Books written by female authors (3325)
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Cosmética del enemigo by Amélie Nothomb ES
BelgiumDescription:
El empresario Jérôme Angust escucha el anuncio de que su vuelo sufre un retraso sin determinar. Un inesperado interlocutor, Textor Texel, le dará conversación a pesar de su manifiesta resistencia. A lo largo de su relato, la violación y el asesinato se irán perfilando con nitidez cada vez mayor, y Textor se transformará en una abominable encarnación de todos los fantasmas de Angust, quien verá convertida su anodina espera en una aventura ominosa y alucinante.
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Cosmétique de l'ennemi by Amélie Nothomb FR
Description:
Sans le vouloir, j'avais commis le crime parfait : personne ne m'avait vu venir, à part la victime. La preuve, c'est que je suis toujours en liberté. C'est dans le hall d'un aéroport que tout a commencé. Il savait que ce serait lui. La victime parfaite. Le coupable désigné d'avance. Il lui a suffi de parler. Et d'attendre que le piège se referme. C'est dans le hall d'un aéroport que tout s'est terminé. De toute façon, le hasard n'existe pas.
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Costa Rica : A Traveler's Literary Companion by Barbara Ras EN
Country: North America / 
Costa Rica
Costa Rica
Description:
A collection of 26 remarkable stories by Costa Rican writers--most of which is available in English for the first time. Whether searching for something relevant and entertaining to read on Costa Rica's idyllic beaches or looking for Latin American enchantment back home, this is a fiction reader's cultural guidebook to the country. 2-page map.
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Counterfeit by Kirstin Chen EN
SingaporeDescription:
For fans of Hustlers and How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, the story of two Asian American women who band together to grow a counterfeit handbag scheme into a global enterprise--an incisive and glittering blend of fashion, crime, and friendship from the author of Bury What We Cannot Take and Soy Sauce for Beginners. Money can't buy happiness... but it can buy a decent fake. Ava Wong has always played it safe. As a strait-laced, rule-abiding Chinese American lawyer with a successful surgeon as a husband, a young son, and a beautiful home--she's built the perfect life. But beneath this faça... continue
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Couplets : A Love Story by Maggie Millner EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
"A dazzling, genre-bending debut about one woman's coming-out, coming-of-age, and coming undone"--
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Cracking India : A Novel by Bapsi Sidhwa EN
PakistanDescription:
During the 1947 Partition of India, young Lenny Sethi suffers from polio and spends her days with Ayah, her beautiful nanny, who exposes her to the differences among the Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs, but when Ayah is kidnapped, Lenny's world erupts into religious, ethnic, and radical violence. Reprint.
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Crazy Brave : A Memoir by Joy Harjo EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
A “raw and honest” (Los Angeles Review of Books) memoir from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the United States. In this transcendent memoir, grounded in tribal myth and ancestry, music and poetry, Joy Harjo details her journey to becoming a poet. Born in Oklahoma, the end place of the Trail of Tears, Harjo grew up learning to dodge an abusive stepfather by finding shelter in her imagination, a deep spiritual life, and connection with the natural world. Narrating the complexities of betrayal and love, Crazy Brave is a haunting, visionary memoir about family and the breaking apart nec... continue
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Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work by Edwidge Danticat EN
Country: North America / 
Haiti
Haiti
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A New York Times Notable Book A Miami Herald Best Book of the Year In this deeply personal book, the celebrated Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat reflects on art and exile. Inspired by Albert Camus and adapted from her own lectures for Princeton University’s Toni Morrison Lecture Series, here Danticat tells stories of artists who create despite (or because of) the horrors that drove them from their homelands. Combining memoir and essay, these moving and eloquent pieces examine what it means to be an artist from a country in crisis. BONUS MATERIAL: This edition includes an excerpt from E... continue
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Crimson by Niviaq Korneliussen EN
Country: North America / 
Greenland
Greenland
Description:
'Effortlessly cool, funny yet sad, breezy but thoughtful - this is an edgy and unputdownable work of modern literature' Sharlene Teo, author of Ponti 'Crimson is written with immense courage - there's no faking the feeling of honesty on each page. It is a brave novel reminiscent of Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting' Laline Paull, author of The Bees The island has run out of oxygen. The island is swollen. The island is rotten. The island has taken my beloved from me. The island is a Greenlander. It's the fault of the Greenlander. In Nuuk, Greenland . . . Fia breaks up with her long-term boyfriend an... continue