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Aldous Huxley's Brave New Worldby Harold BloomISBN 0791040844 (0-7910-4084-4)
Softcover, Chelsea House Pub
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Anne Rice and Sexual Politics: The Early Novelsby Gwendolyn A. Morgan, James R. KellerISBN 0786408464 (0-7864-0846-4)
Softcover, McFarland & Co Inc Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anne Rice and Sexual Politics: The Early Novels'Book summary:From the vampires Lestat and Louis to a sexually liberated Sleeping Beauty, novelist Anne Rice has created a host of characters who are notable for their paradoxical combinations of the deviant and the conventional. Exit to Eden, for example, ends with the sado-masochistic protagonists embarking on a traditional monogamous heterosexual relationship, while the vampires often long to exchange their erotic immortality for "ordinary" mortal lives and loves.
This scholarly analysis of the seemingly incompatible elements of the subversive and the socially acceptable in Rice's early work covers her career from the landmark Interview with the Vampire (1976) to Lasher (1993). Each chapter tackles a different aspect of Rice's conflicting portrayals of sexual issues, including homophobia, pedophilia, castration anxiety, and the vast array of gender stereotypes and roles that her novels so often interpret and exploit. This study is appropriate both for readers of Rice's writing and those intrigued by issues of sexual politics and the ways in which a popular author both embraces and repudiates some of the most shocking concepts of sexuality. An index and bibliography are included to aid research. [via]More editions of Anne Rice and Sexual Politics: The Early Novels:
Are You Somebody: The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Womanby Nuala O'Faolain, Nvala O'FaolainISBN 0786215062 (0-7862-1506-2)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Beekeeper's Apprenticeby Laurie R. KingISBN 0783819323 (0-7838-1932-3)
Hardcover, G K Hall & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beekeeper's Apprentice'Book summary:In 1915, long since retired from his observations of criminal humanity, Sherlock Holmes is engaged in a reclusive study of honeybee behavior on the Sussex Downs. Never did he think to meet an intellect to match his ownuntil his acquaintance with Miss Mary Russell, a very modern fifteen-year-old whose mental acuity is equaled only by her audacity, tenacity, and penchant for trousers and cloth caps.
Under Holmess tutelage, Russell hones her talent for deduction, disguises, and danger: in the chilling case of a landowners mysterious fever and in a kidnapping in the wilds of Wales. But her ultimate challenge is yet to come. Soon the two sleuths are on the trail of a murderer whose machinations scatter meaningless clues&but whose objective is quite unequivocal: to end Russell and Holmess partnershipand their lives. [via]More editions of Beekeeper's Apprentice:
Beowulfby Harold BloomISBN 0791040828 (0-7910-4082-8)
Softcover, Facts on File
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The Best a Man Can Get: A Novelby John O'FarrellISBN 0767907140 (0-7679-0714-0)
Softcover, Broadway Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Best a Man Can Get: A Novel'Book summary:Some men are born fathers, while others have fatherhood thrust upon them. The protagonist of John O'Farrell's The Best a Man Can Get belongs indisputably in the latter category. When his first daughter is born, Michael Adams imagines her as the warden of a prison that will permanently deprive him of his youth and freedom. Terrified by his new responsibilities, he regularly escapes to a bachelor pad across the Thames, pretending to be at work. Another child arrives--and with still another on the way, it is only a matter of time until Michael's wife discovers his double life. At that point, he must make a choice between his family and his hedonistic haven.
By turns hilarious and touching, O'Farrell's book delves deeply into the anxieties of modern parenting. Yet the novel is not without empathy for the 21st-century father. After all, it's easy to imagine the lure of a child-proof hideaway, insulated from sleepless nights and dirty diapers. At the same time, Adams often wonders whether "just being tucked up warm and cosy" is really "the best a man can get". With its charming prose and its truant protagonist, this first novel is sure to win over even the most reluctant parent. --Greg Bensinger [via]
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The Best a Man Can Get: A Novel of Fatherhood and Its Discontentsby John O'FarrellISBN 0767907132 (0-7679-0713-2)
Hardcover, Broadway Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Best a Man Can Get: A Novel of Fatherhood and Its Discontents'Book summary:Some men are born fathers, while others have fatherhood thrust upon them. The protagonist of John O'Farrell's The Best a Man Can Get belongs indisputably in the latter category. When his first daughter is born, Michael Adams imagines her as the warden of a prison that will permanently deprive him of his youth and freedom. Terrified by his new responsibilities, he regularly escapes to a bachelor pad across the Thames, pretending to be at work. Another child arrives--and with still another on the way, it is only a matter of time before Michael's wife discovers his double life. At that point, he must make a choice between his family and his hedonistic haven.
