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Agnes Grey: Library Editionby Anne BronteISBN 159224517X (1-59224-517-X)
Softcover, Wildside Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Agnes Grey: Library Edition'Book summary:[via]Agnes Grey, by Anne Bronte, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:Written when womenand workers generallyhad few rights in England, Agnes Grey exposes the brutal inequities of the rigid class system in mid-nineteenth century Britain. Agnes comes from a respectable middle-class family, but their financial reverses have forced her to seek work as a governess. Pampered and protected at home, she is unprepared for the harsh reality of a governesss life. At the Bloomfields and later the Murrays, she suffers under the snobbery and sadism of the selfish, self-indulgent upper-class adults and the shrieking insolence of their spoiled children. Worse, the unique social and economic position of a governessbeneath her employers but above their servantscondemns her to a life of loneliness.
Less celebrated than her older sisters Charlotte and Emily, Anne Bronte was also less interested in spinning wildly symbolic, romantic tales and more determined to draw realistic images of conditions in Victorian England that need changing. While Charlottes Jane Eyre features a governess who eventually and improbably marries her employer, Agnes Grey deals with the actual experiences of middle-class working women, experiences Anne had herself endured during her hateful tenure as a governess.
Fred Schwarzbach serves as Associate Dean and teaches in the General Studies Program of New York University. He is the author of Dickens and the City, the editor of Victorian Artists and the City and Dickenss American Notes, a contributor to the Oxford Readers Companion to Dickens, and the author of scores of articles, essays, and reviews on Victorian life and letters.
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- Agnes Grey: Library Edition: ISBN 1593083238 (1-59308-323-8)
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- Agnes Grey: Library Edition: ISBN 1593083238 (1-59308-323-8)
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Almost French: Love And A New Life In Parisby Sarah TurnbullISBN 1592400825 (1-59240-082-5)
Softcover, Gotham Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Almost French: Love And A New Life In Paris'Book summary:The charming true story of a spirited young woman who finds adventure--and the love of her life--in Paris.
"This isn't like me. I'm not the sort of girl who crosses continents to meet up with a man she hardly knows. Paris hadn't even been part of my travel plan..."
A delightful, fresh twist on the travel memoir, Almost French takes us on a tour that is fraught with culture clashes but rife with deadpan humor. Sarah Turnbull's stint in Paris was only supposed to last a week. Chance had brought Sarah and Frédéric together in Bucharest, and on impulse she decided to take him up on his offer to visit him in the world's most romantic city. Sacrificing Vegemite for vichyssoise, the feisty Sydney journalist does her best to fit in, although her conversation, her laugh, and even her wardrobe advertise her foreigner status.
But as she navigates the highs and lows of this strange new world, from life in a bustling quatier and surviving Parisian dinner parties to covering the haute couture fashion shows and discovering the hard way the paradoxes of France today, little by little Sarah falls under its spell: maddening, mysterious, and charged with that French specialty-séduction.
An entertaining tale of being a fish out of water, Almost French is an enthralling read as Sarah Turnbull leads us on a magical tour of this seductive place-and culture-that has captured her heart. [via]More editions of Almost French: Love And A New Life In Paris:
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The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativityby Julia CameronISBN 1585421464 (1-58542-146-4)
Softcover, J P Tarcher
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity'Book summary:With the basic principle that creative expression is the natural direction of life, Julia Cameron and Mark Bryan lead you through a comprehensive twelve-week program to recover your creativity from a variety of blocks, including limiting beliefs, fear, self-sabotage, jealousy, guilt, addictions, and other inhibiting forces, replacing them with artistic confidence and productivity.
This book links creativity to spirituality by showing how to connect with the creative energies of the universe, and has, in the four years since its publication, spawned a remarkable number of support groups for artists dedicated to practicing the exercises it contains. [via]
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Breath, Eyes, Memory: A Novelby Edwidge DanticatISBN 1569471428 (1-56947-142-8)
Hardcover, Soho Press, Incorporated
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Called to Question: A Spiritual Memoirby Joan ChittisterISBN 1580511430 (1-58051-143-0)
Hardcover, Sheed & Ward
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The Complete Hothead Paisanby Diane DimassaISBN 1573440841 (1-57344-084-1)
Softcover, Cleis Pr
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Getting Publishedby Sheree Bykofsky, Jennifer Basye SanderISBN 1592571212 (1-59257-121-2)
Softcover, Alpha Books
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A Complicated Kindnessby Miriam ToewsISBN 1582433224 (1-58243-322-4)
Softcover, Counterpoint
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Complicated Kindness'Book summary:A landmark literary novel, balancing unbearable sadness and beauty in the voice of a witty, beleaguered teen-ager whose family is destroyed by fundamentalist Christianity "Half of our family, the better-looking half, is missing," Nomi tells us at the beginning of A Complicated Kindness. Left alone with her sad, peculiar father, her days are spent piecing together why her mother and sister have disappeared and contemplating her inevitable career at Happy Family Farms, a chicken slaughterhouse on the outskirts of East Village-not the East Village in New York City where Nomi would prefer to live, but a dull, oppressive town founded by Mennonites on the cold, flat plains of Manitoba, Canada.This moving, darkly funny novel is the world according to Nomi Nickel, a bewildered and wry sixteen-year-old trapped in a town governed by fundamentalist religion. In Nomi's droll, refreshing voice, we're told the story of her eccentric, touching family as it falls apart, each member on a collision course with the only community they have ever known. A work of fierce humor and tragedy by a writer poised to take the American market by storm, this searing, tender, comic testament to family love will break your heart. [via]
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Confessions of a Pagan Nunby Kate HorsleyISBN 1570629137 (1-57062-913-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Confessions of a Pagan Nun'Book summary:This moving and subtle tale both embodies and confirms the enduring power of language. Gwynneve (Gwi-NEEV) is raised in a village of fishermen and pigkeepers at the height of Ireland's transition from Paganism to Christianity. All around her the new doctrines of Patrick and the "tonsured men" are inexorably driving out the old Druid ways. When Gwynneve loses the two figures she loved the mosther mother succumbing to disease, her outspoken Druid teacher abducted by his enemiesshe leaves her village and finally takes refuge in the convent of Saint Brigit. Of her past life and loves she retains only intangibles: her mother's love of nature and independent mind, her teacher's gift of literacy and addiction to truth. Clinging to the one constant and comforting force in her lifethe power of words, and their offer of immortality to those who set them downshe records her memories surreptitiously, interrupting her assigned tasks of transcribing Patrick and Augustine. But disturbing events from the present keep intervening. Finally, her headstrong ways and growing criticism of the monastery's new abbot lead to the accusation that she consorts with demons. The story's tragic conclusion confirms both Gwynneve's fears and her powers: centuries after she and her tormentors sink back into the Irish earth, her words remain to haunt and inspire us. [via]
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Cunt: A Declaration of Independenceby Inga Muscio, Betty DodsonISBN 1580050751 (1-58005-075-1)
Softcover, Seal Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cunt: A Declaration of Independence'Book summary:The author reclaims the word, which has been a taboo word for many years, as a powerful and positive term than can unite all women. In it, she explores feminist issues such as birth control, sexuality, jealousy between women, and prostitution, with a fresh attitude for a new generation of women. [via]
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Elizabeth Costelloby J. M. CoetzeeISBN 1587246678 (1-58724-667-8)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Elizabeth Costello'Book summary:For South African writer J.M. Coetzee, winner of two Booker Prizes and the 2003 Nobel Prize for Literature, the world of receiving literary awards and giving speeches must be such a commonplace that he has put the circuit at the center of his book, Elizabeth Costello. As the work opens, in fact, the eponymous Elizabeth, a fictional novelist, is in Williamstown, Pennsylvania, to receive the Stowe Award. For her speech at the Williamstown's Altona College she chooses the tired topic, "What Is Realism?" and quickly loses her audience in her unfocused discussion of Kafka. From there, readers follow her to a cruise ship where she is virtually imprisoned as a celebrity lecturer to the ship's guests. Next, she is off to Appleton College where she delivers the annual Gates Lecture. Later, she will even attend a graduation speech.
