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Angle of Reposeby Wallace Stegner, Kenneth DeweyISBN 0449209881 (0-449-20988-1)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Anne of Inglesideby Lucy Maud MontgomeryISBN 0448025469 (0-448-02546-9)
Hardcover, Grosset & Dunlap
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anne of Ingleside'Book summary:Anne is the mother of five, with never a dull moment in her lively home. And now, with a new baby on the way and insufferable Mary Maria visiting--and wearing out her welcome--Anne's life is full to bursting.
Still, Mrs. Doctor can't think of any place she'd rather be than her own beloved Ingleside. Until the day she begins to worry that her adored Gilbert doesn't love her anymore. How could that be? She may be a little older, but she's still the same irrepressible, irreplaceable redhead--the wonderful Anne of Green Gables, all grown up. She's ready to make her cherished husband fall in love with her all over again! [via]More editions of Anne of Ingleside:
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Anne of Windy Poplarsby L.M. MontgomeryISBN 0448025485 (0-448-02548-5)
Hardcover, Grosset & Dunlap
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anne of Windy Poplars'Book summary:Anne Shirley has left Redmond College behind to begin a new job and a new chapter of her life away from Green Gables. Now she faces a new challenge: the Pringles. They're known as the royal family of Summerside--and they quickly let Anne know she is not the person they had wanted as principal of Summerside High School. But as she settles into the cozy tower room at Windy Poplars, Anne finds she has great allies in the widows Aunt Kate and Aunt Chatty--and in their irrepressible housekeeper, Rebecca Dew. As Anne learns Summerside's strangest secrets, winning the support of the prickly Pringles becomes only the first of her delicious triumphs. [via]
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Anne's House of Dreamsby Lucy Maud MontgomeryISBN 0451523199 (0-451-52319-9)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anne's House of Dreams'Book summary:The newlyweds, Anne and Gilbert, move into their house of dreams where they share joys and sorrows with special neighbors Captain Jim, Leslie Moore and Cornelia. The births of the first children a moving part of the story. Five 90-minute cassettes. [via]
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Black and Blueby Anna QuindlenISBN 0440226104 (0-440-22610-4)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black and Blue'Book summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, April 1998: "The first time my husband hit me I was nineteen years old," begins Fran Benedetto, the broken heroine of Anna Quindlen's Black and Blue. With one sweeping sentence, the door to an abused and tortured world is swung wide open and the psyche of a crushed and tattered self-image exposed. "Frannie, Frannie, Fran"--as Bobby Benedetto liked to call her before smashing her into kitchen appliances--was a young, energetic nursing student when she met her husband-to-be at a local Brooklyn bar. She was instantly captivated by his dark, brooding looks and magnetic personality, but her fascination soon solidified into a marital prison sentence of incessant abuse and the destruction of her own identity. After an especially horrific beating and rape, Fran realizes that the next attack could be the last. Fearing her son would be left alone with Bobby, she escapes one morning with her child. Fran's salvation comes in the form of Patty Bancroft and Co., a relocation agency for abused women that touts better service than the witness protection program. Armed only with a phone number, a few hundred dollars, and the help of several anonymous volunteers, Fran begins a new life. The agency relocates her to Florida, where she becomes Beth Crenshaw, a recently divorced home-care assistant from Delaware. Fran and her son adapt, meeting challenges with unexpected resilience and resolve until their past returns to haunt them. Quindlen renders the intricacies of spousal abuse with eerie accuracy, taking the reader deep within the realm of dysfunctional human ties. However, her vivid descriptions of abuse, emotional disintegration, and acute loneliness at times numb the reader with their realism. [via]
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The Blue Swordby Robin McKinleyISBN 0441068804 (0-441-06880-4)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Blue Sword'Book summary:Harry Crewe is an orphan girl who comes to live in Damar, the desert country shared by the Homelanders and the secretive, magical Hillfolk. Her life is quiet and ordinary-until the night she is kidnapped by Corlath, the Hillfolk King, who takes her deep into the desert. She does not know the Hillfolk language; she does not know why she has been chosen. But Corlath does. Harry is to be trained in the arts of war until she is a match for any of his men. Does she have the courage to accept her true fate?[via]More editions of The Blue Sword:
