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Once I Was A Princess
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Imagine what it would be like to be swept off your feet by a royal prince and live a charmed life in the marble palaces of an oil-rich nation - and then watch your fairy-tale romance turn into a nightmare of Islamic superstition, isolation, betrayal and abuse at the hands of your husband?

What would you do if you managed to escape your life of torment - and then your children were kidnapped by their own father? This is what happened to Jacqueline Pascarl.

Prince Raja Bahrin met Jaqueline in her native Australia, wooed this 17 year old girl into marriage, then once she was called Princess Yasmin, robbed her of her identity and forced her into superstitious Islamic practices.
Following the birth of her two children, she returned to Australia, but instead of finding freedom, she found herself enslaved again by a bitter custody battle which led to the eventual kidnapping of the children by Prince Raja Bahrin who returned them to Malaysia, where, seven years on, they still live without any contact with their mother. This harrowing autobiography of one woman who had to lose her own children before she truly found herself is not only a bitter account of a life of constant disappointment which begins as a child and builds to a death-defying crescendo in her adult life, but is also a story of love and passion so strong that a fight to the death seems almost inevitable.

In the Land of Invisible Women
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This is the story of both the terrifying and electrifying journey of Dr. Qanta Ahmed, a Pakistani Muslim woman, trained in four medical specialties in the United States, and her personal two-year quest and journey deep into the Islamic world of Saudi Arabia.

For two years, she worked in one of the world s most modern hospitals, in a society where not only are women not allowed to drive cars, but they can't wear seatbelts because the seatbelt make their breasts more prominent.

She evokes lands more exotic than she could ever imagine, and the moments where she finds tenderness and beauty where she would least expect it, at the tattered, curled edges of extremism.

Towards the end, the reader joins Dr. Ahmed and two and a half million other Muslims on a Hajj, an electrifying and deeply moving pilgrimage to Mecca and reveals the mysteries that shroud the exotic and strange world of Saudi Arabia.
 

No More Tomorrows
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The Compelling True Story of an Innocent Woman Sentenced to
Twenty Years in a Hellhole Bali Prison (Paperback)

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It was meant to be a two-week holiday to celebrate her sister's birthday, but for Schapelle Corby it ended up a waking nightmare.

Arrested at Denpasar airport after marijuana was found in her luggage, she became the victim of every traveller's darkest fear.

Over four kilograms of drugs had been planted in her bag after she'd checked it in and she was forced to face the consequences of someone else's crime in a country where the penalties for drug smuggling are among the harshest in the world.

Her trial and conviction became one of the biggest news stories of the decade and her family watched in horror as she was sentenced to 20 years in jail.

Yet despite the huge media coverage, the one voice the public never properly heard was Schapelle's. Now, in this compelling book, she tells her own story: of being wrenched from a carefree holiday and incarcerated in a stinking police cell and of learning to survive - in the squalor, discomfort and violence of an Indonesian jail. It is an account like no other and will be one of the most unforgettable books you'll ever read.
 

Slave Girl (Paperback)
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Sarah Forsyth has spent most of her life in fear.

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Born in Newcastle in 1976, from the age of three the very people who were meant to be looking after and protecting her were sexually abusing her.

Somehow overcoming the hurt and heartbreak of this horrific childhood, Sarah managed to build a new and happy life for herself as a nursery nurse.

Then, one day, Sarah spotted a newspaper advert for a job in a creche in Amsterdam; thrilled by the prospect of a fresh start away from Newcastle and all the memories it held, she eagerly signed up.

But within minutes of stepping off the plan in Amsterdam her life began to fall apart. There was no creche and no job: Sarah was a victim of sex-trafficking.

That night, a just twenty-one years of age, her life - her real life, her life as Sarah Forsyth - ended. Fed cocaine and cannabis, and forced at gunpoint to work as a prostitute in the Red Light District of Amsterdam, Sarah was turned from a young innocent English girl into a desperate and terrified crack whore.
 

Jacqueline Pascarl author of Once I Was A Princess

Jacqueline Pascarl was a young ballet dancer in 1980 when she met a member of the Malaysian royal family. Raja Datuk Kamarul Bahrin Shah was in Melbourne studying architecture. They got married in 1981 when Jacqueline Pascarl was 17 and moved to Malaysia in 1982. They had two children, a girl called Shahirah, and a boy called Mohammed Baharuddin, although most people call him Iddin. After a while Raja Bahrin took a second wife, which is legal under Islamic law. Jacqueline says that Raja had become violent towards her, so in 1985 she and both children went on a visit to Australia to visit her grandmother (who was sick), and never returned.
Jacqueline and Raja got divorced the following year and he signed over custody to her for both their children
She met and married a TV journalist Iain Gillespie, but that marriage only lasted till 1990, and after her second divorce Jacqueline married Bill Crocaris in 2002. They'd been freinds at school.
By 1992 Jacqueline Pascarl was a feature reporter for the Australian Ten Network, and while he was on a custody visit to see his children he got them back to Malaysia - he went on TV saying it was the "Will of Allah".

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