Stepping Out Of Line

Author : Mari K. Eder
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1728230934
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line written by Mari K. Eder and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of Radium Girls and history and WWII buffs, The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line takes you inside the lives and experiences of 15 unknown women heroes from the Greatest Generation, the women who served, fought, struggled, and made things happen during WWII—in and out of uniform, for theirs is a legacy destined to embolden generations of women to come. The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line are the heroes of the Greatest Generation that you hardly ever hear about. These women who did extraordinary things didn't expect thanks and shied away from medals and recognition. Despite their amazing accomplishments, they've gone mostly unheralded and unrewarded. No longer. These are the women of World War II who served, fought, struggled, and made things happen—in and out of uniform. Young Hilda Eisen was captured twice by the Nazis and twice escaped, going on to fight with the Resistance in Poland. Determined to survive, she and her husband later emigrated to the U.S. where they became entrepreneurs and successful business leaders. Ola Mildred Rexroat was the only Native American woman pilot to serve with the Women's Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) in World War II. She persisted against all odds—to earn her silver wings and fly, helping train other pilots and gunners. Ida and Louise Cook were British sisters and opera buffs who smuggled Jews out of Germany, often wearing their jewelry and furs, to help with their finances. They served as sponsors for refugees, and established temporary housing for immigrant families in London. Alice Marble was a grand-slam winning tennis star who found her own path to serve during the war—she was an editor with Wonder Woman comics, played tennis exhibitions for the troops, and undertook a dangerous undercover mission to expose Nazi theft. After the war she was instrumental in desegregating women's professional tennis. Others also stepped out of line—as cartographers, spies, combat nurses, and troop commanders. Retired U.S. Army Major General Mari K. Eder wrote this book because she knew their stories needed to be told—and the sooner the better. For theirs is a legacy destined to embolden generations of women to come.

Author : Reina F. McKenzie
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781463562472
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stepping Out of Line written by Reina F. McKenzie and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2011-12-19 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sixteen year old girl is faced with life-changing situations and choices when her home land is invaded by strangers whose presence threaten catastrophe and death.

Author : Nell Merlino
Publisher : Harmony
ISBN 13 : 0767931440
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stepping Out of Line written by Nell Merlino and published by Harmony. This book was released on 2009-03-03 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When activist Nell Merlino decides something needs to change, she throws everything she has into changing it. Whether it is raising the visibility of girls or helping women build their businesses, her many campaigns have helped women make dreams come true. Now she marshals her life lessons—and those of other gutsy women—to help women have it their way. Stepping Out of Line is Merlino’s bold manifesto for women to stop waiting and get what they want, in the arenas of love or work or in the world at large. Offering practical nuggets like “Gain from complaining” and “The system is more malleable than you think,” she shows women how to imagine bigger lives, find support, and stay the course.

Author : Cheryl Hercus
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415930321
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stepping Out of Line written by Cheryl Hercus and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when 'feminist' is a label that many young women shun, this book offers an insightful account of the struggle of becoming and being a feminist.

Author : Ryan Leigh Dostie
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1538731517
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Formation written by Ryan Leigh Dostie and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named by Esquire as one of the Best Nonfiction Books of the Year: Chanel Miller's Know My Name meets Cheryl Strayed's Wild and Anthony Swofford's Jarhead in this powerful literary memoir of a young soldier driven to prove herself in a man's world. Raised by powerful women in a restrictive, sheltered Christian community in New England, Ryan Dostie never imagined herself on the front lines of a war halfway around the world. But then a conversation with an Army recruiter in her high-school cafeteria changes the course of her life. Hired as a linguist, she quickly has to find a space for herself in the testosterone-filled world of the Army barracks, and has been holding her own until the unthinkable happens: she is raped by a fellow soldier. Struggling with PTSD and commanders who don't trust her story, Dostie finds herself fighting through the isolation of trauma amid the challenges of an unexpected war. What follows is a riveting story of one woman's extraordinary journey to prove her worth, physically and mentally, in a world where the odds are stacked against her.

