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  • MARS
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    MARS
    ASJA BAKIC
    A debut collection of darkly humorous, feminist speculative fiction from the Balkans, “sly, uncommon stories” by “a major talent” (Jeff VanderMeer, award-winning author of Hummingbird Salamander). Mars showcases a series of unique and twisted universes, where every character is tasked with making sense of their strange reality. One woman will be freed from purgatory once she wr...

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  • THE FEMINIST UTOPIA PROJECT
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    THE FEMINIST UTOPIA PROJECT
    EDITED BY ALEXANDRA BRODSKY AND RACHEL KAUDER NALEBUFF
    This “incredible addition to the feminist canon” brings together the most inspiring, creative, and courageous voices concerning modern women’s issues (Jessica Valenti, editor of Yes Means Yes).   In this groundbreaking collection, more than fifty cutting-edge feminist writers—including Melissa Harris-Perry, Janet Mock, Sheila Heti, and Mia McKenzie—invite us to imagine a world ...

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  • WE WALK ALONE
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    WE WALK ALONE
    ANN ALDRICH
    The 1950s queer-life groundbreaker by “a literary pioneer . . . [who] forever changed perceptions of same-sex love and desire” (Advocate.com).   Ann Aldrich flung a provocative assertion at her readers in 1955 when she opened her landmark account of lesbian life in New York City by saying this book was the “result of fifteen years of participation in society as a female homosex...

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  • NO SWEETNESS HERE
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    NO SWEETNESS HERE
    AMA ATA AIDOO
    From the author of Changes: these stories “of post-independence Ghana in the late 1960s are written beautifully and wisely and with great subtlety” (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichi).   In this short story collection, the award-winning poet and author of Changes and Our Sister Killjoy explores postcolonial life in Ghana with her characteristic honesty, humor, and insight. A house servan...

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  • WAITING
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    WAITING
    GORETTI KYOMUHENDO
    A Ugandan author’s “unsettling and richly atmospheric” novel of a young African woman confronting the brutal end of Idi Amin’s dictatorship (Publishers Weekly).   Safe for years in their remote Ugandan village, thirteen-year-old Alinda and her family are suddenly faced with the terror of the self-proclaimed “Last King of Scotland” when troops of his use the local highway to esc...

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  • THE RIOT GRRRL COLLECTION
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    THE RIOT GRRRL COLLECTION
    JOHANNA FATEMAN
    Archival material from the 1990s underground movement “preserves a vital history of feminism” (Ann Cvetkovich, author of Depression: A Public Feeling).   For the past two decades, young women (and men) have found their way to feminism through Riot Grrrl. Against the backdrop of the culture wars and before the rise of the Internet or desktop publishing, the zine and music cultur...

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  • THE SHIPWRECKED
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    THE SHIPWRECKED
    EDITED BY FERESHTEH NOURAIE-SIMONE, TRANSLATED FROM FARSI BY FARIDOUN FARROKH AND SARA KHALILI
    A collection of short stories by Iranian women writers that capture the fear, defiance, and enduring struggle of life under an oppressive regime.   The 1979 Iranian Revolution was an event that shocked the world. After thousands of years of Persian monarchy, the Iranian people seized power and instituted a strict secular Islamic regime. The revolution sent the despised Shah int...

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  • ICON
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    ICON
    “In this collection commissioned by Amy Scholder, nine original essays explore the specific and personal impact of cultural icons.” —Publishers Weekly   Whose poster hung on your wall as a teenager? Whose record did you wear out? Whose life story could you not resist? Fascination works in mysterious ways—it can be born out of inspiration, or repulsion, or both. In these daring ...

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  • PISSING IN A RIVER
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    PISSING IN A RIVER
    LORRIE SPRECHER
    “An honest and genuine DIY punk-rock lesbian love story.” —Kirkus Reviews   Amanda moves to London with nothing but her guitar and her collection of punk music as the soundtrack to her every move. With the company of a few friendly voices in her head, she looks for—and finds—a best friend and new lover. She forms a band, Lesbian Raincoat, and completely rewrites the story of he...

