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The Acharniansby AristophanesISBN 0140442871 (0-14-044287-1)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Anonymous Was a Womanby Mirra BankISBN 0312041861 (0-312-04186-1)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Anonymous Was a Woman: A Celebration in Words and Images of Traditional American Art and the Women Who Made Itby Mirra Bank, Phyllis RoseISBN 0312134304 (0-312-13430-4)
Softcover, St. Martin's Press
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The Bitch Posseby Martha O'ConnorISBN 0312333935 (0-312-33393-5)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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The Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literatureby Claire BuckISBN 0130896659 (0-13-089665-9)
Softcover, Pearson Education Canada
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature'Book summary:The first and only one-volume guide to women's literature, and essential reference for both students and general readers. The work of 40 international scholars, this reference features over 5,000 A-to-Z entries on thousands of individual authors from the classical period to the middle ages to the present, detailed descriptions of works, and thematic entries on literary genres used frequently by women. 100 illustrations; chronology; bibliographies. [via]
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The Burgermeister's Daughter: Scandal in a Sixteenth-Century German Townby Steven OzmentISBN 0060977213 (0-06-097721-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Burgermeister's Daughter: Scandal in a Sixteenth-Century German Town'Book summary:The tragic but uplifting story of Anna Buschler, whose rebellion against the constricting mores of her times is reconstructed in this vivid social portrait of Germany at the end of the Middle Ages. [via]
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The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to Eighteen-Seventyby Gerda LernerISBN 0195090608 (0-19-509060-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Crone: Woman of Age, Wisdom, and Powerby Barbara G. WalkerISBN 0062509349 (0-06-250934-9)
Softcover, Harper San Francisco
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The Devil Wears Pradaby Lauren WeisbergerISBN 0307275558 (0-307-27555-8)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Devil Wears Prada'Book summary:It's a killer title: The Devil Wears Prada. And it's killer material: author Lauren Weisberger did a stint as assistant to Anna Wintour, the all-powerful editor of Vogue magazine. Now she's written a book, and this is its theme: narrator Andrea Sachs goes to work for Miranda Priestly, the all-powerful editor of Runway magazine. Turns out Miranda is quite the bossyboots. That's pretty much the extent of the novel, but it's plenty. Miranda's behavior is so insanely over-the-top that it's a gas to see what she'll do next, and to try to guess which incidents were culled from the real-life antics of the woman who's been called Anna "Nuclear" Wintour. For instance, when Miranda goes to Paris for the collections, Andrea receives a call back at the New York office (where, incidentally, she's not allowed to leave her desk to eat or go to the bathroom, lest her boss should call). Miranda bellows over the line: "I am standing in the pouring rain on the rue de Rivoli and my driver has vanished. Vanished! Find him immediately!"
This kind of thing is delicious fun to read about, though not as well written as its obvious antecedent, The Nanny Diaries. And therein lies the essential problem of the book. Andrea's goal in life is to work for The New Yorker--she's only sticking it out with Miranda for a job recommendation. But author Weisberger is such an inept, ungrammatical writer, you're positively rooting for her fictional alter ego not to get anywhere near The New Yorker. Still, Weisberger has certainly one-upped Me Times Three author Alix Witchel, whose magazine-world novel never gave us the inside dope that was the book's whole raison d' etre. For the most part, The Devil Wears Prada focuses on the outrageous Miranda Priestly, and she's an irresistible spectacle. --Claire Dederer [via]
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The Diary of Anais Nin, 1931-1934by Anais Nin, Gunther StuhlmannISBN 0156260255 (0-15-626025-5)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Diary of Anais Nin, 1931-1934'Book summary:This celebrated volume begins when Nin is about to publish her first book and ends when she leaves Paris for New York. Edited and with a Preface by Gunther tuhlmann; Index.[via]More editions of The Diary of Anais Nin, 1931-1934:
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Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesiaby Elizabeth GilbertISBN 0143038419 (0-14-303841-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia'Book summary:If wisdom could be traded like currency, author Elizabeth Gilbert would be a wealthier woman by far, though it's likely her fabulous memoir, Eat Pray Love, racked up a few bucks during its stay on the New York Times bestseller list. What Gilbert imparts in her story--basically, bracing self-knowledge acquired during a year of travel following a bitter divorce and a shattered rebound romance--is at once astounding yet totally obvious. As Gilbert would attest, albeit more eloquently, the most important stuff in life is pretty much under our noses, but we occasionally have to shake ourselves senseless in order to see it (enlisting a guru and a medicine man are highly recommended).