Coetzee has made this project difficult for himself. Occasional writing--writing that includes graduation speeches, acceptance speeches, or even academic lectures--is a less than auspicious form around which to build a long work of fiction. A powerful central character engaged in a challenging stage of life might sustain such a work. Yet, at the start, Coetzee declares that Elizabeth is "old and tired," and her best book, The House on Eccles Street is long in her past. Elizabeth Costello lacks a progressive plot and offers little development over the course of each new performance at the lectern. Readers are given Elizabeth fully formed with only brief glimpses of her past sexual dalliances and literary efforts.
In the end, Elizabeth Costello seems undecided about its own direction. When Elizabeth is brought to a final reckoning at the gates of the afterlife, she begins to suspect that she is actually in hell, "or at least purgatory: a purgatory of clichés." Perhaps Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello, which can be read as an extended critique of clichéd writing, is a portrait of this purgatory. While some readers may find Coetzee's philosophical prose sustenance enough on the journey, some will turn back at the gate. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
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Elle Humourby Julie DoucetISBN 1584232463 (1-58423-246-3)
Hardcover, Gingko Pr Inc
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Everyday Grace: Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness and Making Miraclesby Marianne WilliamsonISBN 1573222305 (1-57322-230-5)
Hardcover, Riverhead Books
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Faking Itby Jennifer CrusieISBN 1585472794 (1-58547-279-4)
Hardcover, Center Point Pub
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Goddess of the Americas / La Diosa De Las Americas: Writings on the Virgin of Guadalupeby Ana CastilloISBN 1573220299 (1-57322-029-9)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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Goddess of the Americas: Writings on the Virgin of Guadalupeby Ana CastilloISBN 1573226300 (1-57322-630-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Good Earthby Pearl S. BuckISBN 1587249057 (1-58724-905-7)
Softcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Good Earth'Book summary:The story begins on the wedding day of farmer Wang Lung and follows his simple, often one-sided view of the Chinese culture, times, and his connection with the land. The land is a recurring theme throughout the novel, seemingly nurtured by the apparent protagonists, rejected and ruined by the antagonists. The author uses the House of Hwang, a nearby house of nobles, to contrast and predict their rise and fall. As the House of Hwang meets its slow and desperate end, Wang Lung rises.
However, as the weather turns disastrous for farming, Wang Lung's family has to flee to the city to scrape out a meager living. Upon returning home, the family fares better. Wang Lung eventually becomes a prosperous man, his rise contrasting with the downfall of the Hwang family, who lose their connection to the land. At the end of the novel, when Wang Lung is an old man, he overhears his sons plotting to sell some of the land, thus showing the end of the cycle of wealth and downfall. [via]
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Happeningby Annie Ernaux, Tanya LeslieISBN 1583222561 (1-58322-256-1)
Hardcover, Seven Stories Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Happening'Book summary:In 1963, Annie Ernaux, 23 and unattached, realizes she is pregnant. Shame arises in her like a plague: Understanding that her pregnancy will mark her and her family as social failures, she knows she cannot keep that child.
This is the story, written forty years later, of a trauma Ernaux never overcame. In a France where abortion was illegal, she attempted, in vain, to self-administer the abortion with a knitting needle. Fearful and desperate, she finally located an abortionist, and ends up in a hospital emergency ward where she nearly dies.
