Author: Aorewa McLeod
Publisher: Victoria University Press
ISBN: 0864739060
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Emerging brittle and cynical from a wildly dysfunctional family, Ngaio careers from ice cream factory to children's home to Oxford to rehab. Along the way, she discovers herself and her sexuality -- at raucous parties with trainee nurses, in feminist encounter groups and Wiccan covens, in university classrooms and legendary sapphic hotspots. This novel delivers vivid and hilarious snapshots of late 20th Century lesbian life: witty, tender, frank.
Who Was That Woman Anyway?
Author: Aorewa McLeod
Publisher: Victoria University Press
ISBN: 0864739060
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Emerging brittle and cynical from a wildly dysfunctional family, Ngaio careers from ice cream factory to children's home to Oxford to rehab. Along the way, she discovers herself and her sexuality -- at raucous parties with trainee nurses, in feminist encounter groups and Wiccan covens, in university classrooms and legendary sapphic hotspots. This novel delivers vivid and hilarious snapshots of late 20th Century lesbian life: witty, tender, frank.
Publisher: Victoria University Press
ISBN: 0864739060
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Emerging brittle and cynical from a wildly dysfunctional family, Ngaio careers from ice cream factory to children's home to Oxford to rehab. Along the way, she discovers herself and her sexuality -- at raucous parties with trainee nurses, in feminist encounter groups and Wiccan covens, in university classrooms and legendary sapphic hotspots. This novel delivers vivid and hilarious snapshots of late 20th Century lesbian life: witty, tender, frank.
The Woman Who Was the Corridor
Author: Tannie R. Meader
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1893652661
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
The Woman Who was the Corridor chronicles the most secret and subtle invasion imaginable. Its not only an exciting adventure, but also an amazing one, as a Texas ATF Agent tries to discover the truth in the darkest heart of Louisiana. The Woman Who Was the Corridor reveals not only the footprints, but also the heartbeat of aliens in our world. They are here and the truth is now! Andie Blue thought she was on the southern singing tour of her dreams; she was wickedly used and ensnared by The Corridor. ATF Agent, Martin Evans, was on the trail of a gun smuggler when he ran into The Corridor and lost the only thing he ever loved. Deia Rankin has a ceramics production firm, the old family plantation, and a son who resurrects the dying. She has fought her way to national recognition as an artist and as a very astute business woman, and has revitalized her Louisiana hometown. Her nights are disturbed by an unseen Presence as she becomes the corridor for transdimensional aliens. Reaching all the way to the United States Senate, her story involves the ATF, alien technology, and terrifying changes to human bodies. The trail of transdimensional aliens leads to Washington. A Louisiana Senator has called in a national archives scribe who has purloined the encrypted entry, but only the Senator knows the whole truth about The Woman Who was the Corridor and how to use it. Before he ever thought of becoming a sentor, Jamie Philpot was her lover and Martin Evans was his enemy.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1893652661
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
The Woman Who was the Corridor chronicles the most secret and subtle invasion imaginable. Its not only an exciting adventure, but also an amazing one, as a Texas ATF Agent tries to discover the truth in the darkest heart of Louisiana. The Woman Who Was the Corridor reveals not only the footprints, but also the heartbeat of aliens in our world. They are here and the truth is now! Andie Blue thought she was on the southern singing tour of her dreams; she was wickedly used and ensnared by The Corridor. ATF Agent, Martin Evans, was on the trail of a gun smuggler when he ran into The Corridor and lost the only thing he ever loved. Deia Rankin has a ceramics production firm, the old family plantation, and a son who resurrects the dying. She has fought her way to national recognition as an artist and as a very astute business woman, and has revitalized her Louisiana hometown. Her nights are disturbed by an unseen Presence as she becomes the corridor for transdimensional aliens. Reaching all the way to the United States Senate, her story involves the ATF, alien technology, and terrifying changes to human bodies. The trail of transdimensional aliens leads to Washington. A Louisiana Senator has called in a national archives scribe who has purloined the encrypted entry, but only the Senator knows the whole truth about The Woman Who was the Corridor and how to use it. Before he ever thought of becoming a sentor, Jamie Philpot was her lover and Martin Evans was his enemy.
