Women s history for beginners

Women'S History for Beginners

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Women of Intelligence

Here the women of Medmenham, the ‘Women of Intelligence’ from Churchill’s daughter to girls escaping home for the first time, tell the story of the

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Chess for Beginners - Dorling Kindersley

Anotace: Take your first steps towards mastering the world`s greatest game - and understand tactics, improve your game and outwit your opponents! From the history of chess and the aim of the game to essential tactics and taking your skills even further in clubs, tournaments, and championships, Chess for Beginners covers it all.Before explaining techniques, this chess gui...

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Short Stories in Italian for Beginners - Richards Olly

Anotace: An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young and adult learners."I love Olly`s work - and you will too!" - Barbara Oakley, PhD, Author of New York Times bestseller A Mind for NumbersShort Stories in Italian for Beginners has been written especially for students from beginner to intermediate level, designed to give a se...

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Short Stories in French for Beginners - Richards Olly

Anotace: An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young and adult learners."I love Olly`s work - and you will too!" - Barbara Oakley, PhD, Author of New York Times bestseller A Mind for NumbersShort Stories in French for Beginners has been written especially for students from beginner to intermediate level, designed to give a sen...

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Short Stories in German for Beginners - Richards Olly

Anotace: An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young and adult learners."I love Olly`s work - and you will too!" - Barbara Oakley, PhD, Author of New York Times bestseller A Mind for NumbersShort Stories in German for Beginners has been written especially for students from beginner to intermediate level, designed to give a sen...

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Short Stories in Spanish for Beginners - Richards Olly

Anotace: An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young and adult learners."I love Olly`s work - and you will too!" - Barbara Oakley, PhD, Author of New York Times bestseller A Mind for NumbersShort Stories in Spanish for Beginners has been written especially for students from beginner to intermediate level, designed to give a se...

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Short Stories in English for Beginners - Richards Olly

Anotace: An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young and adult learners."I love Olly`s work - and you will too!" - Barbara Oakley, PhD, Author of New York Times bestseller A Mind for NumbersShort Stories in English for Beginners has been written especially for students from beginner to intermediate level, designed to give a se...

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100 Nasty Women of History : Brilliant, badass and completely fearless women everyone should know - Jewell Hannah

Anotace: 100 fascinating and brilliantly written stories about history`s bravest, baddest but little known `nasty` women from across the world.These are the women who were deemed too nasty for their times, too nasty to be recognised, too nasty to be paid for their work and sometimes too nasty to be allowed to live.When you learn about women in history, they`re often made...

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Women - neuveden

Anotace: Re-examining history from a female perspective, this book celebrates the numerous important roles women have played in culture and society that are less often told. Packed full of evocative images, this gloriously illustrated book reveals the key events in women`s history - from early matriarchal societies through women`s suffrage, the Suffragette movement, 20th...

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The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II - Alexievich Svetlana

Anotace: A long-awaited English translation of the groundbreaking oral history of women in World War II across Europe and Russia-from the winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYThe Washington Post o The Guardian o NPR o The Economist o Milwaukee Journal Sentinel o Kirkus ReviewsFor more than three decades, Svetlana Alexievich has...

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The Vanishing Half : Longlisted for the Women´s Prize 2021 - Bennett Brit

Anotace: SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 'An utterly mesmerising novel..I absolutely loved this book' Bernardine Evaristo, winner of the Booker Prize 2019 'Epic' Kiley Reid, O, The Oprah Magazine The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black communit...

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The Vanishing Half : Longlisted for the Women´s Prize 2021 - Brit Bennett

From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Mothers, a powerful new novel about the parallel lives of estranged twin sisters who choose to live in two very different worlds - one black and one white. <p> </p> <p>'A bold, skilful storyteller . . . a novel that deftly rehearses the history of prejudice and suffering leading up to the present mome...

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Educational Theatre for Women in Post-World War II Italy

This book explores an important moment in Italian womenÂ’s theatre and cultural history: plays written for all-women casts between 1946 and the mid-19

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A Brief History of Vice: How Bad Behavior Built Civilization - Evans Robert

Anotace: Guns, germs, and steel might have transformed us from hunter-gatherers into modern man, but booze, sex, trash talk, and tripping built our civilization. Cracked editor Robert Evans brings his signature dogged research and lively insight to uncover the many and magnificent ways vice has influenced history, from the prostitute-turned-empress who scored a major vic...

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The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name - Muraresku Brian C.

