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The Mirror and the Mask (Jane Lawless #17)
by Ellen HartMinneapolis restaurateur Jane Lawless is at crossroads. The rough economy has put her plans for a third restaurant on hold, and her long distance romance is on the rocks and quite possibly unsalvageable. Unsure of what to do next, she takes her good friend A. J. Nolan up on his standing offer to take her on as a private investigator. While still in training, her first job seems simple enough. All she had to do is find Annie Archer's stepfather. Jane tracks down a likely match--a man who has made a small fortune in real estate. While she's happy to close her first case, she finds it hard to reconcile the difference between PI work, "finding what people pay you to find" and uncovering the truth, the whole truth, especially when clues in this seemingly simple case point to more threatening family secrets than where Annie's father has been hiding out. Ellen Hart's The Mirror and the Mask is another engrossing mystery filled with the deceit and psychological intrigue that fans have come to expect from this Lambda and Minnesota Book Award-winning author.
The Cruel Ever After (Jane Lawless #18)
by Ellen HartThe shock that Minneapolis restaurateur Jane Lawless is in for when Chester Garrity, her ex-husband, returns to a city that he swore he'd never see again is nothing compared to Chester's own. After their divorce many years ago, he took off with his inheritance to travel the world, leaving Jane with enough seed money to open her first restaurant, which worked out well for Jane but less so for Chester. Now he's back and penniless, or as he would prefer to say, between fortunes. He's working an angle to make his next one by selling a priceless artifact recently looted from the Baghdad Museum, but it all falls through when he wakes up next to the dead body of his buyer with no memory of what happened the night before. Panicked, Chester flees the scene, eventually returning to cover his tracks only to find that someone has already taken care of that for him, but at what price? The Cruel Ever After, the newest Jane Lawless mystery from Lambda and Minnesota Book Award--winning author Ellen Hart, is filled with the intrigue and deception that makes it one of the most engrossing series on shelves today.
The Lost Women of Lost Lake (Jane Lawless #19)
by Ellen HartRestaurateur and part-time P. I. Jane Lawless is taking some much-needed time off at her family's lodge when her best friend, Cordelia, arrives with news that Tessa, one of their good friends, has taken a nasty fall and needs their help with rehearsals for a play that is set to open in a week. When Tessa isn't on crutches, she helps run the Thunderhook Lodge, the premier resort on Lost Lake. And while she clearly needs Jane and Cordelia's assistance, she isn't exactly acting all that grateful. A man who claims to be a journalist has arrived in Lost Lake with an old photograph and some questions for Tessa that go back decades. His questions have put her on edge, and when he shows up peeking through her kitchen window, everyone else is right there with her. As beloved as Tessa is, there are plenty of people who don't care about any so-called journalist and are happy to protect her, but how far are they willing to take it? And when will they need answers to questions that that only Tessa can provide? In The Lost Women of Lost Lake-the most engrossing mystery yet from Lambda and Minnesota Book Award-winning author Ellen Hart - Jane's only hope of protecting her friends from the secrets that are surfacing all around them is to uncover the whole truth before anyone else can.
Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights
by Katha PollittA powerful argument for abortion as a moral right and social good by a noted feminist and longtime columnist for the nation. Forty years after the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling, "abortion" is still a word that is said with outright hostility by many, despite the fact that one in three American women will have terminated at least one pregnancy by menopause. Even those who support a woman's right to an abortion often qualify their support by saying abortion is a "bad thing," an "agonizing decision," making the medical procedure so remote and radioactive that it takes it out of the world of the everyday, turning an act that is normal and necessary into something shameful and secretive. Meanwhile, with each passing day, the rights upheld by the Supreme Court are being systematically eroded by state laws designed to end abortion outright. In this urgent, controversial book, Katha Pollitt reframes abortion as a common part of a woman's reproductive life, one that should be accepted as a moral right with positive social implications. In Pro, Pollitt takes on the personhood argument, reaffirms the priority of a woman's life and health, and discusses why terminating a pregnancy can be a force for good for women, families, and society. It is time, Pollitt argues, that we reclaim the lives and the rights of women and mothers.
A Very Close Conspiracy: Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf
by Jane DunnThe lives of Virginia Woolf and her sister, Vanessa Bell, embodied opposites of human nature. The former was dedicated to the life of the mind and imagination, the latter to sensual experience. This book shows how the two sisters developed and enriched each other's lives.
Can't Be Satisfied: The Life And Times Of Muddy Waters
by Robert GordonThe definitive biography of the most influential blues musician of them all. In a nutshell: no Muddy Waters, no Rolling Stones. ‘Can’t Be Satisfied is that rare thing in musical biographies: a book that maps out not just a single, extraordinary life but the cultural forces that shaped it.
A Treasury of Russian Literature
by Bernard Guilbert GuerneyA treasury of Russian literature; being a comprehensive selection of many of the best things by numerous authors in practically every field of the rich literature of Russia from its beginnings to the present, with much material now first made available in English, and all of the accepted favorites newly translated or their current translations thoroughly revised.
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.
The Good Soldiers
by David FinkelIt was the last-chance moment of the war. In January 2007, President George W. Bush announced a new strategy for Iraq. He called it the surge. Many listening tonight will ask why this effort will succeed when previous operations to secure Baghdad did not. "Well, here are the differences," he told a skeptical nation. Among those listening were the young, optimistic army infantry soldiers of the 2-16, the battalion nicknamed the Rangers. About to head to a vicious area of Baghdad, they decided the difference would be them. Fifteen months later, the soldiers returned home forever changed. Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter David Finkel was with them in Bagdad, and almost every grueling step of the way. What was the true story of the surge? And was it really a success? Those are the questions he grapples with in his remarkable report from the front lines. Combining the action of Mark Bowden's Black Hawk Down with the literary brio of Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried, The Good Soldiers is an unforgettable work of reportage. And in telling the story of these good soldiers, the heroes and the ruined, David Finkel has also produced an eternal tale-- not just of the Iraq War, but of all wars, for all time.