The Woman Who Was the Desert Dream
Author: William Coles
Publisher: Thames River Press
ISBN: 0857281313
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Meet Kim – a middle-aged hack, ripe for a mid-life crisis. Meet Kate – his feisty colleague, half his age. And meet the Marathon des Sables – not just the world’s toughest footrace, but also the burning furnace where two journalists fall in love. Kim is married and in a dead-end job on a Red Top newspaper. He’s always dreamed of running the Marathon des Sables. Kate hurls down the gauntlet and Kim can’t help but pick it up. Based on the events of the 2012 Marathon des Sables, this is a story about finding love in the searing crucible of the Sahara.
Publisher: Thames River Press
ISBN: 0857281313
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Meet Kim – a middle-aged hack, ripe for a mid-life crisis. Meet Kate – his feisty colleague, half his age. And meet the Marathon des Sables – not just the world’s toughest footrace, but also the burning furnace where two journalists fall in love. Kim is married and in a dead-end job on a Red Top newspaper. He’s always dreamed of running the Marathon des Sables. Kate hurls down the gauntlet and Kim can’t help but pick it up. Based on the events of the 2012 Marathon des Sables, this is a story about finding love in the searing crucible of the Sahara.
The Woman Who Rides Like a Man
Author: Tamora Pierce
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442427655
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Alanna, the on;y female knight in the kingdom, must come to terms with her identity as a woman when Prince Jonathan proposes marriage.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442427655
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Alanna, the on;y female knight in the kingdom, must come to terms with her identity as a woman when Prince Jonathan proposes marriage.
The Woman Who Knew What She Wanted
Author: William Coles
Publisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 085728021X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Kim is a waiter in a Dorset hotel, an absolute hot-bed of sex. But he’s seeing none of it. Instead he falls for Cally, a 43-year-old artist who is steaming with chutzpah. She is a woman who grabs life by the throat; she knows what she wants – and most of the time she gets it, too. She lives only in the moment, losing a number of her nine lives – and nearly killing Kim in the process. Kim finds love as he has never known it before – but even when he’s completely in Cally’s thrall, he’s still unable to resist the allure of other younger women. A couple can bridge a 20-year age gap, but can they ever make the relationship last? This is the third book in the series, following on from ‘The Well-Tempered Clavier’ and ‘The Woman Who Made Men Cry.’
Publisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 085728021X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Kim is a waiter in a Dorset hotel, an absolute hot-bed of sex. But he’s seeing none of it. Instead he falls for Cally, a 43-year-old artist who is steaming with chutzpah. She is a woman who grabs life by the throat; she knows what she wants – and most of the time she gets it, too. She lives only in the moment, losing a number of her nine lives – and nearly killing Kim in the process. Kim finds love as he has never known it before – but even when he’s completely in Cally’s thrall, he’s still unable to resist the allure of other younger women. A couple can bridge a 20-year age gap, but can they ever make the relationship last? This is the third book in the series, following on from ‘The Well-Tempered Clavier’ and ‘The Woman Who Made Men Cry.’
Woman in the Nineteenth Century
Author: Margaret Fuller
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social history
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social history
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
The Woman Who Made Men Cry
Author: William Coles
Publisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 0857282573
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
It’s 1998 and Kim is a journalist in New York City. He thinks he’s found the only woman for him: Elise is beautiful, intelligent and, it goes without saying, a sensational lover. The only catch is that she doesn’t want just him – and he’s agreed to it. For months on end, Kim is tormented by the knowledge that his Elise is sleeping with someone else. Can a man be so smitten with someone that he allows himself to be ruled by her entirely? A bittersweet love story about how far you can go for the woman you love – and at what cost.
Publisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 0857282573
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
It’s 1998 and Kim is a journalist in New York City. He thinks he’s found the only woman for him: Elise is beautiful, intelligent and, it goes without saying, a sensational lover. The only catch is that she doesn’t want just him – and he’s agreed to it. For months on end, Kim is tormented by the knowledge that his Elise is sleeping with someone else. Can a man be so smitten with someone that he allows himself to be ruled by her entirely? A bittersweet love story about how far you can go for the woman you love – and at what cost.
The Woman of the Flask
Author: Salim Matar
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
ISBN: 1617972126
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
The Woman of the Flask is a most original novel a blend of grim realism and fantasy. Two Iraqi exiles reach Switzerland, having escaped from Saddam's Iraq. One of them, Adam, has brought with him an old flask found among the possessions of his late father who came from the Marshlands of southern Iraq. He polishes it and opens it: a fabulously beautiful nubile young woman appears. She has, it emerges, been the lover of his ancestors going back five thousand years. The novel weaves together the threads of her memories of Adam's ancestors, his day-to-day life and his work as a computer programmer, his fellow-exile, his Swiss wife, and his coping with the woman of the flask. She is not happy with immortality, and Adam and his friend confront both a European bureaucracy and an alternative world of magic and fantasy. The reader is swept along by a dizzyingly compelling narrative, unsure where the story is going but fascinated by the journey. The novel reflects the complexities of the world of today's Iraqis an unprecedented history, a grimmer recent past, but with prospects that challenge imagination.
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
ISBN: 1617972126
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
The Woman of the Flask is a most original novel a blend of grim realism and fantasy. Two Iraqi exiles reach Switzerland, having escaped from Saddam's Iraq. One of them, Adam, has brought with him an old flask found among the possessions of his late father who came from the Marshlands of southern Iraq. He polishes it and opens it: a fabulously beautiful nubile young woman appears. She has, it emerges, been the lover of his ancestors going back five thousand years. The novel weaves together the threads of her memories of Adam's ancestors, his day-to-day life and his work as a computer programmer, his fellow-exile, his Swiss wife, and his coping with the woman of the flask. She is not happy with immortality, and Adam and his friend confront both a European bureaucracy and an alternative world of magic and fantasy. The reader is swept along by a dizzyingly compelling narrative, unsure where the story is going but fascinated by the journey. The novel reflects the complexities of the world of today's Iraqis an unprecedented history, a grimmer recent past, but with prospects that challenge imagination.
The Woman Who Wasn't There
Author: Robin Gaby Fisher
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451652097
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Traces the story of Tania Head, who falsely claimed to be a September 11 survivor, describing her interviews with the co-author and the discovery that she was not in America at the time of the attacks.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451652097
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Traces the story of Tania Head, who falsely claimed to be a September 11 survivor, describing her interviews with the co-author and the discovery that she was not in America at the time of the attacks.
The Woman Who Says No
Author: Malte Herwig
Publisher: Greystone Books Ltd
ISBN: 1771642270
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Françoise Gilot left Picasso after a ten-year relationship, the only woman to escape his intense attentions unscathed. Malte Herwig dropped by her ateliers in Paris and New York to chat with her about life, love, and art. She shared observations, her sharp sense of humor, and over ninety years of experience, much of it in the company of men who changed the world: Picasso, Matisse, and her second husband, the famous virologist Jonas Salk, developer of the polio vaccine.
Publisher: Greystone Books Ltd
ISBN: 1771642270
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Françoise Gilot left Picasso after a ten-year relationship, the only woman to escape his intense attentions unscathed. Malte Herwig dropped by her ateliers in Paris and New York to chat with her about life, love, and art. She shared observations, her sharp sense of humor, and over ninety years of experience, much of it in the company of men who changed the world: Picasso, Matisse, and her second husband, the famous virologist Jonas Salk, developer of the polio vaccine.