In Happening, Ernaux sifts through her memories and her journal entries dating from those days. Clearly, cleanly, she gleans the meanings of her experience. [via]More editions of Happening:
If I Had My Life to Live over I Would Pick More Daisiesby Sandra MartzISBN 1576010813 (1-57601-081-3)
Softcover, Papier Mache Pr
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Imagining Ourselves: Global Voices from a New Generation of Womenby Paula Goldman, Isabel AllendeISBN 1577315243 (1-57731-524-3)
Softcover, New World Library
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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrellby Susanna ClarkeISBN 1582346038 (1-58234-603-8)
Softcover, Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell'Book summary:It's 1808 and that Corsican upstart Napoleon is battering the English army and navy. Enter Mr. Norrell, a fusty but ambitious scholar from the Yorkshire countryside and the first practical magician in hundreds of years. What better way to demonstrate his revival of British magic than to change the course of the Napoleonic wars? Susanna Clarke's ingenious first novel, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, has the cleverness and lightness of touch of the Harry Potter series, but is less a fairy tale of good versus evil than a fantastic comedy of manners, complete with elaborate false footnotes, occasional period spellings, and a dense, lively mythology teeming beneath the narrative. Mr. Norrell moves to London to establish his influence in government circles, devising such powerful illusions as an 11-day blockade of French ports by English ships fabricated from rainwater. But however skillful his magic, his vanity provides an Achilles heel, and the differing ambitions of his more glamorous apprentice, Jonathan Strange, threaten to topple all that Mr. Norrell has achieved. A sparkling debut from Susanna Clarke--and it's not all fairy dust. --Regina Marler [via]
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Kafka in Brontdland And Other Storiesby Tamar YellinISBN 1592641539 (1-59264-153-9)
Softcover, Toby Pr
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Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories That Healby Rachel Naomi RemenISBN 1573220426 (1-57322-042-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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LA Batardeby Derek Coltman, Violette LeducISBN 1573226092 (1-57322-609-2)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'LA Batarde'Book summary:In her second revealing memoir of literary Paris, Leduc shares her insights into a post-War Parisian scene dominated by the likes of Camus, Genet, Sartre, Cocteau, and Simone de Beauvoir, who became her mentor for a time. Original. [via]
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The Lady and the Unicornby Tracy ChevalierISBN 1587246147 (1-58724-614-7)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lady and the Unicorn'Book summary:If you think you wouldn't raise your skirts for a rakish legend about the purifying powers of a unicorn's horn, then maybe you aren't a 15th-century serving girl under the sway of a velvet-tongued court painter of ill repute. In keeping with her bestselling Girl with a Pearl Earring, and its Edwardian-era follow-up, Falling Angels, Tracy Chevalier's tale of artistic creation and late-medieval amours, The Lady and the Unicorn is a subtle study in social power, and the conflicts between love and duty. Nicolas des Innocents has been commissioned by the Parisian nobleman Jean Le Viste to design a series of large tapestries for his great hall (in real life, the famous Lady and the Unicorn cycle, now in Paris's Musee National du Moyen-Age Thermes de Cluny). While Nicolas is measuring the walls, he meets a beautiful girl who turns out to be Jean Le Viste's daughter. Their passion is impossible for their world--so forbidden, given their class differences, that its only avenue of expression turns out to be those magnificent tapestries. The historical evidence on which this story is based is slight enough to allow the full play of Chevalier's imagination in this cleverly woven tale. --Regina Marler [via]
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Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art Of Happinessby Sharon Salzberg, Joh Kabat-ZinnISBN 157062903X (1-57062-903-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art Of Happiness'Book summary:Sharon Salzberg, a meditation teacher and the founder of the Insight Meditation Society in Massachusetts, focuses on a kind of Buddhist practice that emphasizes feelings of love, happiness, and compassion. Metta, or "lovingkindness," meditation involves four phrases: "May I be free from danger"; "May I have mental happiness"; "May I have physical happiness"; "May I have ease of well-being." (Some readers will find this surprising, since the most commonly known meditation techniques have little "content"--you simply repeat a single word or phrase, observe your breath, or observe your thoughts as they pass through your mind.) Other exercises in this book are intended to increase your connection to and intimacy with others, by directing these positive sentiments outward toward specific people or the world in general. This book will probably be best appreciated by those who have some experience with meditation already, but anyone can appreciate the way it takes a practice often considered mystical and turns it into a means of creating joy. --Ben Kallen [via]
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Lovingkindness : The Revolutionary Art of Happinessby Jon Kabat-Zinn, Sharon SalzbergISBN 1590301870 (1-59030-187-0)
Hardcover, Shambhala Publications, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lovingkindness : The Revolutionary Art of Happiness'Book summary:Sharon Salzberg, a meditation teacher and the founder of the Insight Meditation Society in Massachusetts, focuses on a kind of Buddhist practice that emphasizes feelings of love, happiness, and compassion. Metta, or "lovingkindness," meditation involves four phrases: "May I be free from danger"; "May I have mental happiness"; "May I have physical happiness"; "May I have ease of well-being." (Some readers will find this surprising, since the most commonly known meditation techniques have little "content"--you simply repeat a single word or phrase, observe your breath, or observe your thoughts as they pass through your mind.) Other exercises in this book are intended to increase your connection to and intimacy with others, by directing these positive sentiments outward toward specific people or the world in general. This book will probably be best appreciated by those who have some experience with meditation already, but anyone can appreciate the way it takes a practice often considered mystical and turns it into a means of creating joy. --Ben Kallen [via]
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Mad in Pursuitby Violette LeducISBN 1573227404 (1-57322-740-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Madame Sadayakko: The Geisha Who Bewitched the Westby Lesley DownerISBN 1592400507 (1-59240-050-7)
Softcover, Gotham Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Madame Sadayakko: The Geisha Who Bewitched the West'Book summary:A critically acclaimed author tells the enthralling true story of the real Madame Butterfly, a woman who became the most celebrated geisha in Japan and the first to tour the West.
At twenty-nine, she captivated the worlds stage. From San Francisco to New York, Paris, and Berlin, audiences thrilled to her mesmeric acting and exquisite dancing. She performed for the American President and for the Prince of Wales in London. Picasso painted her. Gide, Debussy, Degas, and Rodin were among her devoted fans. She was Sadayakko, Japans most notorious geishaand its first international superstar.
In Italy, Puccini was working on Madame Butterfly. He had the plot for his opera, but he had yet to see a real live flesh-and-blood Japanese womanuntil Sadayakko arrived with her troupe of traveling actors.
Madame Sadayakko is the true story of this extraordinary womanmuse to writers, artists, and fashion designers. Her adventures lift the veil on the secretive world of the geisha and reveal a missing piece of history from the turn of the last century, when Japanese women wore bustles and learned the waltz and women in the West wore Sadayakko kimonos. [via]
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The Memory Keeper's Daughterby Kim EdwardsISBN 159413197X (1-59413-197-X)
Softcover, Large Print Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Memory Keeper's Daughter'Book summary:On a winter night in 1964, Dr. David Henry is forced by a blizzard to deliver his own twins. His son, born first, is perfectly healthy. Yet when his daughter is born, he sees immediately that she has Down's Syndrome. Rationalizing it as a need to protect Norah, his wife, he makes a split-second decision that will alter all of their lives forever. He asks his nurse to take the baby away to an institution and never to reveal the secret.But Caroline, the nurse, cannot leave the infant. Instead, she disappears into another city to raise the child herself. So begins this beautifully told story that unfolds over a quarter of a century in which these two families, ignorant of each other, are yet bound by the fateful decision made that long-ago winter night. [via]
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The Mermaid Chairby Sue Monk KiddISBN 1585476323 (1-58547-632-3)
Hardcover, Center Point Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mermaid Chair'Book summary:Sue Monk Kidd's The Mermaid Chair is the soulful tale of Jessie Sullivan, a middle-aged woman whose stifled dreams and desires take shape during an extended stay on Egret Island, where she is caring for her troubled mother, Nelle. Like Kidd's stunning debut novel, The Secret Life of Bees, her highly anticipated follow up evokes the same magical sense of whimsy and poignancy.
