With reality, humor, and a message about corporate greed, Ozeki weaves together the story of two women a world apart. The lives of Jane in America and Akiko in Japan intersect through beef, love, television, and fertility.
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Auteur:Ozeki, Ruth L.Sommaire: -
Auteur:Hillier, SuzanneSommaire:Two high school friends take very different paths during WWII. The traditional Angie falls in love—forever—with a sailor, whose life is suddenly ended by a German torpedo, while her friend Dorothy attempts something unheard of in the...
- Auteur:Morgan-Cole, Trudy J.Sommaire:
For decades, the Holloways have operated a convenience store in the working-class neighborhood of Rabbittown in St. John's, and every customer has a story. In a vibrant, contemporary family saga, filled with idiosyncratic characters,...
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Auteur:Hetherington, VictoriaSommaire:Mooncalves follows the bloody implosion of a cult in Sainte-Pétronille, Quebec, understood through the urgent voices of the living and a ring of ghostly, shape-shifting watchers. Sensing the impending dissolution of society by...
- Auteur:Brennert, AlanSommaire:
Brennert tells the story of Rachel Kalama, a seven-year-old Hawaiian girl who contracts leprosy and is quarantined on the island of Moloka'i during the 1890s. Separated from her family and forced to grow up in the leper colony of...
- Auteur:Brennert, AlanSommaire:
«Une éblouissante saga historique…» Washington Post Hawaï, 1892. Rachel Kalama, jeune fille de sept ans à l’esprit vif et malicieux, rêve de visiter des contrées lointaines comme son père, un officier de la marine marchande. Jusqu’au...
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Auteur:Defoe, DanielSommaire:Moll is born in Newgate prison to a petty thief and is soon left at the mercy of whoever will take her in. From this unfavorable beginning, the lusty, resourceful Moll loves and bargains her way from rags to riches, from prostitution in...
- Auteur:Jacobsen, MikkaSommaire:
Modern Fables is a darkly funny, feminist collection of essays about love and place. In this darkly funny book about love in the digital age, Mikka Jacobsen challenges the notion that a single woman in her thirties writing about love is...
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Auteur:Florence, MelanieSommaire:"A young mother, one of the many missing indigenous women, watches over her small daughter as she grows up without her nimama. Together, but separated, they experience important milestones: the first day of school, first dance, first...
- Auteur:Ross, Ann B.Sommaire:
When she learned her philandering (and late) husband left behind a lover and illegitimate son, Miss Julia could have gotten nasty. Instead, she kept her cool, adding Hazel Marie and Little Lloyd to her makeshift family. But now rumors...
- Auteur:Ross, Ann B.Sommaire:
Already trying to help three friends find their missing husbands, Miss Julia also must concoct a scheme to chase a slick New Jersey developer away from Abbotsville. But perhaps she's bitten off a bit more than she can chew.
- Auteur:Ross, Ann B.Sommaire:
Miss Julia reckons Mr. J.D. Pickens is the key to solving all of Hazel Marie's problems, especially the female kind. But how can Miss Julia coax the savvy PI back to town--and back into the arms of her 40-something friend Hazel Marie?...
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Auteur:Byrd, Olivia deBelleSommaire:While Olivia deBelle Byrd was repeating one of her many Southern stories for the umpteenth time, her long-suffering husband looked at her with glazed over eyes and said,“Why don’t you write this stuff down?” Thus was born Miss Hildreth...
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Auteur:Kaur, RupiSommaire:The book is divided into four chapters, and each chapter serves a different purpose. Deals with a different pain. Heals a different heartache. milk and honey takes readers through a journey of the most bitter moments in life and finds...
- Auteur:Benick, GailSommaire:
Set in the tumultuous 1970s when women, African Americans, and the gay and lesbian community fought for equality while a "New Right" mobilized in defense of political conservatism and traditional family values, Memory's...
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Auteur:Moriarty, SineadSommaire:Julie used to be the easy-going sister. But now she's mother of four boys under five, her marriage is under strain and she is struggling to keep sane. She needs support, but her sisters don't understand. After all, their lives are...
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Auteur:McDonald, LynnSommaire:Mary Seacole: The Making of the Myth is the first book to challenge the popular misconceptions that surround Mary Seacole’s iconic status as a “pioneer nurse” and battlefield heroine, intended, by some, to replace Florence Nightingale...
- Auteur:Rubin, Susan GoldmanSommaire:
Mary Seacole spent much of her life on the front lines of the Crimean War, ministering to the wounded, caring for soldiers, and making her mark on the world of medicine. This fascinating biography honors her life, from her childhood in...
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Auteur:Keefer, Janice KulykSommaire:Winner of the 1999 CAA Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry and shortlisted for the 1999 Pat Lowther Award
Fantasies and meditations on friendship and on love: erotic, romantic, tormented, spurned, married, illicit,...
- Auteur:Keim, JudithSommaire:
An upscale hotel like The Beach House Hotel sometimes attracts surprise guests ... Ann and Rhonda continue overseeing their Beach House Hotel along the Gulf Coast of Florida and providing guests with a lovely experience of good eating,...
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