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41) The Bennet women
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"Welcome to Bennet House, the only all-women's dorm at prestigious Longbourn University, home to three close friends who are about to have an eventful year. EJ is an ambitious Black engineering student. Her best friend, Jamie, is a newly out trans woman studying French and theatre. Tessa is a Filipina astronomy major with guy trouble. For them, Bennet House is more than a residence--it's an oasis of feminism, femininity, and enlightenment. But as...
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"Su vida cambia cuando conoce a Jesus, un joven rebelde que se opone pacificamente a la dominacion de Roma, que no hace milagros pero si ayuda a pobres y prostitutas y que se convierte en lider casi a su pesar. Pero lo que se cuenta aqui no se la historia que ya conocemos sino la de las mujeres en una epoca en la que la inteligencia, el ingenio y la inquietud, eran propiedad de los hombres. Una reivindicacion feminista en una novela en la que la riqueza...
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"A little black girl opens her eyes in 1930s Harlem, weak and half-blind. On she stumbles - through teenage pain and loneliness, but then to happiness in friendship, work and sex, from Washington Heights to Mexico, always changing, always strong. This is Audre Lorde's story. A rapturous, life-affirming autobiographical novel by the 'Black, lesbian, mother, warrior poet', it changed the literary landscape"--Penguin Books.
46) Mother of all
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Women's war volume 3
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"The third and final book in Jenna Glass's riveting feminist fantasy, following The Women's War and Queen of the Unwanted. In the once male-dominated world of Seven Wells, women now control their own reproduction, and two special women now sit two thrones, but the battle for equality is very far from over. Those men still in power are determined to revert the world to the way it was before women gained an edge, whereas the women know there are many...
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19-year-old Erin travels across Iceland, Greenland and Canada to begin her experiment: living in a cabin in the Alaskan wilderness, all the while making a documentary to record how survivalism and society's accepted personal freedom boundaries differ between the sexes.
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Wciągająca i porywająca opowieść o Addie Baum, która bardzo chciała żyć inaczej niż krewni, a ponieważ urodziła się i wychowała w dzielnicy żydowskiej w Bostonie na początku XX wieku, jej droga do szczęścia nie była usłana różami. Oto fascynująca powieść o życiu w świecie pełnym zakazów i o realizowaniu marzeń, a także wspaniały portret bohaterki, która uosabia oraz definiuje model współczesnej kobiety.
58) Emancypantki
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Dziewiętnastoletnia Madzia Brzeska pracuje na pensji pani Latter. Nastoletnia idealistka wierzy w dobro i nie potrafi udźwignąć presji świata pełnego fałszu i zakłamania. Właścicielka pensji po śmierci dwóch mężów sama musi zapewnić byt sobie i dzieciom. Jest kobietą niezależną i twardą ręką prowadzi instytucję, w której kształtuje charaktery młodych panien. Przez karty powieści przewija się szereg bohaterek, które na...
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Jewelle Joseph volume 1
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"Not one to rest on her laurels, Jewelle Joseph is determined to add the new VP of Sales and Distribution position to her list of accomplishments. But she's not the only International Sales Executive vying for the position. From the glitzy office towers of Toronto to the glamorous world of the international television market in CAnnes, her colleague and competition, Chantal Mercier, schemes to obstruct Jewelle's path to the prized position.With mounting...
60) Skein Island
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Will you visit the island? Skein Island, a private refuge twelve miles off the coast, lies in troubled waters. Few receive the invitation to stay, but those who do may stay for one week, free of charge. Those few who are chosen must pay for their stay with a story from their past - a Declaration for the island's vast library. What happens to your Declaration after you leave the island is none of your concern. From the monsters of Ancient Greece to...
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