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Captured hearts: New Brunswick’s war brides
This book is about those young women who married Canadian soldiers, sailors and airmen and went to live with them in New Brunswick.
Mother to Daughter, Daughter to Mother: A Diary and Reader
Mother to Daughter, Daughter to Mother is an anthology which, according to Olsen, aims to share the beauty of women’s relationships.
Under an Emerald Sky
Tells the story of two girls of Nigerian heritage born in the 1980s in England and their struggle towards self love and womanhood.
Poems by Wislawa Szymborska
Her poetry is about humankind and its sufferings, about how wonderful the universe is.
A Voice of Dissent: A Woman’s Journey Through the Long Eighteenth Century
Uses literature by and for women in the 18th and 19th centuries as evidence of how their lives really were.
A Song Flung Up to Heaven
I could call the story of Maya Angelou’s life ‘uplifting’ but that would do her so little justice. She explains it best in the titles she chose for herself: hers is a story that begins with a caged bird singing and ends in song, free, flung toward the skies.
Hood
…it is a window into lesbianism; it is a study of grief; it is proof that death, and love, follow no script.
Betrayed
A very bold account of a marriage from a 19th century woman writer.
A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
An illuminating examination of the points at which an Eastern and a Western culture intersect.