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41) Lolly Willowes
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English
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“The story of a woman who rejects the life that society has fixed for her in favor of freedom and the most unexpected of alliances.” —The New York Times Book Review
In her acclaimed debut novel, the twentieth-century English writer “moves with somber confidence into the realm of the supernatural, and her prose, in its simple, abrupt evocations, has something preternatural about it. This is the witty, eerie,...
In her acclaimed debut novel, the twentieth-century English writer “moves with somber confidence into the realm of the supernatural, and her prose, in its simple, abrupt evocations, has something preternatural about it. This is the witty, eerie,...
42) Number one fan
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"Elison's brutal, incisive novel cuts to the heart of what makes public figures vulnerable and asks us to question our voyeurism." —New York Times Book Review
She created a beautiful world. Now he wants it all.
On her way to a speaking engagement, bestselling novelist Eli Grey gets into a cab and accepts a drink from the driver, trusting that everything is fine. She wakes up chained...
She created a beautiful world. Now he wants it all.
On her way to a speaking engagement, bestselling novelist Eli Grey gets into a cab and accepts a drink from the driver, trusting that everything is fine. She wakes up chained...
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2021.
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First edition.
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English
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"Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is one of the leading physicists of her generation, at work on the origins of spacetime at the intersection of particle physics and astrophysics. She is also one of the fewer than one hundred Black women to earn a PhD in physics. In The Disordered Cosmos, Prescod-Weinstein shares with readers her love for physics, from the Standard Model of Particle Physics and what lies beyond it, to the physics of melanin in skin, to...
44) Luke
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"The story Luke tells in his gospel, says F. Scott Spencer, is "a compelling, complex narrative confession of faith in God. To what degree anyone joins Luke in that faith journey is up to them, but any responsible interpreter must attend considerately to Luke's theological roadmap." In this latest addition to the Two Horizons New Testament Commentary series, Spencer integrates close textual analysis of Luke's unfolding narrative with systematic theology,...
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La sacerdotisa griega Casandra está harta, hasta los mismos ovarios, de que los troyanos no crean en sus profecías. En una aldea medieval de Gales, una niñita escucha a su mamá contarle el típico cuento del dragón y la virgen sacrificada, y ese es en verdad el principio de un cuento de brujas. En un campus universitario cualquiera, el fantasma de un predicador puritano insulta y acosa (con bastante ternura, todo sea dicho), a una joven madre...
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Deutsch
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Seltsame Dinge geschahen im Dorf. Magenhäute wurden als Flaggen gehisst, Vorhäute um Arme gewickelt und die losen Frauen schlackerten mit ihren Kehlen im Wind. Die Großmutter und die Mutter hielten Wache über die Bräuche im Dorf. Sie führten Aufgaben aus, die bald auf eine junge Frau übertragen werden sollten. Was es zu bewachen gilt, bleibt verborgen. Die Protagonistin versucht, den Klauen dieser bizarren Dorfgemeinschaft durch die Flucht...
47) Not yours, Truly
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English
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Not yours, Truly is a collection of ten short stories that tell the story of ten different women. Each woman tells her story, whether it has a happy ending or not. She struggles to survive her circumstances and the demons that come with it and tells her tale through uncensored yet poignant prose. Not yours, Truly sends the reader into ten different battles, and recounts the tale of ten different women's struggle to survive.
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Español
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Tres novelas ejemplares en las que Zweig profundizó como nadie hasta entonces en la psicología femenina: Veinticuatro horas de la vida de una mujer, Miedo y Carta de una desconocida.
Antes de que la teoría feminista evolucionase, ola a ola, escritores como Stefan Zweig hacían tentativas para expresar una feminidad cercenada. En el arte y en la literatura existen dibujos estereotipados, reduccionistas, estigmatizadores de las mujeres, pero también...
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A través de las protagonistas de cada historia de Las que somos, Rosalí León-Ciliotta nos muestra las diferentes aristas del ser mujer en un tiempo tan remoto como el Perú de la independencia, un país machista y misógino latinoamericano o un lugar tan lejano como el confín del mundo. Cada uno de los tres cuentos de este libro pone a sus protagonistas en lugares insólitos y situaciones límite de las cuales emergerán: Ventura hará lo que...
