Books written by female authors (4759)
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A Front Page Affair by Radha Vatsal EN
IndiaDescription:
When a man is murdered at a high society picnic on her beat, journalist Kitty Weeks is plunged into a wartime conspiracy that threatens to derail the United States' attempt to remain neutral and to disrupt the privileged life she has always known.
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A fúria : E outros contos by Silvina Ocampo PT
Country: South America / 
Argentina
Argentina
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A Game for Swallows : To Die, to Leave, to Return by Zeina Abirached EN
LebanonDescription:
Living in the midst of civil war in Beirut, Lebanon, Zeina and her brother face an evening of apprehension when their parents do not return from a visit to the other side of the city.
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A gente mira no amor e acerta na solidão by Ana Suy PT
Country: South America / 
Brazil
Brazil
Description:
Amor, solidão e psicanálise para os dias atuais. Podemos ler que o amor contém a solidão em seu interior, pois no coração do amor está sempre a solidão, e por isso quem não suporta a solidão também não suporta o amor." Escrito a partir de diálogos, A gente mira no amor e acerta na solidão, surgiu de experiências vividas pela autora em salas de aula, em sessões de análise (enquanto analisante ou analista), com amigos, em leituras de pesquisas teóricas. Neste livro, a psicanalista e professora Ana Suy quer, acima de tudo, continuar essa conversa contigo, leitor, sem a pretensão, no entanto, de s... continue
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A Girl Called Echo by Katherena Vermette EN
Country: North America / 
Canada
Canada
Description:
Echo travels back in time to 1884, where Louis Riel leads a new Me?U+0081tis resistance to stop encroaching forces from the east.
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A Girl is a Body of Water by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi EN
UgandaDescription:
“Makumbi is such an honest, truthful writer. . . . I loved every single page.” —Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage A Best Book of the Year at TIME; The Washington Post; O, the Oprah Magazine; BBC Winner of the Jhalak Prize In her thirteenth year, Kirabo confronts a piercing question: who is my mother? Kirabo has been raised by women in the small Ugandan village of Nattetta—her grandmother, her best friend, and her many aunts—but the absence of her mother follows her like a shadow. Seeking answers from Nsuuta, the local witch, Kirabo learns about the woman who birthed her, who she dis... continue
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A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing by Eimear McBride EN
EnglandDescription:
The dazzling, fearless debut novel that won the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and the book the New York Times hails as “a future classic”. In scathing, furious, unforgettable prose, Eimear McBride tells the story of a young girl’s devastating adolescence as she and her brother, who suffers from a brain tumor, struggle for a semblance of normalcy in the shadow of sexual abuse, denial, and chaos at home. Plunging readers inside the psyche of a girl isolated by her own dangerously confusing sexuality, pervading guilt, and unrelenting trauma, McBride’s writing carries echoes of Joyce, O’Brien,... continue
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A Girl Like That by Tanaz Bhathena EN
Description:
In this debut novel set in Saudi Arabia, where the law forbids romantic relationships outside of marriage, two teens fall in love with tragic consequences. "Unlike any YA book I've ever readEfascinating and disturbing."--#1 "New York Times"-bestselling author Jodi Picoult.
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A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
The 1997 Newbery Honor Book. Orphan must deal with cruelty, run away, Africa.
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A Girl Returned by Donatella Di Pietrantonio EN
ItalyDescription:
"Told with an immediacy and a rare expressive intensity that has earned it countless adoring readers and one of Italy's most prestigious literary prizes, A Girl Returned marks the English-language debut of an extraordinary literary talent. Set against the stark, beautiful landscape of Abruzzo in central Italy, this is a compelling story about mothers and daughters, about responsibility, siblings, and caregiving. Without warning or explanation, an unnamed 13-year-old girl is sent away from the family she has always thought of as hers to live with her birth family: a large, chaotic assortment of... continue