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An American Daughterby Wendy WassersteinISBN 0156006456 (0-15-600645-6)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An American Daughter'Book summary:Lyssa Dent Hughes is the privileged, well-educated daughter of a Republican senator. She is the wife of a professor and the owner of a lovely house in Georgetown. She is also the president's nominee for Surgeon General. When the media discovers that once, long ago, she failed to respond for jury duty, this relatively minor misstep is portrayed as a serious moral lapse. A good friend uses the incident to make a point, scarcely thinking of the implications, and Lyssa must suffer the consequences. From that moment on, Lyssa Dent Hughes sits helplessly as the press investigates her family and friends, shattering her privacy, her career, and her world. Wendy Wasserstein's trenchant humor and sizzling dialogue combine with biting political commentary to produce a masterful, and topical, drama.[via]More editions of An American Daughter:
Arabian Jazzby Diane Abu-JaberISBN 0156000482 (0-15-600048-2)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Baby of the Familyby Tina McElroy AnsaISBN 0156101505 (0-15-610150-5)
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Behind Rebel Linesby Seymour V. ReitISBN 0152164278 (0-15-216427-8)
Softcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Behind Rebel Lines'Book summary:Combining U.S. Army records and files from the National Archives, Reit has reconstructed the story of an incredible woman who joined the Yankee army disguised as a man. "A suspense-filled account of a brave and loyal feminist."--Booklist. [via]
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Between Friends : The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy 1949-1975by Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, Carol BrightmanISBN 0156002507 (0-15-600250-7)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Book of Enchantmentsby Patricia C. WredeISBN 0152055088 (0-15-205508-8)
Softcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Book of Enchantments'Book summary:This witty and charming collection of ten short fantasies includes a story, set in the Enchanted Forest, about Queen Cimorene's Frying Pan of Doom; a zany yarn about a magical blue chipmunk with a passion for chestnuts; and an eerie tale of a caliph who turns his vizier's daughter into a wolf.[via]More editions of Book of Enchantments:
Bright Angel Timeby Martha McPheeISBN 0156029340 (0-15-602934-0)
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By and about Womenby Beth Kline SchneidermanISBN 0155056654 (0-15-505665-4)
Hardcover, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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Colette: A Taste for Lifeby Yvonne MitchellISBN 0156185504 (0-15-618550-4)
Hardcover, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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The Collected Stories of Eudora Weltyby Eudora WeltyISBN 0156189216 (0-15-618921-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty'Book summary:Mozartian stylist magnificent stories entertaining stories [via]
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The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porterby Katherine Anne PorterISBN 0156188767 (0-15-618876-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter'Book summary:Porters reputation as one of americancas most distinguished writers rests chiefly on her superb short stories. This volume includes the collections Flowering Judas; Pale Horse, Pale Rider; and The Leaning Tower as well as four stories not available elsewhere in book form. Winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.[via]More editions of The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter:
Congenial Spirits: The Selected Letters of Virginia Woolfby Virginia Woolf, Joanne Trautmann BanksISBN 015622030X (0-15-622030-X)
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Curse of the Blue Tattoo: Being an Account of the Misadventures of Jacky Faber, Midshipman and Fine Ladyby L. A. MeyerISBN 0152054596 (0-15-205459-6)
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The Diary of Anais Nin 1934-1939by Anais Nin, Gunther StuhlmannISBN 0156260263 (0-15-626026-3)
Softcover, Harcourt on Demand
