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The Awakening and Selected Stories of Kate Chopinby Kate Chopin, Nina Baym, Alyssa HaradISBN 0743487672 (0-7434-8767-2)
Softcover, Pocket Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Awakening and Selected Stories of Kate Chopin'Book summary:I used this book for a college class... But read it again because it was SOOOO good! [via]
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Between Women And Generations: Legacies Of Dignityby Drucilla CornellISBN 0742543706 (0-7425-4370-6)
Softcover, Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
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The Big Sister's Guide To The World Of Work: The Inside Rules Every Working Girl Must Knowby Marcelle DiFalco, Jocelyn Greenky HerzISBN 0743247108 (0-7432-4710-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Black Woman: An Anthologyby Toni Cade Bambara, Eleanor W. TraylorISBN 0743476972 (0-7434-7697-2)
Softcover, Washington Square Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Black Woman: An Anthology'Book summary:A collection of early, emerging works from some of today's most celebrated African American female writers
When it was first published in 1970, The Black Woman introduced readers to an astonishing new wave of voices that demanded to be heard. In this groundbreaking volume of original essays, poems, and stories, a chorus of outspoken women -- many who would become leaders in their fields: bestselling novelist Alice Walker, poets Audre Lorde and Nikki Giovanni, writer Paule Marshall, activist Grace Lee Boggs, and musician Abbey Lincoln among them -- tackled issues surrounding race and sex, body image, the economy, politics, labor, and much more. Their words still resonate with truth, relevance, and insight today. [via]
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The Blind Assassinby Margaret AtwoodISBN 0747549370 (0-7475-4937-0)
Hardcover, Bloomsbury Pub Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Blind Assassin'Book summary:The Blind Assassin is a tale of two sisters, one of whom dies under ambiguous circumstances in the opening pages. The survivor, Iris Chase Griffen, initially seems a little cold-blooded about this death in the family. But as Margaret Atwood's most ambitious work unfolds--a tricky process, in fact, with several nested narratives and even an entire novel-within-a-novel--we're reminded of just how complicated the familial game of hide-and-seek can be:
What had she been thinking of as the car sailed off the bridge, then hung suspended in the afternoon sunlight, glinting like a dragonfly, for that one instant of held breath before the plummet? Of Alex, of Richard, of bad faith, of our father and his wreckage; of God, perhaps, and her fatal, triangular bargain.
Meanwhile, Atwood immediately launches into an excerpt from Laura Chase's novel, The Blind Assassin, posthumously published in 1947. In this double-decker concoction, a wealthy woman dabbles in blue-collar passion, even as her lover regales her with a series of science-fictional parables. Complicated? You bet. But the author puts all this variegation to good use, taking expert measure of our capacity for self-delusion and complicity, not to mention desolation. Almost everybody in her sprawling narrative manages to--or prefers to--overlook what's in plain sight. And memory isn't much of a salve either, as Iris points out: "Nothing is more difficult than to understand the dead, I've found; but nothing is more dangerous than to ignore them." Yet Atwood never succumbs to postmodern cynicism, or modish contempt for her characters. On the contrary, she's capable of great tenderness, and as we immerse ourselves in Iris's spliced-in memoir, it's clear that this buttoned-up socialite has been anything but blind to the chaos surrounding her. --Darya Silver [via]More editions of The Blind Assassin:
The Body Sacredby Dianne SylvanISBN 0738707619 (0-7387-0761-9)
Softcover, Llewellyn Worldwide Ltd
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Brick Laneby Monica AliISBN 0743243315 (0-7432-4331-5)
Softcover, Scribner
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brick Lane'Book summary:With its gritty Tower Hamlets setting, this sharply observed contemporary novel about the life of an Asian immigrant girl deals cogently with issues of love, cultural difference and the human spirit. The pre-publicity hype about Brick Lane was precisely the kind to set alarm bells ringing (we've heard it so often before), but, for once, the excitement is fully justified: Monica Ali's debut novel demonstrates that there is a new voice in modern fiction to be reckoned with.
Nazneen is a teenager forced into an arranged marriage with a man considerably older than her--a man whose expectations of life are so low that misery seems to stretch ahead for her. Fearfully leaving the sultry oppression of her Bangladeshi village, Nazneen finds herself cloistered in a small flat in a high-rise block in the East End of London. Because she speaks no English, she is obliged to depend totally on her husband. But it becomes apparent that, of the two, she is the real survivor: more able to deal with the ways of the world, and a better judge of the vagaries of human behaviour. She makes friends with another Asian girl, Razia, who is the conduit to her understanding of the unsettling ways of her new homeland.
This is a novel of genuine insight, with the kind of characterisation that reminds the reader at every turn just what the novel form is capable of. Every character (Nazneen, her disappointed husband and her resourceful friend Razia) is drawn with the complexity that can really only be found in the novel these days. In some ways, the reader is given the same all-encompassing experience as in a Dickens novel: humour and tragedy rub shoulders in a narrative that inexorably grips the reader. Whether or not Monica Ali can follow up this achievement is a question for the future; it's enough to say right now that Brick Lane is an essential read for anyone interested in current British fiction. --Barry Forshaw [via]
Cultivating a Life of Character: Judges/Ruthby Elizabeth GeorgeISBN 0736904980 (0-7369-0498-0)
Softcover, Harvest House Pub
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Dearest Friend : A Life of Abigail Adamsby Lynne WitheyISBN 074323443X (0-7432-3443-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dearest Friend : A Life of Abigail Adams'Book summary:"Dearest Friend" is the biography of Abigail Adams, the unschooled minister's daughter who became the most influential woman in Revolutionary America. Rich with excerpts from her incomparable letters and alive with the ferment of a new nation, "Dearest Friend" captures both the public and the private sides of this fascinating woman. She was a keen observer of the politics of her time and fully grasped the Revolution's implications for women and slaves. She was an advocate of black emancipation and urged her husband to "Remember the Ladies" as he framed the laws of their new country.
