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First publish date: 1972
Subjects: Fiction, Fiction, general, Married women, Middle-aged women, California, fiction
Authors: Dorothy Bryant
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The Color Purple by 6506633|Alice Walker book cover

📘 The Color Purple

The Color Purple is a 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker which won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction. The novel has been the frequent target of censors and appears on the American Library Association list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2000–2009 at number seventeenth because of the sometimes explicit content, particularly in terms of violence. In 2003, the book was listed on the BBC's The Big Read poll of the UK's "best-loved novels." ---------- Also contained in: - [The Third Life of Grange Copeland / Meridian / The Color Purple][1] [1]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL18025207W/The_Third_Life_of_Grange_Copeland_Meridian_The_Color_Purple

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Persepolis by 4270412|Marjane Satrapi book cover

📘 Persepolis

From inside front cover: The story of Satrapi's unforgettable childhood and coming of age within a ... loving family in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution; of the contradictions between private and public life in a coutnry plagued by political upheaval; of her high school years in Vienna facing the trails of adolescence far from her family; of her homecoming -- both sweet and terrible; and, finally, of her self-imposed exile from her beloved homeland.

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The Glass Castle by 7747663|Jeannette Walls book cover

📘 The Glass Castle

A story about the early life of Jeannette Walls. The memoir is an exposing work about her early life and growing up on the run and often homeless. It presents a different perspective of life from all over the United States and the struggle a girl had to find normalcy as she grew into an adult.

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Educated by 11796022|Tara Westover book cover

📘 Educated

*Educated* is a 2018 memoir by the American author Tara Westover. Westover recounts overcoming her survivalist Mormon family in order to go to college, and emphasizes the importance of education in enlarging her world. She details her journey from her isolated life in the mountains of Idaho to completing a PhD program in history at Cambridge University. She started college at the age of 17 having had no formal education. She explores her struggle to reconcile her desire to learn with the world she inhabited with her father. ---------- «Podéis llamarlo transformación. Metamorfosis. Falsedad. Traición. Yo lo llamo una educación.» Uno de los libros más importantes del año según The New York Times, que ya ha cautivado a más de medio millón de lectores. Nacida en las montañas de Idaho, Tara Westover ha crecido en armonía con una naturaleza grandiosa y doblegada a las leyes que establece su padre, un mormón fundamentalista convencido de que el final del mundo es inminente. Ni Tara ni sus hermanos van a la escuela o acuden al médico cuando enferman. Todos trabajan con el padre, y su madre es curandera y única partera de la zona. Tara tiene un talento: el canto, y una obsesión: saber. Pone por primera vez los pies en un aula a los diecisiete años: no sabe que ha habido dos guerras mundiales, pero tampoco la fecha exacta de su nacimiento (no tiene documentos). Pronto descubre que la educación es la única vía para huir de su hogar. A pesar de empezar de cero, reúne las fuerzas necesarias para preparar el examen de ingreso a la universidad, cruzar el océano y graduarse en Cambridge, aunque para ello deba romper los lazos con su familia. Westover ha escrito una historia extraordinaria -su propia historia-, una formidable epopeya, desgarradora e inspiradora, sobre la posibilidad de ver la vida a través de otros ojos, y de cambiar, que se ha convertido en un resonante éxito editorial. ** Mejor libro del año 2018 por Amazon. La crítica ha dicho...«Prodigioso libro de memorias [...] con prosa cristalina, lúcida distancia e incluso sentido del humor. [...] El dolor de esta soledad indescriptible, de la profunda herida de tener quedesgajarte de todo lo que has sido, palpita de manera estremecedora en el libro. La mayor heroicidad consiste en ser la única voz que dice basta».Rosa Montero, El País «Tara Westover ha escrito un libro único, [...] un desnudo integral, bellísimo y estremecedor. [...] Esa historia es tan grande, tan única y a la vez tan vital que se convierte en una vibrante lección de superación. Desde el aislamiento, la opresión y la ignorancia, hacia la construcción de una gran personalidad.»Berna González Harbour, El País «Westover se reconstruyó a sí misma a través de la educación, pero en su fría dulzura laten años de aislamiento salvaje que analiza con clarividencia.»Ima Sanchís, La Vanguardia «Te atrapa, te abraza, te golpea y te conmueve. Por muy distinta que sea tu vida de la de Tara, su historia nos habla a cada uno de nosotros. Es imposible salir indemne de su lectura.»Javier Ruescas «Un descarnado relato en el que muestra su metamorfosis.»Luigi Benedicto Borges, El Mundo «Una educación es aún mejor de lo que os han contado.»Bill Gates «El testimonio de quien, para contar, se deja el alma en el alambre de espino de su propia biografía.»Karina Sainz Borgo, Zenda Libros «Fascinante y desgarrador. [...] [Westover] se las ha arreglado no solo para retratar una educación de una excepcionalidad insuperable, sino también para hacer que su situación actual no parezca excepcional en absoluto.»Alec Macgillis, El Cultural de El Mundo «Testimonio desgarrador, pero sin estridencias: [...] el relato de la traumática adquisición de libertad mediante una apuesta por el conocimiento que implicó sacrificar a los suyos se ha propulsado a las listas de lo mejor del año.»CULTURAS de La Vanguardia «Un canto a la educación y el conocimiento y las posibilidades de abrir los ojos al mundo. Un texto que constituye una grata sorpresa.»Qué