Take this simple but devastating observation posited while Gilbert was on the final leg of a global tour. "I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume that everyone is emotionally capable of reaching his highest potential. I have fallen in love more times than I care to count with the highest potential of a man, rather than with the man himself, and then I have hung on to the relationship for a long time (sometimes far too long) waiting for the man to ascend to his own greatness. Many times in romance I have been the victim of my own optimism."
Ten million women are smiling wry smiles and nodding their heads in agreement (men too, probably, but the book has a definite female skew). Such emotional bulls-eyes are hit early and often in Eat Pray Love, each seemingly more poignant than the last. Alternately funny and heartbreaking and always deeply resonant, Eat Pray Love, takes the reader on two epic journeys one through Italy, India and Indonesia and the other deep inside Gilbert's intense psyche. Charles Montgomery's towering The Last Heathen: Encounters with Ghosts and Ancestors in Melanesia notwithstanding, travel memoirs just don't get any better than that. --Kim Hughes [via]
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Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Lifeby Alison WeirISBN 0345434870 (0-345-43487-0)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life'Book summary:Renowned in her time for being the most beautiful woman in europe, the wife of two kings and mother of three, eleanor of aquitaine was one of the great heroines of the middle ages. Despite the fact she lived in an age in which women were regarded as little more than chattel, eleanor managed to defy convention as she exercised power in the political sphere and crucial influence over her husbands and sons. In this beautifully written new biography, alison weir, author of five widely acclaimed chronicles of england's royal rulers, paints a vibrant portrait of this truly exceptional woman, and provides new insights into her intimate life.born in 1122 into the sophisticated and cultured court of poitiers, eleanor came of age in a world of luxury, intrigue, bloody combat, and unbridled ambition. At only fifteen, she inherited one of the great fortunes of europe--the prize duchy of aquitaine--yet her father had been shrewd enough to realize that her future security lay in a powerful marriage. Consequently the sensual duchess submitted to a union with the handsome but sexually withholding louis vii, the teenage king of france. The marriage endured for fifteen fraught years, until eleanor finally succeeded in having it annulled--only to enter an even stormier match with the aggressively virile, hot-tempered henry of anjou, who would soon ascend to the english throne as henry ii.as weir traces the fascinating intersection of public and private lives in europe's twelfth-century courts, eleanor comes to life as a complex, boldly original woman who transcended the mores of society. Eventually, after enduring henry's flagrant infidelities, she showed herself a formidable and dangerous enemy of the king's interests by plotting to overthrow him with their sons henry, richard, and geoffrey. [via]
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Frankensteinby Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyISBN 0140367128 (0-14-036712-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frankenstein'Book summary:Frankenstein, loved by many decades of readers and praised by such eminent literary critics as Harold Bloom, seems hardly to need a recommendation. If you haven't read it recently, though, you may not remember the sweeping force of the prose, the grotesque, surreal imagery, and the multilayered doppelgänger themes of Mary Shelley's masterpiece. As fantasy writer Jane Yolen writes of this (the reviewer's favorite) edition, "The strong black and whites of the main text [illustrations] are dark and brooding, with unremitting shadows and stark contrasts. But the central conversation with the monster--who owes nothing to the overused movie image & but is rather the novel's charnel-house composite--is where [Barry] Moser's illustrations show their greatest power ... The viewer can all but smell the powerful stench of the monster's breath as its words spill out across the page. Strong book-making for one of the world's strongest and most remarkable books." Includes an illuminating afterword by Joyce Carol Oates. [via]
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- Frankenstein: ISBN 0141439475 (0-14-143947-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Frankenstein: ISBN 0192834878 (0-19-283487-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Frankenstein: ISBN 0226752275 (0-226-75227-5)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr - Frankenstein: ISBN 031219126X (0-312-19126-X)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins - Frankenstein: ISBN 0321399536 (0-321-39953-6)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group - Frankenstein: ISBN 014043237X (0-14-043237-X)
Softcover, Penguin Books - Frankenstein: ISBN 0140772596 (0-14-077259-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Frankenstein: ISBN 014130541X (0-14-130541-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Frankenstein: ISBN 0192815326 (0-19-281532-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Frankenstein: ISBN 0321096983 (0-321-09698-3)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley - Frankenstein: ISBN 0099079208 (0-09-907920-8)