John and Abigail Adams married for love, and their passion for each other endured for the fifty-four years of their marriage. They lived apart for more than a decade while John traveled in America and abroad to help begin a new country. Abigail remained at home for most of that time, writing letters to her "Dearest Friend," raising four children, managing a farm and the family finances, and keeping John informed of the political mood at home. This book chronicles their remarkable marriage, her blossoming feminism, her battles with the loneliness of separation, and her friendships with Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and other giants of her time.
Intelligent, resourceful, and outspoken, Abigail Adams lived an uncommon life for a woman of her time. First published in 1981, "Dearest Friend" brings her legacy to our century. [via]
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The Demon Lover: The Roots of Terrorismby Robin MorganISBN 0743452933 (0-7434-5293-3)
Softcover, Washington Square Pr
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The Disorder of Women: Democracy, Feminism and Political Theoryby Carole PatemanISBN 0745607896 (0-7456-0789-6)
Softcover, Polity Pr
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Eleanor Rooseveltby Blanche Wiesen CookISBN 074754980X (0-7475-4980-X)
Hardcover, Bloomsbury Pub Ltd
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Experiencing God's Peaceby Elizabeth GeorgeISBN 0736902899 (0-7369-0289-9)
Softcover, Harvest House Pub
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Faith and Feminism: A Holy Allianceby Gloria Steinem, Helen HuntISBN 0743483723 (0-7434-8372-3)
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Fall on Your Knees: Library Editionby Ann-Marie MacDonaldISBN 0743237188 (0-7432-3718-8)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fall on Your Knees: Library Edition'Book summary:They are the Pipers of Cape Breton Island -- a family steeped in lies and unspoken truths that reach out from the past, forever mindful of the tragic secret that could shatter the family to its foundations.
Chronicling five generations of this eccentric clan, "Fall On Your Knees" follows four remarkable sisters whose lives are filled with driving ambition, inescapable family bonds, and forbidden love. Their experiences will take them from their stormswept homeland, across the battlefields of World War I, to the freedom and independence of Jazz-era New York City.
Compellingly written, running the literary gamut from menacingly dark to hilariously funny, this is an epic saga of one family's trials and triumphs in a world of sin, guilt, and redemption. [via]
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Fast Forward: Work, Gender, and Protest in a Changing Worldby Robert K. Schaeffer, Torry DickinsonISBN 0742508951 (0-7425-0895-1)
Softcover, Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
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Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women And the Rise of Raunch Cultureby Ariel LevyISBN 0743284283 (0-7432-8428-3)
Softcover, Free Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women And the Rise of Raunch Culture'Book summary:Ariel Levys debut book is a bold, piercing examination of how twenty-first century American society perceives sex and women. Writing vividly, she brings her readers to places she visited to make her assessment; the elevator of Playboy Enterprises with women auditioning to be Playmates in the fiftieth anniversary edition, a Florida beach where sunbathers urge a woman to take off her bathing suit for the camera crew of Girls Gone Wild, a San Francisco Italian restaurant where a lesbian worries shes not dressed up enough for her date, a CAKE party in New York, with women grinding each others pelvises in time to pulsating dance rhythms, and outside a juice bar in Oakland where a beautiful high school student shares disappointment at her experiences with sex.
Levy cleverly leads us to explore the role models women aspire to emulate. We are not pursuing the confident, self-determined, powerful, free ideal the womens liberation movement would have dreamed for its daughters. Instead, our icons are porn stars and strippers and prostitutes. Paris Hilton and Jenna Jameson flaunt their successes in the pornography industry, and in doing so seem to earn our adulation.
Levy relates our embracing of this raunchy culture to unresolved tensions thirty years ago between the sexual revolution and the womens liberation movement, and amongst feminists; joy at discovering the delights of our clitoris conflicting with disgust at pornographys objectification of women. She creates a convincing argument by analyzing a diverse spectrum of material; presents a fascinating palette of interviews with revolutionary womens libbers, nouvelle raunchy feminists, and everyday women and men. Detailed facts and recurring names are sometimes cumbersome, albeit worth ploughing through for the a-ha moments.
The reality that we model ourselves on images whose "individuality is erased" is harsh, yet Levys work is imbued with hope hope that women can celebrate their uniqueness instead of their hotness, explore their sexuality as delight rather than consume sex as currency, and succeed professionally because of their brilliant minds and personalities, not because of their brilliant bodies.--Megan Jones Ady [via]
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The Feminist Classroom: Dynamics of Gender, Race, and Privilegeby Maher, Frances, A., Mary Kay Thompson TetreaultISBN 0742509974 (0-7425-0997-4)
Softcover, Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
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The Fountain of Ageby Betty FriedanISBN 0743299876 (0-7432-9987-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fountain of Age'Book summary:Struggling to hold on to the illusion of youth, Friedan wrote, we have denied the reality and evaded the new triumphs of growing older. We have seen age only as decline. In this powerful and very personal book, Betty Friedan charted her own voyage of discovery, and that of others, into a different kind of aging.
