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Women in Love

by D. H. Lawrence

Published: 2003-01-15

Paperback: 400 pages

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A sequel to Lawrence's earlier The Rainbow (1915), Women in Love continues the story of the Brangwen sisters in the coal-mining town of Beldover. Based in part on Lawrence's own stormy marriage to German aristocrat Frieda von Richthofen, the tale is charged with intense feelings and psycho...

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Women in the Wild: True Stories of Adventure and Connection (Travelers' Tales)

Published: 2004-05

Paperback: 312 pages

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Women in the Wild is a collection of striking stories of women who sought adventure in the extremes of nature and their own inner worlds. Some women are wild by nature; others discover their wildness by going into nature. The women in these tales delve into the wilderness, explore remote jungle rivers,...

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* * * Poorly Written,
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The Women Jefferson Loved

by Virginia Scharff

Published: 2010-10-26

Paperback: 496 pages

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“A focused, fresh spin on Jeffersonian biography.” —Kirkus ReviewsIn the tradition of Annette Gordon-Reed’s The Hemingses of Monticello and David McCullough’s John Adams, historian Virginia Scharff offers a compelling, highly readable multi-generational biography revealing how th...

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Women Make the Best Friends: A Celebration

by Lois Wyse

Published: 1995-11

Hardcover: 189 pages

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Where would we be without our friends? In her heart of hearts every woman knows, as Lois Wyse sagely explains, that men may come and go but a true friend is forever. Bestselling author Lois Wyse turns to a subject that is central to every woman's life, friendship, in a poignant col...

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Women of Beaver Hall: Canadian Modernist Painters

by Evelyn Walters

Published: 2005-10-01

Hardcover: 192 pages

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Ten women artists, counterparts of the Group of Seven, are finally being given their due. Long overlooked by critics and historians, they are today amongst the most sought-after Canadian painters. The Beaver Hall Group ventured into a male-dominated art world, lived remarkable lives, and produced exceptional...

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The Women of Brewster Place (Penguin Contemporary American Fiction Series)

by Gloria Naylor

Published: 1983-06-30

Paperback: 192 pages

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The women of Brewster Place are "hard-edged, soft-centered, brutally demanding, and easily pleased". In their stories, Gloria Naylor has created a community of women that has touched thousands of readers across the country. Now the basis for a November 1988, ABC-TV, three-hour movie, starring Oprah Winfrey....

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The Women of Camp Sobingo

by Marilyn Celeste Morris

Published: 2008-05-09

Paperback: 344 pages

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Four women of diverse backgrounds form a bond while en route to join their Army officer husbands in Korea in 1946. Their experiences in a far-flung military compound strengthen three of the women, but a fourth chooses to end her life there, and during a reunion twenty-five years later, long-held dark...

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* * * Optimistic,
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Women of the Bible: Jael's Story: A Novel

by Ann Burton

Published: 2006-03-07

Mass Market Paperback: 288 pages

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The third installment of Women of the Bible, a compelling series for fans of historical romance and fiction. Like most brides, Jael hopes for a loving marriage. But when Heber takes her home to his other women, her dreams crumble. The women warn Jael that to bear the sons Heber demands, s...

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* * * * Beautiful,
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Women of the Silk: A Novel

by Gail Tsukiyama

Published: 2011-04-01

Kindle Edition: 289 pages

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In Women of the Silk Gail Tsukiyama takes her readers back to rural China in 1926, where a group of women forge a sisterhood amidst the reeling machines that reverberate and clamor in a vast silk factory from dawn to dusk. Leading the first strike the village has ever seen, the young women...

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* * * * * Dramatic,
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Women Up On Blocks

by Mary Akers

Published: 2009-01-17

Paperback: 160 pages

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Whether it's a young co-ed who has lived her life succumbing to passion and authority, a woman struggling with the intense demands of motherhood, or a newlywed whose new mirror-filled home proves too much for her fragile psyche, these thirteen stories-edgy and alluring-inexorably peel back the layers...