Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen by Julie Powell
Julie Powell is a young New Yorker feeling lost in her life. She works at an unrewarding government job and lives in a run-down apartment. The one light in her life is ...
(October 2009)
The Ladies of Covington Send Their Love by Joan Medlicott
Three elderly ladies meet as residents of a small elder care home where they are managed by a rigid care taker who treats them as if they are mindless children. When one ...
(July 2009)
The Red Queen : a Transcultural Tragicomedy by Margaret Drabble
Fascinating and mysterious 18th century Lady Hyegyong, lived as her status required, confined in women’s apartments behind thick palace walls from the time of her marriage at age 10 to a Korean ...
(July 2008)
The Forest Lover by Susan Vreeland
The Forest Lover is a fictionalized biography of painter Emily Carr. From the beginning, the novel is painted in the deep, vibrant colors of her paintings. It illustrates the struggles of a ...
(November 2007)
Secret Society Girl : An Ivy League Novel by Diana Peterfreund
This is the book for you if you believe in conspiracy theories. Eli University’s secret Rose and Grave Society has unexpectedly tapped girls for the first time in its 150-year history. Amy ...
(July 2007)
The Friend Who Got Away by Jenny Offill and Elissa Schappell (editors)
Jenny Offill and Elissa Schnappell, who both contributed tales of their own lost friendships to this collection, have edited a fascinating and moving anthology of essays by women that virtually all women ...
(September 2005)
Legend of Fire Horse Woman by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
In Japan women born under the tragic sign Fire Horse, a ruinous birth date that occurs once every sixty years, were destined to remain untamed by men and were to be avoided ...
(January 2004)
The Fresco by Sheri S. Tepper
Benita Alvarez-Shipton, an “ordinary” woman with common sense and all-too-common problems, is approached by two extraterrestrials offering a fee to carry their communication device to a government official. Before she knows it, ...
(November 2003)
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