This finalist for the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize is ablaze with urgency and radiant inquiry from a 2015 finalist for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry.
A demand and promise; an obligation and challenge; a protest and call: I...
Women
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Auteur:John, Aisha SashaSommaire: -
Auteur:Baldwin, BrookeSommaire:CNN news anchor Brooke Baldwin explores what she calls the "huddle:" when women get together to give each other support, empowerment, inspiration, and the strength to solve problems or enact change.
- Auteur:Bartoletti, Susan CampbellSommaire:
In time to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of woman suffrage in America, Susan Campbell Bartoletti presents the tirelessly researched story of the little-known DC Women's March of 1913.
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Auteur:Helgesen, Sally, Goldsmith, MarshallSommaire:This book seeks to help women identify specific behaviors that keep them from realizing their full potential, no matter what stage they are in their career.
- Auteur:Matloff, JudithSommaire:
Blending humorous stories and anecdotes with serious advice, Matloff explains how to remain upright in stampedes, avoid bank fraud, prevent sexual assault, stay clean in a shelter, and even be emotionally prepared for loss. From cyber...
- Auteur:Jones, CherieSommaire:
In Baxter Beach, Barbados, moneyed ex-pats clash with the locals who often end up serving them. Lala lives on the beach with her husband, Adan, a petty criminal with endless charisma whose thwarted burglary of one of the Baxter Beach...
- Auteur:Rosenberg, LizSommaire:
An affecting biography of the author of Anne of Green Gables is the first for young readers to include revelations about her last days and to encompass the complexity of a brilliant and sometimes troubled life. Once upon a time, there...
- Auteur:Mars, EmmaSommaire:
L’histoire de Elle se poursuit… Après avoir abandonné David Barlet le jour de leur mariage et surmonté le décès de sa mère, Elle s’abandonne à une grande histoire d’amour et de découverte sensuelle avec Louis, le frère de David.
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Auteur:Goto, HiromiSommaire:The unbearable voices of mythic manatees, the cry of the phoenix, the whispers of kappa lovers beside a gurgling stream. The voice of the moon that is ever turned away from our gaze, the song of suns colliding. The sounds which permeate...
- Auteur:Smart, CarolynSommaire:
Hooked is a stunning new collection of seven poems about seven famous or infamous women: Myra Hindley, Unity Mitford, Zelda Fitzgerald, Dora Carrington, Carson McCullers, Jane Bowles, and Elizabeth Smart. Each of these women was hooked...
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Auteur:Smart, CarolynSommaire:Longlisted for the 2010 ReLit Award
Hooked is a stunning new collection of seven poems about seven famous or infamous women: Myra Hindley, Unity Mitford, Zelda Fitzgerald, Dora Carrington, Carson McCullers, Jane Bowles,...
- Auteur:Umrigar, ThritySommaire:
When Indian American journalist Smita returns to India to write the story of a young widow Meena and the murder of her husband, it's Smita's first time back since her family left when she was a child. Both Smita and Meena were...
- Auteur:Brennert, AlanSommaire:
When a young Korean girl known as Regret leaves her homeland for a better life in Hawaii, as a "picture bride," she expects to find prosperity and a chance at education. But the rich husband she is promised turns out to be a poor...
- Auteur:Matchar, EmilySommaire:
An investigation into the societal impact of intelligent, high-achieving women who are honing traditional homemaking skills traces emerging trends in sophisticated crafting, cooking and farming that are reshaping the roles of women.
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Auteur:Gyasi, YaaSommaire:Two half sisters, Effia and Esi, unknown to each other, are born into two different tribal villages in 18th century Ghana. Effia will be married off to an English colonial, and will live in comfort in the sprawling, palatial rooms of...
- Auteur:Lundy, SusanSommaire:
For Susan Lundy, motherhood began when she moved into her boyfriend's Salt Spring Island home at the age of twenty-one. Her new living arrangement came with furniture, a pair of kids, and a biting gerbil named Quasimodo. Susan was...
- Auteur:Carr, CharleneSommaire:
Katherine has everything under control. After years of struggling to conceive with her partner Patrick, she finally gives birth to Rose, her IVF miracle child. But she's afraid that Rose may not be her daughter, her pale skin not...
- Auteur:Medie, Peace AdzoSommaire:
Elikem married me in absentia; he did not come to our wedding." Afi Tekple is a young seamstress whose life is narrowing rapidly. She lives in a small town in Ghana with her widowed mother, spending much of her time in her uncle Pious's...
- Auteur:Swartz, Sarah SilbersteinSommaire:
Discover nine ordinary women who took extraordinary measures to save lives during the Holocaust, resisting terror and torture while undercover or in hiding, in concentration camps, in forests, and in exile.
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Auteur:Ardal, MajaSommaire:In this poignant meditation on the uneasy relationship between science and the human spirit, a group of women aged nineteen to sixty-three with HER2-related breast cancer are recruited for a clinical drug trial. For some of them the...
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