Biographical account of pioneer life in the Bella Coola region of British Columbia, near Lonesome Lake in the 1930s and 1940s, including trapping and fishing.
Women
- Author:Edwards, IsabelSummary:
- Author:Holland-Mcnair, LisaSummary:
The twelve women interviewed in this book all share a strong attachment to the physical and spiritual beauty of the Pilbara, in the northwest of Western Australia. A common bond between the four indigenous and eight non-indigenous women...
- Author:Zumas, LeniSummary:
One question. What is a woman for? In this ferociously imaginative novel, abortion is once again illegal in America, in-vitro fertilization is banned, and the Personhood Amendment grants rights of life, liberty, and property to every...
- Author:Mole, RichSummary:
Here are the stories of singularly courageous West Coast women—driven, obsessed, sometimes desperate people whose nonconformist beliefs and actions made them rebels in society’s eyes. Many faced hardship and ridicule as they pursued...
- Author:Kupecek, LindaSummary:
The women in these stories did the unthinkable for their time: they followed their own paths, flouting convention and daring to break from the traditions of family and marriage. They chose a life outside the norm, a decision for which...
- Author:Worrell, P. J.Summary:
In these stories, readers will not find heartwarming sentimentality, but mature literary prose with surprising twists and indeterminate endings, and women of intense substance and spirit. P. J. Worrell understands girls who dream of...
- Author:Octavia, GraceSummary:
Tamia, Troy and Tasha, three New York City "It Girls," must try to balance life, love and their careers while they search for something, or someone, to believe in.
- Author:Cook, Thomas H.Summary:
In 1937 a woman appears in Port Alma, a small sea village nestled on the chilly coast of Maine. Before a year goes by, she will flee Port Alma on the same bus that brought her there. But before she goes, she will irrevocably alter the...
- Author:Lichtenberg, RonnaSummary:
Ronna Lichtenberg, corporate veteran turned highly sought-after management consultant, built a program for women that works with their unique advantages. Starting with recent developments in brain sex research and moving through social...
- Author:Greaves, LorraineSummary:
Details the innovative, courageous, and creative activism of the "second wave" women's health movement in Canada between 1960 and 2010. This activism (re)claimed women's bodies, created women-centered spaces and...
- Author:Satrapi, MarjaneSummary:
A memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic revolution.
- Author:Serrano, MarcelaSummary:
"Hermosa, delicada, culta, de clase social acomodada, habitante del universo de los hijos y un marido protector, Blanca--la protagonista de esta novela--sufre un remezón: conoce un medio social distinto al suyo, el de la gente...
- Author:Brookfield, TarahSummary:
In 1844, seven widows dared to cast ballots in an election in Canada West, a display of feminist effrontery that was quickly punished: the government struck a law excluding women from the vote. It would be seven decades before women...
- Author:DeRango-Adem, Adebe, Thompson, AndreaSummary:
Other Tongues: Mixed-Race Women Speak Out is an anthology of poetry, spoken word, fiction, creative non-fiction, spoken word texts, as well as black and white artwork and photography, explores the question of how mixed-race...
- Author:Shriver, LionelSummary:
For ten years, Estrin Lancaster has fled Philadelphia. Her latest destination is Belfast, in Northern Ireland. Here the spiteful Farrell O'Phelan wrangles through the maze of factions in the North by despising every side. Farrell...
- Author:Monro, AliceSummary:
- Author:Achebe, NgoziSummary:
- Author:Jordan-Fenton, Christy, Pokiak-Fenton, MargaretSummary:
Looks at the experiences of a young Inuit girl returning from a residential religious school, where she is not recognized by her mother and is seen as an outsider.
- Author:Gaskell, ElizabethSummary:
As brilliant for its compassion as its art, Gaskell’s socially conscious masterpiece shows the early effects of the Industrial Revolution on both workers and employers through the intelligent eyes of Margaret Hale, whose advocacy for...
- Author:Younes, MilaSummary:
Nomade s’inscrit dans la continuité du récit autobiographique Ma mère, ma fille, ma soeur. Après une adolescence déchirée entre les valeurs traditionnelles berbères et celles de la France, pays d’accueil de ses parents, Mila apprend à...