While Kidd places an obvious importance on the role of mysticism and legend in this tale, including the mysterious mermaid's chair at the center of the island's history, the relationships between characters is what gives this novel its true weight. Once she returns to her childhood home, Jessie is forced to confront not only her relationship with her estranged mother, but her other emotional ties as well. After decades of marriage to Hugh, her practical yet conventional husband, Jessie starts to question whether she is craving an independence she never had the chance to experience. After she meets Brother Thomas, a handsome monk who has yet to take his final vows, Jessie is forced to decide whether passion can coexist with comfort, or if the two are mutually exclusive. As her soul begins to reawaken, Jessie must also confront the circumstances of her father's death, a tragedy that continues to haunt Jessie and Nelle over thirty years later.
By boldly tackling such major themes as love, betrayal, grief, and forgiveness, The Mermaid Chair forces readers to question whether moral issues can always be interpreted in black or white. It is this ability to so gracefully present multiple sides of a story that reinforces Kidd's reputation as a well-respected modern literary voice. --Gisele Toueg [via]
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Midnight At The Dragon Cafeby Judy Fong BatesISBN 1582431892 (1-58243-189-2)
Softcover, Counterpoint
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Midnight At The Dragon Cafe'Book summary:The life of a young Chinese girl is torn apart by dark family secrets and divided loyalties in a small Ontario town in the 1950s. Judy Fong Bates's fresh and engaging first novel is the story of Su-Jen Chou, a Chinese girl growing up the only daughter of an unhappy and isolated immigrant family in a small Ontario town in the 1950s. Through Su-Jen's eyes we see the hard life behind the scenes at the Dragon Caf, the local diner her family runs. Her half-brother Lee-Kung smolders under the responsibilities he must carry as the dutiful Chinese son. Her mother, beautiful but bitter, lays her hopes and dreams on Su-Jen's shoulders, until she turns to find solace in the most forbidden of places, while Su-Jen's elderly father strives to hek fuh, swallow bitterness, and save face at all costs. [via]
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My Grandfather's Blessings: Stories of Strength, Refuge and Belongingby Rachel Naomi RemenISBN 1573228567 (1-57322-856-7)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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The Natural Artistry of Dreams : Creative Ways to Bring the Wisdom of Dreams to Waking Lifeby Jill MellickISBN 1573240192 (1-57324-019-2)
Softcover, Red Wheel/Weiser
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Nervous Conditionsby Tsitsi DangarembgaISBN 1580050638 (1-58005-063-8)
Softcover, Seal Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nervous Conditions'Book summary:Set in the late 1960's -- 1970's, Tsitsi Dangarembga's 1988 novel "Nervous Conditions" (1988) tells the story of an adolescent girl growing up in rural Rhodesia (Zimbabwe). The author is a Zimbabwe native who earned a medical degree and lived in Germany and England before returning to her native country. She has become a full-time writer of novels, plays, and films. "Nervous Conditions" is the first book of a projected trilogy. The second book "The Book of Not" was published in 2006. [via]
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The New Fuck You: Adventures in Lesbian Readingby Eileen MylesISBN 1570270570 (1-57027-057-0)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in Americaby Barbara EhrenreichISBN 1587243687 (1-58724-368-7)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America'Book summary:Essayist and cultural critic Barbara Ehrenreich has always specialized in turning received wisdom on its head with intelligence, clarity, and verve. With some 12 million women being pushed into the labor market by welfare reform, she decided to do some good old-fashioned journalism and find out just how they were going to survive on the wages of the unskilled--at $6 to $7 an hour, only half of what is considered a living wage. So she did what millions of Americans do, she looked for a job and a place to live, worked that job, and tried to make ends meet.
As a waitress in Florida, where her name is suddenly transposed to "girl," trailer trash becomes a demographic category to aspire to with rent at $675 per month. In Maine, where she ends up working as both a cleaning woman and a nursing home assistant, she must first fill out endless pre-employment tests with trick questions such as "Some people work better when they're a little bit high." In Minnesota, she works at Wal-Mart under the repressive surveillance of men and women whose job it is to monitor her behavior for signs of sloth, theft, drug abuse, or worse. She even gets to experience the humiliation of the urine test.
So, do the poor have survival strategies unknown to the middle class? And did Ehrenreich feel the "bracing psychological effects of getting out of the house, as promised by the wonks who brought us welfare reform?" Nah. Even in her best-case scenario, with all the advantages of education, health, a car, and money for first month's rent, she has to work two jobs, seven days a week, and still almost winds up in a shelter. As Ehrenreich points out with her potent combination of humor and outrage, the laws of supply and demand have been reversed. Rental prices skyrocket, but wages never rise. Rather, jobs are so cheap as measured by the pay that workers are encouraged to take as many as they can. Behind those trademark Wal-Mart vests, it turns out, are the borderline homeless. With her characteristic wry wit and her unabashedly liberal bent, Ehrenreich brings the invisible poor out of hiding and, in the process, the world they inhabit--where civil liberties are often ignored and hard work fails to live up to its reputation as the ticket out of poverty. --Lesley Reed [via]
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Night Shadeby Victoria A. Brownworth, Judith M. ReddingISBN 1580050247 (1-58005-024-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Night Shade'Book summary:Gothic fiction transforms normality--the supernatural becomes the everyday, human fears are exaggerated, familiar landscapes are turned into places that are strange and bizarre. Female writers have inhabited this landscape for generations. Mary Shelley, Anne Rice and Angela Carter are just three of the more famous dark divas. Now some less well-known voices have their say in Night Shade: Gothic Tales by Women. The 17 short stories take place in everyday settings--contemporary houses, a bar, a veterinary hospital. Yet in this collection, the familiar is subverted. In Roz Warren's The Birthday Present, a quite ordinary young woman is given a special gift on her 25th birthday--the powers of shapeshifting. When she falls in love with a married man, Liza morphs herself into a body that this man will find irresistible.
Continuing the theme of metamorphosis--Lisa D. Williamson's The Existential Housewife is the story of a frustrated homemaker who develops the ability to transform her hands into household objects. As Mel's anger and boredom at her domestic confines intensifies, so her hands take on more sinister characteristics. Her fingers "morphed into sharp, curved blades, deadly looking files and long, pointed knives." Her husband will do well to watch his back!
