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Priscilla, una mujer que busca redimirse a través de la venganza, se vale de sus dones seductivos para condenar la brutalidad de la que ha sido víctima. Acompañada con las voces salvajes de su interior, se encuentra aprisionada en una relación que la sumerge en lo más hondo de su perversidad, decidida a reivindicar el derecho propio sobre su placer carnal y su rol social.
De rasgos violentos, donde la frontera entre lo real e imaginario cambia...
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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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A Roadmap To Life's Enduring Passages
Reckonings, regrets, longings. Life's turning points. Sometimes redemptive, sometimes heartbreaking, these crossroads are familiar to us all. The yearning for a different path, a better ending, is uniquely human.
You Can't Get There From Here explores these pivotal moments. In Repossession, we meet a young man looking for closure in his dead girlfriend's apartment; You Again, Always introduces us to a couple...
64) Vida
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Originally published in 1979, Vida is Marge Piercy's classic bookend to the 60s. Vida is full of the pleasures and pains, the experiments, disasters, and victories of an extraordinary band of people. At the center of the novel stands Vida Asch. She has lived underground for almost a decade. Back in the 60s, she was a political star of the exuberant antiwar movement, a red-haired beauty photographed for the pages of Life magazine-charismatic, passionate,...
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Successful lawyer Melissa, stay-at-home-mom Jessica, and Chef Dominic have not visited home for Christmas since their father died two years ago. But when their elderly mother invites them home for the holidays and shares her plan to sell the house, the three siblings plan a surprise for her. Little do they know their mother has a surprise of her own.
Meet the White family for their unexpected Christmas reunion.
66) Negra y oscura
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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...
67) It Wasn't Enough
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What if one day, all of the women suddenly disappeared, leaving the men to take their places, fill their roles, and do what they did. What would happen? How would the men react?
Here and now, women's subordination is so systemic it's unremarkable (to all but serious feminists). In It Wasn't Enough, once women are gone and men have to take their places, fill their roles, the subordination becomes remarkable, that is, it becomes noticeable. And then,...
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Over the past fifty years, feminist literary criticism has become theoretical rather than practical, severing any relationship between literary analysis and the real lived experiences of women. An example of this disconnect is the way in which the madwoman in feminist literature has become a lauded icon of liberation, when in reality her situation would be seen as anything but empowered. Finding the Plot takes this example to task, arguing that in...
69) A Strange Woman
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The pioneering debut novel by one of Turkey's most radical female authors tells the story of an aspiring intellectual in a complex, modernizing country.
In English at last: the first novel by a Turkish woman to ever be nominated for the Nobel. A Strange Woman is the story of Nermin, a young woman and aspiring poet growing up in Istanbul. Nermin frequents coffeehouses and underground readings, determined to immerse herself in the creative, anarchist...
70) Ischia
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Ischia is a portrait of an unnamed narrator and protagonist who, along with her friends, wanders through the margins of different cities, especially Buenos Aires, searching for something they don't know and seems unfathomable.
An intricate, gutsy, and raw novel, Ischia is populated with outsiders who navigate the vicissitudes of life in Argentina and the world. Ischia, the first-person female narrator, is the youngest in a family of seven brothers...
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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...
72) La ocupación
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Fui yo quien dejó a W., tras una relación de seis años. Por cansancio pero también al no verme capaz de cambiar mi libertad, recuperada tras dieciocho años de matrimonio, por una vida en común que él deseaba fervientemente desde el principio. Unos meses después, W. me anunció que se iba a vivir con una mujer cuyo nombre no quiso decirme. A partir de ese momento caí presa de los celos. La imagen y la existencia de la otra mujer se convirtió...
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Memoirs of Emma Courtney (1796) is a novel by English writer and feminist Mary Hays. Inspired by events from her own life, as well as by her acquaintance with radical political philosophers William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, Hays's novel received mixed reviews and was controversial for its representation of female sexuality, adultery, infanticide, and suicide. Modern critics and readers, however, have recognized the novel as a groundbreaking...
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Lithuanian born anarchist Emma Goldman immigrated to the United States at the age of sixteen. She first became attracted to anarchism following the Haymarket affair of 1886, a massacre in which seven police officers and an unknown number of civilians were killed during a march of striking Chicago workers. Eight anarchists were subsequently tried for murder. In the early part of the 20th century Emma Goldman would become one the most ardent supporters...
75) The Leftovers
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It was dark and sad and powerful and poetic. Just addictive, and bloody marvellous' Louise BeechThe Leftovers is a story about sexual power and consent, the myth of the perfect victim, and a dark exploration of the things we do for – and to – the ones we love.Callie's life is spent caring for others – for Frey, her client, and for Noah, her brother. When a tragic car accident shatters her family, she's left alone with her mother Vanessa. Vanessa's...
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"A deftly crafted, deeply engaging, and memorably compulsive page turner." --Midwest Book Review No means no, except to the most powerful woman in fashion. Kyle's been trying to forget her for eleven years. When she reemerges for round two, Kyle's forced to confront his painful past-the one he's kept hidden from his girlfriend, Rebecca. Complications arise when Rebecca's blog for women becomes a global sensation in the one magazine Kyle hoped to avoid....
77) Trashlands
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From the author of Road Out of Winter, winner of the 2021 Philip K. Dick Award, comes a resonant, visionary novel about the power of art and the sacrifices we are willing to make for the ones we love**
A few generations from now, the coastlines of the continent have been redrawn by floods and tides. Global powers have agreed to not produce any new plastics, and what is left has become valuable: garbage is currency.
In the region-wide junkyard that...
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1918 Italy
When a deadly blizzard traps Fiona Figg and Kitty Lane in the Dolomite Mountains, it's all
downhill from here.Their hotel is snowed-in, and no one can get in or out. Then a man is found dead in his locked hotel room – and the killer is still on the premises. But with no murder weapon and too many suspects, their investigation is treading on thin ice.
The colder it gets outside, the hotter it gets inside as Fiona squares off with both...
79) Snapdragon
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From USA Today bestselling author Kilby Blades, the smoking-hot book that started it all…
The rules are simple: unattached companionship, toe-curling sex and a clean break whenever it ends. And either one of us can say the single word that will break it off: Snapdragon.
Falling in love is a luxury people like us don't have.
He's at the top of his field and I'm at the top of mine.
It's only a matter of time before ambition calls and one of us walks...
80) The Mummy!
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Set in 2126, The Mummy: A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century explores a society led by advanced technology but driven by ego, greed and self-preservation. It's a vivid clash of genres featuring an old tale with a new twist.
In the distant future, society has become enthralled by technology. It's an integral part of life that has changed the way humans interact. Autonomous machines have a visible presence, taking critical jobs in the workforce. Doctors...
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