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The American Frugal Housewifeby Lydia Maria ChildISBN 048640840X (0-486-40840-X)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Anna Kareninaby Leo Tolstoy, Aylmer Maude, Louise Shanks MaudeISBN 0486437965 (0-486-43796-5)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anna Karenina'Book summary:Some people say Anna Karenina is the single greatest novel ever written, which makes about as much sense to me as trying to determine the world's greatest color. But there is no doubt that Anna Karenina, generally considered Tolstoy's best book, is definitely one ripping great read. Anna, miserable in her loveless marriage, does the barely thinkable and succumbs to her desires for the dashing Vronsky. I don't want to give away the ending, but I will say that 19th-century Russia doesn't take well to that sort of thing. [via]
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Anna Kareninaby Outlet Book Company StaffISBN 0517457539 (0-517-45753-9)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anna Karenina'Book summary:A magnificent drama of vengeance, infidelity, and retribution, "Anna Karenina" is the moving story of people whose emotions conflict with the dominant social mores of their time. Tolstoy's masterful novel is one of the greatest works of world literature...it is a novel of social realism that perfectly bares the Russian soul, set against the fascinating panorama of life in nineteenth-century Russia.
With a full-cast and stirring music, this compelling story of one woman's fate is brought to life in this powerful BBC production. [via]More editions of Anna Karenina:
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The Awakeningby Kate ChopinISBN 0486277860 (0-486-27786-0)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Awakening'Book summary:First published in 1899, this novel shocked readers with its open sensuality and uninhibited treatment of marital infidelity. The poignant, lyrical story of a New Orleans wife who attempts to find love outside a stifling marriage, critics have praised it as a forerunner of the modern novel. New introductory Note.[via]More editions of The Awakening:
Bess W. Trumanby Margaret TrumanISBN 0515089737 (0-515-08973-7)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Biteby Charlaine Harris, Laurell K. Hamilton, Angela Knight, Vickie Taylor, Maryjanice DavidsonISBN 051513970X (0-515-13970-X)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bite'Book summary:A never-before-published Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter story from New York Times bestselling author Laurell K. Hamilton. A brand-new story from New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris, featuring the much-loved Sookie Stackhouse.
A hot new novella from USA Today bestselling author MaryJanice Davidson, set in the world of Undead and Unwed's Betsy Taylor, the newly, and reluctantly,crowned Vampire Queen.Introduced in the collection Hot Blooded, and on the heels of the wildly successful Master of the Night, Angela Knight has created a fascinating universe of Arthurian Lore and erotic vampirsim. And a sexy original story from Vickie Taylor, a new addition to Berkley Sensation. [via]
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Black Books Galore!: Guide to Great African-American Children's Books About Girlsby Donna Rand, Toni Trent Parker, Black Books GaloreISBN 0471375268 (0-471-37526-8)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Bloody Bonesby Laurell K. HamiltonISBN 0515134465 (0-515-13446-5)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bloody Bones'Book summary:When Anita Blake's boss at Animators, Inc., informs her that she's expected to raise 300-year-old zombies from a field of jumbled bones just to settle a land dispute, she's understandably annoyed. But as soon as she arrives in Branson, Missouri, to do the deed, the job gets more interesting. A psychotic sword-wielding vampire starts committing multiple murders in the area, and Anita must call on Jean-Claude, her powerful fanged suitor, for help. As always, Anita prevails over the undead, keeping Jean-Claude at arm's length, clearing the cemetery land of an ancient enchantment, and nailing the vampiric killer in one fell swoop. [via]
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Blue Moonby Laurell K. HamiltonISBN 0515134457 (0-515-13445-7)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blue Moon'Book summary:Anita Blake makes a living raising the dead. She also executes rogue vampires and villains among the local were-folk. Marks bind her to Jean-Claude, the Master vampire of St. Louis and her lover, and to her ex-fiancé, a powerful werewolf who heads up the local pack. Anita shares some of their magic, and her own power over the dead keeps growing. But so does the body count and the situations that force Anita to bend or break her own rules.
