Books written by female authors (3309)
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Das Ungeheuer by Terézia Mora DE
HungaryDescription:
Für diese Erzählungen wurde sie mit dem Open-Mike-Literaturpreis, dem Ingeborg-Bachmann-Preis (1999) und dem Adelbert-von-Chamisso-Förderpreis (2000) ausgezeichnet. 2004 erschien der Roman 'Alle Tage', der ausnahmslos von der Kritik gelobt wurde und grossen Anklang bei den Lesern fand. Für den Roman erhielt sie den Mara-Cassens-Preis für das beste Roman-Debüt des Jahres, den Kunstpreis Berlin, den LiteraTour-Nord-Preis und den Preis der Leipziger Buchmesse.
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Daughter of Fire : A Novel by Sofia Robleda EN
Country: North America / 
Mexico
Mexico
Description:
For a young woman coming of age in sixteenth-century Guatemala, safeguarding her people's legacy is a dangerous pursuit in a mystical, empowering, and richly imagined historical novel. Catalina de Cerrato is being raised by her widowed father, Don Alonso, in 1551 Guatemala, scarcely thirty years since the Spanish invasion. A ruling member of the oppressive Spanish hierarchy, Don Alonso holds sway over the newly relegated lower class of Indigenous communities. Fiercely independent, Catalina struggles to honor her father and her late mother, a Maya noblewoman to whom Catalina made a vow that onl... continue
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Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende EN
Country: South America / 
Peru
Peru
Description:
An orphan raised in Valparaíso, Chile, by a Victorian spinster and her rigid brother, young, vivacious Eliza Sommers follows her lover to California during the Gold Rush of 1849. She enters a rough-and-tumble world whose newly arrived inhabitants are driven mad by gold fever. With the help of her good friend and savior, the Chinese doctor Tao Chi'en, Eliza moves freely in a society of single men and prostitutes, creating an unconventional but independent life for herself. The young Chilean's search for her elusive lover gradually turns into another kind of journey, and by the time she finally ... continue
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Daughter of Gloriavale by Lilia Tarawa EN
Country: Oceania / 
New Zealand
New Zealand
Description:
In this personal account, Lilia Tarawa exposes the shocking secrets of the cult, with its rigid rules and oppressive control of women. She describes her fear when her family questioned Gloriavale's beliefs and practices.
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Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
DAUGHTER OF SMOKE AND BONE is a book unbounded by genre but located at a magical crossroads where THE PASSAGE meets PHILIP PULLMAN and TWILIGHT meets PAN'S LABYRINTH. Errand requiring immediate attention. Come. The note was on vellum, pierced by the talons of the almost-crow that delivered it. Karou read the message. 'He never says please', she sighed, but she gathered up her things. When Brimstone called, she always came. In general, Karou has managed to keep her two lives in balance. On the one hand, she's a seventeen-year-old art student in Prague; on the other, errand-girl to a monstrous c... continue
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Daughter of the Enemy by Marie Pal-Brown EN
GermanyDescription:
The memoir of a child growing up in wartime and postwar Germany. Her father is killed in battle on the Eastern Front. At age 16, she first learns about the Holocaust. Then begins a reckoning with Germany's horrific past that, eventually, leads her to the Baltic country of Latvia, in search of the father she lost.
577.
Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier EN
Country: Oceania / New Zealand
New Zealand
Description:
Sorcha, the seventh child and only daughter of Lord Colum, faces the difficult task of having to save her family from its enemies, who have bewitched her father and six older brothers while forcing her to choose between the life she has always known and a special love. Reprint.
578.
Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan EN
MalaysiaDescription:
A captivating debut fantasy inspired by the legend of the Chinese moon goddess, Chang'e , in which a young woman's quest to free her mother pits her against the most powerful immortal in the realm and sets her on a dangerous path--where choices come with deadly consequences, and she risks losing more than her heart. Growing up on the moon, Xingyin is accustomed to solitude, unaware that she is being hidden from the powerful Celestial Emperor who exiled her mother for stealing his elixir of immortality. But when Xingyin's magic flares and her existence is discovered, she is forced to flee her h... continue
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Daughter of the Reich : A Novel by Louise Fein EN
Country: Europe / 
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
"For fans of The Nightingale and All the Light We Cannot See, a spellbinding story of impossible love set against the backdrop of the Nazi regime strengthening its grip on a vulnerable nation"--
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Daughters of the NIght Sky by Aimie K Runyan EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
A novel--inspired by the most celebrated regiment in the Red Army--about a woman's sacrifice, courage, and love in a time of war. Russia, 1941. Katya Ivanova is a young pilot in a far-flung military academy in the Ural Mountains. From childhood, she's dreamed of taking to the skies to escape her bleak mountain life. With the Nazis on the march across Europe, she is called on to use her wings to serve her country in its darkest hour. Not even the entreaties of her new husband--a sensitive artist who fears for her safety--can dissuade her from doing her part as a proud daughter of Russia. After ... continue