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Abbess of Creweby Muriel SparkISBN 0140040749 (0-14-004074-9)
Hardcover, Penguin
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All but the Waltz : A Memoir of Five Generations in the Life of a Montana Familyby Mary Clearman BlewISBN 0140128921 (0-14-012892-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Almanac of the Deadby Leslie SilkoISBN 0140173196 (0-14-017319-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Almanac of the Dead'Book summary:In its extraordinary range of character and culture, Almanac of the Dead is fiction on the grand scale. The acclaimed author of Ceremony has undertaken a weaving of ideas and lives, fate and history, passion and conquest in an attempt to re-create the moral history of the Americas, told from the point of view of the conquered, not the conquerors. Author readings. [via]
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Amazonby Barbara G. WalkerISBN 0062509446 (0-06-250944-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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American Ghosts & Old World Wondersby Angela CarterISBN 0099133717 (0-09-913371-7)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Ghosts & Old World Wonders'Book summary:(This collection of short stories confirms a great writer's matchless imagination and talent. A young Lizzie Borden visits the circus; a pianist makes a Faustian pact in a fly-blown Southern brothel; an earnest student is taken on a gothic ride through the ambiguous residue of Hollywood's golden age; Alice is transmuted by a crazed fruit-grower in Prague, and Mary Magdalene steps out of the canvases of Donatello and de la Tour, transfigured by wilderness and solitude.Lizzie's Tiger When the circus came to town and Lizzie saw the tiger, they were living on Ferry Street, in a very poor way. It was the time of the greatest parsimony in their father's house) (Short story collection) [via]
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Anne Morrow Lindberghby Dorothy HerrmannISBN 0140232389 (0-14-023238-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Bad Blood : A Memoirby Lorna SageISBN 0066214432 (0-06-621443-2)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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The Bingo Palaceby Louise ErdrichISBN 0061129755 (0-06-112975-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Biographer's Taleby A. S. ByattISBN 009928393X (0-09-928393-X)
Softcover, Vintage Uk
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The Buccaneersby Edith WhartonISBN 0140232028 (0-14-023202-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Buccaneers'Book summary:Set in the 1870s, the same period as Wharton's The Age of Innocence, The Buccaneers is about five wealthy American girls denied entry into New York Society because their parents' money is too new. At the suggestion of their clever governess, the girls sail to London, where they marry lords, earls, and dukes who find their beauty charmingand their wealth extremely useful.[via]After Wharton's death in 1937, The Christian Science Monitor said, "If it could have been completed, The Buccaneers would doubtless stand among the richest and most sophisticated of Wharton's novels." Now, with wit and imagination, Marion Mainwaring has finished the story, taking her cue from Wharton's own synopsis. It is a novel any Wharton fan will celebrate and any romantic reader will love. This is the richly engaging story of Nan St. George and guy Thwarte, an American heiress and an English aristocrat, whose love breaks the rules of both their societies.
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Ceciliaby Fanny BurneyISBN 0140161368 (0-14-016136-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Ceremonyby Leslie Marmon SilkoISBN 0140086838 (0-14-008683-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ceremony'Book summary:[via]Tayo, a young Native American, has been a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II, and the horrors of captivity have almost eroded his will to survive. His return to the Laguna Pueblo reservation only increases his feeling of estrangement and alienation. While other returning soldiers find easy refuge in alcohol and senseless violence, Tayo searches for another kind of comfort and resolution.
Tayo's quest leads him back to the Indian past and its traditions, to beliefs about witchcraft and evil, and to the ancient stories of his people. The search itself becomes a ritual, a curative ceremny that defeats the most virulent of afflictionsdespair.
