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Her words used to set the page on fire. But a viral backlash over her latest film adaptation forced Petra Rose to take a hiatus, resulting in missed deadlines and an overdue mortgage. Branded a fraud and fame-hungry opportunist, she learned the hard way what happens when the internet turns on you. And she's been uninspired to write ever since. Now, with her next suspense novel outlined and savings nearly gone, she retreats to a secluded lakeside cabin,...
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Forced into marriage with a much older man after her father catches her in the arms of her female lover, Abigail accepts her lot in life in order to save her family. The love of her life is long gone, cast from her life by her selfless decision, and she must accept that the men in her life-her father and now, her husband-are in control and will do with her as they please.But after an untimely accident, as her husband lies dying, Abigail realizes...
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Alinta Lawrence, helping her wife to establish a station in her native outback, learning white ways, is finding it a challenge for the primitive woman. Having a child to raise with her wife, there is so much to learn, about the white woman's world. She's amazed and sometimes overwhelmed by the things these white people seem to need in their lives, will she be able to cope with it all?
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Melissa Lawrence swims ashore in Australia. She has no idea what to expect after escaping her captors. Since becoming Mel Lawrence, she finds her interests are expanding beyond just the "woman of means" role she had been raised to accept. After finding someone to teach her about becoming a grazer, she herds a flock of sheep into the Australian outback. She never imagined she would find a mate, a land that challenges her, and a life she felt she...
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Alinta, criada en una tierra sencilla lejos del hombre blanco, se ve repentinamente empujada a su reino sin culpa propia. De repente, debe aprender a sobrevivir entre estas criaturas extrañas y desconocidas. Pero no todos los hombres blancos la tratan de la misma manera: algunos la ven como la niña asustada que es, y otros la ven como la mujer increíble en la que está a punto de convertirse. Sigue a esta niña/mujer aborigen primitiva que intenta...
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La vida de Melissa Lawrence había sido planeada para ella. Como una esposa en el escalón más alto de la sociedad de Nueva York, se esperaba que ocupara su lugar entre algunas de las personas más ricas de Estados Unidos. Una sociedad que te juzga por tu apariencia ignorará ciertas cosas por el dinero que posee tu familia, que eventualmente heredarás; sin embargo, ciertos pecadillos nunca serán aceptables, y cuando Melissa se convierte en Mel...
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Winner of the 1994 A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry (QSPELL, now the Quebec Writers' Federation) In The Woman Downstairs, eloquence joins intimately with an attentive and hungry eye. Julie Bruck explores the accidents and acquaintances of life, its small coincidences and occurrences, its unexpected meetings. With a passionate distance, Bruck blends the outside observer's cool embrace with a desire to know intensely life's eccentric smallnesses, to gentle...
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In Break Any Woman Down, Dana Johnson explores race, identity, and alienation with unflinching honesty and vibrant language. Hip and seductive, her stories often feature women discovering their identities through sexual and emotional intimacy with the men in their lives.
In the title story, La Donna is a black stripper whose white boyfriend, an actor in adult movies, insists that she stop stripping. In "Melvin in the Sixth Grade," eleven-year-old...
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Women stand their ground in the midst of crisis in this story collection by the New York Times–bestselling author of The Color Purple. This collection builds on Alice Walker's earlier work, the much-praised In Love & Trouble. But unlike her first collection of stories, the women in these tenderly wrought tales face their problems head on, proving powerful and self-possessed even when degraded by others—sometimes by those closest to them. But even...
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Alinta Lawrence, que ayuda a su esposa a establecer una estación en su interior nativo, aprendiendo las costumbres de los blancos, lo está encontrando como un desafío para la mujer primitiva. Tener una hija que criar con su esposa, hay mucho que aprender sobre el mundo de la mujer blanca. Está asombrada y, a veces, abrumada por las cosas que estos blancos parecen necesitar en sus vidas, ¿será capaz de hacerle frente a todo?
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The first African American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize-for The Color Purple-Walker is both a committed artist and engaged activist, as reflected in the four works in this volume.
Living by the Word: In this follow-up to In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens, Walker reflects on issues both personal and global, from her experience with the filming of The Color Purple, to the history of African American narrative traditions, to global threats of pollution...
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She was brilliant, ambitious, and unafraid to break barriers. As the only member of a squad of twenty high-powered lawyers who was not a white male, she devised the strategy that in the 1930s sent Mafia chieftain Lucky Luciano to prison. She achieved so much--but what could she have accomplished if not for barriers of race and gender?
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Born in 1975, Kirstin Heddens entered a world where parents were being encouraged to place children with Down syndrome in institutions. But that world was beginning to change, with deinstitutionalization movements and the passage of laws requiring public education for all students. Able to grow up at home with her family, Kirstin enjoyed a typical childhood, attended public school with her peers, and went on to seek her own version of the American...
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"The story of the 1890s scandal in which a young woman named Madeline Pollard sued congressman William Campbell Preston Breckenridge for breach of promise. Pollard won the suit, and the mystery of who helped her pay the extravagant legal expenses in order to bring Breckinridge down illuminates a shift in the sexual politics of the Victorian era"-- Provided by publisher.
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The beloved author of The Life and Loves of a She Devil sends up marriage, 1950s London, fad diets, celebrity feminists, and Doctor Faustus. The Fat Woman's Joke: A novel about sex, food, marriage, and the indignities of the 1960s. After a lifetime of gorging herself, Esther Wells has an epiphany: She and her husband are going on a diet. Dedicated foodies throughout their marriage, they are about to discover what happens when new passions supplant...
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For the first 128 years of our country's history, not a single woman served in the Senate or House of Representatives. All of that changed, however, in November 1916, when Jeannette Rankin of Montana became the first woman elected to Congress--even before the Nineteenth Amendment gave women across the U.S. the right to vote. Beginning with the women's suffrage movement and going all the way through the results of the 2012 election, Ilene Cooper deftly...
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The Story of Woman, reflects the journey of all women at different times in their lives. A significant spiritual, emotional, and physical journey, written as a metaphor for our own journey, is being undertaken by Woman, as she learns important lessons about herself along the way up her personal mountain. Ultimately, she reaches the pinnacle of her mountain and celebrates how far she has come on this journey. The end of one journey is really just the...