Friedan found ordinary men and women, moving into their fifties, sixties, seventies, discovering extraordinary new possibilities of intimacy and purpose. In their surprising experiences, Friedan first glimpsed, then embraced, the idea that one can grow and evolve throughout life in a style that dramatically mitigates the expectation of decline and opens the way to a further dimension of "personhood."
The Fountain of Age suggests new possibilities for every one of us, all founded on a solid body of startling but little-known scientific evidence. It demolishes those myths that have constrained us for too long and offers compelling alternatives for living one's age as a unique, exuberant time of life, on its own authentic terms.
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Fresh Milk: The Secret Life of Breastsby Fiona GilesISBN 0743211472 (0-7432-1147-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fresh Milk: The Secret Life of Breasts'Book summary:While countless breastfeeding guides crowd bookshelves, not one of them speaks to women with anything approaching bestselling author Fiona Giles's level of intimacy and vitality. In Fresh Milk, through a provocative collection of stories, memories, and personal accounts, Giles uncovers the myths and truths of the lactating breast.
From the young mother grappling with the bewildering trappings of maternity wear to the woman who finds herself surprisingly aroused by new sensations, and the modern dad who learns the ins and outs of breastfeeding, the portraits in Giles's eye-opening book offer a funny, wise, and comforting resource for women -- and even their friends and partners who have had, or expect, intimate experiences with the pleasures and pain of lactation.
By turns poignant and informative, sexy and witty, empathic and empowering, Fresh Milk delivers everything we wanted to know about breastfeeding that our mothers never told us. [via]
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Fundamental Differences: Feminists Talk Back to Social Conservativesby Cynthia Burack, Jyl J. JosephsonISBN 0742519309 (0-7425-1930-9)
Softcover, Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
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Geisha : A Lifeby Mineko IwasakiISBN 0743444299 (0-7434-4429-9)
Softcover, Washington Square Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Geisha, a Life'Book summary:Now in her 50s, Mineko Iwasaki was one of the most famed geishas of her generation (and the chief informant for Arthur Golden's Memoirs of a Geisha). Her ascent was difficult, not merely because of the hard, endless training she had to undergo--learning how to speak a hyper-elevated dialect of Japanese and how to sing and dance gracefully while wearing a 44-pound kimono atop six-inch wooden sandals--but also because many of the elaborate, self-effacing rules of the art went against her grain. A geisha "is an exquisite willow tree who bends to the service of others," she writes. "I have always been stubborn and contrary. And very, very proud." And playful, too: one of the funniest moments in this bittersweet book describes a disastrous encounter with the queen of England and her all-too-interested husband.
Revealing the secrets of the geisha's "art of perfection," this graceful memoir documents a disappearing world. --Gregory McNamee [via]
Geisha: La historia secreta de un mundo que desaparese/The Secret History of a Vanishing Worldby Lesley DownerISBN 0747271062 (0-7472-7106-2)
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Genderby R. W. ConnellISBN 0745627161 (0-7456-2716-1)
Softcover, Polity Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gender'Book summary:How can we understand the gender patterns of modern society? Are gender identities unstable? How do masculinities and femininities develop? Do gender patterns change under globalization? In this book R. W. Connell, one of the world's leading scholars in the field, answers these questions, and more. He provides a readable introduction to modern gender studies, gender theories, and gender politics. He presents contemporary classics of research, traces the history of Western intellectuals' ideas, and discusses current findings on gender differences, inequalities and patterns in the state and corporations.
However, the book is more than an introduction. It provides a powerful contemporary framework for gender studies, based on a synthesis of structural and post-structural analysis. Connell demonstrates the multidimensional and dynamic character of gender relations. He shows how to link individual life with large-scale social patterns, and how to locate gendered bodies in the historical process that constantly transforms gender relations. He also shows, in a deeply personal way, how gender politics arises in personal life and why we need to address injustice. [via] -
The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violenceby Gavin De BeckerISBN 0747538352 (0-7475-3835-2)
Softcover, Bloomsbury Pub Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence'Book summary:Each hour, 75 women are raped in the United States, and every few seconds, a woman is beaten. Each day, 400 Americans suffer shooting injuries, and another 1,100 face criminals armed with guns. Author Gavin de Becker says victims of violent behavior usually feel a sense of fear before any threat or violence takes place. They may distrust the fear, or it may impel them to some action that saves their lives. A leading expert on predicting violent behavior, de Becker believes we can all learn to recognize these signals of the "universal code of violence," and use them as tools to help us survive. The book teaches how to identify the warning signals of a potential attacker and recommends strategies for dealing with the problem before it becomes life threatening. The case studies are gripping and suspenseful, and include tactics for dealing with similar situations.
People don't just "snap" and become violent, says de Becker, whose clients include federal government agencies, celebrities, police departments, and shelters for battered women. "There is a process as observable, and often as predictable, as water coming to a boil." Learning to predict violence is the cornerstone to preventing it. De Becker is a master of the psychology of violence, and his advice may save your life. --Joan Price
A Q&A with Gavin de Becker
Question: In todays world, where terror and tragedy seem omnipresent, the fear of violence never seems more heightened. Is the world a more violent place than it ever has been?
Gavin de Becker : Your question contains much of the answer: todays world, "where terror and tragedy seem omnipresent..." The key word is "seem." When TV news coverage presents so much on these topics, it elevates the perception of terrorism and tragedy way beyond the reality. In every major city, TV news creates forty hours of original production every day, most of it composed and presented to get our attention with fear. Hence an incident on an airplane in which a man fails to do any damage is treated as if the make-shift bomb actually exploded. It didnt. Imagine having a near miss in your car, avoiding what would have been a serious collision--and then talking about every hour for months after the fact. Welcome to TV news.
