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""Sarva Mangala Mangalye Sive Sarvartha Sadhike
Saranye Trayambike Gauri Narayani Namostute"
"We see the image of Maa Durga wearing 17-adornment", which we usually ignore or do not notice. Prerna follows and adorns herself with the 17th Adornment in her marriage which Maa Durga always wear.
The story tells how the Prerna journey performs and how she fights against society's mindset. During the journey, she meets two important women, one...
2) Coming home
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2024.
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"From the nine-time women's basketball icon and two-time Olympic gold medalist--a raw, revelatory account of her unfathomable detainment in Russia and her journey home. On February 17, 2022, Brittney Griner arrived in Moscow ready to spend the WNBA offseason playing for the Russian women's basketball team where she had been the centerpiece of previous championship seasons. Instead, a security checkpoint became her gateway to hell when she was arrested...
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Abdo Reference, a division of ABDO
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"From movies and actors to video games and superheroes, these information-packed books cover the exciting world of entertainment. In the Entertainment Encyclopedias series, learn about influential movies that changed the film industry and impacted US culture, and get to know the actors who have brought these movies to life. Discover thrilling video games made in the 1950s and onward, and learn about superheroes, their powers, and their enemies." --...
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Fleeing to her family home in Ireland after a devastating betrayal, Elise Lanscarr, when her stagecoach crashes in a storm, is rescued by a rough-looking, albeit handsome stranger, and finds this night is just the beginning of an unexpected, often dangerous, adventure which puts their hearts at risk.
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Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC
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[2023-]
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English
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Haruma Ichinose, 17, has been popular since he was born. So popular, in fact, that he figured no one could even come close ... until he met Yuki Mogami. She's tall, cool, collected, and totally makes him crazy. He may just be in love ... but can he deal with falling for someone even more dashing than himself?
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"A remarkable work about women writers in the Renaissance explodes our notion of the Shakespearean period and brings us in close to four women who were committed to their craft before there was any possibility of "a room of one's own." In a sparkling and engaging narrative of everyday life in Shakespearean England, Ramie Targoff carries us from the sumptuous coronation of Queen Elizabeth in the mid 16th century into the private lives of four women...
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John F. Blair, Publisher
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2015.
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English
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"In 1950s New Orleans, a young woman steps into her white tulle gown and glides down the long hallway of her parents' house into the front garden. Her father, a respected surgeon, drives her downtown, where she will make her debut into Negro society. Though mesmerized by the rituals, Sybil Haydel, 17, cannot help but note their irony in a world where she daily faces the barriers and insults of Jim Crow. Thirteen years later, Sybil lies sleepless in...
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The MIT Press
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2024.
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English
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"Our heroic teen science prodigies are back for a new mission with the Curie Society, an elite secret organization where brilliant women can pursue the furthest reaches of their intellect, and this time they face a threat more serious and more sinister than anything they've encountered before! Maya, Taj, and Simone are supposed to be spending their summer broadening their horizons, but their plans take a strange and puzzling turn when the Curie Society's...
10) Foolish wives
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Flicker Alley
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[2023]
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Count Wladyslaw Sergius Karamzin, a notorious womanizer posing as Russian nobility, operates a scam in Monte Carlo with his partners, cousins "Princess" Vera Petchnikoff and "Her Highness" Olga Petchnikoff. The con artist targets the unworldly Mrs. Hughes, wife of an American diplomat, with the intention of seducing and extorting money from her. However, the plan takes an unexpected turn, leading to disastrous consequences for Mrs. Hughes and unraveling...