Bonkersby Kevin LemanISBN 0440203392 (0-440-20339-2)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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Can You Keep a Secret?by Sophie KinsellaISBN 0440241901 (0-440-24190-1)
Softcover, Dell Pub Co
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Catherine the Greatby Henri Troyat, Joan PinkhamISBN 0452011205 (0-452-01120-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Catherine the Great'Book summary:Born a little German princess without a drop of Russian blood in her veins she came to embody Russia and as the country moved from war to war and conquest to conquest it was Catherine who became great. Those who served her throne, or her bed, were well rewarded while the serfs were condemned to ever-worsening conditions. Men were instruments of pleasure. The weak had to perish. The future belonged to men - and sometimes a man could have the outward appearance of a woman. She was proof of that. This literary tour de force paints an enthralling picture of Catherine, her seductions, her coaxings and her phenomenal devotion to politics and work, but it also brings the Russian court - with all its intrigues - brilliantly to life. [via]
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Country of the Pointed Firsby Sarah Orne JewettISBN 0451527577 (0-451-52757-7)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Country of the Pointed Firs'Book summary:A classic of American fiction, memorializing the traditions, manners, and dialect of Maine coast natives at the turn of the 20th century. In luminous evocations of their lives, Maine-born Jewett created startlingly real portraits of individual New Englanders, and a warm, humorous, and compassionate vision of New England character.[via]More editions of Country of the Pointed Firs:
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A Day Late and a Dollar Shortby Terry McMillanISBN 0451204948 (0-451-20494-8)
Softcover, Signet
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Day Late and a Dollar Short'Book summary:Terry McMillan's novels feature chatty, catty narrators who have a story they're just busting to tell you. The dominant voice in A Day Late and a Dollar Short is Viola Price, whose asthma just sent her to the ICU. And who came to visit? The Jheri Curl-wearing Cecil, "a bad habit I've had for thirty-eight years, which would make him my husband." Viola doesn't think Cecil's such a catch: "His midlife crisis done lasted about 20 years now," and "to set the record straight, Cecil look like he about four months pregnant." But somebody did catch Cecil--he recently left Viola for "some welfare huzzy" with three kids. And, as we soon find out in Cecil's first-person chapter, Viola has abundant flaws of her own. McMillan deftly sketches the exasperated intimacy of the long and unsuccessfully married.
She also has great dish about family dynamics. Have Cecil and Viola's kids got problems! When lovable, luck-free Lewis turns up to visit his mom, he's drunk, broke, and still whining about his ex, Donnetta, who "didn't have as much sense as a Christmas turkey" (though she did have the sense to dump Lewis). Now Lewis consoles himself with his Bobbing Betty doll. "How could somebody with an IQ of 146 be so stupid?" marvels Viola. And that Charlotte! Viola's daughter is "a bossy wench from the word go." (Gee, where could she have gotten that trait?) Charlotte feels like she never got her fair share of attention, having been born 10 months after the eldest daughter, Paris (now the driven mom of a brilliant athlete whose white girlfriend claims she's pregnant). Charlotte took it out on younger Lewis and Janelle, who's been in college 15 years with no degree in sight.
At first, you'll make ample use of the family charts in the endpapers to figure out who's who, but pretty soon you'll feel right at home with the squabbling, multiply dysfunctional, ultimately loving Price clan. You may agree with Viola: "Some folks got some stuff that can top ours. Hell, look at the Kennedys." --Tim Appelo [via]
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Dinner at the Homesick Restaurantby Anne TylerISBN 0449911594 (0-449-91159-4)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Earthly Possessionsby Anne TylerISBN 0449911810 (0-449-91181-0)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Charlotte Emory has always lived a quiet, conventional life in Clarion, Maryland. She lives as simply as possible, and one day decides to simplify everything and leave her husband. Her last trip to the bank throws Charlotte's life into an entirely different direction when a restless young man in a nylon jacket takes her hostage during the robbery--and soon the two are heading south into an unknown future, and a most unexpected fate....
