A Notable Woman

-Robbins makes clear for a quite young audience through both main narration and endnote that there were very specific obstacles that had to be over...

A Notable Memoir by the New York TimesWith echoes of Just Mercy and An American Marriage, a remarkable memoir of a woman who falls in love with an ...

The author of National Book Award-finalist }The Giant's House{ weaves an epic family saga set against the backdrop of twentieth America. An enigmat...

The extraordinary journals of Pratt, who started a journal aged 15 in 1925, and kept writing until just a few days before her death in 1986: the re...

Reducere. These powerful poems are written against the perfections and idealizations of traditional love poetry. The man and woman in these poems are husband...

Reducere. WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE(R) IN LITERATURE 2013 A New York Times Notable BookA Washington Post Notable Work of FictionA Best Book of the Year: The ...

Reducere. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year " To Know a Woman has] the powerful undertow of myth . . . A rich and affecting novel." -- New York Times...

Reducere. One of the Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2017 and a New York Times Notable Book of 2017From the great British novelist Dame Marg...

Reducere. Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) was an American playwright, Pulitzer Prize-winning lyrical poet, and feminist activist. One of the most celebra...

DescriptionWINNER OF THE 2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018 "A beautiful book ... a world of insight into death, grief, a...

The old woman is happy living in her old vinegar bottle house by a loch, until one day she saves a charming fish prince who grants her wishes in re...

A New York Times Notable Book of 2017Louise Erdrich, the New York Times bestselling, National Book Award-winning author of LaRose and The Round Hou...

Reducere. Any history of California is incomplete without the story of this dynamic woman who was one of the state's first notable pioneer figures. Jessie Be...

Reducere. An authentic voice from the western frontier Elinore Pruitt Stewart is renowned for her books 'Letters of a Woman Homesteader' and its sequel 'Lett...

Reducere. THE UNDERSTANDING ABOUT WOMEN KNOWN ONLY TO AN ELITE FEW, NOW REVEALED... A Mack is the ultimate gentleman. But a gentleman on his terms, not the w...

Reducere. Set in the Baltic provinces in the aftermath of World War I, Coup de Grace tells the story of an intimacy that grows between three young people hem...

A Second Volume of the exceptional, though often neglected, fiction of Violet HuntViolet Hunt was a British author who was notable for her early fe...

Reducere. "This stunning novel is told in alternating chapters from the points of view of two African-American women connected by blood but divided by time: ...

Reducere. DescriptionTucker has masterfully inked a compelling tribute to a woman named Cathy Williams. Prince George's Sentinel, Maryland The unforgettable ...

Reducere. This posthumously published collection of essays takes up such diverse subjects as the poet Oppian, Tantrism, the feasts of the Christian year, Dur...

The master of the comic book mash-up finds the POTUS to be his ultimate super-villainR. Sikoryak is famous for taking classic comics and mashing th...

Reducere. From the award-winning Southern lifestyle magazine Garden & Gun comes this rich collection of some of the South's most notable women.For too long, ...

Reducere. ALA Notable BooksA powerful tragedy distilled into a jewel of a masterpiece by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved and, almost like a prelude...

Reducere. Sonia Delaunay, wife of painter Robert Delaunay, and co-founder of the Orphist school in 1910, was the center of a brilliant circle in Paris. Madse...

Reducere. A revelatory history of Antwerp--from its rise to a world city to its fall in the Spanish Fury--by the New York Times Notable author of The Edge of...

This book is an invaluable key to self-understanding. Using examples from her own life and the lives of her clients, as well as from dreams, fairy ...

Reducere. Aurora Leigh (1856) is an epic poem by English Romantic poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Described by Browning as "a novel in verse, " Aurora Leigh...

Reducere. This book, Hollywood Deco Fashions of the 1920s, traces the experiences of a young French woman along the path she followed in 1919 from a very sma...

Reducere. A Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People From the very first days of aviation, women were there. Katherine Wright, though not a pilot,...

Reducere. First published in 1395, Julian of Norwich's "Revelations of Divine Love" is a classic and important work of Christian mysticism, and the first boo...

Reducere. In 1932, two years after D. H. Lawrence's death, a young woman wrote a book about him and presented it to a Paris publisher. She recorded the event...

Reducere. An important voice for her people by the first published Native American female authorLucy Thompson (or to give her the correct Yurok name Che-na-w...

Reducere. An important voice for her people by the first published Native American female authorLucy Thompson (or to give her the correct Yurok name Che-na-w...

The Birds of Prey face off against mysterious viruses...and maybe even find themselves the prey. When Huntress goes AWOL and a techno-virus invades...

DescriptionThe New York Times bestselling author of Spring Forward returns to Mystic Creek, Oregon, where an estranged pair are given a second chan...

Reducere. Female criminals are often portrayed as caricatures: Black Widows, Queenpins, Mob Molls, or Femme Fatales. But the real stories are much more fasci...