To the second part of your question, No, the world is not a more violent place than it has ever been, however we live as if it were. The U.S. is the most powerful nation in world history--and also the most afraid.
Question: You were just on the Oprah show discussing spousal homicide--can you talk about the show, and whether spousal homicide is a growing epidemic?
Gavin de Becker: Through two shows Oprah dedicated to the topic, were conveying a great deal of new information, and most of all, Oprahs announcement that a MOSAIC assessment system developed by my firm will be made available to any person who wants to use it, at no cost, via her website. This will allow anyone to diagnose a relationship to determine if it has the combination of factors most associated with escalated violence, and spousal homicide. Is spousal homicide increasing? It is not; however, the reality is more disturbing than an increase: Spousal homicide has remained a constant in our lives, such that every four hours at least one woman is killed in America by a husband or boyfriend. That uninterrupted and sad statistic can be interrupted and changed--because as explored in The Gift of Fear, spousal homicide is the single most preventable serious crime in America--largely owing to that fact that it always occurs after many warning signs, and after several people are aware of the risk.
Question: Your bestselling book The Gift of Fear gives many examples to help readers recognize what you call pre-incident indicators (PINS) of violence. What role does intuition play in recognizing these signals?
Gavin de Becker: Like every creature on earth, we have an extraordinary defense resource: We dont have the sharpest claws and strongest jaws--but we do have the biggest brains, and intuition is the most impressive process of these brains. It might be hard to accept its importance because intuition is often described as emotional, unreasonable, or inexplicable. Husbands chide their wives about "feminine intuition" and dont take it seriously. If intuition is used by a woman to explain some choice she made or a concern she cant let go of, men roll their eyes and write it off. We much prefer logic, the grounded, explainable, unemotional thought process that ends in a supportable conclusion. In fact, Americans worship logic, even when its wrong, and deny intuition, even when its right. Men, of course, have their own version of intuition, not so light and inconsequential, they tell themselves, as that feminine stuff. Theirs is more viscerally named a "gut feeling," but whatever name we use, it isnt just a feeling. It is a process more extraordinary and ultimately more logical in the natural order than the most fantastic computer calculation. It is our most complex cognitive process and, at the same time, the simplest.
Intuition connects us to the natural world and to our nature. It carries us to predictions we will later marvel at. "Somehow I knew," we will say about the chance meeting we predicted, or about the unexpected phone call from a distant friend, or the unlikely turnaround in someones behavior, or about the violence we steered clear of, or, too often, the violence we elected not to steer clear of. The Gift of Fear offers strategies that help us recognize the signals of intuition--and helps us avoid denial, which is the enemy of safety.
Question: Your latest book, Just 2 Seconds, has been called a "masterpiece" of analysis on the art of preventing assassination. It contains an entire compendium of attacks on protected persons across the globe. What motivated you to put together such a definitive reference? What tenets can be applied to ones everyday life?
Gavin de Becker: Most of all, we wrote the book we needed. My co-authors and I had long looked for an extensive collection of attack summaries from which important new insights could be harvested. Unable to find it, we committed to do the work ourselves, eventually collecting more than 1400 cases to analyze. Many new insights and concepts emerged from the study, and the one most applicable to day to day life, even for people who are not living with unusual risks, is to be in the present; pre-sent, as it were. Now is the only time anything ever happens--now is where the action is. All focus on anything outside the Now (the past, memory, the future, fantasy) detracts focus from whats actually happening in your environment. Human being have the capacity to look right at something and not see it, and in studying such a crisp event--the few seconds during which assassinations have occurred--Just 2 Seconds aims to enhance the readers ability to see the value of the present moment.
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Growing in Wisdom & Faithby Elizabeth GeorgeISBN 0736904905 (0-7369-0490-5)
Softcover, Harvest House Pub
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Honor Lost: Love and Death in Modern-Day Jordanby Norma KhouriISBN 0743448790 (0-7434-4879-0)
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The House of Mirthby Edith WhartonISBN 0743217179 (0-7432-1717-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The House of Mirth'Book summary:"The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth," warns Ecclesiastes 7:4, and so does the novel by Edith Wharton that takes its title from this call to heed. New York at the turn of the century was a time of opulence and frivolity for those who could afford it. But for those who couldn't and yet wanted desperately to keep up with the whirlwind, like Wharton's charming Lily Bart, it was something else altogether: a gilded cage rather than the Gilded Age.
One of Wharton's earliest descriptions of her heroine, in the library of her bachelor friend and sometime suitor Lawrence Selden, indicates that she appears "as though she were a captured dryad subdued to the conventions of the drawing room." Indeed, herein lies Lily's problem. She has, we're told, "been brought up to be ornamental," and yet her spirit is larger than what this ancillary role requires. By today's standards she would be nothing more than a mild rebel, but in the era into which Wharton drops her unmercifully, this tiny spark of character, combined with numerous assaults by vicious society women and bad luck, ultimately renders Lily persona non grata. Her own ambivalence about her position serves to open the door to disaster: several times she is on the verge of "good" marriage and squanders it at the last moment, unwilling to play by the rules of a society that produces, as she calls them, "poor, miserable, marriageable girls.
