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| Author | : De Wet Potgieter |
| Publisher | : Penguin Random House South Africa |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2014-06-16 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0143531379 |
When in 2013 he first published a report on the active presence of Al-Qaeda in South Africa, all hell broke loose for investigative reporter De Wet Potgieter. He was forced to retract before a second, substantiating article could be published. Then the massacre at Westgate Mall hit Nairobi, which made the involvement of the so-called White Widow - operating on a legitimate but illegally acquired South African passport - front-page news. Suddenly the world's media was beating a path to Potgieter's door. Now, for the first time, he tells the full unsettling story of Al-Qaeda's presence in this country. Not only is the veil lifted from this mysterious British woman, but the identity of another is disclosed: an Afrikaans-speaking counter-terrorist operative known as the Black Widow.The book shows how, taking advantage of corrupt state machinery, Al-Qaeda factions launch attacks in other countries. It discloses the location of a terrorist training camp in the Karoo and reveals disturbing details of the support they receive from various local extremist groups. Based on investigations spanning two years, Black Widow White Widow paints a frightening picture of the all too real possibility of future attacks from, or on, South African soil.
| Author | : Jim Lehrer |
| Publisher | : Random House |
| Total Pages | : 222 |
| Release | : 2012-11-21 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0307824462 |
Some bus drivers never meet a "white widow"--a wild card, a woman traveling alone who can change the course of a driver's life, and not always for the best. In this subtle, poignant novel, based on the true experiences of the anchor of PBS's News Hour with Jim Lehrer, Jack T. Oliver, who drives the Houston to Corpus Christi run for the Great Western Trailways bus line, is about to meet his.
| Author | : Jacob Grey |
| Publisher | : HarperCollins |
| Total Pages | : 152 |
| Release | : 2016-11-08 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0062321110 |
The thrilling conclusion to Ferals, a fantasy trilogy that’s part Batman, part The Graveyard Book, and all high-stakes adventure. Caw has defeated the dreaded Spinning Man and vanquished the Mother of Flies. But a new feral has appeared—one who intends to uphold the Spinning Man’s dark legacy. Known as the White Widow, this spider feral is determined to destroy Caw and bring Blackstone back into an era of crime and fear. Now everyone Caw holds dear is in danger. And this time Caw may not be able to protect them.
| Author | : Benny Powell |
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| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2018-12-10 |
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| ISBN | : 9781940367385 |
| Author | : Christian White |
| Publisher | : Affirm Press |
| Total Pages | : 283 |
| Release | : 2019-09-24 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1925972402 |
Set against the backdrop of an eerie island town in the dead of winter, The Wife and the Widow is a mystery/thriller told from two perspectives: Kate, a widow whose grief is compounded by what she learns about her dead husband’s secret life; and Abby, an island local whose world is turned upside down when she’s forced to confront the evidence that her husband is a murderer. But nothing on this island is quite as it seems, and only when these women come together can they discover the whole story about the men in their lives. Brilliant and beguiling, The Wife and the Widow takes you to a cliff edge and asks the question: how well do we really know the people we love?
| Author | : Jacob Grey |
| Publisher | : HarperCollins |
| Total Pages | : 157 |
| Release | : 2015-04-28 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0062321056 |
Ferals is the first book in a dark, action-packed trilogy that’s part The Graveyard Book, part Batman, and all high-octane adventure. Blackstone was once a thriving metropolis. But that was before the Dark Summer—a wave of violence and crime that swept through the city eight years ago, orchestrated by the fearsome Spinning Man. Now the Spinning Man is on the move again, and a boy named Caw is about to be caught in his web. Caw has never questioned his ability to communicate with crows. But as the threat of a new Dark Summer looms, Caw discovers the underground world of Blackstone’s ferals—those with the power to control animals. Caw is one of them. And to save his city, he must quickly master abilities he never knew he had . . . and prepare to defeat a darkness he never could have imagined.
