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Author
Publisher
September Publishing
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Cat Munro's safe, carefully-controlled world as a corporate lawyer is disintegrating, and she is diagnosed with panic disorder just before her fortieth birthday. In a last-ditch attempt to claw back control, she faces up to her greatest fear of all: she decides to learn to fly. As she struggles, high above the Arizona desert, to let go of old memories and the anxieties that have always held her back, Cat faces a choice: should she try to piece her...
363) Cougar chronicles
Author
Series
Publisher
Waterhouse Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The Cowboy and the Cougar: A hot time with a gorgeous young cowboy is just what the doctor ordered for forty-year-old Holly Taylor. But after a night of amazing passion, she leaves discreetly. Life has other plans for her at the moment. After the best sex of his life, single father Jack Sherwood isn't ready to give up his mystery woman. When he runs into her several months later, he's relentless in his pursuit, and he doesn't care a whit about their...
366) Shadow of a century
Author
Publisher
J. Grainger
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"A broken woman, New York, 2016. A fearless rebel, Dublin 1916. And a gripping story that spans a century. During a time of great upheaval and unrest in Ireland, as men and women run to take up arms against the tyranny and occupation of the British Empire, the lives of three women are forever altered, and thereby inextricably linked over the span of a century. Mary Doyle arrives in Dublin in 1913, doomed, she fears, to a life of domestic service....
Author
Series
S. hrg volume 115-746
Publisher
U.S. Government Publishing Office
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Vintage Espanol
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
"From internationally bestselling author Isabel Allende comes an exquisitely crafted love story and multigenerational epic that sweeps from present-day San Francisco to Poland and the United States during WWII. In 1939, as Poland falls under the shadow of the Nazis and the world goes to war, young Alma Belasco's parents send her away to live in safety with an aunt and uncle in their opulent mansion in San Francisco. There she meets Ichimei Fukuda,...
371) La tierra de las mujeres: descubruerion su pasado, comprendieron su presente, dibujaron su futuro
Author
Publisher
Suma de Letras
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Español
Description
"Gala Marlborough viaja con sus dos hijas, Kate y Adele, a un pequeno pueblo del Ampurdan con la unica intencion de cobrar la herencia de un familiar desconocido y retomar cuanto antes su vida en Nueva York. Ignora que esa decision activara une perfecta, sutil y acompasada maquinaria dispuesta a desempolvar mentiras enterradas y secretos familiares y a sanar almas entregadas a la amargura del dolor,"--page [4] of cover.
"Gala Marlborough travels...
Author
Publisher
Taurus Edições
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Portuguese
Description
"Há um oceano que separa o presente e o passado da velha Chica. Muito embora tenha vivido exatas nove décadas, a senhora de olhos azuis ainda se recorda, mesmo que vagamente, do semblante da sua misteriosa mãe. No calor escaldante do sertão da Bahia, ninguém nunca soube muito bem de onde veio aquela moça de expressão triste. Só desconfiavam que a estrangeira teria migrado de longe - lá da Itália, Alemanha ou França - mas, ninguém nunca...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Though her mind is still sharp, Elizabeth's bones have aged and her eyes have failed. No longer able to linger over books or gaze at paintings that move her spirit, she fills her days at the retirement home with music and memories of her family, especially of her beloved twin sister, Emily. When her late father's journals are discovered after a accident, she seizes the opportunity to piece together the mysteries of her childhood. With the help of...
Author
Publisher
Restless Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"When a widowed, aging mother allows Green, her thirty-something daughter, to move into her apartment, all she wants for her is a stable and quiet existence like her own. But when Green turns up with her long-term girlfriend in tow, her mother is enraged and unwilling to welcome their relationship into her home. Having centered her life on her husband and child, her daughter's definition of family is not one she can accept. Meanwhile, the nursing...
Author
Publisher
Milliŏn Hausŭ
Pub. Date
2006
Language
Korean
Description
In nineteenth century China, in a remote Hunan county, a girl named Lily, at the tender age of seven, is paired with a laotong, or "old same," in an emotional match that will last a lifetime. The two women exchange messages written on silk fans and handkerchiefs using nu shu, a unique language that women created in order to communicate in secret, sharing their experiences, but when a misunderstanding arises, their friendship threatens to tear apart....
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Women growing older contend with ageism, misogyny, and loss. Yet as Mary Pipher shows, most older women are deeply happy and filled with gratitude for the gifts of life. Their struggles help them grow into the authentic, empathetic, and wise people they have always wanted to be. In Women Rowing North, Pipher offers a timely examination of the cultural and developmental issues women face as they age. Drawing on her own experience as daughter, sister,...