Modern Women

From the creator of the viral Instagram account comes an empowering guide to navigating the hazards and horrors of online dating. After one too many hostile dating app encounters, Alexandra Tweten set up the Instagram account @ByeFelipe, a place for women to protest the horrors of online dating...

Ladies of the Canyons is the true story of remarkable women who left the security and comforts of genteel Victorian society and journeyed to the American Southwest in search of a wider view of themselves and their world....

WINNER OF THE 2018 PEN OPEN BOOK AWARD "A rich and urgently necessary book" (New York Times Book Review), A Moonless, Starless Sky is a masterful, humane work of journalism by Alexis Okeowo--a vivid narrative of Africans who are courageously resisting their continent's wave of fundamentalism. In...

Kim, 19 ans, termine sa première saison de travail autour du magnifique lac. Un cadavre est retrouvé sur le ferry, et la police est totalement déconcertée et ne peut plus avancer sur cette affaire inextricablement difficile. Avec une immense réticence, ils font appel à l’aide très improbable d’un détective consultant, qui à lui seul ouvre le puzzle et continue à résoudre l’affaire. Comme toujours, il y a un peu d’humour ironique et un soupçon de romance flottant dans l’air.

In Strong Women, Strong Love: The Missing Manual for the Modern Marriage, licensed psychologist, Dr. Poonam Sharma, reveals how to effectively navigate the marriage problems you may have encountered... all while maintaining your self-confidence and strength as a woman.

Wenn der "beste Vorleser Deutschlands", Dieter Mann, "24 Stunden aus dem Leben einer Frau" von Stefan Zweig liest, ist das ein besonderes Hörerlebnis. Mann spricht die Geschichte der englischen Dame, die eine lebensverändernde Nacht mit einem Spieler verbringt, mit aller Wärme und Zurückhaltung. Er lässt den Ort und die Protagonisten vorm geistigen Auge lebendig werden.

Nineteen-year-old Kim is finishing her first season of work around the beautiful lake. A dead body is found on the ferry, and the police are totally baffled and can make no further progress on the intractably difficult case. With immense reluctance, they call in the very unlikely assistance of a consulting detective, who single-handedly cracks open the puzzle and goes on to solve the case.

When I go out to chop down a Christmas tree, the last thing I expect to find is a woman caught in a snowstorm. But there she is, lost and alone. And f*cking gorgeous. I take her home with me - my cabin will warm her up... and so will I. Meeting her was serendipity... and letting her go isn’t an option. But her life isn’t built around Mistletoe Mountain the way mine is. This mountain man is hoping for a Christmas miracle.

In this modern version of the fairy tale classic, The Frog Prince, heiress Darcy Haverford and ex-military beach bum Daniel Colvin find themselves shipwrecked on a desert island together. Daniel may have the skills to keep them alive - but after living alone with Darcy for a week, he's not sure he has the patience to keep from wringing her spoiled neck. But the longer they spend together, the hotter it gets on the island, until the friction between the two of them rises to a fever pitch.

In this modern version of the fairy tale classic, Peter and the Wolf, Pete Hunter is a cop determined to punish the men who killed his father. But the Russian mob is a fierce adversary, and their roots in the community run deep. Even Pete's long-time partner, Konstantin, who left the Demitrovic Bratva years ago to join the force, can't seem to shake their hold on him.

In today's fast-paced world, many women are searching for ways to find greater peace, balance, and fulfilment in their daily lives. Practical Buddhism for Modern Life offers a comprehensive guide to the key teachings and practices of Buddhism, tailored specifically to the needs and challenges for the women of today.

Women control more than half of all private wealth in the U .S. and in 2009 held the majority of jobs in the workforce. As women's earnings, freedom and influence increase, the old sequential patterns of education, marriage, motherhood, and retirement no longer apply. In RAISE YOUR KIDS RICH...

A darkly humorous new collection of poems by the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author of Wideawake Field and Amity and Prosperity If Men, Then, Eliza Griswold’s second poetry collection, charts a radical spiritual journey through catastrophe. Griswold’s language is forthright and...

Every woman was once a little girl. And every little girl holds in her heart her most precious dreams. She longs to be swept up into a romance, to play an irreplaceable role in a great adventure, to be the beauty of the story. Those desires are far more than child's play. They are the secret to the feminine heart.

Brought to you by Penguin. One bad date too many calls for desperate measures . . . Nora is well and truly fed up. After more painfully bad dates than she can count, she’s had enough of leaving it to fate to find her perfect match – but she's not quite ready to give up on her love life just...

In this Modern Wicked Fairy Tale, Bart Lamplighter and Eddie Vizard are two con men banded together to avoid riding the 1930s rails by grifting. While Bart is driving a newly acquired, brand-new Duesenberg home to the city, he can’t help but stop to rescue a lovely damsel in distress at the side of the road. Elizabeth “Libby” Bancroft is a smart, sassy socialite who drinks and smokes and is an “old maid” at the ripe age of 32, at least by society’s standards.