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Princess Sultana's Circle (Princess Trilogy)
Jean P. Sasson Manufacturer: Windsor-Brooke Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0967673763 |
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In her international best sellers, PRINCESS and PRINCESS SULTANA'S DAUGHTERS, Jean Sasson vividly depicted the harsh restrictions endured by Saudi women. These books described the lives of women who live in a society where they have few rights, little control over their own lives or bodies, and have no choice but to endure the atrocities perpetrated against them.Now, in response to readers' tremendous outpouring of interest and affection for Sultana, as well as her works on behalf of oppressed women, Jean Sasson and the Princess continue to expose the outrageous human rights abuses suffered by women in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
When Sultana's niece is forced into an arranged marriage with a cruel, depraved older man, and a royal cousin in revealed as keeping a harem of sex slaves, Sultana's attempts at intervention in their various plights are thwarted. But when her nephews are caught committing an unspeakable act against a 12-year-old girl, Sultana is galvanized into action. Risking her personal status and wealth, she takes a stand against the complacency of her male relatives over the child' fate. Ultimately, Sultana and her siters vow to form a circle of support that will surround and shelter abused women and girls.
As with PRINCESS and PRINCESS SULTANA'S DAUGHTERS, the reader is compelled to read just one more page, one more chapter, once they begin reading PRINCESS SULTANA'S CIRCLE.
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Saudi Arabia.......2007-03-27
History.......2006-11-02
Good Read.......2006-09-22
For Goodpasture.......2006-05-25
Excellent Trilogy, would love more..........2004-10-04
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PRINCESS SULTANA'S CIRCLE
SASSON JEAN Manufacturer: WINDSOR BROKE BOOKS ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000PGKG8A |
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Princess Sultana's Circle
Jean P. Sasson Manufacturer: Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media ProductGroup: Book Binding: Turtleback ASIN: 0606286527 |
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Princess Sultana's Circle
Jean Sasson Manufacturer: NY ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000MU4L4O |
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Princess Sultana's Circle
Jean Sasson Manufacturer: Windsor-Brooke Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000K07N5A |
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The Princess Trilogy, 3 Book Set (The Princess Trilogy, Volume 1,2,3 Princess. princess sultana's daughters, Princess sultan's circle)
JEAN SASSON ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000V00Q4O |
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complete The Princess Trilogy 3 book set.
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My Racing Heart : The Passionate World of Thoroughbreds and the Track
Nan Mooney Manufacturer: Amazon Remainders Account ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: B000ENBO94 |
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When Nan Mooney was seven years old, she sat down in her grandmother May-May's living room to watch her first ever horse race. In that single afternoon, she launched what would become a turbulent romance between a woman and a sport.My Racing Heart is part memoir, part journey into the compelling world of Thoroughbred horse racing. At its heart is Nan's relationship with her grandmother, an adventurer, racing connoisseur, and woman of courage and compassion. May-May fostered in Nan a love of Thoroughbreds and the track, ushering her into a rare corner of the world where risk taking is daily currency.Nan thought her emotional link to the races died with May-May, only to have it roar back to life a decade later at New York's Belmont Park. This renewed relationship culminates in a grown-up appreciation for a universe where expectations are constantly defied, and in the realization of a longtime dream -- a trip to the Kentucky Derby.Far more than just a personal tale, My Racing Heart lets readers in on the wild culture and fabulous creatures that rise up around the racetrack. Nan Mooney probes every aspect of the sport: the horses, jockeys, and trainers, the gambling and corruption, its ages-old history, and its forever offbeat society. She takes readers from the backstretch of a small-town track to the stands at Churchill Downs, from the mind of an intrepid gambler to the soul of a Thoroughbred. She explores how the sport itself, and the men and women who participate in it, flourish upon the principle that there are no sure things.My Racing Heart will speak to every horse lover, to every sports nut, and to everyone who cherishes the thrill of possibility or has ever craved a place to run wild. This unique and exquisite memoir perfectly captures the lure, the glory, and the heartbeat of the track.Customer Reviews:
Not bad........2004-03-17
Nan Mooney loves horses. Specifically, Thoroughbreds, the ones who hit the track, dust it up with six to twelve of their closest friends, and make humans gape in awe at the process. This odd amalgam of personal-memoir-cum-treatise-on-track-life is not an unfamiliar breed to the horse fan; the measuring stick against which all such books are brought is Bill Barich's stunning Laughing in the Hills. I'm sure one day, another book that good in that genre will arrive. While My Racing Heart has its good points, to be simple about it, this ain't it.
