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...
Women
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Author:JACOBS, AnnaSummary: -
Author:Warren, DianneSummary: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.
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Author:Koofi, FawziaSummary: - Author:Zier-Vogel, LindsaySummary:
Grace Porter is reeling from grief after her partner of seven years unexpectedly leaves. Amidst her heartache, the thirty-year-old library tech is tasked with reading newly discovered letters that Amelia Earhart wrote to her lover, Gene...
- Author:Dawson, TracySummary:
Writer, actor, and feminist Tracy Dawson profiles women throughout history who disguised themselves as men to gain opportunities, from mining to medicine to athletics to piracy, denied them because of their gender.
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Author:Scott, Jennifer L.Summary: - Author:Gaffney, PatriciaSummary:
Depuis dix ans, Emma, Rudy, Lee et Isabel sont liées par une amitié indéfectible. Esprit, humour et compassion sont les armes qui permettent aux quatre Grâces de résister à tous les tracas de la vie… Jusqu’au jour où survient une...
- Author:Tremblay d'Essiambre, LouiseSummary:
Vous appréciez Louise Tremblay-D’Essiambre pour ses grandes sagas familiales et vous l’admirez pour son talent inimitable. Mais connaissez-vous ses charmantes nouvelles? Voici Les demoiselles du quartier, un recueil de neuf nouvelles...
- Author:McLeod, CarolSummary:
Studies of famous Canadian women: Emily Carr, E. Pauline Johnson, Maude Abbott, Laura Secord, Mary Pickford, Judy LaMarsh, Karen Kain, L.M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery, Mazo de la Roche and Barbara Ann Scott.
- Author:Winspear, JacquelineSummary:
The year is 1933. Maisie Dobbs is contacted by an Indian gentleman who has come to England in the hopes of finding out who killed his sister two months ago. Scotland Yard failed to make any arrest in the case, and there is reason to...
- Author:Tillion, GermaineSummary:
Un classique sur la condition féminine dans le pourtour méditerranéen. Germaine Tillion nous démontre que l'oppression des femmes, loin d'être le triste apanage de l'Islam, sévit aussi bien dans les pays chrétiens que musulmans dont...
- Author:Maron, MargaretSummary:
Amy Steadman is the young heiress of a prosperous children's book publishing franchise in New York. After her grandmother is murdered, apparently in a botched robbery, Amy goes to North Carolina to clean out the family home. But as she...
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Author:Steedman, CarolynSummary: - Author:See, LisaSummary:
*NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!* From "one of those special writers capable of delivering both poetry and plot" (The New York Times Book Review) an immersive historical novel inspired by the true story of a woman physician in...
- Author:Byrd, SandraSummary:
Miss Eleanor Sheffield is a talented evaluator of antiquities, trained to know the difference between a genuine artifact and a fraud. But with her father's passing and her uncle's decline into dementia, the family business is...
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Author:Forrie, AllanSummary:In a literary collection unlike any other, Thistledown Press brings together short fiction by women and about women. Readers interested in women’s perspectives will be drawn in by unique takes on the female experience provided in these...
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Author:Chaikin, Linda LeeSummary:Fils du châtelain de Grimston Way, l’aristocrate Rogan Chantry s’est démené pour gagner son indépendance de Sir Julien Bley et de la Société britannique en Afrique du Sud. À présent, sa recherche d’un mystérieux dépôt d’or, dont l’...
- Author:Hinojosa, FranciscoSummary:
En el norte de Turambul vivía la peor señora del mundo. A sus hijos los castigaba cuando se portaban bien y cuando se portaban mal. Todos se alejaban en cuanto la veían acercarse. Hasta que un día, sus hijos y los habitantes del...
- Author:Christensen, AndréeSummary:
Angéline, Lilith, Mélusine. Trois prénoms, un seul personnage énigmatique, assoiffé d’envol et de créativité, qui vit au cœur d’une forêt, en symbiose avec la nature. C’est en suivant une confrérie de corneilles en pleine tempête de...
- Author:Savignac, LinaSummary:
Voici l’histoire de Cédulie Gallant, descendante de ces pionniers qui ont bâti la Matapédia. Dans un récit peu banal, une jeune fille nous raconte sa jeunesse passée sous le signe de l’austérité et de l’amour de la famille. Par le biais...
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