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Between 2005 and 2009, in a remote religious Mennonite colony, over a hundred girls and women were knocked unconscious and raped, often repeatedly, by what many thought were ghosts or demons, as a punishment for their sins. As the women tentatively began to share the details of the attacks -- waking up sore and bleeding and not understanding why -- their stories were chalked up to 'wild female imagination.' Women Talking is an imagined response to...
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A simple conversation, a loving encounter, an act of faith in someone you trust-prayer is so much simpler than we sometimes think. When the daily challenges of life threaten to overwhelm us, God is always close. Talking to God: Prayers for Catholic Women by Julie Cragon helps bring all your daily concerns to the heart of God. Talking to God holds the solution to finding peace in the chaos of daily life. Read through this collection of original prayers,...
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"Required reading…sharp and insightful…lively and straightforward…a novel and sometimes startling analysis of workplace dynamics."-New York Times Book Review
In her extraordinary international bestseller, You Just Don't Understand, Deborah Tannen transformed forever the way we look at intimate relationships between women and men. Now she turns her keen ear and observant eye toward the workplace-where the ways in which men and women communicate...
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Finally, all twelve months of the Women's Daily Devotional are together in one volume!Being a woman of God is a calling, and now more than ever, our quiet time with God is a necessity we cannot neglect. The Women's Daily Devotional series explores a new fruit of the spirit every month and provides Bible verses, personal stories from the author, reflection, questions, and prayer suggestions for every single day of the year.In this anthology, you'll...
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How do you do change your life and get a better relationship all at the same time? Here's an easy way to start: read I Say This, You Say That – Men and Women Talk with Each Other When Facing Change. This easy-to-read book gives you specific tips to make you more productive and less frustrated. Want a refreshing and stimulating look at the age-old question of how men and women differ? I Say This, You Say That shows how men and women handle change...
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What do successful women have in common?
And... if you learned their secrets of success, would you feel motivated to reach your personal goals or overwhelmed?
In this inspirational, informative and action-oriented book, Catherine Turley takes you on a behind the scenes tour of the daily lives of amazing women-CEOs, female founders, attorneys, women entrepreneurs, and more-who have found a way to have more energy and focus on their lives.
Don't worry-their...
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I Am Not My Breast Cancer gathers the warm, loving, frank, and informed voices of more than eight hundred women-from every state in the nation and from continents as far away as Australia and Africa-who reveal their fears, trade advice, share experiences, and express their deepest, most intimate concerns. Essential reading for any woman with this diagnosis, it offers the companionship of other women dealing with this disease. Taking the reader chronologically...
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The word bitch conjures many images for many people, but it is most often meant to describe an unpleasant woman. Even before its usage to mean a female canine, bitch didn't refer to gender at all--it originated as a gender-neutral word meaning genitalia. A perfectly innocuous word devolving into a female insult is the case for tons more terms, including hussy--which simply meant housewife--or slut, which meant an untidy person and was also used to...
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"You're a small thing," Grandma writes, "and you must learn to fight." Swiv's Grandma, Elvira, has been fighting all her life. From her upbringing in a strict religious community, she has fought those who wanted to take away her joy, her independence, and her spirit. She has fought to make peace with her loved ones when they have chosen to leave her. And now, even as her health fails, Grandma is fighting for her family: for her daughter, partnerless...
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An homage to ten diverse, remarkable women who helped shape the United States between 1776 and 1824. Drawing on personal correspondence and private journals, Cokie Roberts brings to life the extraordinary accomplishments of these women who created the framework for our current society, a generation of reformers and visionaries.
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Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions has sold over half a million copies since its original publication in 1983, acclaimed for its witty, warm, and life-changing view of the world, "as if women mattered." Steinem's truly personal writing is here, from the now-famous exposé, "I Was a Playboy Bunny," to the moving tribute to her mother "Ruth's Song (Because She Could Not Sing It)". Her prescient essays on female genital mutilation and the difference...
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From the bestselling author of Women Talking, a "wrenchingly honest, darkly funny novel" (Entertainment Weekly). Elf and Yoli are sisters. While on the surface Elfrieda's life is enviable (she's a world-renowned pianist, glamorous, wealthy, and happily married) and Yolandi's a mess (she's divorced and broke, with two teenagers growing up too quickly), they are fiercely close-raised in a Mennonite household and sharing the hardship of Elf's desire...
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"Most women have a nonstop chorus of criticism in their heads - voices not unlike those of the mean girls lurking in the hallways and locker rooms of junior high schools everywhere. The grownup version of those teenage taunts - "But taking care of myself is selfish" and "The world is against me" - zap motivation, sabotage happiness, and keep women in a stressed, "never enough" mindset. Here, like a best-buddy, street-wise big sister, coach Amy Ahlers...
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Left alone with her sad, peculiar father, Nomi Nickel's days are spent piecing together why her mother and sister have disappeared and contemplating her inevitable career at Happy Family Farms, a chicken slaughterhouse on the outskirts of East Village, a town founded by Mennonites on the cold, flat plains of Manitoba, Canada. This darkly funny novel is the world according to Nomi, a bewildered and wry sixteen-year-old trapped in a town governed by...
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It's a book that women talk to their girlfriends about, and a book they'd like their lovers to read. It's an "intellectually sexy experience" that lyrically, wittily and provocatively explores women's history of romantic obsession through the telling and deconstruction of a passionate love affair.
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"In a time of polarization, this controversial book speaks truth to power about religious zealotry, political idealism, and hypocrisy in historical terms.""A well-kept secret…it's time to talk about this author." – DowntimeBookLover Podcast"Brings real historical comparisons to our present calamities." – Charlie Sayles, Easyreads Reviews"This book is about what women talked about, and still talk about." – Hamish McCready, Dramaturg
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For the next two hours, the two women talked, and while they talked a strong and lasting friendship was developing between them. It was during this 'girl-time' that she explained how she came to be with him in the first place, and what she did for him now. It was also during this conversation that Cassandra told Vickie some things about herself and through it all the two women bonded.
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"An internationally renowned writer, Valeria Costas has dedicated her life to her work and to her secret lover, Martìn Acla, a prominent businessman. When his sudden stroke makes headlines, her world implodes; the idea of losing him is terrifying. Desperate to find a way to be present during her lover's final days, Valeria commissions his artist wife, Isla, to paint her portrait - insinuating herself into Martìn's family home and life. In the grand,...
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The Ghost In Grace Houston's House is a short story based on an actual haunting that took place in a small town in North Carolina. The time is the mid-1960s and the story is related by Grace Houston; a bold woman who didn't believe in ghosts until the day they moved in. The author is invited for coffee one evening and the story is revealed in a quaint fashion of two women talking and sharing coffee and cake.
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