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So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Americanah tells you what you need to know before or after you read Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's book. Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader. This short summary of Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie includes: • Chapter-by-chapter overview • Profiles of the main characters • Themes and symbols...
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Ordinary to Extraordinary, 150 stories as unique as the women who lived them relates life from a woman's point of view. The stories range from a single incident to a full life story; from ordinary life to tragic events; from the horrific to the humorous. There are stories of living as a child in another country, immigration to Canada from various countries, growing up in Ontario, meeting the love of their life, and the struggles of life, fires, floods,...
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We live in an Islamophobic world, where Muslim people are constantly under attack, and must prove their innocence when they've not even committed a crime. We also live in a world of rigid gender roles and gender violence, where women, gender non-conforming and trans people are victims of violence, and have their gender expressions, freedoms, and desires policed. There's pressure from both Muslims and non-Muslims to fit into severe stereotypes of Muslim...
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This original anthology presents 19 short stories that cover nearly a century of speculative fiction by women authors. Selections range from Mary Shelley's "Transformation" (1830), a pendant to Frankenstein in its themes and motifs, to "Where Their Fire Is Not Quenched" (1922) by May Sinclair, a tale of time travel that follows its heroine to Hell and back. Gripping narratives include Virginia Woolf's "A Haunted House," in which a ghostly couple revisit...
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“Making Room: Forty Years of Room Magazine” celebrates the history and evolution of Canadian literature and feminism with some of the most exciting and thought-provoking fiction, poetry, and essays the magazine has published since it was founded in 1975 as Room of One's Own. This collection includes poems about men not to be fallen in love with, trans womanhood, the morning-after pill, the "mind fuck" of being raped by a romantic partner, and...
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Designed to amplify the authentic voices of emerging writers, Turquoise Dreams is a short story collection depicting life experiences through the eyes of women in modern day Southern Africa. With contributing writers from Matebeleland, Midlands, Masvingo, Mashonaland and Manicaland, the stories portray post-colonial struggles amidst societal degeneration within a declining economic environment in Zimbabwe and beyond its borders.
There are 29 short...
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At turns heartbreaking and hilarious, BOOBS is a diverse collection of stories about the burdens, expectations and pleasures of having breasts. From the agony of puberty and angst of adolescence to the anxiety of aging, these stories and poems go beyond the usual images of breasts found in fashion magazines and movie posters, instead offering dynamic and honest portraits of desire, acceptance and the desire for acceptance. Surrounded by flat-chested...
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“Songs of the Heart” is the first in a series of poetry anthologies by Chartus.
This is a curated collection that captures the joys and lamentations dwelling within the poet's souls.
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Hannah Olesen
Nicolina Ashby
Patricia Mercado
Freya Thorne
Rachel C. Hyde
Ezgi Gurhan
Xyvah Okoye
Heroine East
Tal Rejw
29) Real Women's Stories 2018: A Powerful, Inspiring Collection of Short Stories by and About Real Women
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The twelve brief chapters in this book reflect the beauty and the burdens of life, the highs and lows of being a woman.
With stories about: mothers and daughters; relocating from a small town in Idaho to a tiny island in the Caribbean; a United States marine adopting a baby girl from an orphanage during the Vietnam War; surviving divorce, alcoholism, and domestic violence; building an empire in exotic jewelry design; trading routine for adventure;...
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'Indelible in the hippocampus is the laughter,' said Dr. Christine Blasey-Ford when she testified to congress in September 2018 about the men who victimized her. A year earlier, in October 2017, the hashtag #MeToo shone a light on the internalized, normalized sexual harassment and abuse that'd been ubiquitous for women for generations.
Among the first books to emerge from the #MeToo movement, Indelible in the Hippocampus is a truly intersectional...
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Motherhood, the good, the bad, and the boldfaced. A collection of honest essays about the hardest and best job in the world. Women from all stages of life contribute with stories that will make you laugh, make you cry, and make all mothers feel part of the greater tapestry of life.
32) Help Me Understand Alcott's Little Women!: Includes Summary of Book, Themes, and Historic Context
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Alcott's Little Women is epic! Timeless! A tale for the ages! And a little hard to get through!
If you want to understand Little Women, or just want a little refresher of what it is about, then this book will help. Inside you will find summaries of each chapter, an overview of themes, characters and plots, and a short biography of Alcott's life. Note: This does not include the book.
If you wish that Little Women was written today (and not over a hundred...
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Third- and fourth-wave feminists write about their experiences with Catholicism and their visions for the future of women in the Church.
A collection of creative pieces, Unruly Catholic Feminists explores how women are coming to terms with their feminism and Catholicism in the twenty-first century. Through short stories, poems, and personal essays, third- and fourth-wave feminists write about the issues, reforms, and potential for progress. Giving...
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Queer parenthood: It's multifaceted. It's complex. And it is constantly changing, as laws and culture shift around us. What's in a Name? reflects on this complexity through the voices of nonbiological/non-gestational queer mothers/parents who explore our experiences parenting across our different social and familial locations. The authors have all taken different routes to parenting, live in different countries, and understand our relationships to...
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Phillis Wheatley (c. 1753—1784) was an American freed slave and poet who wrote the first book of poetry by an African-American. Sold into slavery in West Africa at the age of around seven, she was taken to North America, where she served the Wheatley family of Boston. Phillis was tutored in reading and writing by Mary, the Wheatleys' 18-year-old daughter, and was reading Latin and Greek classics from the age of twelve. Encouraged by the progressive...
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Textual Mothers/Maternal Texts focuses on mothers as subjects and as writers who produce auto/biography, fiction, and poetry about maternity. International contributors examine the mother without child, with child, and in her multiple identities as grandmother, mother, and daughter. The collection examines how authors use textual spaces to accept, negotiate, resist, or challenge traditional conceptions of mothering and maternal roles, and how these...
37) An Empty Stage
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"An Empty Stage-A Collection of Monologues" is a celebration of the solo performance that covers a wide range of short works for the theater. Whether you are an experienced reader of the form or simply dipping your toes into the uncharted territory of spoken word, this anthology serves as both a solid introduction and a source for one to return to time and time again.
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Paula Gail Benson
Mark Blickley
Nancy...
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Best women's travel writing volume 12
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Now, new from Travelers' Tales comes The Best Women's Travel Writing, Volume 12: True Stories from Around the World-the latest collection in the best-selling, award-winning series that invites you to ride shotgun alongside intrepid female nomads as they wander the globe discovering new places, faces, and facets of themselves.
"In story after story," McCarthy wrote about the previous volume of The Best Women's Travel Writing, "the refreshing absence...
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Twenty-one women writers consider the impacts of concussion on their personal and professional lives. Their stories reveal the work that goes into redefining identity and regaining creative practice after concussion, conveying the magnitude of a disability that is often doubted, overlooked, and trivialized, in part because of its invisibility. These stories offer compassion and empathy to all readers and families healing from concussion and other...
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A collection of true stories from 54 racialized immigrant and refugee women create an eclectic mix of three generations of voices. Women in their 20s to those in their 70s provide snapshots that begin in the 1960s and go to the present. Together these vividly recounted entries capture historical and everyday moments that reveal striking similarities and differences. Resilience and Triumph provides readers with an eye-opening glimpse into 50 years...
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