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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
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	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
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	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	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	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
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	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
Anything that burns you	Terese Svoboda	"Anything that Burns You: A Portrait of Lola Ridge, Radical Poet is the first full-length biography of Lola Ridge, a trailblazer for women, poetry, and human rights far ahead of her time. This biogra…	OL20020264W
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
Red Dust Road	Jackie Kay	1 volume ; 20 cm	OL20815622W
Zami	Audre Lorde	"Zami, a carriacou name for women who work together as friends and lovers." --Back cover A "biomythography" describing the author's childhood and coming of age and the relationships to other women t…	OL2191787W
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	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	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	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
Rhoda	Ellen Gilchrist	Over the past ten years, Gilchrist fans have enjoyed glimpses of headstrong, redheaded Rhoda in five previous collections. Here, for the first time, are the collected Rhoda stories - including two ne…	OL41571W
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	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	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