Defiance, faith, and triumph in a heartrending novel about daughters and mothers
On a miserable November day in 1967, two women disappear from a working-class town on the Fraser River. The community is thrown into panic...
Women
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Author:Higdon, ChristineSummary: -
Author:Higdon, ChristineSummary:On a miserable November day in 1967, two women disappear from a working-class town on the Fraser River. The community is thrown into panic, with talk of drifters and murderous husbands. But no one can find a trace of Bette Parsons or...
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Author:Farnsworth, VanessaSummary:The stories in Farnsworth’s The Things She’ll Be Leaving Behind explore what it means to be a woman in the modern world, struggling against circumstances that are often unfair, inexplicable, and destructive. The women in this book don’t...
- Author:Atwood, MargaretSummary:
Margaret Atwood's dystopian masterpiece, The Handmaid's Tale, has become a modern classic;and now she brings the iconic story to a dramatic conclusion in this riveting sequel. More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid's...
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Author:McLean, ElizabethSummary:Ambitious, emotionally resonant stories about the lives of women and girls in Vietnam over the past thousand years. In The Swallows Uncaged, Elizabeth McLean paints a sweeping yet intimate panorama of Vietnam in the style of a...
- Author:Fader, MollySummary:
"A breathtaking story of an extraordinary friendship. Molly Fader has penned an unforgettable novel that is sure to be one of the year's best."--Kristy Woodson Harvey, New York Times bestselling author of The Wedding...
- Author:Carr, RobynSummary:
A television talk show host returns to her childhood summer home to rebuild her life after she's fired for falling ratings. The return is bittersweet as the house has been neglected for years. She's flooded with memories of the...
- Author:GASKIN, CatherineSummary:
Impoverished in Wicklow, Charlotte finds herself dispossessed and moved to Spain. There she becomes by marriage "Dona Carlota", a protege of the "Spanish woman" and an influential person in her own right. She does...
- Author:Salem, Jon.Summary:
Three women's lives intersect in a thrilling tale of desire, betrayal, and murder set in Sin City. At first glance, therapist Jennifer Payne, novelist Kristin Fox, and showgirl Billie Shelton have nothing in common. But they do share...
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Author:Yalfani, MehriSummary:Mehri Yalfani’s stories in The Street of Butterflies feature Iranian women dealing with displacement, cultural change, and struggles for survival and adaptation as immigrants in North America. At the same time, the challenges...
- Author:Mander, JaneSummary:
Alice Roland, together with her children, boxes, mattresses and piano, is punted up river to the 'appalling isolation' of their new home, 'a small house against a splendid wall of bush' in the kauri forest at...
- Author:Laurence, MargaretSummary:
In The Stone Angel, Hagar Shipley, age ninety, tells the story of her life, and in doing so tries to come to terms with how the very qualities which sustained her have deprived her of joy. Mingling past and present, she maintains pride...
- Author:Onyemelukwe-Onuobia, CheluchiSummary:
Winner of the Best International Fiction Book Award, Sharjah International Book Fair 2019 The lives of two Nigerian women divided by class and social inequality intersect when they're kidnapped, held captive, and forced to await their...
- Author:Bunn, T. DavisSummary:
The Solitary Envoy begins the glorious Heirs of Acadia series of historical novels set in the early days of the American Republic. Erica Langston's comfortable life in Georgetown is threatened when the British invade. Soon she must...
- Author:Nesbø, JoSummary:
In Oslo, after the first snow of the season has fallen, a woman disappears, and a sinister snowman is left in her wake. As irascible detective Harry Hole realizes that this is only one of multiple disappearances, he begins to think a...
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Author:Lynes, JeanetteSummary:It’s 1954 and young Sadie Wilder gets her big break at last – a chance to babysit for the posh Bannister family whose regular babysitter, Wanda Keeler, is down with the mumps. Sadie is certain she can deal with any obstacle, but little...
- Author:Piazza, Jo.Summary:
From bestselling author and award-winning journalist Jo Piazza, comes a transporting novel rooted in the author's own family history about a long-awaited trip to Sicily, a disputed inheritance, and a family secret that some will...
- Author:Misto, JohnSummary:
In 1945 Sheila and Bridie were freed from a Japanese POW camp in the jungles of Sumatra where thousands of women and children had lived and died virtually forgotten by their own governments. Now, after being separated for half a century...
- Author:Beukes, LaurenSummary:
A time-traveling serial killer is impossible to trace--until one of his victims survives. In Depression-era Chicago, Harper Curtis finds a key to a house that opens on to other times. But it comes at a cost. He has to kill the shining...
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Author:Pinker, SusanSummary:After four decades of eradicating gender barriers at work and in public life, why do men still dominate business, politics and the most highly paid jobs? Why do high-achieving women opt out of successful careers? Psychologist Susan...
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