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1) Animal
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Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
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2021
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"Joan has spent a lifetime enduring the cruelties of men. But when one of them commits a shocking act of violence in front of her, she flees New York City in search of Alice, the only person alive who can help her make sense of her past. In the sweltering hills above Los Angeles, Joan unravels the horrific event she witnessed as a child--that has haunted her every waking moment--while forging the power to finally strike back."--
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Presenting radical new ways to think about love, the author examines the role of love in our personal and professional lives and how it can be used to end struggles between individuals, communities, and societies. The acclaimed first volume in feminist icon bell hooks' "Love Song to the Nation," All About Love is a revelation about what causes a polarized society and how to heal the divisions that cause suffering. Here is the truth about love, and...
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"The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" is the second and final novel by the English author Anne Brontë. It was first published in 1848 under the pseudonym Acton Bell. Probably the most shocking of the Brontës' novels, it had an instant and phenomenal success, but after Anne's death her sister Charlotte prevented its re-publication. The novel is framed as a series of letters from Gilbert Markham to his friend and brother-in-law about the events leading to...
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A playful, feminist, and utterly original epic set in contemporary northern India, about a family and the inimitable octogenarian matriarch at its heart.
"A tale tells itself. It can be complete, but also incomplete, the way all tales are. This particular tale has a border and women who come and go as they please. Once you've got women and a border, a story can write itself... "
Eighty-year-old Ma slips into a deep depression after the death of...
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In an era of revolutions demanding greater liberties for mankind, Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was an ardent feminist who spoke eloquently for countless women of her time. Having witnessed firsthand the devastating results of male improvidence, she assumed an independent role early in life, educating herself and eventually earning a living as a governess, teacher and writer. She was also an esteemed member of the radical intellectual circle that...
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The Odd Women (1893) is a novel by George Gissing. Inspired by a report of over one million more women living in Britain than men, Gissing sought to explore the societal and personal implications of unmarried life while exploring the demands of the growing feminist movement. The Odd Women is a story of romance, independence, and the pressures of society that poses important questions about convention in Victorian England while proving surprisingly...
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Presented here are three of the most important feminist novels ever written: Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and The Awakening by Kate Chopin. Each of these works is an early, groundbreaking piece of fiction from some of literature's finest female writers as they explore life, love and the struggle of women to find their voices in a time where they were too often silenced and suppressed.
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Presented here is Volume II of our Feminist Literary Classics series, featuring three more of the most important feminist novels ever written: To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, Daughter of the Samurai by Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto and My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin.
The first book in this collection is To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf's experimental and brilliant third novel. This semi-autobiographical book was hailed in its time as a...
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A powerful, heartrending, and insightful novel of a trio of women in Cameroon who dare to rebel against oppressive, long-held cultural traditions—including polygamy and domestic abuse—that define and limit their lives.
Three women, three stories, three linked destinies...
In North Cameroon, well-to-do young Ramla is torn from her true love and wed to a manipulative older man. Safira, her co-wife, juggles envy and empathy for this new bride with...
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Moving between Nigeria and America, Jollof Rice and Other Revolutions is a window into the world of accomplished Nigerian women, illuminating the challenges they face and the risks they take to control their destinies.
Students at an all-girls boarding school, Nonso, Remi, Aisha, and Solape forge an unbreakable sisterhood that is tempered during a school rebellion, an uprising with repercussions that will forever reverberate through their lives....
13) Moods
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Originally published in 1864, "Moods" was the first book produced by Louisa May Alcott under her real name and pre-dated her hugely popular novel "Little Women". Written for a noticeably more mature audience then her most famous works, "Moods" revolves around the intersecting lives of an abolitionist spinster and a fallen Cuban beauty. Louisa May Alcott (1832 - 1888) was an American short story writer, novelist, and poet most famous for writing the...
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A través de las protagonistas de cada historia de Las que somos, Rosalí León-Ciliotta nos muestra las diferentes aristas del ser mujer en un tiempo tan remoto como el Perú de la independencia, un país machista y misógino latinoamericano o un lugar tan lejano como el confín del mundo. Cada uno de los tres cuentos de este libro pone a sus protagonistas en lugares insólitos y situaciones límite de las cuales emergerán: Ventura hará lo que...
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Tres novelas ejemplares en las que Zweig profundizó como nadie hasta entonces en la psicología femenina: Veinticuatro horas de la vida de una mujer, Miedo y Carta de una desconocida.
Antes de que la teoría feminista evolucionase, ola a ola, escritores como Stefan Zweig hacían tentativas para expresar una feminidad cercenada. En el arte y en la literatura existen dibujos estereotipados, reduccionistas, estigmatizadores de las mujeres, pero también...
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Antoinette is a concert violinist and opera singer. She travels and advocates for causes that aim to make the world a better place.She has a friend, Lilith, who does that as a lawyer, politician...and witch.A few months into the year, they receive a surprise visit from an alien botanist, Ileandra.Follow them throughout an entire year on their adventures!
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Seltsame Dinge geschahen im Dorf. Magenhäute wurden als Flaggen gehisst, Vorhäute um Arme gewickelt und die losen Frauen schlackerten mit ihren Kehlen im Wind. Die Großmutter und die Mutter hielten Wache über die Bräuche im Dorf. Sie führten Aufgaben aus, die bald auf eine junge Frau übertragen werden sollten. Was es zu bewachen gilt, bleibt verborgen. Die Protagonistin versucht, den Klauen dieser bizarren Dorfgemeinschaft durch die Flucht...
18) Not yours, Truly
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Not yours, Truly is a collection of ten short stories that tell the story of ten different women. Each woman tells her story, whether it has a happy ending or not. She struggles to survive her circumstances and the demons that come with it and tells her tale through uncensored yet poignant prose. Not yours, Truly sends the reader into ten different battles, and recounts the tale of ten different women's struggle to survive.
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Una historia de fantasía que te llevará a un viaje de autodescubrimiento y autoconocimiento. A través de la historia de Niobe, te sumirás en un relato de reflexión sobre la depresión y las expectativas propias.Al terminar de leer este libro de autoayuda tu vida no volverá a ser la misma.¡No esperes más y comienza a leer ya!
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"It is -32083 years from the starting point, belonging to the era of matrilineal primitive tribes."The Gatling space capsule, which is responsible for closing the canopy of cross-time and space live broadcasts, accidentally fell into a parallel time and space 30,000 years ago during a mission. According to the detector prompts, this should be a matriarchal society.But when the team leader climbed out of the cockpit and looked at the low-altitude silent...
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