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Mrs. Malory, detective in residence Mrs. Malory, detective in residence Hazel Holt The delightfully civilized Mrs. Shelia Malory of Taviscombe, England finds murder and scandal at an American college. Max Loring, a scrupulous curator at Whittier Institute, turns up dead. Then his … OL14851618W
Lives like loaded guns Lives like loaded guns Lyndall Gordon Lyndall Gordon, an award-winning biographer, tells the riveting story of the Dickinsons, and reveals Emily as a very different woman from the pale, lovelorn recluse that exists in the popular imagina… OL15568619W
P.I. on a hot tin roof P.I. on a hot tin roof Julie Smith Going undercover as a housekeeper in the home of a corrupt judge, who is suspected of setting up those who would expose his illegal activities, Talba Wallis locates evidence about a network of bribes… OL15801055W
I became alone I became alone Judith Thurman Explores five women poets, ranging from Sappho to Emily Dickinson, through brief biographies and selections of their poetry. OL15837159W
In the name of Salomé In the name of Salomé Julia Alvarez Camila, whose mother, Salome, inspired a Dominican revolution with her poetry, spends most of her life trying to please her father and her brothers, all prominent men, before seeking a place for hers… OL16066612W
The Sappho companion The Sappho companion Margaret Reynolds "For two and a half thousand years, poets and readers have been moved and inspired by the writing of Sappho, and the myths that surround her. Born around 630 B.C. on the Greek island of Lesbos, Sapph… OL17740967W
Sappho's Leap Sappho's Leap Erica Jong "Sappho's Leap is a journey back 2,600 years to inhabit the mind of the greatest love poet the world has ever known. At the age of fourteen, Sappho is seduced by the beautiful poet Alcacus, plots wit… OL1901526W
Return to the Dark Valley Return to the Dark Valley Santiago Gamboa "Manuela Beltrán, a poet haunted by a troubled childhood, is bent on revenge for the wrongs she suffered at the hands of her mother's lover. Her vendetta will draw together a cast of enigmatic charac… OL19724222W
Mrs. Poe Mrs. Poe Lynn Cullen Struggling to support her family in mid-19th-century New York, writer Frances Osgood makes an unexpected connection with literary master Edgar Allan Poe and finds her survival complicated by her inte… OL19969814W
Passionately yours Passionately yours Cara Elliott After unexpectedly meeting Baron Alec McClellan in Bath, England while on vacation, poet Caro Sloane finds she needs his protection just as much as she craves his affection. OL19999618W
The Liars' Club The Liars' Club Mary Karr "For its twentieth anniversary, a stunning Graphic Deluxe Edition of Mary Karr's pathbreaking, award-winning, mega-bestselling memoir, with a new foreword by Lena Dunham When it was first published t… OL20022024W
Dickinson in her own time Dickinson in her own time Jane Donahue Eberwein,Cristanne Miller,Stephanie Farrar "Even before the first books of her poems were published in the 1890s, friends, neighbors, and even apparently strangers knew Emily Dickinson was a writer of remarkable verses. Featuring both well-kn… OL22316012W
Pismo Dozhdya Pismo Dozhdya Ekaterina Yakovina The collection of poems with words that sound like a calm music of the rain. Стихотворения, которые звучат, как красивая спокойная музыка дождя. OL24469264W
The prodigal daughter The prodigal daughter Margaret Gibson "Gibson recounts her childhood in conservative Richmond, Virginia, and her growing estrangement from her sister and parents. Returning home years later to meet the needs of her stroke-crippled sister… OL3355701W
Flush Flush Katyuli Lloyd,Jose KING,Rafael Vázquez Zamora,Virginia Woolf,Eileen Atkins,Jordi Fernando A wonderfully creative and whimsical book, the biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's cocker spaniel. After spending his youth in the country, Flush was given to the invalid poet Elizabeth Barrett… OL39320W
The annunciation The annunciation Ellen Gilchrist "Ellen Gilchrist's debut novel expands the thematic and visual landscapes the author made indelibly hers in radiantly spun stories. The Annunciation follows the desires of Amanda McCamey: an unwed mo… OL41580W
Babel-17 Babel-17 Samuel R. Delany During an interstellar war one side develops a language, Babel-17, that can be used as a weapon. Learning it turns one into an unwilling traitor as it alters perception and thought. This is discovere… OL56834W
Live your own life Live your own life Mary Bayard Clarke "Mary Bayard Clarke (1827-1886) grew up in a North Carolina planter family that revered southern traditions, but she was not a woman to be stymied by conventional expectations. A writer of ambition a… OL5955061W
Constance Constance Catherine Cantrell "Constance is about a writer hypnotized by the power of art and language, and about the woman who tells her story. The narrator is an editor, working at a prestigious New York house, whose youthful i… OL6046210W
Modern women poets of Spanish America Modern women poets of Spanish America Sidonia Carmen Rosenbaum In this work I have proposed to study, mainly, that writer who was the first in point of time, and second to none in her poetic worth: Delmira Agustini. In order to place her within the proper histor… OL6794984W
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