Books written by female authors (3321)
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Emotional Female by Yumiko Kadota EN
AustraliaDescription:
Yumiko Kadota was every Asian parent's dream- model student, top of her class in medical school and on track to becoming a surgeon. A self-confessed workaholic, she regularly put 'knife before life', knowing it was all going to be worth it because it would lead to her longed-for career. But if the punishing hours in surgery weren't hard enough, she also faced challenges as a young female surgeon navigating a male-dominated specialty. She was regularly left to carry out complex procedures without senior surgeons' oversight; she was called all sorts of things, from 'emotional' to 'too confident'... continue
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Empire of Wild by Cherie Dimaline EN
Country: North America / 
Canada
Canada
Description:
"From the author of the YA-crossover hit The Marrow Thieves, a propulsive, stunning and sensuous novel inspired by the traditional Métis story of the Rogarou--a werewolf-like creature that haunts the roads and woods of Métis communities. A messed-up, grown-up, Little Red Riding Hood. Broken-hearted Joan has been searching for her husband, Victor, for almost a year--ever since he went missing on the night they had their first serious argument. One terrible, hungover morning in a Walmart parking lot in a little town near Georgian Bay, she is drawn to a revival tent where the local Métis have bee... continue
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Empress Orchid by Anchee Min EN
ChinaDescription:
From a master of the historical novel, Empress Orchid sweeps readers into the heart of the Forbidden City to tell the fascinating story of a young concubine who becomes China's last empress. Min introduces the beautiful Tzu Hsi, known as Orchid, and weaves an epic of a country girl who seized power through seduction, murder, and endless intrigue. When China is threatened by enemies, she alone seems capable of holding the country together. In this "absorbing companion piece to her novel Becoming Madame Mao" (New York Times), readers and reading groups will once again be transported by Min's lav... continue
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Empty Houses by Brenda Navarro EN
Country: North America / 
Mexico
Mexico
Description:
Daniel disappeared three months, two days and eight hours after his birthday. He was three. He was my son.
Empty Houses unfolds in the aftermath of a child's disappearance. His mother is distraught. As her life begins to unravel, she is haunted by his absence but also by her own ambivalence: did she even want him in the first place?
In a working-class neighbourhood on the other side of Mexico City another woman protects her stolen child. After longing desperately to be a mother, her life is violently altered by its reality. Alternating between these two contrasting voices, Empty Hou... continue
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Empty Wardrobes by Maria Judite de Carvalho EN
PortugalDescription:
A previously untranslated classic of Portuguese feminist literature originally published in 1978, Carvalho's Empty Wardrobes introduces English-speaking readers to a forgotten and underappreciated woman writer a la recent publishing sensations Lucia Berlin, Natalia Ginzburg, Ingeborg Bachmann, Silvina Ocampo, and Armonia Somers. Empty Wardrobes is a tightly plotted, highly entertaining read, that, thanks to an ingenious detached narrative technique (one that makes the plot all the more fun to revisit and rethink), is both darkly humorous and devastatingly true.
France787.
En tierras bajas by Herta Müller, Juan José Solar ES
RomaniaDescription:
Life described from the perspective of a girl experiencing the brutality of a supposedly idyllic village during the Ceausescu dictatorship.
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En ze leefden nog by Elisabeth Lucie Baeten NL
BelgiumDescription:
Een baanbrekend sprookjesboek voor een nieuwe generatie kinderen én hun ouders.
Er was eens een boek vol prachtige verhalen
over prinsessen die hun leven eindelijk zelf mogen bepalen.
Geen van hen wanhopig, stil of naar een prins op zoek,
prinsessen doen lekker wat ze willen in dit sprookjesboek.
Ariël wil geen ballet, maar liever waterpolo doen.
Doornroosje is veel te moe voor een ongevraagde zoen.
Wist je dat Rapunzel haar lange haren soms best haat?
En het Beest van Belle is misschien wel om een goede reden kwaad.
Dit boek toont aan meisjes, jongens, iedereen die ... continue
Argentina790.
Engaging Modernity : Muslim Women and the Politics of Agency in Postcolonial Niger by Ousseina D. Alidou EN
NigerDescription:
Seizing the space opened by the early 1990s democratization movement, Muslim women are carving an active, influential, but often-overlooked role for themselves during a time of great change. Engaging Modernity provides a compelling portrait of Muslim women in Niger as they confronted the challenges and opportunities of the late twentieth century. Based on thorough scholarly research and extensive fieldwork—including a wealth of interviews—Ousseina Alidou’s work offers insights into the meaning of modernity for Muslim women in Niger. Mixing biography with sociological data, social theory and li... continue