Hardcover, Arrow Books - Frankenstein: ISBN 019251010X (0-19-251010-X)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press - Frankenstein: ISBN 0192553259 (0-19-255325-9)
Hardcover, Oxford U.P. - Frankenstein: ISBN 0192811169 (0-19-281116-9)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press - Frankenstein: ISBN 0195149017 (0-19-514901-7)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Frankenstein: ISBN 0312065256 (0-312-06525-6)
Hardcover, Bedford/st Martins - Frankenstein: ISBN 0312249489 (0-312-24948-9)
Hardcover, Bedford/st Martins - Frankenstein: ISBN 0330241885 (0-330-24188-5)
Hardcover, Pan Books - Frankenstein: ISBN 0140367128 (0-14-036712-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
- Frankenstein: ISBN 0141439475 (0-14-143947-5)
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Frankenstein Mary Shelleyby J. SmithISBN 0312044690 (0-312-04469-0)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frankenstein Mary Shelley'Book summary:This revision of a widely adopted critical edition presents the 1831 text of Mary Shelleys English Romantic novel along with critical essays that introduce students to Frankenstein from contemporary psychoanalytic, Marxist, feminist, gender, and cultural studies perspectives. An additional essay demonstrates how various critical perspectives can be combined. In the second edition, 3 of the 6 essays are new. The text and essays are complemented by contextual documents, introductions (with bibliographies), and a glossary of critical and theoretical terms.[via]More editions of Frankenstein Mary Shelley:
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Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheusby Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Marilyn ButlerISBN 0192833669 (0-19-283366-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus'Book summary:Frankenstein, loved by many decades of readers and praised by such eminent literary critics as Harold Bloom, seems hardly to need a recommendation. If you haven't read it recently, though, you may not remember the sweeping force of the prose, the grotesque, surreal imagery, and the multilayered doppelgänger themes of Mary Shelley's masterpiece. As fantasy writer Jane Yolen writes of this (the reviewer's favorite) edition, "The strong black and whites of the main text [illustrations] are dark and brooding, with unremitting shadows and stark contrasts. But the central conversation with the monster--who owes nothing to the overused movie image & but is rather the novel's charnel-house composite--is where [Barry] Moser's illustrations show their greatest power ... The viewer can all but smell the powerful stench of the monster's breath as its words spill out across the page. Strong book-making for one of the world's strongest and most remarkable books." Includes an illuminating afterword by Joyce Carol Oates. [via]
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- Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus: ISBN 0140351078 (0-14-035107-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus: ISBN 0140433627 (0-14-043362-7)
Softcover, Penguin USA - Frankenstein : Or, the Modern Prometheus: ISBN 0140620303 (0-14-062030-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada) - Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus: ISBN 0192822837 (0-19-282283-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus: ISBN 0192833669 (0-19-283366-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
- Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus: ISBN 0140351078 (0-14-035107-8)
Frost in Mayby Antonia WhiteISBN 0140162321 (0-14-016232-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Lady Chatterley's Loverby D. H. Lawrence, Michael SquiresISBN 0140187863 (0-14-018786-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'Book summary:Perhaps the most famous of Lawrence's novels, the 1928 Lady Chatterley's Lover is no longer distinguished for the once-shockingly explicit treatment of its subject matter--the adulterous affair between a sexually unfulfilled upper-class married woman and the game keeper who works for the estate owned by her wheelchaired husband. Now that we're used to reading about sex, and seeing it in the movies, it's apparent that the novel is memorable for better reasons: namely, that Lawrence was a masterful and lyrical writer, whose story takes us bodily into the world of its characters. [via]
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- Lady Chatterley's Lover: ISBN 0141441496 (0-14-144149-6)
Softcover, Penguin Classics - Lady Chatterley's Lover: ISBN 014303961X (0-14-303961-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Lady Chatterley's Lover: ISBN 0140014845 (0-14-001484-5)
Hardcover, Penguin - Lady Chatterley's Lover: ISBN 0140187863 (0-14-018786-3)
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- Lady Chatterley's Lover: ISBN 0141441496 (0-14-144149-6)
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The Lovely Bonesby Alice SeboldISBN 0316166685 (0-316-16668-5)
Softcover, Little Brown & Company
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lovely Bones'Book summary:On her way home from school on a snowy December day, 14-year-old Susie Salmon is lured into a cornfield and brutally raped and murdered, the latest victim of a serial killer. The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold's haunting and heartbreaking debut novel, unfolds from heaven, where "life is a perpetual yesterday" and where Susie narrates and keeps watch over her grieving family and friends, as well as her brazen killer and the sad detective working on her case.
