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"Fiona Kidman's early stories about New Zealand women's experiences scandalised with their vivid depictions of the heartbreaks and joys of desire, illicit liaisons and unconventional love. Her writing made her a feminist icon in the early 1980s and she has since continued to tell the realities of women's lives, her stories resonating with fans over the years and across the world. To mark her 80th birthday, this volume brings together a variety of...
62) 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...
63) Duchy kurhanów
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"Kobieca historia walki o wolność i miejsce w świecie zdominowanym przez mężczyzn. Kończy się I wojna światowa. W Zasławowie, majątku należącym do rodziny Kalinowskich, dorastają bliźniaczki Sabina i Maria. Dziewczęta przygotowują się do ostatniego roku nauki we lwowskim gimnazjum i cieszą letnią swobodą. Sielanka sie kończy, gdy starszy 12 lat brat podejmuje decyzje mające zaważyć na ich życiu. Marię chce wydać za mąż...
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Clytemnestra is a check-in girl at The Gold Persimmon, a temple-like New York City hotel with gilded furnishings and carefully guarded secrets. Cloistered in her own reality, Cly lives by a strict set of rules until a connection with a troubled hotel guest threatens the world she's so carefully constructed. In a parallel reality, an inexplicable fog envelops the city, trapping a young, nonbinary writer named Jaime in a sex hotel with six other people....
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"Children of the Albatross is divided into two sections: "The Sealed Room" focuses on the dancer Djuna and a set of characters, chiefly male, who surround her; "The Cafe" brings together a cast of characters already familiar to Nin's readers, but it is their meeting place that is the focal point of the story. As always, in Children of the Albatross, Nin's writing is inseparable from her life. From Djuna's story, told in "The Sealed Room" through...
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""Cenicienta lleva muerta doscientos años. Estoy enamorada de mi mejor amiga y los soldados me persiguen". Han transcurrido doscientos años desde que Cenicienta encontrara a su príncipe, pero el cuento se ha acabado. Ahora las jóvenes adolescentes son requeridas para asistir al baile anual, donde los hombres del reino seleccionan a sus esposas en base al despliegue de galas y atuendos de las jóvenes. Las chicas que no son elegidas desaparecen...
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"Cris Mazza's work has often been regarded as "disturbing" for its exploration of sexual politics, victimhood, personal accountability, and acts of sexual violence. With an introduction by Gina Frangello and a foreword by Rick Moody, Charlatan charts the development of a dynamic body of fiction by a writer due for discovery by millennial readers unsatisfied by mainstream feminism."--provided by publisher.
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"From the great, winged, fire-breathing lizards of the west to the wise, flying serpents of the east, dragons play a powerful role in our myths and imaginations. In these fourteen stories and one comic, bicyclists encounter a diversity of dragons, whether foes or friends, hoarders or helpers, powerful symbols or terrifying and very real beasts. Instead of stereotypical tales of heroes saving helpless princesses from cruel beasts, these stories are...
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Un volumen de lujo, que reúne a las mejores ilustradoras del momento, y que recoge cuentos inspiradores sobre las situaciones a las que nos enfrentamos niñas y mujeres a diario, mostrando cómo sus protagonistas las transforman para empoderarse. ¿Cómo sería un mundo igualitario, un mundo feminista? Estos son los relatos que nos debemos contar las unas a las otras para crear un lugar distinto, un lugar más justo, más igual. Para cuidarnos y...
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"Keep sweet no matter what, for this is the way to be lifted up Keep sweet with every breath, for it is a matter of life or death 1964. Fifteen-year-old Daisy Shoemaker dreams of life beyond her small, isolated fundamentalist Mormon community of Redemption on the Canada--US border--despite Bishop Thorsen's warning that the outside world is full of sin. According to the Principle, the only way to enter the celestial kingdom is through plural marriage....
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