In Blue Moon, Anita's ex Richard is jailed in Tennessee, accused of rape. When Anita arrives with a lawyer and an entourage of vampires and 'weres' supplied by Jean-Claude, it's clear that something is rotten in Myerton. The local cops are corrupt, and the trolls Richard was studying are threatened. But if she sticks around to investigate, the local Master vampire will attack her and her friends. The local werewolf clan isn't rushing to welcome her either, and her self-control is going to the, um, wolves.
Blue Moon is the eighth book in Hamilton's Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series; newcomers should start with earlier books. The protagonists' development and their relationships to each other and to the large cast of continuing secondary characters are what make these books so compelling. Be warned--there's steamy sex and graphic violence here, though Anita does reflect on her moral position. But if dark urban fantasy featuring those who hunt the night appeals, pounce on this series. --Nona Vero [via]
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Burnt Offeringsby Laurell K. HamiltonISBN 0515134473 (0-515-13447-3)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Burnt Offerings'Book summary:In Laurell K. Hamilton's New York Times bestselling novels, it's often hard to tell the good from the evil. Just ask Anita Blake. She seems to be developing a soft spot in her heart for vampires-one in particular. So, when an arsonist's flames begin licking at St. Louis's undead, it's up to Anita to save the very monsters she's sworn to destroy... [via]
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Centaurs and Amazons: Women and the Pre-History of the Great Chain of Beingby Page DuboisISBN 0472081535 (0-472-08153-5)
Softcover, Univ of Michigan Pr
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The Changeby Germaine GreerISBN 0517117843 (0-517-11784-3)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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Circus Of The Damnedby Laurell K. HamiltonISBN 0515134481 (0-515-13448-1)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Circus Of The Damned'Book summary:The third novel of Hamilton's Anita Blake series has the petite necromancer fighting a giant cobra and a rogue vampire, Alejandro, who wants her for his human servant. Anita is still resisting the advances of Jean-Claude, St. Louis's master vampire, but she does need him on her side, if not in her bed. Anita's reluctant involvement in the odd goings-on at the supernatural Circus of the Damned introduces her to Richard, the werewolf of her dreams, and Larry, her powerful but nervous partner in zombie-raising.
Mystery fans will love the tightly plotted, Paretsky-esque action, and horror fans will love just about everything in this unusual series. [via]
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The Color of Privilege: Three Blasphemies on Race and Feminismby Aida HurtadoISBN 0472065319 (0-472-06531-9)
Softcover, Univ of Michigan Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Color of Privilege: Three Blasphemies on Race and Feminism'Book summary:This groundbreaking and important book explores how women of different ethnic/racial groups conceive of feminism. Aída Hurtado advances the theory of relational privilege to explain those differing conceptions. Previous theories about feminism have predominantly emphasized the lives and experiences of middle-class white women. Aída Hurtado argues that the different responses to feminism by women of color are not so much the result of personality or cultural differences between white women and women of color, but of their differing relationship to white men.For Hurtado, subordination and privilege must be conceived as relational in nature, and gender subordination and political solidarity must be examined in the framework of culture and socioeconomic context. Hurtado's analysis of gender oppression is written from an interdisciplinary, multicultural standpoint and is enriched by selections from poems by Sandra Cisneros, Gloria Anzaldúa, Lorna Dee Cervantes, and Elba Sanchez, and from plays by El Teatro Campesino, the United Farm Workers theater group.A final chapter proposes that progressive scholarship, and especially feminist scholarship, must have at its core a reflexive theory of gender oppression that allows writers to simultaneously document oppression while taking into account the writer's own privilege, to analyze the observed as well as the observer.Aída Hurtado is Associate Professor of Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz.[via]More editions of The Color of Privilege: Three Blasphemies on Race and Feminism:
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Cravingsby Eileen Wilks, Laurell K. Hamilton, Maryjanice DavidsonISBN 0515138150 (0-515-13815-0)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cravings'Book summary:[via]All-new sensuous stories from four of today's most provocative authors.
Laurell K. Hamilton
MaryJanice Davidson
Eileen Wilks
Rebecca York
Four favorite authors present their favorite characters in all-new tales of bloodlust, appetites that must be sated again and again, and the passion that feeds them.