By turns hilarious and touching, O'Farrell's book delves deeply into the anxieties of modern parenting. Yet the novel is not without empathy for the 21st-century father. After all, it's easy to imagine the lure of a child-proof hideaway, insulated from sleepless nights and dirty diapers. At the same time, Adams often wonders whether "just being tucked up warm and cosy" is really "the best a man can get." With its charming prose and truant protagonist, this first novel is sure to win over even the most reluctant parent. --Greg Bensinger [via]
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Bless Me, Ultimaby Rudolfo AnayaISBN 0785742271 (0-7857-4227-1)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bless Me, Ultima'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. An alienated New Mexico boy seeks answers to his questions about life through his relationship with Ultima, a magical healer. [via]
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Bluebeards Eggsby AtwoodISBN 0771008082 (0-7710-0808-2)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Book of the Courtesans: A Catalogue of Their Virtuesby Susan GriffinISBN 0767904516 (0-7679-0451-6)
Softcover, Broadway Books
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Canadian Families: Diversity, Conflict, and Changeby Nancy Mandell, Ann DuffyISBN 0774736291 (0-7747-3629-1)
Hardcover, Harcourt Brace Canada
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The Case for Marriage: Why Married People Are Happier, Healthier and Better Off Financiallyby Linda J. WaiteISBN 0767906322 (0-7679-0632-2)
Softcover, Broadway Books
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Cat's Eyeby Margaret AtwoodISBN 0770423345 (0-7704-2334-5)
Softcover, McClelland & Stewart Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cat's Eye'Book summary:Cat's Eye is one of Margaret Atwood's most intriguing novels, a ruminative, symbol-laced, and deceptively loose book that encompasses many of the concerns of her earlier works, compounding them with a new awareness of aging and the curious vagaries of memory. Its premise is simple enough: Elaine Risley, a successful painter living on the West Coast, returns to Toronto, the scene of her childhood and artistic development, for a retrospective of her work at an independent feminist gallery. As Risley arrives in Toronto, she begins to examine her past in that city, from her early girlhood through to the final days of her first marriage. Risley's memories dominate the book; her exhibition is a light but important counterpoint to all that has gone before it.
In a sense, Cat's Eye is a feminist deconstruction of the artist's coming-of-age novel, but Risley's feminism is skeptical and detached. Her painful girlhood friendships haunt her through her middle age, and she has far more sympathy for men than she does for the women who have supported her career. As a result, Cat's Eye transcends orthodox feminism and rigorously examines troubling questions of gender, sexuality, and art from a wryly nonpartisan perspective. Fans of Atwood's more recent novels will love Cat's Eye, but it is a book that deserves the attention of her numerous detractors; perhaps it will encourage them to give her a second look. --Jack Illingworth [via]
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Cereus Blooms at Nightby Shani MootooISBN 0771064004 (0-7710-6400-4)
Softcover, McClelland & Stewart Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cereus Blooms at Night'Book summary:There is much to admire about Shani Mootoo's first novel, Cereus Blooms at Night. In telling the tale of Mala Ramchandin, her sister, Asha, her childhood sweetheart Ambrose "Boyie" Mohanty, and the other inhabitants of the fictional Caribbean island of Lantanacamara, Mootoo has created a cast of remarkable characters capable of charming the reader. Narrated in part by Tyler, a young male nurse at a home for the elderly, Cereus begins with Mala's admission to the alms house in Paradise--the main city on Lantanacamara--under a cloud of mystery. The old lady won't speak and is suspected of a multitude of crimes, causing the head nurse of the home to keep her in restraints. Only Tyler is willing to care for her; it isn't long before Tyler, an outcast in Paradise because of his sexual orientation, and Mala, a pariah for other reasons, develop an unusual friendship.
For the first half of the book, Mootoo moves easily between Tyler's narrative and a third-person account of Mala's life as a child. The chapters covering the adoption of Mala's father, Chandin Ramchandin, by a white missionary and his wife and Chandin's obsession with his foster sister, Lavinia, offer a telling perspective on race and colonialism; later chapters detailing Chandin's descent into alcoholism, madness, and child abuse are occasionally overwrought, but the strong, child's-eye point of view of young Mala keeps the novel grounded. The second half of Cereus abandons both Tyler and the omniscient narrator, choosing to focus, instead, on Otoh Mohanty, the son of Mala's childhood friend, Boyie. Here Mootoo also introduces, for the first time, elements of the fantastic: a girl who "wills" herself to become a boy; a man who sleeps for weeks at a time, only waking one day each month; a mysterious, locked room that holds a horrifying secret. The result is pure melodrama wrapped up in lovely prose.
Even though the last half of the book seems too suddenly freighted towards the magical and improbable, and the happy ending is a trifle too contrived, Cereus Blooms at Night showcases Shani Mootoo's impressive mastery of language. And in Mala Ramchandin, she has created a tough and tender heroine who commands the reader's interest and sympathy from first page to last. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Cider House Rulesby John IrvingISBN 0786885238 (0-7868-8523-8)
Softcover, Hyperion Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cider House Rules'Book summary:First published in 1985, The Cider House Rules is John Irving's sixth novel. Set in rural Maine in the first half of this century, it tells the story of Dr. Wilbur Larch--saint and obstetrician, founder and director of the orphanage in the town of St. Cloud's, ether addict and abortionist. It is also the story of Dr. Larch's favorite orphan, Homer Wells, who is never adopted. [via]
The Complexities of Women: Integrative Essays in Psychology and Biologyby Nancy J. Kenney, Kitty Dahl, Michelle D. Brot, Karen E. MoeISBN 0787223565 (0-7872-2356-5)
Softcover, Kendall Hunt Pub Co
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Dancing Girls and Other Storiesby Margaret AtwoodISBN 0771008104 (0-7710-0810-4)
Hardcover, McClelland and Stewart
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Dealing With Degas: Representations of Women and the Politics of Visionby Richard Kendall, Griselda PollockISBN 0788156659 (0-7881-5665-9)
Softcover, Diane Pub Co
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The Diary of Ellen Rimbauerby Stephen King, Joyce Reardon, Steven RimbauerISBN 0786890436 (0-7868-9043-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Disastrous Mrs. Weldon: The Life, Loves and Lawsuits of a Legendary Victorianby Brian ThompsonISBN 0767906357 (0-7679-0635-7)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Disclosureby Michael CrichtonISBN 0785769536 (0-7857-6953-6)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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Draculaby Bram StokerISBN 0786276010 (0-7862-7601-0)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dracula'Book summary:After discovering the double identity of the wealthy Transylvanian nobleman, Count Dracula, a small group of people vow to rid the world of the evil vampire. Illustrated notes throughout the text explain the historical background of the story. [via]
