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Vivid

by Beverly Jenkins

Published: 2015-01-07

Paperback: 420 pages

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It's 1876 and Dr. Viveca Lancaster is frustrated by the limits placed upon female physicians of color. When she is offered the chance to set up a practice in the small all Black community of Grayson Grove, Michigan she leaves her California home and heads east. The very determined Viveca is one of the...

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* * * Informative,
Fun,
Adventurous

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Telegraph (The Oakleys Book 1)

by Phil Oakley

Published: 2014-05-01

Kindle Edition: 520 pages

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Telegraph is the story of an amazing American family who set roots in the frontier, first in New Mexico and later in the Texas Hill Country. Their hard work to build a peaceful life alongside the bubbling waters of Little Hatchet Creek and the South Llano River began after the Civil War. Their challenges...

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Madam President: A Novel

by Nicolle Wallace

Published: 2015-04-28

Hardcover: 352 pages

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With Madam President, current cohost of The View and former White House Communications Director Nicolle Wallace returns with an electrifying portrait of three powerful women on a day that will change the country forever.Charlotte Kramer, the forty-fifth President of the United States, has ...

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The Madame Curie Complex: The Hidden History of Women in Science (Women Writing Science)

by Julie Des Jardins

Published: 2010-03-01

Paperback: 352 pages

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Why are the fields of science and technology still considered to be predominantly male professions? The Madame Curie Complex moves beyond the most common explanations—limited access to professional training, lack of resources, exclusion from social networks of men—to give historical co...

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The Time Is Noon: A Novel

by Pearl S. Buck

Published: 2013-05-21

Kindle Edition: 320 pages

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In one of Pearl Buck’s most revealing works, a woman looks back on her long and rocky path to self-realization Considered to be one of Pearl S. Buck’s most autobiographical novels, The Time Is Noon was kept from publication for decades on account of its personal resonance. The book tel...

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One to Love (Kimani Hotties)

by Michelle Monkou

Published: 2015-04-01

Kindle Edition: 217 pages

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Is she the only woman for him? Nothing is going to keep Belinda Toussaint from her goal of starting a horse-riding camp for kids who need a fresh start, which means teaming up with the man who's been hired to help turn her vision into reality. But soccer legend Jesse Santiago is as arroga...

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* * * Romantic,
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The Letter

by Kathryn Hughes

Published: 2015-03-19

Kindle Edition: 200 pages

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Every so often a love story comes along to remind us that sometimes, in our darkest hour, hope shines a candle to light our way. Discover the Number One bestseller that has captured thousands of hearts worldwide... Tina Craig longs to escape her violent husband. She works all the hours G...

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Expat: Women's True Tales of Life Abroad (Adventura Books)

by Christina Henry De Tessan

Published: 2002-06-20

Paperback: 320 pages

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For generations, literary figures from Ernest Hemingway to Frances Mayes have fueled our fantasies about the romance of expatriate life. But it’s one thing to dream about living abroad and quite another to actually do it. In Expat a diverse group of women explores in vivid detail how the...

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Hitchhiking Vietnam: A Woman's Solo Journey in an Elusive Land

by Karin Muller

Published: 1998-03-01

Paperback: 288 pages

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Imagine being a twenty-eight-year-old single woman, working your way up the management consulting ladder, with your own expense account a fancy gym membership and salary to spare. Now imagine throwing it all away to Hitchhike a country under the iron fist of communism with a dubious grip on the language,...

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Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know

by E.D. Hirsch Jr.

Published: 1988-04-12

Paperback: 272 pages

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In this forceful manifesto, Hirsch argues that children in the U.S. are being deprived of the basic knowledge that would enable them to function in contemporary society. Includes 5,000 essential facts to know.