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Author
Publisher
Paul Dry Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the madcap, outspoken, yet hauntingly vulnerable Ruby, Kaufman has created an indelible character, one whose full life arc is succinctly yet voluptuously rendered through the incandescent vignettes of Kaufman's masterful first novel-in-stories."—Booklist
Named a "Great Group Read" by the Women's National Book Association
Where Somebody Waits instantly transports you to small-town Arkansas more than a half-century ago—a
...2) Fascinated
Publisher
Kensington Pub
Pub. Date
©2000
Language
English
Description
A new anthology of erotic, sensuous historical romance tales presents four original tales, including "Mastering Lady Lucinda" by Bertrice Small, Susan Johnson's "Risking It All," "The Pleasure Game" by Thea Devine, and "A Man and a Woman" by Robin Schone.
Author
Publisher
She Writes Press
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
This is a book that champions older women's stories and challenges the limiting outcomes we seem to hold for them. The Book of Old Ladies introduces readers to thirty stories featuring fictional "women of a certain age" who increasingly become their truest selves. Their stories will entertain and provide insight into the stories we tell ourselves about the limits and opportunities of aging. A celebration of women who push back against the limiting...
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"A new collection of thirteen mesmerizing stories by American master Joyce Carol Oates, including the 2017 Pushcart Prize-winning "Undocumented Alien." In the diverse stories of Beautiful Days, Joyce Carol Oates explores the most secret, intimate, and unacknowledged interior lives of characters not unlike ourselves, who assert their independence in acts of bold and often irrevocable defiance. "Fleuve Bleu" exemplifies the rich sensuousness of Oates's...
Publisher
Castle Books
Pub. Date
2002, c1992
Language
English
Description
From the pages of the world's two most acclaimed mystery magazines, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, here are fifteen stories of women sleuths -- stories that have helped transform the conventions of the genre. Numerous best-selling and award-winning writers comprise this entertaining collection, many of who appear here for the first time in this book. From cops to private eyes in extraordinary situations, these...
13) Civil War women: American women shaped by conflict in stories by Alcott, Chopin, Welty, and others
Publisher
August House
Pub. Date
1988
Language
English
14) Heist
Publisher
Dafina Books/Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
The Ultimate Heist. Accustomed to a life of luxury, Shannon Marshall is devastated to lose everything after her husband, Todd, is sent to prison for gun running. So when Todd plans the ultimate stickup from behind bars, Shannon's ready to put her neck on the line. But she'll have to pull off the hustle of a lifetime and play one dangerous gangster who always gets what he wants.--From book cover.
Robyn Banks. DEA Agent Jordan Hayes has spent a lifetime...
Author
Publisher
SWSM Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"The disparate lives of Sarah and Sam come together in a Western story of trust, secrets, and betrayal on the frontier of the old West. Sam, whose back story begins in the 1880's, is irresponsible, lonely and untrustworthy, abandoning those he loves until he seeks redemption and marries Sarah. After Sam's death in 1911, Sarah draws on her pioneer spirit to find the inner strength to overcome loneliness, poverty and illness. Then, she learns staggering...
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Glory Edim launches her Well-Read Black Girl Library with this vital anthology celebrating stories from such luminaries as Toni Morrison and Alice Walker. Since founding the Well-Read Black Girl Book Club in 2015, Glory Edim's profile has skyrocketed. From her roots in a Brooklyn-based community to a massive online following, she has been heralded as the literary tastemaker for a new generation. With On Girlhood, Edim has beautifully curated a canonical...
Author
Publisher
Third Man Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"In this eagerly-awaited collection, Kiini Ibura Salaam continues her exploration of the dark, the sensual, and the mysterious with fiction that disturbs, delights, and dazzles. The five stories and one novella collected in When the World Wounds examine the tumultuous nature of the human condition through such wild imaginings as sensual encounters with deer, escapism in a dystopic prison, and volcano women. In The Taming, a lupine creature is trapped...
Series
Publisher
Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Romance stars Lisa Kleypas, Lorraine Heath, Megan Frampton, and Vivienne Lorret prove in this collection of stories that love is the most magical during Christmas ... "I Will" by Lisa Kleypas. To be reinstated into his father's will, Andrew, Lord Drake, must court a respectable woman-his friend's spinster sister, Miss Caroline Hargreaves. After he blackmails Caroline into helping him, the charade begins-but is it really a charade once love takes hold...
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