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The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Futureby Riane EislerISBN 0062502891 (0-06-250289-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Collected Stories of Coletteby ColletteISBN 0140081070 (0-14-008107-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Crown of Columbusby Louise Erdrich, Michael DorrisISBN 0061099570 (0-06-109957-0)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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The Custom of the Countryby Edith WhartonISBN 0140181903 (0-14-018190-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Custom of the Country'Book summary:Edith Wharton's satiric anatomy of American society in the first decade of the twentieth century appeared in 1913; it both appalled and fascinated its first reviewers, and established her as a major novelist. The Saturday Review wrote that she had 'assembled as many detestable people as it is possible to pack between the covers of a six-hundred page novel', but concluded that the book was 'brilliantly written', and 'should be read as a parable'. It follows the career of Undine Spragg, recently arrived in New York from the Midwest and determined to conquer high society. Glamorous, selfish, mercenary, and manipulative, her principal assets are her striking beauty, her tenacity, and her father's money. With her sights set on an advantageous marriage, Undine pursues her schemes in a world of shifting values, where triumph is swiftly followed by disillusion. Wharton was re-creating an environment she knew intimately, and Undine's education for social success is chronicled in meticulous detail. The novel superbly captures the world of post-Civil War America, as ruthless in its social ambitions as in its business and politics. [via]
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The Dance of the Dissident Daughter: A Woman's Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminineby Sue Monk KiddISBN 0061144908 (0-06-114490-8)
Softcover, Harper San Francisco
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The Dispossessedby Ursula K. Le GuinISBN 0061054887 (0-06-105488-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dispossessed'Book summary:Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. he will seek answers, question the unquestionable, and attempt to tear down the walls of hatred that have isolated his planet of anarchists from the rest of the civilized universe. To do this dangerous task will mean giving up his family and possibly his life. Shevek must make the unprecedented journey to the utopian mother planet, Anarres, to challenge the complex structures of life and living, and ignite the fires of change.
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Ethan Fromeby Edith Wharton, Doris Grumbach, Sarah Higginson BegleyISBN 0140187367 (0-14-018736-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ethan Frome'Book summary:Ethan works his unproductive farm, and struggles to maintain an existence with his suspicious and hypochondriac wife, Zeena. But when Zeena's cousin enters their household as a "hired girl", Ethan finds himself obsessed with her and with the possibilities for happiness she comes to represent. [via]
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The Female Eunuchby Germaine GreerISBN 0070243751 (0-07-024375-1)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Female Eunuch'Book summary:Available alongside five other Modern Classics first published by Flamingo in the 1970s, this is a re-issue of Germaine's Greer's feminist classic. Translated into many languages, "The Female Eunuch" is a landmark in the history of the women's movement. Drawing liberally from history, literature and popular culture, past and present, Germaine Greer's searing examination of women's oppression is at once an important social commentary and a passionately argued piece of polemic. [via]
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Fireworks : Nine Profane Piecesby Angela CarterISBN 0140105883 (0-14-010588-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Five Quarters of the Orangeby Joanne HarrisISBN 0061214604 (0-06-121460-4)
Softcover, Perennial
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Four Soulsby Louise ErdrichISBN 0066209757 (0-06-620975-7)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Four Souls'Book summary:A strange and compelling unkillable woman decides to leave home, and the story begins. Fleur Pillager takes her mother's name, Four Souls, for strength and walks from her Ojibwe reservation to the cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul. She is seeking restitution from and revenge on the lumber baron who has stripped her reservation. But revenge is never simple, and she quickly finds her intentions complicated by her own dangerous compassion for the man who wronged her.
The two narrators of Four Souls are from utterly different worlds. Nanapush, a "smart man and a fool," is both Fleur's savior and her conscience. He tells Fleur's story and tells his own. He would like a calm and discriminating love with his sweetheart, Margaret. He is old and would like to face death with his love beside him. Instead the two find themselves battling out their last years. When the childhood nemesis of Nanapush appears and casts his eye toward Margaret, Nanapush acts out an absurd revenge of his own and nearly ends up destroying everything. The other narrator, Polly Elizabeth Gheen, is a pretentious and vulnerable upper-crust fringe element, a hanger-on in a wealthy Minneapolis family, a woman aware of her precarious hold on those around her. To her own great surprise the entrance of Fleur Pillager into her household and her life effects a transformation she could never have predicted.
In the world of interconnected novels by Louise Erdrich, Four Souls is most closely linked to Tracks. All these works continue and elaborate the intricate story of life on a reservation peopled by saints and false saints, heroes and sinners, clever fools and tenacious women. Four Souls reminds us of the deep spirituality and the ordinary humanity of this world, and is as beautiful and lyrical as anything Louise Erdrich has written.
