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Looks at twenty-six infamous females from throughout history, including Bloody Mary, Calamity Jane, and Bonnie Parker among others.

Thomas Hardy's classic novel about a young woman who finds herself the victim of fate and of forces beyond her control in nineteenth-century England; and contains explanatory notes and introduction.

Fact-based story of Grace Marks, a sixteen-year-old girl who received a life sentence in 1843 for allegedly taking part in the murder of her employer and his lover, but whose case continued to stir debate throughout her prison stay, resulting in her release in 1872.

Astrid, the only child of a single mother, struggles to find a place for herself in a world full of foster homes and impossible circumstances, after her mother is jailed for murder.

Mary Saunders, daughter of a poor seamstress and a father who died in jail, allows her desire for fine things to lead her into prostitution at a young age, and though she tries repeatedly to turn her life around, the lure of money and freedom proves difficult to resist.

Assistant district attorney Nina Frost has always prided herself on the fact that she protects the city's children from abuse and crime, but when her own son is sexually abused, she finds herself overcome with rage and sets out to find his attacker and exact justice for her son.

Presents Thomas Hardy's novel about a young woman who attempts to restore her family's fortunes, is seduced by a heartless aristocrat, and is punished by society's double standards when she gets a chance at real love; and includes an introduction and explanatory notes.

Historical fiction novel based on the story of Anna Kristine Magn?sd?ttir.

Discusses the surge of murders by women in Chicago in 1924, highlighting the killers who inspired the play "Chicago" and its subsequent movie and musical adaptations, and introduces girl reporter Maurine Watkins who became embroiled in the cases and dedicated herself to exposing the tendency of the all-male juries to go easy on women--especially the pretty ones.

When the men of a remote Hungarian village go off to war in 1916, the women left behind realize their lives are much better without them.

"Julien Fraye is a simple creature with simple desires: all she wants is everything.

Astrid, the only child of a single mother, struggles to find a place for herself in a world full of foster homes and impossible circumstances, after her mother is jailed for murder.

Taking up residence in Maplecroft, a mansion near the sea, Lizzie Borden, a suspect in the brutal deaths of her father and stepmother, waits with an axe to stop the evil that is rising from the ocean's depths to consume her.

A writer goes deep into the heart of Italy to unravel a century-old family mystery in this spellbinding memoir that blends the suspenseful twists of Making a Murderer and the emotional insight of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels.