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Author
Publisher
Sounds True
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
“A startling, confronting, and liberating treatise.”
—Holly Whitaker, New York Times bestselling author of Quit Like a Woman
What is “woman” if not “mother”?
Anything she wants to be.
Foregoing motherhood has traditionally marked a woman as “other.” With no official place setting for her in our society, she has hovered on the sidelines:
2302) Emma
Author
Publisher
Penguin Clásicos
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Español
Description
"Emma cuenta la historia de una inteligente y laboriosa joven empeñada en hacer de celestina de todas sus amistades. Cuando su institutriz, amiga y confidente decide contraer matrimonio, Emma Woodhouse se descubrirá sola, frente al vacío de su vida y con la penosa tarea de intentar que los demás lleven una vida tan perfecta como la suya. Pero todos sus esfuerzos de manipulación sentimental tan solo consiguen crear a su alrededor una telaraña...
Author
Series
Una corte de rosas y espinas volume 1
Publisher
Crossbooks
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
Cuando la cazadora Feyre mata a un lobo en el bosque, una criatura bestial irrumpe en su casa para exigir una compensación. Así, es trasladada a una tierra mágica y engañosa de la que solo había oído hablar en las leyendas, donde Feyre descubre que su captor no es un animal sino Tamlin: una divinidad inmortal y letal que alguna vez reinó en su mundo. Mientras Feyre vive en su castillo, lo que siente por Tamlin muta de una hostilidad helada...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"1918: As the Great War rages, Jessie Carson takes a leave of absence from the New York Public Library to work for the American Committee for Devastated France. Founded by millionaire Anne Morgan, this group of international women help rebuild devastated French communities just miles from the front. Upon arrival, Jessie strives to establish something that the French have never seen--children's libraries. She turns ambulances into bookmobiles and trains...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Victor Sebestyen's riveting biography of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin—the first major biography in English in nearly two decades—is not only a political examination of one of the most important historical figures of the twentieth century but also a fascinating portrait of Lenin the man.
Brought up in comfort and with a passion for hunting and fishing, chess, and the English classics, Lenin was radicalized after the execution of his brother...
Brought up in comfort and with a passion for hunting and fishing, chess, and the English classics, Lenin was radicalized after the execution of his brother...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Mary Fawcett refines the healing recipes she's inherited from generations of women before her--an uncanny and moral calling to empathize with the sick. When witchfinder Matthew Hopkins arrives in her small village, stoking the fires of hate, he sees not healing, but the devil at work. Mary's benevolent skills have now cast her and her young brother under suspicion of witchery. Soon, the husband of one of Mary's patients is found murdered, his body...
2307) Death Valley: a novel
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The most profound book yet from the visionary author of Milk Fed and The Pisces, a darkly funny novel about grief that becomes a desert survival story In Melissa Broder's astounding new novel, a woman arrives alone at a Best Western seeking respite from an emptiness that plagues her. She has fled to the California desert to escape a cloud of sorrow-both for her father in the ICU and a disabled husband whose illness is worsening. What the motel provides,...
2308) Song of the huntress
Author
Publisher
Redhook Books/Orbit
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Britain, 60AD. Hoping to save her lover, her land, and her people from the Romans, Herla makes a desperate pact with the king of the Otherworld ars pass unheeded in his realm, and she escapes to find everyone she loved long dead. Cursed to wield his blade, she becomes Lord of the Hunt. And for centuries, she rides, leading her immortal warriors and reaping wanderers? souls. Until the night she meets a woman on a bloody battlefield--a Saxon queen with...
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