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Danse Macabreby Laurell K. HamiltonISBN 0515142816 (0-515-14281-6)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Daughter of Persia: A Woman's Journey from Her Father's Harem Through the Islamic Revolutionby Sattareh F. Farmaian, Dona MunkerISBN 0517586975 (0-517-58697-5)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Deborah, Golda and Me: Being Female and Jewish in Americaby Letty C. PogrebinISBN 0517575175 (0-517-57517-5)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Diary from Dixieby Mary B. Chestnut, Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut, Myrta Lockett Avary, Isabella D. MartinISBN 0517182661 (0-517-18266-1)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Diary from Dixie'Book summary:This original diary of the wife of Confederate General James Chestnut, Jr., who was also an aide to President Jefferson Davis, provides an eyewitness narrative of all the years of the war. Period photographs illustrate this you-are-there account of the daily lives and tribulations of all who suffered through the war, from ordinary people to the Confederacy's generals and political figures. [via]
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Dignity: Lower Income Women Tell of Their Lives and Struggles Oral Historiesby Fran Leeper BussISBN 047206357X (0-472-06357-X)
Softcover, Univ of Michigan Pr
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A Doll's Houseby Henrik IbsenISBN 0486270629 (0-486-27062-9)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Doll's House'Book summary:One of the best-known, most frequently performed of modern plays, displaying Ibsen's genius for realistic prose drama. A classic expression of women's rights, the play builds to a climax in which the central character, Nora, rejects a smothering marriage and life in "a doll's house." A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative. [via]
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Emily Dickinson: Selected Poemsby Emily DickinsonISBN 0517200163 (0-517-20016-3)
Softcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Fashion and Women's Attitudes in the Nineteenth Centuryby C. Willett CunningtonISBN 0486431908 (0-486-43190-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Fatherless Women: How We Change After We Lose Our Dadsby Clea SimonISBN 0471410063 (0-471-41006-3)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Female Rageby Mary Anne Devane, Mary ValentisISBN 0517595842 (0-517-59584-2)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Founding Sisters and the Nineteenth Amendmentby Eleanor CliftISBN 0471426121 (0-471-42612-1)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe, 6500-3500 B.C.: Myths, and Cult Imagesby Marija GimbutasISBN 0500272387 (0-500-27238-7)
Hardcover, Thames and Hudson
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Gold Diggers and Silver Miners: Prostitution and Social Life on the Comstock Lodeby Marion S. GoldmanISBN 0472063324 (0-472-06332-4)
Softcover, Univ of Michigan Pr
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Guilty Pleasuresby Laurell K. HamiltonISBN 051513449X (0-515-13449-X)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Guilty Pleasures'Book summary:Anita Blake may be small and young, but vampires call her the Executioner. Anita is a necromancer and vampire hunter in a time when vampires are protected by law--as long as they don't get too nasty. Now someone's killing innocent vampires and Anita agrees--with a bit of vampiric arm-twisting--to help figure out who and why.
