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Skateboard Scramble
by Barbara DouglassAlthough she loves skateboarding, Jody is uneasy when her father insists that she participate in a skateboard competition, especially as she would be competing against her best friend.
Maudie and Me and the Dirty Book
by Betty MilesEleven-year-old Kate’s ordinary life in a small Massachusetts town becomes quite extraordinary when she becomes involved with Maudie Schmidt and an inter-school reading project. Presents a provoking portrait of censorship and its effects.
On Strike Against God: A Lesbian Love Story
by Joanna RussJoanna Russ's On Strike Against God is remarkable for its deft intertwining of many themes: not only the overt one of coming out, but many intricately (and inevitably) interlaced stories of alienation, a search for community and rebellion against how our society defines women. Some editions are subtitled "A Lesbian Love Story," and it is, but even more, this is a manifesto of modern feminism and an astute, often funny, but also angry look at what it means to be a woman.
Palomino
by Elizabeth JolleyPALOMINO Laura is in her fifties, a gynecologist now barred from her profession. For ten years, she has lived alone on a remote valley farm in self-imposed isolation. Then, returning by ship from a journey around the world (meant as an act of self-healing, -to reawaken her senses), Laura sees Andrea, a young woman whose golden hair and complexion remind her of the beautiful palomino horses that run together in paddocks in clear view of her verandah. Later, by chance, the two women meet at a dinner party, and to Laura's delight, Andrea insists on an extended visit to Laura's farm. Here, they share early morning walks in the jarrah forest, evenings of music and intimate conversation, and much reading-of diaries and letters, in particular. In this idyllic setting, amid orchards and rain storms, each woman seeks to make herself known to the other. The passion that blossoms is rare and deeply felt. As time passes, events long suppressed are revealed, unorthodox entanglements of friendship and love and a bizarre medical accident (or was it murder?).
The Girl with the Silver Eyes
by Willo Davis RobertsKatie Welker is used to being alone. She would much rather read a book than deal with other people. Other people don't have silver eyes and other people can't make things happen just by thinking about them! Sometimes Katie even enjoys playing tricks on people, but trouble arises when someone doesn't find her funny.
Three Knocks on the Wall
by Evelyn Sibley LampmanMarty had just finished burying a dead robin in her pet cemetery near the tall wooden wall that surrounded the Hutchinson yard and house next door. Suddenly she heard it--knock, knock, knock --three knocks coming from the other side of the wall. For a moment Marty was too petrified to move. Knocking on a wall was something a crazy person might do and some people said old Mrs. Hutchinson was crazy, living alone with an unmarried daughter and seeing no one. Then the knocks came again. Marty soon learned the identity of the person on the other side of the ten-foot wall, and why she stayed there. What was harder to discover was a way to help her new invisible friend. For a long time, all Marty could do was to communicate through the wall and be patient. It was not until a deadly flu epidemic gripped the town and Marty could not come to the wall that her friend finally dared to step outside it. Evoking small town life in Oregon during World War I with vividness and a clear sense of time and character, Evelyn Sibley Lampman has created a very human and dramatic story that will carry its readers along to a most satisfying conclusion.
Black Lesbians: An Annotated Bibliography
by Jr RobertsPublished in 1981, this groundbreaking work is a noteworthy landmark in the history of women's studies, African-American studies, and lesbian and gay studies. The 341 primary bibliographic entries, each one accompanied by an informative annotation, made available a vast body of work about the lives of Black lesbians. Entries cover six primary areas of study: "Lives and Lifestyles"; "Oppression, Resistance, and Liberation"; "Literature and Criticism"; "Music and Musicians"; "Periodicals"; and "Research, Reference, and Popular Studies." Also includes photographs and appendices.
Common Differences: Conflicts in Black and White Feminist Perspectives
by Jill Lewis Gloria JosephCOMMON DIFFERENCES is an unprecedented and unparalleled examination and analysis of an alarming schism in the women's movement: the differences between Black and White women's perspectives, attitudes and concerns on key issues. Written from a political perspective that considers sexism, racism, and classism as the major components affecting the attitudes held by Black and White women today, this book presents an overview of women's status through history and discusses the vital issues where common differences occur: sexuality, men and marriage, mothers and daughters, media images, and the direction of the movement itself. The nature of the schism between Black and White women is brought into sharp focus by a brilliant selection of interviews with a spectrum of women -- the rich, the poor and the so-called middle class, the educated and the illiterate, the domestic and the prostitute, professional women and welfare mothers, lesbians and debutantes, radicals and conservatives, and the elderly and the youthful, all make important contributions in explaining their different consciousnesses and needs.
The Lesbian in Literature: A Bibliography (3rd Edition)
by Barbara GrierA comprehensive listing of books by or about lesbians, prior to 1981. It includes some seven thousand titles, with annotations and a rating system to help the reader determine a book's significance.
The Seeing Summer
by Jeannette Eyerly Emily Arnold McCullyMore than anything else Carey wants a new ten-year-old playmate to replace the friend who had moved away. When she hears that the new family next door has a girl her own age, Carey straightens her room and settles down to watch and wait. She is stunned to learn that her new young neighbor is blind and carries a white cane. Not fair! Jenny will not be able to do everything Carey can do. But Carey is in for a surprise—Jenny can cook, play games, read her own books, and run outdoors like everyone else. When two thugs kidnap Jenny for a high ransom, Carey tracks them down and becomes a second captive. Together the girls keep up their courage and use their ingenuity to survive the terrifying adventure. The Seeing Summer is a story of capture and escape, but best of all it is a story of friendship between two ten-year-olds who are very much alike, even though one cannot see.