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Emily Dickinsonby Emily Dickinson, Helen McNeilISBN 0460878956 (0-460-87895-6)
Softcover, Everyman
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Fast Girls: Teenage Tribes and the Myth of the Slutby Emily WhiteISBN 0425191761 (0-425-19176-1)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fast Girls: Teenage Tribes and the Myth of the Slut'Book summary:Whether viewed as villain or victim, outcast or rebel, the High School Slut remains a figure of fascination--and more than a touch of fear. Full of quirky insights into sexual standards and practices, Fast Girls is a journey into the dark side of the teenage years, a revealing study of American society. [via]
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Female Friendsby Fay WeldonISBN 0434851914 (0-434-85191-4)
Hardcover, Heinemann
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God's Leading Lady: Out of the Shadows and into the Lightby T. D. JakesISBN 0425190161 (0-425-19016-1)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'God's Leading Lady: Out of the Shadows and into the Light'Book summary:[via]Bishop T.D. Jakes, the #1 bestselling author of The Lady, Her Lover, and Her Lord, offers women a plan for taking charge of their livesand starring in the unique role God has chosen them to play in the world. Providing the inspiration and the tools women need to face life's challenges, he teaches them how to:
- Triumph in the face of adversity
- Recognize the Lord's calling
- Create a godly and successful legacythat will inspire and influence generations to come
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The Goddess Within: A Guide to the Eternal Myths That Shape Women's Livesby Roger J. Woolger, Jennifer Barker WoolgerISBN 0449902870 (0-449-90287-0)
Softcover, Columbine Trade
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The Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tankby Erma BombeckISBN 0449207595 (0-449-20759-5)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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It's the expose to end all exposes--the truth about the suburbs: where they planted trees and crabgrass came up, where they planted the schools and taxes came up, where they died of old age trying to merge onto the freeway and where they finally got sex out of the schools and back into the gutters. [via]More editions of The Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank:
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Great Short Stories by American Womenby Candace WardISBN 0486287769 (0-486-28776-9)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Great Short Stories by American Women'Book summary:Choice collection of 13 stories includes "Life in the Iron Mills" by Rebecca Harding Davis, Zora Neale Hurston's "Sweat," plus superb fiction by Kate Chopin, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, many others.[via]More editions of Great Short Stories by American Women:
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Growing up Female : Short Stories by Women Writers from the American Mosaicby Susan CahillISBN 0451628632 (0-451-62863-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Growing up Female : Short Stories by Women Writers from the American Mosaic'Book summary:This collection of 23 short pieces of fiction and autobiographical narrative focuses on the passage from girlhood to womanhood in late 20th-century America. The adolescent girls in these selections are poor and white (as in Judy Troy's "The Way Things Will Be"), middle-class black (as in Andrea Lee's "New African"), are privileged Latinas (as in Julia Alvarez's "Trespass"), and come from a variety of other backgrounds that are meaningfully explored by such writers as Amy Tan, Gloria Naylor, Gish Jen, Mary Crow Dog, and others. [via]
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How Stella Got Her Groove Backby Terry McMillanISBN 0451192001 (0-451-19200-1)
Softcover, Signet
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How Stella Got Her Groove Back'Book summary:The author of Waiting to Exhale checks in again with a fresh, exuberant novel. Stella Payne is a Superwoman who has everything--except a man to rock her world, something she's convinced she can well do without. On a spur-of-the-moment Jamaican vacation she meets Winston, a man half her age, and finds, to her dismay, that her world is indeed well and truly rocked. Stella soon realizes that she's come to a cataclysmic juncture in her life, one that forces new and difficult questions about her passions and expectations. [via]
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Howards Endby E. M. Forster, Marler, Regina (AFT), Benjamin DemottISBN 0451530462 (0-451-53046-2)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Howards End'Book summary:Margaret Schlegel, engaged to the much older, widowed Henry Wilcox, meets her intended the morning after accepting his proposal and realizes that he is a man who has lived without introspection or true self-knowledge. As she contemplates the state of Wilcox's soul, her remedy for what ails him has become one of the most oft-quoted passages in literature:
Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer.