Night Shade is a melting pot of the erotic, the supernatural and the gloriously gory. Fans of the gothic will eat it up. --Naomi Gesinger, Amazon.com [via]
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The Oy of Sex : Jewish Women Write Eroticaby Marcy SheinerISBN 1573440833 (1-57344-083-3)
Softcover, Cleis Press
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Party, After You Leftby Roz ChastISBN 1582343772 (1-58234-377-2)
Hardcover, Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA
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Persepolisby Marjane SatrapiISBN 1594970351 (1-59497-035-1)
Softcover, Public Square Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Persepolis'Book summary:Description del libro en espanol: Persepolis ganadora del Premio al Mejor Guion de Angouleme 2002, e una historia autobiografica de Marjane Satrapi que ahonda en los limites de la libertad y analiza, a traves de la mirada fresca e inocente de una nina, la tambaleante situacion politica e ideologica de su pais. En tres volumenes. Book Description in English: Editorial Review. . .Originally published to wide critical acclaim in France, where it elicited comparisons to Art Spiegelman's Maus, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi's wise, funny, and heartbreaking memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran from ages six to fourteen, years that saw the overthrow of the Shah's regime, the triumph of the Islamic Revolution, and the devastating effects of war with Iraq. The intelligent and outspoken only child of committed Marxists and the great-granddaughter of one of Iran's last emperors, Marjane bears witness to a childhood uniquely entwined with the history of her country. Persepolis paints an unforgettable portrait of daily life in Iran: of the bewildering contradictions between home life and public life and of the enormous toll repressive regimes exact on the individual spirit. Marjane's child's-eye-view of dethroned emperors, state-sanctioned whippings, and heroes of the revolution allows us to learn as she does the history of this fascinating country and of her own extraordinary family. Intensely personal, profoundly political, and wholly original, Persepolis is at once a story of growing up and a stunning reminder of the human cost of war and political repression. It shows how we carry on, through laughter and tears, in the face of absurdity. And, finally, it introduces us to an irresistible little girl with whom we cannot help but fall in love. In three volumes. [via]
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Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faithby Anne LamottISBN 1594481571 (1-59448-157-1)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Plan B: Further Thoughts On Faith'Book summary:Few people can write about faith, parenting, and relationships as can the talented, irreverent Anne Lamott. With characteristic black humor, ("Everyone has been having a hard time with life this year; not with all of it, just the waking hours") she updates us on the ongoing mayhem of her life since Traveling Mercies, and continues to unfold her spiritual journey.
Plan B finds Lamott wrestling with mid-life hormones and weight gain while parenting Sam, now a teenager with his own set of raging hormones. Her observations cover everything from starting a Sunday school to grief over the death of her beloved dog, Sadie; lamenting the war to bitterness over her relationship with her now-departed mother.
As she tugs and pokes out the knots in a slender gold chain necklace, it becomes a metaphor for letting go and learning to forgive. "&any willingness to let go inevitably comes from pain; and the desire to change changes you, and jiggles the spirit, gets to it somehow, to the deepest, hardest, most ruined parts." Its her willingness to show us the knotted-up, "ruined parts" of her life that make this collection of sometimes uneven essays so compelling.
"Everything feels crazy," writes Lamott, adding, "But on small patches of earth all over, I can see just as much messy mercy and grace as ever&." Lamotts essays will serve as reminders to readers of the patches of messy mercy and grace in a chaotic world.--Cindy Crosby [via]
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Poemsby Emily Dickinson, Brenda HillmanISBN 1570620997 (1-57062-099-7)
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The Professorby Charlotte BronteISBN 1582870950 (1-58287-095-0)
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Queen Of Dreamsby Chitra Banerjee DivakaruniISBN 158724859X (1-58724-859-X)
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The Reefby Edith WhartonISBN 1598182420 (1-59818-242-0)
Softcover, Alan Rodgers Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Reef'Book summary:When she was young, Anna Summers married a wealthy American named Fraser Leath, whose one real passion was his collection of snuffboxes. Really! Wouldn't you just know how well that'd work out? And then Mr. Snuffbox snuffs it, and Anna runs into an old acquaintance, George Darrow, who still wants to marry her. Until he gets involved with a poor girl named Sophie Viner . . . It sounds like the stuff of soap opera, but this is an Edith Wharton novel. And it really is something special, even if the plot does sound like something from The Days of Our Lives. If you haven't read Edith Wharton, you're in for a treat. [via]
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Reunion: A Year in Letters Between a Birthmother and the Daughter She Couldn't Keepby Katie Hern, Ellen McGarry CarlsonISBN 1580050301 (1-58005-030-1)
Softcover, Seal Pr
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Saving Fish from Drowningby Amy TanISBN 1594131627 (1-59413-162-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Saving Fish from Drowning'Book summary:Amy Tan, who has an unerring eye for relationships between mothers and daughters, especially Chinese-American, has departed from her well-known genre in Saving Fish From Drowning. She would be well advised to revisit that theme which she writes about so well.
The title of the book is derived from the practice of Myanmar fishermen who "scoop up the fish and bring them to shore. They say they are saving the fish from drowning. Unfortunately... the fish do not recover," This kind of magical thinking or hypocrisy or mystical attitude or sheer stupidity is a fair metaphor for the entire book. It may be read as a satire, a political statement, a picaresque tale with several "picaros" or simply a story about a tour gone wrong.
Bibi Chen, San Francisco socialite and art vendor to the stars, plans to lead a trip for 12 friends: "My friends, those lovers of art, most of them rich, intelligent, and spoiled, would spend a week in China and arrive in Burma on Christmas Day." Unfortunately, Bibi dies, in very strange circumstances, before the tour begins. After wrangling about it, the group decides to go after all. The leader they choose is indecisive and epileptic, a dangerous combo. Bibi goes along as the disembodied voice-over.
Once in Myanmar, finally, they are noticed by a group of Karen tribesmen who decide that Rupert, the 15-year-old son of a bamboo grower is, in fact, Younger White Brother, or The Lord of the Nats. He can do card tricks and is carrying a Stephen King paperback. These are adjudged to be signs of his deity and ability to save them from marauding soldiers. The group is "kidnapped," although they think they are setting out for a Christmas Day surprise, and taken deep into the jungle where they languish, develop malaria, learn to eat slimy things and wait to be rescued. Nats are "believed to be the spirits of nature--the lake, the trees, the mountains, the snakes and birds. They were numberless ... They were everywhere, as were bad luck and the need to find reasons for it." Philosophy or cynicism? This elusive point of view is found throughout the novel--a bald statement is made and then Tan pulls her punches as if she is unwilling to make a statement that might set a more serious tone.
