Adjoa Andoh

Emerging from a life-threatening illness, a fiercely organized but unfulfilled computer geek recruits a mysterious artist to help her establish meaning in her life, before finding herself engaged in reckless but thrilling activities.

"Cast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine, deemed too coarse and rough-hewn for marriage or courtly life, seventeen-year-old Marie de France is sent to England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey, its nuns on the brink of starvation and beset by disease. At first taken aback by the severity of her new life, Marie finds focus and love in collective life with her singular and mercurial sisters. In this crucible, Marie steadily...

"What if you once had thousands of bodies and near god-like technology at your disposal? And what if all of it were ripped away? The Lord of the Radch has given Breq command of the ship Mercy of Kalr and sent her to the only place she would have agreed to go -- to Athoek Station, where Lieutenant Awn's sister works in Horticulture. Athoek was annexed some six hundred years ago, and by now everyone is fully civilized -- or should be. But everything...

"A powerful, emotional debut novel told in the unforgettable voice of a young Nigerian woman who is trapped in a life of servitude but determined to get an education so that she can escape and choose her own future. Adunni is a fourteen-year-old Nigerian girl who knows what she wants: an education. This, her mother has told her, is the only way to get a "louding voice"-the ability to speak for herself and decide her own future. But instead, Adunni's...

"The next book in the perennially adored No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series sees Precious Ramotswe calling upon all her maternal instincts when she's faced with a two-ton case. They say it takes a village to raise a child, but can Mma Ramotswe and the rest of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency come together to raise a pipsqueak pachyderm? We may find out in this novel. We may not. Who can say?"--

Belinda knows how to follow the rules. She has learnt the right way to polish water glasses, to wash and fold a hundred handkerchiefs, and to keep a tight lid on memories of the village she left behind when she came to Kumasi to be a housegirl. Mary is still learning the rules. Eleven years old and irrepressible, the young housegirl-in-training is the little sister Belinda never had. Amma has had enough of the rules. A straight-A pupil at her exclusive...

Based on the popular blog "The Babyjuggler: Three kids, Two jobs, One life"; winner of the December 2008 "Best of the British Mummy Blogger Carnival", this book gives you the lowdown on how to survive the return to the world of work after the birth of your first baby. Everyone knows women can "have it all" these days but this guide shows you how to avoid the "doing it all" syndrome which leaves so many working mothers totally exhausted and stressed....

With this new audio collection of Little People, BIG DREAMS stories, you'll learn about the lives of some amazing women in science. This set includes stories about: • Hedy Lamarr, an actress and an inventor who created technology that is used in Bluetooth devices today. • Marie Curie, the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize • Zaha Hadid, the queen of architecture, known for her logic-defying curvy buildings • Mae...

If your body could talk, is a book, written for women, struggling to find time for their bodies, written by a woman, who has been there and experienced it firsthand. If your body could talk is, a collection of letters written from your body to you. Ask yourself the question, if your body could talk what would it say? "Did you hear me at dinner tonight when I was trying to signal that we were full?" "I felt so good after you did that workout today....

With Benny in America, Katie contacts Tom to express her belief that the Blackberry Theatre is haunted. Tom believes otherwise and is proven correct. A tear in the Line of Twilight has brought the witch Old Bethesta back to the Dayside.