Women’s issues, particularly those related to #ChurchToo and #MeToo, prompt religion publishers’ continuing interest in titles that address the silencing and abuse women face in the church and religious institutions. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-02-19 05:00:00 UTC ]
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After Mary Sears and her team had revolutionized the field of oceanography, but before Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson helped put John Glenn into orbit, a cadre of women programmers working for the US government faced an impossible task: train ENIAC, the world's first ... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2022-10-16 14:30:01 UTC ]
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As part of a continuing publishing trend, witchcraft books continue to draw the interest of readers, especially those seeking empowerment. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2022-07-26 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Designing a book cover is challenging, even more so when the work contains a raunchy subject matter. How do you convey, in a single glance, that the book is sensual, even sexy, without falling for pornographic tropes? My debut novel, Little Rabbit, is about a sub/dom relationship between a... Continue reading at Electric Literature
[ Electric Literature | 2022-06-30 11:00:00 UTC ]
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The best literary fiction is in some ways a simple character study. It is a roadmap into the interiority of a specific character: the way they think, how their identity impacts their relationships, and what decisions get made in response to the socio-political pressures shaping their lives. But... Continue reading at Electric Literature
[ Electric Literature | 2022-06-24 11:00:00 UTC ]
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Danyel Smith, author of 'Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Women in Pop Music,' on the music writing that excites her the most. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2022-06-16 04:00:00 UTC ]
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The organized assault on the freedom to read has highlighted core values taught in library schools. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2022-05-23 04:00:00 UTC ]
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As the Mother’s Day shopping season approaches, books on motherhood and other women’s issues by Shannon Bream, Jennie Allen, Lysa TerKeurst and more dominate our Religion Nonfiction Bestsellers list; Francine Rivers’ ‘Redeeming Love’ remains in two top spots in Religion Fiction. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2022-04-13 04:00:00 UTC ]
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"Secrets of the Sprakkar," by Iceland’s first lady, Eliza Reid, highlights the accomplishments of women in a society that places high value on gender equality. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2022-01-29 13:00:36 UTC ]
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The Asian American women writers in this reading list explore the existential. They seek to do anything but simplify. They live with and write through some very dense, tangled complexities, even mysteries. Some, perhaps many, unsolvable, with wounds that perhaps cannot be closed, not in this... Continue reading at Electric Literature
[ Electric Literature | 2022-01-03 12:00:00 UTC ]
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A journalist went to Scotland to investigate the world of oil riggers and slept with her first source. "Sea State" is her raw memoir of the aftermath Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2021-12-07 14:00:53 UTC ]
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These new books draw back the curtain to depict the individuals pulling the levers at some of the past century’s most powerful organizations. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-11-26 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Benjamin Zephaniah is writing a “powerfully moving” picture book about the voyage of "HMT Empire Windrush" to be published by Scholastic UK in April 2022. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-10-23 10:30:14 UTC ]
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Women in espionage take center stage in “Red Widow,” “The Targeter,” “Life Undercover” and more. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2021-10-06 14:00:00 UTC ]
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“Thao,” “Otto: A Palindrama,” “My Monster Moofy” and “The Wordy Book” explore myriad worlds within words. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2021-09-24 17:09:23 UTC ]
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In this week’s episode, Kendra and Jaclyn discuss books around the theme of incarceration. From the episode: Kendra: My first pick is From the Desk of Zooey Washington by Janae Marks. It’s titled The Faraway Truth in the UK. This was one of our recent Patreon Book Club picks, and we had a great... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2021-09-01 08:48:56 UTC ]
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Old Barn Books will publish author Lisa Fuller's "powerful" YA debut Ghost Bird in the UK. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-08-25 13:08:09 UTC ]
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For Women in Translation month, we’ve curated a reading list of novels and short story collections written and translated by women. Exploring everything from gender biases and millennial burnout in the Japanese workplace to a toxic relationship in Iceland, these stories expand our perspectives... Continue reading at Electric Literature
[ Electric Literature | 2021-08-25 11:00:00 UTC ]
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Sheffield-based adventure publisher Vertebrate has signed Rachel Ann Cullen’s Running For Our Lives, a “powerful” book about how running can help ordinary people to overcome struggles and challenges in their lives. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-08-04 18:21:33 UTC ]
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News and Events In this second episode of WLT Book Buzz, Laura Hernandez & Bunmi Ishola cover 42 books that connect with history. Find out what they read this summer and why these books should be on your shelf. Partition, World War II, the Tulsa Race... Continue reading at World Literature Today
[ World Literature Today | 2021-08-04 15:40:39 UTC ]
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No matter if it is Austen or Atwood, the Brontës or Booker winners, data shows men are reluctant to read women – and this has real world implicationsThe byline at the top of this piece reads MA Sieghart, not Mary Ann. Why? Because I really want men to read it too. Female authors through the... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2021-07-09 07:00:41 UTC ]
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