Books written by female authors (3321)


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De twee levens van Penelope by Judith Vanistendael NL

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Country: Europe / Belgium flag Belgium
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Grafische novelle over de problemen van een moderne vrouw die moeder en echtgenote in België is, maar tevens chirurg in een veldhospitaal in Aleppo.




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Dear Life by Alice Munro EN

Rating: 2 (1 vote)
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**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature** Alice Munro captures the essence of life in her brilliant new collection of stories. Moments of change, chance encounters, the twist of fate that leads a person to a new way of thinking or being: the stories in Dear Life build to form a radiant, indelible portrait of just how dangerous and strange ordinary life can be.

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Dearest Intimate by Suchen Christine Lim EN

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Country: Asia / Singapore flag Singapore
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From an award-winning Singaporean novelist comes a multi-layered tale about love, sisterhood, spousal abuse, and Cantonese opera in the lives of three generations of women--all set against the dramatic sweep of Singapore's development The famous cross-dressing Cantonese opera singer Chan Kam Foong passes away, leaving her secret journal to her granddaughter, Xiu Yin, an archival officer at the Singapore National Archives. Xiu Yin reads through the journal that chronicles her grandmother's relationship with Dearest Intimate in their village in China to their respective escapes to the Nanyang be... continue

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Death Comes for the Archbishop : Introduction by A. S. Byatt by Willa Cather EN

Rating: 4 (2 votes)
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Willa Cather’s story of the missionary priest Father Jean Marie Latour and his work of faith in the wilderness of the Southwest is told with a spare but sensuous directness and profound artistry—with an Introduction by A. S. Byatt. When Latour arrives in 1851 in the territory of New Mexico, newly acquired by the United States, what he finds is a vast desert region of red hills and tortured arroyos that is American by law but Mexican and Indian in custom and belief. Over the next four decades, Latour works gently and tirelessly to spread his faith and to build a soaring cathedral out of the loc... continue

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Death Has a Thousand Doors by Patricia Grey EN

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Country: Oceania / Australia flag Australia
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An Australian woman travels to Andorra to see her sister, only to find her missing. As the woman searches for her sister she learns a great deal about Andorran culture.

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death in persia by annemarie schwarzenbach EN

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Country: Europe / Switzerland flag Switzerland
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Since the rediscovery of her work in the late 1980s, Annemarie Schwarzenbach--journalist, traveler, archaeologist, opium addict, and antifascist novelist--has become a European cult figure among free spirited bohemians. Available in English for the first time and beautifully translated by Lucy Renner Jones, Death in Persia is a collage of the political and the private, documenting Schwarzenbach's intimate feelings and public ideas during four trips to Persia between 1933 and 1939. From her reflections on individual responsibility in the lead-up to World War II to her reactions to accusations f... continue

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Death in Soho by Emily Organ EN

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It's the Roaring Twenties. London's bright young things are partying, Soho's nightlife is buzzing and Augusta Peel is hiding in her basement. She has a reason to hide there: it's home to her Bloomsbury workshop where she repairs old, neglected books. After a busy time during the war, all Augusta wants is peace and quiet - even if it is routinely disturbed by the tube trains beneath her feet. But events take a turn when Augusta agrees to chaperone 19-year-old Harriet Jones on a date. Failing to get her home on time, she ends up in a riotous nightclub. She can't imagine the evening getting much ... continue