Lily's rather violent tumble down the social ladder provides a thumbnail sketch of the general injustices of the upper classes (which, incidentally, Wharton never quite manages to condemn entirely, clearly believing that such life is cruel but without alternative). From her start as a beautiful woman at the height of her powers to her sad finale as a recently fired milliner's assistant addicted to sleeping drugs, Lily Bart is heroic, not least for her final admission of her own role in her downfall. "Once--twice--you gave me the chance to escape from my life and I refused it: refused it because I was a coward," she tells Selden as the book draws to a close. All manner of hideous socialite beasts--some of whose treatment by Wharton, such as the token social-climbing Jew, Simon Rosedale, date the book unfortunately--wander through the novel while Lily plummets. As her tale winds down to nothing more than the remnants of social grace and cold hard cash, it's hard not to agree with Lily's own assessment of herself: "I have tried hard--but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person. I can hardly be said to have an independent existence. I was just a screw or a cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else." Nevertheless, it's even harder not to believe that she deserved better, which is why The House of Mirth remains so timely and so vital in spite of its crushing end and its unflattering portrait of what life offers up. --Melanie Rehak [via]
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I Do but I Don't: Walking Down the Aisle Without Losing Your Mindby Kamy WicoffISBN 0738210129 (0-7382-1012-9)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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I'm With Stupid: One Man, One Woman, 10,000 Years of Misunderstanding Between the Sexes Cleared Right Upby Regina Barreca, Gene Weingarten, Gina Barreca, Richard ThompsonISBN 0743244206 (0-7432-4420-6)
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I'm With Stupid: One Man. One Woman. 10,000 Years of Misunderstanding Between the Sexes Cleared Right Upby Gene Weingarten, Gina Barreca, Richard ThompsonISBN 0743278887 (0-7432-7888-7)
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Inventing Herselfby Elaine ShowalterISBN 0743212924 (0-7432-1292-4)
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Kickboxing Geishas: How Modern Japanese Women Are Changing Their Nationby Veronica ChambersISBN 0743271564 (0-7432-7156-4)
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Living Historyby Hillary Rodham ClintonISBN 0743222253 (0-7432-2225-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Living History'Book summary:As with most books written by politicians while in office (or at least aiming for one), Living History is, first and foremost, safe. There are interesting observations and anecdotes, the writing is engaging, and there is enough inside scoop to appeal to those looking for a bit of gossip, but there are no bombshells here and it is doubtful the book will change many minds about this polarizing figure. This does not mean the work is without merit, however, for Hillary Clinton has much to say about her experience as first lady, which is the primary focus of the book. Those interested in these experiences and her commentary on them will find the book worth reading; those looking for revelations will be disappointed.
Beginning with a brief outline of her childhood, college years, introduction to politics, and her courtship with Bill Clinton, Clinton covers a wide variety of topics: life on the campaign trail, her troubled tenure as leader of the President's Task Force on National Health Care Reform, meeting with foreign leaders, and her work on human rights, to name a few. By necessity, she also addresses the various scandals that plagued the administration, from Travelgate to Whitewater to impeachment, though she does not go into great detail about each one; rather, she seems content to simply state her case and move on without trying to settle too many old scores.
Along the way, she offers many apologies, though perhaps not the kind some would expect. She does not shy away from her "vast right-wing conspiracy" comment, for instance, though she does wish that she had expressed herself differently. Regarding the Monica Lewinsky scandal, she maintains that her husband initially lied to her, as he did the rest of the country, and did not come clean until two days prior to his grand jury testimony. Calling his betrayal "the most devastating, shocking and hurtful experience of my life," she explains what the aftermath was like personally and why she has elected to stand by her man. In all, Living History is an informative book that goes a long way toward humanizing one of the most recognizable, and controversial, women of our age. Shawn Carkonen [via]
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Loving God With All Your Mindby Elizabeth GeorgeISBN 0736913823 (0-7369-1382-3)
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Mollie's Job: A Story of Life and Work on the Global Assembly Lineby William M. AdlerISBN 0743200306 (0-7432-0030-6)
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The Mommy Myth: The Idealization Of Motherhood And How It Has Undermined All Womenby Meredith W. Michaels, Susan DouglasISBN 0743260465 (0-7432-6046-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mommy Myth: The Idealization Of Motherhood And How It Has Undermined All Women'Book summary:Does Martha Stewart make you feel like you never do enough for your kids? Do "celebrity mom" profiles leave you feeling lumpen and inadequate? That's because they're supposed to, say Susan Douglas and Meredith Michaels, authors of The Mommy Myth and self-professed "mothers with an attitude." Both scathing and self-deprecating, their pop-culture critique takes on "the new momism," the media's obsession with motherhood and the impossible standards which that obsession promotes. Today's ideal mom makes June Cleaver seem like a layabout: she may work outside the home, but never too much, always looks at the world through her children's eyes, makes sure to buy only educational, age-appropriate toys, and includes a loving note with each hand-prepared lunch. Meanwhile, the news media hype stories about child abduction, politicians excoriate so-called "welfare queens," and parenting experts advocate wearing your child in a sling until he moves out on his own. Romanticized, commercialized, sensationalized, and demonized by turns, today's mothers are damned if they work and damned if they don't; whats more, the idea that the government might do something to help their plight has come to seem almost quaint. As a history of motherhood in the media from 1970 to the present, The Mommy Myth makes a fun and thought-provoking read. Yet close readings of episodes of thirtysomething don't create quite the call to arms the authors seem to have in mind; no woman likes to think of herself as a media dupe, particularly the kind of woman who will be reading this book. Straightforward policy critiques like their chilling chapter on childcare fare much better, illuminating a culture that seems to have forgotten public institutions' power to correct social ills. --Mary Park [via]
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Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Lossby Hope EdelmanISBN 0738210269 (0-7382-1026-9)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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My Enemy, My Allyby Diane DuaneISBN 074340369X (0-7434-0369-X)
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Our Bodies, Ourselves: A New Edition For A New Eraby Boston Women's Health Book CollectiveISBN 0743256115 (0-7432-5611-5)
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The Power of a Praying Womanby Stormie OmartianISBN 0736919260 (0-7369-1926-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Power of a Praying Woman'Book summary:Stormie Omartians bestselling books have helped hundreds of thousands of individuals pray more effectively for their spouses, their children, and their nation. Now she has written a book on a subject she knows intimately: being a praying woman.
