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Tinker Street, the prequel to Anna Magdalena (2022), has arrived from Emperor Books!
Struck by love for a boy as beautiful as a Michelangelo, fifteen year old Maggie digs her heels in. She's got what Willa Cather called "luck-making power of desire." She's a rebel in the best sense of the world.
Growing up in Woodstock of the 1990s, the daring performance artist Anna Magdalena is called Maggie. Raised as a "love child" in a communal household...
2) And she was
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Sweeping across centuries and into the Aleutian Islands of Alaska's Bering Sea, And She Was begins with a decision and a broken taboo when three starving Aleut mothers decide to take their fate into their own hands. Two hundred and fifty years later, by the time Brandy, a floundering, trashy, Latin-spewing cocktail waitress, steps ashore in the 1980s, Unalaska Island has absorbed their dark secret-a secret that is both salvation and shame.
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In our culture, Shakespeare's works are classics and his characters have achieved mythical status. But what did William Shakespeare consider to be the great myths and classics? And who were the empowering role models for his bold and unforgettable heroines? In plays and poems throughout his career, Shakespeare explored many facets of the divine feminine, including Greek and Roman goddesses- he nearly deified Queen Elizabeth. His characters...
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"The international bestselling author of The Secret River and A Room Made of Leaves returns with a fictionalised account of her grandmother's life, commemorating a strong female character making the best out of the times and society she was born in. Dolly Maunder is born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society's long-locked doors are just starting to creak ajar for determined women. Growing up in a poor farming family in rural New South...
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But the trauma of her ordeal is only just beginning. Plagued by nightmares and panic attacks, Emma struggles to regain her sense of normalcy and security. When new evidence raises doubts about Lucas' guilt, her own grip on reality threatens to unravel. Just as she is starting to rebuild her life, cryptic threats emerge from Lucas' secret followers determined to ensure his freedom.
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A page-turning epic historical adventure that starts in Australia and travels the world through the eyes of Frances, code named Funnel Web.
If you want to be a woman in a man's world, never take no for an answer.
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For Frances Davies the war is far away, and she and best friend Maggie are more concerned with how to spend their time once they graduate high school. That is, until Frances's older brother, Thomas, is reported...
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A crown prince holds a secret. If he reveals it, he risks losing the throne. If he doesn't, he risks losing even more-love. In the mid-twentieth century, patriarchal norms abound in the Kingdom of Gulaz. Princess Maryam, dressed and treated as a boy since birth to ensure succession to the throne, is known to all as Prince Mahib. Life in Gulaz is peaceful until King Dariush's death. In his final moments, the king divulges a prophecy that forever changes...
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Un frère et une soeur en route vers le Sud. Un aubergiste maniaque et une pluie de morts violentes. Mais sous l'apparence du slasher, un imprévu choc des titans
Né en 1984 selon les manifestants – bien plus tt selon la police – Chris Anthem se réjouit que l'écriture ait un jour croisé son chemin. Ça lui évite de chercher un vrai travail. Quand ça lui chante, il envoie un nouveau bain de sang à son éditeur qui vous le livre tel quel....
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A partir del análisis de las novelas francesas publicadas en 1909 por la Biblioteca La Nación, la autora delinea de qué manera la ficción fue modelando un ideal de mujer importado desde Europa a través de las traducciones y reproducido localmente en los tiempos del Centenario.
Estas novelas, bajo el prestigio de la cultura francesa, replican ideales que parecieran estar aún vigentes en las expectativas de los hombres que se sienten habilitados...
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En la teoría feminista se plasman los efectos reflexivos de las luchas de las mujeres por su liberación. Esta teoría tiene una tradición de tres siglos. No es un pensamiento lineal ni homogéneo, lo que está en consonancia con la complejidad y variedad de estas luchas, cuyas dinámicas son diferentes de acuerdo con la especificidad de los grupos de mujeres que las protagonizan y de sus contextos históricos. Sin embargo, ha sido posible reconstruir...
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¿Cómo se construyó el feminismo popular y lo que Graciela Di Marco llama, provocativamente, el pueblo feminista? Este libro responde estas preguntas a partir de una investigación que abarcó toda la primera década del siglo. El propósito es analizar las relaciones de mujeres y varones participantes en los movimientos sociales y las implicancias políticas de sus discursos y prácticas. Por consiguiente, se aleja tanto de la perspectiva universalizadora...
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¿Es el ámbito penal y su esquema de víctimas y victimarios una forma adecuada para pensar y resolver conflictos? ¿Cómo producir leyes que protejan a las mujeres sin decantar en inflación penal? ¿Es la mejor alternativa —en todos los casos— prohibir aquello que consideramos indeseable o ilegítimo? ¿Cómo podríamos las feministas explorar los potenciales de una justicia reparatoria? ¿Qué sucede con el potencial simbólico del sistema...
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En este primer volumen se presenta la trayectoria que lleva de los «memoriales de agravios», que recogen las quejas de las mujeres contra los abusos del poder patriarcal, a la formulación de «las vindicaciones». Estas últimas dan su expresión a la crisis de legitimidad de este poder, como se pondrá de manifiesto desde las luchas por el acceso a la ciudadanía de las mujeres en la Revolución Francesa, hasta el movimiento sufragista. La obra...
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Las movilizaciones feministas resurgen con vigor en las décadas de los 60 y los 70 del pasado siglo. Sus militantes proceden de la cantera de la New Left y del Movimiento pro derechos civiles de los afroamericanos, sin embargo, en su militancia en estos medios progresistas e igualitaristas, las mujeres hacen la experiencia del sexismo y plantean la necesidad de organizarse de forma autónoma. Correlativamente, en el plano teórico tratarán de independizarse...
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At 28, with a Ph.D under her belt and a meteoric rise to head of Research and Development at Mercer Robotics, Reese feels her decision to put her career first has worked out pretty well for her. Sure, she doesn't have many personal relationships to speak of, but she does love her team and they like her too.
So when she's called to the Big Boss's office and told she will be looking after his son while he does a rotation in her lab, she's not thrilled...
18) The Oath
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When the last of members of a secretive Druid cult are forced to abandon their hidden sanctuary, they send the youngest of their remaining priests in search of Annwr, their chief priestess's sister, who was abducted by a Saxon war band fifteen years ago. With only a rudimentary grasp of English and the ambiguous guidance of an oracle's prophecy, Caelym manages to find Annwr living in a hut on the grounds of a Christian convent.
Annwr has spent her...
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Rachel Berman wants everything to be perfect. An overprotective single mother of two, she is acutely aware of the statistical dangers lurking around every corner-which makes her snap decision to aid a stranded motorist wholly uncharacteristic. Len Bean is stuck on the shoulder with Olivia, his relentlessly curious, learning disabled ten-year-old daughter. To the chagrin of Rachel's children, who are about to be linked to the most-mocked girl in school,...
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"AND ALL FOR WANT OF A NAIL… "Ursula Dankworth sought death-her own. She aimed to end her life in the secluded embrace of The Grand Loch Linnhe Hotel, nestled in the remote Scottish Highlands. Fate, however, had a different plan-another guest's demise: Blanchette Darlow. Thrust into the role of investigator, Ursula, ex-wife, and former assistant to a renowned detective, sets aside her own ghosts to unravel the truth behind Blanchette's murder. Forced...
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