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Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A sweeping, propulsive novel about the families we are born into and the families we make for ourselves, in which two brothers struggle to find their place in an Iran on the brink of combusting Amid the alleyways of the Zamzam neighborhood of Tehran, a woman lights herself on fire in a desperate act of defiance, setting off a chain reaction of violence and protest. Haunted by the woman's death, Issa is forced to confront the contradictions within...
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Five-year-old Milad Salama is excited for the school trip to a theme park on the outskirts of Jerusalem. On the way, his bus collides with a semitrailer in a horrific accident. His father, Abed, gets word of the crash and rushes to the site. The scene is chaos-the children have been taken to different hospitals in Jerusalem and the West Bank; some are missing, others cannot be identified. Abed sets off on an odyssey to learn Milad's fate. It is every...
Author
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"When you're born a girl, some parts of the world are kinder places to grow up in than others. Meet Kaneila, Jade, Mahnoosh, Makena and Luisa. They are five girls in five different countries whose lives are overshadowed by violence and injustice, just because they are female. These girls navigate the challenges and horrors of period poverty, female genital mutilation, lack of access to education, body shaming and femicide. The stories are heartbreaking...
11) Nacer niña
Author
Publisher
Editorial Juventud
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"Según el país de nacimiento, nacer niña no ofrece las mismas oportunidades... Descubre la vida de cinco muchachas del mundo: Kaneila, Jade Mahnoosh, Makena y Luisa. Las injusticias y la violencia pesan sobre su vida cotidiana. A su alrededor, personas comprometidas se movilizan en pro de la igualidad y aportan esperanza."--
Author
Series
Beitrage zu Bildungstheorie und Bildungsforschung volume Band 9
Publisher
Logos Verlag Berlin
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Deutsch
Author
Publisher
Regnery Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"We're in a culture war, and Peachy Keenan is not taking prisoners. This raucous new book is her rallying cry for normal people stuck in the foxholes and appalled by the status quo.Mothers and fathers, regular American families, men and women, can win this battle together. But a lot of ground has been lost. For decades, we stood around and watched as feminists and progressives steamrolled through our institutions-- those formerly robust, now comically...
Author
Series
Latin American perspectives volume Number 2
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown Spark
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The neighborhoods we live in impact our lives in so many ways: they determine who we know, what resources and opportunities we have access to, the quality of schools our kids go to, our sense of security and belonging, and even how long we live. Yet too many of us live in neighborhoods plagued by rising crime, school violence, family disintegration, addiction, alienation, and despair. Even the wealthiest neighborhoods are not immune; while poverty...