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Sasha Davis, smart and pretty, was once an all-American teenage beauty queen. Full of potential, she was the only student at her midwestern high school to attend college on the East Coast. But soon her promise begins to falter. After starting graduate school in New York, Sasha gets married and drops out of school to take a clerical job. Consigned to the role of trophy wife, and already feeling old at twenty-four, she lives in fear of turning thirty-the...
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A New York Times Notable Book: A moving glimpse of a life shrewdly examined Extra Innings follows a year in the life of Doris Grumbach, beginning with the release of her previous memoir and journal, Coming into the End Zone, and revealing that the devoted essayist, novelist, and critic possesses as keen an eye in her seventies as she did when she wrote The Spoil of Flowers thirty years earlier. Grumbach details each passing month and the trials...
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This book tells the true stories of three gentile women who were born, raised, lived and died within the world of England's Country Houses. This is not the story of 'seen and not heard' women, these are incredible women who endured tremendous tragedy and worked alongside their husbands to create a legacy that we are still benefitting from today. Harriet Leveson-Gower, Countess Granville was the second born child of the infamous Georgiana, Duchess...
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A behind-the-scenes look at the organization that transformed Congress-and became a force for female empowerment. In 1985, aware of the near-total absence of women in Congress, Ellen Malcolm launched EMILY's List, a powerhouse political organization that seeks to ignite change by getting women elected to office. The rest is history: Since then, EMILY's List has helped elect 23 women senators, 12 governors, and 116 Democratic women to the House. When...
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Isaac and Nora haven't seen each other in five years, yet when Nora phones Isaac late one night, he knows who it is before she's spoken a word. Isaac, a photographer, is relinquishing his artistic career, while Nora, a writer, is seeking to rededicate herself to hers. Fueled by their rediscovered love, Nora is soon on fire with the best work she's ever done, until she realizes that the story she's writing has turned into a fictionalized portrait of...
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A stressed-out single dad and caregiver to his mischievous abuelo butts heads and creates sparks with a teacher and social justice advocate.
Santiago "Saint" Vega gets a second shot at love with Lola León, but when duty to his family forces him to do something she'll never forgive, will everything he's built come crumbling down? Years ago, Saint walked away from the girl he loved to fulfill his duty. Now he's struggling to build bridges between...
67) Third degree
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College professor Alison Bergeron stops by a coffee shop to steel her resolve. She's about to meet the family of her boyfriend, NYPD Detective Bobby Crawford, right on the heels of his proposal that she has yet to answer. Suddenly, a brawl breaks out that ends in the death of Carter Willmott, a merciless and loathed local blogger, and Alison witnessed the whole thing. But then Willmott's car explodes, and the crime becomes something else entirely....
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Four women find humor, truth, and a better path forward by deconstructing memory and emotion.
Hunter is lost. Her husband left her for her best friend, she's unemployed with no prospects, and the San Francisco flea market she's wandering on a weekday is so foggy that she literally doesn't know where she is. But after a helpful visit and a gift from a stranger, Hunter resolves to find her way. She begins a support group for women looking for new...
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Run Away to the Yard is a unique collection of poems that addresses personal identity within the contemporary culture. In parable-like vignettes and metaphor-dense portraits, Krueger's poems challenge old notions of self, asking readers to reconsider what brings meaning to daily life. Through the lens of close observation―much like a photographer―Krueger examines the complexity of our responses to a convoluted world. Poems ask us to consider who...
70) Indecent
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When Sholem Asch wrote God of Vengeance in 1907, he didn't imagine the height of controversy the play would eventually reach. Performing at first in Yiddish and German, the play's subject matter wasn't deemed contentious until it was produced in English, when the American audiences were scandalized by the onstage depiction of an amorous affair between two women. Paula Vogel's newest work traces the trajectory of the show's success through its tour...