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Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafeby Fannie FlaggISBN 0070212570 (0-07-021257-0)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe'Book summary:The day IdgieThreadgoode and Ruth Jamison opened the Whistle Stop Cafe, the town took a turn for the better. It was the Depression and that cafe was a home from home for many of us. You could get eggs, grits, bacon, ham, coffee and a smile for 25 cents. Ruth was just the sweetest girl you ever met. And Idgie, she was a character, all right. You never saw anyone so headstrong. But how anybody could have thought she murdered that man is beyond me. "Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe" is a mouth-watering tale of love, laughter and mystery. It will lift your spirits and above all it'll remind you of the secret to life: friends and best friends. [via]
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Fruitflesh: Seeds of Inspiration for Women Who Writeby Gayle BrandeisISBN 0062517244 (0-06-251724-4)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Games at Twilightby Anita DesaiISBN 0140119078 (0-14-011907-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Games at Twilight'Book summary:First published in 1978 and now reissued in a new cover style, a collection of 11 short stories from the author of BAUMGARTNER'S BOMBAY. Includes tales about an American wife who, homesick for rural Vermont, turns to the hippies of the Indian hills for consolation; and a painter who renders pictures of creatures he has never seen. [via]
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The Gates of Ivoryby Margaret DrabbleISBN 0140167196 (0-14-016719-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gates of Ivory'Book summary:Liz Headleand receives a package from an old friend containing writing, drawings, and what appear to be finger bones, and soon she is on an adventure, determined to discover what her friend is trying to tell her. Reprint. [via]
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Gertrude and Aliceby Diana SouhamiISBN 0062509152 (0-06-250915-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Heat of the Dayby Elizabeth BowenISBN 0140018441 (0-14-001844-1)
Softcover, Penguin Books in association with J. Cape
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Heroes and Villainsby Angela CarterISBN 0140234640 (0-14-023464-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Hotel.by Elizabeth BowenISBN 0140004491 (0-14-000449-1)
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The House on Mango Streetby Sandra CisnerosISBN 0072435178 (0-07-243517-8)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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If the Buddha Dated: A Handbook for Finding Love on a Spiritual Pathby Charlotte Sophia KaslISBN 0140195831 (0-14-019583-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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If the Buddha Married: Creating Enduring Relationships on a Spiritual Pathby Charlotte KaslISBN 0140196226 (0-14-019622-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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In Other Words: Writing as a Feministby Gail Chester, Sigrid NielsenISBN 0091646812 (0-09-164681-2)
Softcover, Hutchinson
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Ines del Alma Mia / Ines of My Soulby Isabel Allende, Margaret Sayers PedenISBN 0061161578 (0-06-116157-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ines del Alma Mia / Ines of My Soul'Book summary:Born into a poor family in Spain, Inés, a seamstress, finds herself condemned to a life of hard work without reward or hope for the future. It is the sixteenth century, the beginning of the Spanish conquest of the Americas, and when her shiftless husband disappears to the New World, Inés uses the opportunity to search for him as an excuse to flee her stifling homeland and seek adventure. After her treacherous journey takes her to Peru, she learns that her husband has died in battle. Soon she begins a fiery love affair with a man who will change the course of her life: Pedro de Valdivia, war hero and field marshal to the famed Francisco Pizarro. Valdivia's dream is to succeed where other Spaniards have failed: to become the conquerer of Chile. The natives of Chile are fearsome warriors, and the land is rumored to be barren of gold, but this suits Valdivia, who seeks only honor and glory. Together the lovers Inés Suárez and Pedro de Valdivia will build the new city of Santiago, and they will wage a bloody, ruthless war against the indigenous Chileans-the fierce local Indians led by the chief Michimalonko, and the even fiercer Mapuche from the south. The horrific struggle will change them forever, pulling each of them toward their separate destinies. Inés of My Soul is a work of breathtaking scope: meticulously researched, it engagingly dramatizes the known events of Inés Suárez's life, crafting them into a novel full of the narrative brilliance and passion readers have come to expect from Isabel Allende. [via]