As Sebold fashions it, everyone has his or her own version of heaven. Susie's resembles the athletic fields and landscape of a suburban high school: a heaven of her "simplest dreams", where "there were no teachers... We never had to go inside except for art class... The boys did not pinch our backsides or tell us we smelled; our textbooks were Seventeen and Glamour and Vogue".
The Lovely Bones works as an odd yet affecting coming-of-age story. Susie struggles to accept her death while still clinging to the lost world of the living, following her family's dramas over the years. Her family disintegrates in their grief: her father becomes determined to find her killer, her mother withdraws, her little brother Buckley attempts to make sense of the new hole in his family and her younger sister Lindsey moves through the milestone events of her teenage and young adult years with Susie riding spiritual shotgun. Random acts and missed opportunities run throughout the book--Susie recalls her sole kiss with a boy on earth as "like an accident--a beautiful gasoline rainbow".
Though sentimental at times, The Lovely Bones is a moving exploration of loss and mourning that ultimately puts its faith in the living and that is made even more powerful by a cast of convincing characters. Sebold orchestrates a big finish and though things tend to wrap up a little too well for everyone in the end, one can only imagine (or hope) that heaven is indeed a place filled with such happy endings. --Brad Thomas Parsons, Amazon.com [via]
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- The Lovely Bones: ISBN 0316168815 (0-316-16881-5)
Softcover, Back Bay Books - The Lovely Bones: ISBN 0316666343 (0-316-66634-3)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co - The Lovely Bones: ISBN 0316170720 (0-316-17072-0)
Softcover, Hachette Book Group USA - The Lovely Bones: ISBN 0316166685 (0-316-16668-5)
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- The Lovely Bones: ISBN 0316168815 (0-316-16881-5)
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Lysistrataby Aristophanes, Alan H. SommersteinISBN 0146001664 (0-14-600166-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lysistrata'Book summary:Aristophanes' great anti-war drama, with comedic overtones, glorifies the power of fertility in the face of destruction. Plays for Performance Series. [via]
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Mary Shelley: Frankensteinby Berthold Schoene-Harwood, Richard BeynonISBN 0231121938 (0-231-12193-8)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mary Shelley: Frankenstein'Book summary:Mary Shelley's first novel has established itself as one of modernity's most compelling and ominous myths. Frankenstein poignantly captures the spirit of the early 1800s as an age of transition tragically divided between scientific progress and religious conservatism, revolutionary reform and conformist reaction.
This "Guide" encapsulates the most important critical reactions to a novel that straddles the realms of both "high" literature and popular culture. The selections shed light on "Frankenstein"'s historical and socio-political relevance, its innovative representations of science, gender, and identity, as well as its problematic cultural location between academic critique and creative production. Ranging from the first reviews in 1818 to postmodern readings of the mid-1990s, the "Guide" illuminates one of British literature's most spectacular novels. [via]
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Meridianby Alice WalkerISBN 0156028344 (0-15-602834-4)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Meridian'Book summary:The second novel written by Alice Walker, preceding THE COLOUR PURPLE is a heartfelt and moving story about one woman's personal revolution as she joins the Civil Rights Movement. Set in the American South in the 1960s it follows Meridian Hill, a courageous young woman who dedicates herself heart and soul to her civil rights work, touching the lives of those around her even as her own health begins to deteriorate. Hers is a lonely battle, but it is one she will not abandon, whatever the costs. This is classic Alice Walker, beautifully written, intense and passionate. [via]
Odd Womenby George GissingISBN 0140433791 (0-14-043379-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Odd Women'Book summary:George Gissing's The Odd Women dramatizes key issues relating to class and gender in late-Victorian culture: the changing relationship between the sexes, the social impact of 'odd' or 'redundant' women, the cultural impact of 'the new woman,' and the opportunities for and conditions of employment in the expanding service sector of the economy. At the heart of these issues as many late Victorians saw them was a problem of the imbalance in the ratio of men to women in the population. There were more females than males, which meant that more and more women would be left unmarried; they would be 'odd' or 'redundant,' and would be forced to be independent and to find work to support themselves. In the Broadview edition, Gissing's text is carefully annotated and accompanied by a range of documents from the period that help to lay out the context in which the book was written. In Gissing's story, Virginia Madden and her two sisters are confronted upon the death of their father with sudden impoverishment. Without training for employment, and desperate to maintain middle-class respectability, they face a daunting struggle. In Rhoda Nunn, a strong feminist, Gissing also presents a strong character who draws attention overtly to the issues behind the novel. The Odd Women is one of the most important social novels of the late nineteenth century. [via]
Odd Womenby Patricia Ingham, George GissingISBN 019283312X (0-19-283312-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: Library Editionby Muriel SparkISBN 0060931736 (0-06-093173-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: Library Edition'Book summary:The elegantly styled classic story of a young, unorthodox teacher and her special--and ultimately dangerous--relationship with six of her students. [via]
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Prodigal Summerby Barbara KingsolverISBN 0060959037 (0-06-095903-7)
Softcover, Perennial
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Prodigal Summer'Book summary:There is no one in contemporary literature quite like Barbara Kingsolver. Her dialogue sparkles with sassy wit and earthy poetry; her descriptions are rooted in daily life but are also on familiar terms with the eternal. With Prodigal Summer, she returns from the Congo to a "wrinkle on the map that lies between farms and wildness." And there, in an isolated pocket of southern Appalachia, she recounts not one but three intricate stories.