An Edited Edition of Sarah Orne Jewett's the Country of the Pointed Firsby Sarah Orne Jewett, Jeff MorganISBN 077346588X (0-7734-6588-X)
Hardcover, Edwin Mellen Pr
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Emmaby Jane AustenISBN 0786881836 (0-7868-8183-6)
Softcover, Hyperion Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Emma'Book summary:Perhaps the out-and-out funniest of Jane Austen's books. Telling the story of a heroine Austen feared readers would actively dislike, Emma has turned out to be a character whose creation was necessary to the development of the spoiled rich kid genre of literature, TV and movies. Since Emma knows what's best for everybody, she sets about trying to straighten the world out. It doesn't work. Fortunately, before completely screwing up everyone else's life, she gets her head screwed on straight and for the first time sees what it's all about. [via]
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The Emperor's Childrenby Claire MessudISBN 0786292660 (0-7862-9266-0)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Emperor's Children'Book summary:Danielle, a junior television producer, is on the hunt for the documentary idea that will make her reputation; Marina, the beautiful daughter of a famous and wealthy liberal journalist and intellectual, is desperate to prove her worth - while unsure exactly of how this is to be achieved; Julius, a freelance writer of devastating book reviews, is determined to live a fabulous Manhattan lifestyle on a budget of nothing at all. "The Emperor's Children" follows these three friends - and their overlapping social and family circles - through their day-to-day lives, their perceived struggles and successes and their constant search for meaning and authenticity. Sweeping in scope, minutely perceptive about the nuances of Manhattan life, with richly drawn characters and vivid prose, "The Emperor's Children" is a finely textured portrait of a particular place at a particular moment - and a haunting illustration how the events of a single day can change everything, for ever. It reveals Claire Messud as a novelist in bloom, writing at the height of her powers. [via]
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Falling Leavesby Adeline Yen Mah, Suzanne OaksISBN 0767903579 (0-7679-0357-9)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Falling Leaves'Book summary:Born in 1937 in a port city a thousand miles north of Shanghai, Adeline Yen Mah was the youngest child of an affluent Chinese family who enjoyed rare privileges during a time of political and cultural upheaval. But wealth and position could not shield Adeline from a childhood of appalling emotional abuse at the hands of a cruel and manipulative Eurasian stepmother. Determined to survive through her enduring faith in family unity, Adeline struggled for independence as she moved from Hong Kong to England and eventually to the United States to become a physician and writer.
A compelling, painful, and ultimately triumphant story of a girl's journey into adulthood, Adeline's story is a testament to the most basic of human needs: acceptance, love, and understanding. With a powerful voice that speaks of the harsh realities of growing up female in a family and society that kept girls in emotional chains, Falling Leaves is a work of heartfelt intimacy and a rare authentic portrait of twentieth-century China. [via]More editions of Falling Leaves:
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Falling Leaves Return to Their Roots: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughterby Adeline Yen MahISBN 0786219149 (0-7862-1914-9)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Fan Fiction And Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet: New Essaysby Karen Hellekson, Kristina BusseISBN 0786426403 (0-7864-2640-3)
Softcover, McFarland & Co Inc Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fan Fiction And Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet: New Essays'Book summary:Fans have been responding to literary works since the days of Homer's Odyssey and Euripedes' Medea. More recently, a number of science fiction, fantasy, media, and game works have found devoted fan followings. The advent of the Internet has brought these groups from relatively limited, face-to-face enterprises to easily accessible global communities, within which fan texts proliferate and are widely read and even more widely commented upon. New interactions between readers and writers of fan texts are possible in these new virtual communities.
From Star Trek to Harry Potter, the essays in this volume explore the world of fan fiction--its purposes, how it is created, how the fan experiences it. Grouped by subject matter, essays cover topics such as genre intersection, sexual relationships between characters, character construction through narrative, and the role of the beta reader in online communities. The work also discusses the terminology used by creators of fan artifacts and comments on the effects of technological advancements on fan communities. [via]More editions of Fan Fiction And Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet: New Essays:
Fatherloss: How Sons of All Ages Come to Terms With the Deaths of Their Dadsby Neil ChethikISBN 0786884495 (0-7868-8449-5)
Softcover, Hyperion Books
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The Female Brainby Louann BrizendineISBN 0767920104 (0-7679-2010-4)
Softcover, Morgan Road Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Female Brain'Book summary:Every brain begins as a female brain. It only becomes male eight weeks after conception, when excess testosterone shrinks the communications center, reduces the hearing cortex, and makes the part of the brain that processes sex twice as large.
Louann Brizendine, M.D. is a pioneering neuropsychiatrist who brings together the latest findings to show how the unique structure of the female brain determines how women think, what they value, how they communicate, and whom theyll love. Brizendine reveals the neurological explanations behind why
" A woman remembers fights that a man insists never happened
" A teen girl is so obsessed with her looks and talking on the phone
" Thoughts about sex enter a womans brain once every couple of days but enter a mans brain about once every minute
" A woman knows what people are feeling, while a man cant spot an emotion unless somebody cries or threatens bodily harm
" A woman over 50 is more likely to initiate divorce than a man
Women will come away from this book knowing that they have a lean, mean communicating machine. Men will develop a serious case of brain envy. [via] 
The Fifth Elephantby Terry PratchettISBN 0783893078 (0-7838-9307-8)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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The Floating Brothelby Sian ReesISBN 0786867876 (0-7868-6787-6)
Hardcover, Hyperion Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Floating Brothel'Book summary:A seafaring story with a twist -- the incredible voyage of a shipload of "disorderly girls" and the men who transported them, fell for them, and sold them.