Where Barich succeeds as so many others (Michael Klein, Mooney, Liz Mitchell, and many others) fail is in his ability to take two different things that have inherently different paces and make them merge together into one book whose readability is consistent across chapters on differing subjects (in Barich's case, handicapping the races at Golden Gate while dealing with his mother's cancer). He meshes the two in such a way that, despite being parallel narratives happening a country apart from one another, the whole thing flows. Seamless, like an egg, as Stephen King once said. In Mooney's case the two main threads are a basic nuts-and-bolts look at the Thoroughbred industry from someone with enough clout to get inside the lines but not enough cynicism to keep pumping out the same old platitudes and a memoir about her grandmother, who introduced her to horse racing at an age tender enough that I suspect her parents weren't very happy. Either of these two things on their own would have stood as a book in itself; the slow, meandering passages about her grandmother and how the two of them interacted and the snappy, sometimes sarcastic looks at track life. It is when the two are entwined with one another that things break down to the extent they do, with the reader finding himself transported with no warning from the high of making friends with a Kentucky Derby contender to a lazy meditation on what life must have been like in the early twenties in Alaska.
Not to say it isn't worth reading; that's not it at all. There is some fine stuff here. It just could have used a little tuning. ** ½
Avoid this book.......2004-01-16
I had to put it down..........2004-01-15
i cannot read this book..........2003-11-07
Magical..........2003-05-27
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My Racing Heart : The Passionate World of Thoroughbreds and the Track
Nan Mooney Manufacturer: HarperCollins ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OA9LQK |
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Guiltless Pleasures: A David Sterritt Film Reader
David Sterritt Manufacturer: University Press of Mississippi ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1578067804 |
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David Sterritt, film critic for the Christian Science Monitor and professor of film at Long Island University, is one of the most astute, acclaimed, and thought-provoking critics in America. Sterritt's sharp eye for telling detail and deep understanding of cinema and its history make his work appealing to scholars and lay audiences.Guiltless Pleasures: A David Sterritt Film Reader collects his most incisive essays from 1970 to the present. The collection emphasizes films and filmmakers that are often overlooked or undervalued because they stray from ordinary norms of commercial cinema. At a time when admitting to "guilty pleasures" has become a common pastime among serious moviegoers, Sterritt argues that there's no reason to feel guilty about the alchemy of cinema. After all, he maintains, the inner journeys we take by means of movies and other cultural works are a large part of what makes life worth living.
He also recognizes that many cinematic pleasures don't come quickly or easily, but must be acquired and cultivated before it can be savored. Guiltless Pleasures focuses on such rewarding challenges as the avant-garde masterpieces of Stan Brakhage, the unsettling videos of Robert Wilson, and the violent, disturbing films of Gaspar Noé. Sterritt writes equally well and insightfully on mainstream Hollywood films.
Each essay reflects a wish to challenge taken-for-granted norms, rejecting what's sometimes called the "excessively obvious" style of standard commercial fare. In Guiltless Pleasures Sterritt shares his conviction that what the movie world needs most are more imaginative artists, more adventurous commentators, and more intuitive, open-minded audiences.
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Music in New Jersey, 1655-1860: A Study of Musical Activity and Musicians in New Jersey from Its First Settlement to the Civil War
Charles H. Kaufman Manufacturer: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0838622704 |
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The Moment of Movement: Dance Improvisation
Lynne Anne Blom , and L. Tarin Chaplin Manufacturer: Univ of Pittsburgh Pr (Txt) ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0822935864 |
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The Moment of Movement: Dance Improvisation
Lynne Anne Blom Manufacturer: Univ of Pittsburgh Pr (Txt) ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000WFJU9U |
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Basic Business Statistics: Concepts and Applications and CD package (10th Edition)
Mark L. Berenson , Timothy C. Krehbiel , and David M. Levine Manufacturer: Prentice Hall ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0131678310 |
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Good Overall.......2006-10-11
This is one of the best business statistics book.......2001-10-27
Good, but could be better.......2000-10-20
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Pound for Pound: A Biography of Sugar Ray Robinson
Herb Boyd , and Ray Robinson Manufacturer: Amistad ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0060934387 Release Date: 2006-01-03 |
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Hailed by Muhammad Ali as "the king, the master, my idol," Sugar Ray Robinson was the greatest boxer America had seen since Joe Louis and is considered by many today to be, pound for pound, the best boxer the sport has ever known.
