Kategoria BISAC: Young Adult Nonfiction >> Girls & Women

Extraordinary women raise extraordinary women.

As a child, Laura Ingalls Wilder traveled across the prairie in a covered wagon. Her daughter, Rose, thought those stories might make a good book, and the two created the beloved Little House series.

Sara Breedlove, the daughter of former slaves, wanted everything to be different for her own daughter, A'Lelia. Together they built a million-dollar beauty empire for women of color.

Marie Curie became the first person in history to win two Nobel prizes in science. Inspired by her mother, Irene too...

Women want to protect the purity that is God's gift to them, and they also long to be loved. This volatile combination makes them vulnerable to temptation. That is why it is vital that women know not only that God wants them to wait, but why God wants them to do so. They need solid reasons, conviction, and a strategy that will...

The world you live in promotes sex as the answer to just about everything. The pressure to go along with the crowd is greater than ever before, and it's easy to compromise in little ways that are a lot more harmful than they seem. You and your friends may become caught up in destructive relationships or sexual activities without even knowing how you got there. You just want to be normal-to fit in, to be liked, to look attractive to the opposite sex. But are you paying too high a price?

This counterpart to the award-winning...

"Der Schatten eines Mannes ist besser als das Dach Uber dem Kopf"
Dieses Sprichwort hat lange die Rolle der Frauen in Agypten beschrieben. Wie die klassischen Pyramiden von Gizeh so ist auch die Agyptische Kultur zum grOten Teil unverAndert. Agyptische MAnner kontrollieren weiterhin unter dem Banner des Islam die Frauen.
Aus dem Schatten der MAnner erzAhlt die Geschichte von zwei Schwestern, die den Mut und die Lebensfreude finden, um ihr Leben zu riskieren und sich KrAften zu widersetzen, die offenbar so gro, stark und Uberholt sind wie die Pyramiden, sodass sie ihre Zukunft...