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Miss Fuller : A Novel
Bernard, AprilSteerforth Press 2012What does one sensitive but ordinary woman makes of a publicly disgraced woman like Fuller, and how do women make use of what they learn from other women? Miss Fuller is a hist...
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Sister Outsider : Essays and Speeches
Lorde, AudreClarkson Potter/Ten Speed 2012Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, SISTER OUTSIDER celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature. In this ch...
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Lamb : A Novel
Nadzam, BonnieOther Press 2011Winner of the 2011 Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize Lamb traces the self-discovery of David Lamb, a narcissistic middle aged man with a tendency toward dishonesty, in the weeks fo...
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The Way the Crow Flies
MacDonald, Ann-MarieKnopf Canada 2011“The sun came out after the war and our world went Technicolor. Everyone had the same idea. Let’s get married. Let’s have kids. Let’s be the ones who do it right.” The Way the Cro...
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The Ethical Slut : A Practical Guide to Polyamory, Open Relationships & Other Adventures
Hardy, Janet W.; Easton, DossiePotter/TenSpeed/Harmony 2011The essential guide for singles and couples who want to explore polyamory in ways that are ethically and emotionally sustainable. For anyone who has ever dreamed of love, sex, an...
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Neon Wasteland : On Love, Motherhood, and Sex Work in a Rust Belt Town
Dewey, SusanUniversity of California Press 2011 1. editionThis path-breaking book examines the lives of five topless dancers in the economically devastated "rust belt" of upstate New York. With insight and empathy, Susan Dewey shows how t...
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A Woman's Story
Ernaux, AnnieSeven Stories Press 2011WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A New York Times Notable Book"A deeply affecting account of mothers and daughters, youth and age, and dreams and reality" (Kirkus Revie...
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The Possession
Ernaux, AnnieSeven Stories Press 2011WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Self-regard, in the works of Annie Ernaux, is always an excruciatingly painful and exact process. Here, she revisits the peculiar kind...
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Woman on the Edge of Time : A Novel
Piercy, MargeRandom House Publishing Group 2010Hailed as a classic of speculative fiction, Marge Piercy’s landmark novel is a transformative vision of two futures—and what it takes to will one or the other into reality. Harrowi...
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Orange Is the New Black : My Year in a Women's Prison
Kerman, PiperRandom House Publishing Group 2010#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES With a career, a boyfriend, and a loving family, Piper Kerman barely resembles the reckless young woman who delivere...
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The Gate to Women's Country : A Novel
Tepper, Sheri S.Random House Worlds 2009“Lively, thought-provoking . . . the plot is ingenious, packing a wallop of a surprise . . . Tepper knows how to write a well-made, on-moving story with strong characters. . . . Sh...
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Angelou, MayaRandom House Publishing Group 2009Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of...
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Brothers : A Novel
Hua, YuKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2009A bestseller in China, Brothers is an epic and wildly unhinged black comedy of modern Chinese society running amok. Here is China as we've never seen it before, in a sweeping, Rab...
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God Grew Tired of Us : The Heartbreaking, Inspiring Story of a Lost Boy of Sudan
Dau, John Bul; Sweeney, MichaelDisney Book Group 2008"Lost Boy" John Bul Dau's harrowing experience surviving the brutal horrors of Sudanese civil war and his adjustment to life in modern America is chronicled in this inspiring memoi...
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Flesh and Spirit
Berg, CarolPenguin Publishing Group 2007The rebellious Valen has spent his life trying to escape his family legacy. But his fate is sealed when he winds up half-dead, addicted to an enchantment-which leads him into a wor...
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An Introduction to Sociology, Third Edition
Tyler, MelissaTaylor & Francis Group 2006 3. editionThis third edition of An Introduction to Sociology: Feminist Perspectives reaffirms the contribution of feminist perspectives and research to sociology and introduces students and...
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Julia Kristeva
McAfee, NoelleTaylor & Francis Group 2004 1. editionOne of the most original thinkers of the twentieth century, Julia Kristeva has been driving forward the fields of literary and cultural studies since the 1960s. This volume is an a...
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Sarah Canary
Fowler, Karen JoyPenguin Publishing Group 2004Two unlikely people form an unexpected bond in bestselling author Karen Joy Fowler’s captivating historical novel—a New York Times Notable Book. When black cloaked Sarah Canary wa...
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The Wave in the Mind : Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination
Le Guin, Ursula K.Shambhala 2004Join Ursula K. Le Guin as she explores a broad array of subjects, ranging from Tolstoy, Twain, and Tolkien to women's shoes, beauty, and family life. With her customary wit, intell...
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A Very Hungry Girl : How I Filled Up on Life...and How You Can, Too!
Weiner, JessicaHay House 2003We’re all hungry—hungry to look good, feel worthy, be loved, and fit in. Our hungers are deep and insatiable. We try to fill up by using food, alcohol, drugs, sex, relationships, c...