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Turn Key and Other Stories is a brilliant short story collection by renowned Virginia author Susan Pepper Robbins. Featuring some of her best short stories, the collection delivers powerful, gritty characters full of heart and spirit. Ranging from longer stories to one-page hitters, Robbins masters the pen and sprays ink economically.
51) Amina
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English
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Novels in English by northern Nigerian writers are few, so the arrival of a new one is an exciting literary event. This dramatic story of the efforts of the heroine and her friends to bring about change in the social conditions of women in Nigeria addresses pressing political issues which rarely appear in fiction-the legal status of Muslim women, the limitations imposed on them by traditional and religious conventions, the restrictions on their economic...
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Rose has always dreamed about marrying a prince charming, but instead she married an evil stepmother. Rose was born as a Princess, but got exiled from royalty when she was a child. Marriage proposal from Prince Kit is a chance of returning to royal life, so she takes it. Unfortunately, what a 21st century Princess thinks of as a dream, turns out to be a nightmare. She desires a peaceful, calm family life, but the endless cycle of rigorous rules, strict...
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Written while she was still a teenager, My Brilliant Career catapulted young Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin (writing as Miles Franklin) into worldwide fame. In fact, the sudden popularity of the book in Australia (and the perceived closeness of the plot to her own family history) caused Franklin to withdraw the book from publication until after her death.
The story centers on Sybylla Melvyn, a headstrong girl growing up in rural Australia...
54) Una vieja cámara
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Español
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Después de sufrir durante años el maltrato de su marido ha tomado, por fin, la decisión: Mar huye de su hogar.
Es una mujer joven y preparada. Sin embargo, ha seguido el mismo patrón que su madre años atrás. Abandona su vida y coge un tren dirección a París. Será un viaje largo y de noche. Sabe que no podrá dormir. No le importa, necesita tiempo para pensar.
Durante el trayecto su mente volverá a la infancia. Recordará los años tan horribles...
55) Oneiron
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Español
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Siete mujeres se encuentran en un espacio indefinido segundos después de su muerte. El tiempo, tal como lo entendemos, ha dejado de existir, y todas las sensaciones corporales han desaparecido. Ninguna de las mujeres, de distintas edades, ocupaciones y nacionalidades, puede recordar lo que les sucedió, dónde están o cómo llegaron allí. No se conocen. A su vez, intentan recordar, reconstruir los fragmentos de sus vidas, sus identidades, sus amores...
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Mujeres y sexo, mujeres y amistad, mujeres y sufrimiento: las tres obras recogidas en este volumen exploran el universo femenino en sus facetas más oscuras y misteriosas.
El cuerpo femenino rechaza convertirse en mercancía en el diálogo entre Manila y su cliente que da título al libro: una conversación punzante e irónica en la que la mujer utiliza la única arma que tiene a disposición, la palabra, para poner al desnudo las mentiras del hombre,...
57) Tinker Street
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English
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Tinker Street, the prequel to Anna Magdalena (2022), has arrived from Emperor Books!
Struck by love for a boy as beautiful as a Michelangelo, fifteen year old Maggie digs her heels in. She's got what Willa Cather called "luck-making power of desire." She's a rebel in the best sense of the world.
Growing up in Woodstock of the 1990s, the daring performance artist Anna Magdalena is called Maggie. Raised as a "love child" in a communal household...
58) Four blondes
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English
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From the author of Sex and the City, this collection of novellas tells the stories of four women facing up to the limitations of their rapidly approaching middle age in an era that worships youth. From the former it-girl heroine of "Nice N' Easy," who each summer looks for a rich man who'll provide her with a house in the Hamptons, to the narrator of "Single Process," who goes to London on a hunt for love and a good magazine story, Candace Bushnell...
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"With "a voice as clear, sincere, and wry as any I've read in current American fiction" (Joshua Cohen), Martin Riker's poignant and startlingly original novel asks how to foster a brave mind in anxious times, following a newly jobless academic rehearsing a speech on John Maynard Keynes for a surprising audience. In a hotel room in the middle of the night, Abby, a young feminist economist, lies awake next to her sleeping husband and daughter. Anxious...
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"Today's young women face a bewildering set of contradictions when it comes to beauty. They don't want to be Barbie dolls but, like generations of women before them, are told they must look like them. They're angry about the media's treatment of women but hungrily consume the very outlets that belittle them. They mock modern culture's absurd beauty ideal and make videos exposing Photoshopping tricks, but feel pressured to emulate the same images they...
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