The Women who Broke all the Rules

Life turns out in ways you never expected. The eighteen million women born in the first years of the baby boom grew up anticipating a life of rules--go to college, get married, have a family. But w…

Women Writing Africa: The Southern Region

The product of a decade of research, this landmark collection is the first of four volumes in the Women Writing Africa Project, which seeks to document and map the extraordinary and diverse landsca…

World of Our Own and Other Stories: Stories from the Second FEMRITE Regional …

This short story collection in the outcome of the writing residency for African women writers held in Jinja, Uganda, in January 2011. Writers from across English-speaking Africa contribute stories …

Representation & Reality: Portraits of Women's Lives in the Western Cape, 194…

Drawing on the personal narratives of women from across the political spectrum in the Western Cape, this book presents an unusual and regional perspective on the political history of South African …

Nervous Conditions

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978-0-9547023-3-5

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xi, 212

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AWDF.0997

The Days

Each day has the same number of hours, but they are all different. That is the lesson in this charming book from award winning Ghanaian children's author, Ama Ata Aidoo. Worldreader presents this …

Diva Diaries

Dakota, Jordan and Tracey have been friends since their college days, and have shared everything and watched each other change over the years. Each woman has her own drama to deal with and they all…

African Love Stories: An Anthology

This radical collection of short stories is a double award-winning book aimed at debunking the myth about African women as impoverished victims. The stories deal with challenging themes representin…

Secrets of a Woman's Soul: Based on a True Story

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0-7974-2913-1

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AWDF.0921

When She was Bad...

She should refuse. One minute, struggling P.I. Pepper Rossi and ex-CIA agent Cole Buchanan are sharing a wild, spontaneous kiss. The next, rough-edged Cole is propositioning her to spend the next 2…

Who Stole Feminism?

Philosophy professor Christina Sommers has exposed a disturbing development: how a group of zealots, claiming to speak for all women, are promoting a dangerous new agenda that threatens our most ch…

As The Crow Flies

"Indeed I too would have loved to write one of those serene stories with a beginning and an end. As you know only too well, it is never like that, though. Lives mingle, people tame one another and …

Want to Play?

In this electrifying debut, the slaying of an old couple in small town America looks like one-off act of brutal retribution. But at the same time, in Minneapolis, teams of detectives scramble to st…

Fingersmith

Sue Trinder is an orphan, left as an infant in the care of Mrs. Sucksby, a "baby farmer," who raised her with unusual tenderness, as if Sue were her own. Mrs. Sucksby’s household, with its fussy …

Bama's Twins

In Bama's Twins Coumba Toure shows us, through adaptation from a traditional tale why children in the Sahel have many mothers.

Certain Girls

Readers fell in love with Cannie Shapiro, the smart, sharp-tongued, bighearted heroine of Good in Bed who found her happy ending after her mother came out of the closet, her father fell out of her …

The Imported Ghanaian

With her rose tinted glasses firmly in place, the Imported Ghanaian deluded herself, believing that she could simply waltz into Kotoka International Airport with a grin like the winning ticket in t…

The Godfather's Revenge

The third, and final, installment in Mario Puzo's epic chronicle of the Corleone crime family-one of the most enduring lineages in American literature and cinema-achieves a stunning crescendo with …

Junie B., First Grader (at Last!)

It's a new school year, and everything is different. Junie B. Jones has a new class, a new teacher, and even some new friends. She also has a new problem: She might need to get glasses! Will Junie …

Tongues of their Mothers

Makhosazana Xaba's poems are drawn from situations of contemporary South African life and are filled with topical and familiar references. Her poems question the structure of South African society …