Brown Girl Dreaming

Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and emotionally charged, each line a glimpse into a child’s s…

Pride and prejudice

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97801411999078

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823.7 AUS p

Dear Madam President : an open letter to the women who will run the world

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9781538713457

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158.4 Pal d

Veronika Decides To Die (On the Seventh Day #2)

Veronika seems to have everything she could wish for. She is young and pretty, has plenty of attractive boyfriends, goes dancing, has a steady job, a loving family, Yet Veronika is not happy; something is lacking in her life. On the morning on November 11th, 1997, she decides to die. She takes an overdose of sleeping pills, only to wake up some time later in Villette, the local hospital. There …

By The River Piedra I Sat Down And Wept

Paulo Coelho’s By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept is a poignant and poetic story that talks about the depth of love and life and includes elements of paganism and female aspect of divinity. The protagonist of the story is an independent young woman Pilar who is fed up of her university life and is on a quest to find the real meaning of life. Her life takes an unexpectedly interesting …

Women Who Changed the World

Over 60 profiles of inspiring women-featuring incredible photos. Discover the lives and stories of amazing women who shaped the modern world, from mathematicians and doctors to aviators, authors and code-breakers.

I am My Own Home and other essays

What is it about male aloneness that makes it so desirable while female aloneness is seen as less so? What is it about male aloneness that is often seen as a heroic and poetic choice, while female aloneness is generally seen to have come from a lack of options? I am My Own Home is a documentation of what it means to be a 30-something Indonesian woman who lives alone, along with the contentme…

Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Perempuan Tangguh yang Mengubah Dunia

Mengisahkan tentang para perempuan yang memiliki berbagai macam ketakutan dan kekurangan diri. Perempuan yang mengalami berbagai rintangan yang sulit namun memilih untuk tetap menghadapinya dengan berani. Buku ini adalah tentang perempuan-perempuan pemberani yang berhasil menjangkau melebihi norma-norma yang ada.

The Paper Magician (The Paper Magician #1)

Ceony Twill tiba di pondok Penyihir Emery Thane dengan perasaan kecewa. Meskipun lulus dengan peringkat tinggi dari Tagis Praff School, masa magangnya harus dihabiskan sebagai Pengendali Kertas, bukan sebagai Pengendali Besi, sebagaimana mimpinya selama ini. Dan sekali dia terikat pada kertas, maka kertas akan menjadi satu-satunya sihir yang Ceony kuasai ... selamanya. Ternyata, menjadi Peng…

Feminisme: Sebuah Pengantar Singkat

Buku ini adalah perenungan historis yang mendedah akar-akar feminisme, hak suara, pembebasan di tahun 1960-an, dan kemudian menganalisis situasi terkini para perempuan di seantero Eropa, Amerika Serikat, serta belahan dunia lainnya, terutama di negara-negara Dunia Ketiga. Margaret Walters membabarkan pelbagai kesukaran dan ketidaksetaraan yang masih dihadapi oleh perempuan, lebih dari 40 tah…