Anotace: The most influential religious historian of the twentieth century, Huston Smith, once referred to it as the "best-kept secret" in history. Did the Ancient Greeks use drugs to find God? And did the earliest Christians inherit the same, secret tradition? A profound knowledge of visionary plants, herbs and fungi passed from one generation to the next, ever since th...

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Wool: The thrilling dystopian series, and the #1 drama in history of Apple TV (Silo) - Howey Hugh

Anotace: NOW THE NO.1 DRAMA IN THE HISTORY OF AppleTV+, SILO.An epic story of survival at all odds and one of the most anticipated books of the year, soon to also be a major Apple TV series.`Thrilling, thought-provoking and memorable ... one of dystopian fiction`s masterpieces alongside the likes of 1984 and Brave New World.` DAILY EXPRESS_____________In a ruined and ho...

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Little Women (Oxford World´s Classics New Edition) - Alcottová Louisa May

Anotace: Little Women has remained enduringly popular since its publication in 1868, becoming the inspiration for a whole genre of family stories. Set in a small New England community, it tells of the March family: Marmee looks after daughters in the absence of her husband, who is serving as an army chaplain in the Civil War, and Meg, Jo,Beth, and Amy experience domestic...

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A Brief History of Vice: How Bad Behavior Built Civilization - Robert Evans

<p>Guns, germs, and steel might have transformed us from hunter-gatherers into modern man, but booze, sex, trash talk, and tripping built our civilization. Cracked editor Robert Evans brings his signature dogged research and lively insight to uncover the many and magnificent ways vice has influenced history, from the prostitute-turned-empress who scored a major vict...

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Little Women (Oxford World´s Classics New Edition) - Louisa May Alcott

<p>Little Women has remained enduringly popular since its publication in 1868, becoming the inspiration for a whole genre of family stories. Set in a small New England community, it tells of the March family: Marmee looks after daughters in the absence of her husband, who is serving as an army chaplain in the Civil War, and Meg, Jo,Beth, and Amy experience domestic ...

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A Nursery Rhyme for Every Night of the Year - Esiri Allie

Anotace: Allie Esiri`s beautiful gift anthology, A Nursery Rhyme for Every Night of the Year, is a definitive collection of nursery rhymes, with enchanting illustrations by Emily Faccini. The book includes 366 rhymes - traditional classics as well as favourite rhymes of today - each accompanied by an enlightening introduction. Perfect for reading aloud and sharing with c...

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The Nightingale´s Castle: A thrillingly evocative and page-turning gothic historical novel for fans of Stacey Halls and Susan Stokes-Chapman - Velton Sonia

Anotace: `I was blown away by this dark, enchanting story of witchcraft, power and injustice. ..nothing short of brilliant` Mary ChamberlainErzsebet Bathory, whose infamous place in history characterises her as the `Blood Countess`, was accused of the murder of over 600 peasant girls in Hungary, 1610. The Nightingale`s Castle tells the story of a woman fighting for her s...

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Inferior - neuveden

Anotace: Inferior is more than just a book. It`s a battle cry - and right now, it`s having a galvanising effect on its core fanbase` ObserverAre women more nurturing than men?Are men more promiscuous than women?Are males the naturally dominant sex?And can science give us an impartial answer to these questions?Taking us on an eye-opening journey through science, Inferior ...

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What´s the Point of Science? - kolektiv autorů

Anotace: Wonderful storytelling and hand-drawn illustrations reveal the wonder of scientific discovery through history, ages 9-12Bored of biology? Crushed by chemistry? Perplexed by physics? DOES SCIENCE REALLY MATTER ANYWAY? Oh, only for... JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING!From how to stop a virus to defy gravity, and from how to predict the future to how to see the past, this boo...

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Agent Zo: The Untold Story of Fearless WW2 Resistance Fighter Elzbieta Zawacka - Mulleyová Clare

Anotace: This is the incredible story of Elzbieta Zawacka, the WW2 female resistance fighter known as Agent Zo. Agent Zo was the only woman to reach London from Warsaw during the Second World War as an emissary of the Polish Home Army command, and then in Britain she became the only woman to join the Polish elite Special Forces, known as the `Silent Unseen`. She was secr...

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Papyrus - Vallejo Irene

Anotace: Best Books of 2022 Financial Times`A literary phenomenon.` - Times Literary Supplement`Imaginative, lively and contemporary...masterly.` - Economist `Vallejo enlivens history with imagination and personal anecdote` - Observer`A mindboggling history of the earliest books... the story she tells is impressively rip-roaring` - Daily Telegraph`Packed with fascinating...