| Author | : Catherine Weinberger-Thomas |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 122 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : Health & Fitness |
| ISBN | : 9780226885698 |
"At last, she arrives at the fatal end of the plank . . . and, with her hands crossed over her chest, falls straight downward, suspended for a moment in the air before being devoured by the burning pit that awaits her. . . ." This grisly 1829 account by Pierre Dubois demonstrates the usual European response to the Hindu custom of satis sacrificing themselves on the funeral pyres of their husbands—horror and revulsion. Yet to those of the Hindu faith, not least the satis themselves, this act signals the sati's sacredness and spiritual power. Ashes of Immortality attempts to see the satis through Hindu eyes, providing an extensive experiential and psychoanalytic account of ritual self-sacrifice and self-mutilation in South Asia. Based on fifteen years of fieldwork in northern India, where the state-banned practice of sati reemerged in the 1970s, as well as extensive textual analysis, Weinberger-Thomas constructs a radically new interpretation of satis. She shows that their self-immolation transcends gender, caste and class, region and history, representing for the Hindus a path to immortality.
| Author | : Joanne Natale Spigonardo |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 178 |
| Release | : 2020-03-02 |
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In the early 20th Century there was a large migration of Southern Italian men to the United States, with most of them finding homes in the Northeastern regions of the US. With the unification of Italy, Southern Italians had a sense of increased mobility but few opportunities for work remained. That was still the status quo. Many of the men left wives and children behind to find work in the States. These women were left to fend for themselves with only the occasional letter and money from their husbands. The husbands were gone for decades or they never returned. The term White Widow can refer to these women as well as others that were not recognized as married by local governments even though they were married in church. Shame, poverty, fear and abandonment were part of their lives. They and their children had to work hard to survive. White Widows were independent and regardless of their circumstances they overcame obstacles and became true heroines of the era.
| Author | : Paule Marshall |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 257 |
| Release | : 1984-04-16 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0452267110 |
From the acclaimed author of Daughters and Brown Girl, Brownstones comes a “work of exceptional wisdom, maturity, and generosity, one in which the palpable humanity of its characters transcends any considerations of race or sex”(Washington Post Book World). Avey Johnson—a black, middle-aged, middle-class widow given to hats, gloves, and pearls—has long since put behind her the Harlem of her childhood. Then on a cruise to the Caribbean with two friends, inspired by a troubling dream, she senses her life beginning to unravel—and in a panic packs her bag in the middle of the night and abandons her friends at the next port of call. The unexpected and beautiful adventure that follows provides Avey with the links to the culture and history she has so long disavowed. “Astonishingly moving.”—Anne Tyler, The New York Times Book Review
| Author | : Leslie Gray Streeter |
| Publisher | : Little, Brown |
| Total Pages | : 166 |
| Release | : 2020-03-10 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0316490725 |
With her signature warmth, hilarity, and tendency to overshare, Leslie Gray Streeter gives us real talk about love, loss, grief, and healing in your own way that "will make you laugh and cry, sometimes on the same page" (James Patterson). Leslie Gray Streeter is not cut out for widowhood. She's not ready for hushed rooms and pitying looks. She is not ready to stand graveside, dabbing her eyes in a classy black hat. If she had her way she'd wear her favorite curve-hugging leopard print dress to Scott's funeral; he loved her in that dress! But, here she is, having lost her soulmate to a sudden heart attack, totally unsure of how to navigate her new widow lifestyle. ("New widow lifestyle." Sounds like something you'd find products for on daytime TV, like comfy track suits and compression socks. Wait, is a widow even allowed to make jokes?) Looking at widowhood through the prism of race, mixed marriage, and aging, Black Widow redefines the stages of grief, from coffin shopping to day-drinking, to being a grown-ass woman crying for your mommy, to breaking up and making up with God, to facing the fact that life goes on even after the death of the person you were supposed to live it with. While she stumbles toward an uncertain future as a single mother raising a baby with her own widowed mother (plot twist!), Leslie looks back on her love story with Scott, recounting their journey through racism, religious differences, and persistent confusion about what kugel is. Will she find the strength to finish the most important thing that she and Scott started? Tender, true, and endearingly hilarious, Black Widow is a story about the power of love, and how the only guide book for recovery is the one you write yourself.