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Diary of Anais Nin 1934-1939'Book summary:Beginning with Nin's arrival in New York, this volume is filled with the stories of her analytical patients. There is a shift in emphasis also as Nin becomes aware of the inevitable choice facing the artist in the modern world. "Sensitive and frank...[Nin's] diary is a dialogue between flesh and spirit" (Newsweek). Edited and with a Preface by Gunther Stuhlmann; Index.[via]More editions of The Diary of Anais Nin 1934-1939:
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Diary of Virginia Woolfby Virginia Woolf, Anne Oliver BellISBN 0156260360 (0-15-626036-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Diary of Virginia Woolf'Book summary:The second volume covers a crucial period in Woolf's development as a writer. "Her sensibility, her sensitiveness, her humor, her drama... above all her catalytic gifts as a writer seem almost too much for one remarkable woman" (Christian Science Monitor). Edited by Anne Olivier Bell, assisted by Andrew McNeillie; Index.[via]More editions of Diary of Virginia Woolf:
The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1925-1930by Virginia Woolf, Anne Oliver BellISBN 0156260387 (0-15-626038-7)
Softcover, Xlibris Corp
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The Diary of Virginia Woolf, 1931-1935by Virginia Woolf, Anne Oliver BellISBN 0156260395 (0-15-626039-5)
Softcover, Harcourt on Demand
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The Early Diary of Anais Nin: 1923-1927by Anais NinISBN 0156272504 (0-15-627250-4)
Softcover, Harcourt
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The Echoing Groveby Rosamond LehmannISBN 0156274876 (0-15-627487-6)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Eden Closeby Anita ShreveISBN 0156031337 (0-15-603133-7)
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The Enchanted Forest Chroniclesby Patricia C. WredeISBN 0152050523 (0-15-205052-3)
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Ex Uteroby Laurie FoosISBN 015600464X (0-15-600464-X)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Flower and the Nettle : Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1936-1939by Anne M. LindberghISBN 015631942X (0-15-631942-X)
Softcover, Harcourt
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The Flower in the Skullby Kathleen AlcalaISBN 0156006340 (0-15-600634-0)
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Flushby Virginia WoolfISBN 0156319527 (0-15-631952-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Flush'Book summary:This story of Elizabeth Barrett Brownings cocker spaniel, Flush, enchants right from the opening pages. Although Flush has adventures of his own with bullying dogs, horrid maids, and robbers, he also provides the reader with a glimpse into Brownings life. Introduction by Trekkie Ritchie.[via]More editions of Flush:
For Love Aloneby Christina SteadISBN 0156325357 (0-15-632535-7)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Forgotten Beasts of Eldby Patricia A. McKillipISBN 0152055363 (0-15-205536-3)
Softcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Forgotten Beasts of Eld'Book summary:Almost destroyed because of a man's fear and greed, Sybel, a beautiful young sorceress, embarks on a quest for revenge that proves equally destructive. Winner of the World Fantasy award, this exquisitely written story has something for almost every reader: adventure, romance and a resonant mythology that reveals powerful truths about human nature. Locus praised it for its "marvelous heroine... and chilling sorcery" and The New York Times called it "rich and regal." [via]
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Giftsby Ursula K. Le GuinISBN 0152051244 (0-15-205124-4)
Softcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gifts'Book summary:Scattered among poor, desolate farms, the clans of the Uplands possess gifts. Wondrous gifts: the ability--with a glance, a gesture, a word--to summon animals, bring forth fire, move the land. Fearsome gifts: They can twist a limb, chain a mind, inflict a wasting illness. The Uplanders live in constant fear that one family might unleash its gift against another. Two young people, friends since childhood, decide not to use their gifts. One, a girl, refuses to bring animals to their death in the hunt. The other, a boy, wears a blindfold lest his eyes and his anger kill.[via]
In this beautifully crafted story, Ursula K. Le Guin writes of the proud cruelty of power, of how hard it is to grow up, and of how much harder still it is to find, in the world's darkness, gifts of light.
Includes a reader's guide and a sample chapter from the companion title Voices. 