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The Dark Queens: A gripping tale of power, ambition and murderous rivalry in early medieval France - Puhak Shelley

Anotace: A vivid double biography of two fearless early medieval queens. `Brings the Merovingian empire to thrilling, bewildering, horrifying life` Helen Castor `Restores two half-forgotten and much-mythologized queens to their proper place in medieval history` Dan Jones `Fredegund and Brunhild have finally found a worthy champion` Literary ReviewBrunhild was a Visigothi...

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Jesus Christ, a Rogue - Felix Boom

Anotace: The novel, bordering between real story and fantasy, controversial by nature, has been written by an experienced author, established up to now in a different genre. Hence the author's need for pseudonym. The plotline is based on the return of Jesus Christ to the earth after more than 2000 years. Jesus Christ is acting as a tabloid sports reporter and a good spor...

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Jesus Christ, a Rogue - Felix Boom

<p>The novel, bordering between real story and fantasy, controversial by nature, has been written by an experienced author, established up to now in a different genre. Hence the author's need for pseudonym. The plotline is based on the return of Jesus Christ to the earth after more than 2000 years. Jesus Christ is acting as a tabloid sports reporter and a good sport...

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Notes on an Execution - Kukafka Danya

Anotace: Ansel Packer is scheduled to die in twelve hours.He knows what he`s done, and now awaits the same fate he forced on those girls, years ago. Ansel doesn`t want to die; he wants to be celebrated, understood.But this is not his story.As the clock ticks down, three women uncover the history of a tragedy and the long shadow it casts. Lavender, Ansel`s mother, is a se...

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No Safe Place : A gripping thriller with a shocking twist - Gibneyová Patricia

Anotace: There`s nothing more dangerous than a familiar face . . .As funeral mourners stand in silence at Ragmullin cemetery, a deafening cry cuts through the air. Lying crumpled at the bottom of an open grave is the bloodied body of a young woman, and Detective Lottie Parker is called in to investigate.Knowing the body can`t have been there long, Lottie wonders if it co...

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THE MARRIAGE OF OPPOSITES PA - neuveden

Anotace: `As intoxicating as the finest island rum` IndependentFrom the bestselling author of The Dovekeepers comes a love story about one of history`s most captivating `invisible` women: Rachel, the mother of Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro.Growing up on the idyllic island of St Thomas in the early 1800s, Rachel dreams of life in faraway Paris. Rachel`s mother, a...

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Family Lore - Acevedo Elizabeth

Anotace: Flor has a gift: she can predict, to the day, when someone will die. When she decides she wants a living wake - a party to bring her family and community together to celebrate the long life she`s led - her sisters are surprised. Has Flor forseen her own death? Or someone else`s? Does she have other motives? But Flor isn`t the only person with secrets. Matilde ha...

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Do Not Say We Have Nothing - Madeleine Thien

Anotace: ONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2017 SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 WINNER OF THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE 2016 SHORTLISTED FOR THE PARAGRAPHE HUGH MACLENNAN PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016. In Canada in 1991, ten-year-old Marie and her mother invite a guest into their home: a young woman who has fled China in the aftermath of the Tiananmen...

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Victory City - Rushdie Salman

Anotace: 'A total pleasure to read, a bright burst of colour in a grey winter season' Sunday Times She will whisper an empire into existence - but all stories have a way of getting away from their creators . . . In the wake of an insignificant battle between two long-forgotten kingdoms in fourteenth-century southern India, a nine-year-old girl has a divine en...

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The Maiden: Winner of the Bloody Scotland Crime Debut of the Year 2023 - Foster Kate

Anotace: The Times Bestseller`A masterpiece` - Janice Hallett, bestselling author of The Appeal `Exceptional - a tense, thrilling investigation, with a decidedly feminist slant` - Daily MailInspired by a real-life case, Kate Foster`s The Maiden is a remarkable story with a feminist revisionist twist, giving a voice to women otherwise silenced by history. Winner of the Bl...

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The Wren, The Wren: From the Booker Prize-winning author - Enrightová Anne

Anotace: Carmel had been alone all her life. The baby knew this. They looked at each other, and all of time was there. The baby knew how vast her mother`s loneliness had been.A contemporary novel of daughterhood and motherhood, from the Booker Prize-winning Irish author`A magnificent novel`SALLY ROONEY, author of NORMAL PEOPLE`Might just be her best yet`LOUISE KENNEDY, a...