There are some goofy parts about Harry, the member of the group who is left behind, and his encounter with two newswomen from Global News Network, some slapstick sex scenes and a great deal of dog-loving dialogue. These all contribute to a novel that is silly but not really funny, could have an occasionally serious theme which suddenly disappears, and is about a group of stereotypical characters that it's hard to care about. It was time for Amy Tan to write another book; too bad this was it. --Valerie Ryan [via]
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Sex Work: Writings by Women in the Sex Industryby Frederique Delacoste, Priscilla AlexanderISBN 1573440426 (1-57344-042-6)
Softcover, Cleis Pr
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The Shooting Partyby Isabel ColegateISBN 1582432228 (1-58243-222-8)
Softcover, Counterpoint
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Shooting Party'Book summary:It is the autumn of 1913. Sir Randolph Nettleby has assembled a brilliant array of guests at his Oxfordshire estate for the biggest hunt of the season. An army of gamekeepers, beaters, and servants has rehearsed the intricate age-old ritual, the gentlemen are falling into the prescribed mode of fellowship and sporting rivalry, the ladies intrigued by the latest gossip and fashion. Everything about this splendid weekend would seem a perfect consummation of the pleasures afforded the privileged in Edwardian England. And yet it is not: the moral and social code of this group is not so secure as it appears. Competition beyond the bounds of sportsmanship, revulsion at the slaughter of the animals, anger at the inequities of class --these forces are about to rise up and engulf the assured social peace, a peace that can last only a brief while longer. In imagining Sir Randolph's shooting party, wrote The Spectator, "Miss Colegate has found a perfect metaphor for the passing of a way of life." [via]
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Silas Marnerby George ElliotISBN 1591940486 (1-59194-048-6)
Softcover, Townsend Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Silas Marner'Book summary:This Townsend Library classic has been carefully edited to be more accessible to today's students. It includes a background note about the book, an author's biography, and a lively afterword. Acclaimed by educators nationwide, the Townsend Library is helping millions of young adults discover the pleasure and power of reading. [via]
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Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloeby George Eliot, Andrew Jay HoffmanISBN 1578400503 (1-57840-050-3)
Softcover, Acclaim Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe'Book summary:This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Classic" includes a glossary and reader's notes to help the modern reader contend with Eliot's subtle themes and language.
Silas Marner, which first appeared in 1861, is a tale about life, love, and the need to belong. Accused of a crime he didn't commit and unjustly forced from his home town, Silas lives a reclusive and godless life, finding love and companionship only in material objects. It will take the theft of his gold and the discovery of an abandoned infant to remind him of the importance of human relationships and faith.
Mary Ann Evans, writing under her pen name of George Eliot, carefully weaves the interaction of plot and character, and, in so doing, depicts Silas Marner's redemption and rebirth through his love and protection of the orphaned girl and the possibility of losing her. Throughout the book, Eliot also takes the opportunity to voice her feelings about industrialization, religion, and social class distinctions. [via]
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Slaveby Damien Lewis, Nazer & LewisISBN 1586483188 (1-58648-318-8)
Softcover, Public Affairs
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Slaveby Mende Nazer, Damien LewisISBN 1586482122 (1-58648-212-2)
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Songs of Love and War: Afghan Women's Poetryby Marjolijn De Jager, Andre Velter, Baha al-Din Majruh, Sayd Bahodine MajrouhISBN 159051081X (1-59051-081-X)
Softcover, Other Pr Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Songs of Love and War: Afghan Women's Poetry'Book summary:The preeminent Afghan poet of the twentieth century, Sayd Bahodine Majrouh, has here collected the songs of anonymous Pashtun women from the time of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan.
These landays consist of two-line verses of nine and thirteen syllables. Their brevity and rhythm are meant to catch the ear. Village women improvise landays as they gather water from springs and when they dance and sing at weddings, with the most resonant of them claimed by their collective memory.
As part of an oral tradition, these poems avoid the complex, mystical, and abstract forms of their cultural canon. There is no aspiration whatsoever toward an unfathomable and incommunicable heaven, nor devotion to the lord, nor praise for an absolute master, nor any Adonis. To the contrary these poems are songs of the earth.
Here the active voice of the Afghan woman affirms simple pleasures and bemoans widespread suffering. The poems celebrate nature, mountains, rivers, dawn, and night's magnetic space. They are songs of war and honor, shame and love, death and beauty. [via]More editions of Songs of Love and War: Afghan Women's Poetry:
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The Sound Of Paper: Starting From Scratchby Julia CameronISBN 1585423548 (1-58542-354-8)
Softcover, J P Tarcher
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sound Of Paper: Starting From Scratch'Book summary:In this landmark book on the creative process, the bestselling author of The Artist's Way reveals the intricate soul work artists must undertake in order to find inspiration.
In The Sound of Paper, Julia Cameron delves deep into the heart of the personal struggles that all artists face. What can we do when we face our keyboard or canvas with nothing but a cold emptiness? How can we begin to carve out our creation when our vision and drive are clouded by life's uncertainties? In other words, how can we begin the difficult work of being an artist?
Drawing upon her many years of personal experience as both an artist and a teacher, Julia Cameron guides readers to a place where they can find the strength and courage to create. Demonstrating how this involves a process of constant renewal, of starting from the beginning, she writes, "When we are building a life from scratch, we must dig a little. We must be like that hen scratching the soil: 'What goodness is hidden here, just below the surface?' we must ask."
