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  • THREE WOMEN
    MARGE PIERCY
    Suzanne Blume has known success and disappointment in equal measure. A respected lawyer who survived two marriages and put two children through college, she now faces the disquieting prospect of her wayward older daughter moving back home. But more troubling still is the news that her mother, a woman of legendary independence who has never truly accepted her daughter nor approv...

    $229.00

  • SLEEPING WITH CATS
    MARGE PIERCY
    Marge Piercy, a writer who is highly praised as both a poet and a novelist, turns her gaze inward as she shares her thoughts on life and explores her development as a woman and writer. She pays tribute to the one loving constant that has offered her comfort and meaning even as the faces and events in her life have changed -- her beloved cats. With searing honesty, Piercy tells ...

    $251.00

  • THE HIGH COST OF LIVING
    MARGE PIERCY
    Passions flare in a most unlikely love triangle between three remarkable characters facing arduous life challenges in this engrossing novel by bestselling author Marge Piercy   Heartbroken after her girlfriend leaves her for another woman, Leslie, a history grad student, follows her thesis advisor from Grand Rapids to Detroit for a fresh start. There she befriends seventeen-yea...

    $229.00

  • GOING DOWN FAST
    MARGE PIERCY
    When their neighborhood is marked for urban renewal, four tenacious city dwellers band together in the face of a wealthy and powerful institution A local university plans to bulldoze and replace parts of a predominantly African American Chicago slum with student housing. But for those who live there, the affordable if run-down homes are havens for creativity and self-exploratio...

    $251.00

  • CITY OF DARKNESS, CITY OF LIGHT
    MARGE PIERCY
    This novel by a New York Times–bestselling author follows three "bold, courageous, and entertaining" women through the tumult of the French Revolution ( Booklist). For Claire Lacombe and Pauline Leon, two poor women of eighteenth-century France, the lofty ideals of the coming revolution could not seem more abstract. But when Claire sees the gaping disparity between the poverty ...

    $229.00

  • STORM TIDE
    MARGE PIERCY / IRA WOOD
    A washed-up minor league pitcher gets more than he bargained for when his affair with an older woman draws him into a tangled web of deceit and scandal   When Cape Cod high school star pitcher David Greene left home, everyone in his small beach town rallied behind his dream of making it in the pros. No one expected the local legend to return broke a few years later, with an und...

    $229.00

  • FLY AWAY HOME
    MARGE PIERCY
    A New York Times Notable Book: A woman learns the truth about her husband's deceptions in this "superb" novel by the bestselling author of Gone to Soldiers ( Boston Herald). After a cross-country tour promoting her latest cookbook, Daria Walker is ready to return to her beautiful home in an affluent Boston suburb and her beloved husband, Ross, a prominent attorney whose rough-h...

    $251.00

  • SUMMER PEOPLE
    MARGE PIERCY
    For three Cape Cod residents, the influx of summer visitors is no more than a minor nuisance—until it brings a man who threatens the balance of their delicate relationship   For more than a decade, Dinah, Susan, and Susan's husband, Willie—artists and neighbors in a small Cape Cod town—have enjoyed an unconventional, but deeply satisfying, three-way relationship. When the annua...

    $251.00

  • GONE TO SOLDIERS
    MARGE PIERCY
    This sweeping New York Times bestseller is "the most thorough and most captivating, most engrossing novel ever written about World War II" ( Los Angeles Times). Epic in scope, Marge Piercy's sweeping novel encompasses the wide range of people and places marked by the Second World War. Each of her ten narrators has a unique and compelling story that powerfully depicts his or her...

    $249.00

  • SMALL CHANGES
    MARGE PIERCY
    Two unforgettable women see their lives change in unimaginable ways in this captivating novel spanning the explosion of feminism in the 1960s   Growing up, Beth always dreamed of her wedding day. But a few months into her marriage to Jim, whose affection she once clung to desperately, she realizes she didn't anticipate life beyond the altar. Jim spends his nights out drinking w...

    $274.00

  • THE LONGINGS OF WOMEN
    MARGE PIERCY
    An "extraordinary" novel of the intertwined lives of three troubled women, by the New York Times–bestselling author of Gone to Soldiers ( San Francisco Chronicle). When her best friend's death rattles her sense of complacency, college professor Leila Landsman decides she's finally had enough of her cheating husband. Leila throws herself into her work and encounters Becky Burges...

    $251.00

  • SEX WARS
    MARGE PIERCY
    "A resonant tale of public and private lives during a time of staggering societal shifts. . . . This is a big American story. . . . deeply felt." — Boston Globe Post–Civil War New York City is the battleground of the American dream. In this era of free love, emerging rights of women, and brutal sexual repression, Freydeh, a spirited young Jewish immigrant, toils at different jo...

    $164.00

  • QUILT STORIES
    BOBBIE ANN MASON / SHARYN MCCRUMB / MARGE PIERCY / ALICE WALKER / JOYCE CAROL OATES / HARRIET BEECHER STO
    Literary works honoring the role of women and quilting in history—from Harriet Beecher Stowe, Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Walker, Sharyn McCrumb, and others. This collection of stories, plays, poems, and songs featuring the making of quilts—written from 1845 to the present, mainly by American women—documents women’s literary history. Featuring the work of Bobbie Ann Mason, Joyce C...

    $249.00