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Among the Mosques : A Journey Across Muslim Britain - Husain Ed

Anotace: Islam is the fastest-growing faith community in Britain. Domes and minarets are redefining the skylines of towns and cities as mosques become an increasingly prominent feature. Yet while Britain has prided itself on being a global home of cosmopolitanism and modern civilisation, its deep-rooted relationship with Islam - unique in history - is complex, threatened...

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The Aztec Myths: A Guide to the Ancient Stories and Legends - Townsend Camilla

Anotace: The essential guide to the world of Aztec mythology, based on Nahuatl-language sources that challenge the colonial history passed down to us by the Spanish. How did the jaguar get his spots? What happened to the four suns that came before our own? Where was Aztlan, mythical homeland of the Aztecs? For decades, the popular image of the Mexica people - better k...

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The Devil Wears Prada : Loved the Movie? Read the Book! - Weisbergerová Lauren

Anotace: "A delightfully dishy novel about the all-time most impossible boss in the history of impossible bosses. Andrea Sachs, a small-town girl fresh out of college, lands the job ""a million girls would die for."" Hired as the assistant to Miranda Priestly, the high-profile, fabulously successful editor of Runway magazine, Andrea finds herself in an office that shout...

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The Tenth Muse - Chung Catherine

Anotace: The first thing I remember being said of me with any consistency was that I was intelligent - and I recognized even then that it was a comment leveled at me with as much disapproval as admiration. Still, I never tried to hide or suppress my mind as some girls do, and thank god, because that would have been the beginning of the end. From childhood, Katherine know...

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The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man : A Memoir - Newman Paul, Newman Paul

Anotace: The raw, candid, unvarnished memoir of an icon. The greatest movie star of the past 75 years covers everything: his traumatic childhood, his career, his drinking, his thoughts on Marlon Brando, James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor, his greatest roles, acting, his intimate life with Joanne Woodward, his innermost fears and passions and joys. With thoughts/comments throug...

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The Enigma Girls - Fleming Candace

Anotace: Scholastic Focus is the premier home of thoroughly researched, beautifully written, and thoughtfully designed works of narrative nonfiction aimed at middle-grade and young adult readers. These books help readers learn about the world in which they live and develop their critical thinking skills so that they may become dynamic citizens who are able to analyze and...

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Spitfire : A Very British Love Story - Nichol John

Anotace: THE SUNDAY TIMES NON FICTION BESTSELLER`The best book you will ever read about Britain`s greatest warplane.` Patrick Bishop, bestselling author of Fighter Boys.`A rich and heartfelt tribute to this most iconic British machine. By focussing on the men (and women) who flew the Spitfire, John Nichol has brought a fresh and powerful perspective to the story. And by ...

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Icons of Men’s Style mini - Josh Sims

<p>“Women are into fashion, men are into style, style is forever.” Domenico Dolce</p> <p>Womenswear progresses in leaps and bounds, fuelled by the readiness of women to wear what may at the time be perceived as the radical or outrageous. Not so menswear –menswear evolves, slowly. But from what? Behind nearly every item in the modern male wardrobe is a ‘f...

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A Room of One´s Own, 1. vydání - Virginia Woolf

<p>Based on lectures given at Cambridge colleges and first published by the Hogarth Press in 1929, A Room of One's Own is an extended essay about the predicament of female writers and a stirring call for autonomy and recognition. As well as settling scores with reactionary critics and laying the foundations of a history of women's literature, the text is also a triu...

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What´s the Point of Science? - autorů kolektiv

<p>Wonderful storytelling and hand-drawn illustrations reveal the wonder of scientific discovery through history, ages 9-12 Bored of biology? Crushed by chemistry? Perplexed by physics? DOES SCIENCE REALLY MATTER ANYWAY? Oh, only for... JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING! From how to stop a virus to defy gravity, and from how to predict the future to how to see the past, this...

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Unequal Sisters Taylor & Francis Ltd

Unequal Sisters has become a beloved and classic reader, providing an unparalleled resource for understanding women’s history in the United States today. This classic work has incorporated the feedback of educators in the field, to make it the most user-friendly version to date and will be of interest to students and scholars of women’s history, gender and sexuality stu...

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Unequal Sisters Taylor & Francis Ltd

Unequal Sisters has become a beloved and classic reader, providing an unparalleled resource for understanding women’s history in the United States today. This classic work has incorporated the feedback of educators in the field, to make it the most user-friendly version to date and will be of interest to students and scholars of women’s history, gender and sexuality stu...

