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 List price: $19.99 4 new & used available from $19.35. This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1922 edition by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York.... |
When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present  List price: $27.99 67 new, used & collectible available from $14.72. Gail Collins, New York Times columnist and bestselling author, recounts the astounding revolution in women's lives over the past 50 years, with her usual "sly wit and unfussy style" (People).When Everything Changed begins in 1960, when most American women had to get their husbands' permission to apply for a credit card. It ends in 2008 with Hillary Clinton's historic presidential campaign. This wa... |
 List price: $32.99 1 new available from $32.99. A grim, uncompromising, and angry commentary on nineteenth-century moral codes, Tess is the story of Tess Durbeyfield, a poor young woman from the English countryside who obtains a position with some wealthy relatives only to be raped by her employer's son. Unsuccessfully attempting to put the experience behind her, Tess is beset at every turn by an unforgiving culture.... |
The Woman's Bible (Great Minds Series)  List price: $17.98 34 new & used available from $4.30. American feminist leader and suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton was also an outspoken critic of the Bible because the scriptures often portray women as inferior and have been used by men to justify unequal treatment of women in society. The 1870 revision of the Authorised English Version of the Bible prepared by an all-male committee from the Church of England so greatly dissatisfied Stanton that i... |
Running with Scissors: A Memoir  List price: $7.99 324 new & used available from $0.01. RUNNING WITH SCISSORS is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her unorthodox psychiatrist who bore a striking resemblance to Santa Claus. So at the age of twelve, Burroughs found himself amidst Victorian squalor living with the doctor’s bizarre family, and befriending a pedophile who resided in the backyard shed. The story of a... |
 List price: $15.95 50 new & used available from $9.53. Fiction The author's favorite of his own novels, now back in print! When A Single Man was originally published, it shocked many by its frank, sympathetic, and moving portrayal of a gay man in midlife. George, the protagonist, is adjusting to life on his own after the sudden death of his partner, and determines to persist in the routines of his daily life; the course of A Single Man spans twe... |
Purple Panties: An Eroticanoir.com Anthology  List price: $15.00 42 new & used available from $8.55. Zane, the New York Times bestselling author and Queen ofErotic Fiction, brings a new collection of lesbian eroticathat will blow the sheets off beds everywhere.What happens when "The Finest Man" you have ever laid eyes on is a woman? What happens when a woman comes home to her man after a hard day's work with "Lipstick on Her Collar?" What happens when a married woman runs across the love of her l... |
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death  List price: $20.00 76 new, used & collectible available from $1.58. In 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby was the editor-in-chief of French Elle, the father of two young childen, a 44-year-old man known and loved for his wit, his style, and his impassioned approach to life. By the end of the year he was also the victim of a rare kind of stroke to the brainstem. After 20 days in a coma, Bauby awoke into a body which had all but stopped working: only his left eye functione... |
Vows of Silence: The Abuse of Power in the Papacy of John Paul II  List price: $26.00 26 new, used & collectible available from $11.00. Going deep behind the headlines about scandals in the Catholic Church, Jason Berry and Gerald Renner's Vows of Silence follows the staggering trail of evasions and deceit that leads directly to the Vatican -- and taints the legacy of Pope John Paul II. Based on more than six years of investigative reporting and hundreds of interviews, this book is a riveting account of Vatican cover-ups and the t... |
 List price: $26.95 102 new, used & collectible available from $8.75. A chilling and vividly rendered ghost story set in postwar Britain, by the bestselling and award-winning author of The Night Watch and Fingersmith. Sarah Waters's trilogy of Victorian novels Tipping the Velvet, Affinity, and Fingersmith earned her legions of fans around the world, a number of awards, and a reputation as one of today's most gifted historical novelists. With her most recent book, Th... |
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