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  Goddesses in Older Women: Archetypes in Women Over Fifty

  by Jean Shinoda Bolen

  At some point after fifty, every woman crosses a threshold into the third phase of her life. As she enters this uncharted territory -- one that is generally uncelebrated in popular culture -- she can choose to mourn what has gone before, or she can embrace the juicy-crone years. In this celebration of Act Three, Jean Shinoda Bolen, Jungian analyst and bestselling author of Goddesses in Everywoman, names the... (more)
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  Girls of Riyadh: A Novel

  by Rajaa Alsanea

  A bold new voice from Saudi Arabia spins a fascinating tale of four young women attempting to navigate the narrow straits between love, desire, fulfillment, and Islamic tradition In her debut novel Rajaa Alsanea reveals the social, romantic, and sexual tribulations of four young women from the elite classes of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Originally released in Arabic in 2005, it was immediately banned in Saudi... (more)
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  The 19th Wife: A Novel

  by David Ebershoff

  Faith, I tell them, is a mystery, elusive to many, and never easy to explain. Sweeping and lyrical, spellbinding and unforgettable, David Ebershoff’s The 19th Wife combines epic historical fiction with a modern murder mystery to create a brilliant novel of literary suspense. It is 1875, and Ann Eliza Young has recently separated from her powerful husband, Brigham Young, prophet and leader of the Mormon... (more)
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  I'll Fly Away: Further Testimonies from the Women of York Prison

  by Wally Lamb, I'll Fly Away Contributors

  In 2003 Wally Lamb--the author of two of the most beloved novels of our time, She's Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True --published Couldn't Keep It to Myself , a collection of essays by the students in his writing workshop at the maximum-security York Correctional Institution, Connecticut's only prison for women. Writing, Lamb discovered, was a way for these women to confront painful memories, face their... (more)
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  The Chosen One

  by Carol Lynch Williams

  Thirteen-year-old Kyra has grown up in an isolated community without questioning the fact that her father has three wives and she has twenty brothers and sisters, with two more on the way. That is, without questioning them much---if you don’t count her secret visits to the Mobile Library on Wheels to read forbidden books, or her meetings with Joshua, the boy she hopes to choose for herself instead of having a man... (more)
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  A Thousand Splendid Suns

  by Khaled Hosseini

  After 103 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and with four million copies of The Kite Runner shipped, Khaled Hosseini returns with a beautiful, riveting, and haunting novel that confirms his place as one of the most important literary writers today. Propelled by the same superb instinct for storytelling that made The Kite Runner a beloved classic, A Thousand Splendid Suns is at once an... (more)
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  Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self

  by Sarah Ban Breathnach

  From the author of Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy comes a guided excavation for women who suspect that there's something more to life than the top layer pursuits of money, sex, and love. In service to these restless souls who want to scratch beneath the surface, Ban Breathnach offers tidbit-sized essays that help women unearth pay dirt--their reason for being. Using archaeology as her frame of... (more)
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  Slave

  by Damien Lewis, Mende Nazer

  Mende Nazer's "beautiful and at times heart-wrenching "account of her struggle to survive modern-day slavery ( The Washington Post ) At age twelve, Mende Nazer lost her childhood. It began one horrific night in 1993, when Arab raiders swept through her Nuba village, setting fire to the village huts and murdering the adults. They rounded up thirty-one young children, including Mende, who was eventually sold to a... (more)
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  Fat Girl : A True Story

  by Judith Moore

  For any woman who has ever had a love/hate relationship with food and with how she looks; for anyone who has knowingly or unconsciously used food to try to fill the hole in his heart or soothe the craggy edges of his psyche, Fat Girl is a brilliantly rendered, angst-filled coming-of-age story of gain and loss. From the lush descriptions of food that call to mind the writings of M.F. K.Fisher at her... (more)
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  The Things We Do for Love: A Novel

  by Kristin Hannah

  New York Times bestselling author Kristin Hannah “touches the deepest, most tender corner of our hearts” (Tami Hoag). Her last novel, Between Sisters, was chosen by CBS’s The Early Show as one of the best books of the summer. Now she returns with The Things We Do for Love— a poignant, evocative story that celebrates the magic of motherhood, the joys of coming home, and the price we so willingly pay for love.... (more)
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  Face of Destiny