America in Search of Itself (Making of the President Ser. #5): The Making of the President 1956-1980
by Theodore H. WhiteAll of us have lived through a time of collision in America: of upheavals shattering old ideas and dreams-- transforming American politics in the process. In this, the last of his prize-winning series on American presidential politics, Theodore H. White tells us of the dramas that lie behind that transformation. He sets the stage by describing the forces that have changed American politics in the twenty-five years of his reporting. He tells how American goodwill created something called the Great Society... and pushed it over the cliff. He reveals how television took over American politics--and changed its nature; and he tells the terrifying story of the Great Inflation--and how it came to undermine all American life. And he details the equally disturbing story of how Americans have been ripped apart, divided and set against each other by the hopes that inspired men of goodwill to try to bring Americans together.
But Some of Us Are Brave: All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men - Black Women's Studies
by Barbara Smith Gloria T. Hull Patricia Bell ScottThis ground-breaking collection provides hours of enjoyment for the general reader and a wealth of materials needed to develop course units on black women; political theory, literary essays on major writers, guidelines for consciousness-raising about racism, and surveys of black women's contributions to the blues. "Important and innovative. "--Feminist Bookstore News
Faultline
by Sheila Ortiz TaylorWitty novel about a lesbian mother with six children, three hundred rabbits, and a relaxed attitude.
The Borrowers Avenged
by Mary NortonFrom the book: After their narrow escape from the Platters' attic in The Borrowers Aloft, Pod, Homily, and Arrietty Clock return to their miniature village. But it is no longer a safe refuge, and so once again the Borrowers must go looking for another place to live. But finding a new home is hard when you're running for your life. The villainous Platters will not rest until they recapture the tiny family, and they hound the Clocks' every move. When the Borrowers finally do set up house under a window seat in an old rectory, it seems they have found safety at last--until the Platters turn up in the church one night, forcing the Borrowers into a final desperate struggle for their freedom. "Like her Borrowers the author is resourceful, inventive, and patient; her imaginative vitality is limited only by her impeccable sense of logic, and her fantasy continues to be totally real and totally acceptable." --The Horn Book MARY NORTON (1903-1992) lived in England, where she was an actress, playwright, and award-winning author of The Borrowers books (available from Bookshare) as well as Bed-Knob and Broomstick (available from Bookshare)and Are All the Giants Dead? She knew the Borrowers long before publishing their adventures in the 1950s--as a child she watched for them among the hedgerows near her home. It is from this childhood fantasy that the Borrowers were created.
Toothpick House
by Lee LynchIrrepressible Annie Heaphy, a cab driver from the bars, meets Victoria Locke, a feminist Yale student, and the love story of the era--and for the ages--ensues.
Austin and Mabel: The Amherst Affair and Love Letters of Austin Dickinson and Mabel Loomis Todd
by Polly Longsworth Richard B. SewallIt began with the arrival in Amherst of the new astronomy professor, David Todd, and his beautiful wife, Mabel. After years of troubled marriage Austin Dickinson, head of Amherst's first family--which included his invalid mother, his sisters Emily and Vinnie, his wife Susan, and his three children--fell in love with Mabel Todd. They secretly admitted their love to each other the night after Mabel sang and played the piano at the Homestead, while Emily listened in the hallway. The consequences were fateful. From the bitterness and fury of Austin's wife and children arose "the war between the houses," the literary quarrel that started after Emily's hundreds of poems were found in the Homestead after her death. Mabel was drawn by Austin and Vinnie into editing and publishing Emily's first book, which might never have reached print otherwise. Mabel's role in its eventual success was resented by Austin's wife and his daughter Martha. Mabel also collected and published the poet's extraordinary letters, which might have disappeared. She preserved Austin's letters, and hoped to publish them too ("No love story approaches it"), but after the scandalous lawsuit that followed Austin's death in 1895, she locked up Emily's and Austin's manuscripts. Years later her daughter, Millicent Todd Bingham, asked Richard B. Sewall to set the record straight in his definitive, two-volume Life of Emily Dickinson. After the large collection of Todd- Bingham family papers was left to Yale University, Professor Sewall in his biography extracted from them the essence of the drama and its effect on Emily and those close to her, but he left for a later telling a detailed account of the affair. In Austin and Mabel Polly Longsworth presents for the first time the whole record of this compelling and often bizarre story of passion and human tragedy.
Lovers In The Present Afternoon
by Kathleen FlemingSet against the backgrop of the Vietnam era; two women fall in love and must make choices.
The Sophie Horowitz Story
by Sarah SchulmanSometimes intrepid Jewish reporter for the Feminist News searches for captured radical feminist leaders.
Virginia Woolf: A Writer's Life
by Lyndall GordonThis "original, intuitive, and even exciting" (The New Yorker) portrait highlights the experiences that shaped Virginia Woolf's life and art-her childhood, her relationships with her father and sister, her marriage, and her descents into madness.
Campaign Journal: The Political Events of 1983-1984
by Elizabeth DrewThis month-by-month journal details the run-up to the 1984 U.S. Presidential election, starting in February 1983 and ending with the voting in November 1984. As the author explains in her Introduction: "The Presidential election of 1984 was both an unusual one and an important one in several respects--not all of them so obvious. The outcome may have been one-sided, but it was not inevitable, and the election bespoke a number of important things about our politics and about what was going on in our country at the time. As a writer for The New Yorker I was asked to write a journal of the election and the surrounding events--a contemporary account, with periodic entries, of what was happening and why. Through a combination of on-the-scene reporting, interviewing the candidates, their advisers, and others wise about what was happening, and my own reflection and experience, I was to provide as clear a picture as I could of what was taking place--as it was taking place. The surprising twists and turns are presented here as they happened, and as I saw them, without tidying up or hindsight."