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Free Download The Woman Who Lied: A Novel by Claire Douglas
English | July 30, 2024 | ISBN: 0063382636 | True EPUB | 400 pages | 3.6 MB
A bestselling detective novelist and her family are in danger when chilling events from her novels begin happening around her in this gripping thriller from the British sensation-the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Girls Who Disappeared and The Couple at Number 9.

Free Download Shame On You: How to Be a Woman in the Age of Mortification by Melissa Petro
English | September 10, 2024 | ISBN: 0593714997 | True EPUB | 288 pages | 2.3 MB
In the spirit of Rebecca Traister’s Good and Mad and Roxane Gay’s Bad Feminist comes a courageous, in-depth investigation into the modern epidemic of shame in our society-what it is, why women are uniquely susceptible, and how we can shift the shame off our plates and live our best lives in an over-exposed, image-obsessed world.

Free Download Renia Kukielka, "Escape from the Pit: A Woman’s Resistance in Nazi-occupied Poland, 1939-1943 "
English | ISBN: 1438494777 | 2023 | 200 pages | PDF | 5 MB
At the end of 1944, while World War II was still raging, nineteen-year-old Renia Kukielka published her Hebrew language memoir about the Holocaust. The account may well be the first of its kind. In her powerful and raw story, she portrays life in the ghettos and her three years of wandering in disguise as a Polish Catholic, trying to escape from the German onslaught. She also recounts how she served for almost a year as a courier between ghettos for the Zionist youth movement’s underground cell in Bendzin, carrying weapons, money, and messages, until she was arrested by the Gestapo in 1943. She was tortured in a high-security prison, but, after a daring escape, she was able to flee to British Mandate Palestine with other members of the resistance.

Free Download Renia Kukielka, "Escape from the Pit: A Woman’s Resistance in Nazi-occupied Poland, 1939-1943 "
English | ISBN: 1438494777 | 2023 | 200 pages | PDF | 5 MB
At the end of 1944, while World War II was still raging, nineteen-year-old Renia Kukielka published her Hebrew language memoir about the Holocaust. The account may well be the first of its kind. In her powerful and raw story, she portrays life in the ghettos and her three years of wandering in disguise as a Polish Catholic, trying to escape from the German onslaught. She also recounts how she served for almost a year as a courier between ghettos for the Zionist youth movement’s underground cell in Bendzin, carrying weapons, money, and messages, until she was arrested by the Gestapo in 1943. She was tortured in a high-security prison, but, after a daring escape, she was able to flee to British Mandate Palestine with other members of the resistance.

Free Download Marguerite Kirchner, "Among Enemies: A Young Woman’s Fight for Survival in Nazi Germany: Based on the Writings of Marguerite Kirchner"
English | ISBN: 1449090567 | 2010 | 224 pages | EPUB | 254 KB
This first-person narrative tells the true story of Marguerite Kirchner, whose multicultural family was living in Germany when WWII began. We have remained as true as possible to Marguerite’s account which reveals to readers the cruelty of war and the innocence of past generations. As a child, her family lived a luxurious life. Her mother was a French aristocrat, and her father a wealthy Austrian diplomat, and so her story begins. Always defiant, Margie was forced into a labor camp for dissident teenagers. She attended the University of Berlin during the Berlin bombings, became a young teacher in the Polish war zone, was captured as a prisoner of war and escaped, and after the war, worked for the Allied Forces, helping repatriate those who had been displaced. Her story demonstrates cunning and great courage. She went from affluence to poverty and survived the war on her wits alone, dependent on only herself and the skills she’d acquired from traveling with her family. Only after the war does she reflect on what her single-minded struggle for survival cost her, and a new journey, of a very different kind, begins.

Free Download Pam McLaughlin, "A Woman’s War: The Professional and Personal Journey of the Navy’s First African American Female Intelligence Officer"
English | 2009 | pages: 285 | ISBN: 0810867931 | PDF | 0,7 mb
When Gail Harris was assigned by the U.S. Navy to a combat intelligence job in 1973, she became the first African American female to hold such a position. Her 28-year career included hands on leadership in the intelligence community during every major conflict from the Cold War to Desert Storm to Kosovo, and most recently at the forefront of one of the Department of Defense’s newest challenges: Cyber Warfare. At her retirement, she was the highest ranking African American female in the Navy.

Free Download A Woman Among Wolves: My Journey Through Forty Years of Wolf Recovery by Diane K. Boyd
English | September 10, 2024 | ISBN: 1778401139 | True EPUB | 240 pages | 6.8 MB
A debut memoir from one of the first women in the United States to study wild wolves in their natural habitat-a story of passion, resilience, and determination.

Free Download Woman Who Brings the Rain: A Memoir of Hokkaido, Japan by Eluned Gramich
English | August 1, 2024 | ISBN: 1917140029 | True EPUB | 80 pages | 0.6 MB
As precise and nuanced as Japanese calligraphy, this memoir of the author’s stay on the remote Hokkaido island in the far north of Japan, has at its heart the mountain, Yotei-san, the region’s iconic equivalent to Mount Fuji. As much about learning a language (with connotations of ‘reading’ a wild landscape) as it is about nature, this dignified and nuanced work evokes what is cultured and cultivated, and yet also honours the wild; the untranslatable. With its themes of seasonal transformation, the peripheral, folklore, loneliness and learning to belong, this work takes a personal philosophical stance in relation to the centre and the periphery.

Free Download Woman Pissing by Elizabeth Cooperman
English | September 1, 2022 | ISBN: 1496231449 | True EPUB | 192 pages | 1.2 MB
When we think of prototypical artists, we think of, say, Picasso, who made work quickly, easily, effervescently. On the contrary, in Woman Pissing, a literary collage that takes its title from a raunchy Picasso painting, Elizabeth Cooperman celebrates artists-particularly twentieth-century women artists-who have struggled with debilitating self-doubt and uncertainty. At the same time, Cooperman grapples with her own questions of creativity, womanhood, and motherhood, considering her decade-long struggle to finish writing her own book and realizing that she has failed to perform one of the most fundamental creative acts-bearing a child.

Free Download The Unicorn Woman by Gayl Jones
English | August 20, 2024 | ISBN: 0807030031 | True EPUB | 192 pages | 3.2 MB
Marking a dramatic new direction for Jones, a riveting tale set in the Post WWII South, narrated by a Black soldier who returns to Jim Crow and searches for a mythical ideal