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Here is quite simply the most handsome edition of one of the finest and most popular novels of all time. It features an elegant cloth binding, attractive full-color dust wrapper, handsome typography, and more than 100 delightful illustrations (plus 61 witty illustrated initial letters at chapter openings) by famed English Victorian artist Hugh Thomson.

I Am Charlotte Simmons: A Novel

by Tom Wolfe

Tom Wolfe, the master social novelist of our time, the spot-on chronicler of all things contemporary and cultural, presents a sensational new novel about life, love, and learning--or the lack of it--amid today's American colleges. Our story unfolds at fictional Dupont University: those Olympian halls of scholarship housing the cream of America's youth, the roseate Gothic spires and manicured lawns suffused with... (more)

Girl, Interrupted (Vintage)

by Susanna Kaysen, Anna Hamilton Phelan, James Mangold, Lisa Loomer

In the late 1960s, the author spent nearly two years on the ward for teenage girls at McLean Hospital, a renowned psychiatric facility. Her memoir encompasses horror and razor-edged perceptions, while providing vivid portraits of her fellow patients and their keepers. "Searing . . . captures an exquisite range of self-awareness between madness and insight."--Boston Globe.

Saved Folk in the House

by Sonnie Beverly

In Part One, Saved Babies Daddies, Zakia, part tomboy and part princess, is left alone and a single parent. Hard- working and determined, she puts her hopes and dreams into her child, her career, and her new marriage. Still feeling a void in her life, she returns to church. But the more she becomes immersed in God, the more her life begins to crumbleuntil faith pulls her through. The story continues with Real... (more)

The Camera My Mother Gave Me (Vintage)

by Susanna Kaysen

Susanna Kaysen, who wrote about her teenage depression in the bestseller Girl, Interrupted , now takes on another taboo: her vagina–which suddenly and inexplicably starts to hurt. And neither Kaysen’s cheery gynecologist, nor her internist, nor a laconic “vulvologist” has the cure. An alternative health nurse suggests direct application of tea, baking soda, and boric acid. Others recommend novocaine, oatmeal,... (more)

Sex with the Queen

900 Years of Vile Kings, Virile Lovers and Passionate Politics

by Eleanor Herman

In this follow-up to her bestselling Sex with Kings , Eleanor Herman reveals the truth about what goes on behind the closed door of a queen's boudoir. Impeccably researched, filled with page-turning romance, passion, and scandal, Sex with the Queen explores the scintillating sexual lives of some of our most beloved and infamous female rulers. She was the queen, living in an opulent palace, wearing lavish... (more)

Sand in My Bra and Other Misadventures: Funny Women Write from the Road (Travelers' Tales)

Sand in My Bra and Other Misadventures: Funny Women Write from the Road (Travelers' Tales)

by Jennifer Leo

Button your blouse, here comes a sandstorm of laughs! Travel isn't always what we dream it will be, but oh, the stories that follow. Share in the hilarious, bizarre, and unforgettable misadventures of 29 women whose trips went comically awry. From Australia to Zambia, up Nepal's mountains and along Mexico's beaches, the true stories in this collection will make you laugh, groan, and sympathize with these... (more)

An Accomplished WomanJude Morgan

An Accomplished Woman

by Jude Morgan

A sparkling tale of wit and romance from a latter-day Jane Austen As a young woman, clever, self-reliant Lydia Templeton scandalized Regency society by rejecting the county’s most eligible bachelor. Years later, although Lydia would prefer to avoid entanglements of the heart altogether, her godmother begs her to help her young ward make a suitable match. Though the prospect fills Lydia with horror, she can... (more)

You Forgot Your Skirt, Amelia Bloomer

by Shana Corey

Amelia Bloomer, a rebellious reformer and early women's rights activist, invented bloomers (baggy pantaloons worn with a short skirt over them), thus liberating women from the dangerous and oppressive clothing of the mid-nineteenth century. Here is her story, told in buoyant, witty text and beautiful, high styled-illustrations.

Celebrating Girls: Nurturing and Empowering Our Daughters

Celebrating Girls: Nurturing and Empowering Our Daughters

by Virginia Beane Rutter

Addressed to mothers, aunts, and grandmothers, a collection of celebratory stories about feminine power and the bond between girls and women is designed to assist the passage of girls into adolescence with confidence. Original. 30,000 first printing. $30,000 ad/promo. IP.

Heroine

by D. Mitchell

Counting Coup: A True Story of Basketball and Honor on the Little Big Horn

Counting Coup: A True Story of Basketball and Honor on the Little Big Horn

by Larry Colton

Counting Coup is the story of the girls basketball team of Hardin High School in Montana. Larry Colton shows readers the hardscrabble existence of a rural small town beset by racism, alcoholism, and domestic violence, and in so doing produces a touching, heartfelt, and beautifully written true story that will leave readers cheering for the girls they have come to know.

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Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen