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The Woman On The Bridge

The Woman On The Bridge
  • Author(s): Sheila O'Flanagan
  • Location(s): Dublin, Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s

A stunning historical novel from multi-million-copy bestselling author Sheila O’Flanagan Dublin. The 1920s. As war tears Ireland apart, two young people are caught up in events that will bring love, tragedy – and the hardest of choices. In a...

The Woman on the Orient Express

The Woman on the Orient Express
  • Author(s): Lindsay Jayne Ashford
  • Location(s): Europe
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century

Hoping to make a clean break from a fractured marriage, Agatha Christie boards the Orient Express in disguise. But unlike her famous detective Hercule Poirot, she can’t neatly unravel the mysteries she encounters on this fateful journey. Agatha isn’t...

The Woman Who Fell from the Sky

The Woman Who Fell from the Sky
  • Author(s): Jennifer Steil
  • Location(s): Yemen
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): early 21st century

“I had no idea how to find my way around this medieval city. It was getting dark. I was tired. I didn’t speak Arabic. I was a little frightened. But hadn’t I battled scorpions in the wilds of Costa...

The Woman Who Ran

The Woman Who Ran
  • Author(s): Sam Baker
  • Location(s): Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

What is making Helen Graham so jumpy and evasive? Newly arrived in a tiny Yorkshire village, she finds the locals’ curiosity her worst nightmare. Looking over her shoulder every day, she tries to piece together her past before it...

The Woman Who Rode A Shark: and 50 more wild female adventurers

The Woman Who Rode A Shark: and 50 more wild female adventurers
  • Author(s): Ailsa Ross, Amy Blackwell (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

You’ve heard of Charles Darwin, Ernest Shackleton and Lawrence of Arabia. But how about Marianne North, Ada Blackjack or Isabelle Eberhardt? From aquanauts to astronauts, treetop explorers to eagle hunters, The Woman Who Rode a Shark celebrates 50 ocean-diving,...

The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine

The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine
  • Author(s): Alexander McCall Smith
  • Location(s): Botswana
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Fans around the world adore the bestselling No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series and its proprietor, Precious Ramotswe, Botswana’s premier lady detective. In this charming series, Mma  Ramotswe—with help from her loyal associate, Grace Makutsi—navigates her cases and her...

The Woman with a Bullet in Her Leg

The Woman with a Bullet in Her Leg
  • Author(s): Cal Smyth
  • Location(s): Austria, Belgrade
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 90s - present day

In the aftermath of the Balkan wars, Belgrade is a dangerous place. In a city numbed by the horrors of war, soldiers turned gangsters rule the criminal underworld through fear and unrelenting violence. For those living between the cracks,...

The Woman with the Cure

The Woman with the Cure
  • Author(s): Lynn Cullen
  • Location(s): United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 1940s / 1950s

In 1940s and ’50s America, polio is as dreaded as the atomic bomb. No one’s life is untouched by this disease that kills or paralyzes its victims, particularly children. Outbreaks of the virus across the country regularly put American...

The Woman’s Hour

The Woman’s Hour
  • Author(s): Elaine Weiss
  • Location(s): Nashville
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1920

Nashville, August 1920. Thirty-five states have ratified the Nineteenth Amendment, twelve have rejected or refused to vote, and one last state is needed. It all comes down to Tennessee, the moment of truth for the suffragists, after a seven-decade...

The Women Are Not Fine

The Women Are Not Fine
  • Author(s): Hope Reese
  • Location(s): Nagyrév
  • Genre(s): Biography, Crime
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century

The dark history of a poisonous sisterhood The women of Nagyrév are desperate. They’re abused by their husbands. They are feeding their newborns to livestock. At the turn of the 20th century, in the village of Nagyrév, Hungary, midwife...

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