This riveting work of rediscovered history tells for the first time the plight of the female convicts aboard the Lady Julian, which set sail from England in 1789 and arrived in Australia's Botany Bay a year later. The women, most of them petty criminals, were destined for New South Wales to provide its hordes of lonely men with sexual favors as well as progeny. But the story of their voyage is even more incredible, and here it is expertly told by a historian with roots in the boatbuilding business and a true love of the sea.
SiGn Rees delved into court documents and firsthand accounts to extract the stories of these women's experiences on board a ship that both held them prisoner and offered them refuge from their oppressive existence in London. At the heart of the story is the passionate relationship between Sarah Whitelam, a convict, and the ship's steward, John Nicol, whose personal journals provided much of the material for this book. Along the way, Rees brings the vibrant, bawdy world of London -- and the sights, smells, and sounds of an eighteenth-century ship -- vividly to life. In the tradition of Nathaniel Philbrick's In the Heart of the Sea, this is a winning combination of dramatic high seas adventure and untold history. [via]
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The Floating Brothel: The Extraordinary True Story of an Eighteenth-Century Ship and its Cargo of Female Convictsby Sian ReesISBN 0786886749 (0-7868-8674-9)
Softcover, Hyperion Press
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This riveting work of rediscovered history tells for the first time the plight of the female convicts aboard the Lady Julian, which set sail from England in 1789 and arrived in Australia's Sydney Cove a year later. The women, most of them petty criminals, were destined for New South Wales to provide its hordes of lonely men with both sexual favors and progeny. But the story of their voyage is even more incredible, and here it is expertly told by a historian with roots in the boatbuilding business and a true love of the sea.
Sian Rees delved into court documents and firsthand accounts to extract the stories of these women's experiences on board a ship that both held them prisoner and offered them refuge from their oppressive existence in London. At the heart of the story is the passionate relationship between Sarah Whitelam, a convict, and the ship's steward, John Nicol, whose personal journals provided much of the material for this book. Along the way, Rees brings the vibrant, bawdy world of London -- and the sights, smells, and sounds of an eighteenth-century ship -- vividly to life. In the tradition of Nathaniel Philbrick's In the Heart of the Sea, this is a winning combination of dramatic high seas adventure and untold history. [via]
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The Fortress of Solitudeby Jonathan LethemISBN 0786259965 (0-7862-5996-5)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Gender Advertisementsby Erving GoffmanISBN 0783722656 (0-7837-2265-6)
Softcover, Proquest Info & Learning
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The Girl With the Golden Eyesby Honore De Balzac, Carol CosmanISBN 0786705612 (0-7867-0561-2)
Hardcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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The God of Sex: How Spirituality Defines Your Sexualityby Peter JonesISBN 0781443725 (0-7814-4372-5)
Hardcover, David C Cook
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The God of Sex: How Spirituality Defines Your Sexuality'Book summary:A placard carried in the San Diego Gay Parade said it all: "He's your God. They're your rules. You go to Hell." Clearly, there is no longer any commonly held ultimate authority. So merely quoting Bible verses at gays and other "sexual sinners" to prove they are immoral is equally unsuccessful, if not destructive.
For the sake of our young people, for the sake of our churches, for the sake of society and our world, Christians must understand the connection of spirituality and sexuality if we are to communicate relevantly to our postmodern culture. Jones gives an honest appraisal of contemporary sexual trends and puts them up against God's clear (and beautiful) design for sex as a spiritual expression. [via]
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The Guru's Gift: An Ethnography Exploring Gender Equality With North American Sikh Womenby Cynthia Mahmood, Stacy BradyISBN 076741781X (0-7674-1781-X)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabinby Harold BloomISBN 0791036723 (0-7910-3672-3)
Hardcover, Facts on File
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The House of Mirthby Edith WhartonISBN 078627736X (0-7862-7736-X)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Imagine Democracyby Judy RebickISBN 0773732292 (0-7737-3229-2)
Hardcover, Stoddart Publishing
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Imprisoning Our Sisters: The New Federal Women's Prisons in Canadaby Stephanie HaymanISBN 0773530797 (0-7735-3079-7)
Softcover, McGill Queens Univ Pr
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J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Ryeby Harold BloomISBN 0791036626 (0-7910-3662-6)
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Jane Eyreby Charlotte Bronte, Sara Thomson, Richard LauterISBN 0766607216 (0-7666-0721-6)
Hardcover, Modern Pub
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Legalizing Misandry: From Public Shame to Systemic Discrimination Against Menby Paul Nathanson, Katherine K. YoungISBN 0773528628 (0-7735-2862-8)
Hardcover, McGill Queens Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Legalizing Misandry: From Public Shame to Systemic Discrimination Against Men'Book summary:Lurid and sensationalized events such as the public response to Lorena Bobbitt after she cut off her abusive husband's penis, prurient fascination provoked by Anita Hill's allegations about Clarence Thomas, and the exploitation of the mass murder of fourteen women in Montreal have been processed through popular culture since the 1990s to produce pervasive misandry - contempt for men, the counterpart of misogyny. Paul Nathanson and Katherine Young believe that this reveals a shift in the United States and Canada to a worldview based on ideological feminism, which presents all issues from the point of view of women and, in the process, explicitly or implicitly attacks men as a class. They argue that ideological feminism is silently reshaping law, pubic policy, education, and journalism. Legalizing Misandry offers lively and compelling evidence to demonstrate the pervasiveness of this new thinking - from the courts, classrooms, government committees, and corporate bureaucracies to laws and policies affecting employment, marriage, divorce, custody, sexual harassment, violence, and human rights. [via]
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Lethal Intentby Sue RussellISBN 0786015187 (0-7860-1518-7)
Softcover, Kensington Pub Corp
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Lettin It All Hang Out: An Autobiographyby Rupaul, David CashionISBN 0786881658 (0-7868-8165-8)
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Macbethby William Shakespeare, Daniel J. LearyISBN 078077034X (0-7807-7034-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Macbeth'Book summary:One of Shakespeare's greatest, but also bloodiest tragedies, was written around 1605/06. Many have seen the story of Macbeth's murder and usurpation of the legitimate Scottish King Duncan as having obvious connection to contemporary issues regarding King James I (James VI of Scotland), and the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. King James was particularly fascinated with witchcraft, so the appearance of the witches chanting "Fair is foul, and foul is fair" at the opening of the play seemed particularly topical, as was Macbeth's betrayal of Banquo, from whom James claimed direct descent.