Like all of Forster's work, Howards End concerns itself with class, nationality, economic status, and how each of these affects personal relationships. It follows the intertwined fortunes of the Schlegel sisters, Margaret and Helen, and the Wilcox family over the course of several years. The Schlegels are intellectuals, devotees of art and literature. The Wilcoxes, on the other hand, can't be bothered with the life of the mind or the heart, leading, instead, outer lives of "telegrams and anger" that foster "such virtues as neatness, decision, and obedience, virtues of the second rank, no doubt, but they have formed our civilization." Helen, after a brief flirtation with one of the Wilcox sons, has developed an antipathy for the family; Margaret, however, forms a brief but intense friendship with Mrs. Wilcox, which is cut short by the older woman's death. When her family discovers a scrap of paper requesting that Henry give their home, Howards End, to Margaret, it precipitates a spiritual crisis among them that will take years to resolve.Forster's 1910 novel begins as a collection of seemingly unrelated events--Helen's impulsive engagement to Paul Wilcox; a chance meeting between the Schlegel sisters and an impoverished clerk named Leonard Bast at a concert; a casual conversation between the sisters and Henry Wilcox in London one night. But as it moves along, these disparate threads gradually knit into a tightly woven fabric of tragic misunderstandings, impulsive actions, and irreparable consequences, and, eventually, connection. Though set in the early years of the 20th century, Howards End seems even more suited to our own fragmented era of e-mails and anger. For readers living in such an age, the exhortation to "only connect" resonates ever more profoundly. --Alix Wilber [via]
I Capture the Castleby Dodie SmithISBN 0434713503 (0-434-71350-3)
Hardcover, Heinemann
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Intercourseby Andrea DworkinISBN 0465017525 (0-465-01752-5)
Softcover, Basic Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Intercourse'Book summary:Andrea Dworkin, once called Feminisms Malcolm X, has been worshipped, reviled, criticized, and analyzed-but never ignored. The power of her writing, the passion of her ideals, and the ferocity of her intellect have spurred the arguments and activism of two generations of feminists. Now the book that shes best known for-in which she provoked the argument that ultimately split apart the feminist movement-is being reissued for the young women and men of the twenty-first century. Intercourse enraged as many readers as it inspired when it was first published in 1987. In it, Dworkin argues that in a male supremacist society, sex between men and women constitutes a central part of womens subordination to men. (This argument was quickly-and falsely-simplified to all sex is rape in the public arena, adding fire to Dworkins already radical persona.) In her introduction to this twentieth-anniversary edition of Intercourse, Ariel Levy, the author of Female Chauvinist Pigs, discusses the circumstances of Dworkins untimely death in the spring of 2005, and the enormous impact of her life and work. Dworkins argument, she points out, is the stickiest question of feminism: Can a woman fight the power when he shares her bed?[via] -
Jo's Boysby Louisa May AlcottISBN 0460050443 (0-460-05044-3)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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Set ten years after Little Men, Jo's Boys revisits the one-time members of that ''wilderness of boys'' that once resided at Plumfield, the New England boarding school still presided over by Jo and her husband, Professor Bhaer. Jo's boys -- including sailor Emil, promising musician Nat, and rebellious Dan -- are grown up and making their ways in the world with varying degrees of triumph and disaster. Jo herself remains at the center of this tale, holding her boys fast through shipwreck and storm, disappointment. . . and even murder. [via] 
Katherineby Anya SetonISBN 0449211177 (0-449-21117-7)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Kinflicksby Lisa AltherISBN 0451156854 (0-451-15685-4)
Softcover, Signet
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Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Presentby Jacqueline JonesISBN 0465037569 (0-465-03756-9)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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Labyrinthby Kate MosseISBN 0425213978 (0-425-21397-8)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Labyrinth'Book summary:July 2005. In the Pyrenees mountains near Carcassonne, Alice, a volunteer at an archaeological dig, stumbles into a cave and makes a startling discovery-two crumbling skeletons, strange writings on the walls, and the pattern of a labyrinth. Eight hundred years earlier, on the eve of a brutal crusade that will rip apart southern France, a young woman named Alais is given a ring and a mysterious book for safekeeping by her father. The book, he says, contains the secret of the true Grail, and the ring, inscribed with a labyrinth, will identify a guardian of the Grail. Now, as crusading armies gather outside the city walls of Carcassonne, it will take a tremendous sacrifice to keep the secret of the labyrinth safe. [via]
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Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paperby Harriet Scott ChessmanISBN 0452283507 (0-452-28350-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper'Book summary:Readers will be transported to the vibrant art scene of late nineteenth-century Paris in this richly textured portrait of the relationship between Mary Cassatt and her sister Lydia.
Beginning in the autumn of 1878, Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper dreams its way into the intimate world of Cassatt's older sibling. Told in the reflective, lyrical voice of Lydia, who is dying of Bright's disease, the novel opens a window onto the extraordinary age in which these sisters lived, painting its sweeping narrative canvas with fascinating real-life figures that include Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Edgar Degas, Cassatt's brilliant, subversive mentor.
Featuring five full-color plates of Cassatt's paintings, this is a moving and illuminating exploration of the illusive nature of art and desire, memory and mortality, romantic and familial love. [via]More editions of Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper:
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Magic and Mystery in Tibetby Alexandra David-NeelISBN 0486226824 (0-486-22682-4)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Magic and Mystery in Tibet'Book summary:Seeker, adventurer, pilgrim, and scholar, David-Neel (18681969) was the first European woman to explore the once-forbidden city of Lhasa. This memoir offers an objective account of the supernatural events she witnessed during the 1920s among the mystics and hermits of Tibet including levitation, telepathy, and the ability to walk on water. Includes 32 photographs.[via]More editions of Magic and Mystery in Tibet:
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Mamaby Terry McMillanISBN 0451216717 (0-451-21671-7)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mama'Book summary:[via]The explosive novel that introduced #1 New York Times bestselling author Terry McMillan-now in a new trade edition.