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  • A TASTE OF MOLECULES
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    A TASTE OF MOLECULES
    DIANE FRESQUEZ
    A delicious exploration of what creates the flavors we love—and why our taste buds respond to them—in a fascinating, “very pleasant and easy read” (Flanders Today).   In this unique scientific study of food, drink, and how the human taste buds sense taste, food journalist Diane Fresquez brings readers along on a journey of gastronomic discovery.   She begins by following a Belg...

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  • NOW, VOYAGER
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    NOW, VOYAGER
    OLIVE HIGGINS PROUTY
    The iconic American melodrama that inspired the 1943 cult classic film starring Bette Davis. “Charlotte Vale a timeless and very sophisticated Cinderella.” —Patricia Gaffney, New York Times bestselling author “Don’t let’s ask for the moon! We have the stars!” The film Now, Voyager concludes with these famous words, which reaffirmed Bette Davis’s own stardom and changed the way ...

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  • MOTHER FINDS A BODY
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    MOTHER FINDS A BODY
    GYPSY ROSE LEE
    This encore performance by the author of The G-String Murders is simply “one of the greatest mysteries ever written” (Philadelphia Daily News).   It’s supposed to be a quiet honeymoon getaway for celebrated stripper Gypsy Rose Lee and Biff Brannigan, ex-comic and ex-Casanova of the Burly Q circuit, settled as they are in a cozy trailer built for two. If you don’t count Gypsy’s ...

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  • WHATEVER IS CONTAINED MUST BE RELEASED
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    WHATEVER IS CONTAINED MUST BE RELEASED
    HELÈNE AYLON
    ‘[A] richly evocative, captivating, and reflective memoir” of a feminist artist who broke free of the limits placed on her by family, Judaism and society (Publishers Weekly).   Growing up an Orthodox Jew in Brooklyn, Helene Aylon spent her Friday nights in a sea of extended family as the Sabbath candles flickered. Passionate about art, she dreamt of escaping the strict, secular...

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  • ZIPPER MOUTH
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    ZIPPER MOUTH
    LAURIE WEEKS
    This novel of a young lesbian addict in ’90s NYC “recalls Naked Lunch” with “dreamy, impressionistic, and rapturous” prose—“an ecstatic love story” (Publishers Weekly).   Written in the brash, fervent voice of the young and addicted, this debut novel from underground superstar Laurie Weeks “is a short tome of infinitesimal reach, a tiny star to light the land” (Eileen Myles).  ...

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  • RAJMAHAL
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    RAJMAHAL
    KAMALINI SENGUPTA
    An exploration of post-colonial Indian life through “engagingly embroidered stories that leave us replete and delighted” (The Sunday Tribune, India).   Marriages, affairs, death, madness, and second chances all live within the walls of Rajmahal, an unusual Bengali house that has stood through a century of turbulent changes. Within the walls of this stately home, now divided int...

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  • WOMEN WHO KILL
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    WOMEN WHO KILL
    ANN JONES
    This landmark study offers a rogues’ gallery of women—from the Colonial Era to the 20th century—who answered abuse and oppression with murder: “A classic” (Gloria Steinem).   Women rarely resort to murder. But when they do, they are likely to kill their intimates: husbands, lovers, or children. In Women Who Kill, journalist Ann Jones explores these homicidal patters and what th...

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  • FROM EVE TO DAWN: A HISTORY OF WOMEN IN THE WORLD VOLUME II
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    FROM EVE TO DAWN: A HISTORY OF WOMEN IN THE WORLD VOLUME II
    MARILYN FRENCH
    “Filled with fascinating detail . . . this second volume of French’s massive and valuable work is an example of scholarship and clear vision.” —Publishers Weekly   This volume of New York Times–bestselling author Marilyn French’s monumental history analyzes and evaluates the lives of women in societies around the world between feudal times and the French Revolution. Drawing upo...

