Carole: 1782 books
by Carole Simpson
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
NewsLady is the memoir of a trailblazing African American woman journalist whose life is about firsts. Carole Simpson was the first woman to broadcast radio news in Chicago, the first African American woman to anchor a local newscast in the same city, the first African American woman national network...
by Carole and David McEntee-Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2011
Who are we?
Why are we here?
Is there a God?
The world we currently live in is characterised by its conflicting cultures with their diverse political, social and religious views. Add to this the growing climatic problems and the increasing gap between those who have and those...
Pathfinder: an Action Plan
Making the Most of High School
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010
High school is not an ending; it is, rather, a commencement. In Pathfinder: An Action Plan, authors Frank C. Leana and Carole S. Clark show parents and educators how to help students feel empowered and make choices and decisions that will serve them well both in high school and beyond. Filled with...
Amazons, Wives, Nuns, and Witches
Women and the Catholic Church in Colonial Brazil, 1500-1822
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
The Roman Catholic church played a dominant role in colonial Brazil, so that women’s lives in the colony were shaped and constrained by the Church’s ideals for pure women, as well as by parallel concepts in the Iberian honor code for women. Records left by Jesuit missionaries, Roman Catholic church...
The Women of CourtWatch
Reforming a Corrupt Family Court System
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Houston was a terrible place to divorce or seek child custody in the 1980s and early 1990s. Family court judges routinely rendered verdicts that damaged the interests of women and children. In some especially shocking cases, they even granted custody to fathers who had been accused of molesting their...
Pride of Family
Four Generations of American Women of Color
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
“From the moment I read the words [my great-grandmother] Frances Anne Rollin wrote in Boston on January 1, 1868—“The year renews its birth today with all its hopes and sorrows”—she became my beacon, the foremother who would finally share with me our collective past . . . —From the Preface
Originally...
New Frontier Cooking
Recipes from Montana?s Mustang Kitchen
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Designed to bring people together, Frontier Cooking brings the magic of chef Carole Sullivan’s personalized family-style meals to your home kitchen, backyard, and the great outdoors. Prepare your very own celebrity meals just like some of Mustang’s favorite customers-revel in the Thanksgiving...
The Trials of Laura Fair
Sex, Murder, and Insanity in the Victorian West
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
On November 3, 1870, on a San Francisco ferry, Laura Fair shot a bullet into the heart of her married lover, A. P. Crittenden. Throughout her two murder trials, Fair's lawyers, supported by expert testimony from physicians, claimed that the shooting was the result of temporary insanity caused by a...
The Yuletide Engagement & A Yuletide Seduction
An Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Two Christmas treats from USA TODAY bestselling author Carole Mortimer
The Yuletide Engagement
When Patrick McGarth offers to take Ellie to her company's Christmas party, she reluctantly accepts. If nothing else, she can show the world-and her cheating ex-boyfriend-that she's not nursing...
Arrested Histories
Tibet, the CIA, and Memories of a Forgotten War
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
In the 1950s, thousands of ordinary Tibetans rose up to defend their country and religion against Chinese troops. Their citizen army fought through 1974 with covert support from the Tibetan exile government and the governments of India, Nepal, and the United States. Decades later, the story of this...
by Carole Somerville
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2011
What are superstitions and why are people superstitious? How did superstitions originate and how can they be explained? In this book you will find the answers along with more information about Wedding customs and superstitions, birth and death customs and superstitions. Find out how the sea, sport,...
The Heart and Stomach of a King
Elizabeth I and the Politics of Sex and Power
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
In her famous speech to rouse the English troops staking out Tilbury at the mouth of the Thames during the Spanish Armada's campaign, Queen Elizabeth I is said to have proclaimed, "I may have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king." Whether or not...
Left of Karl Marx
The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2008
In Left of Karl Marx, Carole Boyce Davies assesses the activism, writing, and legacy of Claudia Jones (1915–1964), a pioneering Afro-Caribbean radical intellectual, dedicated communist, and feminist. Jones is buried in London’s Highgate Cemetery, to the left of Karl Marx—a location that Boyce...
by Carole L Usher
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
This book of poetry talks about the loss of a daughter.How her dreams have been taken away forever. Sometimes our dreams are taken away because of the actions of another. And how can the parents of missing children go on in their life? Where are their children? The pain they feel is real. And what about...