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The Millstoneby Margaret DrabbleISBN 0452261260 (0-452-26126-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Miss Garnet's Angelby Salley VickersISBN 0452282977 (0-452-28297-7)
Softcover, Plume
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Miss Garnet's Angel'Book summary:After the death of her longtime friend and flatmate, retired British history teacher Julia Garnet does something completely out of character: She takes a six-month rental on a modest appartamento in Venice. An atheist, a Communist, and a virgin, Julia finds herself falling beneath the seductive spell of the city's intoxicating beauty and sensual religiosity. She befriends a young Italian boy and English twins who are restoring a fourteenth-century chapel. And she falls in love for the first time in her life with an art dealer named Carlo.[via]
Juxtaposing Julia's journey of self-discovery with the apocryphal tale of Tobias and the Archangel Raphael, Miss Garnet's Angel tells a lyrical, incandescent story of love, loss, miracles, and redemption . . . and of one woman's transformation and epiphany. Already a bestseller in England, it is "novel-writing at its finest and most eloquent . . . splendid . . . the sort of book that effortlessly, like angels, or sunlight on Venice's rippling waterways, casts brightness and beauty into those private and most shadowed recesses of the human heart" (The Christian Science Monitor).More editions of Miss Garnet's Angel:
My Cousin Rachelby Daphne Du MaurierISBN 0440159938 (0-440-15993-8)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office: 101 Unconscious Mistakes Women Make That Sabotage Their Careersby Lois P. FrankelISBN 0446531324 (0-446-53132-4)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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Operating Instructions: A Journal Of My Son's First Yearby Anne LamottISBN 044990928X (0-449-90928-X)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Operating Instructions: A Journal Of My Son's First Year'Book summary:It seems no mother of a newborn has ever been more hilarious, more honest, or more touching than Ann Lamott is in OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS. A single parent whose baby's father is out of the picture, Lamott struggles not only to support her little family by her wits and her writing, but to stay sober at the same time. Faith in God helps; so does her loyal band of helpers, from her childless best friend Pammy to her mother and "Aunt Dudu" to the folks at the La Leche League hotline. And between colic, wheat-free diets, and the triumph of solid food, Lamott learns that blessings and losses come together, and that as our capacity for joy increases, so does our capacity for grief. "An enormous triumph . . . Charming . . . Powerful . . . A gracious book, with dozens of lovingly drawn characters and a deep, infectious religiosity throughout. It is also funny." -- San Francisco Chronicle "Smart, funny and comforting . . . Lamott has a conversational style that perfectly conveys her friendly, self-deprecating humor." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review [via]
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Out of the Garden: Women Writers on the Bibleby Christina Buchmann, Celina SpiegelISBN 0449910172 (0-449-91017-2)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Out of the Garden: Women Writers on the Bible'Book summary:"Essays of considerable literary erudition and sophistication that... dislodge dull stereotypes to enable both women and men readers to see the Bible with fresh eyes."
--Los Angeles Times Book Review
As the one work that has held moral and religious sway over the Judeo-Christian tradition for thousands of years, the Bible is unsurpassed in world literature. For women, its meaning is particularly complex; traditionally, the Bible has been used to keep women in their place, but it has also been a book of enduring inspiration. Out of the Garden marks a new stage in women's relations to the Bible: this is the first collection of essays in which women read and respond to the Bible out of pleasure and curiosity--free to explore what is really relevant to women's lives.
Drawing on their own experiences and interests, Louise Erdrich, Cynthia Ozick, Fay Weldon, Phyllis Trible, Rebecca Goldstein, June Jordan, Ursula K. Le Guin, and twenty-one other writers boldly, imaginatively--and sometimes reproachfully--address the Old Testament stories, characters, and poetry that mean the most to them. Thoughtful, challenging, and playful, these beautifully written essays explore the Bible in fresh new ways. Out of the Garden reclaims the Bible for women and shows readers that the Bible is a source we can return to again and again.
"A many-splendored achievement...This grand collection is a bold revitalization of our relation to our tradition. It offers the reader the gorgeously varied company of strongly delineated temperaments as they take on the compelling, threatening figures of our imaginative forebears."
