than take an intersectional approach to liberation. Here, Davis not only contextualizes the legacy and pitfalls of civil and women’s rights activists, but also discusses Communist women, the murder of Emmitt Till, and Margaret Sanger’s racism. Davis shows readers how the inequalities between Black and white women influence the contemporary issues of rape, reproductive freedom, housework and child care in this bold and indispensable work.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307798496
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
From one of our most important scholars and civil rights activist icon, a powerful study of the women’s liberation movement and the tangled knot of oppression facing Black women. “Angela Davis is herself a woman of undeniable courage. She should be heard.”—The New York Times Angela Davis provides a powerful history of the social and political influence of whiteness and elitism in feminism, from abolitionist days to the present, and demonstrates how the racist and classist biases of its leaders inevitably hampered any collective ambitions. While Black women were aided by some activists like Sarah and Angelina Grimke and the suffrage cause found unwavering support in Frederick Douglass, many women played on the fears of white supremacists for political gain rather than take an intersectional approach to liberation. Here, Davis not only contextualizes the legacy and pitfalls of civil and women’s rights activists, but also discusses Communist women, the murder of Emmitt Till, and Margaret Sanger’s racism. Davis shows readers how the inequalities between Black and white women influence the contemporary issues of rape, reproductive freedom, housework and child care in this bold and indispensable work.
Born Survivors
Author: Wendy Holden
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062370278
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The Nazis murdered their husbands but concentration camp prisoners Priska, Rachel, and Anka would not let evil take their unborn children too—a remarkable true story that will appeal to readers of The Lost and The Nazi Officer’s Wife, Born Survivors celebrates three mothers who defied death to give their children life. Eastern Europe, 1944: Three women believe they are pregnant, but are torn from their husbands before they can be certain. Rachel is sent to Auschwitz, unaware that her husband has been shot. Priska and her husband travel there together, but are immediately separated. Also at Auschwitz, Anka hopes in vain to be reunited with her husband. With the rest of their families gassed, these young wives are determined to hold on to all they have left—their lives, and those of their unborn babies. Having concealed their condition from infamous Nazi doctor Josef Mengele, they are forced to work and almost starved to death, living in daily fear of their pregnancies being detected by the SS. In April 1945, as the Allies close in, Priska gives birth. She and her baby, along with Anka, Rachel, and the remaining inmates, are sent to Mauthausen concentration camp on a hellish seventeen-day train journey. Rachel gives birth on the train, and Anka at the camp gates. All believe they will die, but then a miracle occurs. The gas chamber runs out of Zyklon-B, and as the Allied troops near, the SS flee. Against all odds, the three mothers and their newborns survive their treacherous journey to freedom. On the seventieth anniversary of Mauthausen’s liberation from the Nazis by American soldiers, renowned biographer Wendy Holden recounts this extraordinary story of three children united by their mothers’ unbelievable—yet ultimately successful—fight for survival.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062370278
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The Nazis murdered their husbands but concentration camp prisoners Priska, Rachel, and Anka would not let evil take their unborn children too—a remarkable true story that will appeal to readers of The Lost and The Nazi Officer’s Wife, Born Survivors celebrates three mothers who defied death to give their children life. Eastern Europe, 1944: Three women believe they are pregnant, but are torn from their husbands before they can be certain. Rachel is sent to Auschwitz, unaware that her husband has been shot. Priska and her husband travel there together, but are immediately separated. Also at Auschwitz, Anka hopes in vain to be reunited with her husband. With the rest of their families gassed, these young wives are determined to hold on to all they have left—their lives, and those of their unborn babies. Having concealed their condition from infamous Nazi doctor Josef Mengele, they are forced to work and almost starved to death, living in daily fear of their pregnancies being detected by the SS. In April 1945, as the Allies close in, Priska gives birth. She and her baby, along with Anka, Rachel, and the remaining inmates, are sent to Mauthausen concentration camp on a hellish seventeen-day train journey. Rachel gives birth on the train, and Anka at the camp gates. All believe they will die, but then a miracle occurs. The gas chamber runs out of Zyklon-B, and as the Allied troops near, the SS flee. Against all odds, the three mothers and their newborns survive their treacherous journey to freedom. On the seventieth anniversary of Mauthausen’s liberation from the Nazis by American soldiers, renowned biographer Wendy Holden recounts this extraordinary story of three children united by their mothers’ unbelievable—yet ultimately successful—fight for survival.
Silk and the Sword
Author: Sharon Bennett Connolly
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445678764
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
A study of the women, on all sides, who had major parts to play in the momentous year of 1066.
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445678764
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
A study of the women, on all sides, who had major parts to play in the momentous year of 1066.