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  • SEA GIRL
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    SEA GIRL
    ETHEL JOHNSTON PHELPS
    The third volume in this beautifully illustrated anthology features traditional tales of heroic women from China to Canada and beyond. Long before Suzanne Collins created Katniss Everdeen and Octavia Butler wrote Parable of the Sower, there were many traditional folktales full of adventure, intrigue, and intrepid female characters. Feminist Folktales from Around the World colle...

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  • AND THE SPIRIT MOVED THEM
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    AND THE SPIRIT MOVED THEM
    HELEN LAKELLY HUNT
    The New York Times–bestselling author of Getting the Love You Want sends out a ‘call for renewed feminist action, based on “the spirit and ethic of love’” (Kirkus Reviews).   A decade before the Seneca Falls Convention, black and white women joined together at the 1837 Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women in the first instance of political organizing by American women for ...

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  • WAIT UNTIL TOMORROW
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    WAIT UNTIL TOMORROW
    PAT MACENULTY
    A daughter’s memoir of sacrifice and discovery as her ailing mother’s caretaker is “an inspiring story of love, loss and the ravages of aging” (Kirkus).   Like all mothers, mine had a set of maxims that she thought were important to impart to me: if you can’t say anything nice, then don’t say anything at all (unless it’s irresistibly funny); it’s as easy to fall in love with a ...

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  • JOSS AND GOLD
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    JOSS AND GOLD
    SHIRLEY GEOK-LIN LIM
    A piercing tale of a Malaysian woman’s quest for independence that combines “the nuance of a poet with the ear of a born storyteller” (Julia Watson, coeditor of Women, Autobiography, Theory: A Reader).   Li An, a young Malaysian woman of Chinese descent, seeks to understand herself as the country around her struggles to determine its own identity. And much like the politically ...

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  • STREB
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    STREB
    ELIZABETH STREB
    An inspiring memoir and self-help guide to greatness by the dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov calls “fearlessness and intelligence combined . . . potent and beautiful.”   Called “the Evel Knievel of Dance,” Elizabeth Streb has been pushing boundaries and testing the potential of the human body since childhood. Can she fly? Can she run up walls? Can she break through glass? How fast ca...

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  • FAULT LINES
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    FAULT LINES
    MEENA ALEXANDER
    The acclaimed Indian poet reflects on her place in the post-9/11 world in this “evocative and moving” memoir spanning continents and cultures (Publishers Weekly).   Identity and displacement are two of the powerful themes in this gorgeously written memoir by acclaimed poet, scholar, and author Meena Alexander. Born in India to Indian civil servants, Alexander lived in cities ac...

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  • THE RAGING SKILLET
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    THE RAGING SKILLET
    ROSSI
    “[A] juicy memoir about growing up, becoming a chef, and working as New York’s most unconventional wedding caterer.” —BUST magazine   When their high-school-aged, punk, runaway daughter is found hosting a Jersey Shore hotel party, Rossi’s parents feel they have no other choice: they ship her off to live with a Chasidic rabbi in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Within the confines of th...

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  • WALKING THE DOG
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    WALKING THE DOG
    ELIZABETH SWADOS
    A “brilliant and layered” novel about a prodigy turned convict turned dog walker in her 40s from the celebrated author of My Depression: A Picture Book (Oprah.com).   A former child prodigy and rich-girl, eighteen-year-old Ester is incarcerated after her kleptomania gets way out of hand. There, she is given the very gentile name Carleen (for her own protection) and for two deca...

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  • BEIJING COMRADES
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    BEIJING COMRADES
    BEI TONG
    The sensational underground novel of homosexuality in late-1980s China that’s been declared “one of the most significant Chinese novels of our time” (The New York Times).   When Handong, the ruthless, wealthy son of Communist party officials, is introduced to Lan Yu, a naïve, working-class architecture student, the attraction between the two young men is instant and all-consumi...

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  • FOLLOW ME INTO THE DARK
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    FOLLOW ME INTO THE DARK
    FELICIA C. SULLIVAN
    A woman’s tortured past is reawakened when a twisted murderer strikes close to home in this “original, spellbinding, and horrifying read” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).   Kate is a young woman whose mother is dying of cancer. Gillian is an oversexed, hyper-intellectual who looks like Kate—and is sleeping with Kate’s loathsome stepfather. Jonah is Gillian’s odd but devoted st...

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  • TATTERHOOD
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    TATTERHOOD
    ETHEL JOHNSTON PHELPS
    The first volume in this beautifully illustrated anthology features traditional tales of heroic women from Japan to Scotland and beyond. Long before Suzanne Collins created Katniss Everdeen and Octavia Butler wrote Parable of the Sower, there were many traditional folktales full of adventure, intrigue, and intrepid female characters. Feminist Folktales from Around the World col...

