Sentences with phrase «book about a young woman»

For two decades, Sarah Polley has been desperately trying to adapt Margaret Atwood's book about a young woman who was abused, mistreated and silenced in the mid-1800s.

Delightful but poignant book about a young woman with Aspergers trying to come to term with her parents death.

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Shaq's book report revealed it had been less than transformative: «This is about a young man who has power, wealth, and women (much like me), and gives them all up to pursue a holy life (not so much like me).»

This book not only highlights important issues for those who have or plan to adopt a child of a different race and / or culture but it also offers a compelling story about a young woman who spends most of her life searching for answers about her past, her identity, and where she belongs.

In my book, there is nothing terribly natural about deaths or injuries of healthy young women, or an attitude that puts the value of a spurious experience over the life of a child.

Hicks, Jennifer HIRKANI»S DAUGHTERS: Women Who Scale Modern Mountains to Combine Breastfeeding and Working La Leche League International, 2005 The title of this book was inspired by an ancient Indian tale about a young mother, Hirkani, who scaled down a 1,000 - foot vertical cliff in order to get to her baby to breastfeed.

Diaz later said that Salgado should take a page out of Anthony Weiner's book and «take some photos of himself in his underwear and tweet them to different young women, lie about it, and then accuse someone of tampering with his Twitter account.»

As a general rule, we recommend Dr. Lee's book «What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Menopause» to women who are approaching 40 years old, and «What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About PREmenopause» to women who are younger than 40 years old.

The books, about a young woman's search for love online in Los Angeles, have been called «a fast read that will keep you entertained,» «a fun, quick read for fans of Sex and the City,» and «hard to put down.»

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If you've paid any attention to the young adult book market over the past couple of years, you're probably familiar with The Hate U Give, author Angie Thomas «s wildly popular best - seller about a young black woman who becomes an activist after seeing the police gun down her unarmed friend.

The CW also renewed the Vertigo comic book adaptation «iZombie» and picked up «Cordon,» an outbreak drama from Julie Plec («The Vampire Diaries»), and Rebecca Bloom's «Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,» about a successful, driven young woman who gives up her life in New York City to pursue love in West Covina, California.

In the original book, the story follows young woman who returns to her Orthodox Jewish home after learning about the death of her estranged father.

Wonder Woman (Patty Jenkins, 2017), because it's the most powerful popular feminist statement in mainstream cinema thus far, inspiring countless young women and girls to dare to succeed; because Patty Jenkins more than deserved it after languishing in the wilderness of episodic television after her masterful film Monster (2003), when any male director would have gone on to direct four of five features on the strength of that one film; because it's about damned time that a female comic book feature got made; because Jenkins still had to fight to get a fair payday to direct WW 2 — enduring months of fight - to - the - death negotiations to get a directorial fee comparable to that of Zack Snyder or J.J. Abrams for the sequel; and finally because she's better than either of those two directors, who are overrated hacks with little or no vision at all.

There's a story that you share in the beginning of the book of one young woman who talks about an overwhelming amount of services that were provided to her.

Still, the more apt comparison might be to Random Family, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc's 2003 book about two young women caught up in a suffocating web of destructive relationships, teen pregnancy, drugs, crime, and general dysfunction in the South Bronx.

She is taking pitches for the following fiction genres: romance, fantasy, science fiction, mystery / thriller / suspense, horror, young adult, middle grade, literary fiction, new adult, graphic novels, women's fiction, upmarket fiction, and novels / books by and about people from marginalized perspectives (such as LGBT people and / or racial minorities).

Evans teamed up with veteran author Rachel Hauck to write the first in a four book fictional series about a young Southern woman, Jade Fitzgerald, and her evolving quest to balance the traumatic events of her past with the bright prospects on her horizon.

In 2005 she authored Invisible Girls: the Truth About Sexual Abuse, a book for teen girls, young women and everyone who cares about About Sexual Abuse, a book for teen girls, young women and everyone who cares about about them.

Or books about middle - aged women whose husbands have divorced them unexpectedly and now find love with a younger man.

The book has four stories about four young women all on the same wagon train going to Oregon.

One book that fits this bill perfectly is Wild by Cheryl Strayed, about a young woman's journey across 1,100 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail.

When I first thought about writing a book for young people about women in Congress, I originally conceived of it as profiles of «firsts,» starting with Jeannette Rankin, who was elected to the House of Representatives from Montana in 1916 — four years before women across the U.S. got the vote.

What It Is Like To Go To War by Karl Marlantes A powerful nonfiction book about the experience of combat and how inadequately we prepare our young men and women for the psychological and spiritual stresses of war.

I had the pleasure of hearing Ellyn Spragin speak about the contributors to her book series, «Letters to My Younger Self — Letters from Extraordinary Women to their Younger Selves.»

About Me Contact Books Reviews Ask a Manager office security guard won't leave me alone January 4, 2011 A reader writes: I am a young woman who works for a large company where I serve as the office manager for one department.