Books written by female authors (3304)


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Going Dark : The Secret Social Lives of Extremists by Julia Ebner EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Austria flag Austria
Description:
By day, Julia Ebner works at a counter-extremism think tank, monitoring radical groups from the outside, but two years ago, she began to feel that she was only seeing half the picture. She needed to get inside the groups to truly understand them. So she decided to go undercover in her spare hours - late nights, holidays, weekends - adopting five different identities, and joining a dozen extremist groups from across the ideological spectrum. Her journey would take her from a Generation Identity global strategy meeting in a pub in Mayfair, to a Neo-Nazi Music Festival on the border of Germany an... continue

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Gold Boy, Emerald Girl by Yiyun Li EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / China flag China
Description:
"The stories in this collection are mostly set in the China of the 21st century, where economic development has led to situations unknown to previous decades: residents in a shabby block of flats witnessing in awe the property boom; a local entrepreneur-turned-philanthropist sheltering women in trouble in her mansion; a group of retired women discovering fame late in their lives as private investigators specialising in extramarital affairs; a young woman setting up a blog to publicise an alleged affair of her father. Beneath the veneer of prosperity and opportunity, however, lie the struggles ... continue

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Golden Child : A Novel by Claire Adam EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Description:
"Published in Great Britain by Faber and Faber UK"--Title page verso.

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Golpéate el corazón by Amélie Nothomb ES

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Country: Europe / Belgium flag Belgium
Description:
Marie, joven belleza de provincias, despierta admiración, se sabe deseada, disfruta siendo el centro de atención y se deja cortejar por el galán más guapo de su entorno. Pero un embarazo imprevisto y una boda precipitada cortan en seco sus devaneos juveniles, y cuando nace su hija Diane vierte sobre ella toda su frialdad, envidia y celos. Diane crecerá marcada por la carencia de afecto maternal e intentando comprender los motivos de la cruel actitud de su madre hacia ella. Años después, la fascinación por el verso de Alfred de Musset que da origen al título del libro la impulsará a estudiar ca... continue
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Gone Girl : A Novel by Gillian Flynn EN

Rating: 4 (9 votes)
Description:
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The “mercilessly entertaining” (Vanity Fair) instant classic “about the nature of identity and the terrible secrets that can survive and thrive in even the most intimate relationships” (Lev Grossman, Time)—now featuring never-before-published deleted scenes NAMED ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL BOOKS OF THE DECADE BY CNN AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE DECADE BY TIME AND ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Janet Maslin, The New York Times • People • Entertainment Weekly • O: The Oprah Magazine • Slate • Kansas City Star • USA Today • ... continue

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Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell EN

Rating: 4 (3 votes)
Description:
The story of the tempestuous romance between Rhett Butler and Scarlet O'Hara is set amid the drama of the Civil War.

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Good Girl, Bad Blood by Holly Jackson EN

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Description:
THE MUST-READ MULTIMILLION BESTSELLING MYSTERY SERIES—A GOOD GIRL'S GUIDE TO MURDER NOW ON NETFLIX! • More dark secrets are exposed in this addictive, true-crime fueled sequel when Pip finds herself in another deadly case. Pip is not a detective anymore. With the help of Ravi Singh, she released a true-crime podcast about the murder case they solved together last year. The podcast has gone viral, yet Pip insists her investigating days are behind her. But she will have to break that promise when someone she knows goes missing. Jamie Reynolds has disappeared, on the very same night the town host... continue

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Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Description:
The last of the four novels Jean Rhys wrote in interwar Paris, Good Morning, Midnight is the culmination of a searing literary arc, which established Rhys as an astute observer of human tragedy. Her everywoman heroine, Sasha, must confront the loves-- and losses-- of her past in this mesmerizing and formally daring psychological portrait.

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Goodbye Sarajevo : A True Story of Courage, Love and Survival by Atka Reid, Hana Schofield EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Description:
A moving and compelling true story about two sisters fighting for survival in Sarajevo during the Bosnian war

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Goodbye Tsugumi by Banana Yoshimoto EN

Rating: 4 (2 votes)
Country: Asia / Japan flag Japan
Description:
"An elegiac story of two young cousins coming of age at the Japanese seaside, Goodbye, Tsugumi is an enchanting novel"