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The Member of the Wedding: The Play (New Directions Paperbook)

by Carson McCullers

Twelve-year-old Frankie cannot understand why everyone disapproves of her idea of going on her brother's honeymoon.

Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone

What Julia Child is to French cooking and Marcella Hazan is to Italian cooking, Deborah Madison is to contemporary vegetarian cooking. At Greens restaurant in San Francisco, where she was the founding chef, and in her two acclaimed vegetarian cookbooks, Madison elevated vegetarian cooking to new heights of sophistication, introducing many people to the joy of cooking without meat, whether occasionally or for a... (more)

Clockers

by Richard Price

Novelist and Academy Award–nominated screenwriter Richard Price's bestselling second novel offers "an unforgettable picture of inner-city decay and despair" ( USA Today ) At once an intense mystery and a revealing study of two men, a veteran homicide detective and an innercity crack dealer, on opposite sides of an endless war. Clockers is "powerful . . . harrowing . . . remarkable" ( The New York Times Book... (more)

The Way to Cook

by Julia Child

"Julia Child's . . . seventh book, The Way to Cook, is her magnus opus . . . the biggest and most comprehensive collection of Child recipes and comments . . . (with) the same warm, generous, informal approach that has made her the most celebrated cook in America."--Phyllis Hanes, Christian Science Monitor. 600 full-color photos.

The Betsy-Tacy TreasuryMaud Hart Lovelace, Lois Lenski

The Betsy-Tacy Treasury

by Maud Hart Lovelace, Lois Lenski

Queen of the Oddballs: And Other True Stories from a Life Unaccording to Plan

Queen of the Oddballs: And Other True Stories from a Life Unaccording to Plan

by Hillary Carlip

A hilariously offbeat memoir about an adventurous young woman's escapades as she defies conventions and transforms an ordinary Los Angeles life into a star-studded, extraordinary miracle of self-discovery. Queen of the Oddballs forms a chronology of Hillary Carlip's habitual straying from roads more traveled -- from a wisecracking third-grader suspended from school for smoking (while imitating Holly... (more)

Everything That Rises Must Converge

by Flannery O'Connor

Flannery O'Connor was working on Everything That Rises Must Converge at the time of her death. This collection is an exquisite legacy from a genius of the American short story, in which she scrutinizes territory familiar to her readers: race, faith, and morality. The stories encompass the comic and the tragic, the beautiful and the grotesque; each carries her highly individual stamp and could have been written... (more)

M. Butterfly

by David Henry Hwang

A play based on the true story of a French diplomat, Bernard Boursicot, posted to Peking, who fell in love with a seductive opera singer, named Shi Pei Pu, apparently unaware that Pei Pu was a man.

Tuesday

by David Wiesner

The unpredictable events of a particular Tuesday unroll before the reader with the precision and clarity of a silent movie. A Caldecott Medal book.

Vindication: A Novel

by Frances Sherwood

In this electrifying novel, Frances Sherwood re-creates the life and times of Mary Wollstonecraft, the trailblazing English feminist. Abetted by an unruly intelligence and an unquenchable romanticism, Sherwood's Mary survives a brutal childhood to carve a courageous but always uncertain path for herself in a world of men. Rich historical settings from the chaos of Revolutionary Paris to the Bedlam insane asylum... (more)

The Dream of a Common Language: Poems, 1974-1977

The Dream of a Common Language: Poems, 1974-1977

by Adrienne Cecile Rich

This collection of poems from 1974 to 1977 is written by one of America's most successful and most moving modern poets. By the author of An Atlas of the Difficult World. Reprint.

Susie Sexpert's Lesbian Sex World

by Susie Bright

The lesbian sex book that rocked girls from coast to coast. Here's what lesbians really do, not what the sex cops think we ought to do. Cruising, packing, fisting, G- spots, porn stars, dildos, vibrators, anal sex, group sex, sex with straight girls, dental dams, lube 'n latex, sex during pregnancy...and more! Features new stories by Susie!!!!

Sappho: A Garland (The Poems & Fragments of Sappho Translated by Jim Powell)

Sappho: A Garland (The Poems & Fragments of Sappho Translated by Jim Powell)

by Sappho

These hundred poems and fragments constitute virtually all of Sappho that survives and effectively bring to life the woman whom the Greeks consider to be their greatest lyric poet. Mary Barnard's translations are lean, incisive, direct--the best ever published. She has rendered the beloved poet's verses, long the bane of translators, more authentically than anyone else in English.

The work of a common woman: The collected poetry of Judy Grahn, 1964-1977 ; with an introd. by Adrienne RichJudy Grahn

The work of a common woman: The collected poetry of Judy Grahn, 1964-1977 ; with an introd. by Adrienne Rich

by Judy Grahn

Girls, Visions and Everything: A Novel

by Sarah Schulman

This reissued novel takes readers on a "wry and playful" (Out!) tour of lesbian sex, politics, and art in New York City. The city's sizzling -- especially at the Kitsch-Inn, where the girls are mounting an all-female production of A Streetcar Named Desire.

365 Days / 365 Plays

by Suzan-Lori Parks

"Suzan-Lori Parks is one of the most important dramatists America has produced."-Tony Kushner "The plan was that no matter what I did, how busy I was, what other commitments I had, I would write a play a day, every single day for a year. It would be about being present and being committed to the artistic process every single day, regardless of the 'weather.' It became a daily meditation, a daily prayer... (more)

In Transit: An Heroi-Cyclic Novel (Irish Literature Series)

In Transit: An Heroi-Cyclic Novel (Irish Literature Series)

by Brigid Brophy

Set in an airport ("one of the rare places where twentieth-century design is happy with its own style"), In Transit is a textual labyrinth centering on a contemporary traveller. Waiting for a flight, Evelyn Hillary O'Rooley suffers from uncertainty about his/her gender, provoking him/her to perform a series of unsuccessful, yet hilarious, philosophical and anatomical tests. Brigid Brophy surrounds the kernel of... (more)

A Restricted Country

by Joan Nestle

A proud working-class woman, an "out" lesbian long before the Rainbow revolution, Joan Nestle has stood at the forefront of American freedom struggles from the McCarthy era to the present day. Featuring photographs and a new introduction by the author, this classic collection which intimately accounts the lesbian, feminist and civil rights movements through personal essays is available again for the first time in... (more)

A Field Guide to Gay and Lesbian Chicago

A Field Guide to Gay and Lesbian Chicago

by Kathie Bergquist

Howdy, Homo! An Introduction Howdy, homo! (Or, for the politically correct: Greetings, fellow homosexuals and those who explore nontraditional gender/sex mores and roles including but not limited to same-sex attraction!) Oh, "Howdy, homo!" will do for a start. Thank you for picking up our field guide to gay and lesbian Chicago. Assembling this book has been a labor of love, and we hope that you... (more)

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