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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Antebellum Dream Book	Elizabeth Alexander	In surprising turns through different American cities, mindsets, and eras, and through the strange rhythms of dreaming, the celebrated poet Elizabeth Alexander composes her own kind of improvisationa…	OL3362254W
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	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
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
Riding with the Fireworks!	Ann Darr	"This is her own intense record of a journey, one of the many she's been on in her whole life. She hums. She burns. One conversation, one reading of her poems is worth a shelf of books, a lifetime of…	OL3537597W
Chère Colette	Marc Andry	217 pages, 7 unnumbered pages ; 23 cm	OL3659348W
Finding their voice	Kristin Herzog	"Windows on the 'witness of women' of Peru and their perspectives on war and peace at the height of political violence, 1989-92, by a committed Catholic German-American. Includes careful and comprehe…	OL3943120W
International women playwrights	International Women Playwrights Conference (1st 1988 Buffalo, N.Y.)	xxii, 287 p. ; 23 cm	OL3948872W
Renegade's Lady	Bobbi Smith	LOOKING FOR A HERO Sheridan St. John was a successful writer who had no need for a man in her life...as long as she had one between the pages of her dime novels. But when her editor told her sales …	OL4076190W
Tamsen Donner	Ruth Whitman	“Ruth Whitman has recreated the journal that Tamsen Donner lost on her nightmarish journey to California in 1846. With a grant from the National Endowment, Whitman traveled along the route of the Don…	OL4085121W
Sleep Handbook	Nancy Lagomarsino	“Lagomarsino writes deceptively simple prose-poems about the realities of women’s lives…In the plainness of her speech, Lagomarsino finds a deep music of image and metaphor. A strong collection.” —<…	OL4088247W
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
That's What She Said	Rayna Green	A collection of poetry and stories by sixteen Native American women authors.	OL4094921W
The rise of the woman novelist	Jane Spencer	"Feminist studies of women's writing have tended to concentrate on writers of the 19th and 20th centuries. This book, which examines women novelists from Aphra Behn to Fanny Burney, is intended to re…	OL4302534W
This Particular Earthly Scene	Margaret Glynne Lloyd	"Elegantly crafted, deeply experienced, Margaret Lloyd's This Particular Earthly Scene is a book of woman's wisdom, sexual and spiritual, filled with seductions, scars, human touch." —Alicia Ostri…	OL4309999W
Driving Me Crazy	Peggy Webb	Because there are no speed limits in life If there's one thing mystery novelist Maggie Dufrane knows, it's this: Laughter through tears is the Southern way. At least that's what her spitfire mama…	OL4317002W
Harriet Jacobs	Jean Fagan Yellin	Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl remains the most-read woman's slave narrative of all time. Jean Fagan Yellin recounts the experiences that shaped Incidents-the years Jacobs spe…	OL4473343W
Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus	Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley	Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 novel written by English author Mary Shelley. Frankenstein tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creatur…	OL450063W
Camera Lyrica	Amy Newman	“No matter how intricate, uncomfortable, or orphic her subject, Newman’s camera never flinches from her duty; her eye never shudders, except in rapture and that is to be forgiven, or rather, rewarded…	OL454919W
Black Wings & Blind Angels	Sapphire	A book of electrifying poems by the acclaimed author of Push ("Brutal . . . redemptive"—Newsweek) and American Dreams ("Her insights are precise, terrifying, and ultimately hopeful. She sings i…	OL47291W