Books written by female authors (3308)


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Follow Your Heart by Susanna Tamaro EN

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Country: Europe / Italy flag Italy
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An international bestseller with tremendous word-of-mouth appeal, "Follow Your Heart is a bittersweet, heartwarming novel spanning generations and teaching the universal truths about life, love, and what lies within each of us. Originally published in Italy, "Follow Your Heart won the coveted Premio Donna Citta di Roma and sold over 800,000 copies in that country alone before hitting bestseller lists throughout the rest of Europe. Now North American readers can enjoy the novel that has won over the world. It begins in late autumn 1992 as an elderly Italian woman, prompted by the knowledge of h... continue

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Food of Ghosts by Marianne Wheelaghan EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Description:
Nothing ever happens on Tarawa, a coral atoll in the middle of the Pacific. Then a mutilated body is found in a children's nursery hut. Detective Sergeant Louisa Townsend from Edinburgh is on the island, helping train local police officers in basic detecting skills. She is asked to find the killer and jumps at the chance to be in charge of her first murder investigation. She marvels at the simplicity of the task ahead - after all, how difficult can it be to find the murderer on a desert island the size of a postage stamp and with only one road? But nothing on Tarawa is what it seems.


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For a House Made of Stone : Gina's Story by Gina French, Andrew Crofts EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / Philippines flag Philippines
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All Gina wanted was to help support her family and protect them from the elements with a house made of stone. This is the true story of a girl from the Philippines who wanted to repay her family for the trouble she'd caused them and ended up on trial for murder in the UK in 2001.

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For Rouenna by Sigrid Nunez EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Description:
In this haunting novel, a friendship springs up between a writer and a retired army nurse who seeks her out decades after their childhood in the same housing project. "For Rouenna" is an unforgettable work about truth, memory, and unexpected heroism by one of the most gifted writers of her generation.


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Force of Nature : A Novel by Jane Harper EN

Rating: 4 (3 votes)
Country: Oceania / Australia flag Australia
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Originally published: Australia: Pan Macmillan, 2017.

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Foreign Fighters and International Peace : Joining Global Jihad and Marching Back Home by Cholpon Orozobekova EN

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Country: Asia / Kyrgyzstan flag Kyrgyzstan
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This book provides compelling account of the emergence of jihadism and ISIS, radicalization process of jihadism and their post-ISIS lives, and consequences of a family jihad that resulted of thousands of women and children held in the desert with nowhere to go.

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Foreign Fighters and International Peace : Joining Global Jihad and Marching Back Home by Cholpon Orozobekova EN

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Country: Asia / Kyrgyzstan flag Kyrgyzstan
Description:
This book provides compelling account of the emergence of jihadism and ISIS, radicalization process of jihadism and their post-ISIS lives, and consequences of a family jihad that resulted of thousands of women and children held in the desert with nowhere to go.