In The Extraordinary Suzy Wright (Abrams)-a handsomely designed, finely crafted biography-Teri Kanefield ( The Girl from the Tar Paper School) tells Wright's story-and that of early Pennsylvania-in crystal-clear prose enhanced by period illustrations, letters and contemporary photographs. (Ages 10-up)Įngland-born Quaker Susanna Wright (1697-1794) was a frontierswoman in colonial America, a renowned poet and a political activist who worked for Native American rights and was influential at the highest levels of Pennsylvania government. In Ten Days a Madwoman (Viking)-a truly thrilling, appealingly designed, photo-laden biography by Deborah Noyes ( Encyclopedia of the End)-readers will not only get a chilling look into the horrors of Blackwell's Island, but also a sense of women's challenges in 19th-century America. 'How will you get me out?' Nellie asked her editor. The World hired her to pretend to be insane, so she could be committed to an asylum on Blackwell's Island and report on the horrific conditions from the inside. In 1887, 23-year-old 'Nellie Bly' (born Elizabeth Cochran) from Pennsylvania moved to New York City to become a journalist. Unable to go home, afraid for Majid’s fate, and heartbroken by Taymour’s determination to keep living a double life, Rasa’s fragile balance collapses, while all around him the brief, intense season of public protest is cut short by the regime’s repression and the rapid rise of the hard-line Islamist movement.Nellie Bly, Susanna Wright and assorted belles and bank robbers top our Women's History Month recommendations, but don't miss Shelf 's longer list. That same day Rasa learns his best friend, the famous drag queen Majid, has been arrested by the police. When she finds them in bed together on the eve of Taymour’s wedding day, all hell breaks loose.

Rasa aworks as an interpreter for Western journalists by day and divides his nights between the Guapa, an underground nightclub where the city’s clandestine LGBT community congregates, and his secret lover Taymour.Įvery night Taymour sneaks into the house Rasa shares with his overbearing grandmother, the woman who raised him. A day in the life of a young man disillusioned with both East and West and struggling to find a place for himself in a society ruled by hypocrisy and contradictions. Mae’r stori yn dilyn ei berthynas gyda’i gariad gyfrinachol Taymour, ei mam-gu drahaus a’r wladwriaeth ormesol.Ī Middle-Eastern capital caught in the revolutionary wave of the Arab Spring. Nofel am Rasa, dyn ifanc sy’n byw mewn dinas yn y Dwyrain canol yng nghanol ton chwyldroadol, sy’n siomedig gyda’r Gorllewin a’r Dwyrain.

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