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Bad Girls: 26 Writers Misbehave by Ellen Sussman Publisher Comments 'I behave badly to set myself apart. To test myself. To push myself. To prove something. To shock someone. ... I behave badly because I can.' That"s how Ellen Sussman describes her mischievous endeavors. In this anthology of personal essays, she"s... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Men Undressed: Women Writers on the Male Sexual Experience by Stacy Bierlein Publisher Comments From D. H. Lawrence to Philip Roth, acclaimed male writers have depicted sex from the perspective of female characters. Now, women writers from Aimee Bender to Jennifer Egan engage in provocative fictional cross-dressing, exploring sexuality from the... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price: $15.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Montana Women Writers:: A Geography of the Heart by Caroline Patterson Publisher Comments Witness Montana as seen through the eyes of Montana women writers who represent a spectrum of voices and perspectives and range from the past to the present, from the plains to small towns. Featuring fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Edited by Caroline... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Truth Tales: Contemporary Stories by Women Writers of India by Kali For Women Publisher Comments The rich popular tradition of India's women writers is finally available in this collection of short stories translated from seven of the country's languages. The writers and their heroines reflect the complex mosaic of Indian life-they are old and young,... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Lost on Purpose: Women in the City by Amy Prior Publisher Comments From the "shifting tableaux" of Whitman's Manhattan to Joyce's beloved Dublin, the city has inspired, captured, and seized writers since the beginning. In this spirit comes "Lost on Purpose," a vibrant new collection of short fiction by young women whose... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $2.75 Used - Trade Paper
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Moments of Truth Twelve 20TH Century Wom by Lorna Sage Synopsis This book looks at the process by which particular books materialized against the odds. This collection of essays on the most influential women writers of the first half of the last century is a mixture of close reading with a sensitivity to nuances, and... (read more) Your price: $2.50 Used - Hardcover
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Written by Herself: Women's Memoirs from Britain, Africa, Asia, and the United States by Jill K. Conway Publisher Comments Representing three generations of women from four continents, a collection of memoirs includes the reminiscences of England's Vera Brittain, South Africa's Emma Mashinini, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit of Inida, and American Edith Mirante, among others. Original.... (read more) Your price: $12.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Girls Night in (Red Dress Ink) by Lauren Henderson Synopsis Twenty-one of today's hottest young female writers contribute to this collection of stories about growing up, moving out, moving on, falling apart, and getting it all together. Proceeds benefit the War Child Charity in the UK. Authors include Jen Weiner,... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Violence, Silence, and Anger: Women's Writing as Transgression (Feminist Issues) by Deirdre Lashgari Publisher Comments Twenty contributors consider violence in the works of suchacclaimed writers as Adrienne Rich, Harriet Jacobs, Virgnia Woolf, and Audre Lorde, and such too little known authors as Senegal's Mariama Ba and Aminata Sow Fall, Lebanon's Etel Adnan, and the... (read more) List Price $24.50 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Catch of the Day by Whitney Lyles Publisher Comments Four all-new stories that show there's no place like a wedding to catch the perfect man. To go down the aisle or not to go down the aisle. Is that even a question? Well, it depends on whether you're the bride or just a bridesmaid-for the fifth straight... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Stories from Blue Latitudes: Caribbean Women Writers at Home and Abroad by Elizabeth Nunez Publisher Comments Stories from Blue Latitudes gathers the major and emerging women fiction writers from the Caribbean, including Dionne Brand, Michelle Cliff, Merle Collins, Edwidge Danticat, Jamaica Kincaid, Paule Marshall, and Pauline Melville. Similar themes grace... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Incandescence: 365 Readings with Women Mystics by Carmen Acev Butcher Publisher Comments As anyone will discover who casually dips into this beautiful collection, the women mystics of Christian tradition offer a lucid alternative to today's more rationalistic approaches to God.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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This Is Not Chick Lit: Original Stories by America's Best Women Writers by Elizabeth Merrick Publisher Comments New short stories from: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Aimee Bender, Judy Budnitz, Jennifer S. Davis, Jennifer Egan, Carolyn Ferrell, Mary Gordon, Cristina Henriquez, Samantha Hunt, Binnie Kirshenbaum, Dika Lam, Caitlin Macy, Francine Prose, Holiday Reinhorn,... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Wild Women and Books: Bibliophiles, Bluestockings & Prolific Pens from Aphra Behn to Zora Neale Hurston and from Annie Rice to the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Brenda Knight Publisher Comments Wild Women and Books is a celebration of perhaps the most revered and radical women writers of history. Beginning with the first recorded writer of either gender, Enheduanna of Sumeria, and ending with acclaimed authors of today, including Toni Morrison... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $15.04 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Wild Women and Books by Brenda Knight Publisher Comments Updated from its original version with an introduction from Ntozake Shange,... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Women's Writing of the Early Modern Period: 1588-1688: An Anthology by Stephanie Hodgson Wright Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [468]-476) and index.... (read more) List Price $37.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Great Short Stories by English and Irish Women (Dover Books on Literature & Drama) by Candace Ward Publisher Comments This delicious variety of outstanding stories ranges over two centuries, from Romanticism to Modernism. It includes George Eliot's Gothic tale "The Lifted Veil"; "The Mortal Immortal," a supernatural fable by Frankenstein creator Mary Shelley; plus ... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Risk, Courage, and Women: Contemporary Voices in Prose and Poetry by Karen A. Waldron Publisher Comments This unique collection of narratives, essays, and poems includes an original interview with Maya Angelou and pieces by Naomi Shihab Nye, Pat Mora, Rosemary Catacalos, and many others. Each work relates how women have demonstrated courage by taking a risk... (read more) List Price $15.96 Your price: $14.16 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Friend Who Got Away: Twenty Women's True-Life Tales of Friendships That Blew up, Burned out or Faded Away by Jenny Offill Publisher Comments Losing a friend can be as painful and as agonizing as a divorce or the end of a love affair, yet it is rarely written about or even discussed. THE FRIEND WHO GOT AWAY is the first book to address this near-universal experience, bringing together the... (read more) Your price: $13.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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HerStory: What I Learned in My bathtub--and More True Stories on Life, Love, and Other Inconveniences by Indi Zeleny Publisher Comments Genuine, edgy, sometimes ironic but always authentic, these stories celebrate the moments that help women deal with the cathartic stuff of life-from first jobs and former lovers to marriage and motherhood. They are stories about women who have taken... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $13.83 Google eBooks - Electronic
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