Trust is a luxury Anita can't afford when her allies aren't human. The city's most powerful vampire, Nikolaos, is 1,000 years old and looks like a 10-year-old girl. The second most powerful vampire, Jean-Claude, is interested in more than just Anita's professional talents, but the feisty necromancer isn't playing along--yet. This popular series has a wild energy and humor, and some very appealing characters--both dead and alive. [via]
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Herlandby Charlotte Perkins GilmanISBN 0486404293 (0-486-40429-3)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Herland'Book summary:Delightfully humorous account of a feminist utopia in which 3 male explorers stumble upon an all-female society isolated in a distant part of the earth. Early 20th-century vehicle for Gilman's then-unconventional views of male-female behavior, motherhood, individuality, sense of community, sexuality, and other topics. Mischievous, ironic approach used to telling effect.[via]More editions of Herland:
The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slaveby Mary Prince, Moira FergusonISBN 0472084100 (0-472-08410-0)
Softcover, Univ of Michigan Pr
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The History Of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave Narrativeby Mary PrinceISBN 0486438635 (0-486-43863-5)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave, Related by Herselfby Mary Prince, Moira FergusonISBN 0472082469 (0-472-08246-9)
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The House of Mirthby Edith WhartonISBN 0486420493 (0-486-42049-3)
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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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The Illustrated of Delta of Venusby Anais Nin, Bob Carlos ClarkeISBN 0491027737 (0-491-02773-7)
Hardcover, W.H. Allen
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Illustrated of Delta of Venus'Book summary:Contents: Artists and models. The veiled woman. Elena. Subjects: Erotic stories, American. [via]
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girlby Harriet A. JacobsISBN 0486419312 (0-486-41931-2)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl'Book summary:This autobiographical account by a former slave is one of the few extant narratives written by a woman. Written and published in 1861, it delivers a powerful portrayal of the brutality of slave life. Jacobs speaks frankly of her master's abuse and her eventual escape, in a tale of dauntless spirit and faith.[via]More editions of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl:
Incubus Dreamsby Laurell K. HamiltonISBN 0515139750 (0-515-13975-0)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Inside/ Outside: A Physician's Journey With Cancerby Janet R. GilsdorfISBN 0472115790 (0-472-11579-0)
Hardcover, Univ of Michigan Pr
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Jane Eyreby Charlotte BronteISBN 0486424499 (0-486-42449-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jane Eyre'Book summary:In conjunction with the New York Public Library, Doubleday is proud to introduce a very special collector's series of literary masterpieces. Lavishly illustrated with rare archival material from the library's extensive resources, including the renowned Berg collection, these editions will bring the classics to life for a new generation of readers. In addition to original artwork, each volume contains a fascinating selection of unique materials such as handwritten diaries, letters, manuscripts, and notebooks. Simply put, this series presents the work of our most beloved authors in what may well be their most beautiful editions, perfect to own or to give. Published on the occasion of Doubleday's 100th birthday, the New York Public Library Collector's Editions are sure to become an essential part of the modern book lover's private library.
Our edition of Madame Bovary, which Vladimir Nabokov called "one of the most perfect pieces of poetical fiction known", features etchings from a rare 1905 French edition and a sampling of Nabokov's handwritten commentary on Flaubert's work. These rare materials from the archives of the New York Public Library will make our edition stand out from all other available versions. [via] 
Jazzby Toni MorrisonISBN 051713764X (0-517-13764-X)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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The Killing Danceby Laurell K. HamiltonISBN 0515134511 (0-515-13451-1)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Killing Dance'Book summary:The famous vampire hunter, Anita Blake, continues her hunt for rogue vampires - but she finds herself uncomfortable mixing business with pleasure. The city's most powerful, wealthy, and definitely most attractive vampire has set his sights on her - and Anita is finding him hard to resist. Is this a conflict of interest, or a conflict of the heart? [via]
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A Lady of Fashion: Barbara Johnson's Album of Styles and Fabricsby Barbara Johnson, Natalie RothsteinISBN 0500014191 (0-500-01419-1)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Lady of Fashion: Barbara Johnson's Album of Styles and Fabrics'Book summary:Here is a unique window into 18th-century English life, into a privileged world of fashion, country houses, and travel as it was experienced and recorded by Barbara Johnson. 122 illustrations, 93 in color. [via]
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Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountainsby Isabella L. BirdISBN 0486428036 (0-486-42803-6)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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The Language of the Goddessby Marija Gimbutas, Joseph CampbellISBN 0500282498 (0-500-28249-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Language of the Goddess'Book summary:"The first authoritative work on the ancient goddess culture."Boston Globe
The Goddess is the most potent and persistent feature in the archaeological records of the ancient world, a symbol of the unity of life in nature and the personification of all that was sacred and mysterious on earth.
