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"The Living Is Easy, Dorothy West's first novel and one of only a handful of novels published by women during the Harlem Renaissance, tells the story of Cleo Judson, daughter of Southern sharecroppers, who is determined to integrate into Boston's black elite. Married to the "Black Banana King" Bart Judson, Cleo maneuvers her three sisters and their children-but not their husbands-into living with her, attempting to recreate her original family in...
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English
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Brown Girl, Brownstones, tells the story of a young Barbadian American caught between the ambitious dreams of her forward-looking mother and the rose-tinted nostalgia of her father. While Selina's mother strives diligently to save enough money to buy a brownstone in Brooklyn, her father dreams only of returning to his home in Barbados. Managing a constellation of difficult family and cultural dynamics, Selina is also faced with navigating the complex...
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Publisher
Soho Crime, Soho Press, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the 1980s, a teenage girl terrorizes the Sicilian town of Gela. Tina's father was in Cosa Nostra and was brutally shot dead in front of her when she was just eight; after that, she made it her mission in life to join the mafia, although women are traditionally not allowed in. Nicknamed 'a masculidda, or "the tomboy," Tina is notorious through Gela for her recklessness, cruelty, and complete disregard for societal expectations. When a news article...
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Series
Publisher
Dafina Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
vi, 375 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Fed up with her married Miami boyfriend, savvy Dulce has no problem stealing his drug-dealer stash and fleeing to her family in the Caribbean. But when she gets bored in rural Santo Domingo, she escapes on a sugar daddy adventure to Puerto Rico. Her new life is one endless party, until she's caught in Hurricane Maria--and witnesses the brutal collision of colonization and climate change, as well as the international vultures who plunder the tragedy...
6) Agnes Grey
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English
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The author's biographical novel reflects the reality of life as a governess in nineteenth century England. Although a stranger in the home of her sometimes difficult employer, she lives her life with grace, tolerance, and compassion.
7) The fresco
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Publisher
EOS
Language
English
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A thirty-six-year-old bookstore manager Benita Alvarez-Shipton finds herself at the center of a mystery when aliens ask her to deliver an important message to the nation's capital.
Series
Bikes in space volume 4
Publisher
Elly Blue Publishing, an imprint of Microscosm Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
159 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This anthology of science fiction short stories features strong heroines using bicycles to navigate their utopian and dystopian future realities"--
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2000, c1999
Edition
1st Perennial ed.
Physical Desc
278 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A psychological novel on the friendship of two women, one hard, the other soft. Both are teachers and they are brought together by a book on two women, one hard the other soft. A book within a book.
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English
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"This edition of The Yellow Wallpaper includes a generous selection of cultural and historical documents that illuminate how Gilman's classic feminist tale can be read as a springboard for her subsequent career as a cultural critic." "The documents accompanying this edition have been selected to help readers situate The Yellow Wallpaper in relation to Gilman's time period and wide range of interests. Included are excerpts from nineteenth-century advice...
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Virago Press, an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
285 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Dragon. Tygress. She-devil. Hussy. Siren. Wench. Harridan. Muckraker. Spitfire. Vituperator. Churail. Termagant. Fury. Warrior. Virago. For centuries past, and all across the world, there are words that have defined and decried us. Words that raise our hackles, fire up our blood; words that tell a story. In this blazing cauldron of a book, fifteen bestselling, award-winning writers have taken up their pens and reclaimed these words, creating an entertaining...
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"A biting novel from an electrifying new voice, Kristi DeMeester's Such a Pretty Smile is a heart-stopping tour-de-force about powerful women, angry men, and all the ways in which girls fight against the forces that try to silence them. There's something out there that's killing. Known only as The Cur, he leaves no traces, save for the torn bodies of girls, on the verge of becoming women, who are known as trouble-makers; those who refuse to conform,...
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English
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In this novel about Ralph Waldo Emerson's wife, Lidian, Amy Belding Brown examines the emotional landscape of love and marriage. Living in the shadow of one of the most famous men of her time, Lidian becomes deeply disappointed by marriage, but consigned to public silence by social conventions and concern for her family's reputation. Drawn to the erotic energy and intellect of close family friend Henry David Thoreau, she struggles to negotiate the...
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Publisher
She Writes Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
233 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Not your typical story about an American abroad. Instead, Marcie Maxfield pulls back the curtain on the globe-trotting world of an expat wife to explore issues of marriage and compromise. Moving backward and forward--both in time and between cities and countries--Em's Awful Good Fortune is woven together thematically by bits and pieces of Em's life: love, loss and betrayal, sexual assault and the lasting impact of PTSD. A voice-driven narrative that...
18) And she was
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 287 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
366 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A dozen or more humanoid alien infants have been brought to Earth to be given into the care of major Earth government. This is stunning but distant news--until Morgan is hired to raise one of them, named Blue."--Jacket.
Author
Publisher
Dundurn
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Celebrating the resilience of women as they navigate and transform what remains a man's world. In the city of Enugu in the 1970s, young Nwabulu dreams of becoming a typist as she endures her employers' endless chores. Although a housemaid since the age of ten, she is tall and beautiful and in love with a rich man's son. Educated and privileged, Julie is a modern woman. Living on her own, she is happy to collect the gold jewellery love-struck Eugene...
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