Elizabeth and Betsy knew each other as school-children. When they meet again in later life, one is safely married, the other most unsafely partnered.
Women
- Author:BROOKNER, AnitaSummary:
- Author:Moore, KateSummary:
1917. As a war raged across the world, young American women flocked to work, painting watches, clocks and military dials with a special luminous substance made from radium. It was a fun job, lucrative and glamorous-the girls themselves...
- Author:Berg, ElizabethSummary:
Disturbed by the course of her life and marriage, Nan embarks on a backroad odyssey, following the moon and stopping to talk with women, men, her husband through letters, and herself through her diary.
- Author:Alderman, NaomiSummary:
One of the New York Times's Ten Best Books of 2017A Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2017. One of the Washington Post's Ten Best Books of 2017. An NPR Best Book of 2017. One of Entertainment Weekly's Ten Best Books of 2017. A Bustle Best...
- Author:Clarke, AustinSummary:
Winner of the 2002 Scotiabank Giller Prize and of the 2003 Commonwealth Writers' Prize: Best Book (Canada and the Caribbean) When an elderly Bimshire village woman calls the police to confess to a murder, the result is a shattering all-...
- Author:Dallas, SandraSummary:
Dallas transports listeners to 1930s Kansas, where a club of quilters welcomes a new member--and then must turn to each other for support when a startling secret comes to light.
- Author:Hashimi, NadiaSummary:
In Kabul, 2007, with a drug-addicted father and no brothers, Rahima and her sisters can only sporadically attend school or leave the house. Their only hope lies in an ancient custom that will allow Rahima to dress and be treated as a...
- Author:Hashimi, NadiaSummary:
In Kabul, 2007, with a drug-addicted father and no brothers, Rahima and her sisters can only sporadically attend school or leave the house. Their only hope lies in an ancient custom that will allow Rahima to dress and be treated as a...
- Author:Pronzini, BillSummary:
When his wife finally left him and filed for divorce, Rick Fallon put his house up for sale and took the last two weeks of his vacation. Then he loaded his Jeep and drove straight to Death Valley, the one place he truly belonged. On his...
- Author:Rose, PhyllisSummary:
- Author:LOVELL, Mary S.Summary:
THE MITFORD GIRLS tells the true story behind the gaiety and frivolity of the six Mitford daughters - and the facts are as sensational as any novel: Nancy, whose bright social existence masked an obsessional doomed love which soured her...
- Author:Wagner, DavidSummary:
- Author:Lamb, CathySummary:
In Cathy Lamb's gripping and thought-provoking novel, a woman whose memory is shattered must piece together her husband's secrets-and reevaluate her life, love, and relationships.When Natalie Shelton thinks back to how things...
- Author:Nimeh-Mailloux, RosineSummary:
It is 1957, and Amal is an inmate of the “Bethlehem Oasis for Troubled Women,” having feigned insanity to avoid being put to death for the murder of her abusive husband. When attacked by a fellow inmate, Amal must confront her traumatic...
- Author:Jenoff, PamSummary:
1946, Manhattan. One morning while passing through Grand Central Terminal on her way to work, Grace Healey finds an abandoned suitcase tucked beneath a bench. Unable to resist her own curiosity, Grace opens the suitcase, where she...
- Author:Frey, CeceliaSummary:
On a remote lonely mountain, Constance (frustrated poet) skis toward her death and Harry Weinstein (brilliant author) loses himself in an avalanche. Meanwhile, back in the city, Gully Jillson (the ex-husband who won the GG) is the...
- Author:Esping-Andersen, GøstaSummary:
- Author:HAMLIN, CatherineSummary:
Catherine and Reg Hamlin left Australia in 1959 on a short contract to establish a midwifery school in Ethiopia. Over 40 years later, Catherine is still there, running one of the most outstanding medical programs in the world.
- Author:Saʻdāwī, NawālSummary:
A classic of modern Arab writing, Nawal El Saadawi’s shocking account of female oppression in the Muslim world is as powerful today as it was when it was first published. El Saadawi’s experiences working as a doctor in Egyptian villages...
- Author:Grand, SarahSummary: