Women
- Author:Djebar, AssiaSummary:
- Author:Gagnon, RachelSummary:
À l'achat de ce livre, en version papier ou numérique, nous remettrons 1 $ à l'Association des bénévoles du CHSLD Sainte-Rose à Laval. Lorsque, au détour d'un bazar, elle met la main sur le journal intime d'une...
- Author:Carey, JacquelineSummary:
The land of Terre d'Ange is a place of unsurpassed beauty and grace. It is said that angels found the land and saw it was good... and the ensuing race that rose from the seed of angels and men live by one simple rule: Love as thou wilt....
- Author:Danticat, EdwidgeSummary:
In a land where vicious dictators crush dreams and lives on a whim, Haitian people have only faith and hope to sustain them. Perhaps it is the faith that a tiny, leaky boat packed with refugees will successfulyly navigate the ocean and...
- Author:Brzezinski, MikaSummary:
Interviews a number of prominent women--including comedian Susie Essman, writer and director Nora Ephron, and TV personality Joy Behar--to reveal how all women can achieve their deserved recognition and financial worth in the modern...
- Author:Yoshimoto, BananaSummary:
Que faire à vingt ans, après la mort d'une grand-mère, quand on se retrouve sans famille et qu'on aime les cuisines plus que tout au monde? Se pelotonner contre le frigo, chercher dans son ronronnemet un prélude au sommeil...
- Author:Khelawan, Rajni MalaSummary:
Growing up in the Fiji Islands in the late 1960s, Kalyana Mani Seth is an impressionable, plump young girl suited to the meaning of her name: blissful, blessed, the auspicious one. Her mother educates Kalyana about her Indian heritage,...
- Author:Pfeffer, AnneSummary:
When twenty-five-year-old Pru Anderson—braless, pajama-clad, and clutching her cat, Chuck—is rescued from her burning Los Angeles apartment, the thing that scares her most is meeting the neighbors. New people make her hide in the...
- Author:Van Der Meer, CarolyneSummary:
Journeywoman is the story in poems of the explicitly female journey made by women through girlhood, motherhood and beyond. The play on the word journeyman is intentional with the notion of completing an apprenticeship and...
- Author:Cooper, BeverleySummary:
Janet Wilson Meets the Queen begins in Vancouver, 1969, as society is undergoing profound change. Janet, a woman who places great faith in the British monarchy and its traditions, is valiantly trying to hold together her dysfunctional...
- Author:EDGAR, PatriciaSummary:
Janet Holmes a Court' is a detailed portriat of a complex and passionate Australian who has never been afraid to do things her own way. In 1990, the legendary Robert Holmes a Court died, and his wife Janet took over the reigns of...
- Author:Ebadi, ShirinSummary:
- Author:Perović , LydiaSummary:
Incidental Music visits the troubled and fascinating period of the Hungarian Revolution, within its larger context of the Communist post-war years in Eastern Europe, explores Toronto’s heritage and urban development, takes a...
- Author:Gifford, BlytheSummary:
To live the life of independence she craves, Jane de Weston disguises herself as a young man. She doesn't foresee her attraction to Duncan, who stirs unknown but delightful sensations in her highly receptive, very feminine body. When...
- Author:Alcaro, Huey HeleneSummary:
At the onset of puberty girls’ right legs are sawed off in Ramprend’s Beautification Ritual. In this dystopian novel, female stumps are desirable to men. Solanj’l — ’l denoting one-leg — hates her inability to move freely and makes a...
- Author:Karbo, KarenSummary:
Karen Karbo presents an ode to bold and charismatic women of modern history, spotlighting spirited rule breakers who charted their way with little regard for expectations.
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- Author:Gilligan, CarolSummary:
Carol Gilligan believes that psychology has persistently and systematically misunderstood women--their motives, their moral commitments, the course of their psychological growth, and their special view of what is important in life. Here...
- Author:Jones, Merry BlochSummary:
Bestselling author Merry Bloch Jones lets hundreds of women dish out the good, the bad and the funny of female relationships. In this collection of more than 500 quotes, we hear from women of all ages on topics ranging from guys and...
- Author:Aarø, Selma Lønning, Dickson, KariSummary:
In a society where we discuss sex openly, the most embarrassing secret is to admit that you can’t make “it” happen. I’m Coming is a hilarious and provocative novel about why women fake it. Ever since her sexual debut, Julie has faked...