--Harold Bloom
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Patty Jane's House of Curlby Lorna LandvikISBN 0449911004 (0-449-91100-4)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Red Azaleaby Anchee MinISBN 0425166872 (0-425-16687-2)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Red Azalea'Book summary:This New York Times Notable Book tells the true story of what it was like growing up in Mao's China, where the soul was secondary to the state, beauty was mistrusted, and love could be punishable by death. Newsweek calls Anchee Min's prose "as delicate and evocative as a traditional Chinese brush painting." [via]
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Room With a Viewby Foester. E.M.ISBN 0486284670 (0-486-28467-0)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Saint Maybeby Anne TylerISBN 0449911608 (0-449-91160-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Saint Maybe'Book summary:9 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list!
"A novel that attests once again to Ms. Tyler's enormous gifts as a writer."
--THE NEW YORK TIMES
"Captivating . . . . Compelling . . . . There is a kind of magic at work in this novel."
--THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD
In 1965, the happy Bedloe family is living an ideal, apple-pie existence in Baltimore. Then, in the blink of an eye, a single tragic event occurs that will transform their lives forever--particularly that of seventeen-year-old Ian Bedloe, the youngest son, who blames himself for the sudden "accidental" death of his older brother.
Depressed and depleted, Ian is almost crushed under the weight of an unbearable, secret guilt. Then one crisp January evening, he catches sight of a window with glowing yellow neon, the CHURCH OF THE SECOND CHANCE. He enters and soon discovers that forgiveness must be earned, through a bit of sacrifice and a lot of love...
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The Secret Self Iby Hermione LeeISBN 0460873482 (0-460-87348-2)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Secret Self I'Book summary:This immensely readable selection of 32 stories includes works from Gertrude Stein, Nadine Gordimer, Joyce Carol Oates, Katherine Ann Porter, Eudora Welty, Alice Walker, Margaret Atwood, and Doris Lessing. [via]
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Selected Poemsby Emily DickinsonISBN 0486264661 (0-486-26466-1)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Poems'Book summary:Over 100 best-known, best-loved poems by one of America's foremost poets, reprinted from authoritative early editions. "The Snake," "Hope," "The Chariot," many more, display unflinching honesty, psychological penetration, and technical adventurousness that have delighted and impressed generations of poetry lovers. Includes 3 selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.[via]More editions of Selected Poems:
Sisters in the Resistance: How Women Fought to Free France, 1940-1945by Margaret Collins WeitzISBN 0471196983 (0-471-19698-3)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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So Far from Godby Ana CastilloISBN 0452272092 (0-452-27209-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Spider Woman's Granddaughtersby Paula Gunn AllenISBN 044990508X (0-449-90508-X)
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The Story Of My Lifeby Helen KellerISBN 0451528255 (0-451-52825-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Story of My Life: Library Edition'Book summary:Helen Keller would not be bound by conditions. Rendered deaf and blind at 19 months by scarlet fever, she learned to read (in several languages) and even speak, eventually graduating with honors from Radcliffe College in 1904, where as a student she wrote The Story of My Life. That she accomplished all of this in an age when few women attended college and the disabled were often relegated to the background, spoken of only in hushed tones, is remarkable. But Keller's many other achievements are impressive by any standard: she authored 13 books, wrote countless articles, and devoted her life to social reform. An active and effective suffragist, pacifist, and socialist (the latter association earned her an FBI file), she lectured on behalf of disabled people everywhere. She also helped start several foundations that continue to improve the lives of the deaf and blind around the world.
As a young girl Keller was obstinate, prone to fits of violence, and seething with rage at her inability to express herself. But at the age of 7 this wild child was transformed when, at the urging of Alexander Graham Bell, Anne Sullivan became her teacher, an event she declares "the most important day I remember in all my life." (Sullivan herself had once been blind, but partially recovered her sight after a series of operations.) In a memorable passage, Keller writes of the day "Teacher" led her to a stream and repeatedly spelled out the letters w-a-t-e-r on one of her hands while pouring water over the other. This method proved a revelation: "That living world awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, joy, set it free! There were barriers still, it is true, but barriers that could in time be swept away." And, indeed, most of them were.
In her lovingly crafted and deeply perceptive autobiography, Keller's joyous spirit is most vividly expressed in her connection to nature:
Indeed, everything that could hum, or buzz, or sing, or bloom, had a part in my education.... Few know what joy it is to feel the roses pressing softly into the hand, or the beautiful motion of the lilies as they sway in the morning breeze. Sometimes I caught an insect in the flower I was plucking, and I felt the faint noise of a pair of wings rubbed together in a sudden terror....
