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Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
Traces how the author, having been rescued and resuscitated by Himalayan villagers after a failed attempt to climb K2, worked to build schools that would benefit the young girls who were forbidden an education by Taliban restrictions.
Author
Language
English
Description
Little Women of Baghlan is the true account of an ordinary young woman who answers the call to service and adventure during an extraordinary time in world history. Her story rivals the excitement, intrigue, and suspense of any novel, unfolding against the backdrop of changing social mores, the Cold War, the Peace Corps, and a country at the crossroads of China, Russia, India, Pakistan, and Iran. When John F. Kennedy, delivers a speech in the Senate...
Publisher
Principle Pictures
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
With unprecedented access, WHAT TOMORROW BRINGS goes inside the very first girls' school in one small Afghan village. Never before have fathers here allowed their daughters to obtain an education. From the school's beginnings in 2009 to the girls' first graduation in 2015, filmmaker Beth Murphy embeds herself in this community for a most-intimate look at what it really means to be a girl growing up in Afghanistan today, and what it takes to change...
7) I am a girl
Publisher
Women Make Movies
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
There is a group of people in the world today who are more persecuted than anyone else, but they are not political or religious activists. They are girls. Being born a girl means you are more likely to be subjected to violence, disease, poverty and disadvantage than any other group on Earth. In I AM A GIRL, we meet 14-year-old Kimsey from Cambodia, forced to sell her virginity at 12; Aziza from Afghanistan, who will be shot if she goes to school;...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"A Cowboy's Homecoming Since his return to Little Horn, Texas, former special ops soldier Grady Stillwater has felt lost. Stillwater Ranch needs his attention--and so does his brother's abandoned baby. But the injuries Grady sustained in Afghanistan have skewered his confidence. Physical therapist Chloe Miner offers hope and guidance--and a balm for the cowboy's wounded heart. Little does he know that Chloe is hiding a life-altering secret of her...
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Harlequin Superromance brings you a collection of four new novels, available now! Experience powerful relationships that deliver a strong emotional punch and a guaranteed happily ever after. This Superromance box set includes: MOLLY'S MR. WRONG The Brodys of Lightning Creek by Jeannie Watt Community college is proving difficult. But after his military service, Finn Culver wants more than to run the family ranch-supply store. His teacher, Molly Adamson,...
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