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The Last Septemberby Elizabeth BowenISBN 0140183043 (0-14-018304-3)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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The Little Disturbances of Manby Grace PaleyISBN 0140075577 (0-14-007557-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Living With Artby Rita GilbertISBN 007023454X (0-07-023454-X)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Languageby Eva HoffmanISBN 0140127739 (0-14-012773-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language'Book summary:The condition of exile is an exaggeration of the process of change and loss that many people experience as they grow and mature, leaving behind the innocence of childhood. Eva Hoffman spent her early years in Cracow, among family friends who, like her parents, had escaped the Holocaust and were skeptical of the newly imposed Communist state. Hoffman's parents managed to immigrate to Canada in the 1950s, where Eva was old enough to feel like a stranger--bland food, a quieter life, and schoolmates who hardly knew where Poland was. Still, there were neighbors who knew something of Old World ways, and a piano teacher who was classically Middle European in his neurotic enthusiasm for music. Her true exile came in college in Texas, where she found herself among people who were frightened by and hostile to her foreignness. Later, at Harvard, Hoffman found herself initially alienated by her burgeoning intellectualism; her parents found it difficult to comprehend. Her sense of perpetual otherness was extended by encounters with childhood friends who had escaped Cracow to grow up in Israel, rather than Canada or the United States, and were preoccupied with soldiers, not scholars. Lost in Translation is a moving memoir that takes the specific experience of the exile and humanizes it to such a degree that it becomes relevant to the lives of a wider group of readers. [via]
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Love Medicineby Louise ErdrichISBN 0072434198 (0-07-243419-8)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Love Medicine'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. The lives and destinies of the Kashpaws and the Lamartines intertwine on and around a North Dakota Indian reservation from 1934 to 1984, in an authentic tale of survival, tenacity, tradition, injustice, and love. [via]
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Lucky Girlsby Nell FreudenbergerISBN 0061124273 (0-06-112427-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lucky Girls'Book summary:Nell Freudenberger knows from lucky girls. She has had a lot of luck herself in her short writing career: Her debut story was featured in The New Yorker, with a glossy full-color author photo alongside; a quick book contract ensued, on the strength of that one published story; and now comes a debut collection full of stories that are actually good. The Lucky Girls collected here are far-flung Americans, young women trying to figure out where they belong in the world. In "The Tutor," teenage Julia and her businessman father are living in Bombay; her mother has returned to the United States. Julia crams for the SATs with her tutor Zubin, smokes cigarettes, and goes to nightclubs; her father hovers at home. Freudenberger gets just right the moments when Julia and her father find themselves alone together, trying to be a family: "It was just the two of them at the table then; even with the leaves taken out and stored against the wall in the coat closet, they had to half-stand in order to pass the soup." Too, she knows the upper-class world of which she writes. In "The Orphan," Mandy's parents and brother come to visit her in Thailand, where she is working with "AIDS babies." Mandy's brother Josh appears, and Freudenberger skewers his type, neatly, in a sentence: "Josh looks like someone coming out of trench warfare in the Balkans, rather than college in Maine." But Freudenberger isn't telling easy rich-kid stories. She's forever pushing her narration. In "The Tutor," we hear from Zubin, an overeducated Indian, as well as from Julia. "The Orphan," in turn, is told by Mandy's mom, a woman bewildered by yet proud of her daughter's choice to remain in Thailand. Freudenberger's stories are cosmopolitan, expansive, and richly detailed, a beguiling combination of qualities. --Claire Dederer [via]
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The Lying Daysby Nadine GordimerISBN 0140233679 (0-14-023367-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Master Butchers Singing Clubby Louise ErdrichISBN 0066209773 (0-06-620977-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Master Butchers Singing Club'Book summary:Louise Erdrich's The Master Butchers Singing Club is a powerfully told story of love, death, redemption, and resurrection. After German soldier Fidelis Waldvogel returns home from World War I to marry his best friend's pregnant widow, he packs up his father's butcher knives and sets sail for America. He settles in Argus, North Dakota, where he sets up a meat shop with his wife Eva, who quickly befriends the struggling yet resourceful Delphine Watzka. Delphine, who runs a vaudeville show with her balancing partner Cyprian Lazarre, has returned home to Argus to care for her alcoholic father. While most of this emotionally rich novel focuses on the changing landscape of small-town life as seen through Delphine and Fidelis's eyes, Erdrich does a masterful job of illuminating hidden dramas through her secondary characters. Erdrich's portrayal of these various townsfolk, including members of the Master Butchers Singing Club, truly shows off her storytelling talent. Her ability to infuse each character with a distinct and multifaceted personality makes this novel an intimate and thought-provoking adventure. --Gisele Toueg [via]