A world welterweight and five–time middleweight champion, he had a career that spanned three decades. With his graceful yet powerful style and Hollywood looks – which he would use to his advantage upon his final retirement from boxing – he embodied the very essence of the "sweet science." Before he finally hung up his boxing gloves in 1965, at the age of forty–four, Sugar Ray Robinson won 125 consecutive fights, including victories over Henry Armstrong, Kid Gavilan, Carmen Basilio, Jake LaMotta, Rocky Graziano, Gene Fullmer, and Randy Turpin. His successes were not his alone, however. They belonged to his family as well, though those relationships would be marked by neglect and abuse.
At a time still characterized by discrimination, his victories, like those of Jackie Robinson, represented victories for all black America. And they were all the more symbolic because of the place he chose to call home –– Harlem. Co–written with Robinson's son, Ray Robinson II, and thoroughly researched by Amsterdam News reporter Herb Boyd, Pound for Pound is not only a definitive portrait of an emotionally complex man and his family, it is also a portrait of Harlem at the apex of its creativity, a time when Miles Davis was playing at Minton's, Langston Hughes was writing his divine poetry, and a boy from Georgia originally named Walker Smith Jr. would take on the moniker "Sugar."
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Disappointing, Superficial.......2007-06-30
Book tailed off.......2007-03-10
Good biography but lightweight for boxing fans.......2007-02-17
over-matched with Mrs........2006-11-11
Pound For Pound-a biography of Sugar Ray Robinson.......2006-11-05
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Pound for Pound - a biography of Sugar Ray Robinson
Herb Boyd , and Ray Robinson II Manufacturer: Recorded Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Audio Cassette ASIN: 1419337114 |
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Pound for Pound, A Biography of Sugar Ray Robinson
Herb Boyd with Ray Robinson II Manufacturer: Recorded Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Audio Cassette ASIN: B000IW9HCW |
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The power and grace of a boxing champ; with lightening speed and an impressive style, Sugar Ray Robinson was considered to be the best ever to step into ... An article from: Black Issues Book Review
Herb Boyd Manufacturer: Cox, Matthews & Associates ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000973UII Release Date: 2006-07-14 |
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This digital document is an article from Black Issues Book Review, published by Cox, Matthews & Associates on March 1, 2005. The length of the article is 850 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Merlin-Powered Spitfires (Volume 35)
Kev Darling Manufacturer: Specialty Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1580070574 |
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Well done synthesis on one of the more popular planes.......2003-10-20
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Alternative America: Henry George, Edward Bellamy, Henry Demarest Lloyd and the Adversary Tradition
John Thomas Manufacturer: Belknap Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0674016769 |
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Through vivid and searching portraits of these three redoubtable journalists, prizewinning historian John L. Thomas traces for the first time the evolving ideologies of the most significant reformers of their age.
George's Progress and Poverty, Bellamy's Looking Backward, and Lloyd's Wealth Against Commonwealth each in its turn became an international best-seller, championing a course of national policy and social reform that owed allegiance neither to the large-scale capitalist model then emerging, nor to the bureaucratic socialism espoused on the left. Also common to the vast writings of all three were a deep distrust of partisan machine politics and a mounting sense of social crisis which neither spoilsmanship nor materialism seemed able to address.
Seeking instead diversity and cooperation within society, small economic units, and simplicity in government, the authors of these works were moved to defend strikes during the heyday of industrial capitalism. They spoke out for international peace when imperialism was rampant. They called for the preservation of community values in the face of urban sprawl. And they urged the goals of brotherhood and interdependence in an age when survival of the fittest was seen as holy writ.
They failed magnificently as apostles of a radical culture based on the ideal of a community, yet their intellectual legacy was not lost: their heirs include the broad movement that took the name Progressive, the New Deal, and the hopeful crusades of the 1960s. This magnificent book is their memorial and their history.
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Green Spirit: Trees Are the Answer
Patrick Albert Moore Manufacturer: Greenspirit Enterprises, Ltd ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0968640400 |
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An Alternative View of Forests Based on Hard Science.......2001-02-17
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Green Spirit Trees Are the Answer Signed
Patrick Moore Manufacturer: GREENSPIRIT ENTERPRISES LTD ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000TXDZ82 |
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Green Spirit: Trees Are the Answer
Patrick Moore Manufacturer: Hushion House ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OM762O |
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