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Oct.04.2010
From Publishers Weekly The raw emotions of three women in Bledsoe's fifth novel (after Biting the Apple) lead to often explosive interactions among scientists, artists, and other lost souls marooned in Antarctica. A crash-landing and the discovery of a long-frozen body bonds Mikala Wilbo, a...
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Sep.16.2010
From Booklist Lena's husband, Randall, has been climbing the corporate ladder for years, and Lena has supported him every step of the way, glad to help him and raise their two children. But now she feels as though she has lost herself in the process, and is drowning in luxury. With his goal...
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Aug.06.2010
In Biker Chicz of North America, Edward Winterhalder and Wil De Clercq have compiled in-depth profiles of twenty-two fascinating women who ride Harley-Davidson motorcycles. Each chapter features an individual whose life story is compelling, intriguing, fascinating, and inspirational.
Global studies...
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Jul.01.2010
From Booklist
Part inspirational, part self-help, and part directory, this work contains sepia-and-white photographs, essays, poetry, interviews, quotations, and statistics. The compilers have experience in editing reference works: for example, Brennan edited the Women's Information...
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Jun.08.2010
At eighteen, Jillian Lauren was an NYU theater school dropout with a tip about an upcoming audition. The “casting director” told her that a rich businessman in Singapore would pay pretty American girls $20,000 if they stayed for two weeks to spice up his parties. Soon, Jillian found herself on a...
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Apr.14.2010
Meet Maya Hope. Double-dipped in cocoa with brick-house curves, she's a lover of jazz, a political poet, and a sociologist. Her best friend and roommate, Athena Jackson, is her opposite in every way -- a petite ex-cheerleader who's always blaring rap, grinding out rhymes, and ready to take the...
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Mar.26.2010
Are you puzzled by women and their sexual desires? Do you wonder, for example, whether your girlfriend or wife really likes giving-and getting-oral sex? What are her secret fantasies? What is it that she really needs to have an orgasm?
Wonder no more. In What Women Really Want in Bed, over 200...
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Feb.17.2010
“IT CAN BE A ROUGH WORLD OUT THERE, ESPECIALLY IF YOU LET SELF-DOUBT BECOME YOUR BEST FRIEND. BEING TRUE TO YOURSELF MEANS ACCEPTING YOUR DOWNFALLS AND CELEBRATING YOUR STRENGTHS.”
As women, we are blessed with three powerful virtues: being smart, successful, and sexy. These qualities are woven so...
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Feb.05.2010
The poems in "Bottle Tree" can be considered meditations on the history and culture of the author's native South, as well as her individual family history, with often ambivalent responses to both. The characters in these poems find solace in nature but return again and again to the...
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Feb.05.2010
All Out of Faith gives voice to southern women writers who represent a broad spectrum of faiths, Catholic to Baptist, Jewish to Buddhist, and points in between. These essays and stories depict women who have experienced spiritual struggles, awakenings, transformations, and rebellions. Frances Mayes...
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