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Meditation Secrets for Women: Discovering Your Passion, Pleasure, and Inner Peaceby Lorin Roche, Camille MaurineISBN 0062516973 (0-06-251697-3)
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Memoirs of a Beatnikby Diane Di PrimaISBN 0140235396 (0-14-023539-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Murder Must Advertiseby Dorothy L. SayersISBN 0061043559 (0-06-104355-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Murder Must Advertise'Book summary:When advertising executive Victor Dean dies from a fall down the stairs at Pym's Publicity, Lord Peter Wimsey is asked to investigate. It seems that, before he died, Dean had begun a letter to Mr. Pym suggesting some very unethical dealings at the posh London ad agency. Wimsey goes undercover and discovers that Dean was part of the fast crowd at Pym's, a group taken to partying and doing drugs. Wimsey and his brother-in-law, Chief-Inspector Parker, rush to discover who is running London's cocaine trade and how Pym's fits into the picture--all before Wimsey's cover is blown. [via]
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A Natural Curiosityby Margaret DrabbleISBN 0140122281 (0-14-012228-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Natural Curiosity'Book summary:Liz, Alix and Esther are old friends whose lives continue to cross and uncross. As the years pass, they are more than ever disposed to question, to re-evaluate, to examine their motives and directions in the brutally prosperous, atrocity-hungry society of Britain. [via]
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Now That You're Backby A. L. KennedyISBN 0099457113 (0-09-945711-3)
Hardcover, Vintage
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One Makes the Difference: Inspiring Actions to Change Our Worldby Julia Butterfly Hill, Jessica HurleyISBN 0062517562 (0-06-251756-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Penguin Book of Modern British Short Storiesby Malcom BradburyISBN 0140063064 (0-14-006306-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Portrait in Sepiaby Isabel Allende, Margaret Sayers PedenISBN 0066214017 (0-06-621401-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Portrait in Sepia'Book summary:Isabel Allende has established herself as one of the most consummate of all modern storytellers, a reputation that is confirmed in her novel Portrait in Sepia. Allende offers a compelling saga of the turbulent history, lives, and loves of late 19th-century Chile, drawing on characters from her earlier novels, The House of Spirits and Daughter of Fortune.
In typical Allende fashion, Portrait in Sepia is crammed with love, desire, tragedy, and dark family secrets, all played out against the dramatic backdrop of revolutionary Chile. Our heroine Aurora del Valle's mother is a Chilean-Chinese beauty, while her father is a dissolute scion of the wealthy and powerful del Valle family. At the heart of Aurora's slow, painful re-creation of her childhood towers one of Allende's greatest fictional creations, the heroine's grandmother, Paulina del Valle. An "astute, bewigged Amazon with a gluttonous appetite," Paulina holds both the del Valle family and Allende's novel together as she presides over Aurora's adolescence in a haze of pastries, taffeta, and overweening love.
One of the most interesting aspects of the novel is Allende's decision to turn her heroine into a photographer: "through photography and the written word I try desperately to conquer the transitory nature of my existence, to trap moments before they evanesce, to untangle the confusion of my past." There is little confusion in Allende's elegantly crafted and hugely enjoyable novel. --Jerry Brotton, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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Potikiby Patricia GraceISBN 0140088032 (0-14-008803-2)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Potiki'Book summary:In a small coastal community threatened by developers who would ravage their lands it is a time of fear and confusion - and growing anger. The prophet child Tokowaru-i-te-Marama shares his people's struggles against bulldozers and fast money talk. When dramatic events menace the marae, his grief and rage threaten to burst beyond the confines of his twisted body. His all-seeing eye looks forward to a strange and terrible new dawn. [via]
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The Progress of Loveby Alice MunroISBN 0140105530 (0-14-010553-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Progress of Love'Book summary:Alice Munro, who received the National Book Critics Circle Award for her latest collection of stories, The Love of a Good Woman, is widely acknowledged as a modern master of the short story. In this earlier collection, she demonstrates all of those strengths that have won her so many literary accolades.
