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Rose has always dreamed about marrying a prince charming, but instead she married an evil stepmother. Rose was born as a Princess, but got exiled from royalty when she was a child. Marriage proposal from Prince Kit is a chance of returning to royal life, so she takes it. Unfortunately, what a 21st century Princess thinks of as a dream, turns out to be a nightmare. She desires a peaceful, calm family life, but the endless cycle of rigorous rules, strict...
2) Amina
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Novels in English by northern Nigerian writers are few, so the arrival of a new one is an exciting literary event. This dramatic story of the efforts of the heroine and her friends to bring about change in the social conditions of women in Nigeria addresses pressing political issues which rarely appear in fiction-the legal status of Muslim women, the limitations imposed on them by traditional and religious conventions, the restrictions on their economic...
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You are in the wrong life, with the wrong man. This is a trap. Escape. You are in the right life, with the right man. This is a trap. Escape. In the surreal, macabre performances of femininity that haunt Suzanne Burns' third collection, nobody emerges innocent or unscathed. Tasha lives in a community that is mysteriously obsessed with a high-stakes bake-off. Junie constantly tries to impress a cabal of unsettlingly toxic ladies who don't respect her-until...
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What do you do when you fall in love with your next-door neighbour? You peer at each other through a hole in the fence and eventually climb over.Sybil is a member of The Good-Hearted Gardeners, a Society for Well-Meaning Efforts for the Betterment of Language and the Salvation of the Planet, which her lover, Demo, is allowed to join. It' s funded by MI5, who ask them to monetise and weaponise the English language. Soon afterwards they discover that...
5) Ryder
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This modernist, experimental, and controversial novel examines gender politics in the lives of an American family.
Lesbian poet, journalist, and illustrator Djuna Barnes's debut novel was a sensation when it was originally published in 1928. A bawdy parody of patriarchal repression, the book was heavily censored upon its release in America. An exploration of sexuality that is thought to be based on Barnes's own life, the novel depicts a family...
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Laila Russell is an ordinary 15-year-old schoolgirl living in London with her father, who is morose over his wife's accidental death. In the spring of 1972, Laila spots a lost pocketbook on the Underground and returns it to Amanda Charles, a fashionable young woman employed by an aging rock star. With glam music on the rise, Chaz Bonapart is going out of style. His manager, Francis Guy, comes up with a plan to get him back in the game by feeding him...
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Una de las mejores novelas de familias en la Guerra Civil española, de lo mejor que vas a leer por Rosa Sanmartín, una novela imprescindible.
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En una casa heredada de los abuelos, vive la familia Martí Llorens. Un padre carlista y una madre republicana. Su ideología, hasta ese momento casi imperceptible, los convierte en enemigos un verano de 1936.
Luis, el primogénito, siempre trabajó en el campo con el padre. En julio de 1936 se alistarse...
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Tras sufrir un aborto, Ada, una joven profesora de danza que vive condicionada por los fantasmas de su pasado, se sumerge en una profunda crisis personal que desemboca en un punto de inflexión en su vida.
Con el apoyo incondicional de su padre y de su mejor amiga, decide iniciar una terapia psicológica en la que hará frente a las devastadoras secuelas que arrastra desde su infancia. En este proceso intentará superar las barreras que le impiden...
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A novel of innocence, young love, and gothic mystery that is a sapphic reimagining of Mary Shelley's life, and a wonderfully imaginative exploration of the roots of her literary masterpiece, Frankenstein.
Europe, 1816. A volcanic eruption in Indonesia envelopes the continent in ash and clouds. Amid the gloom of this "year without summer," eighteen-year-old Mary Shelley, her lover Percy Bysshe Shelley, their baby boy William, and her stepsister Claire...
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When popular daytime TV host and uber-feminist Erica Flanagan skewers a young "trad wife" influencer on live TV, she soon finds herself on a forced sabbatical, searching for a project to keep her busy. Without a single domestic bone in her body, Erica embarks on a blogging project determined to prove that domesticity is a con. But her domestic adventure turns into a quagmire of personal discovery -and what she discovers is herself. Erica Flanagan,...
