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Karen Essex
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The glass escalator is a new phenomenon similar to the glass ceiling, except that instead of hitting their heads as they try to rise to the top, men entering largely female dominated professions are carried past their women co-workers in winged chariots known as glass escalators.
Not surprisingly, as the job market shrinks, men are entering traditionally female-dominated professions—nursing, tea...
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Leonardo's Swans
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Dracula in Love
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2010
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Stealing Athena
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2008
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Kleopatra
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Pharaoh (Kleopatra, #2)
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2002
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Bettie Page: The Life Of A Pin Up Legend
by Karen Essex (Goodreads Author), James L. Swanson 4.21 avg rating — 78 ratings
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Kleopatra
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2005
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Leonardo und die Principessa
by Karen Essex (Goodreads Author), Anke Angela Grube 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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2008
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Faraon
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Deux Soeurs Pour Leonard
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2009
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I'm chronicling my adventures researching and writing my next novel.
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Tropical beaches, too many margaritas, add a sexy tempting stranger, and you have an engrossing tale filled with danger and excitement. "WELCOME to gorgeous Puerto Vallarta, Mexico—home of margaritas, sunset beaches, a shady A... " Read more of this review » |
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Getaway is every international traveler's worst nightmare: inadvertently stepping into trouble in a country where you aren't familiar with the legal system and can't trust the local authorities.
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“The point of my books is to give voice to otherwise voiceless females from history and myth, to unlock what has been secreted away in women's hearts and minds for millennia. Historically, women have either been reduced to nothing but their sexuality or stripped of it entirely: the Madonna or the whore.”
― Karen Essex
― Karen Essex
“Everyone has a secret life. Perhaps yours is merely a gossamer web of thoughts and fantasies woven in the hidden furrows of your mind. Or furtive deeds performed on the sly or betrayals large and small that, if revealed, would change how you are perceived.
-Dracula in Love by Karen Essex”
― Karen Essex
-Dracula in Love by Karen Essex”
― Karen Essex
“...the world we learned as children to fear---the milieu of goblins, ghosts, spirits, and magic - when it is the tangible world that is rife with unimaginable horrors. The truth is, we must fear monsters less and be warier of our own kind.
-from Dracula In Love”
― Karen Essex
-from Dracula In Love”
― Karen Essex
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“One has no talent. I have no talent. It's just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.”
― Graham Greene
― Graham Greene
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Gary wrote: "Thank you Karen:My Memoir - TO LIVE OR MAYBE NOT
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Welcome, Gary! I love the title of your memoir.
Thank you Karen:My Memoir - TO LIVE OR MAYBE NOT
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My birth in Alabama, youth, high school-Holmes County High School, US Navy Service, music-Hollywood, Memphis, Nashville, Martin Luther King Jr. Assassination Investigation, recording and releasing the single record of the song about the MLK assassination, THEY SLEW THE DREAMER and more.
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Welcome new Goodreads friends! I hope you'll stay in touch here and on my chat page: http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/5...After these last, lazy days of summer, things will get more active. Hope everyone wrings the last drops of fun out of the waning days of warmth!
Thanks for the friend invite!.. I was stoked to find I was a winner of your book Dracula in Love and look forward to reading it!
Nely wrote: "Hi Karen,I saw your book "Dracula in Love" today while out shopping, and I was so excited to see it on the shelf! I was so close to buying it! But then I remembered I'll be getting it in the mail ..."
Hope you enjoy, Nely. Stay in touch!
Hi Karen,I saw your book "Dracula in Love" today while out shopping, and I was so excited to see it on the shelf! I was so close to buying it! But then I remembered I'll be getting it in the mail in a few weeks. This patience/virtue thing is not my thing. ;) I'm looking forward to reading it.
I hope everyone will join my goodreads chat, Ask Karen Essex, officially from July 25-29 but we'll see how long we can keep it going!http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/5...