Stormies deep knowledge of Scripture and candid examples from her own prayer life provide guidance for women who seek to...
- trust God with deep longings, not just pressing needs
- cover every area of life with prayer
- maintain a right heart before God
Each segment concludes with a prayer women can follow or use as a model for their own prayers.
Women of all ages will find hope and purpose for their lives with The Power of a Praying® Woman.
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The Power of a Praying Woman: Book of Prayersby Stormie OmartianISBN 0736914102 (0-7369-1410-2)
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The Power of a Praying Woman: Prayer and Study Guideby Stormie OmartianISBN 0736908587 (0-7369-0858-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Power of a Praying Woman: Prayer and Study Guide'Book summary:For women who have read Stormie Omartians The Power of a Praying® Woman and embraced the challenge of a very personal encounter with God through prayer, theres a next step. The Power of a Praying® Woman Prayer and Study Guide.
Following the outline of the book, The Power of a Praying® Woman Prayer and Study Guide encourages readers to explore the biblical principles behind individual prayer. Thoughtprovoking questions help each woman define her unique, sometimes complicated, prayer needs.
Readers seeking the abundant, blessingrich life of a prayerful woman will welcome this engaging companion guide to the book Stormie wrote just for them.
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The Prayer That Changes Everythingby Stormie OmartianISBN 0736914684 (0-7369-1468-4)
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The Prayer That Changes Everything" is full of Stormie's personal stories, biblical truths, and practical guiding principles that reveal the wonders that take place when Christians offer praise in the middle of difficulties, sorrow, fear, and, yes, abundance and joy.
Stormie's heart beats with passion for communing with the Lord, and she encourages readers to "develop an attitude--an attitude of praise, worship, and thanksgiving to God--and to live each day making praise your first reaction and not a last resort."
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The Prayer That Changes Everything Book Of Prayersby Stormie OmartianISBN 0736914110 (0-7369-1411-0)
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The Prayer That Changes Everything: The Hidden Power of Praising Godby Stormie OmartianISBN 0736901566 (0-7369-0156-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Prayer That Changes Everything: The Hidden Power of Praising God'Book summary:Stormie Omartian, the bestselling author who has helped millions of people develop a powerful prayer life, now inspires readers to open their lives to the prayer that changes everythingthe prayer of praise to God.
Intimate conversations with God often focus on immediate needs, concern for others, and direction regarding His will, but praise requires believers to look beyond themselves and their circumstances and place their attention solely on God. Stormie shares personal stories, biblical truths, and practical guiding principles to reveal the wonders that take place when Christians offer praise in the middle of difficulties, sorrow, fear, and, yes, abundance and joy.
Study questions are included in each chapter, making The Prayer That Changes Everything" perfect for personal application or group discussions.
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The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Lessby Terry Ryan, Suze OrmanISBN 0743211235 (0-7432-1123-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less'Book summary:The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio introduces Evelyn Ryan, an enterprising woman who kept poverty at bay with wit, poetry, and perfect prose during the "contest era" of the 1950s and 1960s.
Stepping back into a time when fledgling advertising agencies were active partners with consumers, and everyday people saw possibility in every coupon, Terry Ryan tells how her mother kept the family afloat by writing jingles and contest entries. Mom's winning ways defied the Church, her alcoholic husband, and antiquated views of housewives. To her, flouting convention was a small price to pay when it came to securing a happy home for her six sons and four daughters. Evelyn, who would surely be a Madison Avenue executive if she were working today, composed her jingles not in the boardroom, but at the ironing board.
By entering contests wherever she found them -- TV, radio, newspapers, direct-mail ads -- Evelyn Ryan was able to win every appliance her family ever owned, not to mention cars, television sets, bicycles, watches, a jukebox, and even trips to New York, Dallas, and Switzerland. But it wasn't just the winning that was miraculous; it was the timing. If a toaster died, one was sure to arrive in the mail from a forgotten contest. Days after the bank called in the second mortgage on the house, a call came from the Dr Pepper company: Evelyn was the grand-prize winner in its national contest -- and had won enough to pay the bank.
Graced with a rare appreciation for life's inherent hilarity, Evelyn turned every financial challenge into an opportunity for fun and profit. From her frenetic supermarket shopping spree -- worth $3,000 today -- to her clever entries worthy of Erma Bombeck, Dorothy Parker, and Ogden Nash, the story of this irrepressible woman whose talents reached far beyond her formidable verbal skills is told in The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio with an infectious joy that shows how a winning spirit will triumph over the poverty of circumstance. [via]
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Putting on a Gentle and Quiet Spiritby Elizabeth GeorgeISBN 0736902902 (0-7369-0290-2)
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Rediscovering Birthby Sheila KitzingerISBN 0743412737 (0-7434-1273-7)
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The Romulan Wayby Diane Duane, Peter MorwoodISBN 0743403703 (0-7434-0370-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Romulan Way'Book summary:They are a race of warriors, a noble people to whom honor is all. They are cousin to the Vulcan, ally to the Klingon, and Starfleet's most feared and cunning adversary. They are the Romulans, and for eight years, Federation Agent Terise LoBrutto has hidden in their midst.