With exercises designed to develop the power to infuse one's art with a deeply informed knowledge of the soul, this book is an essential artist's companion from one of the foremost authorities on the creative process. Julia Cameron's most illuminating book to date, The Sound of Paper provides readers with a spiritual path for creating the best work of their lives. [via]More editions of The Sound Of Paper: Starting From Scratch:
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Spunkby Zora Neale HurstonISBN 1569247439 (1-56924-743-9)
Softcover, Marlowe & Co
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Storycatcher: Making Sense Of Our Lives Through The Power And Practice Of Storyby Christina BaldwinISBN 1577314913 (1-57731-491-3)
Hardcover, New World Library
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Summerby Edith WhartonISBN 1596058889 (1-59605-888-9)
Softcover, Cosimo Inc
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Toward Amnesiaby Sarah Van ArsdaleISBN 1573225770 (1-57322-577-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Tramps Like Us 10by Yayoi OgawaISBN 1595326405 (1-59532-640-5)
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Undead And Unappreciatedby Maryjanice DavidsonISBN 1597221287 (1-59722-128-7)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Undead And Unappreciated'Book summary:A New York Times Bestseller
Most women would love to live as royalty, but Betsy has found that being vampire queen has more problems than perks - except for always being awake for Midnight Madness sales. But Betsy's "life" takes an interesting turn at a shower for her wicked stepmother, who lets it slip that Betsy has a long-lost half sister . . . who just so happens to be the devil's daughter, destined to rule the world. [via]
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Undead And Unemployedby Maryjanice DavidsonISBN 1597221937 (1-59722-193-7)
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But when a string of vampire murders hits St. Paul, Betsy must enlist the help of the one vamp who makes her blood boil: the oh-so-sexy Sinclair. Now, she's really treading on dangerous ground--high heels and all. [via]More editions of Undead And Unemployed:
United States V. George W. Bush et al.by Elizabeth De La VegaISBN 1583227563 (1-58322-756-3)
Softcover, Seven Stories Pr
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Urgent Message From Mother: Gather The Women, Save The Worldby Jean Shinoda BolenISBN 1573242659 (1-57324-265-9)
Hardcover, Red Wheel/Weiser
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Urgent Message From Mother: Gather The Women, Save The World'Book summary:The message to all women of the world is "Wake Up! Arise! Do not ask for permission to gather the women. What cannot be done by men, or by individual women, can be done by women together. Earth is Home." Jean Shinoda Bolen's life's work -- her Jungian-inspired insights in The Tao of Psychology, the blockbuster Goddesss in Every Woman, the empowering Crones Don't Whine and The Millionth Circle -- all lead up to this book. It is an urgent message and an empowering one. "When women are strong together, women can be fiercely protective of what we love." Bolen's poetic polemic explores the psychological, spiritual, and scientific aspects of women as collaborators for change. She begins with a Jungian examination of the idea of the Holy Grail archetype as "every woman's secret" and the transformative power of the sacred feminine -- the Goddess, Gaia, Earth Mother. Bolen explains Rupert Sheldrake's Theory of Morphic Resonance, which describes how societies and even species can undergo rapid evolution when they reach a tipping point. She explains that "we've learned that women gathering together in groups and telling the truth of their lives can actually change the world." She points to a fascinating UCLA study proving that women react to stress differently than their male counterparts. Instead of the "fight or flight" reaction, women have a "tend and befriend" response as a result of an increase in oxytocin, the maternal bonding hormone. While men become more adrenalized and aggressive, women nurture and protect -- biologically. From this and other compelling evidence Bolen makes a strongly convincing case that now is the time for women to lead -- to fiercely protect all that we love. Urgent Message from Mother offers a unique combination of visionary thinking and practical how-to and is Jean Shinoda Bolen's most activist work to-date. Written in a lyrical language that inspires, this book seeks to galvanize the still untapped power of women coming together to change our world. Listen to your mother; she is calling. [via]
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Vamps: An Illustrated History of the Femme Fataleby Pam KeeseyISBN 1573440264 (1-57344-026-4)
Softcover, Cleis Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vamps: An Illustrated History of the Femme Fatale'Book summary:Books about goddesses, books about vampires, and books about film stars are common, but Vamps: An Illustrated History of the Femme Fatale is a rare treat: it combines all those topics and more within a historical context for understanding our long-time fascination with the dangerous, alluring female. The story starts in prehistory with the worship of a mother goddess who was also the Lady of the Beasts, and spans the centuries from ancient Greek and medieval views of harmful women through the hysterics of the romantic period. The history of film vamps goes from Theda Bara in A Fool There Was (1915) to Natasha Henstridge in the Species movies (1990s), and includes beautiful photographs of all the usual suspects--Greta Garbo, Gloria Swanson, Tallulah Bankhead, Louise Brooks, Maila Nurmi (a.k.a. Vampira), the two Morticias, and many others.
A coffee-table-size paperback, Vamps is also an eye-catching blend of well-researched (but lighthearted) writing and dramatic black-and-white illustrations on every page. Author Pam Keesey is already known for her knowledge of dark female characters, having edited other Cleis publications such as Women Who Run with the Werewolves: Tales of Blood, Lust and Metamorphosis and Dark Angels: Lesbian Vampire Stories. She draws on an impressive range of sources, including The Malleus Maleficarum, Robert Graves's The White Goddess, 1950s fetish magazines, and even Pat Robertson on the subject of feminism. The artwork samples ancient stone carvings, medieval engravings, and portraits of dangerous women by John Singer Sargeant and Edvard Munch, among others. Included are a bibliography, a filmography of stars, a videography of titles, and an index.
The only thing that seems off-base about this book is that a whole chapter is devoted to Sharon Stone. Maybe Keesey is a big fan. --Fiona Webster [via]
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A Vindication of the Rights of Womenby Mary WollstonecraftISBN 1576468119 (1-57646-811-9)
Softcover, Quiet Vision Pub
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When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purpleby Sandra MartzISBN 1576010783 (1-57601-078-3)
Softcover, Papier Mache Pr
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When I Am An Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple: Petite Versionby Sandra MartzISBN 157601083X (1-57601-083-X)
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White Teeth: Reader's Companionby Zadie SmithISBN 1568959508 (1-56895-950-8)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'White Teeth: Reader's Companion'Book summary:Epic in scale and intimate in approach, White Teeth is a formidably ambitious debut. First novelist Zadie Smith takes on race, sex, class, history, and the minefield of gender politics, and such is her wit and inventiveness that these weighty subjects seem effortlessly light. She also has an impressive geographical range, guiding the reader from Jamaica to Turkey to Bangladesh and back again.
Still, the book's home base is a scrubby North London borough, where we encounter Smith's unlikely heroes: prevaricating Archie Jones and intemperate Samad Iqbal, who served together in the so-called Buggered Battalion during World War II. In the ensuing decades, both have gone forth and multiplied: Archie marries beautiful, bucktoothed Clara--who's on the run from her Jehovah's Witness mother--and fathers a daughter. Samad marries stroppy Alsana, who gives birth to twin sons. Here is multiculturalism in its most elemental form: "Children with first and last names on a direct collision course. Names that secrete within them mass exodus, cramped boats and planes, cold arrivals, medical checks."