A divorced woman returns to her childhood home where she confronts the memory of her parents' confounding yet deep bond. The accidental near-drowning of a child exposes the fragility of the trust between children and parents. A young man, remembering a terrifying childhood incident, wrestles with the responsibility he has always felt for his younger brother. In these and other stories Alice Munro proves once again a sensitive and compassionate chronicler of our times. Drawing us into the most intimate corners of ordinary lives, she reveals much about ourselves, our choices, and our experiences of love. [via]More editions of The Progress of Love:
Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtainby Sheila OstranderISBN 0137320817 (0-13-732081-7)
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The Reefby Edith WhartonISBN 0140187316 (0-14-018731-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Reef'Book summary:"I put most of myself into that opus, " Edith Wharton said of "The Reef, " possibly her most autobiographical novel. Published in 1912, it was, Bernard Berenson told Henry Adams, "better than any previous work excepting "Ethan Frome." [via]
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Retrato En Sepiaby Isabel AllendeISBN 0066211603 (0-06-621160-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Retrato En Sepia'Book summary:Narrada en la voz de una joven mujer, ésta es una magnífica novela histórica situada a finales del siglo XIX en Chile, y una portentosa saga familiar en la que reencontramos algunos personajes de Hija de la fortuna y de La casa de los espiritus, novelas cumbres en la obra de Isabel Allende. El tema principal es la memoria y los secretos de familia. La protagonista, Aurora del Valle, sufre un trauma brutal que determina su carácter y borra de su mente los primeros cinco años de su vida. Criada por su ambiciosa abuela, Paulina del Valle, crece en un ambiente privilegiado, libre de muchas de las limitaciones que oprimen a las mujeres de su época, pero atormentada por horribles pesadillas. Cuando debe afrontar la traición del hombre que ama y la soledad, decide explorar el misterio de su pasado. Una obra de extraordinaria dimensión humana que eleva la narrativa de la autora a cotas de perfección literaria.
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The Ripening Seedby Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, Roger SenhouseISBN 0140183213 (0-14-018321-3)
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Rooms of Their Ownby Jennifer EllisonISBN 0140092188 (0-14-009218-8)
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Rose and the Beastby Francesca Lia BlockISBN 0064407454 (0-06-440745-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rose and the Beast'Book summary:Francesca Lia Block, whose Weetzie Bat novels have often been called pop fairy tales, here turns to the real thing for some very different imaginings of Snow White, Thumbelina, Cinderella, Rose Red and Rose White, and other tales. Block's stories are more resonance than retelling, fevered dreams behind which the outlines of the traditional tales move fitfully like figures glimpsed now and then through a summer fog. Veiled references to Block's own Los Angeles appear in the twisty house of the seven dwarfs built into a canyon like Laurel or Topanga, the redwood forest on a seaside cliff through which Beauty travels to her Beast, the tree-darkened canyon houses with French doors that open onto exuberant neglected gardens lush with irises and roses. In these evocations Bluebeard becomes an aging blue-haired producer, Sleeping Beauty pricks her arm with a heroin needle, Red Riding Hood's wolf is a lecherous stepfather, and the Snow Queen is a sex goddess who lives in a marble mansion with her boy toy, possibly in Beverly Hills. Sensuous images enrich these languid and darkly ironic visions: jasmine-scented night gardens, leopard couches with velvet pillows, luscious food flavored with mint, coconut milk, or pomegranate sauce, cool candlelit baths. As always, Block's poetic allegories of adolescence are strikingly original and a bit dangerous, a feast for connoisseurs of YA fiction and savvy older teens. (Ages 14 and older) --Patty Campbell [via]
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Second Penguin Book of Welsh Short Storiesby RichardsISBN 0140168710 (0-14-016871-0)
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The Shooting Partyby Isabel ColegateISBN 0140147306 (0-14-014730-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Shooting Party'Book summary:It is the autumn of 1913, and Sir Randolph Nettleby has assembled a brilliant array of guests at his Oxfordshire estate for the biggest shoot of the season. An army of servants and gamekeepers has rehearsed the intricate age-old ritual of the house and hunt. The gentlemen are falling into the prescribed mode of fellowship and good-humored sporting rivalry. The fashionable ladies are exchanging the latest gossip. Everything about this splendid weekend would seem a perfect affirmation of the privileges and certainties of Edwardian country life.[via]
And yet, as Isabel Colegate so elegantly dramatizes, it is not. The social and moral code of this set is under siege from within and without. Competition beyond the bounds of sportsmanship, revulsion at the slaughter of animals, anger at the inequities of class these and other forces are about to rise up and challenge the social peace, a peace that can hold only a brief while longer.More editions of The Shooting Party:
The Shortest Way to Hadesby Sarah CaudwellISBN 0140094016 (0-14-009401-6)
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A Spy in the House of Loveby Anais NinISBN 0140036008 (0-14-003600-8)
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The Stone Diariesby Carol ShieldsISBN 014023313X (0-14-023313-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Stone Diaries'Book summary:This fictionalized autobiography of Daisy Goodwill Flett, captured in Daisy's vivacious yet reflective voice, has been winning over readers since its publication in 1995, when it won the Pulitzer Prize. After a youth marked by sudden death and loss, Daisy escapes into conventionality as a middle-class wife and mother. Years later she becomes a successful garden columnist and experiences the kind of awakening that thousands of her contemporaries in mid-century yearned for but missed in alcoholism, marital infidelity and bridge clubs. The events of Daisy's life, however, are less compelling than her rich, vividly described inner life--from her memories of her adoptive mother to her awareness of impending death. Shields' sensuous prose and her deft characterizations make this, her sixth novel, her most successful yet. [via]
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Summerby Edith WhartonISBN 0140186794 (0-14-018679-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Summer'Book summary:[via]A tale of forbidden sexual passion and thwarted dreams played out against the lush, summer backdrop of the Massachusetts Berkshires Edith Wharton called Summer her "hot Ethan." In their rural settings and their poor, uneducated protagonists, Summer (1916) and Ethan Frome represent a sharp departure from Wharton's familiar depictions of the urban upper class. Charity Royall lives unhappily with her hard-drinking adoptive father in an isolated village, until a visiting architect awakens her sexual passion and the hope for escape. Exploring Charity's relation to her father and her lover, Wharton delves into dark cultural territory: repressed sexuality, small-town prejudice, and, in subtle hints, incest.