Now the presence of a captured Starfleet officer forces her to make a fateful choice between exposure and the chance to escape: maintain her cover -- or save the life of Dr. Leonard McCoy?
Here, in a startlingly different adventure, is the truth behind one of the most fascinating alien races ever created in "Star Trek" -- the Romulans. [via]
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The Secret Lives of Girls: What Good Girls Really Do - Sex Play, Aggression, and Their Guiltby Sharon LambISBN 0743201078 (0-7432-0107-8)
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Six Wives of Henry the VIIIby Antonia FraserISBN 074517700X (0-7451-7700-X)
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Small Changes for a Better Lifeby Elizabeth GeorgeISBN 0736917292 (0-7369-1729-2)
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Surviving Ophelia: Mothers Share Their Wisdom in Navigating the Tumultuous Teenage Yearsby Cheryl DellasegaISBN 0738205087 (0-7382-0508-7)
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Surviving Sexual Violenceby Liz KellyISBN 0745604625 (0-7456-0462-5)
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Telling Our Lives: Conversations On Solidarity And Differenceby Elizabeth A. Kelly, Frida Kerner Furman, Linda Williamson NelsonISBN 0742541746 (0-7425-4174-6)
Softcover, Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
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Their Own Worst Enemies: Women Writers of Women's Fictionby Daphne WatsonISBN 0745306551 (0-7453-0655-1)
Hardcover, Univ of Michigan Pr
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The Third Life of Grange Copelandby Alice WalkerISBN 0743418239 (0-7434-1823-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Third Life of Grange Copeland'Book summary:Despondent over the futility of life in the South, black tenant farmer Grange Copeland leaves his wife and son in Georgia to head North. After meeting an equally humiliating existence there, he returns to Georgia, years later, to find his son, Brownfield, imprisoned for the murder of his wife. As the guardian of the couple's youngest daughter, Grange Copeland is looking at his third -- and final -- chance to free himself from spiritual and social enslavement. [via]
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Tiny Ladies In Shiny Pantsby Jill SolowayISBN 0743272188 (0-7432-7218-8)
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Tiny Ladies in Shiny Pants : Based on a True Storyby Jill SolowayISBN 074327217X (0-7432-7217-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tiny Ladies in Shiny Pants : Based on a True Story'Book summary:When Jill Soloway was just thirteen, she and her best friend donned the tightest satin pants they could find, poufed up their hair and squeezed into Candies heels, then headed to downtown Chicago in search of their one-and-only true loves forever: the members of whichever rock band was touring through town. Never mind that both girls still had braces, coke-bottle-thick glasses and had only just bought their first bras...they were fabulous, they felt beautiful, they were "tiny ladies in shiny pants."
Now that Jill is all grown up and a successful writer and producer, she can look back on her tiny self and share her shiny tales with fondness, absurdity and obsessive-compulsive attention to even the most embarrassing details. From the highly personal (conflating her own loss of virginity and the Kobe Bryant accusations), to the political (what she has in common with Monica and Chandra), to the outrageously Los Angelean (why women wear huge diamonds and what they must do to get them), "Tiny Ladies in Shiny Pants" is a genre-defying combination of personal essay and memoir, or a hilarious, unruly and unapologetic evaluation of society, religion, sex, love, and -- best of all -- Jill.
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Wacky Chicks: Life Lessons From Fearlessly Inappropriate And Fabulously Eccentric Womenby Simon DoonanISBN 0743257898 (0-7432-5789-8)
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What Did I Do Wrong?: When Women Don't Tell Each Other the Friendship is Overby Liz PryorISBN 0743286316 (0-7432-8631-6)
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Why Feminism?: Gender, Psychology, Politicsby Lynne SegalISBN 0745623476 (0-7456-2347-6)
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A Wife After God's Own Heartby Elizabeth GeorgeISBN 0736911677 (0-7369-1167-7)
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A Wife After God's Own Heart Growth And Study Guideby Elizabeth GeorgeISBN 0736911685 (0-7369-1168-5)
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Wild Swansby Jung ChangISBN 0743254392 (0-7432-5439-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wild Swans'Book summary:In Wild Swans Jung Chang recounts the evocative, unsettling, and insistently gripping story of how three generations of women in her family fared in the political maelstrom of China during the 20th century. Chang's grandmother was a warlord's concubine. Her gently raised mother struggled with hardships in the early days of Mao's revolution and rose, like her husband, to a prominent position in the Communist Party before being denounced during the Cultural Revolution. Chang herself marched, worked, and breathed for Mao until doubt crept in over the excesses of his policies and purges. Born just a few decades apart, their lives overlap with the end of the warlords' regime and overthrow of the Japanese occupation, violent struggles between the Kuomintang and the Communists to carve up China, and, most poignant for the author, the vicious cycle of purges orchestrated by Chairman Mao that discredited and crushed millions of people, including her parents. [via]
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Wild Swans: Three Daughters of Chinaby Jung ChangISBN 0743246985 (0-7432-4698-5)
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The Will To Change: Men, Masculinity, and Loveby Bell HooksISBN 0743456084 (0-7434-5608-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Will To Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love'Book summary:With the courage, honesty, and compassion that have made her one of America's most provocative authorities on modern culture, bell hooks takes on the interior lives of men and answers their most intimate questions about love.
