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3) Chaotic good
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Cameron wants only to complete her costume portfolio in peace, but when a trip to the local comic shop results in a hostile reception from a male employee, she returns disguised as a boy at her twin brother's suggestion and finds herself drafted into a D & D campaign.
5) Mudwoman
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
428 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
M.R. Neukirchen--the first female president of a lauded Ivy League institution--struggles to hold onto her self-identity in the face of personal and professional demons.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A contemporary story about the insular world of writers, centering on a notable female poet and the young woman to whom she reveals her long-guarded secret about a famous manuscript"--
7) Furia
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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Rosario, Argentina. At home Camila Hassan lives within her mother's narrow expectations, her soccer-star brother's shadow, and under the abusive rule of her short-tempered father. On the field, she is La Furia, a powerhouse of skill and talent. When her team qualifies for the South American tournament, Camila dreams of getting an athletic scholarship to a North American university. But her parents wouldn't allow a girl to play fúbol-- and she needs...
Author
Language
English
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"Offers a visually rich, intimate, unprecedented look at the Justice and how she changed the world. From Ginsburg's refusal to let the slammed doors of sexism stop her to her innovative legal work, from her before-its-time feminist marriage to her perch on the nation's highest court--with the fierce dissents to match--get to know RBG as never before. As the country struggles with the unfinished business of gender equality and civil rights, Ginsburg...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"Bloomsbury Books is an old-fashioned new and rare bookstore that has persisted and resisted change for a hundred years, run by men and guided by the general manager's unbreakable fifty-one rules. But in 1950, the world is changing, especially the world of books and publishing, and at Bloomsbury Books, the girls in the shop have plans: Vivien Lowry: Single since her aristocratic fiance was killed in action during World War II, the brilliant and stylish...
10) The prettiest
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When a list appears online ranking the top fifty prettiest girls in the eighth grade, everything turns upside down. Eve Hoffman, ranked number one, can't ignore how everyone is suddenly talking about her looks. Sophie, the most popular girl in school, feels lower than ever when she's bullied for being ranked number two. Nessa Flores-Brady didn't even make the list, but she doesn't care -- or does she? The three girls ban together to find out who made...
11) A mistake
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Counterpoint hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
179 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Elizabeth is a gifted surgeon--the only female consultant at her hospital. But while operating on a young woman with life-threatening blood poisoning, something goes horribly wrong. In the midst of a new scheme to publicly report surgeons' performance, her colleagues begin to close ranks, and Elizabeth's life is thrown into disarray. Tough and abrasive, Elizabeth has survived and succeeded in this most demanding, palpably sexist field. But can she...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a Division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 115 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Two essays connect the past with the present, tracing the history of misogyny to its ancient roots and examining the pitfalls of gender.
Author
Publisher
Erewhon Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First US edition
Physical Desc
375 pages : 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Beatrice Clayborn is a sorceress who practices magic in secret, terrified of the day she will be locked into a marital collar that will cut off her powers to protect her unborn children. She dreams of becoming a full-fledged Magus and pursuing magic as her calling as men do, but her family has staked everything to equip her for Bargaining Season, when young men and women of means descend upon the city to negotiate the best marriages. The Clayborns...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Go, an imprint of Hachette Books, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
275 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The trauma that our world experienced in recent years--as result of both the pandemic and societal tensions that threaten to overwhelm us-has been unprecedented and is not going away anytime soon. It is clear that existing political and economic systems are not enough to bring the change that the world needs. In this book, Rainn Wilson explores the possibility and hope for a spiritual revolution, a 'Soul Boom' in order to address today's greatest...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
162 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The runaway bestseller that helped launch Korea's new feminist movement, Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 follows one woman's psychic deterioration in the face of rigid misogyny. In a small, tidy apartment on the outskirts of the frenzied metropolis of Seoul, Kim Jiyoung-a millennial "everywoman"-spends her days caring for her infant daughter. Her husband, however, worries over a strange symptom that has recently appeared: Jiyoung has begun to impersonate...
16) Go with the flow
Author
Series
Go with the flow volume 1
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
327 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
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Description
Sophomores Abby, Brit, Christine, and Sasha are fed up. Hazelton High never has enough tampons. Or pads. Or adults who will listen. Sick of an administration that puts football before female health, the girls confront a world that shrugs--or worse, squirms--at the thought of a menstruation revolution. They band together to make a change. Its no easy task, especially while grappling with everything from crushes to trig to JV track but they have each...
Author
Series
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
450 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
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A year after a whirlwind grand tour with her brother Monty, Felicity Montague has returned to England with two goals in mind: avoid the marriage proposal of a lovestruck suitor from Edinburgh and enroll in medical school. But the administrators, see men as the sole guardians of science. When a doctor she idolizes marries an friend of hers in Germany, Felicity believes he could change her future. A mysterious young woman will pay Felicity's way, if...
Author
Series
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1920s New York, the price of a woman's independence can be exorbitant-even fatal. In 1924 Manhattan, women's suffrage is old news. For sophisticated booklover Julia Kydd, life's too short for politics. With her cropped hair and penchant for independent living, Julia wants only to publish books under her own imprint. But as a woman, Julia must fight for what's hers-including the inheritance her estranged half brother, Philip, has challenged, putting...
19) Tidelands
Author
Series
Fairmile novels volume 1
Publisher
Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
455 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Description
Midsummer's Eve, 1648, England is in the grip of a civil war between renegade king and rebellious parliament. The struggle reaches every corner of the kingdom, even the remote tidelands -- the marshy landscape of the south coast. Alinor, a descendant of wisewomen, trapped in poverty and superstition, waits in the graveyard under the full moon for a ghost who will declare her free from her abusive husband. Instead, she meets James, a young man on the...
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Language
English
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"In 1925, Barnard student Zora Neale Hurston--the sole black student at the college--was living in New York, "desperately striving for a toe-hold on the world." During this period, she began writing short works that captured the zeitgeist of African American life and transformed her into one of the central figures of the Harlem Renaissance. Nearly a century later, this singular talent is recognized as one of the most influential and revered American...
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