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Summer Will Showby Sylvia Townsend WarnerISBN 0140161767 (0-14-016176-7)
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Swannby Carol ShieldsISBN 0140134298 (0-14-013429-8)
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Thus Was Adonis Murderedby Sarah CaudwellISBN 0140063102 (0-14-006310-2)
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To the Northby Elizabeth BowenISBN 014000534X (0-14-000534-X)
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Vita's Other World: A Gardening Biography of V. Sackville-Westby Jane BrownISBN 0140093540 (0-14-009354-0)
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Wayward Girls and Wicked Womenby Angela CarterISBN 0140103716 (0-14-010371-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wayward Girls and Wicked Women'Book summary:In Elizabeth Jolley's "The Last Crop," a seemingly guileless woman cons a man out of his land. In Leonora Carrinton's "The Debutante," a young girl sends a hyena to her coming-out ball, with disastrous results. The title character in Frances Towers's "Violet" uses her talent for witchcraft with wicked intention. Jamaica Kincaid's "Girl" faces a litany of her mother's strictures and admonishments, and Suniti Namjoshi's bittersweet fables suggest that nothing a woman does will ever be really right. But whether these women are bad or good, evil or benign, guilty or innocent, calculating or naive, they are not victims. None of them suffers passively at the hands of men. Each manages to confront her circumstances and sometimes, though not always, triumph over them.[via]More editions of Wayward Girls and Wicked Women:
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We Have Always Lived in the Castleby Shirley JacksonISBN 0140071075 (0-14-007107-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'We Have Always Lived in the Castle'Book summary:Visitors call seldom at Blackwood House. Taking tea at the scene of a multiple poisoning, with a suspected murderess as one's host, is a perilous business. For a start, the talk tends to turn to arsenic. "It happened in this very room, and we still have our dinner in here every night," explains Uncle Julian, continually rehearsing the details of the fatal family meal. "My sister made these this morning," says Merricat, politely proffering a plate of rum cakes, fresh from the poisoner's kitchen. We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Shirley Jackson's 1962 novel, is full of a macabre and sinister humor, and Merricat herself, its amiable narrator, is one of the great unhinged heroines of literature. "What place would be better for us than this?" she asks, of the neat, secluded realm she shares with her uncle and with her beloved older sister, Constance. "Who wants us, outside? The world is full of terrible people." Merricat has developed an idiosyncratic system of rules and protective magic, burying talismanic objects beneath the family estate, nailing them to trees, ritually revisiting them. She has made "a powerful taut web which never loosened, but held fast to guard us" against the distrust and hostility of neighboring villagers.
Or so she believes. But at last the magic fails. A stranger arrives--cousin Charles, with his eye on the Blackwood fortune. He disturbs the sisters' careful habits, installing himself at the head of the family table, unearthing Merricat's treasures, talking privately to Constance about "normal lives" and "boy friends." Unable to drive him away by either polite or occult means, Merricat adopts more desperate methods. The result is crisis and tragedy, the revelation of a terrible secret, the convergence of the villagers upon the house, and a spectacular unleashing of collective spite.
