Tag: Girls

Meringue Girls Everything Sweet


Free Download Alex Hoffler, Stacey O’Gorman, "Meringue Girls: Everything Sweet"
English | 2017 | pages: 240 | ISBN: 0224101056 | EPUB | 101,6 mb
Feast your eyes upon unusual edible gifts, cool confectionary and delicious things in all colors of the rainbow. Think raspberry and lemon layer cake decorated with splattered buttercream and Persian fairy floss. Flavored honeycombs from hazelnut and coffee to rhubarb and rose. "CRACK" brûlée tart with homemade vanilla bean paste. Coyo, mango and raspberry rockets and the MOTHER of all carrot cakes. Quirky chapters include "Gifts, Gifts, Gifts," "Cakes & Dreams," "Ain’t no party like an MG party," "Save room for dessert," "Just add glitter" and "Back to basics." These recipes share the Girls’ baking secrets. They burst with flavor, and are totally on trend. Includes metric measures.

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Wild Girls How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation [Audiobook]


Free Download Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CHCC1VF1 | 2023 | 4 hours and 4 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 224 MB
Author: Tiya Miles
Narrator: Janina Edwards

Harriet Tubman, forced to labor outdoors on a Maryland plantation, learned from the land a terrain for escape. Louisa May Alcott ran wild, eluding gendered expectations in New England. The Indigenous women’s basketball team from Fort Shaw, Montana, recaptured a sense of pride in physical prowess as they trounced the white teams of the 1904 World’s Fair. Celebrating women like these who acted on their confidence outdoors, Wild Girls brings new context to misunderstood icons like Sacagawea and Pocahontas, and to underappreciated figures like Native American activist writer Zitkála-Šá, farmworkers’ champion Dolores Huerta, and labor and Civil Rights organizer Grace Lee Boggs.

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The Fly Girls Revolt The Story of the Women Who Kicked Open the Door to Fly in Combat [Audiobook]


Free Download The Fly Girls Revolt: The Story of the Women Who Kicked Open the Door to Fly in Combat (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CDXZ8CP8 | 2023 | 9 hours and 5 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 262 MB
Author: Eileen A. Bjorkman
Narrator: Lisa S. Ware

In 1993, U.S. women earned the right to fly in combat, but the full story of how it happened is largely unknown. The Fly Girls Revolt chronicles the actions of a band of women who overcame decades of discrimination and prevailed against bureaucrats, chauvinists, anti-feminists, and even other military women. Drawing on extensive research, interviews with women who served in the 1970s and 1980s, and her personal experiences in the Air Force, Eileen Bjorkman weaves together a riveting tale of the women who fought for the right to enter combat and be treated as equal partners in the U.S. military.

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Pushout The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools


Free Download Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools by Monique W. Morris, Kristyl Dawn Tift, Tantor Audio
English | 2016 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B01M046D9X | Format: MP3 / Bitrate: 128 Kbps / 8 hours and 54 minutes | 122 Mb
Fifteen-year-old Diamond stopped going to school the day she was expelled for lashing out at peers who constantly harassed and teased her for something everyone on the staff had missed: she was being trafficked for sex. After months on the run, she was arrested and sent to a detention center for violating a court order to attend school. Just 16 percent of female students, Black girls make up more than one-third of all girls with a school-related arrest.
The first trade book to tell these untold stories, Pushout exposes a world of confined potential and supports the growing movement to address the policies, practices, and cultural illiteracy that push countless students out of school and into unhealthy, unstable, and often unsafe futures. For four years, Monique W. Morris chronicled the experiences of Black girls across the country whose intricate lives are misunderstood, highly judged – by teachers, administrators, and the justice system – and degraded by the very institutions charged with helping them flourish. Morris shows how, despite obstacles, Black girls still find ways to breathe remarkable dignity into their lives in classrooms, juvenile facilities, and beyond.

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The Girls Who Fought Crime The Untold True Story of the Country’s First Female Investigator and Her Crime Fighting [Audiobook]


Free Download The Girls Who Fought Crime: The Untold True Story of the Country’s First Female Investigator and Her Crime Fighting Squad (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CD989R2L | 2023 | 6 hours and 27 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 354 MB
Author: Maj. Gen. Mari K. Eder
Narrator: Elizabeth Wiley

An inspiring feminist tale of a woman who dedicated her entire life to the New York Police Department, upending the patriarchy and the status quo for women working in public service. Mary "Mae" Foley was a force to be reckoned with. On one hip she held her makeup compact, on the other, her NYPD badge. When women were fighting for the vote, Mae was fighting crime in the heart of New York City-taking down rapists, bootleggers, Nazis, and serial killers. One of the first women to be sworn into the police force, Mae not only fought crime in the city that never sleeps, but also did something much bigger-challenged the patriarchal systems that continually tried to shut her and other women down. The result of her efforts? A long career that helped over 2,000 women join her auxiliary police force, the ‘Masher Squad.’ Mae Foley is proof that women can do anything men can do, all while wearing corsets and the perfect shade of rouge. From renowned author, speaker, and retired United States Army Major General Mari K. Eder comes the exciting and superbly researched story of a trailblazer who courageously dedicated her life to public service.

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