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21) Seven moves
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
Christine Snow, a successful Chicago therapist, sets out to find her vanished lover, the sultry and elusive travel photographer Taylor Hayes. Forging a trail that leads into the heart of Morocco, Seven Moves tracks Christine's gradual recognition that no one can ever really know another's soul. Bearing Anshaw's trademark style -funny, hip, and laser-sharp -this is "a tightly told tale that resists the bookmark as well as any thriller" (Chicago Sun-Times)....
Author
Publisher
Biblioasis
Pub. Date
[2019].
Language
English
Description
"Peeling apples for tartes tatin, an Ohio mother wonders how to exist in a world of distraction and fake facts, besieged by a tweet-happy president and trigger-happy neighbors, all of them oblivious to what Dupont has dumped into the rivers and what's happening at the factory farm down the interstate--not to mention what was done to the land's first inhabitants. A torrent of consciousness, narrated in a single sentence by a woman whose wandering thoughts...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
You open the door to the police. With them is your husband's eleven-year-old love child. A daughter you never knew he had. Her mother has been found dead in their south London flat. She has nowhere else to go. Compulsive, dark and devastating, Give Me the Child is a uniquely skillful thriller with an unforgettable twist.
24) The girl's guide: getting the hang of your whole complicated, unpredictable, impossibly amazing life
Author
Publisher
Workman Pub
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A colossal cheat sheet for your post-college years, answering all the needs of the modern woman-from mastering money to placating overly anxious parents, from social media etiquette to the pleasure and pain of dating (and why it's not a cliché to love yourself first).
A perfect combination of tried-and-true advice and been-there tips, it's a one-stop resource that includes how to clean up your digital reputation, info on finding an apartment you...
Author
Publisher
Broadway Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
New York Times bestselling author Joan Anderson gives women practical advice and inspiration for building creative, independent, and fulfilling lives through discovering who they truly are and who they can be.Joan Anderson's bestselling A Year by the Sea revealed a far larger than expected constituency, in the form of thousands of women struggling to realize their full potential. After years of focusing on the needs of others as a wife and mother,...
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Nearly a decade after the debut of her best-selling, life-changing classic A Year by the Sea, Joan is so busy helping other women search for their true selves and taking care of several generations of her family that she doesn't even realize how out of control her life has become. Ironically, she finds she needs to listen to her own advice more than anyone else does. The Second Journey chronicles Joan's quest to restore her own equilibrium and find...
28) Lonely: a memoir
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
In this insightful, soul-baring, and illuminating memoir, White reveals her battle to understand and overcome severe loneliness, and contends that this crippling condition deserves the same attention as other mental difficulties such as depression.
Author
Publisher
HarperBusiness, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Working women today are better educated and more well qualified than ever before. Yet men still predominate in the corporate world. In The Confidence Code, Claire Shipman and Katty Kay argue that the key reason is confidence. Combining cutting-edge research in genetics, gender, behavior, and cognition--with examples from their own lives and those of other successful women in politics, media, and business--Kay and Shipman go beyond admonishing women...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
First published three years before the print edition of Women Who Run With the Wolves made publishing history, this original audio edition quickly became an underground bestseller. For its insights into the inner life of women, it established Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés as one of the most important voices of our time in the fields of Jungian psychology, myth, and women's mysteries. Drawing from her work as a psychoanalyst and cantadora ("keeper of...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
A woman can always count on are her friends-right? But, what if those friendships are hurtful, harmful, even toxic? Susan Shapiro Barash explores the ten types of female friends and shows you why and how women get stuck with the worst kinds, the ways to get "unstuck, and how to recognize a true friend." For example:
• The Leader of the Pack-it's all on her terms
• The Doormat-and why you're the one paying the price
• The Misery Lover-she wants...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Barreca ponders life's questions and many others by giving women a hilarious antidote for the toxic "musts" they've been fed over the centuries, mulling over everything from the horror of chin hairs to why the "glass ceiling" is better described as a thick layer of men and telling women to stop believing the lies and conquer the world.
Author
Publisher
Conari Press
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
When author Lisa Hammond followed her passion, she founded her own company, Femail Creations -- a woman-oriented catalog company that grew into a huge success. Lisa loved shopping, thus the mail-order catalog. Because she's passionate about women making their way in the world, Femail Creations features only items crafted by women artisans. In Dream Big Hammond details how she and her sister entrepreneurs followed their dreams and managed their fears...
Author
Publisher
Harper Business, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"CNN news anchor Brooke Baldwin explores the phenomenon of "huddling," when women lean on one another--in politics, Hollywood, activism, the arts, sports, and everyday friendships--to provide each other support, empowerment, inspiration, and the strength to solve problems or enact meaningful change. Whether they are facing adversity (like workplace inequity or a global pandemic) or organizing to make the world a better place, women are a highly potent...
Author
Series
That second chance volume 5
Publisher
[Create Space?]
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"Three women embark on a month-long "discovery" journey and uncover quite a few tidbits along the way...one bottle of Clairol Midnight will not cover a full head of red hair, and never talk to men wearing polyester pants hiked up with a tan belt. But most of what they unearth is about themselves--who they are, what they really want, what they really don't want. The center of controversy is a Maid-for-You mixer, which symbolizes a boring, routine suburban...
Author
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Lake Superior, the north country, the great fresh-water expanse. Frigid. Lethal. Wildly beautiful. The Long-Shining Waters gives us three stories whose characters are separated by centuries and circumstance, yet connected across time by a shared geography. In 1622, Grey Rabbit-an Ojibwe woman, a mother and wife-struggles to understand a dream-life that has taken on fearful dimensions. As she and her family confront the hardship of living near the...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Why do we love stories about scammers so much? Journalist Tori Telfer dives into the stories of historical female con women and explains why we are so enamored by their scams"--
The art of the con has a long and venerable tradition, and its female practitioners are some of the best-- or worst. Telfer introduces us to a host of lady swindlers whose scams ranged from the outrageous to the deadly. Among them: In 1700s Paris, Jeanne de Saint-Rémy scammed...
Author
Publisher
Sterling
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"What does it mean to be strong? Pop culture heroines are strong not just because they fight villains, but because they deal with the same issues we face in real life--addictions, fears, traumas, and other struggles. And with the help of these characters, fans can find inspiration to overcome their own problems and be brave. In this book, Andrea Towers outlines some of the primary traits heroic women can rely upon, like resilience, self-acceptance,...
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