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The Bitch in the House: 26 Women Tell the Truth about Sex, Solitude, Work, Motherhood, and Marriage
by Cathi Hanauer  
Powells.com Staff Pick Great essays like these give you an opportunity to look at the world through another person's eyes and re-examine your own experiences. The 26 included here take you on a journey through the a myriad women's lives. I laughed, I cried, I felt better about...
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Girls Night in (Red Dress Ink)
by Jen Weiner 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,...
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Dropped Threads
by Carol Shields Publisher Comments What are those life experiences that catch us by surprise, that haven't ever been a part of our discussions or readings because they lie beyond the limit of words, the boundaries of licence or the will to articulate? When Carol Shields and Marjorie...
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New Stories by Southern Women
by Mary Ellis Gibson Publisher Comments "Lures you like a Whitman's sampler". -- Southern...
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Mothers and Daughters: An Anthology
by Alberto Manguel Publisher Comments Turning his inspired anthologizing skills to two subjects we can all relate to, celebrated writer and editor Alberto Manguel offers his most fascinating literary collections yet. Manguel brings his quirky sensibility and instinct for exceptional writing...
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Circle of Women: An Anthology of Contemporary Western Women Writers
by Kim Barnes Publisher Comments This striking array of stories, essays, and poems reflects women's experiences in the American West. Though the tales they tell reflect a variety of viewpoints, these writers share the struggle against the overwhelming isolation brought on by gender and...
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Leaning Into the Wind: Women Write from the Heart of the West
by Linda Hasselstrom Publisher Comments In the true stories, essays, and poems of Leaning into the Wind we meet the real women of the High Plains today. Included are reflections on cowboys, tractor-driving lessons, outhouses, ranch marriages, and family legacies....
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Shorewords: A Collection of American Women's Coastal Writings
by Susan A C Rosen Publisher Comments Coastal waters run deep in this anthology of writings about the shore. Picture it well-thumbed on the beachhouse shelf. Emily Dickinson, Lucille Clifton, Rachel Carson, and Gretel Ehrlich: They hail from different regions, employ widely divergent writing...
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Messengers of the Wind
by Jane B Katz Publisher Comments "Messengers of the Wind goes beyond the autobiographies of everyday women. These are women who have long been an invisible part of American culture. Their stories are haunting, frightening, encouraging, and courageous. . . . Katz is a faithful guide...
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Kiss Tomorrow Hello: Notes from the Midlife Underground by Twenty-Five Women Over Forty
by Kim Barnes Publisher Comments "Kiss Tomorrow Hello" brings together the experiences and reflections of women as they embark on a new stage of life. The 25 stellar writers gathered here explore a wide range of concerns, including empty-nest syndrome, caring for elderly parents...
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American Girls about Town
by Jennifer Weiner Publisher Comments Born in the U.S.A.... American gals are taking liberties -- and pursuing happiness on their own terms -- in this star-studded story collection featuring the nation's red-hot women writers. They've declared their independence! Jennifer Weiner (In Her...
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Garland Library of Medieval Literature #0100: The Writings of Medieval Women: An Anthology
by Marcelle Thiebaux Publisher Comments Enlarged and revised with a new introduction and new textual materials, individual introductions, critical commentaries, and updated bibliographies, this new second edition of 'The Writings of medieval Women' will appeal to an even wider readership....
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The Other Woman: Twenty-One Wives, Lovers, and Others Talk Openly about Sex, Deception, Love, and Betrayal
by Victoria Zackheim Publisher Comments She's been called the harpy, the Jezebel, the Lorelei, the bitch...and other choice names. In truth, she is someone's daughter, mother, friend, confidante. She seduces husbands, breaks up marriages, and occasionally becomes a stepmother. Sometimes, she...
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Secret Weavers #9: What is Secret: Short Stories
by Marjorie Agosin About the Author Isabel Allende is a well known writer of fiction and nonfiction....
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What Wildness Is This: Women Write about the Southwest
by Susan Wittig Albert Publisher Comments From the Gulf Coast of Texas to the Pacific Coast of California, and from the southern borderlands to the Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains, these intimate portraits of women's lives on the land powerfully demonstrate that nature writing is no longer...
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Voices from Asia #9: Lioness in Bloom: Modern Thai Fiction about Women
by Susan Fulop Kepner Publisher Comments Kepner's selection shows the many ways fiction has mirrored the lives of Thai women over the twentieth century. The spectrum is broad, encompassing the young and the old, the rural and the cosmopolitan, the privileged and the poor. Some writers address...
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Writing on the Wind: An Anthology of West Texas Women Writers
by Lou Hal Rodenberger Publisher Comments The short stories and essays in this collection, with strong emphasis on individual triumphs and failures, remind West Texans of their heritage and share with all readers an understanding of what it means to live in the endless space these authors call...
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The Library of Classic Women's Literature: Pride and Prejudice/Jane Eyre/Wuthering Heights/Collected Poems
by Running Press Publisher Comments Four unabridged classics of ninteenth-century literature by women in one volume. 'Pride and Prejudice', 'Jane Eyre', 'Wuthering Heights', and 'Collected Poems' Emily Dickinson....
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Place Called Home Twenty Writing Women
by Mickey Pearlman Publisher Comments The word "home" means something different to each of us. Mickey Pearlman has gathered together a group of writing women whose memories of home present a panorama of experience: Sandra Benítez, Maxine Hong Kingston, Mary Morris, Kathryn Harrison...
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Western Womens Reader
by Lillian Schlissel Publisher Comments Explore 300 years of the American West with the women who have shaped its history This compelling anthology, edited by noted scholars Lillian Schlissel and Catherine Lavender, offers a broad range of writing, photography, and art from women of the...
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