A dazzlingly imagined novel that embraces two centuries, two women, a long-lost Journal and the mystery behind the legendary Casanova’s last great love.
It’s 1797, and an aging Casanova has returned to Venice in disguise to elude...
Women travelers
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Auteur:Seagrave, JayneSommaire:Pack your bags! A reassuring handbook geared toward women between the ages of 40 and 65 who are eager but apprehensive to take a solo adventure. Chicago, St. Louis, London, Vienna ... bestselling author Jayne Seagrave has traveled there...
- Auteur:Seagrave, JayneSommaire:
Pack your bags! A reassuring handbook geared toward women between the ages of 40 and 65 who are eager but apprehensive to take a solo adventure. Chicago, St. Louis, London, Vienna ... bestselling author Jayne Seagrave has traveled there...
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Auteur:Kingsolver, BarbaraSommaire:When Taylor Greer hits the road she has no real destination, only to get as far from Kentucky as possible. By the time she ends up in Arizona, she has inherited a three-year-old Cherokee girl from an Indian woman she met in a bar.
- Auteur:Knudsen, MichelleSommaire:
Inspired by the #1 New York Times bestseller She Persisted by Chelsea Clinton and Alexandra Boiger comes a chapter book series about women who stood up, spoke up and rose up against the odds! Nellie Bly was a journalist and one of the...
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Auteur:Cecil, Lynn, Bancroft, CatherineSommaire:Female writers share 32 transformative stories of traveling in diverse locations — some exotic, and some more familiar.
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Auteur:Belczyk, RenateSommaire:Renate Belczyk was born in Dresden, Germany, in 1932. When she was three years old her family moved to Berlin, where they settled into a small apartment building on the outskirts of the city. It was in this building that she met another...
- Auteur:Gutman, DanSommaire:
Mr. Cooper invites to class Mrs. Barr, who has visited two hundred countries. But why does she carry a suitcase everywhere? A. J. and his friends suspect she's hiding something.
- Auteur:Wallen, Amy.Sommaire:
A hysterical romp across the Southwest, it pits a spunky Texan mom against the star-studded power of Hollywood. While watching TV one day, Ruby Kincaid catches sight of her runaway daughter Violet in a commercial. Quicker than a...
- Auteur:McMurtry, LarrySommaire:
Maggie runs a group that dubs voices for movies. She spends much of her time fending off her three pushy daughters, and gets her kicks with her far older Sicilian lover. Connie, on the other hand, has a taste for younger men. These two...
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Auteur:Bedford, S.Sommaire:A laugh-out-loud travel memoir that reveals backpacking’s awkward side. Sue, a disenchanted waitress, embarks upon a year-long quest around the world with her friend, Sara—who’s exasperatingly perfect. Expecting a whimsical jaunt of...
- Auteur:Ward, Amanda EyreSommaire:
The Winters family seemed to have it all: a grand home, a trio of radiant daughters, and a sense that they were safe in their affluent corner of America. But when five-year-old Ellie disappears, the fault lines within the Winters family...
- Auteur:Stein, Jessica DavisSommaire:
Introspective artist Ben Lonefeather is content raising the orphaned coyote pups he rescued after their mother was killed on the highway. Meanwhile, New Yorker Sarah Friedman hurries west on a business trip to buy American Indian art...
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Auteur:Roy, Zoë S.Sommaire:Butterfly Tears is a collection of short fiction that depicts the experiences of Chinese immigrant women facing the challenges of life in a new country. The stories are set in different parts of China, Canada, and the United...
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Auteur:Fink-Jensen, Christian, Eustace-Walden, RandolphSommaire:In 1922, a 15-year-old girl, fed up with life in a French convent school, answered an ad for a travelling secretary. Tall, blonde, and swaggering with confidence, she might have passed for twenty. She also knew what she wanted: to...
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Auteur:Converse, CathySommaire:The first book on Agnes Deans Cameron, BC's first female principal, itinerant traveller, and journalist. Agnes Deans Cameron was an extraordinary woman who was ahead by a century. Born in Victoria in 1863, she was the first female...
