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Bloodchild And Other Stories

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Octavia E. ButlerPublication Details
Book2nd edSeven Stories Press2005Links
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“An outstanding short story collection . Recipient of a MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant, the Nebula Award, the Hugo Award, and numerous other literary awards, she has been acclaimed for her lean prose, strong protagonists, and social observations that range from the distant past to the far future. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
A Narrative Compass : Stories That Guide Women’s Lives
The Scenic Route : A Novel

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Binnie KirshenbaumPublication Details
Book1st edHarper Perennial2009Description
Divorced, alone, and unexpectedly unemployed, Sylvia Landsman flees to Italy, where she meets Henry, a wistful, married, middle-aged expatriate. Taking off on a grand tour of Europe bankrolled with his wife’s money, Henry and Sylvia follow a circuitous route around the continent?as Sylvia entertains Henry with stories of her peculiar family and her damaged friends, of dead ducks and Alma Mahler. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS BROWSING (MAIN) PS3561.I775 S34 2009 AVAILABLE
Lucky Everyday

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Bapsy JainPublication Details
BookPenguin Books2009Description
An inspiring novel about a women named Lucky who is anything but . A stunning novel about one woman?s struggle toward enlightenment, Lucky Everyday blends the principles of yoga with a thoroughly modern take on the quest for a fulfilled life. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS BROWSING (MAIN) PR9499.4.J34 B55 2009 AVAILABLE
The Adventures Of Blanche

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by Rick GearyPublication Details
BookDark Horse2009Description
Iconoclastic cartoonist Rick Geary chronicles the extraordinary adventures of an equally extraordinary woman of the early twentieth century in The Adventures of Blanche! (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PN6727.G42 A38 2009 AVAILABLE
The Amputated Memory : A Song-novel

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Werewere Liking ; translated from the French by Marjolijn de Jager ; afterword by Michelle MiellyPublication Details
BookFeminist Press at the City University of New York2007Description
A modern-day Things Fall Apart, The Amputated Memory explores the ways in which an African woman’s memory preserves, and strategically forgets, moments in her tumultuous past as well as the cultural past of her country, in the hopes of making a healthier future possible. Winner of the Noma Award-previous honorees include Mamphela Ramphele, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, and Ken Saro-Wiwa-The Amputated Memory was called by the Noma jury “a truly remarkable achievement . (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS BROWSING (MAIN) PQ3989.2.L54 M4513 2007 AVAILABLE
A Short History Of Women : A Novel

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Kate WalbertPublication Details
Book1st Scribner hardcover edScribner2009Links
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FromNational Book Award nominee Kate Walbert, a provocative and beautiful novel about five generations of women. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS BROWSING (MAIN) PS3573.A42113 S54 2009 AVAILABLE
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Toni JordanPublication Details
Book1st U.S. edWilliam Morrow2009Description
Everything counts . Grace Lisa Vandenburg orders her world with numbers: how many bananas she buys, how many steps she takes to the caf, where she chooses to sit, how many poppy seeds are in her daily piece of orange cake. Counting is what defines us . Without the ability to count our days, our hours, our loved ones . And suddenly, Grace may be about to lose count of the number of ways she can fall in love. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PR9619.4.J67 A66 2009 AVAILABLE
In Hovering Flight

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by Joyce HinnefeldPublication Details
BookUnbridled Books2008Description
At 34 years of age, Scarlet has come home for the passing of her famous mother, the bird artist Addie Kavanaugh. Though Addie and her husband, the world-renowned ornithologist Tom Kavanaugh, have made their life in southeastern Pennsylvania, Addie has chosen to die at the home of her dearest friend, Cora. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PS3558.I5448 I5 2008 AVAILABLE
The Four Seasons : A Novel Of Vivaldi’s Venice

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Laurel CoronaPublication Details
BookVoice Hyperion2008Description
In glittering 18th-century Venice, music and love are prized above all else–and for two sisters coming of age, the city’s passions blend in intoxicating ways. –Stephanie Cowell, author of Marrying Mozart “Laurel Corona’s The Four Seasons is a poignant tale of two sisters, layered exquisitely over the exotic world of brilliant priest/composer Vivaldi and his 18th-century Venice. –Karen Harper, author of The Last Boleyn and The First Princess of Wales “I’ve never been to Venice, played a violin, or for that matter carried a tune, but after reading The Four Seasons I feel that I’ve experienced all three, and through them come to a better understanding of the many forms love takes. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PS3603.O7687 F66 2008 AVAILABLE
Snow Flower And The Secret Fan : A Novel

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Lisa SeePublication Details
BookRandom House Trade pbk. edRandom House2006Links
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In nineteenth-century China, in a remote Hunan county, a girl named Lily, at the tender age of seven, is paired with a laotong, ?old same,? The laotong, Snow Flower, introduces herself by sending Lily a silk fan on which she?s painted a poem in nu shu, a unique language that Chinese women created in order to communicate in secret, away from the influence of men. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PS3569.E3334 S66 2006 AVAILABLE
The Widows Of Eastwick

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John UpdikePublication Details
Book1st edAlfred A. Knopf2008Description
They cope with their grief and solitude as widows do: they travel the world, to such foreign lands as Canada, Egypt, and China, and renew old acquaintance. How they cope with the lingering traces of their evil deeds, the shocks of a mysterious counterspell, and the advancing inroads of old age, form the burden on Updike?s delightful, ominous sequel. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PS3571.P4 W48 2008 AVAILABLE
Tamara Drewe

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Posy SimmondsPublication Details
BookHoughton Mifflin2008Description
Posy Simmonds, Britain’s best-loved cartoonist and the author of Gemma Bovery, has now created the irresistible Tamara Drewe, a graphic novel that delightfully skewers modern mores and manners with great wit and understanding for the foibles of humanity. Perhaps even more satisfying than your favorite nineteenth-century novel, with its fine, expressive drawings, deft storytelling, and nods to both the past and the present, yet unlike anything that has come before, Tamara Drewe is that rare graphic novel for grownups. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PN6737.S46 T36 2008 DUE 01-12-10
The Nightingales Of Troy : Stories Of One Family’s Century

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Alice FultonPublication Details
Book1st edW.W. Norton & Co2008Description
Set in Troy, New York, this linked collection follows a quirky and resilient family of women throughout the twentieth century. Each decade is illuminated by endearingly eccentric characters: an anorexic waitress falls for a wealthy college boy in the jazz age…an exuberant young nurse questions science during the Depression…a homely seamstress designs a scandalous dress in the 1950s. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PS3556.U515 N54 2008 AVAILABLE
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