1950's Massachusetts: two very different young women attend Radcliffe College. Ava has grown up shut away from other people on an apple orchard, with her religious and controlling parents who don't want her to know her true self. And Lauren comes from a wealthy family and from a long line of wild women, but after …
A man's body is found behind a corner store, his heart cut out and the smell of perfume in the air, leading locals to think the killer is a woman, or maybe, if the rumors of hoofprints at the scene are true, something supernatural. Meanwhile, seven year old Layla is growing up, longing for a …
"The forgotten founding mothers of the Fairy Tale and the stories that they spun". This pretty book sets out to tell us the personal stories and some of the output of Les Conteuses, a group of literary women in the French Upper Classes, who wrote in the era from 1690 to 1709, and who wrote …
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In NSW, Australia in 1881, young Dolly compares her downtrodden, hard working mother to the local school teacher, who is able to walk with her head high and has more independence. She feels determined to find a way out of the narrow life prescribed to women. When she is finally prevailed upon to marry, her …
Jessie has stopped at nothing to get accepted into the prestigious Law & Lit Program at Franklin University, not because she's impressed that only 6 students are selected each semester or because of the connections she could make, but to get close to Professor Jay Crane. Crane was in a secret relationship with one of …
In 1959, an orphan girl slips out of a revival tent and runs away from the sect who controls and crushes her life, unexpectedly finding her way to a house in the woods that's like something out of a fairytale. Sadly, she's soon taken back, but in 1965, and grown up, she flees her abusive …
After a poorly researched article lands her in the public eye for the wrong reasons, Sal is without a job and left facing her unhappy marriage and dying career. When she reads an article about a writer she met briefly years before, she recognizes their interaction in his posthumously printed manuscript excerpt. She decides to …
Darby Kane's latest is the story of two women impacted by a strange, shady organisation of women known as the Foundation. Gabby's ex-husband is found dead of suicide, but she feels certain that it's murder, and Jessa is a divorce lawyer who used to be her friend, but who will do anything to make it …
I wanted to be a ballerina for a while when I was a kid. I studied ballet from about 5 years old til I started high school, and though I haven't done ballet since then, I still love it and love to go see ballet whenever I can. Sadly this year I couldn't go see …
"The untold story of the six women who in programmed the world's first modern computer"When Kathy Kleiman came across photographs of the earliest computers, she saw women posed in the pictures. Told that they were just "refrigerator models", posed there just to make the machine look good, she wasn't convinced. Something about them looked professional …
