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Over the Mountains by Pamela Frankau

Pamela Frankau | Over the Mountains | Third title in Frankau’s ‘Clothes of a King’s Son’ trilogy (preceded by Sing for Your Supper (1963) and Slaves of the Lamp (1965)). Set during World W

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Twenty-Nine by Karen L. Glooch

Karen L. Glooch | Twenty-Nine | Terri Slater, a successful professional, has had the week from hell-she’s been arrested for DUI, her partner of three years has decided to end their r

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Woman at War by Dacia Maraini

Dacia Maraini | Woman at War | Woman at War is the diary of a woman’s growing self-awareness. Beginning as a passively absent narrator, Vannina encounters a fascinating array

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The Lesbian Body by Monique Wittig

Monique Wittig | The Lesbian Body | On a fictional Sapphic island where women live exclusively among themselves, the narrator-protagonist, in a series of invocations to her lover and des

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Charting by the Stars by Linsey Abrams

Linsey Abrams | Charting by the Stars | Ms. Magazine called Charting by the Stars ‘. a memorable account of growing up . about the ways we invent and reinvent ourselves . remin

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Capital by Maureen Duffy

Maureen Duffy | Capital |

A brilliant novel of contemporary London life and a haunting re-creation of a city throughout its ages. Meepers–the homeless, disheveled, y

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Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg

Fannie Flagg | Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe | Unhappy and dissatisfied housewife Evelyn Couch befriends the elderly Ninny Threadgoode while visiting her mother-in-law at a nursing home. Threadgood

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Raging Mother Mountain by Pat Emmerson

Pat Emmerson | Raging Mother Mountain | Irene Aguilar, wending her way up the California coast, is haunted by the words of a song, and her yearning for the woman she envisions in that song.

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The Naked Drinking Club by Rhona Cameron

Rhona Cameron | The Naked Drinking Club | Synopsis

‘It was dark when I came to. What woke me was the cold and the water on my legs. I was doing spoons with Scotty, me behind him. We were o

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Four Figures in Time by Patricia Grossman

Patricia Grossman | Four Figures in Time | From Publishers Weekly

Grossman (Inventions in a Grieving House) natters on interminably about Art and Life in this debut novel. The four figures