Author : Byron Pitts
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429958138
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Step Out on Nothing written by Byron Pitts and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2009-09-29 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was August 25, 2006, my first on-camera studio open for the CBS News broadcast 60 Minutes. Executive Producer Jeff Fager poked his head in the dressing room." Good luck, Brotha! You've come a long way to get here. You've earned it." ...If only he knew. My mind flashed back to elementary school, when a therapist had informed my mother, "I'm sorry, Mrs. Pitts, your son cannot read." In Step Out on Nothing, Byron Pitts chronicles his astonishing story of overcoming a childhood filled with obstacles to achieve enormous success in life. Throughout Byron's difficult youth—his parents separated when he was twelve and his mother worked two jobs to make ends meet—he suffered from a debilitating stutter. But Byron was keeping an even more embarrassing secret: He was also functionally illiterate. For a kid from inner-city Baltimore, it was a recipe for failure. Pitts turned struggle into strength and overcame both of his impediments. Along the way, a few key people "stepped out on nothing" to make a difference for him—from his mother, who worked tirelessly to raise her kids right and delivered ample amounts of tough love, to his college roommate, who helped Byron practice his vocabulary and speech. Pitts even learns from those who didn't believe in him, like the college professor who labeled him a failure and told him to drop out of college. Through it all, he persevered, following his steadfast passion. After fifteen years in local television, he landed a job as a correspondent for CBS News in 1998, and went on to become an Emmy Award–winning journalist and a contributing correspondent for 60 Minutes. Not bad for a kid who couldn't read. From a challenged youth to a reporting career that has covered 9/11 and Iraq, Pitts's triumphant and uplifting story will resonate with anyone who has felt like giving up in the face of seemingly insurmountable hardships.

Author : Peter Holland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521781145
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare Survey: Volume 53, Shakespeare and Narrative written by Peter Holland and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-11-02 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theme for Shakespeare Survey 53 is Shakespeare and Narrative.

Author : Salman Rushdie
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307366529
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Step Across This Line written by Salman Rushdie and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2010-11-05 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of the great novelists of our day, a vital, brilliant new book of essays, speeches and articles essential for our times. Step Across This Line showcases the other side of one of fiction’s most astonishing conjurors. On display is Salman Rushdie’s incisive, thoughtful and generous mind, in prose that is as entertaining as it is topical. The world is here, captured in pieces on a dazzling array of subjects: from New York’s Amadou Diallo case to the Wizard of Oz, from U2 to fifty years of Indian writing, from a tribute to Angela Carter to the struggle to film Midnight’s Children. The title essay was originally delivered at Yale as the 2002 Tanner lecture on human values, and examines the changing meaning of frontiers in the modern world -- moral and metaphorical frontiers as well as physical ones. The collection chronicles Rushdie’s intellectual journeys, but it is also an intimate invitation into his life: he explores his relationship to India through a moving diary of his first visit there in over a decade, “A Dream of Glorious Return.” Step Across This Line also includes “Messages From the Plague Years,” a historic set of letters, articles and reflections on life under the fatwa. Gathered together for the first time, this is Rushdie’s humane, intelligent and angry response to a grotesque threat, aimed not just at him but at free expression itself. Step Across This Line, Salman Rushdie’s first collection of non-fiction in a decade, has the same energy, imagination and erudition as his astounding novels -- along with some very strong opinions.

Author : Gilbert Doctorow
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781481270069
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stepping Out of Line written by Gilbert Doctorow and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-04-05 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nature of Vladimir Putin's Russia and how to deal with it is one of the very rare topics in International Relations where there is virtually no disagreement within the American establishment. In 'Foreign Affairs' and other professional journals, we see that opinion is divided over possible responses to Iran and its nuclear policy. Opinion is divided on managing relations with rising China. Only the Russian case appears to be frozen in time, without any public controversy. That is an unnatural state of affairs. For America's national interests to be properly served, for opportunities to lower the transaction costs of managing global affairs to be properly exploited, there must be rigorous debate over relations with Russia, alongside other major foreign policy challenges. The author of these essays has chosen to 'step out of line' and step up to bat. The Bush administration closed and the Obama administration opened amidst global tensions of a New Cold War with the Kremlin. Notwithstanding 'reset, ' the four years since have failed to bring about a significant rapprochement. 'Stepping Out of Line' is a collection of journalistic reports chronicling the ups and downs in relations; the author's polemical ripostes to leading figures in the American foreign policy establishment over responsibility for the missed opportunity to improve relations; and his scholarly essays on American Russianists from the past who demonstrated that profound knowledge of the object of their studies and sympathy for the country were not always at odds.

Author : Jen McLaughlin
Publisher : EverAfter Romance
ISBN 13 : 0990781941
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Out of Line written by Jen McLaughlin and published by EverAfter Romance. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Desperate to break free... I've spent my entire life under my father's thumb, but now I'm finally free to make my own choices. When my roommate dragged me to my first college party, I met Finn Coram and my life turned inside out. He knows how to break the rules and is everything I never knew I wanted. A Marine by day and surfer by night, he pushes me away even as our attraction brings us closer. Now I am finally free to do whatever I want. I know what I want. I choose Finn. Trying to play by the rules... I always follow orders. My job, my life, depends on it. I thought this job would be easy, all the rules were made crystal clear, but when I met Carrie Wallington, everything got muddy. She's a rule I know I shouldn't break, but damn if I don't inch closer to the breaking point each time I see her. I'm ready to step out of line. And even worse? I'm living a lie. They say the truth will set you free, but in my case... The truth will cost me everything.