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The postman always rings twice by 10128522|James M. Cain book cover

📘 The postman always rings twice

Frank Chambers, un trotamundos sin empleo, narra en primera persona la atracción que siente por Cora Papadakis, la esposa de un emigrante de origen griego propietario de una taberna en California, y cómo se vuelven amantes unidos por el ardor y la ambición. Pero no será tan fácil librarse del viejo marido. Y habrá que contar, además, con el inescrutable destino: ese cartero que siempre llama dos veces. La fama de las dos versiones cinematográficas de esta extraordinaria novela, clásico entre los clásicos de la film noir, quizás haya podido ocultar la maestría de James M. Cain. Pero ni la película de culto filmada en los años 40 por Tay Garnett ni la rodada en 1981 de Rob Rafelson -protagonizadas por Jack Nicholson y Jessica Lange-, como tampoco la libre adaptación que de ella hizo Visconti en "Obsesión", logran superar tensión y el impacto que causa en el lector la lectura de la obra que Cain publicó en 1934. Hoy sigue siendo una de las cumbres espeluznantes del género negro. El argumento convoca pasiones desbordantes, codicia compulsiva, mentira ilimitada y un destino infranqueable, el material con el que James M. Cain ha pervivido como uno de los referentes de una literatura que resiste como pocas el paso del tiempo.

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Hollywood Wives by 6839474|Jackie Collins book cover

📘 Hollywood Wives

So readable it reads itself -like flip book animation - effortless - it melts in your mouth. Read with a box of chocolates, in a bubble bath. Should win the Nobel Prize for fun.

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📘 The diary of a young girl


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Hija de la fortuna by 6613017|Isabel Allende book cover

📘 Hija de la fortuna

A Chilean woman searches for her lover in the goldfields of 1840s California. Arriving as a stowaway, Eliza finances her search with various jobs, including playing the piano in a brothel

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Ella who? by 7189427|Linda Ashman book cover

📘 Ella who?

"Mom . . . there's an elephant in the living room. It's moving day-and look who slipped in the door: an elephant! But when a little girl tries to tell her family about their unusual guest, the distracted grown-ups just say, "Ella WHO?" Even as children giggle at the girl's adventures with the smallish pachyderm, and at the fun, recurring refrain, they'll relate to the poignant theme about making-and sometimes letting go of-new friends." - ONIX annotations.

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How to Save Your Own Life by 6608349|Erica Jong book cover

📘 How to Save Your Own Life
 by Erica Jong


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Hoping for Hope by 5194404|Lucy Clare book cover

📘 Hoping for Hope
 by Lucy Clare

"The week of her fiftieth birthday would always be one to remember. First, Lydia "Liddy" Claver lost her teaching job. Then she learned that her husband of thirty years was having an affair with one of her friends. But all that paled next to the discovery that she was not, as she had thought, menopausal, but instead in the third trimester of pregnancy." -- Jacket.

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Mr. Bridge by 7624705|Evan S. Connell book cover

📘 Mr. Bridge

The wife of a successful lawyer in 1930s Kansas City, India Bridge, tries to cope with her dissastisfaction with an easy, though empty, life.

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Behind closed doors by 11742470|Susan R. Sloan book cover

📘 Behind closed doors


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My Life so Far by 9615329|Jane Fonda book cover

📘 My Life so Far
 by Jane Fonda

Contains the personal memoir of Jane Fonda, the actress, feminist, and activist, divided into three parts that reflect the different periods of her life.

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Wife 22 by 10193616|Melanie Gideon book cover

📘 Wife 22

Baring her soul in an anonymous survey for a marital happiness study, Alice catalogues her stale marriage, unsatisfying job and unfavorable prospects and begins to question virtually every aspect of her life.

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Ella Diaries by 9159737|Meredith Costain book cover

📘 Ella Diaries


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