Books written by female authors (3280)
1861.
Petronille by Amélie Nothomb ES
BelgiumDescription:
Disponer de un buen compañero de borrachera es un asunto muy serio. Aficionada al champán, Amélie Nothomb encuentra a la camarada ideal de manera imprevista en una librería donde ha sido invitada a firmar ejemplares de El sabotaje amoroso. Pétronille Fanto, un ser andrógino de veintidós años que parece que tenga quince, una especialista en Christopher Marlowe con aspecto de poligonera, se convertirá con el tiempo en una escritora prolífica y, quizás, en un álter ego maligno de la misma Nothomb. La amistad etílica entre la escritora consagrada y la novel se transforma en duelo dialéctico, diver... continue
1862.
Phantom by Helen Power EN
Country: North America / 
Canada
Canada
Description:
Would you sell your hand for a million dollars? Regan "Roz" Osbourne is broke. Her ex-boyfriend won't take no for an answer. So when a mysterious stranger offers her a million dollars and safety from her unstable ex in exchange for her left hand, she can't afford to refuse. Immediately following the amputation, she's racked with insufferable phantom limb pain. Desperate for relief, she enrolls in an experimental drug trial. But this drug has a peculiar side effect--she develops a psychic connection to her missing limb. She soon discovers that Chicago's long-dormant Phantom Strangler is now wea... continue
Austria1864.
Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay EN
AustraliaDescription:
St. Valentine's day 1900 and a party of schoolgirls go for a picnic at Hanging Rock, some never return.; This title is also available as a film.
1865.
Piedras en el bolsillo by Kaouther Adimi ES
AlgeriaDescription:
"Bienaventurados los mansos, porque heredarán la tierra"
La narradora se ha ido desde hace unos años de Argel para radicarse en París.
Tiene un empleo que permite tener un buen pasar económico, pero, tímida e indecisa, no logra forjar vínculos sólidos. Y pesa en su cabeza la permanente cantilena de su madre: "Ya te estás poniendo vieja; tienes que conseguir un marido antes que sea tarde".
Durante sus visitas a Argel le generan rechazo la grosería, el machismo, la miseria, la mediocridad y la desidia; y no... continue
1866.
Pierced by the Sun by Laura Esquivel EN
Country: North America / 
Mexico
Mexico
Description:
Lupita's hard-knock life has gotten the better of her time and time again. A childhood robbed of innocence set off a chain of events that she still has not managed to control, no matter how hard she tries. Every time she thinks she has a handle on things, unexpected turns make her question everything, including herself. When Lupita witnesses the murder of a local politician whom she greatly admires, the ghosts of her past resurface as she tries to cope with the present. She quickly falls back into her old self-destructive habits and becomes a target of Mexico's corrupt political machine. As th... continue
1867.
Pigeon by Alys Conran EN
Country: Europe / 
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
An incongruous ice-cream van lurches up into the Welsh hills through the hail, pursued by a boy and girl who chase it into their own dark make-believe world, and unfurl in their compelling voices a tale which ultimately breaks out of childhood and echoes across the years. Pigeon is the tragic, occasionally hilarious and ultimately intense story of a childhood friendship and how it s torn apart, a story of guilt, silence and the loss of innocence, and a story about the kind of love which may survive it all."
1868.
Pineapple Street : A Novel by Jenny Jackson EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
A deliciously funny, sharply observed debut of family, love, and class, this zeitgeisty novel follows three women in one wealthy Brooklyn clan “A vibrant and hilarious debut…Pineapple Street is riveting, timely, hugely entertaining and brimming with truth.” —Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney, New York Times bestselling author of The Nest Darley, the eldest daughter in the well-connected old money Stockton family, followed her heart, trading her job and her inheritance for motherhood but giving up far too much in the process; Sasha, a middle-class New England girl, has married into the Brooklyn Heights f... continue
1869.
Pinjar: The Skeleton and Other Stories by Amrita Pitam EN
IndiaDescription:
"The skeleton ... [is] set against the background of religious and clan feuds on the eve of Partition ... That man is a compelling account of a young man born under strange circumstances and abandoned at the altar of God"--Page 4 of cover
1870.
Pink Slime by Fernanda Trías EN
Country: South America / 
Uruguay
Uruguay
Description:
Winner of the Uruguayan National Literature Prize for Fiction, the Bartolomé-Hidalgo Fiction Prize, and the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Literature Prize. A port city is in the grips of an ecological crisis. The river has filled with toxic algae, and a deadly 'red wind' blows through its streets; much of the coast has been evacuated as the wealthy migrate inland to safety, leaving the rest to shelter in abandoned houses as blackouts and food shortages abound. The unnamed narrator is one of those who has stayed. She spends her days trying to disentangle herself from the two relationships that had ... continue