Exuberant, lush, riotous--the summer of the novel is "the season of extravagant procreation" in which bullfrogs carelessly lay their jellied masses of eggs in the grass, "apparently confident that their tadpoles would be able to swim through the lawn like little sperms," and in which a woman may learn to "tell time with her skin." It is also the summer in which a family of coyotes moves into the mountains above Zebulon Valley:
The ghost of a creature long extinct was coming in on silent footprints, returning to the place it had once held in the complex anatomy of this forest like a beating heart returned to its body. This is what she believed she would see, if she watched, at this magical juncture: a restoration.
The "she" is Deanna Wolfe, a wildlife biologist observing the coyotes from her isolated aerie--isolated, that is, until the arrival of a young hunter who makes her even more aware of the truth that humans are only an infinitesimal portion in the ecological balance. This truth forms the axis around which the other two narratives revolve: the story of a city girl, entomologist, and new widow and her efforts to find a place for herself; and the story of Garnett Walker and Nannie Rawley, who seem bent on thrashing out the countless intimate lessons of biology as only an irascible traditional farmer and a devotee of organic agriculture can. As Nannie lectures Garnett, "Everything alive is connected to every other by fine, invisible threads. Things you don't see can help you plenty, and things you try to control will often rear back and bite you, and that's the moral of the story."Structurally, that gossamer web is the story: images, phrases, and events link the narratives, and these echoes are rarely obvious, always serendipitous. Kingsolver is one of those authors for whom the terrifying elegance of nature is both aesthetic wonder and source of a fierce and abiding moral vision. She may have inherited Thoreau's mantle, but she piles up riches of her own making, blending her extravagant narrative gift with benevolent concise humor. She treads the line between the sentimental and the glorious like nobody else in American literature. --Kelly Flynn [via]
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The Serpent and the Goddess: Women, Religion, and Power in Celtic Irelandby Mary CondrenISBN 0062501569 (0-06-250156-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Serpent and the Goddess: Women, Religion, and Power in Celtic Ireland'Book summary:Using Ireland as a case study, this book provides an account of the decline of matriarchal power in Western civilizations and analyzes its implications for today's women and today's Catholic Church. From the age of Eve to the age of Brigit to the age of Mary, the author traces the rise of patriarchial consciousness. Mary Condren is a former editor of Student Christian Movement Publications and the author of articles on men written for feminist liberation theory. The author has taught in the Women in Religion Program at Harvard University. [via]
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The Song of the Larkby Willa Cather, Sherrill HarbisonISBN 0141181044 (0-14-118104-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Song of the Lark'Book summary:The daughter of a Swedish minister growing up in Colorado, Thea Kronborg's adolescent ability on the piano is encouraged by her eccentric German music teacher, Professor Wuncsch, and by the kindly but unhappily married Dr. Howard Archie. Set apart from the townspeople by her talents, Thea's friends are far from conventional. At 17 she leaves them and her mother's influence to go to Chicago where she studies with the pianist Andor Harsanyi. Having overheard her singing in a church, he is the mentor who discovers the potential of Thea's singing voice and sends her to study with the chill and selfish Madison Bowers, whom she dislikes. Her story moves to Arizona when she and a wealthy young brewer, Fred Ottenburg fall in love. A tension between her relationship with him and the driving artistic impulse that has always ruled her develops and becomes the novel's compelling central theme.