However, the play is clearly far more than a piece of royal entertainment. It is also a fast-moving and dramatically satisfying piece of theatre. Macbeth's existential struggle between loyalty to his King and his "Vaulting ambition" is fascinating to watch, as his is struggle with Lady Macbeth, and her own terrifying refusal of her maternal role. The play shows an intensification of Shakespeare's interest in mothers and their effect upon ruling masculinity, and also contains some of the most memorable speeches in the entire canon, including Macbeth's reflections that ultimately life "is a tale / Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, / Signifying nothing". --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Mansfield Parkby Jane AustenISBN 0786885246 (0-7868-8524-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mansfield Park'Book summary:Though Jane Austen was writing at a time when Gothic potboilers such as Ann Ward Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho and Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto were all the rage, she never got carried away by romance in her own novels. In Austen's ordered world, the passions that ruled Gothic fiction would be horridly out of place; marriage was, first and foremost, a contract, the bedrock of polite society. Certain rules applied to who was eligible and who was not, how one courted and married and what one expected afterwards. To flout these rules was to tear at the basic fabric of society, and the consequences could be terrible. Each of the six novels she completed in her lifetime are, in effect, comic cautionary tales that end happily for those characters who play by the rules and badly for those who don't. In Mansfield Park, for example, Austen gives us Fanny Price, a poor young woman who has grown up in her wealthy relatives' household without ever being accepted as an equal. The only one who has truly been kind to Fanny is Edmund Bertram, the younger of the family's two sons.
Into this Cinderella existence comes Henry Crawford and his sister, Mary, who are visiting relatives in the neighborhood. Soon Mansfield Park is given over to all kinds of gaiety, including a daring interlude spent dabbling in theatricals. Young Edmund is smitten with Mary, and Henry Crawford woos Fanny. Yet these two charming, gifted, and attractive siblings gradually reveal themselves to be lacking in one essential Austenian quality: principle. Without good principles to temper passion, the results can be disastrous, and indeed, Mansfield Park is rife with adultery, betrayal, social ruin, and ruptured friendships. But this is a comedy, after all, so there is also a requisite happy ending and plenty of Austen's patented gentle satire along the way. Describing the switch in Edmund's affections from Mary to Fanny, she writes: "I purposely abstain from dates on this occasion, that everyone may be at liberty to fix their own, aware that the cure of unconquerable passions, and the transfer of unchanging attachments, must vary much as to time in different people." What does not vary is the pleasure with which new generations come to Jane Austen. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Never Let Me Goby Kazuo IshiguroISBN 0786278374 (0-7862-7837-4)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Offsetting the bizarreness of these revelations is the placid, measured voice of the narrator, Kathy H., a 31-year-old Hailsham alumna who, at the close of the 1990s, is consciously ending one phase of her life and beginning another. She is in a reflective mood, and recounts not only her childhood memories, but her quest in adulthood to find out more about Hailsham and the idealistic women who ran it. Although often poignant, Kathy's matter-of-fact narration blunts the sharper emotional effects you might expect in a novel that deals with illness, self-sacrifice, and the severe restriction of personal freedoms. As in Ishiguro's best-known work, The Remains of the Day, only after closing the book do you absorb the magnitude of what his characters endure. --Regina Marler [via]
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On the down Low : A Journey into the Lives of "Straight" Black Men Who Sleep with Menby J. L. King, E. Lynn Harris, Karen HunterISBN 0767913981 (0-7679-1398-1)
Hardcover, Broadway Books
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On the Down Low: A Journey into the Lives of "Straight" Black Men Who Sleep With Menby Karen Hunter, J. L. KingISBN 076791399X (0-7679-1399-X)
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On the Job: Confronting The Labour Process in Canadaby Robert Storey, Craig HeronISBN 0773505997 (0-7735-0599-7)
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Parable of the Sowerby Octavia E. ButlerISBN 0785756175 (0-7857-5617-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Parable of the Sower'Book summary:Octavia E. Butler, the grande dame of science fiction, writes extraordinary, inspirational stories of ordinary people. Parable of the Sower is a hopeful tale set in a dystopian future United States of walled cities, disease, fires, and madness. Lauren Olamina is an 18-year-old woman with hyperempathy syndrome--if she sees another in pain, she feels their pain as acutely as if it were real. When her relatively safe neighborhood enclave is inevitably destroyed, along with her family and dreams for the future, Lauren grabs a backpack full of supplies and begins a journey north. Along the way, she recruits fellow refugees to her embryonic faith, Earthseed, the prime tenet of which is that "God is change." This is a great book--simple and elegant, with enough message to make you think, but not so much that you feel preached to. [via]
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Peter Panby J. M. Barrie, Eva Clift, D.J. ArnesonISBN 0766607658 (0-7666-0765-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Peter Pan'Book summary:"All children, except one, grow up." Thus begins a great classic of children's literature that we all remember as magical. What we tend to forget, because the tale of Peter Pan and Neverland has been so relentlessly boiled down, hashed up, and coated in saccharine, is that J.M. Barrie's original version is also witty, sophisticated, and delightfully odd. The Darling children, Wendy, John, and Michael, live a very proper middle-class life in Edwardian London, but they also happen to have a Newfoundland for a nurse. The text is full of such throwaway gems as "Mrs. Darling first heard of Peter Pan when she was tidying up her children's minds," and is peppered with deliberately obscure vocabulary including "embonpoint," "quietus," and "pluperfect." Lest we forget, it was written in 1904, a relatively innocent age in which a plot about abducted children must have seemed more safely fanciful. Also, perhaps, it was an age that expected more of its children's books, for Peter Pan has a suppleness, lightness, and intelligence that are "literary" in the best sense. In a typical exchange with the dastardly Captain Hook, Peter Pan describes himself as "youth... joy... a little bird that has broken out of the egg," and the author interjects: "This, of course, was nonsense; but it was proof to the unhappy Hook that Peter did not know in the least who or what he was, which is the very pinnacle of good form." A book for adult readers-aloud to revel in--and it just might teach young listeners to fly. (Ages 5 and older) --Richard Farr [via]
