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Longings of Women

by Marge Piercy

Published: 1995-05-01

Mass Market Paperback: 448 pages

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"POWERFUL...EXTRAORDINARY...MOVING."--San Francisco ChronicleHer marriage over, her life unraveling, writer Leila Landsman turns to work, and finds herself drawn to the sensational story of Becky Burgess, a young woman accused of killing her husband with the help of her teenage lover. Beck...

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The Unquiet Earth

by Denise Giardina

Published: 1992-05-01

Paperback: 374 pages

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The author of the successful Storming Heaven returns to Appalachia for her acclaimed new novel--winner of the 1992 Lillian Smith Book Award of the Southern Regional Council. The story is a superb saga of three people whose lives entwine in love and politics, in Depression era West Virginia, in the shadow...

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No Turning Back: Two Nuns Battle With the Vatican over Women's Right to Choose

by Barbara Ferraro, Patricia Hussey, Jane O'Reilly

Published: 1990-08

Hardcover: 332 pages

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The true story of two nuns who risked everything to challenge the church on abortion provides a glimpse of the cloistered world of nuns, women's role in the church today, and the place of the church in modern American life. Reprint. NYT.

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Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart (Plume)

by Joyce Carol Oates

Published: 1991-03-30

Paperback: 416 pages

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Joyce Carol Oates adds to her extraordinary body of work with this stunning novel of violence and love. At the heart of the story are two people, Iris Courtney, who is white, and handsome Jinx Fairchild, the black basketball player who, in protecting Iris, kills a white man.Iris is the onl...

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Circle of Stones: Woman's Journey to Herself

by Judith Duerk

Published: 2004-06-30

Paperback: 240 pages

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Long ago before the patriarchal period, in many places on Earth, the Goddess was worshipped. Circle of Stones draws us into a meditative experience of the lost Feminine and creates a space for us to consider our present lives from the eyes of women's ancient culture and ritual. Incorporati...

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West Virginia Women in History: Missing Chapters II

by West Virginia Women's Commission

Published: 1986-12

Paperback: 0 pages

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Our Black Year: One Family's Quest to Buy Black in America's Racially Divided Economy

by Maggie Anderson

Published: 2013-05-14

Paperback: 320 pages

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Maggie and John Anderson were successful African American professionals raising two daughters in a tony suburb of Chicago. But they felt uneasy over their good fortune. Most African Americans live in economically starved neighborhoods. Black wealth is about one tenth of white wealth, and b...

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Visitation Street: A Novel (Dennis Lehane)

by Ivy Pochoda

Published: 2014-04-15

Paperback: 320 pages

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Chosen by Denis Lehane for his eponymous imprint, Ivy Pochoda’s Visitation Street is a riveting literary mystery set against the rough-hewn backdrop of the New York waterfront in Red Hook.It’s summertime in Red Hook, Brooklyn, a blue-collar dockside neighborhood. June and Val, two fift...

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Storming Heaven

by Denise Giardina

Published: 1988-05-12

Mass Market Paperback: 304 pages

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Annadel, West Virginia, was a small town rich in coal, farms, and close-knit families, all destroyed when the coal company came in. It stole everything it hadn't bothered to buy -- land deeds, private homes, and ultimately, the souls of its men and women.Four people tell this powerful, dee...

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Tuesday Nights in 1980

by Molly Prentiss

Published: 2016-04-05

Hardcover: 336 pages

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“In one sentence, Ms. Prentiss captures a sense of intoxication and possibility that six seasons of voice-overs from Sarah Jessica Parker never could…Ms. Prentiss concludes her novel on a note that’s both ethereal and brutally realistic. She cauterizes wounds, but they’re still vis...