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  • THE LITTLE LOCKSMITH
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    THE LITTLE LOCKSMITH
    KATHARINE BUTLER HATHAWAY
    This early 20th century memoir of a woman’s faith in the face of debilitating disease is a “remarkably un-self-pitying book remains poignant and truthful” (Publishers Weekly).   “You must not miss it . . . It is the kind of book that cannot come into being without great living and great suffering and a rare spirit behind it.” —The New York Times   In 1895, a specialist straps f...

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  • AMONG THE WHITE MOON FACES
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    AMONG THE WHITE MOON FACES
    SHIRLEY GEOK-LIN LIM
    This “fascinating autobiography” from an award-winning Asian-American female author “reads like a novel” (The Washington Post Book World).   With insight, candor, and grace, Shirley Geok-lin Lim recalls her path from her poverty-stricken childhood in war-torn Malaysia to her new and exciting yet uncertain womanhood in America. Grappling to secure a place for herself in the Unit...

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  • THE NAMES OF ALL THE FLOWERS
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    THE NAMES OF ALL THE FLOWERS
    MELISSA VALENTINE
    A “poignant, painful, and gorgeous” memoir that explores siblinghood, adolescence, and grief for a family shattered by loss (Alicia Garza, cocreator, Black Lives Matter). Melissa and her older brother Junior grow up running around the disparate neighborhoods of 1990s Oakland, two of six children to a white Quaker father and a black Southern mother. But as Junior approaches adol...

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  • TAKING OUR PLACE IN HISTORY
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    TAKING OUR PLACE IN HISTORY
    GIRLS WRITE NOW
    The award-winning annual anthology from New York City’s first and only writing and mentoring organization for girls and gender-expansive teens. What is it like growing up in New York City as a teen in 2020? This book invites you into their homes and families, their schools and neighborhoods, their hearts, hopes, and fears. Enter a world where clay creatures take on aluminum opp...

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  • ARID DREAMS
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    ARID DREAMS
    DUANWAD PIMWANA
    “One of Thailand’s preeminent female writers . . . Each of her stories poses its own moral challenge, pleasurable and unsettling at once . . . phenomenal.” —NPR.org In thirteen stories that investigate ordinary and working-class Thailand, characters aspire for more but remain suspended in routine. They bide their time, waiting for an extraordinary event to end their stasis. A p...

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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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  • LIVING ON THE BORDERLINES
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    LIVING ON THE BORDERLINES
    MELISSA MICHAL
    “Michal’s debut is thoughtful and generous, capturing the fraught experience of being Native American in the modern U.S.” —Publishers Weekly Both on and off the rez, characters contend with identity as contemporary Haudenosaunee peoples; the stories “cross bloodlines, heart lines, and cultural lines, powerfully charting what it is to be human in a world that works to divide us”...

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  • CONFESSIONS OF MADAME PSYCHE
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    CONFESSIONS OF MADAME PSYCHE
    DOROTHY BRYANT
    “Describes a life that explores, in ways that only fine fiction can, the differences between myth and illusion, between real psychic gifts and false ones.”—The Denver Post This American Book Award Winner follows the story of the young Mei-li Murrow who is dubbed “Madame Psyche” after she accidentally predicts the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. Although she wins fame and fort...

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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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  • 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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  • TRANSFORMING JAPAN
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    TRANSFORMING JAPAN
    A volume of essays by Japan’s leading female scholars and activists exploring their country’s recent progressive cultural shift.   When the feminist movement finally arrived in Japan in the 1990s, no one could have foreseen the wide-ranging changes it would bring to the country. Nearly every aspect of contemporary life has been impacted, from marital status to workplace equalit...

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  • AND THE BRIDGE IS LOVE
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    AND THE BRIDGE IS LOVE
    FAYE MOSKOWITZ
    A collection of life stories so funny, moving that “you don’t have to be a Jewish feminist mama to love this book . . . but it wouldn’t hurt” (Tablet Magazine).   Here are the collected autobiographical writings of memoirist, poet, and professor Faye Moskowitz. Known for both her sense of humor—even in the bleakest of circumstances—and her insight into the relationships that de...

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