Daughters Of The Desert: Stories Of Remarkable Women From Christian, Jewish, And Muslim Traditions

Farrell, Mary Cronk;Murphy, Claire Rudolf;Sayres, Meghan Nuttall;Conover, Sarah;Farrell, Mary Cronklf;Wharton, Betsy

ISBN 10: 1893361721 / ISBN 13: 9781893361720

Edité par Skylight Paths Pub, Woodstock, Vermont, U.S.A., 2003

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Small scratch on dust jacket. 178pp.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Daughters Of The Desert: Stories Of Remarkable Women From Christian, Jewish, And Muslim Traditions
• Éditeur: Skylight Paths Pub, Woodstock, Vermont, U.S.A.
• Date de parution: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1893361721
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781893361720
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: First Edition.
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: Very Good
• Type de livre: Book
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Religion
  • Womens Studies

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Synopsis

Short stories of daring, brave, thoughtful, wise women who played important roles in the early days of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Invites us to understand and appreciate the struggles and triumphs of these mothers, daughters, believers and seekers.

À propos des auteurs

Claire Rudolf Murphy is the award-winning author of several books for children and young adults, including Children of the Gold Rush (winner of the 2000 Willa Cather Award), Gold Rush Women and Free Radical. She is coauthored of Daughters of the Desert: Stories of Remarkable Women
from Christian, Jewish and Muslim Traditions (SkyLight Paths).

Meghan Nuttall Sayres is atapestry weaver and the author of The Shape of Betts Meadow: A Wetlands Story and Anahita's Woven Riddle and coauthor of Daughters of the Desert: Tales of Remarkable Women from Christian, Jewish and Muslim Traditions (SkyLight Paths).

Mary Cronk Farrell, formerly an award-winning television journalist, is now a children's author and syndicated columnist on family spirituality.

Sarah Conover is the author of Kindness: Buddhist Wisdom for Children and Parents, winner of the Skipping Stones Multicultural Award, and is currently writing a children's reader on Islam. She is also coauthor of Daughters of the Desert: Stories of Remarkable Women from Christian, Jewish and Muslim Traditions (SkyLight Paths).

Betsy Wharton is a writer and nurse whose work has taken her to a Navajo Indian reservation, an AIDS hospice, and a refugee camp on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.