Big questions demand boldly drawn characters. Zadie Smith's aren't heroic, just real: warm, funny, misguided, and entirely familiar. Reading their conversations is like eavesdropping. Even a simple exchange between Alsana and Clara about their pregnancies has a comical ring of truth: "A woman has to have the private things--a husband needn't be involved in body business, in a lady's... parts." And the men, of course, have their own involvement in bodily functions:
The deal was this: on January 1, 1980, like a New Year dieter who gives up cheese on the condition that he can have chocolate, Samad gave up masturbation so that he might drink. It was a deal, a business proposition, that he had made with God: Samad being the party of the first part, God being the sleeping partner. And since that day Samad had enjoyed relative spiritual peace and many a frothy Guinness with Archibald Jones; he had even developed the habit of taking his last gulp looking up at the sky like a Christian, thinking: I'm basically a good man.
Not all of White Teeth is so amusingly carnal. The mixed blessings of assimilation, for example, are an ongoing torture for Samad as he watches his sons grow up. "They have both lost their way," he grumbles. "Strayed so far from what I had intended for them. No doubt they will both marry white women called Sheila and put me in an early grave." These classic immigrant fears--of dilution and disappearance--are no laughing matter. But in the end, they're exactly what gives White Teeth its lasting power and undeniable bite. --Eithne Farry [via]More editions of White Teeth: Reader's Companion:
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Wives and Daughtersby Elizabeth Gaskell, Amy M. KingISBN 1593082576 (1-59308-257-6)
Softcover, Barnes & Noble
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wives and Daughters'Book summary:[via]Wives and Daughters, by Elizabeth Gaskell, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:Tremendously popular in her lifetime, Elizabeth Gaskell has often been overshadowed by her contemporaries the Brontës and George Eliot. Yet the reputation of her long-neglected masterpiece Wives and Daughters continues to grow, fulfilling Henry Jamess prophecy that the novel would continue for years to come to be read and relished . . .so delicately, so elaborately, so artistically, so truthfully, and heartily is the story wrought out.
An enchanting tale of romance, scandal, and intrigue in the gossipy English town of Hollingford around the 1830s, Wives and Daughters tells the story of Molly Gibson, the seventeen-year-old daughter of a widowed country doctor. When her father remarries, she forms a close friendship with her new stepsisterthe beautiful and worldly Cynthiauntil they become love rivals for the affections of Squire Hamleys sons, Osbourne and Roger. When sudden illness and death reveal some secrets while shrouding others in even deeper mystery, Molly feels that the world is out of joint and it is up to hertrusted by all but listened to by noneto set it right.Amy M. King is Assistant Professor of English at St. Johns University in New York City and the author of Bloom: The Botanical Vernacular in the English Novel (Oxford University Press, 2003).
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Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Herby Susan GriffinISBN 1578050472 (1-57805-047-2)
Softcover, Sierra Club Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her'Book summary:In this famously provocative cornerstone of feminist literature, Susan Griffin explores the identification of women with the earthboth as sustenance for humanity and as victim of male rage. Starting from Platos fateful division of the world into spirit and matter, her analysis of how patriarchal Western philosophy and religion have used language and science to bolster their power over both women and nature is brilliant and persuasive, coming alive in poetic prose.[via]
Griffin draws on an astonishing range of sourcesfrom timbering manuals to medical texts to Scripture and classical literaturein showing how destructive has been the impulse to disembody the human soul, and how the long separated might once more be rejoined. Poet Adrienne Rich calls Woman and Nature perhaps the most extraordinary nonfiction work to have merged from the matrix of contemporary female consciousnessa fusion of patriarchal science, ecology, female history and feminism, written by a poet who has created a new form for her vision. ...The book has the impact of a great film or a fresco; yet it is intimately personal, touching to the quick of womans experience.More editions of Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her:
The Woman's Belly Book: Finding Your True Center for More Energy, Confidence, And Pleasureby Lisa SarasohnISBN 1577315375 (1-57731-537-5)
Softcover, New World Library
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Women Who Love Books Too Much : Bibliophiles, Bluestockings and Prolific Pens from the Algonquin Hotel to the Ya Ya Sisterhoodby Brenda KnightISBN 1573240249 (1-57324-024-9)
Softcover, Red Wheel/Weiser
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Women Who Love Books Too Much : Bibliophiles, Bluestockings and Prolific Pens from the Algonquin Hotel to the Ya Ya Sisterhood'Book summary:Move over wild women and women who do too much: With this irreverent tribute, author Brenda Knight casts a lovingly arch eye at the women who have devoted their lives to books. From Sylvia Beach and other booksellers to librarians, editors, writers, bibliophiles, and celebrated book clubs, Knight takes readers on a ribald ride through the pages of history. Chapter titles include "Prolific Pens" (such as Joyce Carol Oates, author of over 100 books); "Mystics, Memoirists and Madwomen"; "Salons and Neosalons"; "Ink in Their Veins" (literary dynasties); and the titillating "Banned, Blacklisted, and Arrested." [via]
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Writing to Change the Worldby Mary PipherISBN 1594482535 (1-59448-253-5)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Writing to Change the World'Book summary:In these tumultuous times, don't we all want to be heard? Who doesn't want to transform the world? And who doesn't harbor a secret ambition to write? Writing to Change the World is intended to help people who have a message they're passionate about to convey it clearly through writing. Inspired by a course of the same name that Mary Pipher taught at the University of Nebraska's National Summer Writers' Conference, this book encapsulates her years of experience as a writer and therapist, as well as her extensive knowledge of the craft of writing.
Writing to Change the World combines practical instruction with inspirational commentary, featuring personal anecdotes, memorable quotations from other writers, practical how-to advice, and stories about writers who have transformed society through their work. In addition to laying out the various steps of the writing process-brainstorming, writing, revising, and publishing-Pipher gives advice about specific forms of advocacy writing: op-ed pieces, letters, essays, speeches, and blogs. She inspires readers to take up their pens, while reflecting on the writer's responsibilities as a moral agent. This is a book that really can make a difference! [via]More editions of Writing to Change the World:
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Alla Donde Florecen Los Flamboyanesby Alma Flor Ada, Antonio MartorellISBN 1581056583 (1-58105-658-3)
Hardcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc
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