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Happiness for beginners / by Center, Katherine.;
"A year after getting divorced, Helen Carpenter, thirty-two, lets her annoying, ten years younger brother talk her into signing up for a wilderness survival course. It's supposed to be a chance for her to pull herself together again, but when she discovers that her brother's even-more-annoying best friend is also coming on the trip, she can't imagine how it will be anything other than a disaster. Thus begins the strangest adventure of Helen's well-behaved life: three weeks in the remotest wilderness of a mountain range in Wyoming where she will survive mosquito infestations, a surprise summer blizzard, and a group of sorority girls. Yet, despite everything, the vast wilderness has a way of making Helen's own little life seem bigger, too. And, somehow the people who annoy her the most start teaching her the very things she needs to learn. Like how to stand up for herself. And how being scared can make you brave. And how sometimes you just have to get really, really lost before you can even have a hope of being found"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Brothers and sisters; Camping; Chick lit.; Divorced women; Self-actualization (Psychology) in women; Self-realization in women;
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Tough broad : from boogie boarding to wing walking-how outdoor adventure improves our lives as we age / by Paul, Caroline,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.Caroline Paul has always filled her life with adventure: from mountain biking in the Bolivian Andes to pitching a tent, mid-blizzard, on Denali, she has never been a stranger to the exhilaration the outdoors can hold. Yet through it all, she has long wondered, why aren't women, like men, encouraged to keep adventuring into old age? 'Tough Broad' is her quest to understand not just how to live a dynamic life in a changing body, but why we must. She dives deep into the current research on aging, and highlights the results with the stories of women like ninety-three-year-old hiker Dot Fisher-Smith, eighty-year-old scuba diver Louise Wholey, fifty-two-year-old BASE jumper Shawn Brokemond, sixty-four-year-old birdwatcher Virginia Rose, and the many septuagenarian Wave Chasers who boogie board together in the San Diego surf. These women aren't experts. But their experiences and the scientific studies that back them up offer important insight into our own physical and emotional health as we age, showing that growing older is no reason for women to sell themselves short. 'Tough Broad' is a high-spirited call for women to embrace the outdoors, not back away from it, in our fifties, sixties, seventies, and beyond, casting our own futures in a new and dazzling light.
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Aging; Older women athletes.; Older women; Older women; Outdoor recreation for women.; Aging;
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The last masterpiece : a novel of World War II Italy / by Morelli, Laura,author.;
Called to Nazi-occupied Italy in 1943, a German photographer and an American stenographer hunt for priceless masterpieces before they are destroyed by Hitler, in this pulse-pounding adventure inspired by the incredible true story of the Monuments Women, the Fifth Army WACs and the looted Florentine art collections during World War II.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Art treasures in war; Cultural property; Typists; Women photographers; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
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Last snow / by Lustbader, Eric.; Lustbader, Eric Van.;
Subjects: Political fiction.; Suspense fiction.; Adventure stories.; Spy stories.; United States. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms; Government investigators; Political corruption; Young women;
© 2010., Forge,
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The Templar archive : a lost treasures of the Templars novel / by Becker, James.;
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Subjects: Mystery fiction.; Adventure fiction.; Suspense fiction.; Templars; Knights Templar (Masonic order); Women historians; Cryptographers; Archives; Treasure troves;
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All the ways we said goodbye : a novel of the Ritz Paris / by Williams, Beatriz,author.; Willig, Lauren,author.; White, Karen(Karen S.),author.;
The authors of 'The Glass Ocean' and 'The Forgotten Room' return with a glorious historical adventure that moves from the dark days of two World Wars to the turbulent years of the 1960s, in which three women with bruised hearts find refuge at Paris legendary Ritz hotel.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Hotels;
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The adventures of Miss Barbara Pym : a biography / by Byrne, Paula,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Renowned biographer and author Paula Byrne brings Barbara Pym back to centre stage as one of the wittiest and greatest English novelists: a generous, shrewdly perceptive writer and a brave woman, who only in the last years of her life was suddenly recognized for her genius. Brimming with new extracts from Pym's diaries, letters and novels, this book is a joyous introduction to a woman who was herself the very best of company.
Subjects: Biographies.; Pym, Barbara.; Authors, English; Novelists, English; Women authors, English;
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Mary Bowser / by Jones, Kyandreia; Millet, Jason.;
You are Mary Bowser, a spy in Virginia. Freed from slavery, you have teamed up with Elizabeth "Bet" Van Lew to form a spy ring of powerful, brave women. You are as quick with your weapon as you are with your mind, and you work secret messages and poisons into everyday objects. Hidden in plain sight, you and your ring change the outcome of the Civil War.LSC
Subjects: Spy stories.; Adventure fiction.; Plot-your-own stories.; Bowser, Mary Elizabeth, approximately 1840-; Van Lew, Elizabeth L., 1818-1900; Women spies;
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The white rose of Stalingrad : the real-life adventure of Lidiya Vladimirovna Litvyak, the hightest scoring female air ace of all time / by Yenne, Bill,1949-;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Of all the major air forces that were engaged in the war, only the Red Air Force had units comprised specifically of women. Initially the Red Air Force maintained an all-male policy among its combat pilots. However, as the apparently invincible German juggernaut sliced through Soviet defenses, the Red Air Force began to rethink its ban on women.
Subjects: Litvyak, Lidiya Vladimirovna.; Air pilots, Military; Fighter pilots; Women air pilots; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
© c2013., Osprey Pub.,
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Spear / by Griffith, Nicola,author.;
"A spellbinding and subversive queer recasting of Arthurian myth by the legendary author of Hild. The girl knows she has a destiny before she even knows her name. She grows up in the wild, in a cave with her mother, but visions of a faraway lake come to her on the spring breeze, and when she hears a traveler speak of Artos, king of Caer Leon, she knows that her future lies at his court. And so, brimming with magic and eager to test her strength, she breaks her covenant with her mother and, with a broken hunting spear and mended armour, rides on a bony gelding to Caer Leon. On her adventures she will meet great knights and steal the hearts of beautiful women. She will fight warriors and sorcerers. And she will find her love, and the lake, and her fate. Nebula and Lambda Award-winning author Nicola Griffith returns with Spear, a glorious queer retelling of Arthurian legend, full of dazzling magic and intoxicating adventure"--
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Lesbian fiction.; Mythological fiction.; Novels.; Heroes; Impersonation; Knights and knighthood; Magic; Quests (Expeditions); Women; Women heroes;
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