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A Room of One´s Own, 1. vydání - Virginia Woolf

<p>A Room of One's Own is Virginia Woolf's most powerful feminist essay, justifying the need for women to possess intellectual freedom and financial independence. Based on a lecture given at Girton College, Cambridge, the essay is one of the great feminist polemics, ranging in its themes from Jane Austen and Carlotte Bronte to the silent fate of Shakespeare's gifted...

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Prison School 1 - Hiramoto Akira

Anotace: On the outskirts of Tokyo stands Hachimitsu Private Academy, anall-girls boarding school for elite young women. But as the new school year rolls around, one tradition is going out the window: For the first time in the school`s long history, boys are being allowed to enroll. On the first day of school, though, it turns out only five boys have made the cut. Thrill...

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Feminism: A Graphic Guide (1785784900)

Kniha - 192 stran, anglicky, Brožovaná bez přebalu matná - autor Cathia Jenainati, 192 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná What is feminism? Why are we still talking about it, and what can it tell us about ourselves, our societies and prejudices? In this unique, illustrated introduction, we’ll explore the early history of conscious struggle against sexist oppr...

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Ithaca: The exquisite, gripping tale that breathes life into ancient myth - North Claire

Anotace: `Claire North brings a powerful, fresh and unflinching voice to ancient myth - darkly fascinating, raw and breathtaking` Jennifer Saint, author of Sunday Times bestseller Ariadne***A Sunday Times Historical Fiction Book of the Year***This is the story of Penelope of Ithaca, famed wife of Odysseus, as it has never been told before. Beyond Ithaca`s shores, the whi...

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In the Upper Country - Kai Thomas

Anotace: The fates of two unforgettable women - one just beginning a journey of reckoning and self-discovery and the other completing her life's last vital act - intertwine in this ambitious and inventive debut set at the terminus of the Underground Railroad. Freedom, you can't get and bury, and keep it and keep it so it won't ever go away. No, child. Yo...

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London Seance Society - Penner Sarah

Anotace: THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNamed a Most Anticipated book by Good Housekeeping, Washington Post, Bookpage, CrimeReads, Readers Digest, Popsugar, LitHub, E! News, Goodreads, and more"Penner brings history to vivid life in this atmospheric and evocative whodunnit." --Nita Prose, author of The MaidFrom the author of the sensational bestseller The Lost Apot...

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Cassandra Speaks - Lesser Elizabeth

Anotace: What story would Eve have told about picking the apple? Why is Pandora blamed for opening the box? And what about the fate of Cassandra who was blessed with knowing the future but cursed so that no one believed her? What if women had been the storytellers?Elizabeth Lesser believes that if women`s voices had been equally heard and respected throughout history, hu...

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The Weavers of Alamaxa - Elsbai Hadeer

Anotace: `Hadeer Elsbai has written a powerful story of sisterhood, love, and struggle within a rich, vibrant world with complicated characters that leap from the page to smash the patriarchy!` P. Djeli Clark, author of A Master of Djinn, on The Daughters of IzdiharFollowing up on one of the most exciting fantasy debuts, The Daughters of Izdihar, Hadeer Elsbai concludes ...

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The Unmaking of June Farrow - Youngová Adrienne

Anotace: With The Unmaking of June Farrow, Adrienne Young delivers a brilliant story with romance, mystery, and a touch of the impossible: a story you will never forget.In the small mountain town of Jasper, North Carolina, June Farrow is waiting for fate to find her. The Farrow women are known for their thriving flower farm - and the mysterious curse that has haunted the...

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Bestiary - Ming Chang

Anotace: Three generations of Taiwanese American women are haunted by the myths of their homeland in this blazing debut of one family's queer desires, violent impulses and buried secrets. One evening, Mother tells Daughter a story about a tiger spirit who lived in a woman's body. Her name was Hu Gu Po, and she hungered to eat children, especially their toes. S...

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House of Odysseus: The breathtaking retelling that brings ancient myth to life - North Claire

Anotace: `CLAIRE NORTH BRINGS A POWERFUL, FRESH AND UNFLINCHING VOICE TO ANCIENT MYTH` Jennifer Saint, author of Sunday Times bestseller AriadneFrom the author of the critically acclaimed Ithaca - A Sunday Times Historical Fiction Book of the Year - comes an exquisite and gripping new tale that breathes life into ancient myth. This is the story of Penelope of Ithaca, fam...

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