Him/Her/Self: Sex Roles in Modern Americaby Peter G. FileneISBN 0151402701 (0-15-140270-1)
Hardcover, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautifulby Alice WalkerISBN 0156421739 (0-15-642173-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful'Book summary:However much we like Alice Walker's fictional characters, it's still a treat when she speaks in her own voice, whether in essays or poems. The poems in this work show the impressive range that voice has, from the outrage of "First, They Said," to the quiet and lovely "These Mornings of Rain," to poems about family. Walker makes a lyrical world big enough to seamlessly weave these disparate parts together. [via]
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Impossible Saintsby Michele RobertsISBN 0156006596 (0-15-600659-6)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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Invisible Citiesby Italo Calvino, William WeaverISBN 0156453800 (0-15-645380-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Invisible Cities'Book summary:"Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities visited on his expeditions, but the emperor of the Tartars does continue listening to the young Venetian with greater attention and curiosity than he shows any other messenger or explorer of his." So begins Italo Calvino's compilation of fragmentary urban images. As Marco tells the khan about Armilla, which "has nothing that makes it seem a city, except the water pipes that rise vertically where the houses should be and spread out horizontally where the floors should be," the spider-web city of Octavia, and other marvelous burgs, it may be that he is creating them all out of his imagination, or perhaps he is recreating details of his native Venice over and over again, or perhaps he is simply recounting some of the myriad possible forms a city might take. [via]
Journey into the Whirlwindby Eugenia GinzburgISBN 0156027518 (0-15-602751-8)
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Kartographyby Kamila ShamsieISBN 0156029731 (0-15-602973-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kartography'Book summary:Kartography is Kamila Shamsie's impressive third novel. At its heart is rather a traditional love story-cum-family saga. Karim and Raheen are anagram swapping "fated friends". Until the age of 13, when Karim moved to London, they were virtually raised as brother and sister. Their parents had once been engaged to each other. The unravelling of quite why this matrimonial square dance occurred is juxtaposed with Karim and Raheen's own, and decidedly more protracted, romance.
As the title suggests, mapping--geographical, political and emotional-- is central to the book. The "comic" spelling is a wry allusion to its setting: the troubled Pakistani city of Karachi, a place that, as Karim observes, worships "at the altar of K". Karim, Raheen and their friends Sonia and Zia all belong to the privileged Karachi elite. Born on the right "side of the Clifton Bridge" they seem immune from Karachi's endemic corruption, violence and religious and ethnic intolerance but they and their families, like the rest of the city's inhabitants, have all been horrifically scarred by events of the 1971 civil war.
Like Austen, or perhaps more accurately Forster, Shamsie is wonderfully adept at capturing the petty rivalries and social games of Pakistan's highly stratified bourgeoisie society--Zia's house is sagely described as "always full of people worth cultivating, rather than people worth having in your home." There are a few (well-acknowledged) nods to Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities and even Homer's Odyssey gets a look in but Shamsie wears her learning lightly. She manages to make Karim and Raheen's journey to toward engagement, both with the realities of Karachi and with each other, into a profound meditation on the nature of love, storytelling and politics. --Travis Elborough [via]
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Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrowby Sarah Adams, Fanza GuFneISBN 0156030489 (0-15-603048-9)
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The Last Lifeby Claire MessudISBN 0156011654 (0-15-601165-4)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fightersby Andrea Davis Pickney, Stephen AlcornISBN 015201005X (0-15-201005-X)
Hardcover, Gulliver Books
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Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraftby Claire TomalinISBN 0151515395 (0-15-151539-5)
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The Life Before Her Eyesby Laura KasischkeISBN 0156027127 (0-15-602712-7)
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Living by the Word: Selected Writings, 1973-1987by Alice WalkerISBN 0156528657 (0-15-652865-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Living by the Word: Selected Writings, 1973-1987'Book summary:The The Color Purple meditates on planetary concerns as well as on feminist and political issues in her most deeply spiritual work yet. She writes of our intimate connection with nature, focuses on racial questions, reports on trips to China, Bali, and Jamaica, and more. [via]
