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The Women is a historical fiction novel by American author Kristin Hannah published by St. Martin's Press in 2024. The book tells the story of Frances "Frankie" McGrath, a young nurse who serves in the United States Army Nurse Corps during the Vietnam War. [1] [2] The novel debuted at number one on The New York Times fiction best-seller list.
World Book Club is a radio programme on the BBC World Service. Each edition of the programme, which is broadcast on the first Saturday of the month with repeats into the following Monday, [ 1 ] features a famous author discussing one of his or her books, often the most well-known one, with the public.
Ibtisam Ibrahim Teresa (Arabic: ابتسام ابراهيم تريسى) (born 1959) is a Syrian novelist and short story writer. [1] She studied Arabic at Aleppo University.
On February 2, 2021, Liang announced through Instagram that she would debuting in 2022 with her young adult novel, If You Could See the Sun. [7] If You Could See the Sun won the Readings Prize Young Adult Book Prize, [8] was a finalist for the Aurealis Award for Best Young Adult Novel, [9] and was nominated for a Goodreads Choice Award. [10]
The Key to Rebecca was an immediate best-seller, becoming a main selection of the Book of the Month Club, with an initial printing of 100,000 copies within days and having been serialised in several magazines, even before any reviews had been published. [2]
The publisher described the book as "an intimate, vulnerable, and insightful portrait of the bond that grew between two iconic and starkly different American women." [3] The pair met at summer party in Martha's Vineyard in the early 80's. Onassis later served as Simon's book editor on a number of her children's books in the late 80's and early ...
The Kindness of Women is a 1991 novel by British author J. G. Ballard, a sequel to his 1984 novel Empire of the Sun. The Kindness of Women drew on the author's boyhood in Shanghai during World War II, presenting a lightly fictionalized treatment of Ballard's life from Shanghai through to adulthood in England, culminating with an account of the making of Steven Spielberg's 1987 film Empire of ...
Women of the Sun (نساء الشمس) is a Palestinian women's organization based in Bethlehem. [1] It was founded in July 2021 and is devoted to a peaceful resolution in the Israel-Palestine conflict. [2] [3] [4] The organization's name is an allusion to Men in the Sun, the 1962 novel by Ghassan Kanafani. [5]