Sappho: The Tenth Muse | Nancy Freedman | In this finely drawn portrait, Sappho of Lesbos narrates her extraordinary life, from her childhood in war-torn Mitylene to her later relentless searc
Sappho: The Tenth Muse | Nancy Freedman | In this finely drawn portrait, Sappho of Lesbos narrates her extraordinary life, from her childhood in war-torn Mitylene to her later relentless searc
The Paris Bookseller | Kerri Maher | When bookish young American Sylvia Beach opens Shakespeare and Company on a quiet street in Paris in 1919, she has no idea that she and her new bookst
Kelly Gardiner | Goddess | A sparkling, witty and compelling novel based on the tragic rise and fall of the beautiful seventeenth century swordswoman and opera singer, Julie d’A
Colette; Willy | Claudine at School | Claudine is a curious, precocious, and rather spoiled girl growing up in the small town of Montigny. Colette’s first novel is about Claudine’s adventu
Felix Forrest | Carola | A sophisticated, impressionistic recalling, in the avant- grade manner, of a globe-circling career of moral vagaries’ and political posturings that re
Philip Barrows | Whores, Queers And Others | Classic of gay literature, and a 10-year chronicle of life split between post-war Paris, Italy, and New York. This seminal title, helping to transitio
Julia Van Haaften | Berenice Abbott | The comprehensive biography of the iconic twentieth-century American photographer Berenice Abbott, a trailblazing documentary modernist, author, and i
