"The real life story of Kharika Devkota, a Nepal woman who was married at the age of five, abused for initially having only daughters, and at the age of 90 years, is relatively wealthy, owning rice fields and micro lending to villagers in her rural area"--Publisher information.
"The real life story of Kharika Devkota, a Nepal woman who was married at the age of five, abused for initially having only daughters, and at the age of 90 years, is relatively wealthy, owning rice fields and micro lending to villagers in her rural area"--Publisher information.
"The real life story of Kharika Devkota, a Nepal woman who was married at the age of five, abused for initially having only daughters, and at the age of 90 years, is relatively wealthy, owning rice fields and micro lending to villagers in her rural area"--Publisher information.
A Californian paramedic answers an advertisement for contract work at a military hospital in Saudi Arabia. So his adventure begins. This is a riveting, factual account of his ten years inside a country seldom seen by the outside world. Working on the private medical staff of King Abdullah, no western writer has ever been this close to the "House of Saud". The author takes you on a journey from the desert camps of the Bedouin to the highest echelons of the Saudi royal family. From meetings between King Abdullah and Yasser Arafat to the death of Edi Amin the author documents it all. Themes explored include the contrast of cultures and the rise of terrorism in a post 9/11 world. The author's unique and often humorous perspective provides a view of Saudi society that has never before been documented by any other book in this genre. The author gives an important insight to events that continue to affect the world today.
A young woman struggles to enter the male world of general journalism in 1969. Catapulting through the changes for women in the workforce in New Zealand over the next 20 years, she breaks down barriers, and involves in protests, political changes and motherhood. She experiences a secret service investigation in the 1970's and becomes a business editor in the 1980's. This is a story of her personal, professional and political challenges during that period.
The extraordinary true story of how an iman's daughter escaped her abused childhood, and an honor killing by her strict Muslim family, to find freedom - and love.
Mitsuko Hanamura was born wanting very little out of life: a place to call her own, maybe a small garden where she could grow flowers, just a little house with a shelf for some books, where she could live alone, with no need to share a bed, or a meal, or clothes, with anyone.But she was born in 1916 in rural Japan, the oldest girl in a family with eight children and no money, with nothing to depend on but her clever brain and indomitable spirit. Sent away at thirteen to live with relatives, hired out at fifteen to pay off a family debt, desperate for an education at any cost, this is the story of a young girl who never gave up on herself, no matter what her circumstances, no matter how bleak her life seemed to be.It is the story of my Obachan, or grandmother, as told to me by her, an amazing story which begins in the countryside of Japan and ends in the war torn streets of Kawasaki. I wrote it down as I heard it, believing it sounded more like a movie than her life; only the names have been changed out of respect for her living family. This is the journey she took as she exchanged one set of dreams for another, as she grew from a wide-eyed, hopeful teenager to a young mother in wartime Japan.