Cather's lyrical, atmospheric and moving novel is a thinly veiled autobiography of a female artist in America at the turn of the century. A mature work filled with memorable characters all of whom influence Thea in different ways, The Song of the Lark deserves to be read alongside O Pioneers! and My Antonia and fully justifies Cather's status as one of America's greatest twentieth-century writers. [via] -
Summerby Edith WhartonISBN 0140186794 (0-14-018679-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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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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Testament of Youthby Vera Brittain, Mark BostridgeISBN 0143039237 (0-14-303923-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Testament of Youth'Book summary:When war broke out in August 1914, 21-year-old Vera Brittain was planning on enrolling at Somerville College, Oxford. Her father told her she wouldn't be able to go: "In a few months' time we should probably all find ourselves in the Workhouse!" he opined. Brittain had hoped to escape the Northern provinces, but the war seemingly dashed her plans. "It is not, perhaps, so very surprising that the War at first seemed to me an infuriating personal interruption rather than a world-wide catastrophe."
Her father eventually relented, however, and she was allowed to attend. By the end of her first year, she had fallen in love with a young soldier and resolved to become active in the war effort by volunteering as a nurse--turning her back on what she called her "provincial young-ladyhood." Brittain suffered through 12-hour days by reminding herself that nothing she endured was worse than what her fiancé, Roland, experienced in the trenches. Roland was expected home on leave for Christmas 1915; on December 26, Brittain received news that he had been killed at the front. Ten months later Brittain herself was sent to Malta and then to France to serve in the hospitals nearer the front, where she witnessed firsthand the horrors of battle. When peace finally came, Brittain had also lost her brother Edward and two close friends. As she walked the streets of London on November 11, 1918--Armistice Day--she felt alone in the crowds:
For the first time I realised, with all that full realisation meant, how completely everything that had hitherto made up my life had vanished with Edward and Roland, with Victor and Geoffrey. The War was over; a new age was beginning; but the dead were dead and would never return.
First published in 1933, Testament of Youth established Brittain as one of the best-loved authors of her time. Her crisp, clear prose and searing honesty make this unsentimental memoir of a generation scarred by war a classic. --Sunny Delaney [via]
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Testament of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925by Vera BrittainISBN 0140122516 (0-14-012251-6)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Testament of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925'Book summary:When war broke out in August 1914, 21-year-old Vera Brittain was planning on enrolling at Somerville College, Oxford. Her father told her she wouldn't be able to go: "In a few months' time we should probably all find ourselves in the Workhouse!" he opined. Brittain had hoped to escape the Northern provinces, but the war seemingly dashed her plans. "It is not, perhaps, so very surprising that the War at first seemed to me an infuriating personal interruption rather than a world-wide catastrophe."
Her father eventually relented, however, and she was allowed to attend. By the end of her first year, she had fallen in love with a young soldier and resolved to become active in the war effort by volunteering as a nurse--turning her back on what she called her "provincial young-ladyhood." Brittain suffered through 12-hour days by reminding herself that nothing she endured was worse than what her fiancé, Roland, experienced in the trenches. Roland was expected home on leave for Christmas 1915; on December 26, Brittain received news that he had been killed at the front. Ten months later Brittain herself was sent to Malta and then to France to serve in the hospitals nearer the front, where she witnessed firsthand the horrors of battle. When peace finally came, Brittain had also lost her brother Edward and two close friends. As she walked the streets of London on November 11, 1918--Armistice Day--she felt alone in the crowds:
For the first time I realised, with all that full realisation meant, how completely everything that had hitherto made up my life had vanished with Edward and Roland, with Victor and Geoffrey. The War was over; a new age was beginning; but the dead were dead and would never return.
First published in 1933, Testament of Youth established Brittain as one of the best-loved authors of her time. Her crisp, clear prose and searing honesty make this unsentimental memoir of a generation scarred by war a classic. --Sunny Delaney [via]
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They Used to Call Me Snow White... but I Drifted : Women's Strategic Use of Humorby Regina BarrecaISBN 0140168354 (0-14-016835-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Three Guineasby Virginia Woolf, Jane Marcus, Mark HusseyISBN 0156031639 (0-15-603163-9)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Three Guineas'Book summary:Three Guineas is written as a series of letters in which Virginia Woolf ponders the efficacy of donating to various causes to prevent war. In reflecting on her situation as the "daughter of an educated man" in 1930s England, Woolf challenges liberal orthodoxies and marshals vast research to make discomforting and still-challenging arguments about the relationship between gender and violence, and about the pieties of those who fail to see their complicity in war-making. This pacifist-feminist essay is a classic whose message resonates loudly in our contemporary global situation.[via]
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The Treasure of the City of Ladiesby Christine De PizanISBN 0140449507 (0-14-044950-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Treasure of the City of Ladies: Or the Book of the Three Virtuesby Christine De PisanISBN 014044453X (0-14-044453-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Treasure of the City of Ladies: Or the Book of the Three Virtues'Book summary:[via]If she wants to win, she must adopt a mans heart (in other words, constant, strong and wise) to consider and to pursue the best course of action
Written by Europes first professional woman writer, The Treasure of the City of Ladies offers advice and guidance to women of all ages and from all levels of medieval society, from royal courtiers to prostitutes. It paints an intricate picture of daily life in the courts and streets of fifteenth-century France and gives a fascinating glimpse into the practical considerations of running a household, dressing appropriately and maintaining a reputation in all circumstances. Christine de Pizans book provides a valuable counterbalance to male accounts of life in the middle ages and demonstrates, often with dry humour, how a womans position in society could be made less precarious by following the correct etiquette.