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Main Streetby Sinclair LewisISBN 0151555478 (0-15-155547-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Main Street'Book summary:In this classic satire of small-town America, beautiful young Carol Kennicott comes to Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, with dreams of transforming the provincial old town into a place of beauty and culture. But she runs into a wall of bigotry, hypocrisy and complacency. The first popular bestseller to attack conventional ideas about marriage, gender roles, and small town life, Main Street established Lewis as a major American novelist.[via]More editions of Main Street:
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Memories of a Catholic Girlhoodby Mary McCarthyISBN 0156586509 (0-15-658650-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Memories of a Catholic Girlhood'Book summary:This unique autobiography begins with McCarthys recollections of an indulgent, idyllic childhood tragically altered by the death of her parents in the influenza epidemic of 1918. Tempering the need to fictionalize for the sake of a good story with the need for honesty, she creates interchapters that tell the reader what she has inferred or invented. Photographs.[via]More editions of Memories of a Catholic Girlhood:
Mrs. Harris: The Death of the Scarsdale Diet Doctorby Diana TrillingISBN 0151769028 (0-15-176902-8)
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Mrs. Miniverby Jan StrutherISBN 0156631407 (0-15-663140-7)
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Night and Dayby Virginia WoolfISBN 0156028042 (0-15-602804-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Night and Day'Book summary:Set in London before World War I, this novel explores the truth of feelings and particularly the nature of love. It is, in that sense, a love story, but in the hands of Virginia Woolf, it transcends conventional romance to pose a series of crucial questions about women, intellectual freedom, and marriage.[via] -
A Northern Lightby Jennifer DonnellyISBN 0152053107 (0-15-205310-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Northern Light'Book summary:It's 1906 and 16-year-old Mattie Gokey is at a crossroads in her life. She's escaped the overwhelming responsibilities of helping to run her father's brokedown farm in exchange for a paid summer job as a serving girl at a fancy hotel in the Adirondacks. She's saving as much of her salary as she can, but she's having trouble deciding how she's going to use the money at the end of the summer. Mattie's gift is for writing and she's been accepted to Barnard College in New York City, but she's held back by her sense of responsibility to her family--and by her budding romance with handsome-but-dull Royal Loomis. Royal awakens feelings in Mattie that she doesn't want to ignore, but she can't deny her passion for words and her desire to write.
At the hotel, Mattie gets caught up in the disappearance of a young couple who had gone out together in a rowboat. Mattie spoke with the young woman, Grace Brown, just before the fateful boating trip, when Grace gave her a packet of love letters and asked her to burn them. When Grace is found drowned, Mattie reads the letters and finds that she holds the key to unraveling the girl's death and her beau's mysterious disappearance. Grace Brown's story is a true one (it's the same story told in Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy and in the film adaptation, A Place in the Sun), and author Jennifer Donnelly masterfully interweaves the real-life story with Mattie's, making her seem even more real.
Mattie's frank voice reveals much about poverty, racism, and feminism at the turn of the twentieth century. She witnesses illness and death at a range far closer than most teens do today, and she's there when her best friend Minnie gives birth to twins. Mattie describes Minnie's harrowing labor with gut-wrenching clarity, and a visit with Minnie and the twins a few weeks later dispels any romance from the reality of young motherhood (and marriage). Overall, readers will get a taste of how bitter--and how sweet--ordinary life in the early 1900s could be. Despite the wide variety of troubles Mattie describes, the book never feels melodramatic, just heartbreakingly real. (14 and older) --Jennifer Lindsay [via]
Not One Damsel in Distress: World Folktales for Strong Girlsby Jane Yolen, Susan GuevaraISBN 0152020470 (0-15-202047-0)
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Odd Girl Speaks Out: Girls Write About Bullies, Cliques, Popularity, and Jealousyby Rachel SimmonsISBN 0156028158 (0-15-602815-8)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Odd Girl Speaks Out: Girls Write About Bullies, Cliques, Popularity, and Jealousy'Book summary:The national bestseller Odd Girl Out exposed a hidden culture of cruelty that had always been quietly endured by American girls. As Rachel Simmons toured the country, these girls found their voices and spoke to her about their pain. They wanted to talk-and they weren't the only ones. Mothers, teachers, counselors, young professional women, even fathers, came to Rachel with heart-wrenching personal stories that could no longer be kept secret.[via]
Here, Rachel creates a safe place for girls to talk, rant, sound off, and find each other. The result is a collection of wonderful accounts of the inner lives of adolescent girls. Candid and disarming, creative and expressive, and always exceptionally self-aware, these poems, songs, confessions, and essays form a journal of American girlhood. They show us how deeply cruelty flows and how strongly these girls want to change.
