Annalee Newitz | Autonomous | Earth, 2144. Jack is an anti-patent scientist turned drug pirate, traversing the world in a submarine as a pharmaceutical Robin Hood, fabricating chea
E.E. Charlton-Trujillo | Fat Angie | Fat Angie’s sister was captured in Iraq, she’s the resident laughingstock at school, and her therapist tells her to count instead of eat. Can a daring
Nicola Griffith | Always | From cult phenomenon to award-winning literary sensation, ‘the sexiest action figure since James Bond’ (Seattle Weekly) returns in an exhilarating new
Chinelo Okparanta | Happiness, Like Water | It is the opposition of expectations, more than opposition of cultures, which affects the characters in Happiness, Like Water, a debut collection of
Maureen Seaton | Sex Talks to Girls | Sex Talks to Girls chronicles the outward antics of a woman on an inward journey to self through the routes of religion, sex, sobriety, and kids. Reca
Amber Flora Thomas | Eye of Water | Winner of the 2004 Cave Canem Poetry Prize The poems in Eye of Water are derived from the narrator’s experiences in what she calls her “waking.” She
Borich; Barrie Jean | Body Geographic | During the dawn of the Middle Ages, the average peasant rarely traveled more than sixty miles from their ancestral home. People did not dare move far
Dorothy Allison | Skin | Skin: Talking About Sex, Class And Literature is a collection of essays written by award-winning author Dorothy Allison. Published in 1994, the book c
Sarah Waters | Fingersmith | ‘We were all more or less thieves at Lant Street. But we were that kind of thief that rather eased the dodgy deed along, than did it . . . We could pa
Puro Nina | Each Tree Could Hold a Noose Or a House | The personal is political for Puro, too: The anguish and drama in this capacious first volume arise both without and within. It’s a tumultuous, unguar