  by Melanie Read

  Nick Kilby was a World War I ace, a hero, now an airmail pilot, a man who could risk his life, but never risk his heart. Victoria Robinson is a young nurse with the skill and the heart to care for the wounded soldiers on the front lines. After witnessing the horrors of war, it is in her hometown, that she learns of a deeper pain and injustice encompassing the lives of the women of Hagers Lake. After the War,... (more)
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  This Child Will Be Great: Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa's First Woman President

  by Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf

  In January 2006, after the Republic of Liberia had been racked by fourteen years of brutal civil conflict, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf—Africa's "Iron Lady"—was sworn in as president, an event that marked a tremendous turning point in the history of the West African nation. In this stirring memoir, Sirleaf shares the inside story of her rise to power, including her early childhood; her experiences with abuse,... (more)
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  Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales

  New edition (revised and expanded) available 8/13/02. Fairy tales are one of the most enduring forms of literature, their plots retold and characters reimagined for centuries. In this elegant and thought-provoking collection of original essays, Kate Bernheimer brings together twenty-eight leading women writers to discuss how these stories helped shape their imaginations, their craft, and our culture. In poetic... (more)
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  Sisters in the Resistance

  by Margaret Collins Weitz

  Critical acclaim for Sisters in the Resistance "Often moving . . . always fascinating . . . women in the French Resistance is a key subject. Margaret Weitz has gathered personal testimonies . . . and set them in an intelligible context that helps us understand how all French people—men and women—experienced the Nazi occupation." —Robert Paxton, Mellon Professor of Social Sciences, Columbia University, and... (more)
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  Girls with Grandmother Faces: Celebration of Life

  by Frances Weaver

  The author of I'm Not As Old As I Used to Be uses humor and homespun wisdom to share her practical and inspirational advice for women over fifty-five, challenging women to keep their freedom, independence, imagination, and curiosity. Reprint. 50,000 first printing."
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  Life's a Stitch: The Best of Contemporary Women's Humor

  The Best of Contemporary Women's Humor is an anthology with a twist: humorous short stories, poetry, songs, and cartoons--all from the pens of women, and all donated to benefit charities. It will entertain readers, sustain them, and provide hours of reading pleasure. The gems here treat topics such as politics, relationships, parents, hair, dieting, and aging with wry irreverence. It features humor from some... (more)
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  Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History

  by Laurel Ulrich

  “They didn’t ask to be remembered,” Pulitzer Prize-winning author Laurel Ulrich wrote in 1976 about the pious women of colonial New England. And then she added a phrase that has since gained widespread currency: “Well-behaved women seldom make history.” Today those words appear almost everywhere—on T-shirts, mugs, bumper stickers, plaques, greeting cards, and more. But what do they really mean? In this engrossing... (more)
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  A Woman After God's Own Heart: A Bible Study Workbook

  by Elizabeth George

  Based on the best selling book that has sold over 750,000 copies!Every woman will treasure the A Woman After God's Own Heart workbook. Each weekly lesson contains five Bible studies that challenge participants to answer thought-provoking questions, find key principles, and make application. The studies can be completed in around 25 to 30 minutes.Additional elements to the study... (more)
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  Crossing to Avalon: A Woman's Midlife Quest for the Sacred Feminine

  by Jean Shinoda Bolen

  Proving prayer to be as valid and vital a healing tool as drugs or surgery, the bestselling author of Meaning & Medicine and Recovering the Soul offers a bold integration of science and spirituality.
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  Are You Somebody?: The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman

  by Nuala O'Faolain

  Nuala O'Faolain attracted a huge amount of critical praise and a wide audience with the literary debut of Are You Somebody? Her midlife exploration of life's love, pain, loneliness, and self- discovery won her fans worldwide who write and tell her how her story has changed their lives. There are thousands who have yet to discover this extraordinary memoir of an Irish woman who has stepped away from the... (more)