Books written by female authors (3331)
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Appelez-moi Cize : Conversations avec Stéphane Boudsocq by Cesaria Evora FR
Country: Africa / 
Cape Verde
Cape Verde
Description:
Cesaria Evora, c'est un talent, une sincérité, l'ambassadrice d'un style musical et d'un peuple. Cesaria, c'est une carrière et une vie que, pour la première fois, la chanteuse raconte. Elle se remémore ses années d'enfance au Cap-Vert dans les quartiers pauvres de la capitale. Sans fard, elle en évoque les moments difficiles, lorsqu'elle est placée chez des religieuses ou sa relation avec l'alcool. Avec la simplicité qui la caractérise, Cesaria raconte dans ces pages sa carrière musicale, ses succès immenses et sa philosophie d'une vie à la fois riche et simple.
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Apple and Knife by Intan Paramaditha EN
IndonesiaDescription:
**A The White Review Book of the Year** A dazzling and provocative debut story collection from celebrated Indonesian writer Intan Paramaditha, putting fierce and fabulous female characters centre stage in brilliantly funny and sharp twists on fairy tale. Inspired by horror fiction, myths and fairy tales, Apple and Knife is an unsettling ride that swerves into the supernatural to explore the dangers and power of occupying a female body in today's world. These stories set in the Indonesian everyday - in corporate boardrooms, shanty towns, on dangdut stages - reveal a soupy otherworld stewing jus... continue
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Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty EN
AustraliaDescription:
#1 New York Times BestsellerFrom Liane Moriarty, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Big Little Lies and Nine Perfect Strangers, comes Apples Never Fall, a novel that looks at marriage, siblings, and how the people we love the most can hurt us the deepest.The Delaney family love one another dearly - it's just that sometimes they want to murder each other . . .If your mother was missing, would you tell the police? Even if the most obvious suspect was your father?This is the dilemma facing the four grown Delaney siblings.The Delaneys are fixtures in their community. The parents, Stan and... continue
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Aprender a hablar con las plantas by Marta Orriols ES
SpainDescription:
La primera y esperada novela ganadora del premio Òmnium y el premio L'Illa dels Llibres de una gran autora: el retrato de la encrucijada vital de una mujer. «Marta Orriols tiene la capacidad de fijar con palabras la fugacidad y lo imprevisto de las circunstancias cotidianas.» Ponç Puigdevall, El País « El odio y el amor a veces se acoplan en una sola bola, como gotas de mercurio, y de la amalgama surge un sentimiento pesante y tóxico y extrañamente añorado. Eso es lo que irrita. La añoranza, a pesar de todo.» Paula Cid es una neonatóloga de cuarenta y dos años con una vida ordenada. Apasionada... continue
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Aquí no es Miami / This Is Not Miami by Fernanda Melchor ES
Country: North America / 
Mexico
Mexico
Description:
Las crónicas de Fernanda Melchor dan cuenta de la degradación humana en uno de sus aspectos más sórdidos. Lo que su libro hace es manifestar la ignominia en toda esta rudeza. Aquí no es Miami es un libro de crónicas devastador, luminoso y emotivo. Con facilidad nos lleva de la mano por toda una gama de sentimientos que van de la compasión al asombro, de la dulzura a la impiedad. Parece que está escrito por un sobreviviente, o, digamos, por un exconvicto. El ojo de Fernanda Melchor es implacable. Mira por nosotros. Nos ahorra el trabajo de desplazarnos a Veracruz y de atisbar en las oquedades m... continue
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Aquicorn Cove by Kay O'Neill EN
Country: Oceania / 
New Zealand
New Zealand
Description:
"Enchanting." - KIRKUS Unable to rely on the adults in her storm-ravaged seaside town, a young girl must protect a colony of magical seahorse-like creatures she discovers in the coral reef. From the Eisner Award-winning author of The Tea Dragon Society and Princess Princess Ever After comes AQUICORN COVE, a heartfelt story about learning to be a guardian to yourself and those you love. When Lana and her father return to their seaside hometown to help clear the debris of a big storm, Lana remembers how much she’s missed the ocean—and the strong, reassuring presence of her aunt. As Lana explores... continue
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Archipel des passions by Charlotte Casiraghi, Robert Maggiori FR
MonacoDescription:
Une élève, un professeur, une rencontre, une infinité de discussions. Et l'idée est venue à Charlotte Casiraghi et Robert Maggiori de mettre par écrit ce qui germait de leurs dialogues, lesquels allaient souvent tous azimuts mais revenaient toujours à la question du sensible, de ce qui nous affecte, des frontières ou de l'absence de frontière entre les émotions, de leur logique, de leur confusion parfois. Il leur est alors apparu que tous nos états d'âme formaient un ensemble d'îlots solidaires, reliés par le courant magnétique du désir, qui tisse entre eux d'invisibles chaînes. C'est cet arch... continue
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Archipelago by Monique Roffey EN
Country: North America / 
Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago
Description:
When a flood destroys Gavin Weald's home, tearing apart his family and his way of life, he doesn't know how to continue. A year later, he returns to his rebuilt home and tries to start again, but when the new rainy season arrives, so do his daughter's nightmares about the torrents, and life there becomes unbearable. So father and daughter and their dog - embark upon a voyage to make peace with the waters. Their journey will take them far from their Caribbean island home, into other unknown harbours and eventually across a massive ocean. They will sail through archipelagos, encounter the grande... continue
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Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement in American life: the abolition of the prison. As she quite correctly notes, American life is replete with abolition movements, and when they were engaged in these struggles, their chances of success seemed almost unthinkable. For generations of Americans, the abolition of slavery was sheerest illusion. Similarly,the entrenched system of racial segregation seemed to last forever, and generations lived in the midst of the practice, with few predicting its passage fr... continue