Odd Girl Out helped girls find their voices; Odd Girl Speaks Out helps them tell their stories.
I'm always the odd girl out
No one talks to me
I try to be friendly and speak out
But I'm invisible, see?
You know, gossip is a natural thing in high school. I'm one of those girls that will
do it right in front of you. I'll whisper at my friends and look at you the whole time.
Then we'll all cut up laughing. You know we're talking about you.
My best friend and I started being friends with this other girl. But she was fat. It was hard because she always wanted to go down the slide second and she would crush us. We didn't want to tell her she was fat, so we decided to drop her. Her mother called my mother and
told her we were being mean. But we just couldn't be friends with her anymore.
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The Orchard on Fireby Shena MacKayISBN 0156005328 (0-15-600532-8)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Ponder Heartby Eudora WeltyISBN 0156729156 (0-15-672915-6)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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The Psychology of Womenby Margaret W. Matlin, MatlinISBN 0155030086 (0-15-503008-6)
Softcover, Harcourt College Pub
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The Red Queen: A Transcultural Tragicomedyby Margaret DrabbleISBN 0156032708 (0-15-603270-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Red Queen: A Transcultural Tragicomedy'Book summary:Barbara Halliwell, on a grant at Oxford, receives an unexpected package-a centuries-old memoir by a Korean crown princess. An appropriate gift indeed for her impending trip to Seoul, but Barbara doesn't know who sent it. On the plane, she avidly reads the memoir, a story of great intrigue as well as tragedy. The Crown Princess Hyegyong recounts in extraordinary detail the ways of the Korean court and confesses the family dramas that left her childless and her husband dead by his own hand. When a Korean man Barbara meets at her hotel offers to guide her to some of the haunts of the crown princess, Barbara tours the royal courts and develops a strong affinity for everything related to the princess and her mysterious life. Barbara's time in Korea goes quickly, but captivated by her experience and wanting to know more about the princess, she wonders if her life can ever be the way it was before.[via]More editions of The Red Queen: A Transcultural Tragicomedy:
Retreat From Loveby Colette, Margaret CroslandISBN 0156765888 (0-15-676588-8)
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The Robber Bridegroomby Barry Moser, Eudora WeltyISBN 0151783187 (0-15-178318-7)
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Rose of No Man's Landby Michelle TeaISBN 0156030934 (0-15-603093-4)
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Sacajaweaby Joseph BruchacISBN 0152022341 (0-15-202234-1)
Hardcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
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A Sea-Grape Treeby Rosamond LehmannISBN 015179720X (0-15-179720-X)
Hardcover, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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Silk Hope, Ncby Lawrence NaumoffISBN 0156002078 (0-15-600207-8)
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The Sisters Rosensweigby Wendy WassersteinISBN 015600013X (0-15-600013-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sisters Rosensweig'Book summary:Wasserstein, who won a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award for The Heidi Chronicles, writes of three Jewish middle-aged sisters-Sara, Gorgeous, and Pfeni-who come together in London to celebrate Saras birthday. Winner of the Outer Critics Circle Award. Photographs.[via]More editions of The Sisters Rosensweig:
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So You Want to Be a Wizardby Diane DuaneISBN 0152049401 (0-15-204940-1)
Softcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'So You Want to Be a Wizard'Book summary:Ages 10 & up. In the spirit of Madeleine L'Engle's classic A Wrinkle in Time, this is a fascinating and powerfully involving story about two lonely kids who are inadvertently caught up in the never-ending battle between good and evil. The problems of everyday adolescent life and the mysteries of magic are perfectly blended, along with plenty of humor and suspense. In a starred review, School Library Journal wrote, "well-structured and believable... this fantasy should have wide appeal." Horn Book wrote, "a splendid, unusual fantasy... an outstanding, original work." [via]
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Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmerby Lynne CoxISBN 0156031302 (0-15-603130-2)
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The Third Life of Grange Copelandby Alice WalkerISBN 0156028360 (0-15-602836-0)
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This Cold Countryby Annabel Davis-GoffISBN 0156027380 (0-15-602738-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'This Cold Country'Book summary:Known for her elegant prose and her keen eye for the nuances of class, Annabel Davis-Goff adds the lush immediacy of a Merchant-Ivory film to her compelling tale of a woman and a culture forever changed by World War II.[via]
Only three days after Daisy Creed weds Patrick Nugent, heir of an Anglo-Irish family, he leaves for the war. Having never met her husband's family, Daisy embarks for her new home, Dunmaine, in County Waterford. The family's affairs echo its estate: grand on the outside, decaying within. Left alone with Patrick's eccentric brother and silent grandmother, Daisy is determined to save Dunmaine and secure her place there. But before she can grasp the unspoken rules, she is unwillingly drawn into events that throw her determination off course.
Daisy Creed is a resilient, courageous, altogether enterprising Everywoman of her time in this novel about a way of life and the war that precipitated its transformation.More editions of This Cold Country:
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Those Who Save Usby Jenna BlumISBN 0156031663 (0-15-603166-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Those Who Save Us'Book summary:For fifty years, Anna Schlemmer has refused to talk about her life in Germany during World War II. Her daughter, Trudy, was only three when she and her mother were liberated by an American soldier and went to live with him in Minnesota. Trudy's sole evidence of the past is an old photograph: a family portrait showing Anna, Trudy, and a Nazi officer, the Obersturmfuhrer of Buchenwald.[via]
Driven by the guilt of her heritage, Trudy, now a professor of German history, begins investigating the past and finally unearths the dramatic and heartbreaking truth of her mother's life.
Combining a passionate, doomed love story, a vivid evocation of life during the war, and a poignant mother/daughter drama, Those Who Save Us is a profound exploration of what we endure to survive and the legacy of shame.More editions of Those Who Save Us:
Troyby Adele GerasISBN 0152045708 (0-15-204570-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Troy'Book summary:Homer's mighty epic poem, The Iliad, is the earliest written literature of Western civilization. Adele Geras, best known for her trilogy based on Sleeping Beauty, takes on the seemingly impertinent task of retelling the siege of Troy as a young adult novel, but manages to carry it off without trivializing the original. The great battles of the bronze-clad warriors and the clashes between Achilles and Hector and Odysseus are seen at a distance from the walls of the city, where the Trojan townsfolk gather to sit each day and cheer the action like spectators at some archaic football game.