11) Fran, Older
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Life Isn't What It Used to BeLet's have a look at Fran's life:Husband deceased (but his stern portrait on the wall is an adequate stand-in, in some ways). Kids grown and gone. Career a distant memory. Driver's license a thing of the past (just as well, after the stop sign incidents). Suburban home sold. Her current address is a cozy unit in an upscale seniors' residence she calls the Facility.Fran is elderly, but far from over the hill. Politely independent,...
12) Lacuna: A Novel
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The traumatized central character of J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace is provocatively reimagined in this "surprising, subtle, and deeply challenging" novel (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).
Two years ago, Lucy Lurie was the victim of an act of sexual violence that devastated her life. Afterwards, she becomes obsessed with the author John Coetzee, whose acclaimed novel turned her brutal assault into a literary metaphor. Withdrawn and fearful of crowds,...
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As the sun dipped below the horizon, casting its golden hues upon the tranquil beach of West Hampton Dunes, a figure emerged from the gentle surf. It was Charlotte Penrith, her blond locks shimmering in the fading light, cascading down her slender shoulders. Her lithe form, kissed by the summer sun, moved with a grace that mirrored the ebb and flow of the ocean waves.Dressed in a provocative red swimsuit, the fabric clung to her like a second skin,...
14) The Pink House
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Jen Johanssen is a former porn actor trying to fit into the world of academia. Her sister, Lolly Johanssen, is a cancer survivor. Nicole Parks is in prison for loving the wrong guy. And Sonya Yakowski, also in prison, is a member of a family of traveling criminals, desperately missing her young son. The lives of these four women converge in a Florida prison, where Jen and Lolly have joined forces to put on a grant-funded drama production. Despite...
15) Fight Night
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Life is hard in the prison camp. There's back breaking work every day, and never enough food. But the inmates have formed a community of their own and they support each other as much as they can, even as the Commander does his best to break them down. Still, the work continues, even as the Commander's daughter has to be fitted for her prom dress. Even as a singing competition is offered as diversion for the Commander and his wife. Even as Even as...
16) Who Needs Paris?
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Who needs Paris? Certainly not Kate Miller. Ever since she was a student at the Sorbonne in the '60s, she's avoided Paris like the plague. But now it's 1977, and her life as a documentary filmmaker in Los Angeles is going nowhere. She's smart and clever, but dark memories of that youthful past have shut her down.
When a French TV director offers her a job in Paris, she senses it may be her only chance to free herself of those memories. Kate reluctantly...
17) Control Freak
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Jordan's life is totally in control:Crushing it as an ER doc-they don't call her The Ice Queen for nothingAvoiding devil-spawn sister's wedding-RSVP'd HELL NOFantasizing about dreamy nurse Eli-a secret she will take to her graveEverything is in order…except for that big lie she just told her sister. Now Jordan needs a fake boyfriend to be her plus-one for a family gathering, and she puts all options on the table-a bachelor auction, a male escort,...
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"Will appeal to readers of Elena Ferrante and Margaret Atwood . . . the unusual setting offers an interesting twist on the portrait of an artist as a young woman." -Bookpage
In 1960s Iceland, Hekla dreams of being a writer. In a nation of poets, where each household proudly displays leatherbound volumes of the Sagas, and there are more writers per capita than anywhere else in the world, there is only one problem: she is a woman.
After packing...
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Novels of romance, science fiction, and crime that explore gender roles and social expectations-and helped shape women's history.
These three novels provide a fascinating look at some of the literary voices that influenced early views of feminism.
Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Three sociology students journey into an uncharted region of South America and are shocked to discover a civilization of only women in this work of science fiction...
20) Truth or Daire
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Serena Jackson falls hard when a handsome stranger, Daire O'Dowd, swoops in as her skirt and the Windy City conspire against her. But as she's flying high, he turns out to be her new subordinate-and completely off-limits. Canceling their date is easier than ignoring her desire for him, which only grows more intense as the months tick by.When Serena discovers someone is embezzling from the PR firm they work at, Daire is the #1 suspect. Struggling not...
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