In "We Are Three Sisters," Drew Lamonica focuses on the role of families in the Brontës' fiction of personal development, exploring the ways in which it recognizes the family as a defining community for selfhood.
The cherished view of genius is that it is a special inborn gift: something mysterious, even miraculous. In Genius Explained, psychologist Michael Howe traces the lives of some exceptionally creative men and women, including Charles Darwin, the Brontë sisters, George Eliot, Michael Faraday, Albert Einstein and the railway inventor George Stephenson.
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Sisters in Fantasy
A collection of original short stories by acclaimed writers of women's fantasy--including Tanith Lee, Janny Wurts, Sheila Finch, Elizabeth Moon, and Katharine Kerr--features powerful stories of women doing extraordinary, heroic things--with a woman's touch.
If you like Marion Zimmer Bradley's Sword and Sorceress series or fantasy in general, then you will like this book. The second volum is good too.
Anook, the young polar bear, is a princess who lives with her father and two sisters their icy castle. Anook is the youngest princess and the clumsiest, which is something her sisters never let her forget. Kids follow Anooks story as she grows from a tiny tongue-tied cub into a brave and noble bear who is tricked by her wicked sisters and rejected by her aged father.
There's civil war going on back home in Otherworld and there are twelve Spirit Seals hidden on earth that could open the portals between all three realms letting loose the demons of the Sub-realms into the others, destroying all life as we know it. There's a whole new cast of characters and troubles.