Everyone needs to love and be loved -- even men. In this groundbreaking book, bell hooks gets to the heart of the matter and shows men how to express the emotions that are a fundamental part of who they are -- whatever their age, ethnicity, or cultural persuasion.
Written in response to the author's in-depth discussions with men who were inspired by her trilogy, All About Love, Salvation, and Communion, bell hooks's The Will to Change addresses maleness and masculinity in new and challenging ways. With trademark candor and fierce intelligence, hooks answers the most common concerns of men, such as fear of intimacy and loss of their patriarchal place in society. She believes men can find the way to spiritual unity by getting back in touch with the emotionally open part of themselves. Only through this liberation will they lay claim to the rich and rewarding inner lives that have historically been the exclusive province of women. Men can access these feelings by giving themselves permission to be vulnerable. As they grow more comfortable and start believing that it's okay to feel, to need, and to desire, they will thrive as equal partners in their intimate relationships.
Whether they are straight or gay, black or white, The Will to Change helps men to reclaim the best part of themselves. [via]
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A Woman's Call to Prayer: Making Your Desire to Pray a Realityby Elizabeth GeorgeISBN 0736911545 (0-7369-1154-5)
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A Woman's High Callingby Elizabeth GeorgeISBN 0736903275 (0-7369-0327-5)
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A Woman's High Calling: Growth and Study Guideby Elizabeth GeorgeISBN 0736904948 (0-7369-0494-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Woman's High Calling: Growth and Study Guide'Book summary:Women who desire to move onward and upward in their spiritual growth can do so with the help of this growth and study guide that builds upon the principles in Elizabeth's dynamic new book A Woman's High Calling.
Using a quiet time calendar, practical exercises, and thought-provoking study questions, this guide will help readers take the 10 essentials for godly living to a deeper level and discover how they can¼
- turn every task into an opportunity to glorify God
- place God at the center of every thought, word, and activity
- transform potentially negative situations into positive outcomes
This handbook is designed to be used along with A Woman's High Calling.
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A Woman's Walk With Godby Elizabeth GeorgeISBN 0736901884 (0-7369-0188-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Woman's Walk With God'Book summary:Based on Elizabeth George's popular A Woman's Walk with God, this practical guide takes women to the next level in cultivating godliness. Elizabeth looks carefully at the fruit of the Spirit and leads women to discover how they can grow in:
- Love, joy, and peace
- Patience, kindness, and goodness
- Faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control
Used as a stand-alone Bible study or as a complement to the book of the same name, this tremendously encouraging resource is great for group and individual study.
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Wuthering Heightsby Emily BronteISBN 0743261992 (0-7432-6199-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wuthering Heights'Book summary:Perhaps the most haunting and tragic love story ever written, Wuthering Heights is the tale of Heathcliff, a brooding, troubled orphan, and his doomed love for Catherine Earnshaw. His desire for her leads him to madness, however, when Catherine is made to marry a wealthy lord, sending Heathcliff on a life-long quest to avenge himself upon those who stole his only love and his life.
In this gripping chronicle of the never-ending conflict between the heart and the mind -- and the pain and passion of true romance -- Emily Brontë created an unforgettable classic saga of love, desperation, vengeance, and forgiveness. Published just one year before Brontë's death in 1848 at the age of thirty, Wuthering Heights endures as one of the world's greatest love stories and a classic of English literature. [via]
A Young Woman After God's Own Heart: A Teen's Guide to Friends, Faith, Family, and the Futureby Elizabeth GeorgeISBN 0736907890 (0-7369-0789-0)
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Historia Viva / Living Historyby Hillary Rodham ClintonISBN 0743260864 (0-7432-6086-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Historia Viva / Living History'Book summary:FonoLibro se enorgullece en presentar el audiolibro el bestseller "Historia Viva" de Hillary Rodham Clinton, en una excelente producción con una hermosa música.
En Historia Viva, Hillary Rodham Clinton describe con franqueza, humor, pasión sobre su formación como mujer durante una agitada época de cambios sociales y políticos en los Estados Unidos y sobre sus años en la Casa Blanca. Cuenta la historia de su aventura de treinta años en el amor y la política junto a Bill Clinton, en la que logró sobrevivir a traiciones personales, investigaciones partidistas sin tregua y el escrutinio constante del público. Y ofrece también un reflejo claro de sus ideas y opiniones acerca de los temas políticos de mayor actualidad: salud, relaciones internacionales, derechos humanos, de la mujer y mucho más. Historia Viva, un audiolibro íntimo, poderoso e inspirador, captura la esencia de esta mujer excepcional y el proceso arduo a través del cual llegó a definirse y encontrar su propia voz como madre, esposa y una de las figuras más formidables en la historia de la política estadounidense.
"Historia Viva es la vida de la ex primera dama de los Estados Unidos. Y, como era de esperarse, habla de todo: desde como conoció a Bill Clinton hasta su sorpresa y enojo cuando se enteró del romance con Mónica Lewinsky. Es el libro de una mujer fuerte, que quiere dejar atrás el pasado, porque su futuro pudiera estar algún día, otra vez en la Casa Blanca." Jorge Ramos, autor, periodista. [via]More editions of Historia Viva / Living History:
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