Carrie Kerpen shares her own career lessons as well as those from a board of fifty powerful women in a wide range of industries to help women everywhere make their aspirations a reality.
Women
- Author:Kerpen, CarrieSummary:
- Author:Chesler, PhyllisSummary:
- Author:Shaykh, ḤanānSummary:
A powerful and moving novel, by one of the Arab world's leading novelists, about four women coping with the insular, oppressive society of an unnamed desert state.
- Author:Astin, Helen S.Summary:
"A dry look at late-20th-century feminist leaders in academia, by a psychologist and professor of higher education at UCLA (Astin) and a senior program associate at the Center for Creative Leadership in San Diego (Leland). Inspired by...
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This collection of essays explores the often antagonistic relationship between women and political life in Canada. While women make up little over half of the total population in Canada, they are in many ways conspicuous by their...
- Author:Davis, EvetteSummary:
Beneath the fog of San Francisco lurks a hidden world that controls our fate. Nobody who works with superstar political consultant Olivia Shepherd knows that she has supernatural empathic abilities—and that’s just how she likes it. But...
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- Author:Bausum, Ann.Summary:
Chronicles the long history of the fight for women's voting rights, beginning in 1848, with a focus on the years between 1913 and 1920 when the Nineteenth Amendment was passed, and includes profiles of notable women in the struggle...
- Author:Wilson, GretchenSummary:
Born in 1889, Gertrude Harding spent a boistrous childhood on a Welsford, New Brunswick, farm. She travelled to Hawaii to live with her sister, and, when her sister moved to London in 1912, Harding went with her. One day, from the top...
- Author:Kay, JackieSummary:
Kay puts forth a collection of stories that plumb the depths of what it means to love--the vulnerability, the tenderness, and the elusive search that is both chaotic and wondrous.
- Author:Martz, SandraSummary:
- Author:Parks, AdeleSummary:
Eloise Hamilton is a Londoner born and bred, so it is a momentous day when she reluctantly agrees to uproot to Dartmouth, leaving behind her perfect world so her husband can finally live in his.
- Author:Klotz, JulietSummary:
Du haut de ses dix ans, Juliet passe des jeunesses hitlériennes à une jeunesse rurale à Bassecourt dans le Jura suisse, pour fuir le nazisme avec sa mère. Après des études rudimentaires, elle travaille successivement à Berne, Londres,...
- Author:Glasgow, Ellen Anderson GholsonSummary:
- Author:Mofina, RickSummary:
Police officer Karl Styebeck has been called a hero, but his badge takes on an ugly tarnish when he's linked to the deaths of two women. Driven by personal demons, reporter Jack Gannon lays it all on the line to get to the truth;...
- Author:Flaherty, Louise, Williamson, Karla JessenSummary:
This richly illustrated Inuktitut book makes the story of Uumasuusivissuaq accessible to Inuit everywhere. This important story from Inuit cosmology tells how a powerful woman has filled the world with marine life, and continues to...
- Author:Siddons, Anne RiversSummary:
When her husband drops her for a younger woman, Molly Redwine of Atlanta--mother of two adult children and a woman accustomed to comfort--thinks it is the end of the world. But as she recuperates in Martha's Vineyard, Molly...
- Author:Kanafani, DeborahSummary:
The ex-wife of a former high-ranking diplomat, Deborah Kanafani spent many years witnessing the peace efforts between Israel and Palestine. Rather than telling the story of her experiences from a political angle, she offers a glimpse...
- Author:Gaffney, PatriciaSummary:
Après Les quatre Grâces, Patricia Gaffney offre cette merveilleuse histoire de solidarité entre mères et filles, et un portrait attendrissant de l’amour immense qui les unit. Veuve depuis peu, Carrie est plongée dans une grave...
- Author:Houde, NicoleSummary:
Dans le premier récit de ce recueil, Céline affronte courageusement la mort. Atteinte d’un cancer foudroyant, elle refuse tout traitement palliatif et retourne à l’Anse-St-Jean, son village natal, pour renouer, une dernière fois, avec...