The passion of Helen and Paris, Hector's farewell to his ill-fated infant son, and other familiar domestic scenes are seen from a closer perspective, through the eyes of the four teenage protagonists. Marpessa is Helen's young servant, and her sister Xanthe is nursemaid to Hector's baby son, while Iason, who is secretly beloved by their friend Polyxena, tends the horses and yearns for Xanthe, who has a crush on Alastor, who has impregnated Marpessa. These complicated, interlocking infatuations and love affairs work themselves out against a background of siege and bloodshed watched over by the gods. Artemis, Mars, Poseidon, and Pallas Athene appear in visions to reveal their plans to the characters (and to us), but their words blow away like mist as soon as they are gone. Meanwhile, the bawdy gossip of three old serving maids in the kitchen emulates a Greek chorus. The story winds to its inevitable destination with the emergence of the Greeks from the wooden horse and the bloody sack of the city--a suitably violent end to an ancient and violent tale. (Ages 12 and older) --Patty Campbell [via]
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Under the Black Flagby David CordinglyISBN 0156005492 (0-15-600549-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Under the Black Flag'Book summary:Though literature, films, and folklore have romanticized pirates as gallant seaman who hunted for treasure in exotic locales, David Cordingly, a former curator at the National Maritime Museum in England, reveals the facts behind the legends of such outlaws as Captain Kidd, Blackbeard, and Calico Jack. Even stories about buried treasure are fictitious, he says, yet still the myth remains. Though pirate captains were often sadistic villains and crews endured barbarous tortures, were constantly threatened with the possibility of death by hanging, drowning in a storm, or surviving a shipwreck on a hostile coast, pirates are still idealized. Cordingly examines why the myth of the romance of piratehood endures and why so few lived out their days in luxury on the riches they had plundered. [via]
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Very Far Away from Anywhere Elseby Ursula K. Le GuinISBN 0152052089 (0-15-205208-9)
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Virginia Woolf, Women and Writingby Virginia Woolf, Michele BarrettISBN 0151937753 (0-15-193775-3)
Hardcover, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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The War of Dreamsby Angela CarterISBN 0151443750 (0-15-144375-0)
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The Waste Landby T. S. Eliot, Christopher RicksISBN 0156005344 (0-15-600534-4)
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Wilma Unlimitedby Kathleen Krull, David DiazISBN 0152020985 (0-15-202098-5)
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A Window over the Sink: A Memoirby Peg BrackenISBN 0151969868 (0-15-196986-8)
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The Wise Virginsby Leonard Sidney WoolfISBN 0151975116 (0-15-197511-6)
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The Witch of Exmoorby Margaret DrabbleISBN 0156006049 (0-15-600604-9)
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Within the Whirlwindby Evgeni-I-A Semenovna GinzburgISBN 0151975175 (0-15-197517-5)
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Wizard Aloneby Diane DuaneISBN 0152049118 (0-15-204911-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wizard Alone'Book summary:Kit and Nita return to join forces against the evil Lone Power, this time over the heart and mind of a young autistic, in Diane Duane's sixth installment of the Young Wizards series. Initially, Kit finds himself flying solo as Nita has sunk into a deep depression over her mother's recent death. Luckily, his telepathic pooch, Ponch, is happy to fill Nita's niche temporarily, as long as biscuits are involved. Kit tries to understand why autistic wizard-in-training Darryl McAllister has been stuck in his Ordeal, or initiation, for over three months. Is it merely the fault of his autism? Inside Darryl's mind, Kit and Ponch find complex landscapes of weird beauty that belie Darryl's rocking, vacant exterior. But they also find the Lone Power, attacking Darryl with an unrelenting brutality that is excessive, even for the Source of all Evil. Meanwhile, Nita is distracted from her sadness by trying to discover the meaning of a series of strange dreams in which a being is pleading for her aid. Could the dreams be a call for help from Darryl? And if so, will Kit and Nita come together in time to destroy the Lone Power before it destroys them?
Though a novice to the series would definitely benefit from reading the previous books, Duane's latest mix of science and spell casting is thought provoking in its own right. She slips enough facts into this fiction to ensure that young readers will not only enjoy the quest, but also learn something along the way. (Ages 10 to 15) --Jennifer Hubert [via]
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Women and Writingby Virginia WoolfISBN 0156028069 (0-15-602806-9)
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Women's Liberation and Literatureby Elaine ShowalterISBN 0155961950 (0-15-596195-0)
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A Writer's Diaryby Virginia Woolf, Leonard WoolfISBN 0156027917 (0-15-602791-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Writer's Diary'Book summary:An invaluable guide to the art and mind of Virginia Woolf, drawn by her husband from the personal record she kept over a period of twenty-seven years. Included are entries that refer to her own writing, others that are clearly writing exercises; accounts of people and scenes relevant to the raw material of her work; and comments on books she was reading. Edited and with a Preface by Leonard Woolf; Indices.[via]More editions of A Writer's Diary:
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