women's history | women's history
Jul.08.2011
Remedios is a prose poetry retelling of the history of the Atlantic world, from Arabia to the Dakotas, from the Andes to Angola, the story of Puerto Rian women and our kin in all the cultures we come from, and whose borders we have touched. Beginning in prehistory and ending in 1954, Remedios...
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Jan.18.2011
In winter 1902 in the ruins of post-Boxer Uprising Beijing, two women from two different worlds joined hands in friendship-the former concubine and legendary tyrant Empress Dowager Cixi, and the Midwest-born, devoutly Christian Sarah Pike Conger. Together, they made history. Middle-aged Iowan...
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Mar.17.2009
Famed Indiana author Booth Tarkington once took on the task of naming three of Indianapolis's most outstanding citizens. Two of the three he named--former president Benjamin Harrison and legendary poet James Whitcomb Riley--were well-known people. The third, however, was someone whose memorable...
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Jan.30.2009
"A remarkable debut novel. A powerful story of friendship, love and betrayal. In a high mountain valley, a group of disparate characters have set up a rudimentary community, held together by the formidable Emaline, hostess of the wayside inn. It is there that Alex, on the run from something,...
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May.16.2008
“A haunting story about the legacies of love and war, about three women living with hope and loss and each other. A splendid debut.”Robert Olen Butler
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Jan.27.2008
The Mandrake Broom, a historical novel based in Europe 1465-1540, dramatizes one woman's courageous fight to save medical knowledge during the witch-burning times. Meet:
Luccia Alimenti, daughter of a medical professor at the University of Salerno, Italy, destined to carry ancient texts and...
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Jan.08.2008
Poems by the two foremost women poets of Japanese literature, Ono no Komachi (8th c.) and Izumi Shikibu (11th c.). Predominantly love poems, but with strong Buddhist undercurrents, these five-line, 31 syllable tanka capture the essence of human life, in Heian-era Japan, and today.
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Dec.19.2007
"A born storyteller, Trina Robbins brings to life the headstrong women of Irish myth and brings back to life their descendants in Irish history." -- Patricia Monaghan
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