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Daughter of Fortune: A Novel
Isabel Allende - Harper Collins Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Orphaned at birth, Eliza Sommers is raised in the British colony of Valparaso, Chile, by the well-intentioned Victorian spinster Miss Rose and her more rigid brother Jeremy. Just as she meets and falls in love with the wildly inappropriate Joaqun Andieta, a lowly clerk who works for Jeremy,... |
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The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood
Format: Hardcover
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(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)A gripping vision of our society radically overturned by a theocratic revolution, Margaret Atwoods The Handmaid's Tale has become one of the most powerful and most widely read novels of our time.Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, serving in the household... |
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Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague
Geraldine Brooks - Viking Adult
Format: Hardcover
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Young Anna Frith, a vicar's maid, is faced with the loss of her family, the disintegration of her local community, and a passionate, illicit love as she and her village confront the horrors of the plague, in a historical novel based on real-life events in seventeenth-century England. A first... |
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The Red Tent: A Novel
Anita Diamant - Picador; 10th Anniversary Edition edition
Format: Paperback
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A New York Times Bestseller A decade after the publication of this hugely popular international bestseller, Picador releases the tenth anniversary edition of The Red Tent. Her name is Dinah. In the Bible, her life is only hinted at in a brief and violent detour within the more... |
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Like Water for Chocolate
Laura Esquivel
Format: Audiobook
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Earthy, magical, and utterly charming, this tale of family life in turn-of-the-century Mexico became a best-selling phenomenon with its winning blend of poignant romance and bittersweet wit. The classic love story takes place on the De la Garza ranch, as the tyrannical owner, Mama Elena,... |
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Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution
Michelle Moran - Crown; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The world knows Madame Tussaud as a wax artist extraordinaire . . . but who was this woman who became one of the most famous sculptresses of all time In these pages, her tumultuous and amazing story comes to life as only Michelle Moran can tell it. The year is 1788, and a revolution is about... |
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The Kitchen God's Wife
Amy Tan
Format: Paperback
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Winnie and Helen have kept each other's worst secrets for more than fifty years. Now, because she believes she is dying, Helen wants to expose everything. And Winnie angrily determines that she must be the one to tell her daughter, Pearl, about the pastincluding the terible truth even Helen... |
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The Color Purple
Alice Walker - Audible Studios
Format: Audiobook
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, this novel about a resilient and courageous woman has become a Broadway show and a cultural phenomenon. A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick Celie has grown up poor in rural Georgia, despised by the society around her and abused... |
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Suits: A Woman on Wall Street
Nina Godiwalla - Atlas
Format: Print book
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No class can prepare anyone for a career on Wall Street. While others in Nina Godiwalla's Persian-Indian immigrant community were content to fulfill their parents'dreams, Nina's fierce ambition pulled her from Houston to New York to become a banker. The rarified taste of power... |
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Womanthology: Heroic
Barbara Kesel - IDW Publishing
Format: Print book
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Womanthology is a large-scale anthology showcasing the works of women in comics. It is created entirely by over 140 women of all experience levels, from young girls who love to create comics all the way up to top industry professionals. All of the short stories will center around the theme... |
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Irrepressible: The Life and Times of Jessica Mitford
Leslie Brody - Counterpoint; 1ST edition
Format: Book
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Admirers and detractors use the same words to describe Jessica Mitford: subversive, mischief-maker, muckraker. J.K. Rowling calls her her “most influential writer.” Those who knew her best simply called her Decca. Born into one of Britain’s most famous aristocratic families,... |
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Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
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From admired historianand coiner of one of feminism's most popular slogansLaurel Thatcher Ulrich comes an exploration of what it means for women to make history.In 1976, in an obscure scholarly article, Ulrich wrote, "Well behaved women seldom make history." Today these words appear on t-shirts,... |
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The Astronaut Wives Club: A True Story
Lily Koppel - Grand Central
Format: Print book
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Read the bestselling book that inspired the ABC television series.As America's Mercury Seven astronauts were launched on death-defying missions, television cameras focused on the brave smiles of their young wives. Overnight, these women were transformed from military spouses into American... |
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