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Les années Les années Annie Ernaux "Available in English for the first time, the latest astonishing, bestselling, and award-winning book by Annie Ernaux. The Years is a personal narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told through the le… OL102389W
Selective memory Selective memory Shobha Dé Autobiography of an Indic woman writer in English, journalist, and a former model. OL1070489W
One writer's beginnings One writer's beginnings Eudora Welty In a "continuous thread of revelation" Eudora Welty sketches her autobiography and tells us how her family and her surroundings contributed to the shaping not only of her personality but of her writi… OL113976W
Fifty days of solitude Fifty days of solitude Doris Grumbach Faced with a rare opportunity to experiment with solitude, Doris Grumbach decided to live in her coastal Maine home without speaking to anyone for fifty days. The result is a beautiful meditation abo… OL114069W
The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye A. S. Byatt A collection of fairy tales for adults. The title novella is on a middle-aged Englishwoman attending a writers' conference in Turkey. She picks up an antique bottle and as she is washing it a djinn a… OL115631W
The last generation The last generation Cherríe Moraga A classic work by award-winning author Cherríe Moraga, The Last Generation is an electric mix of prose and poetry that continues conversations started in the beloved books This Bridge Called My Back:… OL11639101W
Where Shadows Will Where Shadows Will Norma Cole The inaugural volume in the new Spotlight poetry series, *Where Shadows Will* selects from twenty years of innovative poetry by writer, painter, and translator Norma Cole. Cole has been a fixture of … OL11813145W
Heretical Hellenism Heretical Hellenism Shanyn Fiske "The prevailing assumption regarding the Victorians' relationship to ancient Greece is that Greek knowledge constituted an exclusive discourse within elite male domains. Heretical Hellenism: Women Wr… OL11938188W
Janet McDonald Janet McDonald Catherine Ross-Stroud "Much has been written about the state of black adolescence - often from a sociological point of view situating black teens in an at-risk category. However, through her characters, young adult author… OL11994815W
Martha Gellhorn Martha Gellhorn Catherine Mary McLoughlin xvi, 264 pages : 24 cm OL12100497W
Transcending the new woman Transcending the new woman Charlotte J. Rich "Examines multiethnic women writers' responses to the ideal of the New Woman in America at the dawn of the twentieth century, opening up a world of literary texts that lend new insight, revealing how… OL12512567W
The letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolfe The letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolfe Vita Sackville-West,Virginia Woolf,Alison Bechdel After they met in 1922, Vita Sackville-West, a British novelist married to foreign diplomat Harold Nicolson, and Virginia Woolf began a passionate relationship that lasted until Woolf’s death in 1941… OL1347349W
The Exquisite Perdita The Exquisite Perdita Elizabeth Louisa "Lily" Moresby Married to cruel and negligent man, the young Perdita Robinson sees her life and her youth pass her by—until the day the charming Irishman, Mr Sheridan, arrives into her parlour, and offers her an es… OL13531169W
Waiting for My Clothes Waiting for My Clothes Leanne O'Sullivan <em>Waiting for My Clothes</em>, her first collection, traces a deeply personal journey, from the traumas of eating disorder and low self-esteem to the saving powers of love and positive awareness. L… OL13632638W
The shaking woman, or, a history of my nerves The shaking woman, or, a history of my nerves Siri Hustvedt Autobiographie. Essai OL13648986W
The underwater hospital The underwater hospital Jan Steckel,Janice A. Steckel This is the first poetry chapbook from Lambda Literary Award winning writer Jan Steckel, an activist and former Harvard- and Yale-trained pediatrician. She served as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Do… OL13744946W
Goddess of the market Goddess of the market Jennifer Burns Worshipped by her fans, denounced by her enemies, and forever shadowed by controversy and scandal, the novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand was a powerful thinker whose views on government and markets s… OL13771777W
Birthing a nation Birthing a nation Susan J. Rosowski xiii, 242 p. ; 24 cm OL14850885W
I is for Innocent (Kinsey Millhone, #9) I is for Innocent (Kinsey Millhone, #9) Sue Grafton *"I feel compelled to report that at the moment of death, my entire life did not pass before my eyes in a flash... What I experienced was a little voice piping up in an outraged tone: 'Oh come on. Yo… OL14852192W
Overlord Overlord Jorie Graham What does it mean to be fully present in a human life? How—in the face of the carnage of war, the no longer merely threatened destruction of the natural world, the faceless threat of spiritual oversi… OL14929203W
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