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Nowhere Else on Earth
Now in paperback, the love of a young girl for a heroic outlaw is rendered in this richly textured story of a war-torn community and its forgotten history, steeped in …
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Cold Mountain
Inman, an injured and disillusioned Confederate soldier, embarks on a harrowing journey home to his sweetheart, Ada, who herself is struggling to run the farm left her at her father's …
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Alias Grace
The bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments reveals the life of one of the most notorious women of the nineteenth century in this "shadowy, fascinating novel" (Time). …
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The Dress Lodger
In a novel set in London during the Industrial Revolution, a prostitute borrows a blue dress to attract a higher class of client and is shadowed through the streets by …
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The Passion of Artemisia
"Susan Vreeland set a high standard with Girl in Hyacinth Blue.... The Passion of Artemisia is even better.... Vreeland's unsentimental prose turns the factual Artemisia into a fictional heroine you …
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Herland, The Yellow Wall-paper, and Selected Writings
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) penned this sardonic remark in her autobiography, encapsulating a lifetime of frustration with the gender-based double standard that prevailed in turn-of-the-century America. With her slyly humorous …
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Portrait in Sepia
Lacking all memory of the first five years of her life because of a brutal trauma, Aurora del Valle is raised by her regal grandmother Paulina and eventually seeks to …
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The Woman who Gave Birth to Rabbits
Following the triumphant publication of "Slammerkin" this rollicking collection of short stories depicts the strangely exhilarating sideshows of humanity lost to traditional history.
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Gertrude and Claudius
Gertrude and Claudius are the “villains” of Hamlet: he the killer of Hamlet’s father and usurper of the Danish throne; she his lusty consort, who marries Claudius before her late …
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Slammerkin
Mary Saunders' lust for linen, lace and a shiny red ribbon leads her to a life of prostitution.
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Year of Wonders
"When an infected bolt of cloth carries plague from London to an isolated mountain village, a housemaid named Anna Frith emerges as an unlikely heroine and healer. Through Anna's eyes, …
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The Book of Ruth
Winner of the 1989 PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award for best first novel, this exquisite book confronts real-life issues of alienation and violence from which the author creates a stunning testament to …
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Gap Creek
A New York Times Bestseller & Oprah's Book Club Pick Young Julie Harmon works “hard as a man,” they say, so hard that at times she’s not sure she can …
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