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From the time she was a very young girl, Rachel Carson felt a bond with nature. Growing up in Pennsylvania, she spent hours exploring meadows and woods, dreaming of seeing the ocean. As Rachel grew older, she combined her gift for writing with her love of nature, producing award-winning books about the sea. But her best-known achievement was the publication of Silent Spring, an account of the dangerous effects of pesticides on plants and animals.

Born a Quaker, Susan B. Anthony grew up being taught that women were equal to men. During her lifetime, she was a teacher, a newspaperwoman, and an activist. She worked to further many causes such as the temperance, the abolitionist, and women's rights movements. Although she didn't live to see her dreams of women's suffrage come true, her tireless dedication to the cause was crucial to its success.

Lydia Maria Child grew up in the 1800s reading countless books. She defied the idea that girls weren't supposed to fill their minds with ideas and stories. They weren't supposed to write their own books, either, but that is exactly what Lydia Maria did. Although she gained remarkable success as a writer for children and adults, she sacrificed everything when she took up her pen against slavery. Lydia Maria believed that slavery was wrong—and she wasn't afraid to say so. As a result, her courageous words changed her life and helped change the course of American history.

Edith Hamilton didn’t publish her first book until she was 62. But over the next three decades this former headmistress would become the twentieth century’s most famous interpreter of the classical world. Today, Hamilton’s Mythology (1942) remains the standard version of ancient tales. During the Cold War, her influence even extended to politics, as she argued that postwar America could learn from the fate of Athens after its victory in the Persian Wars. Victoria Houseman tells the fascinating life story of a remarkable classicist whose ideas were shaped by—and aspired to shape—her times.

In the twenty-first century, we meet Verity Frazier, a disillusioned history professor who sets out to prove that the artist responsible for the illuminated artwork in Christine de Pizan’s medieval manuscripts was a remarkable woman named Anastasia. As Anastasia’s story unfolds against the exquisitely-rendered medieval backdrop of moral disaster, political intrigue, and extraordinary creativity, Verity finds her career on the brink of collapse by her efforts to uncover evidence of the lost artist’s existence.

Eine frisch verheiratete Frau sehnt sich obsessiv nach einem gelben Regenschirm. Ein Ehemann verjagt die geliebte Katze seiner Frau. Eine betrogene Mutter entlässt impulsiv ihre Haushälterin. Unter der Oberfläche dieser unbeirrbar scharf beobachteten Geschichten über Liebe und Beziehungen im Kopenhagen des 20. Jahrhunderts pulsieren Verlangen und Verzweiflung. Während vor allem die Frauen darum kämpfen, den ihnen zugewiesenen Rollen zu entkommen, träumen sie davon, frei und glücklich zu werden – ohne je ganz zu verstehen, was das wahrhaft bedeuten könnte.

Die junge Künstlerin Kirsty Paterson schlägt sich in Edinburgh mühsam mit verschiedenen Jobs durch. Doch dann stirbt ihre geliebte Großmutter Fiona und vererbt Kirsty ihr Rosencottage auf der malerischen Insel Tiree. Mit dem Haus verbindet Kirsty die glücklichsten Sommer ihrer Kindheit. Ihre Großmutter hat jedoch eine Bitte an das Erbe geknüpft: Kirsty soll das Verschwinden von Fionas Kinderfreundin Livie vor vielen Jahren aufklären. Schon bald löst sie mit ihrer Spurensuche schicksalhafte Ereignisse aus und trifft auf den undurchschaubaren, aber attraktiven Schriftsteller Finlay.

In 1898, a group of schoolboys in Bridgeport, Connecticut, discovered gruesome packages under a bridge holding the dismembered remains of a young woman. Finding that the dead woman had just undergone an abortion, prosecutors raced to establish her identity and fix blame for her death. Suspicion fell on Nancy Guilford, half of a married pair of “doctors” well known to police throughout New England. A fascinated public followed the suspect’s flight from justice, as many rooted for the fugitive.

Als Thyra König Opfer eines Überfalls wird, hat es der Täter nicht auf Wertsachen, sondern auf ihre Fähigkeiten als investigative Journalistin abgesehen. Der Unbekannte flüstert ihr eine geheimnisvolle Botschaft zu, in der es um die Seelen verlorener Kinder geht, die sich in größter Gefahr befinden. Thyras Recherchen bringen sie auf die Spur einer mystischen und gefährlichen Sekte. In einem legendären Berliner Technoclub will sie eine Informantin treffen, um mehr über die Hintergründe dieser Gemeinde zu erfahren.

Ein epochales Forscherinnenleben - und der Alltag einer Mutter von vier Kindern. Kopenhagen, 1948: Maries kleiner Sohn Peder ist noch ein Baby, der Gedanke, ihn für viele Monate zu verlassen, schmerzt. Aber Marie muss fort, sie wird auf einer strapaziösen Expedition Beweise suchen für ihre These, dass die Kontinente ursprünglich einmal zusammenhingen. Pangäa ist ihr Lebenszweck, von nichts und niemandem lässt sie sich einschränken. Sie ist Forscherin, verheiratet und hat vier Kinder.

Les Vagues, das Strandhaus an der französischen Atlantikküste und zweites Zuhause für die 74-jährige Ada, droht bei einem der nächsten Herbststürme ins Meer zu kippen. Einmal noch möchte Ada ein rauschendes Sommerfest feiern, in Gedenken an ihren Mann, den berühmten Maler Leo Kwant, mit den drei gemeinsamen Töchtern und allen Freunden von früher. Als ihre Töchter mit eigenen Sorgen anreisen, kommt ans Licht, was Ada all die Jahre vor ihnen verheimlicht hat.

Are you interested in living a more authentic and adventurous life? Would you like to be inspired by incredible outdoor adventures around New Zealand? Instead of making excuses for missing out, are you ready for experiences that will enrich your life? If so, this audiobook is for you.

In the late 1960s, Patsy Channing, a stunningly beautiful young woman, was suspended from the venerable Mississippi State College for Women for breach of conduct. The resulting scandal reached all the way to the Columbus courthouse, and the press ate it up. But Patsy's story starts long before that, living with a preoccupied and troubled mother in Memphis, Tennessee. Music becomes her ticket out and a vehicle for the one thing she covets most—a chance to be crowned Miss America. In Confessions of a Southern Beauty Queen, Julie Hines Mabus provides a peek into that world.

Dans le dernier tome de la série Marianne Bellehumeur, l'auteure Lucille Bisson amène son héroïne au centre de différents événements qui marqueront sa vie d'adolescente. À coeur ouvert, nous transporte dans le quotidien souvent explosif de cette adolescente à la fois colorée et très attachante qui ne finit pas de nous surprendre.

El accidente que se llevó a su amiga Rachel y que la condenó con solo diecisiete años continúa convirtiendo la vida de Pearl Bennett en un infierno. Sobrevivir al pasado y a las cicatrices fue un reto que creía haber superado, pero el regreso de JJ Tacher a Lakewood destapa sentimientos de rencor y venganza que demuestran lo frágil que es la burbuja que la ha ocultado durante diez años.

Vereint durch die Liebe zur Natur. München, 1976: Minze, Vanille und Rosenholz... Für Eva ist die Welt voller Gerüche - und diese sind für sie die Basis aller Gefühle. Besonders Pflanzen und deren heilende Wirkung begeistern sie. Ein Pharmazie-Studium scheint genau das Richtige für Eva zu sein, und sie sich voller Neugier in das wilde, freie Schwabinger Studentenleben. Doch dann findet Eva etwas heraus, das ihre ganze Welt infrage stellt.

The Trebors are in more danger than ever before. The tribe is divided, Mt. Bor spits fire as its caverns boil, and the Borian Sea holds a secret of its own. When the malpeds flew away with seeds from the great tree, scouts are sent to retrieve them, but the power of the seeds is so great they grow immediately into a field of fledgling trees. Within days, the tribe is divided between those seeking a new way of life in the field nestled at the foot of Mt. Bor, and those choosing to stay with the great tree.

Peace reigns in the Land of Bori. Growth springs from the earth as the great tree pushes its power through its mighty roots. But there's a noise at the edge of the forest. It darts into the dark. A voice calls to the Trebors. Come and play with us. Come and play with us. But when Ebert decides to follow what lurks in the forest, he has an unexpected encounter. The malpeds have returned. Pitter pat. Pitter pat. Their tiny legs run their rhythm. Pitter pat. Pitter pat. Look what we can do, they say. We are changed, they say. Can this be true?

Eighteen-year-old Ava Luna puts her future on hold to care for her mother in the days leading up to a risky surgery. Coinciding with the seasons and cycles of the moon, the four parts of this novel tackle family dynamics and mental and physical health as it follows Ava Luna's quest for independence, assertiveness, and wholeness.

Bori is ravaged, the earth scorched, homes destroyed. Stella longs for the days of peace, where Trebors danced and sang, where her tree home held all she needed. Now devastation surrounds her and worse yet, her father is missing. He didn't make it home before the storm ripped through the land. The devastated forest calls Stella to journey into it, to look for her father, and face down whatever hides in its deep crevices. But a shifting shape of evil lurks nearby and threatens to destroy everything she knows and loves.