This revised edition of Sarah Lawsons landmark translation contains an introduction covering the life and work of Christine de Pizan and an overview of the recent scholarly reappraisal of her writing.
- Revised edition of a landmark translation
- Introduction and bibliography have been updated
- Includes a new note on translation and recent scholarship, explanatory notes, and a glossary of names
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A Tree Grows in Brooklynby Betty Smith, Anna QuindlenISBN 0061120073 (0-06-112007-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn'Book summary:Francie Nolan, avid reader, penny-candy connoisseur, and adroit observer of human nature, has much to ponder in colorful, turn-of-the-century Brooklyn. She grows up with a sweet, tragic father, a severely realistic mother, and an aunt who gives her love too freely--to men, and to a brother who will always be the favored child. Francie learns early the meaning of hunger and the value of a penny. She is her father's child--romantic and hungry for beauty. But she is her mother's child, too--deeply practical and in constant need of truth. Like the Tree of Heaven that grows out of cement or through cellar gratings, resourceful Francie struggles against all odds to survive and thrive. Betty Smith's poignant, honest novel created a big stir when it was first published over 50 years ago. Her frank writing about life's squalor was alarming to some of the more genteel society, but the book's humor and pathos ensured its place in the realm of classics--and in the hearts of readers, young and old. (Ages 10 and older) --Emilie Coulter [via]
Unsuitable for Ladies: An Anthology of Women Travellersby Jane RobinsonISBN 0192802011 (0-19-280201-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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War Against Womenby Marilyn FrenchISBN 034538248X (0-345-38248-X)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'War Against Women'Book summary:"Terrifying...Impressive...A challenging esay that justifies the feminist revival."THE NEW YORK TIMESBestselling author and feminist scholar Marilyn French has written a shocking and fascinating analysis of the history of women's political, cultural, physical, and economic repression that is as controversial as it is utterly convincing. In this stunning work of resarch, Ms. French creates a devastating portrait of today's male-dominated global society, with its underlying aim of destroying, subjugating, or mutilating women. Here is a devastating indictment of our values and an important step toward an urgent public discussion of human morality. [via]
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Wickedby Gregory Maguire, Douglas SmithISBN 0060987103 (0-06-098710-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wicked'Book summary:This is the book that started it all! The basis for the smash hit Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, Gregory Maguire's breathtaking New York Times bestseller Wicked views the land of Oz, its inhabitants, its Wizard, and the Emerald City, through a darker and greener (not rosier) lens. Brilliantly inventive, Wicked offers us a radical new evaluation of one of the most feared and hated characters in all of literature: the much maligned Wicked Witch of the West who, as Maguire tells us, wasn't nearly as Wicked as we imagined. [via]
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Woman's Experience of Sex: The Facts and Feelings of Female Sexuality at Every Stage of Lifeby Sheila KitzingerISBN 0140074473 (0-14-007447-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Woman's Experience of Sex: The Facts and Feelings of Female Sexuality at Every Stage of Life'Book summary:Far more than a "how-to" manual or an ABC of sex, this comprehensive book covers the full range of female sexuality. Kitzinger writes about sex in the context of real life, women's feelings about themselves and their bodies, and the many difference dimensions of sexual experience. [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)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Woman's Retreat Book: A Guide to Restoring, Rediscovering, and Reawakening Your True Self in a Moment, an Hour, a Day, or a Weekend'Book summary:Jennifer Louden, author of The Woman's Comfort Book, gives women a do-it-yourself guide for creating solitude. Because women tend to nurture relationships more than they nurture themselves, it is often a challenge for women to carve out the space and time they need for private renewal and reflection. Louden offers women inspiration and specific advice on how to retreat within their own homes, as well as how to create rejuvenating weekends and vacations. She even devotes a full chapter to the most pivotal stage of any retreat--the successful re-entry into home, family, and community. [via]
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A Woman's Worthby Marianne WilliamsonISBN 0345386574 (0-345-38657-4)
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Women's America: Refocusing the Pastby Jane Sherron De Hart, Linda K. KerberISBN 0195029836 (0-19-502983-6)
Softcover, Oxford University Press
