Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Popular marriage counselor and seminar leader John Gray provides a unique, practical and proven way for men and women to communicate and relate better by acknowledging the differences between them. Once upon a time Martians and Venusians met, fell in love, and had happy relationships together because they respected and accepted their differences. Then they came to earth and amnesia set in: they forgot they were from different planets. Using this metaphor...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
This inspiring and compelling narrative weaves together stories of sixty successful women from all walks of life and throughout the world. The author spent several years in eight countries interviewing dynamic female role models: businesswomen, CEOs, a Congresswoman, a governor, an ex-Prime Minister, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, a winemaker, artists, doctors, nurses, and many others. The author calls these women "Iron Butterflies"...
Author
Language
English
Description
A relevant and refreshing book of prayers for teen girls is the latest addition to Hope Lyda's popular One-Minute Prayers series (more than 825,000 copies sold). Rich with language and examples reflective of their daily life, this gathering of heartfelt prayers will encourage teens to lift up their every need and hope to God.
More than 150 prayers will lead young women to
• give their cares to God and know they are heard
• reach out to others...
Author
Language
English
Description
How do women defy the odds and get their careers back on track after a break? How do women manage the mummy mafia at the school gate? Is there a motherhood penalty? Can women really have it all - a successful career and a rewarding family life? Does overseas experience really accelerate your career in Australia? How do you recreate your career after a setback? In Career Interrupted fourteen high-achieving women talk openly about their challenges in...
Author
Language
English
Description
Gina Barreca is fed up with women who lean in, but don't open their mouths. In her latest collection of essays, she turns her attention to subjects like bondage which she notes now seems to come in fifty shades of grey and has been renamed Spanx. She muses on those lessons learned in Kindergarten that every woman must unlearn like not having to hold the hand of the person you're waking next to (especially if he's a bad boyfriend) or needing to have...
Author
Language
English
Description
A hilarious saga of fishing, family, and three generations of tough, independent women-the first in a trilogy
Having fled the testosterone-soaked world of professional sport fishing, thirty-something RayAnne Dahl is navigating a new job as a consultant for the first all-women talk show about fishing on public television (or, as one viewer's husband puts it, "Oprah in a boat"). After the host bails, RayAnne lands in front of the camera and out of...
Author
Language
English
Description
A friendly, frank, compassionate and comprehensive companion for any woman experiencing menopause, or anyone wondering what to expect.
We live in a world where women are still mostly seen as second class, where our beauty is our currency, and our aging bodies render us somewhat invisible.
Women are powerful, especially as we get older, when we begin to care less about the external. We forget the society standard and turn our back on the beauty stamp...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The poems in Jennifer L. Knox's darkly imaginative collection, Crushing It, unearth epiphanies in an unbounded landscape of forms, voices and subjects--from history to true crime to epidemiology--while exploring our tenuous connections and disconnections. From Merle Haggard lifting his head from a pile of cocaine to absurdist romps through an apocalypse where mushrooms learn to sing, this versatile collection is brimming with dark humor and bright...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
LIGHTSPEED is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF-and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy, and folktales.
This month, we present our special anniversary issue, Women Destroy Science Fiction!, an all-science fiction extravaganza entirely written-and...
Author
Language
English
Description
This is a love story between Michael, a black man, and Nadia, a white woman, both famous in the world of finance and wealth. She owns a cosmetics company, he owns a country club, and has other big investments in several activities. Michael is strong and robust, in women, he likes long, full bodies to satisfy his lust. He doesn't settle on a woman; he changes them after he gets bored. His heart doesn't know love, but lust for women, and married life...
Author
Language
English
Description
How to Be a Man Magnet is the eBook that has women talking – and dating – up a storm! No more lonely nights watching chick flicks, sobbing into a quart of Ben and Jerry's, and wondering where you went wrong. Get ready to have your pick of dream guys courting YOU for a serious relationship. You'll become your best self and the woman men worship!
You'll learn powerful skills and crafty tricks to:
1. Become more likeable and converse with confidence...
Author
Language
English
Description
What's it like to grow older? More than 80 American women from across the nation offer thoughtful insights on many aspects of advancing in years-the ups as well as some downs, joys along with sorrows, happy memories from the past plus contentment with much of the present. Life is worth living, they agree, even as relationships, health, and responsibilities may change. Lessons learned through a lifetime can enrich one's later years; talents and wisdom...
Author
Language
English
Description
Men who lack good dating skills and proper dating etiquette are often rejected by women. Therefore, they hardly have the chance to continue a journey of sex and love. Dating Coach Cal Aris shares his dating principles and philosophy based on three fundamental principles. Grasping and applying them will enable a man to feel more confident when approaching a woman.
The more a man masters the principles of the dating cycle, the easier it is for him...
74) Exhibit
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"At a lavish party in the hills outside of San Francisco, Jin Han meets Lidija Jung and nothing will ever be the same for either woman. A brilliant, young photographer, Jin is at a crossroads in her work, in her marriage to college sweetheart Phillip, in who she is and who she wants to be. Lidija is a glamorous, injured world-class ballerina on hiatus from her ballet company under mysterious circumstances. Drawn to each other by their intense artistic...
Publisher
Equinox
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The book is intended for non-specialists, an upbeat introduction to language and linguistics for general readers. The chapters are short (three to five pages), suitable for browsing or reading on the move, and its style is intentionally light--more like what used to be called 'fireside chats'--or, somewhat more currently, 'speed-dating events.' In fact, it was born as a series of radio chats called Talkin' About Talk, which in 2005 was part of a...
76) Passages
Publisher
Mubi, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Français
Description
Celebrated filmmaker Ira Sachs (Love is Strange) makes a breathtaking return with Passages, in which a gay couple's marriage is thrown into crisis when one of them impulsively begins a passionate affair with a young woman, starring Franz Rogowski (Great Freedom), Ben Whishaw (Women Talking) and Adèle Exarchopoulos (Blue Is the Warmest Colour).
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Through research into the unique way women talk to one another, this validating and illuminating analysis of female friendship will help women lean into the comfort these powerful relationships offer and avoid the hurt feelings that come from common miscommunications.
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk. United in shared unspeakable loss and hope, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. With wit and sensitivity, Amy Tan's debut novel--now widely regarded as a modern classic--examines the sometimes painful, often tender, and always deep connection between these four women and their American-born daughters."--Publisher's description....
79) Unlucky 13
Author
Series
Women's Murder Club volume 13
Language
English
Description
San Francisco Detective Lindsay Boxer is loving her life as a new mother. With an attentive husband, a job she loves, plus best friends who can talk about anything from sex to murder, things couldn't be better. Then the FBI sends Lindsay a photo of a killer from her past, and her happy world is shattered. The picture captures a beautiful woman at a stoplight. But all Lindsay sees is the psychopath behind those seductive eyes: Mackie Morales, the most...
80) 22 seconds
Author
Series
Women's Murder Club volume 22
Language
English
Description
"22 seconds...until Lindsay Boxer loses her badge--or her life. SFPD Sergeant Lindsay Boxer has guns on her mind. There's buzz of a last-ditch shipment of drugs and weapons crossing the Mexican border ahead of new restrictive gun laws. Before Lindsay can act, her top informant tips her to a case that hits disturbingly close to home. Former cops. Professional hits. All with the same warning scrawled on their bodies: You talk, you die. Now it's Lindsay's...
Didn't find it?
Didn't find it in the Minuteman Library Network? Request it from other Massachusetts library systems.
Can't find what you are looking for? Recommend it to your local library as a future purchase. Suggest a Purchase