From Kentucky to the California desert, these forty-two short stories follow girls and women in moments of obsessive desire and fantasy, wildness, brokenness and fearlessness, and more.
Women
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Auteur:Cross-Smith, LeesaSommaire: -
Auteur:Zailckas, KorenSommaire:From earliest experimentation to habitual excess to full-blown abuse, twenty-four-year-old Koren Zailckas leads us through her experience of a terrifying trend among young girls, exploring how binge drinking becomes routine, how it...
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Auteur:Fatima, CatherineSommaire:In a kind of 'Catherine Millet meets Roland Barthes baring of life with hints of the work of Chris Kraus', Sludge Utopia by Catherine Fatima is an auto-fictional novel about sex, depression, family, shaky ethics, ideal forms of life,...
- Auteur:Donoghue, EmmaSommaire:
Born to rough cloth in working-class London in 1748, Mary Saunders hungers for velvet and lace'a desire that leads her to a life of prostitution, where she encounters a freedom unknown to virtuous young women. In the end, it is...
- Auteur:Richardson, RobinSommaire:
Power and sex take centre stage in Robin Richardson's formidable third collection, Sit How You Want. Plane crashes and automobile mishaps are the backdrop for female narrators who grapple with terror, anxiety, and powerlessness:...
- Auteur:Morris, HeatherSommaire:
This program is read by Laura Carmichael, who plays Lady Edith Crawley in Downton Abbey. It also includes a dedication, author's note, and two afterwords, all read by the author, as well as two songs by the Sydney Women's...
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Auteur:Toman, CynthiaSommaire:In Sister Soldiers of the Great War, award-winning author Cynthia Toman recovers the long-lost history of Canada’s first women soldiers – nursing sisters who enlisted as officers with the Canadian Army Medical Corps. The nursing sisters...
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Auteur:NICHOLSON, VirginiaSommaire:Vivid with historical detail, and heart-breakingly honest about a generation of women's real human fortitude.
- Auteur:Poitras, Marie HélèneSommaire:
Peter Greenaway meets Angela Carter: a Gothic tale of secrets and revenge. When the curtain rises on Malmaison, it reveals a once-enchanting estate, quietly falling into darkness and ruin, and at the heart of it, a father, one of a long...
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Auteur:BAN BREATHNACH, SarahSommaire:Simple Abundance shows you how your life can be an expression of your authentic self. 366 evocative essays - one for every day of your year - written for women who wish to live by their own lights.
- Auteur:Läckberg, CamillaSommaire:
A gripping new novel from No. 1 international bestseller and Swedish crime sensation Camilla Lackberg She is safe ... Faye Adelheim deserves the life she has. After fleeing from a violent marriage, she has built her business into a...
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Auteur:Hilderbrand, ElinSommaire:Set against the backdrop of a Nantucket summer, this novel delivers a suspenseful story of the power of friendship, the pull of love, and the beauty of forgiveness.
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Auteur:Dower, TriciaSommaire:Silent Girl explores the experiences of unforgettable characters as they follow trajectories unimagined by Shakespeare, including a young girl who is unwittingly sold to traffickers after losing her mother in the 2004 tsunami...
- Auteur:Mutonji, TéaSommaire:
Winner, Trillium Book Award. In Téa Mutonji's disarming debut story collection, a woman contemplates her Congolese traditions during a family wedding, a teenage girl looks for happiness inside a pack of cigarettes, a mother...
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Auteur:Mutonji, TéaSommaire:Finalist, Rogers Writers' Trust of Canada Fiction Prize; Finalist, Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction; a Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year. In Téa Mutonji's disarming debut story collection, a woman contemplates her Congolese...
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Auteur:West, LindySommaire:Lindy West is a catalyst for a national conversation in a world where not all stories are created equal and not every body is treated with equal respect. Shrill is comprised of a series of essays that bravely shares her life, including...
- Auteur:Kirby, Gwen E.Sommaire:
Cassandra may have seen the future, but it doesn't mean she's resigned to telling the Trojans everything she knows. In this ebullient collection, virgins escape from being sacrificed, witches refuse to be burned, whores aren...
- Auteur:Brontë, CharlotteSommaire:
1812. Du fait des guerres napoléoniennes, la province du Yorkshire subit la première dépression industrielle de l'Histoire. Les temps sont durs, aussi bien pour les patrons que pour les ouvriers qui, menacés par l'...
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Auteur:Hanrahan, MauraSommaire:On the cusp of the Depression, Sheilagh Driscoll of isolated Rennie’s Bay nearly dies while giving birth prematurely to baby Leah. Sheilagh is attended by a traditional Mi’kmaq midwife, Mrs. Mary, as well as by Leah Clarke, a nurse-...
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Auteur:Foster, CarolynSommaire:She Writes is an anthology that features women writers in Canada. Elizabeth Ruth, Heather Birrell, Kristen den Hartog, Kelly Watt, Dana Bath, Teresa McWhirter and others make up this brilliant new collection of emerging literary voices...
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