|a Princesses |0 |z Saudi Arabia |0 |v Biography. |a Women |z Saudi Arabia |x Social conditions. |a A Saudi woman discusses what life is like for women in her country, describing how women are sold into marriage to men five times their age, are treated as their husbands' slaves, and are often murdered for the slightest transgression. |a Childhood - Family - My sister Sara - Divorce - Ali - Trip - Journey's end - Girlfriends - Foreign women - Huda - Kareem - Wedding - Married life - Birth - Dark secrets - Death of a king - Woman's room - Second wife - Escape - Great white hope - Epilogue - Afterword - Appendices: Koran on women - Laws of Saudi Arabia - Glossary - Chronology - Index. |a 291 pages : |b illustrations, maps |c 22 cm |a Atlanta, GA : |b Windsor-Brooke Books, |c |a Princess : |b a true story of life behind the veil in Saudi Arabia / |c Jean Sasson.
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At some point in the future there will be somewhere in the universe where there will be a last sentient being. I thought I had made some kind of intellectual peace with that.īut this was an angle that I hadn’t thought of before. I thought I was aware and knowledgeable about our shared cosmic predicament - namely, that if what we think we know about physics and cosmology is true, life and intelligence are doomed. It was the saddest, loneliest idea I had ever contemplated. When I heard that statement during a showing of the film recently, it broke my heart. “There will be a last sentient being, there will be a last thought,” declared Janna Levin, a cosmologist at Barnard College, near the end of “A Trip to Infinity,” a new Netflix documentary directed by Jonathan Halperin and Drew Takahashi. The End is coming, in maybe 100 billion years. Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is the protagonist of the tale born in Paris in 1738 to a mother who – having previously given birth to four still-borns or near-deads – quickly abandons him, leaving him for dead. Taking 71st place in the poll of 100, Perfume is German writer Suskind’s best known work and was made into a film in 2006, starring Alan Rickman and Dustin Hoffman. Most recently Francesca Main – an editor at Picador who has worked on some of my favourite books in recent years – suggested I read Perfume and, describing it as both dark and atmospheric, I was sold. The further I get into the BBC Top 100 Reads, the more I rely on others for recommendations. He had watched and chronicled with the detached eye of a professional tale-spinner. Hakiem had watched Sanctuary’s decline over the years watched the economy dry up as the citizens became more desperate and vicious. All was the same-only more faded and worn-like the people … like the rest of the town. Not much had changed: the stalls with their flimsy awnings to keep the sun off the day’s catch the boats bottom-up along the pier and, on the beach, a few nets hung for drying and mending. It had been a long time since Hakiem, Sanctuary’s oldest storyteller, had visited that section of town known only as the Fisherman’s Quarters, but he still knew the way. Thieves’ World®, Book 4 Introduction Robert Lynn Asprin Storm Season, The Face of Chaos, and Wings of OmenĮdited by Robert Lynn Asprin and Lynn AbbeyĪ Fish Without Feathers Is Out of His Depth Have you seen your own neighborhood change? This book is an exploration of how maddening it can be to discover injustice and feel that no one will believe you - or if they do believe you, they won't care, which is the reality of Black people and most marginalized groups in America. It's only from the hard work of people fighting against the forces of greed and white supremacy that was laid into the foundation of America. As I researched, it became apparent to me that if the arc of the moral universe does bend toward justice, that isn't its natural inclination. Alyssa Cole: When No One Is Watching is inspired by the real-life gentrification I witnessed over a lifetime in NYC and New Jersey, and also by the extensive historical research I've done over the last decade - first for personal reasons and then for my historical romances, which are set in eras ranging from the Battle of Brooklyn to the Freedom Rides. While studying, Conan Doyle began writing short stories. This required that he provide periodic medical assistance in the towns of Aston (now a district of Birmingham) and Sheffield. He then went on to Stonyhurst College, leaving in 1875.įrom 1876 to 1881 he studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh. It also names Michael Conan as his godfather.Īt the age of nine Conan Doyle was sent to the Roman Catholic Jesuit preparatory school, Hodder Place, Stonyhurst. His baptism record in the registry of St Mary's Cathedral in Edinburgh gives 'Arthur Ignatius Conan' as his Christian name, and simply 'Doyle' as his surname. They were married in 1855.Īlthough he is now referred to as "Conan Doyle", the origin of this compound surname (if that is how he meant it to be understood) is uncertain. His father, Charles Altamont Doyle, a talented illustrator, was born in England of Irish descent, and his mother, born Mary Foley, was Irish. Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was born the third of ten siblings on in Edinburgh, Scotland. |