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The publication of Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch in 1970 was a landmark event, raising eyebrows and ire while creating a shock wave of recognition in women around the world with its steadfast assertion that sexual liberation is the key to women's liberation. Today, Greer's searing examination of the oppression of women in contemporary society is both an important historical record of where we've been and a shockingly relevant treatise on what...
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Brand New from Lisa HobmanCan you live your dreams and also find your destiny?
Since having to drop out of her design degree, Bella Douglas has been unlucky in just about everything life has thrown at her.
She's lost more jobs than she cares to remember and to top it off she's still single, despite her Granny Isla's best attempts to set her up with every eligible bachelor in the Scottish Highlands.
Currently PA to her best friend, aka, Lady Olivia...
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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...
44) 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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The next installment in the wonderfully warm and uplifting series set on Puddleduck Farm.Life would be idyllic if everyone else was on the same page…
Puddleduck Vets Practice is busier than ever.
Phoebe Dashwood is juggling the usual crazy animal antics of her quirky clients, whilst organising the wedding of her bridezilla grandmother and thankfully dating her perfect man.
Phoebe loves every minute of being a New Forest vet, even if she hardly...
48) Kiss of Death
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"All it takes to earn a place at the table is a little help from the deadliest epidemic since the plague." It's 1918, in a Wellington that few people would recognise today, and two major events are about to collide: the signing of the Armistice to end World War I, and the soldier-borne plague we now call the Spanish flu. Into this comes Wellington's only female lawyer, leading her group of Sapphist friends as they attempt to strike a blow for women's...
49) Lady of Spades
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What if the death of your father means that you will be forced into marriage with a thuggish aristocrat? What would you do?Marry the bastard and hope you survive birthing children every year?Or would you escape?If so, where? For Men in Power are not kind to their womenfolk...
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Winner of the MLA's 2016 Alan Bray Prize for Best Book in GLBTQ Studies
How BDSM can be used as a metaphor for black female sexuality. The Color of Kink explores black women's representations and performances within American pornography and BDSM (bondage and discipline, domination and submission, and sadism and masochism) from the 1930s to the present, revealing the ways in which they illustrate a complex and...
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Dr. Nari Wexler is recruited to clone flawless blonde girls in a laboratory on a remote island in the Philippines. She removes eggs from kidnapped Ukrainian girls and inserts goat genes into their genome so that the cloned babies will reach puberty in just sixteen months, like in goats. However the first batch of clones results in an unintended genetic defect-the babies are born with cloven goat feet.Shocked by the outcome, her boss insists she discard...
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This book is selection of my work as an author since the time I quit my tenured position as a university professor to become an independent writer. The selection includes both fictional books and a lone nonfiction piece, which is about the remarkable achievements of a friend who has maintained a menagerie of turtles for half a century. All these animals are conversant with the English language; some even write poetry. Many will read the nonfictional...
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They DID promise her a killer hen weekend...
Jeanie's getting married, and – despite her completely impossible four sisters – her best friends Clio and Amber are determined to give her a bachelorette weekend to remember. They're in matching pink T-shirts and the drinks are flowing...
But the night turns out to be unforgettable for all the wrong reasons when a girl turns up dead on the dancefloor. And – even though she's a stranger – she...
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"Experience the transformative journey of 'A Guy Who Knows How to Look at a Flower,' a heartwarming tale that transcends borders and speaks to the essence of human existence. Follow the simple yet profound life of a man who discovers the true riches of the soul, forsaking material wealth and superficial desires to embrace the beauty of nature's most delicate creations - the flowers in his garden.As the story unfolds in a serene and picturesque valley...
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"Once a liar, always a liar." Dalia kicks the rock into the lake, taking a deep breath. "And once a friend...twice the backstabber."***Following the wake of Julianna Robinson's, the ruling Queen Bee of Devington Private Institute, sudden death; four estranged students unite as one to destroy-or maybe even conceal- the infamous reign Julianna left them with. A reign that brought terror to many of the students; including her own twin, James Robinson,...
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How black women have personified art,expression,identity, and freedom through performance
Winner, 2016 William Sanders Scarborough Prize, presented by the Modern Language Association for an outstanding scholarly study of African American literature or culture
Winner, 2016 Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History, presented by the American Society for Theatre Research
Winner, 2016 Errol Hill Award for outstanding scholarship...
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"A sapphic reimagining of Mary Shelley's youth, vividly exploring innocence, young love, gothic mystery and the roots of her literary masterpiece, Frankenstein. Switzerland, 1816. A volcanic eruption in Indonesia envelopes the whole of Europe in ash and cloud. Amid this "year without a summer," eighteen-year-old Mary Shelley and her lover Percy Bysshe Shelley arrive at Lake Geneva to visit Lord Byron and his companion John Polidori. Anguished by the...
58) Love on the Menu
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One takeaway dinner. Two lonely hearts. Did someone order a rom com? Gia thrives on taking risks. After having her heart broken back home, she moved to London alone to chase her dreams. Ben always plays things safe. He works the same job in the same restaurant, night after night. But tonight, is going to be different. Because fate will mean one of his deliveries goes to Gia's apartment and in return a note from her will make its way back to him at...
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'Julia's writing is a sparkling delight.' Sophie Hannah
Viv, Janet and Zelda know all about facing the wobbly first year of becoming a widow as their friendship was forged when they ran away from the same dreary support group. Forming instead the much more lively widows' wine club – The Muscateers – they welcome new member Libby with open arms.
Libby feels lost without Jim, her husband of more than thirty years, but the warmth, friendship and...
60) Amy
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We have all got to that point where we are about to engage in something new...and we are not sure how to continue. We have all had that chance when we go to a new school or a new class and we are afraid of the reception. Some of our parents have dotted on us in basic or primary school...until it gets to a point when we have to leave them and manage on our own...AMY is a COMING OF AGE novella in which a teenage girl gets to that point where she has...
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