Sicilian Woman's Daughter. Four generations of mafia women, Paperback - Linda Lo Scuro

As the daughter of Sicilian immigrants, in her teens Maria fully embraces the English way of life. But a minor incident wakes up feelings of reveng...

Publisher: Vintage PublishingAuthor(s): Barbie Latza NadeauNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 129 x 196 x 22Cover type: Paperbac...

Publisher: Unicorn Publishing GroupAuthor(s): Geoffrey GelardiIllustration(s): 30 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 208Publication date: 2...

Reducere. From the co-author of Lakota Woman, which has sold more than 150, 000 paperback copies, comes a compelling account detailing the unique experiences...

In a society where trust is in short supply and democracy weak, the Mafia sells protection, a guarantee of safe conduct for parties to commercial t...

Reducere. The truth is more chilling than fiction: COSA NOSTRA tells, for the first time, the true history of the Sicilian mafia - now revised and updated to...

Reducere. Hailed in Italy as the best book ever written about the mafia in any language, Cosa Nostra is a fascinating, violent, and darkly comic account that...

Publisher: Eland Publishing LtdAuthor(s): Norman LewisNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2003Dimensions: 216 x 141 x 18Cover type: Paperback / s...

Reducere. In this beautifully written memoir (Publishers Weekly), Jean Said Makdisi illuminates a century of Arab life and history through the stories of her...

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Publisher: Sourcebooks, IncAuthor(s): Kim Michele RichardsonNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 160 x 237 x 36Cover type: Hardbac...

Reducere. Sititch of Courage, the third book in the Trail of Thread series, tells the story of the orphaned Maggie Kennedy, who followed her brothers to Kans...

Reducere. Pursuing the family name as the finest silk producer in Lyon, the young Huguenot Rachelle Dushane-Macquinet is thrilled to accompany her famous cou...

Reducere. A bold firsthand account of one of the persistent Arab uprisings, in Yemen At its beginning in 2007, the Southern Movement in South Yemen was a loo...

Reducere. About the AuthorScott Ryan is the author of The Last Days of Letterman and thirtysomething at thirty: an oral history. He is the editor of The Wome...

Read the account of Kajsa Svensson Runeberg, an emigrant wife who recounts, through her diary, how she and her family built up a farm on the unsett...

Publisher: University of Illinois PressAuthor(s): Linda GordonNumber of pages: 464Publication date: 2007Dimensions: 235 x 155 x 28Cover type: Paper...

Reducere. New Mexico-Arizona Book AwardsAnne Hillerman, the talented daughter of bestselling author Tony Hillerman, continues his popular Leaphorn and Chee s...

'Fascinating essays ... Nochlin is a woman of learning and accomplishment' Andrea Dworkin

Publisher: John Murray PressAuthor(s): Tara M StringfellowNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 161 x 240 x 30Cover type: HardbackR...

Reducere. This is a book of sexual magicks in both theory and practice fromthe feminine power zones and from their own points of view. Very littlehas been wr...

This is a story about four real-life girls, with real-life joys and problems. A story about "Little Women" who became four of the most beloved hero...

Publisher: Fayetteville Mafia PressAuthor(s): Scarlett HarrisNumber of pages: 224Collection: The Women of...Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 228 x...

Reducere. In 1990, the groundbreaking television series Twin Peaks, co-created by David Lynch and Mark Frost, opened with a murder mystery when a beautiful h...

Publisher: Bloodaxe Books LtdAuthor(s): Robyn BolamNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2005Dimensions: 215 x 140 x 21Cover type: Paperback / soft...

Reducere. On March 25, 1969 Linda Hale Bucklin learned her vivacious mother was dead, her right temple blown out by a bullet from her father's pistol. Was it...

Reducere. In boardrooms and lecture halls, on the field and at home, strong female leaders are making a statement around the globe. In HOW GREAT WOMEN LEAD B...

Reducere. From Karen Gravano, a star of the hit VH1 reality show Mob Wives, comes a revealing memoir of a mafia childhood, where love and family come hand-in...

Contributor(s): Editor: Linda MizejewskiEditor: Victoria SturtevantIntroduction by: Kathleen Rowe KarlynWinner, Susan Koppleman Award for Best Anth...

The follow-up to Hannah's Story, this recounts the fortunes of Hannah's female descendants into the 20th century and the enduring challenges they f...

A moving family biography in which the poet traces her family history back through Jim Crow, the slave trade, and all the way to the women of the D...

Reducere. The Delaware Valley Women's Fly Fishing Association has nourished a passion for fly-fishing in hundreds of women since 1996. This was when women we...

Reducere. The Grimke Sisters. Sarah And Angelina Grimke. The First American Women Advocates of Abolition and Woman's Rights by Catherine H. Birney. Sarah Moo...

Part graphic novel, part feminist and philosophical analysis, The Pregnancy Childbearing Project explores how pregnancy can be a meaningful and dis...

Reducere. World War II was a total war, devouring the military and civilian resources of nations. Women in Minnesota--like women across the country--made bol...

Reducere. Pioneer Women provides a rare look at frontier life through the eyes of the pioneer women who settled the American West. Linda Peavy and Ursula Smi...

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Reducere. ``Clearly and vividly detail s] the double standards and the dead ends that so many women face in the workplace.`` - Sheryl Sandberg, author of Lea...

In the early twentieth-century, four Pentecostal women-Florence Louise Crawford, Mary Magdalena Lewis Tate, Aimee Semple McPherson, and Ida Bell Ro...

Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, IncAuthor(s): SophoclesTranslator: Paul WoodruffNumber of pages: 312Collection: Hackett ClassicsPublication date:...

Reducere. The citizens of ancient Athens enjoyed a freedom of speech as broad as our own. This freedom, parrhesia, the right to say what one pleased, how and...

Reducere. These are the stories of four women with Latin roots and their different journeys. Their true stories, secrets, and struggles are single and unique...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

The author of the bestselling COSA NOSTRA explores the previously underexposed mafias of Southern Italy.Publisher: Hodder & StoughtonAuthor(s): Joh...