Women college students
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Author:Clark, SallySummary: -
Author:Bird, SarahSummary:Having grown up at the Yokota Air Base in Japan, and having moved six times in the last eight years, Bernadette "Bernie" Root and her five siblings are quintessential military brats. It's 1968, and eighteen-year-old...
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Author:Henstra, SarahSummary:The battle of the sexes goes to college in this nervy debut adult novel by a powerful new voice. A smart, dark, and take-no-prisoners look at rape culture and the extremes to which ideology can go, The Red Word is a campus...
- Author:CANFIELD, DorothySummary:
Unlike other young women of her generation, who were "bred up from childhood to sit behind tea-tables and say the right things to tea-drinkers," Sylvia Marshall - the "twig" of this novel - was reared to think for...
- Author:Foster, LoriSummary:
Ashley Miles has worked too hard for her independence to let some Bentley-driving hunk named Quinton Murphy interfere with her plans--or her freedom. Yes, the chemistry is phenomenal. Kind of scary, actually. But that's it. NO...
- Author:Mazigh, Monia, Reed, Fred A.Summary:
In the spirit of Amy Tan’s international bestselling novel The Joy Luck Club, Mirrors and Mirages is an intricately woven, deftly told story that follows the lives of women and their daughters.In Mirrors and Mirages, Monia Mazigh lets...
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Author:JESCHKE, Melanie M.Summary:It's the autumn of 1964 and young American Kate Hughes anticipates finding knowledge - and she hopes, love - at Oxford University. She discovers possibilities in David MacKenzie, a young lecturer who carries on the legacy of his...
- Author:Westover, TaraSummary:
Traces the author's experiences as a child born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, describing her participation in her family's paranoid stockpiling activities and her resolve to educate herself well enough to earn...
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Author:Decker, DonnaSummary:Through the braided narratives of three spirited characters, this novel bears witness to the infamous “American” crime that metastasized uber-civilized Montreal. Everyone wants a Marin at her party. Bohemian and beautiful, this...
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Author:Webster, JeanSummary:When orphan Jerusha Abbott receives word that a mysterious millionaire has decided to fund her schooling, she's ecstatic. But as her benefactor proves to be more and more elusive, requesting that she write him without inquiring as to...
- Author:Robinson, JaneSummary:
"In 1869, when five women enrolled at university for the first time in British history, the average female brain was thought to be 150 grams lighter than a man's. Doctors warned that if women studied too hard their wombs would...
- Author:Bird, SarahSummary:
Mary Jo's caustic comments about love and life can't conceal her confusion about both, but liberated baptist Fayrene and party girl Collie help Mary Jo cope in a white, patriarchal world.
