Women's Literature | Women's Studies - Interest
Jul.25.2011
by Susan Hagen and Mary Carouba.
A powerful collection of first-person stories told by 30 female firefighters, police officers, paramedics, and others who responded to the World Trade Center tragedy on September 11, 2001. In response to the media's portrayal of...
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Jun.24.2011
The last thing Katherine Sullivan wanted to do was spend her 29th birthday in an ashram with her mother! But she was alarmed: her wealthy, chronically-depressed mother suddenly seemed happy and carefree. As a researcher on white-collar crime Katherine was determined to get to the bottom of this...
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Jun.21.2011
In 1985, when women's poetry was not as prevalent as it is today, Melissa Clark asks men to listen very, very hard to what women say about their own self-perception, and not how men, such as Heathcliff, Mr. Rochester, or Dr. Frankenstein have perceived them. She asks that they listen as though...
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Jun.20.2011
Lady Caroline has one mission in mind, helping her mother maintain their estates after her father's death, while knights posing as the earl's men continue to kill their livestock. But as soon as her mother wishes the earl's intervention...
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Jun.10.2011
"A beautifully wrought tale of courage, hope, and awakenings of all kinds." ~ Sara Gruen, author of Water for Elephants
Miracles can be damned inconvenient. That’s what thirty-four-year-old stroke victim Jonathan Hooper learns when he wakes up after spending six years in a coma. Everyone...
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May.22.2011
From back cover: "Writers from Gulf Shores to New Market, from high schoolers to great-grandmothers, from housewives and doctors to professors and retired accountants, have generously contributed to this volume. Their words are funny, outrageous, poignant, and pointed, but always genuine. ...
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Apr.27.2011
HE SAID WHAT? Women Write About Moments When Everything Changed
I love you. The meeting ran late. I want a divorce. One little word, one casual lie, one devastating announcement—and our lives are turned upside down forever.
In He Said What?, twenty-six gifted women writers share profoundly...
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Apr.27.2011
Nearly every aging woman has a complicated relationship with her body.
For Keeps, an inspirational collection of personal essays from writers on their ever-changing bodies, will resonate with every maturing woman. Editor Victoria Zackheim brings together women with unique voices who have all...
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Apr.22.2011
A modern Scheherazade in New Orleans in 1984. Alone. Abandoned in New Orleans with no friends or family, surviving only on her wits, Pearl Caldwell has finally put herself back on the road back to the life she wants. Then she's arrested on a false charge and thrown into jail. Among women of all...
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Apr.22.2011
In 5 Reasons to Leave a Lover, Author Carolyn Moncel offers up a fresh batch of stories based on love and loss. As singer/songwriter, Paul Simon so eloquently suggested in a famous song from the 1970s, there are many ways to leave a lover, but Moncel's characters demonstrate that the reasons for...
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