The idea of feeling rather than hearing a sound, or of admiring a flower's motion rather than its color, evokes a strong visceral sensation in the reader, giving The Story of My Life a subtle power and beauty. Keller's celebration of discovery becomes our own. In the end, this blind and deaf woman succeeds in sharpening our eyes and ears to the beauty of the world. --Shawn Carkonen [via]
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Softcover, Bantam Books - The Story Of My Life: ISBN 0451522451 (0-451-52245-1)
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Tar Babyby Toni MorrisonISBN 0451182383 (0-451-18238-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tar Baby'Book summary:Into a white millionaire's Caribbean mansion comes: Jadine, a graduate of the Sorbonne, art historian - an American black now living in Paris and Rome and Son, a criminal on the run, uneducated, violent, contemptuous - an American black from small-town Florida. He is a threat to her freedom she is a threat to his identity... [via]
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To Kill a Mockingbirdby Harper LeeISBN 0446310786 (0-446-31078-6)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'To Kill a Mockingbird'Book summary:"When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.... When enough years had gone by to enable us to look back on them, we sometimes discussed the events leading to his accident. I maintain that the Ewells started it all, but Jem, who was four years my senior, said it started long before that. He said it began the summer Dill came to us, when Dill first gave us the idea of making Boo Radley come out."
Set in the small Southern town of Maycomb, Alabama, during the Depression, To Kill a Mockingbird follows three years in the life of 8-year-old Scout Finch, her brother, Jem, and their father, Atticus--three years punctuated by the arrest and eventual trial of a young black man accused of raping a white woman. Though her story explores big themes, Harper Lee chooses to tell it through the eyes of a child. The result is a tough and tender novel of race, class, justice, and the pain of growing up.
Like the slow-moving occupants of her fictional town, Lee takes her time getting to the heart of her tale; we first meet the Finches the summer before Scout's first year at school. She, her brother, and Dill Harris, a boy who spends the summers with his aunt in Maycomb, while away the hours reenacting scenes from Dracula and plotting ways to get a peek at the town bogeyman, Boo Radley. At first the circumstances surrounding the alleged rape of Mayella Ewell, the daughter of a drunk and violent white farmer, barely penetrate the children's consciousness. Then Atticus is called on to defend the accused, Tom Robinson, and soon Scout and Jem find themselves caught up in events beyond their understanding. During the trial, the town exhibits its ugly side, but Lee offers plenty of counterbalance as well--in the struggle of an elderly woman to overcome her morphine habit before she dies; in the heroism of Atticus Finch, standing up for what he knows is right; and finally in Scout's hard-won understanding that most people are essentially kind "when you really see them." By turns funny, wise, and heartbreaking, To Kill a Mockingbird is one classic that continues to speak to new generations, and deserves to be reread often. --Alix Wilber [via]
Travels in West Africaby Mary KingsleyISBN 0460015877 (0-460-01587-7)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Travels in West Africa'Book summary:Part of the "Everyman" series which has been re-set with wide margins for notes and easy-to-read type. Each title includes a themed introduction by leading authorities on the subject, life-and-times chronology of the author, text summaries, annotated reading lists and selected criticism and notes. [via]
Understanding Women: A Feminist Psychoanalytic Approachby Susie Orbach, Eichenbaum, Luise and Orbach, SusieISBN 0465088651 (0-465-08865-1)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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The Virgin Blue: Library Editionby Tracy ChevalierISBN 0452284449 (0-452-28444-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Virgin Blue: Library Edition'Book summary:[via]Meet Ella Turner and Isabelle du Moulintwo women born centuries apart, yet bound by a fateful family legacy. When Ella and her husband move to a small town in France, Ella hopes to brush up on her French, qualify to practice as a midwife, and start a family of her own. Village life turns out to be less idyllic than she expected, however, and a peculiar dream of the color blue propels her on a quest to uncover her familys French ancestry. As the novel unfoldsalternating between Ellas story and that of Isabelle du Moulin four hundred years earliera common thread emerges that unexpectedly links the two women. Part detective story, part historical fiction, The Virgin Blue is a novel of passion and intrigue that compels readers to the very last page.