The Picture of Dorian Grayby Oscar Wilde, Peter AckroydISBN 0783815476 (0-7838-1547-6)
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The Quest of the Silver Fleeceby W. E. B. Du BoisISBN 0767918452 (0-7679-1845-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Quest of the Silver Fleece'Book summary:Originally published in 1911, The Quest of the Silver Fleece was the first novel to come from world-famous sociologist and civil-rights leader W.E.B. Du Bois. A controversial title of its time, the novel chronicles the complex interactions between Northern financing and Southern politics as it follows the story of free-spirited Zora, child of a Southern swamp, and her romance with Yankee-educated Bles, who will eventually face the opportunity to claim political power through corrupt means. In the middle of it all is the silver fleece, a crop of cotton rich with meaning and symbolism.
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In the tradition of other incendiary novels that explore market forces at the turn of the century, such as Frank Norriss The Pit and Upton Sinclairs The Jungle, The Quest of the Silver Fleece was seen as an economic study by Du Bois, yet it was also a romantic and otherwordly saga, loosely based on the Greek myth from which it takes its name. Using literary conventions to expose and oppose Americas views on race, Du Bois presents a sprawling and provocative work that continues to engage readers and inspire debate among literary scholars today.More editions of The Quest of the Silver Fleece:
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Reconstructing Gender: A Multicultural Anthologyby Estelle DischISBN 0767410025 (0-7674-1002-5)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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The Red Shoesby Michael Powell, Emeric PressburgerISBN 0786206748 (0-7862-0674-8)
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The Return of the Soldierby Rebecca WestISBN 0786703474 (0-7867-0347-4)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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The Rise and Fall of Gay Cultureby Daniel Harris, Richard KotISBN 0786861657 (0-7868-6165-7)
Hardcover, Hyperion Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rise and Fall of Gay Culture'Book summary:Daniel Harris comes on strong: "For far too long, the book trade has provided gay readers with nothing more than the literary equivalent of a warm glow, a soothing linguistic salve for the walking wounded, as if we were all still 13 and were all still mustering the courage to come out, as if, after 25 years of gay liberation, we all still needed to be scolded and cajoled into self-acceptance.... Homosexuals are not permanent intellectual convalescents. They are thriving, mentally, if not physically, and it is time that they remove their bandages, raise themselves off of the soft, snug, and commodious bed of uplifting ideology in which they have slept for decades, and face some important truths about a culture desperately in need of being shaken out of its complacency."
Harris musters an impressive body of evidence to show how many of the elements of gay culture are rooted not in a "psychological fetish" for, say, Bette Davis movies or shiny leather boots, but in a "social fetish"; gay men, in other words, bonded together over Hollywood divas and kinky sex because it's something they could do together that set them apart from their heterosexual peers. But as society becomes increasingly more tolerant of queerness, Harris argues, gay men feel less need to be culturally unique. And their culture slowly disappears into the mainstream. With its analyses of the deterioration of camp's hold over the gay community, the evolution of drag queens and leathermen, and the kitschy commodification of AIDS, The Rise and Fall of Gay Culture quickly became one of the most controversial gay-themed nonfiction works of the '90s when it was first published. It remains as provocative today. --Ron Hogan [via]
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Ruskin's Sesame and Lilies 1916by John Ruskin, Christopher R. RoundsISBN 0766170926 (0-7661-7092-6)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ruskin's Sesame and Lilies 1916'Book summary:1916. This volume is a part of the Eclectic English Classics Series. Ruskin wished to publish a connected series of such parts of his works as now seem to him right and likely to be of permanent use. Contains the following three lectures entitled: Of King's Treasuries; Of Queen's Gardens; Mystery of Life. [via]
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Sex & Gender: An Introductionby Hilary M LipsISBN 0767416147 (0-7674-1614-7)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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A Shining Thread of Hope : The History of Black Women in Americaby Darlene Clark Hine, Kathleen ThompsonISBN 076790110X (0-7679-0110-X)
Hardcover, Broadway Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Shining Thread of Hope : The History of Black Women in America'Book summary:This history of the experience of black women opens with an account of the life of Lucy Terry, who was brought as a slave to Deerfield, Massachusetts, when she was a child in about 1735. At 16, Terry wrote a poem, "Bars Fight," the first work of literature by a black American. Years later, married and free, Terry argued for the admission of her son to Williams College and, when a white man tried to take her family's land, she took the case to the U.S. Supreme Court. Terry's story is typical of those in A Shining Thread of Hope, which brings together centuries of achievement by black women. As coauthors Darlene Clark Hine and Kathleen Thompson put it, "The extraordinary achievements of black women in the 19th and 20th centuries did not grow out of degradation but out of a legacy of courage, resourcefulness, initiative, and dignity that goes back to 1619." [via]
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A Shining Thread of Hope: The History of Black Women in Americaby Kathleen Thompson, Darlene HineISBN 0767901118 (0-7679-0111-8)
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The Social Construction of Difference and Inequality : Race, Class, Gender, and Sexualityby Tracy E. OreISBN 0767429281 (0-7674-2928-1)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill Higher Education
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Spreading Misandry: The Teaching of Contempt for Men in Popular Cultureby Paul Nathanson, Katherine K. YoungISBN 0773530991 (0-7735-3099-1)
Softcover, McGill Queens Univ Pr
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Story of Eros & Psycheby Apuleius, Edward CarpenterISBN 0766144208 (0-7661-4420-8)