Reducere. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR NPR "Time" Magazine "The Washington Post" "Entertainment Weekly" "The Boston Globe" ...

Reducere. Behold Your God is a 12-week study for churches, small groups, families or individuals containing 12 sessions that are reinforced by a 12-week dail...

Reducere. A New York Times Notable Book of 2007"Splendid, suspenseful, and irresistible . . . A contemporary love story that explores the mores of the urban ...

Reducere. A Newbery Medal Winner Richard Peck's Newbery Medal-winning sequel to A Long Way from Chicago Mary Alice's childhood summers in Grandma Dowdel's sl...

Reducere. A New York Times Notable Book One of the Best Books of the Year: Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Entertainment Weekly, Slate In A Free Life, Ha...

Reducere. Awards🏆Nominee (1998) - PEN/Faulkner Award - (Fiction)Contributor(s): Author: Mary GaitskillA New York Times Notable Book A man tells a story to a ...

Reducere. They called her "Minty." When she grew up, she became Harriet Tubman, the courageous and heroic woman who helped hundreds of slaves escape to freed...

Reducere. Gan (geese) evokes Meiji-era Tokyo: its alleyways, rivers, mansions, poverty, and occasionally tense class interactions. Okada, a student at the mo...

National Bestseller Now a major motion picture starring Tom Holland and directed by the Russo Brothers. A young medic returns from deployment in Ir...

Reducere. "We're everywhere, and it's time to come out of the closet: I speak of the tongue-tied generation, buyers of books with titles like Master Spanish ...

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER A PEN/HEMINGWAY AWARD FINALIST A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: THE NEW YORKER - ENTERTAINMENT ...

A Washington Post Notable Book In 1858, a German princess, recently inducted into the convent of Sant'Ambrogio in Rome, wrote a frantic letter to h...

Reducere. A New York Times Notable Book A gorgeous, critically acclaimed debut novel about a young woman coming of age with a dazzling yet damaged mother who...

Reducere. A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKBALTIMORE WOMAN DISAPPEARS DURING FAMILY VACATION, declares the headline. Forty-year-old Delia Grinstead is last seen ...

Reducere. First published in 1897, "The Blood of the Vampire" is a vampire novel by prolific writer Florence Marryat. The story revolves around one Miss Harr...

Reducere. A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book for 2011 A Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011 TitleTiger, Tiger is a Publishers Weekly Best Nonfi...

Reducere. When Julius Caesar arrives in Egypt and finds Cleopatra in hiding, he encourages her to return to the palace and embrace her role as queen. Shaw de...

Reducere. A superb collection of short fiction--her first in thirty years and spanning many geographies--from the critically acclaimed author of Monkeys, Eve...

Reducere. A BEST BOOK OF 2020TIME Magazine・The Atlantic・Book Riot・Electric Literature・The New York Times (Notable Book of the Year) The story of three women ...

Reducere. A New York Times Notable Book "Nuanced and smart . . . Serber knows that neglect or disconnect doesn't always turn into trauma or damage. Life isn'...

Reducere. When Julius Caesar arrives in Egypt and finds Cleopatra in hiding, he encourages her to return to the palace and embrace her role as queen. Shaw de...

Reducere. Karin Slaughter's internationally bestselling novels are as notable for their vivid portraits of lives shadowed by loss and heartbreak as they are ...

Reducere. Clever Girl is an indelible story of one woman's life, unfolded in a series of beautifully sculpted episodes that illuminate an era, moving from th...

Reducere. New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Books of 2018 - Amazon Editors' Top 100 of 2018 Rachel Cusk, the award-winning and critically acclaimed auth...

*** 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST ****** LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE ****** NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEAR...

A New York Times Notable Book of 2019 selection, a New York Times Editors' Choice book, and longlisted for the Story Prize--from the bestselling, h...

Reducere. Rebecca Skloot and her best-seller, 'The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks' has created a lot of interest in the immortal HeLa cells that were taken...

Reducere. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, Raymond Chandler is an uncensored look at the tortured man who wrote the classic mystery novels The Big ...

Meave Leakey's thrilling, high-stakes memoir--written with her daughter Samira--encapsulates her distinguished life and career on the front lines o...

Reducere. A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK Longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2020 What unites Katherine Mansfield, Charlie Chaplin, Shakespe...

Reducere. Officer Harry Feversham leaves his military position right before an important battle to the disappointment of his three closest friends and the wo...

Reducere. *A Skimm Reads Pick*Washington Post 50 Notable Works of Fiction 2017Kirkus Best Debut Novels 2017Kirkus Best Fictional Families 2017Minnesota Publi...

On the heels of Ashley Longshore's successful I Do Not Cook, I Do Not Clean, I Do Not Fly Commercial comes Roar! A Collection of Mighty Women inspi...