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Warrior Women: An Archaeologist's Search for History's Hidden Heroinesby Jeannine Davis-Kimball, Mona BehanISBN 0446525464 (0-446-52546-4)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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Warrior Women: An Archaeologist's Search for History's Hidden Heroinesby Mona Behan, Jeannine Davis KimballISBN 0446679836 (0-446-67983-6)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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What Women Wantby Patricia IrelandISBN 0452272491 (0-452-27249-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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When Heaven & Earth Changed Placesby Jay Wurts, Le Ly HayslipISBN 0452271681 (0-452-27168-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'When Heaven & Earth Changed Places'Book summary:A memoir of the Vietnam war from a woman's point of view - seen through the eyes of a child who survived the horror. Le Ly Hayslip, the inspiration for the musical "Miss Saigon", tells the story of a young peasant girl's struggle to survive. Pressed into service at the age of 12 by the Vietcong, Le Ly Hayslip was captured and tortured by government forces. She found sanctuary at last with an American soldier and after affairs with several GIs, she fled to America to escape the horrors of the war. But as the traumas of the war years lingered on in painful nightmares, Le Ly Hayslip returned to her homeland in 1986. Horrified and shocked to discover the country and the people still profoundly scarred by the war, she took the biggest decision of her life - selling her property to start a foundation dedicated to building health clinics jointly staffed by Americans and Vietnamese. [via]
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Why Good Girls Don't Get Ahead-But Gutsy Girls Do: Nine Secrets Every Career Woman Must Knowby Kate WhiteISBN 0446518271 (0-446-51827-1)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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Why Good Girls Don't Get Ahead... but Gutsy Girls Do: 9 Secrets Every Working Woman Must Knowby Kate WhiteISBN 0446672157 (0-446-67215-7)
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The Womanly Art of Breastfeedingby LA Leche League International, Gwen GotschISBN 0452285801 (0-452-28580-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding'Book summary:Here's the 35th-anniversary edition of the big book on breastfeeding, written by the experts at La Leche League International. The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding is a comprehensive resource guide providing just about everything you need to know about how--and why--to breastfeed your baby. Latch on to this book for step-by-step guides to early months, common concerns, problems, and weaning. Additional sections on general nutrition, sleep issues, going back to work, discipline, and fathering are useful for all breastfeeding mothers. Unfortunately the black-and-white photos are not always as clear as they should be, and the informative line-drawings are too scarce. [via]
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The Womanly Art of Breastfeedingby Niles NewtonISBN 0453004539 (0-453-00453-9)
Hardcover, New Amer Library
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The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding: 35th Anniversary Editionby LA Leche League InternationalISBN 0452266238 (0-452-26623-8)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding: 35th Anniversary Edition'Book summary:This special edition coincides with La Leche League's 35th anniversary. Today, with more than 50 percent of new mothers choosing to breastfeed their babies, the need for a practical, confidence-building guide is greater than ever. In addition to being an authoritative text on breastfeeding, this guide offers advice on planning and caring for infants. 80 black-and-white photos.Line draw ings throughout. [via]
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Women Who Killby Ann JonesISBN 0449900584 (0-449-90058-4)
Softcover, Smithmark Pub
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Women Who Kill : With Previously Unpublished Material on the "Battered Women's Syndrome"by Ann R. JonesISBN 0449216098 (0-449-21609-8)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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A Wrinkle in Time: Library Editionby Madeleine L'EngleISBN 0440220394 (0-440-22039-4)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Wrinkle in Time'Book summary:Everyone in town thinks Meg is volatile and dull-witted and that her younger brother Charles Wallace is dumb. People are also saying that their father has run off and left their brilliant scientist mother. Spurred on by these rumors, Meg and Charles Wallace, along with their new friend Calvin, embark on a perilous quest through space to find their father. In doing so they must travel behind the shadow of an evil power that is darkening the cosmos, one planet at a time.
Young people who have trouble finding their place in the world will connect with the "misfit" characters in this provocative story. This is no superhero tale, nor is it science fiction, although it shares elements of both. The travelers must rely on their individual and collective strengths, delving deep into their characters to find answers.
A classic since 1962, Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time is sophisticated in concept yet warm in tone, with mystery and love coursing through its pages. Meg's shattering yet ultimately freeing discovery that her father is not omnipotent provides a satisfying coming-of-age element. Readers will feel a sense of power as they travel with these three children, challenging concepts of time, space, and the power of good over evil. (Ages 9 to 12) [via]
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Softcover, Random House Children's Books - A Wrinkle in Time: Library Edition: ISBN 0440498058 (0-440-49805-8)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books - A Wrinkle in Time: Library Edition: ISBN 0440800544 (0-440-80054-4)
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Tan Lejos De Dios / So Far from Godby Ana CastilloISBN 0452280044 (0-452-28004-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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