In this pioneering and provocative volume, Marija Gimbutas resurrects the world of the Goddess-worshipping, earth-centered cultures, bringing ancient matriarchal society vividly to life. She interweaves comparative mythology, early historical sources, linguistics, ethnography, and folklore to demonstrate conclusively that Goddess-worship is at the root of Western civilization. Illustrated with nearly 2,000 symbolic artifacts, Gimbutas' magnum opus is at once a "pictorial script" of the prehistoric Goddess religion and an authoritative work that takes these ancient cultures from the realm of speculation into that of documented fact. Over 500 illustrations. [via]More editions of The Language of the Goddess:
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The Laughing Corpseby Laurell K. HamiltonISBN 0515134449 (0-515-13444-9)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Laughing Corpse'Book summary:Harold Gaynor offers Anita Blake a million dollars to raise a 300-year-old zombie. Knowing it means a human sacrifice will be necessary, Anita turns him down. But when dead bodies start turning up, she realizes that someone else has raised Harold's zombie--and that the zombie is a killer. Anita pits her power against the zombie and the voodoo priestess who controls it. Notice to Hollywood: forget Buffy the Vampire Slayer; Anita Blake is the real thing. [via]
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Letters of a Woman Homesteaderby N. C. Wyeth, Elinore Pruitt StewartISBN 0486451429 (0-486-45142-9)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Living My Lifeby Emma GoldmanISBN 0486225437 (0-486-22543-7)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Living My Life'Book summary:Volume 2 of the candid, no-holds-barred account by foremost American anarchist Goldman continues with the fascinating story of her life. Includes eye-opening information on the anarchist movement, details on the author's famous contemporaries, their ideas and their worldwide impact. An amazing read, and a must for history and political science buffs.[via] 
Lolitaby Vladimir NabokovISBN 0517388081 (0-517-38808-1)
Hardcover, Greenwich House
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The Lunatic Cafeby Laurell K. HamiltonISBN 051513452X (0-515-13452-X)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lunatic Cafe'Book summary:The zombie-raising business gets slow in December, so Anita Blake is starting to see some oddball cases. She's got a neatly typed list of eight missing lycanthropes given to her by Marcus, the leader of the local werewolf pack, who wants her to find them. The trouble is, Anita's occasionally furry boyfriend Richard is locked in a power struggle with Marcus. Jean-Claude, master vampire of the city and Anita's other love interest, is getting jealous as well. To top it off, Anita has to solve some horrific murders and keep her bounty-hunting friend Edward from killing Richard and Jean-Claude. Hamilton alternates between funny and fearsome in this larky series about a monster hunter with a few dark secrets. [via]
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The Malleus Maleficarum Of Heinrich Kramer and James Sprengerby Henricus InstitorisISBN 0486228029 (0-486-22802-9)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Margaret Sanger: An Autobiographyby Margaret SangerISBN 0486204707 (0-486-20470-7)
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Maria, or the Wrongs of Womanby Mary Wollstonecraft, William S. GodwinISBN 0486445038 (0-486-44503-8)
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Mean Girls Grown Up: Adult Women Who Are Still Queen Bees, Middle Bees, And Afraid-to-beesby Cheryl DellasegaISBN 0471655171 (0-471-65517-1)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Micahby Laurell K. HamiltonISBN 0515140872 (0-515-14087-2)
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Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame De StaFElby J. Christopher HeroldISBN 0517537834 (0-517-53783-4)
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Mother Book: A Compendium of Trivia and Grandeur Concerning Mothers, Motherhood and Maturityby Liz SmithISBN 0517552213 (0-517-55221-3)
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Narcissus in Chainsby Laurell K. HamiltonISBN 0515133876 (0-515-13387-6)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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The Narrative of Sojourner Truthby Sojourner Truth, Olive GilbertISBN 048629899X (0-486-29899-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Narrative of Sojourner Truth'Book summary:This inspiring memoir, first published in 1850, recounts the struggles of a distinguished African-American abolitionist and champion of women's rights. Sojourner Truth tells of her life in slavery, her self-liberation, and her travels across America in pursuit of racial and sexual equality. Essential reading for students of American history. [via]
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Obsidian Butterflyby Laurell K. HamiltonISBN 0515134503 (0-515-13450-3)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Obsidian Butterfly'Book summary:Anita Blake, the tough, sexy vampire executioner, zombie animator, and police consultant for preternatural crimes in St. Louis, hunts monsters in New Mexico in the ninth book of Laurell K. Hamilton's excellent series. Edward, Anita's mentor in slaying, asks Anita to return the favor that she has owed him since she killed a backup he brought in to protect her. He needs Anita's preternatural expertise as well as her firepower. Something is skinning and mutilating a few of its chosen victims, and dismembering others. Edward has no idea what creature could be responsible for such heinous crimes.
Summoning Anita has its downside for Edward, since it means letting her onto his turf. Anita is surprised to find that this normally aggressive man has a personal life, and shocked by his ability to be entirely different from the stone cold killer she's known. She also has problems with the cop in charge in Albuquerque, who believes her powers must be evil, and with the other backups Edward has brought in. Most of all, she has to deal with her own vulnerability--she's tried to shut down her ties to her vampire and werewolf lovers and go it alone, but it turns out to be harder than she thought.
Anita's usual supporting cast is missing, and she's taking time out from her complex love life, but there's plenty of bloody action, vampires, werewolves, and Aztec ritual. Plus a lot more about Edward. Fans will find this installment similar to the earlier books in the series, particularly The Laughing Corpse. --Nona Vero. [via]
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Operating Instructionsby Anne LamottISBN 051713778X (0-517-13778-X)
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Perfect Husbands and Other Fairy Tales: Demystifying Marriage, Men and Romanceby Regina BarrecaISBN 0517595389 (0-517-59538-9)
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Pope Joanby Donna Woolfolk CrossISBN 0517593653 (0-517-59365-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pope Joan'Book summary:One of the most controversial women of history is brought to brilliant life in Donn Woolfolk Cross's tale of Pope Joan, a girl whose origins should have kept her in squalid domesticity. Instead, through her intelligence, indomitability and courage, she ascended to the throne of Rome as Pope John Anglicus.
The time is 814, the place is Ingelheim, a Frankland village. It is the harshest winter in living memory when Joan is born to an English father and a Saxon mother. Her father is a canon, filled with holy zeal and capable of unconscionable cruelty. His piety does not extend to his family members, especially the females. His wife, Gudrun, is a young beauty to whom he was attracted beyond his will--and he hates her for showing him his weakness. Gudrun teaches Joan about her gods, and is repeatedly punished for it by the canon. Joan grows to young womanhood with the combined knowledge of the warlike Saxon gods and the teachings of the Church as her heritage. Both realities inform her life forever.
When her brother John, not a scholarly type, is sent away to school, Joan, who was supposed to be the one sent to school, runs away and joins him in Dorstadt, at Villaris, the home of Gerold, who is central to Joan's story. She falls in love with Gerold and their lives interesect repeatedly even through her Papacy. She is looked upon by all who know that she is a woman as a "lusus naturae," a freak of nature. "She was... male in intellect, female in body, she fit in nowhere; it was as if she belonged to a third amorphous sex." Cross makes the case over and over again that the status of women in the Dark Ages was little better than cattle. They were judged inferior in every way, and necessary evils in the bargain.
After John is killed in a Viking attack, Joan sees her opportunity to escape the fate of all her gender. She cuts her hair, dons her dead brother's clothes and goes into the world as a young boy. Gerold is away from Villaris at the time of the attack and comes home to find his home in ruins, his family killed and Joan among the missing. After the attack, Joan goes to a Benedictine monastery, is accepted as a young man of great learning, and eventually makes her way to Rome.
