The Girl who Played with Fire
Title | The Girl who Played with Fire PDF eBook |
Author | Stieg Larsson |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 738 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Blomkvist, Mikael (Fictitious character) |
ISBN | 0307476154 |
When the reporters to a sex-trafficking exposé are murdered and computer hacker Lisbeth Salander is targeted as the killer, Mikael Blomkvist, the publisher of the exposé, investigates to clear Lisbeth's name.
The Girl Who Breathed Fire
Title | The Girl Who Breathed Fire PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Dahl |
Publisher | Capstone |
Pages | 22 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Dragons |
ISBN | 1434219259 |
Noor must protect her friend using capabilities she didn't know she had.
Breathing Fire
Title | Breathing Fire PDF eBook |
Author | Jaime Lowe |
Publisher | MCD |
Pages | 204 |
Release | 2021-07-27 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0374721920 |
A dramatic, revelatory account of the female inmate firefighters who battle California wildfires. Shawna was overcome by the claustrophobia, the heat, the smoke, the fire, all just down the canyon and up the ravine. She was feeling the adrenaline, but also the terror of doing something for the first time. She knew how to run with a backpack; they had trained her physically. But that’s not training for flames. That’s not live fire. California’s fire season gets hotter, longer, and more extreme every year — fire season is now year-round. Of the thousands of firefighters who battle California’s blazes every year, roughly 30 percent of the on-the-ground wildland crews are inmates earning a dollar an hour. Approximately 200 of those firefighters are women serving on all-female crews. In Breathing Fire, Jaime Lowe expands on her revelatory work for The New York Times Magazine. She has spent years getting to know dozens of women who have participated in the fire camp program and spoken to captains, family and friends, correctional officers, and camp commanders. The result is a rare, illuminating look at how the fire camps actually operate — a story that encompasses California’s underlying catastrophes of climate change, economic disparity, and historical injustice, but also draws on deeply personal histories, relationships, desires, frustrations, and the emotional and physical intensity of firefighting. Lowe’s reporting is a groundbreaking investigation of the prison system, and an intimate portrayal of the women of California’s Correctional Camps who put their lives on the line, while imprisoned, to save a state in peril.
Girls of Paper and Fire
Title | Girls of Paper and Fire PDF eBook |
Author | Natasha Ngan |
Publisher | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 2018-11-06 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 031656138X |
Uncover a riveting story of palace intrigue set in a sumptuous Asian-inspired fantasy world in the breakout YA novel that Publisher's Weekly calls "elegant and adrenaline-soaked." In this richly developed fantasy, Lei is a member of the Paper caste, the lowest and most persecuted class of people in Ikhara. She lives in a remote village with her father, where the decade-old trauma of watching her mother snatched by royal guards for an unknown fate still haunts her. Now, the guards are back and this time it's Lei they're after -- the girl with the golden eyes whose rumored beauty has piqued the king's interest. Over weeks of training in the opulent but oppressive palace, Lei and eight other girls learns the skills and charm that befit a king's consort. There, she does the unthinkable: she falls in love. Her forbidden romance becomes enmeshed with an explosive plot that threatens her world's entire way of life. Lei, still the wide-eyed country girl at heart, must decide how far she's willing to go for justice and revenge.
Dragon Ladies
Title | Dragon Ladies PDF eBook |
Author | Sonia Shah |
Publisher | South End Press |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780896085756 |
'Explores the emergence of a distinct Asian-American feminist movement through the perspectives of well-known Asian-American activists, writers and artists.' Ms. Magazine
Breath, Eyes, Memory
Title | Breath, Eyes, Memory PDF eBook |
Author | Edwidge Danticat |
Publisher | Soho Press |
Pages | 273 |
Release | 2015-02-24 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1616955023 |
The 20th anniversary edition of Edwidge Danticat's groundbreaking debut, now an established classic--revised and with a new introduction by the author, and including extensive bonus materials At the age of twelve, Sophie Caco is sent from her impoverished Haitian village to New York to be reunited with a mother she barely remembers. There she discovers secrets that no child should ever know, and a legacy of shame that can be healed only when she returns to Haiti—to the women who first reared her. What ensues is a passionate journey through a landscape charged with the supernatural and scarred by political violence. In her stunning literary debut, Danticat evokes the wonder, terror, and heartache of her native Haiti—and the enduring strength of Haiti’s women—with vibrant imagery and narrative grace that bear witness to her people’s suffering and courage.
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
Title | The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest PDF eBook |
Author | Stieg Larsson |
Publisher | Vintage Crime/Black Lizard |
Pages | 577 |
Release | 2010-05-25 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0307593673 |
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this “thoroughly gripping” (New York Times) continuation of the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series, Lisbeth Salander lies in critical condition in a Swedish hospital, a bullet in her head. But she's fighting for her life in more ways than one: if and when she recovers, she'll stand trial for three murders. • Also known as the Millennium series In the next installment of the Millennium series, with the help of Mikael Blomkvist, Salander will need to identify those in authority who have allowed the vulnerable, like herself, to suffer abuse and violence. And, on her own, she'll seek revenge—against the man who tried to kill her and against the corrupt government institutions that nearly destroyed her life. Look for the latest book in the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series, The Girl in the Eagle's Talons, coming soon!