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This pioneering collection of analyses focuses on the ideologies and activities of formal women's organizations and informal women's groups across a range of Arab countries. With contributions on Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Iraq, Egypt, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Yemen, and the Arab diaspora in the United States, Mapping Arab Women's Movements contributes to delineating similarities and differences between historical and contemporary...
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An unwanted desire... With the death of his wife still raw, Jack Connolly's mood is dark and dangerous. He's not looking for a woman, until he meets buttoned-up but beautiful Grace Spencer, who stirs his senses back to life. Yet Jack cannot act on his feelings, as Grace belongs to another! An impossible affair... Trapped in a fake relationship to safeguard her family, Grace knows crossing the line with Jack would risk everything she holds dear. Beneath...
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Escape the rat race by heading to the Yorkshire Moors in Jane Lovering's funny, warm and magical new novel.
Needing an escape, Dora swapped city living for life as a shepherdess on her grandad's Yorkshire farm. More than a decade later Dora is still there, now farming the fifty acres and caring for the one hundred rare sheep by herself. She never hears the call of the city, but instead relishes the peace and simplicity of life on the Moors.
When Dora's...
74) Las preciosas
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En un desesperado pedido de ayuda, Natalia, una chica muy joven, recurre a Malena, mujer madura y empleada de tribunales. Busca información que supone encontrará en un expediente judicial.
El cruce de sus historias devela un pasado obturado de secretos en la vida de ambas y conduce hacia el intento de reconstruirlo, entenderlo o remediarlo. Son las suyas existencias determinadas por los prejuicios y la violencia. El abuso y la violación. Sobre...
75) Walls of Silence
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An innocent child. A perfect life. Until she discovers that evil exists, with all its dark sides.Living in the mountains of Sicily, Maria has the perfect childhood until the tragic accident that changes her life forever. The events that follow will take her away from her home town to the streets of Milan, in an ever-increasing spiral of abuse and deception. Will she ever be able to trust anyone again?Set in turbulent 1960s Italy, Walls of Silence...
76) The Panty Raid
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In the fall of 1956 Dorothy Wilbur is a senior on scholarship at state university. Looking toward her future, she's always imagined herself doing scientific research. But in the America of the 1950s, a woman opting for a professional career is seen to be opting out of love, marriage and family.Hank Brantly is a Korean War veteran going to college on the GI Bill. He's noticed Dorothy, the bonafide dish in his Organic Chemistry class, and he's learned...
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Powerful, thrilling, emotional. Love and strength.Hell with a capital H. Determination with a capital D.Deprived of childhood affection, determinined to overpower her Pa's proclomation in any way she could.Jo rebelled turning her back on resposibility, breaking the marriage deal. Hoping to rebuild her life.Brandon had other plans.Finding comfort in her short lived freedom, her cowardly return to discover the force of abuse no woman should ever endure.Would...
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Que veut dire coconstruction ? Que signifie la coconstruction dans la recherche partenariale ? Le livre Coconstruction en recherche partenariale : perspectives féministes propose une réflexion collective sur la notion de coconstruction, o coconstruire est synonyme de bâtir sur les idées des autres et de tirer profit de l'influence des autres. Cet ouvrage collectif vise à exposer et à comprendre comment la coconstruction est vécue et appliquée...
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Five stories about finding meaning and romance in Seattle's eclectic Pike Place Market. Where Dreams Taste Like Chocolate – When a chocolatier gets a taste for a fashion powerhouse, can he capture her dreams in a simple confection? Where Dreams Are Sewn – She has always sewn dreams for others but now she must stitch together her own future if she dares. Where Dreams Are Well Done – When cooking in the country's top Italian restaurant is...
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In "Wolf World" by Jo Ann Lordahl, the prologue and chapters one and three depict a complex emotional journey experienced by the protagonist, Christine Forrester, as she grapples with the death of her father. The prologue sets the stage for Christine's introspective exploration, expressing her struggle with the past and her determination to understand and reconcile her experiences. Chapter one delves into Christine's emotional turmoil as she prepares...
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