The sisters are propelled further into seclusion and solipsism, abandoning "time and the orderly pattern of our old days" in favor of an ever-narrowing circuit of ritual and shadow. They have themselves become talismans, to be alternately demonized and propitiated, darkly, with gifts. Jackson's novel emerges less as a study in eccentricity and more--like some of her other fictions--as a powerful critique of the anxious, ruthless processes involved in the maintenance of normality itself. "Poor strangers," says Merricat contentedly at last, studying trespassers from the darkness behind the barricaded Blackwood windows. "They have so much to be afraid of." --Sarah Waters [via]
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The Wellby Elizabeth JolleyISBN 0140089012 (0-14-008901-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Well'Book summary:In this haunting tale of obsessive love and sexual awakening, a young orphan is drawn away from her guardian to the well where the injured voice of a my sterious "dead" creature calls her. [via]
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Woman Warriorby Maxine Hong KingstonISBN 0072435194 (0-07-243519-4)
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The Woman's Dictionary of Symbols and Sacred Objectsby Barbara G. WalkerISBN 0062509233 (0-06-250923-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Woman's Dictionary of Symbols and Sacred Objects'Book summary:This fascinating guide to the history and mythology of woman-related symbols features: Unique organization by shape of symbol or type of sacred object 21 different sections including Round and Oval Motifs, Sacred Objects, Secular-Sacred Objects, Rituals, Deities' Signs, Supernaturals, Body Parts, Nature, Birds, Plants, Minerals, Stones and Shells, and more Introductory essays for each section 753 entries and 636 illustrations Alphabetical index for easy reference Three-Rayed Sun The sun suspended in heaven by three powers, perhaps the Triple Goddess who gave birth to it (see Three-Way Motifs). Corn Dolly An embodiment of the harvest to be set in the center of the harvest dance, or fed to the cattle to `make them thrive year round' (see Secular-Sacred Objects). Tongue In Asia, the extended tongue was a sign of life-force as the tongue between the lips imitated the sacred lingam-yoni: male within female genital. Sticking out the tongue is still a polite sign of greeting in northern India and Tibet (see Body Parts). Cosmic Egg In ancient times the primeval universe-or the Great Mother-took the form of an egg. It carried all numbers and letters within an ellipse, to show that everything is contained within one form at the beginning (see Round and Oval Motifs). [via]
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Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secretsby Barbara G. WalkerISBN 006250925X (0-06-250925-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets'Book summary:This fascinating, scholarly hodgepodge spotlights the feminist underpinnings of myth, religion, and culture. Before being lionized as zaftig Norse angels who guided strong warriors to Valhalla, Valkyries may have offered rebirth through cannibalization. "Little Red Riding Hood" was based on Diana, goddess of the hunt. Marriage was once considered a sin, not a sacred union: St. Bernard once proclaimed "it was easier for a man to bring the dead back to life than to live with a woman without endangering his soul." A few of the other topics expounded upon are the Milky Way, Cinderella, the moon, and males giving birth. While some of the references put a cranky feminist spin on words that might in context have different meaning--St. Paul's oft-quoted "better to marry than to burn," for example--much in this vast tome will dazzle dabblers and intellectuals alike. [via]
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The Woman's Retreat Book: A Guide to Restoring, Rediscovering, and Reawakening Your True Self in a Moment, an Hour, a Day, or a Weekendby Jennifer LoudenISBN 0062514660 (0-06-251466-0)
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The Women of Brewster Placeby Gloria NaylorISBN 014006690X (0-14-006690-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Women of Brewster Place'Book summary:Once the home of poor Irish and Italian immigrants, Brewster Place, a rotting tenement on a dead-end street, now shelters black families. This novel portrays the courage, the fear, and the anguish of some of the women there who hold their families together, trying to make a home. Among them are: Mattie Michael, the matriarch who loses her son to prison; Etta Mae Johnson who tries to trade the 'high life' for marriage with a local preacher; Kiswana Browne who leaves her middle-class family to organize a tenant's union.[via]More editions of The Women of Brewster Place:
Women of the Way: Discovering 2,500 Years of Buddhist Wisdomby Sallie TisdaleISBN 0061146595 (0-06-114659-5)
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The Women Poets in English: An Anthologyby Ann StanfordISBN 007073223X (0-07-073223-X)
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Women Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviewsby George PlimptonISBN 0140117903 (0-14-011790-3)
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World of the Shining Prince, Court Life in Ancient Japanby Ivan I. MorrisISBN 0140054790 (0-14-005479-0)
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Writing for Your Life: A Guide and Companion to the Inner Worldsby Deena MetzgerISBN 0062506129 (0-06-250612-9)
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