Contemporary Women category: 26023 books

17 Tales of Real Women and Unreal Worlds edited by Liz Grzyb. A powerhouse of award-winning Australian and international authors will take you to seventeen incredible and unreal worlds. It is about women, independent women, dealing with the world around them. It’s celebrating the stories of women...

 Welcome to the 3 Books To Know series, our idea is to help readers learn about fascinating topics through three essential and relevant books. These carefully selected works can be fiction, non-fiction, historical documents or even biographies. We will always select for you three...

Success can be deadly....especially if you're female.Sergeant Nita Slowater resents Governor Marleton ordering the Special Crimes Team to chase down her missing attorney friend Ellen Delaney--that is until a maniac uses a Facebook site and posts a photo of Delaney chained to a floor.As if that...

Named a “Hot Summer Read of 2019” by The Boston Globe In this provocative, wildly entertaining, and compelling novel, seven women enrolled in an extreme weight loss documentary discover self-love and sisterhood as they enact a daring revenge against the exploitative filmmakers. Alice...

A magical bloodline. A family curse. Can Connie break the spell before it shatters her future? A bewitching novel of a New England history professor who must race against time to free her family from a curse, by Katherine Howe, New York Times bestselling author of The Physick Book of Deliverance...

A quarter-century after the war that was meant to bring liberation to Bangaldesh, Mukti, a young researcher, comes into Mariam’s life, armed with a set of questions that have no easy answers. How did Mariam, and women like her biranganas, the raped women, touted as the new nation’s ‘honour’...

The stories in Farnsworth’s The Things She’ll Be Leaving Behind explore what it means to be a woman in the modern world, struggling against circumstances that are often unfair, inexplicable, and destructive. The women in this book don’t always behave in ways that are sensible or advisable or,...

“Remarkable . . . It is a tribute to an art form that allowed women self-expression even when society did not. Above all, though, it is an affirmation of the strength and power of individual lives, and the way they cannot help fitting together.”—The New York Times Book Review An extraordinary...

At the onset of puberty girls’ right legs are sawed off in Ramprend’s Beautification Ritual. In this dystopian novel, female stumps are desirable to men. Solanj’l — ’l denoting one-leg — hates her inability to move freely and makes a wooden leg to enable her to walk, or step-drag, rather...

Seven Wily Women is a collection of short stories about women in a less developed society, who grasp for justice through the only means available to them -their wit and cunning. These women are not your traditional heroines and are even flawed characters in themselves, but their quest is a universal one, and one that many readers can identify with.

The true story of the first women to compete in Olympic track and field comes to life in this “rich and resonant” historical sports novel (Publishers Weekly)****. “A fascinating exploration of a little-known chapter in sports history. With gorgeous, restrained prose and a crystalline...

A surprisingly large number of women find the act of screwing their man anally to be of interest, it even has its own label - it is referred to as pegging. If you have ever had any curiosity about this forbidden practice join Mister Average as he shares three short stories about couples who have enjoyed...

In the summer of 1976, the first women were admitted to the United States Military Academy, and the first women to complete a four-year ROTC program were commissioned as second lieutenants. Lori, Maura, Anne, and Amelia’s journey into a male-dominated Army are chronicled in this exciting,...

Originally published in 1950, this account of life among female Free French soldiers in a London barracks during World War II sold four million copies in the United States alone and many more worldwide. The novel is based on the real-life experiences of the author, Tereska Torres. As the Blitz rains...