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Softcover, Oxford University Press - Women's America: Refocusing the Past: ISBN 0195029836 (0-19-502983-6)
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Women's America: Refocusing the Pastby Linda K. Kerber, Jane Sherron De HartISBN 0195159829 (0-19-515982-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Women's America: Refocusing the Past'Book summary:Featuring a mix of primary source documents, articles, and illustrations, Women's America: Refocusing the Past has long been an invaluable resource. Now in its sixth edition, the book has been extensively revised and updated to cover recent events in American women's history. It provides many new selections from leading theorists and historians and restores several readings that were cut from the fifth edition. Successfully classroom-tested, these new essays offer more material on the impact of ethnicity in American culture, the roles that women have played in the creation of male-dominated structures, and the international dimensions of women's lives. The book covers such diverse groups as Christian Indian women in colonial America, African-American women in post-Civil War Atlanta, young Jewish labor organizers in turn-of-the-century New York, new arrivals to San Francisco's Chinatown, Japanese-American women during World War II, and Chicana feminists. The introductory essay has been revised and the bibliography has been updated to take into account the growing body of contemporary literature in the field. Women's America is an essential text for courses in women's history and an ideal supplement for more general survey courses on American history. [via]
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Women's Realityby Anne W. SchaefISBN 0061040185 (0-06-104018-5)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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Women's Reality: An Emerging Female System in a White Male Societyby Anne Wilson SchaefISBN 0062507702 (0-06-250770-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Women's Reality: An Emerging Female System in a White Male Society'Book summary:Defines the Female System as an emerging reality--a system in which women are valued, first-class citizens. Now with a new foreword by Carol S. Pearson. [via]
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Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plagueby Geraldine BrooksISBN 0142001430 (0-14-200143-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague'Book summary:Geraldine Brooks's Year of Wonders describes the 17th-century plague that is carried from London to a small Derbyshire village by an itinerant tailor. As villagers begin, one by one, to die, the rest face a choice: do they flee their village in hope of outrunning the plague or do they stay? The lord of the manor and his family pack up and leave. The rector, Michael Mompellion, argues forcefully that the villagers should stay put, isolate themselves from neighboring towns and villages, and prevent the contagion from spreading. His oratory wins the day and the village turns in on itself. Cocooned from the outside world and ravaged by the disease, its inhabitants struggle to retain their humanity in the face of the disaster. The narrator, the young widow Anna Frith, is one of the few who succeeds. With Mompellion and his wife, Elinor, she tends to the dying and battles to prevent her fellow villagers from descending into drink, violence, and superstition. All is complicated by the intense, inexpressible feelings she develops for both the rector and his wife. Year of Wonders sometimes seems anachronistic as historical fiction; Anna and Mompellion occasionally appear to be modern sensibilities unaccountably transferred to 17th-century Derbyshire. However, there is no mistaking the power of Brooks's imagination or the skill with which she constructs her story of ordinary people struggling to cope with extraordinary circumstances. --Nick Rennison, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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Yell-Oh Girls!: Emerging Voices Explore Culture, Identity, and Growing Up Asian Americanby Victoria NamISBN 0060959444 (0-06-095944-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Desde Mi Cielo / The Lovely Bonesby Aurora Echevarria, Alice SeboldISBN 0307209431 (0-307-20943-1)
Softcover, Random House Espanol
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Desde Mi Cielo / The Lovely Bones'Book summary:From her vantage point in heaven, Susie Salmon describes how she was confronted by a murderer one December afternoon on her way home from school. Lured into an underground hiding place, she was raped and killed. But what the reader knows, her family does not. Anxiously,we keep vigil with Susie, aching for her grieving family, desperate for the killer to be found and punished. Sebold creates a heaven that's calm and comforting, a place whose residents can have whatever they enjoyed when they were alive and then some.
But Susie isn't ready to release her hold on life just yet, and she intensely watches her family and friends as they struggle to cope with a reality in which she is no longer a part. [via]More editions of Desde Mi Cielo / The Lovely Bones:
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