Marianne Ackerman's second collection of stories for Guernica puts the focus on women, their ascent into selfhood, the beauty and carnage of the their journey. Literary Montreal is the setting of two stories spun around an alpha poseur...
Women
- Auteur:Ackerman, MarianneSommaire:
- Auteur:Kuramoto, KazukoSommaire:
Kazuko Kuramoto was born and raised in Dairen, Manchuria, in 1927, at the peak of Japanese expansionism in Asia. Dairen and the neighboring Port Arthur were important colonial outposts on the Liaotung Peninsula; the train lines...
- Auteur:Douglas, Marion K.Sommaire:
"At age eleven, Julia Raine and her best friend Lois use a "magic eight ball" to channel the imaginary voice of Mrs. McCracken, a doll who gives advice on topics from romance to interior decoration. Magic Eight Ball...
- Auteur:Soul, David, Binchy, Maeve, Binchy, MaeveSommaire:
A collection of full-cast dramatisations and readings from the bestselling author 'There's nobody like Binchy for warming the cockles' Times Maeve Binchy was one of Britain's best-loved storytellers and this...
- Auteur:Olson, LynneSommaire:
The little-known true story of Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, the woman who headed the largest spy network in occupied France during World War II, from the best-selling author of Citizens of London and Last Hope IslandIn 1941 a 31-year-old...
- Auteur:Younes, MilaSommaire:
Ma mère, ma fille, ma sœur nous plonge au cœur du drame personnel d’une adolescente d’origine kabyle vivant en France, déchirée entre les valeurs traditionnelles berbères et celles de son pays d’accueil. Ce récit autobiographique nous...
- Auteur:Keim, JudithSommaire:
Two women try to beat the odds as they continue to run their upscale seaside hotel in Florida, finding surprises along the way...Ann Rutherford's and Rhonda DelMonte Grayson's lives continue to be full of surprises as they run...
- Auteur:Elazim, MyriamSommaire:
Et si tout était déjà là ? En VOUS… Dans ce livre, Myriam Elazim, soulève le voile de son cœur afin de se connecter âme à âme avec son lecteur pour lui raconter des bouts d'histoire tirés de sa vie et la manière dont elle est...
- Auteur:Quon, AnnaSommaire:
Low is a novel about family, identity, illness, love and loss. Lyrical, personal prose draw readers into the world of Adriana Song. We feel our way through Low with her as she navigates lopsided friendships, failed romances-as she tries...
- Auteur:Vallis, RuthSommaire:
Excited and full of the confidence of youth, totally blind Ruth arrived in London, England, to study Physiotherapy. She spoke the same language, was domestically independent, and had good mobility skills: how hard could this be? As it...
- Auteur:Marshall, HeatherSommaire:
For readers of Joanna Goodman and Genevieve Graham comes a masterful debut novel about three women whose lives are bound together by a long-lost letter, a mother's love, and a secret network of women fighting for the right to...
- Auteur:Brownlee, MaureenSommaire:
It is 1983. On the streets of Vancouver women's libbers are marching. In the forests of the northern interior a tapped out logging contractor is slowly going broke. Down the road, on a small stump ranch, Adare and Dave Wilkins face the...
- Auteur:Kubica, MarySommaire:
Eleven years after a string of missing persons cases, one of the victims returns and everyone wants to know what happened to her. But no one is prepared for what she has to say.
- Auteur:Sommaire:
Living the Changes explores the nature and extent of women's changing realities. The contributors include writers, artists, academics, street kids and social workers, and range in age from nine to seventy-three. Their topics...
- Auteur:Krull, KathleenSommaire:
Kathleen Krull turns the spotlight on the women who have wielded power, revealing their feats--and flaws--for all the world to see. Here you'll find twenty of the most influential women in history: queens, warriors, prime ministers,...
- Auteur:Harrison, VashtiSommaire:
Featuring the true stories of forty women creators, from writers and artists to inventors and scientists, this audiobook inspires as it educates. Listeners will meet trailblazers--some known, some likely not--all of whom had a lasting...
- Auteur:Kelly, Martha HallSommaire:
Inspired by the life of a real World War II heroine, this runaway international bestseller reveals the power of unsung women to change history in their quest for love, freedom and second chances. New York socialite Caroline Ferriday has...
- Auteur:JACOBS, AnnaSommaire:
Rachel Smedling is not like other women in her isolated Pennine village: she is taller, stronger and weaves cloth like a man. Without her, the household would fall apart, for her mother is ailing and her vicious drunkard father seems...
- Auteur:Warren, DianneSommaire:
A newly-single woman revisits the poor choices she had made through her life, returning to the small town in western Canada where she grew up and lived through the violent death of a close friend in an unsolved hit-and-run accident.
- Auteur:Koofi, FawziaSommaire: