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To write like a woman To write like a woman Joanna Russ From the back cover: Joanna Russ has written -- as novelist, short-story writer, and critic -- on science fiction, fantasy, and feminism. These essays reflect the breadth of Russ's critical work,… OL3332547W
Six Poets of Racial Uplift Six Poets of Racial Uplift Effie T. Battle The poetry of Effie T. Battle, Gertrude Arquene Fisher, Bettiola Heloise Fortson, Christina Moody, Maggie Pogue Johnson, and Myra Viola Wilds testifies to the value of black life during the difficult… OL3351871W
The Black Interior The Black Interior Elizabeth Alexander With a poet's precision and an intellectually adventurous spirit, Elizabeth Alexander explores a wide spectrum of contemporary African American artistic life through literature, paintings, popular me… OL3362257W
Solntse po talonam Solntse po talonam Ekaterina Yakovina The author describes various amazing spaces, unexpectedly mixes the past and the future, fantastic and real. A girl who knows how to pass through the door of time; the basket of dreams that a husband… OL35105037W
Next Life Next Life Rae Armantrout In her latest collection, Rae Armantrout considers the shaping effects of language in the context of new and frightening global realities. Attempting to imagine the unimaginable and see the unseen, A… OL3530126W
Victorian women's fiction Victorian women's fiction Shirley Foster Critical interest in women's fiction has grown enormously in recent years, in particular focusing on the ways in which female novelists have, in their creative work, challenged or scrutinized contemp… OL3531688W
Silences Silences Tillie Olsen "In Silences, Tillie Olsen ... confronts ... the crucial relationship between circumstances--class, color, sex, the times and climate into which one is born--and the creation of written literature. T… OL3691205W
Passing Passing Eloise Klein Healy 84 p. ; 23 cm OL4082329W
The Secretary Parables The Secretary Parables Nancy Lagomarsino “<em>The Secretary Parables</em>. How does she do this to us? It’s like the Devil or God saying: ‘Now you are here. Pick a door!’ Well, why not try all the doors, one after another? What’s behind thi… OL4088246W
Powder and Patch Powder and Patch Georgette Heyer In an 18th-Century England of wit, womanising and powdered wigs, provincial Philip Jettan runs the risk of irreproachability. When her childhood friend, the golden-haired Cleone Charteris returns fro… OL4092668W
The Summer of the Great-Grandmother (Crosswicks Journals #2) The Summer of the Great-Grandmother (Crosswicks Journals #2) Madeleine L'Engle This journal offers a loving and poignant portrait of L'Engle's mother in old age that is more about living than dying. OL41485W
House On Olive Street House On Olive Street Robyn Carr The loss of their close friend draws four women together. And a summer spent sorting through personal effects offers the perfect challenge--and the perfect escape.Sable--her bestselling novels have m… OL4279454W
Jane's fame Jane's fame Claire Harman Part biography and part cultural history, this splendid book not only tells the captivating story of Jane Austen's life, but also her literary legacy. The slow growth of Austen's fame, the changing s… OL4296666W
The One Marvelous Thing The One Marvelous Thing Rikki Ducornet Winner of a 2007 American Academy of Arts and Letters, Rikki Ducornet is beloved as a novelist and essayist, but is known perhaps most of all for her work as a writer of short stories. In the traditi… OL444117W
The Children's Book The Children's Book A. S. Byatt Shortlisted for the Man Booker PrizeA spellbinding novel, at once sweeping and intimate, from the Booker Prize--winning author of Possession, that spans the Victorian era through the World War I year… OL447886W
The rival queens The rival queens Fidelis Morgan London 1699. Those intrepid and impecunious heroines the Countess Ashby de la Zouche and her maidservant Alpiew are once more scavenging for scandal to entertain the readers of that scurrilous rag, t… OL4501618W
The Shipping News The Shipping News Annie Proulx At thirty-six, Quoyle, a third-rate newspaperman, is wrenched violently out of his workaday life when his two-timing wife meets her just deserts. He retreats with his two daughters to his ancestral h… OL456089W
The river home The river home Dorothy Weil "The River Home takes the reader into a world few ever glimpse, that of America's riverboats. In this fast-paced narrative with incisive characterizations and dialogue, Dorothy Weil introduces us to … OL4825763W
All night long All night long Michelle Jerott ***An Unexpected Love*** To complete her latest project, Annie Beckett must temporarily move in with gorgeous but forbidding Rik Magnusson-who lets her into his home, but not his life. Although An… OL553668W
Sonic the Hedgehog Sonic the Hedgehog Michael Teitelbaum Sonic, a blue super-fast hedgehog, and his Uncle Chuck confront Robotnik and his robots who want to make having fun illegal. OL58003W
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