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Author
Publisher
Soho Crime, Soho Press, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In the 1980s, a teenage girl terrorizes the Sicilian town of Gela. Tina's father was in Cosa Nostra and was brutally shot dead in front of her when she was just eight; after that, she made it her mission in life to join the mafia, although women are traditionally not allowed in. Nicknamed 'a masculidda, or "the tomboy," Tina is notorious through Gela for her recklessness, cruelty, and complete disregard for societal expectations. When a news article...
Author
Series
Justice hustlers volume 4
Publisher
Dafina Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Fed up with her married Miami boyfriend, savvy Dulce has no problem stealing his drug-dealer stash and fleeing to her family in the Caribbean. But when she gets bored in rural Santo Domingo, she escapes on a sugar daddy adventure to Puerto Rico. Her new life is one endless party, until she's caught in Hurricane Maria--and witnesses the brutal collision of colonization and climate change, as well as the international vultures who plunder the tragedy...
3) In concrete
Author
Publisher
Deep Vellum Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Garreta's first new novel in a decade follows two young sisters who are dragged into one adventure after another when their father finds himself in possession of a concrete mixer. As he seeks to modernize every aspect of their lives, disaster strikes when the younger sister, Poulette, is subsumed by concrete. Through puns, wordplay, and dizzying verbal effect, Garreta reinvents the novel form and blurs the line between spoken and written language...
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Blending elements of horror, science fiction, mythology, and feminism, salt slow is an utterly original collection of short stories that is sure to dazzle and shock, heralding the arrival of a daring new voice. As urban dwellers' sleeps become disassociated from them, like Peter Pan's shadow, a city turns insomniac. A teenager entering puberty finds her body transforming in ways very different than her classmates'. As a popular band gathers momentum,...
Publisher
PM Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Sisters of the Revolution gathers a highly curated selection of feminist speculative fiction (science fiction, fantasy, horror, and more) chosen by one of the most respected editorial teams in speculative literature today, the award-winning Ann and Jeff VanderMeer. Including stories from the 1970s to the present day, the collection seeks to expand the conversation about feminism while engaging the reader in a wealth of imaginative ideas. -- taken...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
How a Southern lady became a hippie. After discovering she is lesbian, Ellen Sommers divorces her husband, quits her job and follows her new love to a commune in California. From there it is downhill all the way, drugs, alcohol, the company of bomb throwers, bisexual love, on the run from police and a mental asylum. A look at the radicalism of the 1970s by the author of The Revolution of Little Girls.
11) The fresco
Author
Publisher
EOS
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Bookstore manager Benita Alvarez-Shipton's life is changed drastically when a pair of aliens ask her "to transmit their message of peace to the powers that be in Washington," and then to share their culture, their beliefs, and their art--especially the ancient and mystical Fresco that appears to dominate their collective lives."--Jacket.
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
1926, Hyde Park, New York. Born to modest means but befriended by the wealthy, aspiring dress designer Pandora Carmichael has been surrounded by privilege yet never at home in it. That hasn't stopped her from dreaming-of a romance in a rarified world that could also give her the status and resources to start a business of her own. When she's introduced to a charismatic Princeton student, Pandora's future begins to fall into place. Marriage provides...
15) Native tongue
Author
Series
Native tongue volume 1
Publisher
Feminist Press at the City University of New York
Language
English
Description
"In 2205, the Nineteenth Amendment has been repealed and men hold absolute power. The Earth's economy relies on an insular group of linguists who "breed" women to become interstellar translators until they are sent to the Barren House to await death. But instead, these women are secretly creating a language of their own to reclaim their autonomy and make resistance possible for all."--Back cover.
Author
Publisher
Xlibris Corp
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
Español
Description
En un ambiente de agua y mito cuatro mujeres vienen a representar un matriarcado que se sostiene de la tradicion. La novela se construye en la Galicia milenaria a una Irlanda mitica pasando por las islas africanas para depositar el grosor de la trama en el caribe donde las cuatro generaciones femeninas habran de fraguar sus vidas.
18) Toad
Author
Publisher
MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Sally Gunnar has withdrawn from the world. She spends her days alone at home, reading drugstore mysteries, polishing the doorknobs, waxing the floors. Her only companions are a vase of goldfish, a garden toad, and the door-to-door salesman who sells her cleaning suplies once a month. She broods over her deepest regrets: her blighted romances with self-important men, her lifelong struggle to feel at home in her body, and her wayward early twenties,...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Sasha Marcus was once the epitome of contemporary success: an internet sensation, social media darling, and a creator of a high profile wellness brand for women. But a confrontation with an abusive troll has taken a horrifying turn, and now she's at rock bottom: canceled and doxxed online, fired from her waitress job and fortressed in her apartment while men's rights protestors rage outside. All that once glittered now condemns. Sasha confides in...
Author
Series
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
©1980
Language
English
Description
The memoirs of a triumphantly liberated eighteenth-century woman--of twentieth-century consciousness and aspirations--retrace her reacy, reckless, and reambunctious course through seduction, prostitution, motherhood, piracy, and various liaisons with partners of both sexes.
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