The author is at pains to tell the reader in an Epilogue that she has written the story as fiction because it is impossible to document Joan's accesion to the Papacy. The Catholic Church has done everything possible to deny this embarrassment. Whether or not one believes in Joan as Pope, this is a compelling story, filled with all kinds of lore: the brutishness of the Dark Ages, Vatican intrigue, politics and favoritism and most of all, the place of women in the Church and in the world. --Valerie Ryan [via]
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The Princess and the Goblinby George MacDonaldISBN 048640787X (0-486-40787-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Princess and the Goblin'Book summary:As always with George MacDonald, everything here is more than meets the eye: this in fact is MacDonald's grace-filled vision of the world. Said to be one of J.R.R. Tolkien's childhood favorites, The Princess and the Goblin is the story of the young Princess Irene, her good friend Curdie--a minor's son--and Irene's mysterious and beautiful great great grandmother, who lives in a secret room at the top of the castle stairs. Filled with images of dungeons and goblins, mysterious fires, burning roses, and a thread so fine as to be invisible and yet--like prayer--strong enough to lead the Princess back home to her grandmother's arms, this is a story of Curdie's slow realization that sometimes, as the princess tells him, "you must believe without seeing." Simple enough for reading aloud to a child (as I've done myself more than once with my daughter), it's rich enough to repay endless delighted readings for the adult. --Doug Thorpe [via]
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The Punch Book of Women's Rightsby Constance RoverISBN 0498075036 (0-498-07503-6)
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Pygmalionby George Bernard ShawISBN 0486282228 (0-486-28222-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pygmalion'Book summary:[via]A rousing success on the London and New York stages, a popular film, and a great musical hit ("My Fair Lady"), this brilliantly written play, with its irresistible theme of the emerging butterfly, is one of the most acclaimed comedies in the English language. Includes Shaw's Preface and "Sequel."More editions of Pygmalion:
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Race, Class, And Gender: An Anthologyby Margaret L. Andersen, Patricia Hill CollinsISBN 0495006890 (0-495-00689-0)
Softcover, Wadsworth Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Race, Class, And Gender: An Anthology'Book summary:RACE, CLASS, AND, GENDER, includes many interdisciplinary readings. The author's selection of very accessible articles show how race, class, and gender shape people's experiences, and help students to see the issues in an analytic, as well as descriptive way. The book also provides conceptual grounding in understanding race, class, and gender; has a strong historical and sociological perspective; and is further strengthened by conceptual introductions by the authors. Students will find the readings engaging and accessible, but may gain the most from the introduction sections that highlight key points and relate the essential concepts. Included in the collection of readings are narratives aimed at building empathy, and articles on important social issues such as prison, affirmative action, poverty, immigration, and racism, among other topics. [via]
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Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in Americaby Jonathan KozolISBN 051756730X (0-517-56730-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in America'Book summary:"Extraordinarily affecting....A very important book....To read and remember the stories in this book, to take them to heart, is to be called as a witness."
THE BOSTON GLOBE
There is no safety net for the millions of heartbroken refugees from the American Dream, scattered helplessly in any city you can name. RACHEL AND HER CHILDREN is an unforgettable record for humanity, of the desperate voices of the men, women, and especially children, and their hourly struggle for survival, homeless in America.
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Representing Womenby Linda NochlinISBN 0500280983 (0-500-28098-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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A Room of Her Own: Women's Personal Spacesby Chris Casson MaddenISBN 0517599392 (0-517-59939-2)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Selected Poemsby Emily DickinsonISBN 0486264661 (0-486-26466-1)
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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:
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Selected Poemsby Gordon, George, ByronISBN 0486277844 (0-486-27784-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Poems'Book summary:[via]Richly varied in mood and content, 31 poems include convivial song-like poems, love poems, travel poems, humorous and satiric poems. Included are "She Walks in Beauty," "The Prisoner of Chillon," "The Vision of Judgment," many more, plus excerpts from Don Juan, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and Manfred. Explanatory footnotes.More editions of Selected Poems:
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Sister Carrieby Theodore DreiserISBN 0486434680 (0-486-43468-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sister Carrie'Book summary:Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser's revolutionary first novel, was published in 1900--sort of. The story of Carrie Meeber, an 18-year-old country girl who moves to Chicago and becomes a kept woman, was strong stuff at the turn of the century, and what Dreiser's wary publisher released was a highly expurgated version. Times change, and we now have a restored "author's cut" of Sister Carrie that shows how truly ahead of his time Dreiser was. First and foremost, he has written an astute, nonmoralizing account of a woman and her limited options in late-19th-century America. That's impressive in and of itself, but Dreiser doesn't stop there. Digging deeply into the psychological underpinnings of his characters, he gives us people who are often strangers to themselves, drifting numbly until fate pushes them on a path they can later neither defend nor even remember choosing.
