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1) The Feminist Bird Club's birding for a better world: a guide to finding joy and community in nature
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Publisher
Princeton Architectural Press, a division of Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
Birding is more popular than ever, and for good reason. Birds are infinitely fascinating and inspiring, and can be found everywhere from forests to city parks to suburban backyards. Birding not only grounds us in our natural environment but is shown to reduce stress and support our mental well-being. It's something that can be done alone or in community, by anyone, anytime. In Birding for a Better World, Feminist Bird Club organizers Molly Adams and...
Author
Publisher
Canongate Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The international bestselling author of The Secret River and A Room Made of Leaves returns with a fictionalized account of her grandmother's life, commemorating a strong female character making the best out of the times and society she was born in. Dolly Maunder is born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society's long-locked doors are just starting to creak ajar for determined women. Growing up in a poor farming family in rural New South...
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A brilliant and darkly funny story of a friendship and its unraveling, and a powerful examination on the disruptive impact of social media on our lives. Once an ambitious and promising student at an elite university in Paris, Maia is now 26, living in Milan, and stuck in a dead-end job at a cafe and a dysfunctional relationship with an older man. Until one day her life seems to change: thanks to a friend's recommendation, and despite not knowing...
Author
Publisher
Two Dollar Radio
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"An entrancing and prismatic debut novel by Christine Lai, set in a near future fraught with ecological collapse, Landscapes brilliantly explores memory, empathy, preservation, and art as an instrument for recollection and renewal. In the English countryside--decimated by heat and drought--Penelope archives what remains of an estate's once notable collection. As she catalogues the library's contents, she keeps a diary of her final months in the dilapidated...
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Publisher
HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A sapphic reimagining of Mary Shelley's youth, vividly exploring innocence, young love, gothic mystery and the roots of her literary masterpiece, Frankenstein. Switzerland, 1816. A volcanic eruption in Indonesia envelopes the whole of Europe in ash and cloud. Amid this "year without a summer," eighteen-year-old Mary Shelley and her lover Percy Bysshe Shelley arrive at Lake Geneva to visit Lord Byron and his companion John Polidori. Anguished by the...
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Into the mist (Cast) volume 2
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Mercury Rhodes and her world were utterly changed when the bombs fell, releasing the green mist. While it proved deadly to all the men who breathed it in, it gave new life to women who did the same. The green mist provided each member of her newfound family an ability: Stella's heightened intuition, Imani's earthly connection, Karen's bond with Spirit, and Gemma's healing ability. Although Mercury now has incredible physical strength--she doesn't...
Author
Publisher
Graydon House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"From the moment she discovered her sister's secret relationship with charismatic professor Jay Crane, Jessie Mooney has been convinced that he's to blame for the events leading to her death. Haunted by their last email exchange--You know what you did--she enrolls in graduate school and competes her way into Crane's famous "Law and Literature" class, setting into motion a plan to get close to him so she can expose who he really is. Jessie will cross...
8) Lilith
Author
Publisher
Alcove Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"In the tradition of Madeline Miller and Claire North, Lilith is the story of the first woman, who was expelled from Paradise for disobedience. In this retelling of the Hebrew myth that justified and explained woman's subjection to man, Lilith will have her revenge - however long it takes. In the Garden of Eden, at the beginning of time, an outrageous lie is born: that women are inferior. Lilith and Adam are equal and happy in the Garden of Eden....
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Her Majesty the Queen investigates volume 3
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"Queen Elizabeth II is looking forward to a traditional Christmas gathering with her family in Sandringham when a shocking discovery interrupts holiday plans. A severed hand has been found--but even more unsettling, she recognizes the signet ring still attached to a finger. It belongs to a scion of the St. Cyr family, her old friends from nearby Ladybridge Hall. Despite the personal connection, the Queen wants to leave the investigation to the police--that...
10) The last to pie
Author
Series
Pies before guys mystery volume 3
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Daisy Ellery is back to doing what she does best: making pies and killing guys. And it's about to get more dangerous than ever. Daisy knows the statistic-domestic violence perpetrated by cops is rampant. It was only a matter of time before she was called in to help. But when this request arrives in her inbox, it isn't accompanied by the required referral and that makes Daisy nervous. Is this really a woman trapped in a violent relationship, or is...
Author
Publisher
Graydon House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"Mrs. King is no ordinary housekeeper. Born into a world of con artists and thieves, she's made herself respectable, running the grandest home in Mayfair. The place is packed with treasures, a glittering symbol of wealth and power, but dark secrets lurk in the shadows. When Mrs. King is suddenly dismissed from her position, she recruits an eclectic group of women to join her in revenge: A black market queen out to settle her scores. An actress desperate...
12) Disobedient
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Artemisia Gentileschi, growing up in a family of all-male painters, dreams of becoming a great artist in 1611 Rome and completes lesson after lesson until a mysterious tutor threatens her honor and virtue and she is put on trial.
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Publisher
Haymarket Books
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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Abolition. Feminism. Now. is a celebration of freedom work, a movement genealogy, a call to action, and a challenge to those who think of abolition and feminism as separate—even incompatible—political projects.
In this remarkable collaborative work, leading scholar-activists Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica R. Meiners, and Beth E. Richie surface the often unrecognized genealogies of queer, anti-capitalist, internationalist,
Author
Publisher
IVP Academic
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Some Christians think Paul's reference to "saved through childbearing" in 1 Timothy 2:15 means that women are slated primarily for delivering and raising children. Alternate readings, however, sometimes fail to build on the best historical and textual evidence. Sandra Glahn thinks that we have misunderstood Paul by misunderstanding the context to which he wrote. A key to reading and applying 1 Timothy, Glahn argues, lies in getting to know a mysterious...
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