Women's Literature | Women's Studies - Interest
Apr.22.2011
Life is filled with random encounters and Ellery Roulet, a 35-year-old American PR executive living and working in Paris, has experienced enough of them to last five lifetimes. When betrayal, loss, mistakes, regrets and even acceptance enter Ellery's life at different times, she learns it is...
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Apr.04.2011
It is a story based on many things from teenage prostitution in to STD'S to pre-marital sex and the day to day life of someone living with HIV and the hopes they cling on and thier expectations from life after the test. It is a story that opens the eyes of it's readers to the possibility of an HIV...
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Mar.26.2011
Erin Reese is a one-of-a-kind travel writer – a spiritual seeker and solo backpacker who dropped out of a successful career in corporate America, hit the road,and never looked back. Her memoir, 'Bindi Girl: Diving Deep Into the Heart of India,' is a high-energy adventure travel tale, packed...
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Mar.26.2011
Erin Reese is a one-of-a-kind travel writer – a spiritual seeker and solo backpacker who dropped out of a successful career in corporate America, hit the road,and never looked back. Her memoir, 'Bindi Girl: Diving Deep Into the Heart of India,' is a high-energy adventure travel tale, packed...
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Mar.10.2011
Pearl Caldwell wakes up in New Orleans, anxious to see the final days of the World's Fair, when she finds her companion, J.D. Bath, has taken everything, including her credit cards and money. She is stranded.
Six weeks later, Pearl is in the French Quarter celebrating her job with her friends...
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Mar.04.2011
I love you. The meeting ran late. I want a divorce. One little word, one casual lie, one devastating announcement—and our lives are turned upside down forever.
In He Said What?, twenty-six gifted women writers share profoundly personal moments in which a man in their life said something—good or...
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Mar.03.2011
Ada's Daughter recounts the life of Nigerian-born Jacqueline Maduneme who endured and overcame physical and emotional pain and suffering most anyone would fnd impossible to process or heal from. This intense account takes us from her early age to current day, and in her gift for storytelling,...
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Mar.01.2011
Four friends working in Napa Valley, Sundays are for fellowship, good food and wine. Jamie is editor-in-chief at "Wine Lover's Magazine," and a single mother. Before her husband died, she lived a fairy tale life. Guilt from his death keeps her from moving forward. Kat is a sommelier, and...
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Feb.25.2011
In Dante's Hell, suicide victims are turned into dead trees that can still feel pain. The Harpies, birds with women's faces, peck at their limbs for eternity. In Harpies' Feast, the second in the Alexis Pope mystery series, Alex plunges into a mystery exploring teenage suicide and the torment of...
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Feb.08.2011
With the opening line of Silver Sparrow, "My father, James Witherspoon, is a bigamist," author Tayari Jones unveils a breathtaking story about a man's deception, a family's complicity, and two teenage girls caught in the middle.
Set in a middle-class neighborhood in Atlanta in the 1980s, the...
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