Jack the Ripper might be in town. But is marriage more terrifying? In an alternate Deep South in 1890, society reporter Adele de la Pointe wants to make her own way in the world, despite her family’s pressure to become a society wife....
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- Author:Quarles, AngelaSummary:
- Author:Bow, ErinSummary:
Twelve--year-old Aisulu defies the expectations of her Kazakh family and tradition to train an eagle in order to save her brother, Serik, and prevent her family from giving up their nomadic life forever.
- Author:Gillin, Kate CôtéSummary:
In Shrill Hurrahs, Kate Côté Gillin presents a new perspective on gender roles and racial violence in South Carolina during Reconstruction and the decades after the 1876 election of Wade Hampton as governor. In the aftermath of the...
- Author:Millett, KateSummary:
Identifying patriarchy as a socially conditioned belief system masquerading as nature, the author demonstrates how its attitudes and systems penetrate literature, philosophy, psychology, and politics. Her work rocked the foundations of...
- Author:ORKIN, Mark M.Summary:
- Author:Tyler, ParkerSummary:
Parker Tyler (1904-1974) was a noted American film critic, and this text is regarded as his most significant work. Devoted to homosexuality in films, it aims to look beyond the obvious and to observe the psychology of sex roles, at the...
- Author:Springer, NancySummary:
In her quest to connect with Robin Hood, the father she has never met, thirteen-year-old Rosemary disguises herself as a boy, befriends a half-wolf, half-dog, a runaway princess, and an overgrown boy whose singing is hypnotic, and makes...
- Author:Ellis, DeborahSummary:
Shortlisted for the IODE Violet Downey Book Award and the Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award, selected for the USBBY Outstanding International Book List, the CCBC Choices List, the Bank Street College of Education's Book of the Month...
- Author:Ellis, DeborahSummary:
The third book in the internationally-bestselling series that includes The Breadwinner, Mud City and My Name Is Parvana. Parvana’s best friend, Shauzia, has escaped the misery of her life in Kabul, only to end up in a refugee camp in...
- Author:Baldacchino, ChristineSummary:
A young boy faces adversity from classmates when he wears an orange dress at school.
- Author:Ruth, ElizabethSummary:
Set in Spain and Mexico during the 1930s, Matadora tells the story of Luna Caballero Garcia, an impoverished and intrepid servant attempting to make her name in the bullring at a time when it was illegal for a girl to do so.
- Author:BEALE, FleurSummary:
When Lacey's family moves to the countryside she must leave her friends and the conveniences of the city and adjust to country life, living in a ramshackle house, going to a school with only boys in her class and playing rugby.
- Author:Haddix, Margaret PetersonSummary:
In this continuation of the Cinderella story, fifteen-year-old Ella finds that accepting Prince Charming's proposal ensnares her in a suffocating tangle of palace rules and royal etiquette, so she plots to escape.
- Author:DeMont, Belle, Wimmer, SonjaSummary:
Charlie loves the bright red purse that his grandmother let him have. One day, he decides to take it to school. First his father, then his friends, and even the crossing guard question him about his “strange” choice. After all, boys don...
- Author:Christakos, MargaretSummary:
Her Paraphernalia, the new book of creative non-fiction from noted Canadian poet Margaret Christakos, presents an intimate and original collection of midlife writings that seeks to make readers think in a very personalized way about...
- Author:Milestone, KatieSummary:
This book examines the role of popular culture in the construction of gendered identities in contemporary society. It draws on a wide range of popular cultural forms - including popular music, newspapers and television - to illustrate...
- Author:Pierce, TamoraSummary:
- Author:Nzegwu, NkiruSummary:
- Author:Ellis, DeborahSummary:
Parvana es una chica de once años que vive en Kabul, Afganistán, durante la época del gobierno de los talibanes. Cuando su padre es detenido, su familia –sin recursos para poder vivir-, buscará una solución desesperada: Parvana, que por...
- Author:Swanson, GillianSummary:
Examines the ways in which urban modernity reshapes 'cultural experience'. This work explores the ways that categories of sexual identity and behaviour were reformulated in relation to the restructuring of urban space and the...