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  • THE CRUNK FEMINIST COLLECTION
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    THE CRUNK FEMINIST COLLECTION
    BRITTNEY C. COOPER / SUSANA M. MORRIS / ROBIN M. BOYLORN
    Essays on hip-hop feminism featuring relevant, real conversations about how race and gender politics intersect with pop culture and current events. For the Crunk Feminist Collective, their academic day jobs were lacking in conversations they actually wanted. To address this void, they started a blog that turned into a widespread movement. The Collective’s writings foster dialog...

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  • BYE BYE BLONDIE
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    BYE BYE BLONDIE
    VIRGINIE DESPENTES
    In a wrecked modern version of a romance novel, acclaimed French writer Virginie Despentes pokes at the simultaneous ecstasy and banality of love in an age of psychiatry and punk.   Gloria lives in seething rage, lashing out at everyone—particularly, a string of bewildered boyfriends—at the local bar. But when her latest explosion leaves her out on the street, she unexpectedly ...

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  • THE POLITICS OF WOMEN'S STUDIES
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    THE POLITICS OF WOMEN'S STUDIES
    The true stories of those bold women who espoused feminism in the world of academia and forever changed our educational system and culture.   In the patriarchal halls of 1970s academe, women who spoke their minds risked their careers. Yet intrepid women—students, faculty, administrators, members of the community—persisted in collaborating on women’s studies programs. In doing s...

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  • FOLLY
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    FOLLY
    MAUREEN BRADY
    A modern classic of race, labor rights, and lesbian love written “with an authenticity, a force, a caring that deepens and enlarges us" (Tillie Olsen, author of Tell Me A Riddle).   Brought together by the tragic death of an infant, black and white women at a North Carolina textile factory join together to strike against the plant’s unfeeling management. A story of race relatio...

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  • THE CHINESE GARDEN
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    THE CHINESE GARDEN
    ROSEMARY MANNING
    A “very intelligent, sensitive, and compelling” novel of adolescent rebellion and sexual awakening at a girls’ boarding school (Anthony Burgess).   Set in a repressive British girls’ boarding school in the late 1920s—where not only sexuality but femininity is squashed—Rosemary Manning’s “wonderful” 1962 novel is the coming-of-age story of sixteen-year-old Rachel, a sensitive, b...

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  • STREETS
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    STREETS
    BELLA SPEWACK
    “A startling, clear-eyed” memoir of an immigrant girl’s childhood in early 20th century NYC from the journalist and Tony-winning co-author of Kiss Me Kate (Booklist).   Born in Transylvania in 1899, Bella Spewack arrived on the streets of New York’s Lower East Side when she was three. At twenty-two, while working as a reporter with her husband in Europe, she wrote a memoir of h...

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  • THE MILK OF ALMONDS
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    THE MILK OF ALMONDS
    “A vast, thoroughly wonderful assortment of poetry, memoirs and stories . . . that defines today’s female Italian-American experience” (Publishers Weekly).   Often stereotyped as nurturing others through food, Italian-American women have often struggled against this simplistic image to express the realities of their lives.   In this unique collection, over 50 Italian-American f...

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  • LOVE WAR STORIES
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    LOVE WAR STORIES
    IVELISSE RODRIGUEZ
    “Arrests the heart with its stunning exploration of women who are put through a kind of hell in their determination to find true love . . . extraordinary.” —Angie Cruz, author of Dominicana Finalist for the 2019 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Finalist for the 2018 Foreword Reviews INDIES Award Best Book/Most Anticipated Book/Recommended Read of 2018: Cosmopolitan.com, The Root,...

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  • TRAINING SCHOOL FOR NEGRO GIRLS
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    TRAINING SCHOOL FOR NEGRO GIRLS
    CAMILLE ACKER
    “The lives of the girls and women featured in these stories are rendered with tremendous warmth, humor, and care . . . a wonderful debut.” —Jamel Brinkley, author of A Lucky Man In her debut short story collection, Camille Acker unleashes the irony and tragic comedy of respectability onto a wide-ranging cast of characters, all of whom call Washington, DC, home. A “woke” millenn...

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  • THE RIGHT THING TO DO
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    THE RIGHT THING TO DO
    JOSEPHINE GATTUSO HENDIN
    A young Italian American woman struggles to find her way between two cultures in this novel of “familial dignity . . . credibility and intelligence” (Kirkus Reviews).   On a stroll in his Queens neighborhood, Sicilian-born Nino Giardello glimpses his daughter, ambitious nineteen-year-old Gina, heading for the subway. Silently, he follows her to Manhattan and watches, outraged, ...

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  • THE HUNTER MAIDEN
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    THE HUNTER MAIDEN
    ETHEL JOHNSTON PHELPS
    The fourth volume in this beautifully illustrated anthology features traditional tales of heroic women from Russia to South Africa and beyond. Long before Suzanne Collins created Katniss Everdeen and Octavia Butler wrote Parable of the Sower, there were many traditional folktales full of adventure, intrigue, and intrepid female characters. Feminist Folktales from Around the Wor...

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