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"A little black girl opens her eyes in 1930s Harlem, weak and half-blind. On she stumbles - through teenage pain and loneliness, but then to happiness in friendship, work and sex, from Washington Heights to Mexico, always changing, always strong. This is Audre Lorde's story. A rapturous, life-affirming autobiographical novel by the 'Black, lesbian, mother, warrior poet', it changed the literary landscape"--Penguin Books.
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The sleuthing widow, Sheila Malory, leaves her cozy English village for a university in Pennsylvania to teach a course in literature. While there she investigates a murder, in the process providing a British perspective on American life. By the author of Mrs. Malory and the Festival Murders.
50) Muse
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"The story of an editor caught up in a publishing scandal around the manuscript of a renowned and beautiful female poet"--
53) The box garden
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"[This is] the story of a woman dancing on the edge of a difficult life. Ever since her husband left her -- seemingly vanishing into thin air -- Charleen Forrest has supported herself and her fifteen-year-old son on what she earns as an obscure poet and part-time gofer for an even more obscure scientific journal. But when her estranged mother remarries -- prompting an unplanned reunion -- Charleen finds herself moving out of her familiar existence."--Page...
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Victoria Trumbull, a fiesty, alert and lively 92-year-old protagonist, tracks murders (and murderers) on Martha's Vineyard, the lovely, sun-splashed island off Cape Cod. Double Murder includes the first two of seven books featuring Victoria. In Deadly Nightshade, villains suspect Victoria has witnessed a murder and must silence her. In The Cranely Orchid Murders, land developers and environmentalists are pitted against each other and is based on a...
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Narrativas hispánicas volume 563
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"Esta es la historia de Cleo, una joven poeta de La Habana. La seguridad del Estado cree que su exito ha sido construido por ±el enemigo¿ como un arma de desestabilizacion. Para determinado grupo de intelectuales del exilio, en cambio, Cleo es una infiltrada de la inteligencia cubana. Trabada en este elevador de elucubraciones, prohibida e ignorada en Cuba, Cleo es la controvertida pero exitosa escritora traducida a varias lenguas que estremece...
57) Lazos de tinta
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"Manuela ha crecido en la pobreza. Hija de una lavandera y de un indeseable, ha sufrido las penurias de una ciudad donde el abismo entre las clases sociales es insalvable. Sin embargo, gracias a una vecina, Manuela tiene algo que la mayoría no posee: sabe leer. Cuando su madre muere y ella huye de un padre que quiere abusar de su poder y utilizarla, su camino se cruza con el de una joven escritora, Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda. Criada en una familia...
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Jedna z najgłośniejszych powieści ostatnich dekad uznana za manifest feminizmu i wiwisekcję postkomunistycznej Ukrainy. Wydana po raz pierwszy w 1996 roku powieść, którą sama Oksana Zabużko określiła mianem psychoanalizy narodowej szybko stała się ukraińskim bestsellerem i zyskała międzynarodowy rozgłos. Jej bohaterka, poetka i wykładowczyni, z dystansu amerykańskiego uniwersytetu przygląda się swojej poturbowanej przez historię...
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