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Stupid White Men: And Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation!by Michael MooreISBN 0786244046 (0-7862-4404-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stupid White Men: And Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation!'Book summary:Stupid White Men, Michael Moore's screed against "Thief-in-Chief" George Bush's power elite, hit No. 1 at Amazon.com within days of publication. Why? It's as fulminating and crammed with infuriating facts as any right-wing bestseller, as irreverent as The Onion, and as noisily entertaining as a wrestling smackdown. Moore offers a more interesting critique of the 2000 election than Ralph Nader's Crashing the Party (he argued with Nader, his old boss, who sacked him), and he's serious when he advocates ousting Bush. But Moore's rage is outrageous, couched in shameless gags and madcap comedy: "Old white men wielding martinis and wearing dickies have occupied our nation's capital.... Launch the SCUD missiles! Bring us the head of Antonin Scalia!... We are no longer [able] to hold free and fair elections. We need U.N. observers, U.N. troops". Moore's ideas range from on-the-money (Arafat should beat Sharon with Gandhi's non-violent shame tactics) to over-the-top: blacks should put inflatable white dolls in their cars so racist cops will think they're chauffeurs; the ever-more-Republicanesque Democratic Party should be sued for fraud; "no contributions toward advancing our civilization ever came out of the South [except Faulkner, Hellman, and R.J. Reynolds]," because it's too hot to think straight there; Korean dictator Kim Jong-il "has got to broaden himself beyond porn and John Wayne" by watching better movies, like Dude, Where's My Car? (which contains "all you need to know about America"). Whatever your politics, Stupid White Men should make you blow your stack.--Tim Appelo [via]
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Summerby Edith WhartonISBN 0783818319 (0-7838-1831-9)
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To Kill a Mockingbirdby Harper LeeISBN 0771052340 (0-7710-5234-0)
Hardcover, McClelland & Stewart Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'To Kill a Mockingbird'Book summary:"When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.... When enough years had gone by to enable us to look back on them, we sometimes discussed the events leading to his accident. I maintain that the Ewells started it all, but Jem, who was four years my senior, said it started long before that. He said it began the summer Dill came to us, when Dill first gave us the idea of making Boo Radley come out."
Set in the small Southern town of Maycomb, Alabama, during the Depression, To Kill a Mockingbird follows three years in the life of 8-year-old Scout Finch, her brother, Jem, and their father, Atticus--three years punctuated by the arrest and eventual trial of a young black man accused of raping a white woman. Though her story explores big themes, Harper Lee chooses to tell it through the eyes of a child. The result is a tough and tender novel of race, class, justice, and the pain of growing up.
Like the slow-moving occupants of her fictional town, Lee takes her time getting to the heart of her tale; we first meet the Finches the summer before Scout's first year at school. She, her brother, and Dill Harris, a boy who spends the summers with his aunt in Maycomb, while away the hours reenacting scenes from Dracula and plotting ways to get a peek at the town bogeyman, Boo Radley. At first the circumstances surrounding the alleged rape of Mayella Ewell, the daughter of a drunk and violent white farmer, barely penetrate the children's consciousness. Then Atticus is called on to defend the accused, Tom Robinson, and soon Scout and Jem find themselves caught up in events beyond their understanding. During the trial, the town exhibits its ugly side, but Lee offers plenty of counterbalance as well--in the struggle of an elderly woman to overcome her morphine habit before she dies; in the heroism of Atticus Finch, standing up for what he knows is right; and finally in Scout's hard-won understanding that most people are essentially kind "when you really see them." By turns funny, wise, and heartbreaking, To Kill a Mockingbird is one classic that continues to speak to new generations, and deserves to be reread often. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Transsexuals: Life from Both Sidesby Lynn HubschmanISBN 078818749X (0-7881-8749-X)
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Tricks and Treats: Sex Workers Write about Their Clientsby Matt Bernstein SycamoreISBN 0789007037 (0-7890-0703-7)
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Undisciplined Women: Tradition and Culture in Canadaby Pauline Greenhill, Diane TyeISBN 077351614X (0-7735-1614-X)
Hardcover, McGill Queens Univ Pr
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Warrior Marksby Alice Walker, Pratibha ParmarISBN 0788155814 (0-7881-5581-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Warrior Marks'Book summary:Describes a unique film making journey, from Alice Walker's first letter to Pratibha Parmar proposing the idea of the film, to the many journal entries & observations each of them made along the way. From California to England to Senegal, The Gambia, & Burkina Faso, Warrior Marks follows Walker & Parmar as they interview people who are concerned with & affected by the practice of female genital mutilation. Includes transcripts of their interviews, 3 new poems by Alice Walker, & over 50 photos offering a vivid & poignant portrayal of the people & places they visited. The adventure of two remarkable women who together fulfilled a dream. [via]
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West With the Nightby Beryl MarkhamISBN 0785777032 (0-7857-7703-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'West With the Night'Book summary:One of the most beautifully crafted books I have ever read, with some of the most poetic prose passages I could imagine, such as the following, resonating with a stately and timeless quality so absent in our modern life:
There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different thing. There is the silence that comes with morning in a forest, and this is different from the silence of a sleeping city. There is silence after a rainstorm, and before a rainstorm, and these are not the same. There is the silence of emptiness, the silence of fear, the silence of doubt. There is a certain silence that can emanate from a lifeless object as from a chair lately used, or from a piano with old dust upon its keys, or from anything that has answered to the need of a man, for pleasure or for work. This kind of silence can speak. Its voice may be melancholy, but it is not always so; for the chair may have been left by a laughing child or the last notes of the piano may have been raucous and gay. Whatever the mood or the circumstance, the essence of its quality may linger in the silence that follows. It is a soundless echo.
