General Women's Studies - Interest | Women's Studies - Interest
Dec.27.2007
The author of Waiting to Exhale checks in again with a fresh, exuberant novel. Stella Payne is a Superwoman who has everything—except a man to rock her world, something she’s convinced she can well do without. On a spur-of-the-moment Jamaican vacation she meets Winston, a man half her age, and...
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Dec.27.2007
Terry McMillan’s sixth novel, The Interruption of Everything, is every bit as enthralling and empowering as her earlier hits Waiting to Exhale and A Day Late and a Dollar Short. However, as McMillan matures as an author, her characters follow suit, which leads her to a wiser, more introspective...
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Dec.21.2007
Stylish, convincing, wise, funny–and just in time: the ultimate non-diet book, which could radically change the way you think and live. French women don’t get fat, but they do eat bread and pastry, drink wine, and regularly enjoy three-course meals. In her delightful tale, Mireille Guiliano...
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Dec.21.2007
Mireille Guiliano, author of the immensely popular French Women Don’t Get Fat returns with another book revealing secrets to living the good life. Branching off of her first book that dispelled the notion that you have to avoid everything wonderful in order to lose weight, with French Women for All...
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Dec.14.2007
Fans of the megasuccessful Girl’s Guide to Hunting and Fishing, rejoice. Bank is back with an equally entertaining first novel, starring Sophie Applebaum, a sarcastic, self-deprecating middle child from a suburban Jewish family who moves from a fish-out-of-water adolescence to a how-did-I-get-here...
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Dec.14.2007
Mimi Zilber has lost her lifelong friend and is left alone, emotionally isolated. How did she succeed with such prestige as a university professor, yet fail so miserably in her personal life? And why can't she allow herself to let down her guard and share her life with the man who adores her? By...
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Dec.13.2007
A witty and insightfulbook that is as much a guide for single women as it is a commentary on modern, urban society in present day India. The stories related here with frankness and humour cover a range of subjects such as: power, promotions and passion at the workplace;how to ensure safety in the...
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Dec.13.2007
Sammie, the cocaine-snorting international wanderer who moves from a small town childhood in India to Mexico, is linked inextricably to mythical women in a debut novel that embodies Hindu tradition and culture, which left untouched by the Enlightenment, makes no distinction between the real and the...
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