Dreiser's story unfolds in the measured cadences of an earlier era. This sometimes works brilliantly as we follow the choices, small and large, that lead some characters to doom and others to glory. On the other hand, the middle chapters--of which there are many--do drag somewhat, even when one appreciates Dreiser's intentions. If you can make it through the sagging midsection, however, you'll be rewarded by Sister Carrie's last 150 pages, which depict the harrowing downward spiral of one of the book's central characters. Here Dreiser portrays with brutal power how the wrong decision--or lack of decision--can lay waste to a life. --Rebecca Gleason [via]
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Tess of the D'Urbervillesby Thomas HardyISBN 0486415899 (0-486-41589-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tess of the D'Urbervilles'Book summary:A ne'er-do-well exploits his gentle daughter's beauty for social advancement in this masterpiece of tragic fiction. Hardy's 1891 novel defied convention to focus on the rural lower class for a frank treatment of sexuality and religion. Then and now, his sympathetic portrait of a victim of Victorian hypocrisy offers compelling reading.[via]More editions of Tess of the D'Urbervilles:
The Vagabondby Colette, Enid McLeodISBN 0517122596 (0-517-12259-6)
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War Brides of World War IIby Elfrieda Be ShukertISBN 0517072025 (0-517-07202-5)
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Woman's Life in Colonial Daysby Carl HollidayISBN 0486408973 (0-486-40897-3)
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Women Artists and the Surrealist Movementby Whitney ChadwickISBN 0500276226 (0-500-27622-6)
Softcover, Thames & Hudson
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Women at Michigan: "The Dangerous Experiment," 1870s to the Presentby Ruth BordinISBN 0472108719 (0-472-10871-9)
Hardcover, University of Michigan Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Women at Michigan: "The Dangerous Experiment," 1870s to the Present'Book summary:Women at Michigan traces the fascinating history of women at at the University of Michigan, from the first reluctant admission of women students in the 1870s (which one male administrator referred to as "the dangerous experiment") to the tumultuous post-World War II period and from the radical changes of the 1960s and 1970s to the present. The hurdles that women who pursued higher education at Michigan and elsewhere faced may surprise those who observe the relative freedom of women on college campuses today.
Women at Michigan was written by well respected historian Ruth Bordin, whose own career was impeded by the gender inequality of the era and who unfortunately died before seeing this book in print. Her study is grounded in historical detail. While drawing upon the larger historiography of women's higher education to round out its story, the book shows Michigan to be one case among many. Women at Michigan is richly illustrated with archival photographs depicting women's experience at the University of Michigan--as students, faculty, administrators, and staff--through the years.
Historian Ruth Bordin was author of A Pictorial History of The University of Michigan; Frances Willard: A Biography; and Alice Freeman Palmer: The Evolution of a New Woman. Martha Vicinus is Professor of English and History, University of Michigan. Kathryn Kish Sklar is Distinguished Professor of History, Binghamton University. Lynn Weiner is a historian and Associate Dean, Roosevelt University.
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Women Who Hurt Themselves: A Book of Hope and Understandingby Dusty MillerISBN 0465092195 (0-465-09219-5)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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Women, Art and Societyby Whitney ChadwickISBN 0500202419 (0-500-20241-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Working in Hollywoodby Tom WrightISBN 0517574012 (0-517-57401-2)
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Wuthering Heightsby Emily BronteISBN 0486292568 (0-486-29256-8)
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Virginia Woolf said of Emily Brontë that her writing could "make the wind blow and the thunder roar," and so it does in Wuthering Heights. Catherine Earnshaw, Heathcliff, and the windswept moors that are the setting of their mythic love are as immediately stirring to the reader of today as they have been for every generation of readers since the novel was first published in 1847. With an introduction by Katherine Frank. [via] 
Wuthering Heightsby Outlet Book Company Staff, Random House Value Publishing StaffISBN 0517415119 (0-517-41511-9)
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The Yellow Wall-Paper: A Sourcebook and Critical Editionby Charlotte Perkins GilmanISBN 0486298574 (0-486-29857-4)
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