Born in England in 1902, Markham was taken by her father to East Africa in 1906. She spent her childhood playing with native Maruni children and apprenticing with her father as a trainer and breeder of racehorses. In the 1930s, she became an African bush pilot, and in September 1936, became the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic from east to west. [via]More editions of West With the Night:
What Women Wantby Patricia IrelandISBN 0788158643 (0-7881-5864-3)
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Why Men Don't Have a Clue and Women Always Need More Shoes: The Ultimate Guide to the Opposite Sexby Allan Pease, Barbara PeaseISBN 0767916107 (0-7679-1610-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Why Men Don't Have a Clue and Women Always Need More Shoes: The Ultimate Guide to the Opposite Sex'Book summary:Do you know the top seven things men do that drive women nuts? Or the real reason women cry more than men do? What are men really looking for in a womanboth at first sight and for the long-term? These are only the starting points for Barbara and Allan Pease as they discuss the very realand often very funnydifferences between the sexes.
Why Men Dont Have a Clue and Women Always Need More Shoes takes a look at some of the issues that have confused men and women for centuries. Using new findings on the brain, studies of social changes, evolutionary biology, and psychology, the Peases teach you how to make the most of your relationshipsor at least begin to understand where your partner is coming from.
They help women understand why men avoid commitment, what drives them to lie, and how to decode male speech to find out what they are really saying. They explain to men why women nag, how they use emotional blackmail, and how to understand (and take advantage of!) the top-secret scoring system all women apply. They also dish about the top turn-ons--and turn-offs--for both sexes. Laced with their trademark humor, Why Men Dont Have a Clue and Women Always Need More Shoes addresses a host of nitty-gritty battlegrounds as well, from channel surfing and toilet seats to shopping and communication.
Already a #1 bestseller in the United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, Holland, Spain, Brazil, Portugal, Belgium, Ireland, France, Czech Republic, India, Singapore, Malaysia, South Africa, New Zealand, and Australia, Why Men Dont Have a Clue and Women Always Need More Shoes is the answer to understanding the opposite sex. [via]More editions of Why Men Don't Have a Clue and Women Always Need More Shoes: The Ultimate Guide to the Opposite Sex:
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Wickedby Gregory MaguireISBN 0786206438 (0-7862-0643-8)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wicked'Book summary:An astonishingly rich re-creation of the land of Oz, this book retells the story of Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, who wasn't so wicked after all. Taking readers past the yellow brick road and into a phantasmagoric world rich with imagination and allegory, Gregory Maguire just might change the reputation of one of the most sinister characters in literature. [via]
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The Wilder Shores of Loveby Lesley BlanchISBN 0786710306 (0-7867-1030-6)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wilder Shores of Love'Book summary:For the four women included in this classic volume of biography, the wilder shores of love lay east of their native Europein Arabia, for Victorian Isabel Arundell, who married the defiantly unorthodox social outlaw and adventurer Burton of Arabia; in a harem, for Aimee Dubucq de Rivery, a convent girl abducted by Corsair pirates and presented to the ruler of the Ottoman Empire; in Bedouin tents and the bed of Sheik Abdul Madjuel El Mezrab for the raffish divorcee Jane Digby; and in the Sahara, for the Russian-born Isabelle Eberhardt, who entered the world of desert Arabs dressed as a man. "Love, wanderlust, faraway placesall that Romance impliesmake up this delicious book.... Ideal reading."Washington Post Book World "A splendid quartet of biographies ... it is as engrossing a literary trip through the exotic East as I have taken."San Jose Mercury News "'A fabulous quartet' featuring four nineteenth-century women 'who out-dared the heroines of romance novels ... and swayed the course of empires.'"New York Times Book Review[via]More editions of The Wilder Shores of Love:
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Wilderness Tipsby Atwood, Margaret AtwoodISBN 0771008198 (0-7710-0819-8)
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The Woman's Dictionary of Symbols and Sacred Objectsby Barbara G. WalkerISBN 0785804609 (0-7858-0460-9)
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Women and Men in World Culturesby Laura F. KleinISBN 0767417690 (0-7674-1769-0)
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Women's Mysteries: Ancient and Modernby M. Esther HardingISBN 0766132730 (0-7661-3273-0)
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The Worm in the Budby Ronald PearsallISBN 0785822984 (0-7858-2298-4)
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