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Author
Publisher
Berkley Romance
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"From the author of Mr. Malcolm's List comes a delightful romantic comedy set in Regency England about a widow who takes high society by storm. Diana Boyle, a wealthy young widow, has no desire to ever marry again. Particularly not to someone who merely wants her for her fortune. So when she discovers that she's listed in a directory of rich, single women she is furious, and rightly so. She confronts Maxwell Dean, the man who published the Bachelor's...
103) Secret Viking wishes
Author
Series
Publisher
Arctis
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Dagfrid's brother, Odalrik, has turned sixteen years old. For his birthday, he gets a sword and should be in training to be a great warrior, but all Dagfrid sees him doing is laying around. All the while, she not only has to do the cleaning and sewing, but has been given the "honor" of preparing the meal for the chief's banquet. Come to find out, Odalrik is bored and would love to learn how to cook and sew so he's not so bored all the time, but his...
Author
Publisher
Myriad Editions
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"On 7th November 1843, Harriet Monckton, 23 years old and a woman of respectable parentage and religious habits, is found murdered in the privy behind the chapel she regularly attended in Bromley, Kent. The community is appalled by her death, apparently as a result of swallowing a fatal dose of prussic acid, and even more so when the surgeon reports that Harriet was around six months pregnant. Drawing on the coroner's reports and witness testimonies,...
Author
Publisher
Arcade Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Based on the true story of a young policewoman fighting for her place in a male-dominated world, a page-turning novel about the inner workings of the NYPD The Bronx, 1958. The Policewoman's Bureau doesn't officially exist, and yet it handles those cases only a woman's touch could solve. Marie Cirile, a young officer with the 44th Precinct, has joined the few women stepping away from the select matronly duties available to female officers to take...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Writing under the pseudonym A.M. Barnard, Louisa May Alcott wrote a series of what she termed "blood and thunder" thrillers for a weekly pulp magazine. Pauline's Passion and Punishment, and Other Escapades brings together five of these wicked tales. In "Pauline's Passion and Punishment," narrated by Emily Rankin, Alcott explores the unfair roles of men and women, as well as the societal expectations and forbidden desires in this story of love and...
Author
Publisher
Suma de Letras
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Español
Description
"Juana es una niña huérfana, bella y salvaje, que no entiende ni acepta los mandatos sociales de su época. Ama cocinar, es honesta, impetuosa y sensible. Pero en pleno siglo XVIII, en el Virreinato del Río de la Plata, las mujeres no tienen una vida propia, más allá del papel de esposa o madre. Juana es criada por los curas redentoristas hasta su adolescencia, cuando debe abandonar el asentamiento religioso; después de vagabundear y sobrevivir...
108) Delia suits up
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"If you had one day to go undercover and smash the patriarchy, would you? Delia Reese is about to try in this breakout novel that's 13 Going on 30 meets What Women Want. Delia Reese wants to break Wall Street's glass ceiling. Landing her dream job at Monty Fuhrmann, a world-class investment bank, would also bring her closer to her long-time, unattainable crush, Eric. But despite her stellar resume, the overwhelmingly male superiors in her field don't...
109) Playing the field
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
When seventeen-year-old Darcy Miller pretends to be a lesbian in order to play on the boys' baseball team, she must learn to battle discrimination on every playing field. All Darcy wants is to play on the baseball team, to hear her name announced, "Now batting, Darcy Miller," to play the field. Is that so much to ask? Unfortunately, it might be. In a few short months, Darcy Miller goes from typical senior in high school to candidate for Jerry Springer....
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A blisteringly original and wickedly funny collection of stories about the strange worlds that women inhabit and the parts that they must play. A sense of otherworldly menace is at work in the fiction of Nicole Flattery, but the threats are all too familiar. SHOW THEM A GOOD TIME tells the stories of women slotted away into restrictive roles: the celebrity's girlfriend, the widower's second wife, the lecherous professor's student, the corporate employee....
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Miss Merula Merriweather is not like other women her age: instead of hunting for a husband at balls and soirees she spends her time in a conservatory hatching exotic creatures. As the Royal Zoological Society won't accept a woman's accomplishments, she has her uncle Rupert take credit for her achievements. But at a zoological lecture, the guest of honor dies after contact with one of Merula's butterflies, and Merula's uncle is arrested for murder....
Author
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Since its publication in 1892, Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wall-paper" has always been recognized as a powerful statement about the victimization of a woman whose neurasthenic condition is completely misdiagnosed, mistreated, and misunderstood, leaving her to face insanity alone, as a prisoner in her own bedroom. Never before, however, has the story itself been portrayed as victimized. In this first critical edition of Gilman's "The Yellow...
Author
Publisher
Northeastern University Press
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
One of America's most adored juvenile fiction writers, Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) also penned anonymous and pseudonymous sensation stories for popular magazines. Her spellbinding tales of intrigue and suspense, violence and evil, jealousy and revenge, were uncovered by the detective work of Madeleine Stern and others, who scrutinized published and unpublished sources for clues to Alcott's secret literary life. Now Alcott's known thrillers are available...
116) Ladycastle
Author
Publisher
Boom! Studios
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"When all the men in Mancastle get eaten by a dragon, the women take over! Now the blacksmith's wife Merinor is King, Princess Aeve is the Captain, and the only remaining (and least capable) knight Sir Riddick is tasked with teaching the ladies of the castle how to defend against all manner of monsters!" -- provided by publisher.
117) W Juliet: Vol. 2
Author
Series
Publisher
Viz
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Ito and Makoto, schoolmates and drama club members, have become great friends--maybe even more. Then Takayo, Makoto's family-arranged fiancée, transfers to the same school and things get a lot more complicated.
118) W Juliet: Vol. 1
Author
Series
Publisher
Viz
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old tomboy Ito Miura is going to be Romeo in the school production of "Romeo and Juliet.' The cute new student, Makoto Amano, has been chosen to play Juliet. As they become friends, Ito discovers that Makoto has a secret that will ruin Makoto's life if anyone ever finds out what it is.
Author
Series
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
When Haruhi, a scholarship student at the exclusive Ouran High School, accidentally breaks an expensive vase belonging to the all-male Host Club, she is forced to work for them as a boy to repay her debt. In this episode: "Hikaru has asked Haruhi to go out with him, but he doesn't want her answer right away. Yet at the same time, he's trying to get Tamaki to realize he's in love with Haruhi too. Is the Host Club prepared for a love triangle among...
Author
Series
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
The two senior members of the Host Club are graduating and will lead separate lives at university. Everyone is mourning the loss of the "Hunny-Mori-Combo," but the longtime duo already seems to have ended their close friendship. Now Mori has challenged Hunny to a duel - but why?
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