Naked In Baghdad
by Anne GarrelsAs National Public Radio's senior foreign correspondent, Anne Garrels has covered conflicts in Chechnya, Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, and elsewhere. She is renowned for direct, down-to-earth, insightful reportage, and for her independent take on what she sees. One of only sixteen non-embedded American journalists who stayed in Baghdad's now-legendary Palestine Hotel throughout the American invasion of Iraq, she was at the very center of the storm. Naked in Baghdad gives us the sights, sounds, and smells of our latest war with unparalleled vividness and immediacy. Garrels's narrative starts with several trips she made to Baghdad before the war, beginning in October 2002. At its heart is her evolving relationship with her Iraqi driver/minder, Amer, who becomes her friend and confidant, often serving as her eyes and ears among the populace and taking her where no other reporter was able to penetrate. Amer's own strong reactions and personal dilemma provide a trenchant counterpoint to daily events. The story is also punctuated by e-mail bulletins sent by Garrels's husband, Vint Lawrence, to their friends around the world, giving a private view of the rough-and-tumble, often dangerous life of a foreign correspondent, along with some much-needed comic relief.
Our Guys: The Glen Ridge Rape and the Secret Life of the Perfect Suburb
by Bernard LefkowitzIn March 1989 a group of teenage boys lured a retarded girl into a basement in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, and gang-raped her. Glen Ridge was the kind of peaceful, affluent suburb many Americans dream about. The rapists were its most popular high school athletes. And although rumors of the crime quickly spread through the town, weeks passed before anyone saw fit to report it to the police. What made these boys capable of brutalizing a girl that some of them had known since childhood? Why did so many of their elders deny the rape and rally around its perpetrators? To solve this riddle, the Edgar award-winning author Bernard Lefkowitz conducted years of research and more than two hundred interviews. The result is not just a wrenching story of crime and punishment, but a hauntingly nuanced portrait of America's jock culture and the hidden world of unrestrained adolescent sexuality.
Kiss The Girls and Make Them Spy: An Original Jane Bond Parody
by Mabel ManeySometimes the Best Bond for a Job is a Jane ... Jane Bond. "What's the story on Bond?" "Your man is a homicidal depressive paranoiac," the doctor reported. "I know that. I want to know what's wrong with him! And be straight with me, man. No medical mumbo jumbo." "He's lost his nerve." N. had suspected as much. After a long while spent staring at the jagged skyline of London, N. came to a decision. He had no other choice but to go through with Pumpernickel's ridiculous plan. Enter Bond, Jane Bond, James's lesbian twin sister and haoless bookstore employee, who steps in to masquerade as her brother at an awards ceremony with the queen. But when the dastardly Sons of Britain (S.O.B.s), a nefarious fraternity plotting to bring the Duke and Duchess of Windsor back to power, show up, it's up to some unexpected heros to save the day. The Powder Puff Girls -- makeup salespersons by day, secret agents by night -- step in to secure the future of Britain while Jane keeps her brother's reputation intact...both in and out of the bedroom!
The Girl With The Golden Bouffant: An Original Jane Bond Parody
by Mabel ManeyGay/lesbian-themed mystery; sequel to Kiss The Girls and Make Them Spy.
Preserve and Protect (Advise and Consent #4)
by Allen DruryDrury describes the chaos that overtakes America and the world with the suspicious death of the President just after his renomination. His death leaves the incumbent party without a candidate or a clear-cut way of selecting one. Against a backdrop of national and international chaos, Drury examines the motives and ambitions of a now-famous gallery of political characters. As the novel moves to its dramatic climax, the question of what candidate will be nominated by what groups keeps the future of America and the world hanging in the balance.
Peter and Veronica
by Marilyn SachsPeter Wedemeyer never thought when he became friends with Veronica Ganz that his whole world would change. Suddenly, his adoring mother turns fiercely disapproving, his good friend Bill Stover will have nothing to do with him, and Roslyn Gellert, the one girl he admires, gazes off into space when she sees him. Why? And why does Veronica's kid brother, Stanley, throw bananas at him? And why does that drip Reba Fleming giggle whenever she sees him and Veronica together? "I never thought," Veronica says, "that having a friend would hurt so much." But in between the problems, there are many funny, wonderfully happy roller skating adventures, as a boy and a girl struggle to maintain an unusual friendship and come to understand the meaning of prejudice. With Peter and Veronica, boys will join the many enthusiastic girls who welcome the humor and realism of Marilyn Sachs' books.
The Truth About Mary Rose
by Marilyn Sachs Louis S. GlanzmanMary Rose Ramirez is a happy girl. She is pretty, has a wonderful, adoring family, and is named after a heroine. Thirty years before, her aunt, Mary Rose, had died in a fire, but not before saving the lives of everybody else in the building. Unfortunately all snapshots of her were burned in the fire, along with everything else that belonged to her. But Mary Rose thinks she knows just what her aunt looked like and what kind of a person she was. When she finds a shoebox in her grandmother’s attic, filled with cutout, paper jewelry the first Mary Rose used to play with, she is overcome with joy. But the box turns into a regular Pandora’s Box as Mary Rose begins to discover the truth about not only the first Mary Rose but perhaps the second as well.
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.
Papa John: The Autobiography Of John Phillips
by John Phillips Jim JeromeSex, drugs, and rock 'n ' roll. It was the anthem of the sixties. The psychedelic code by which many lived --and died. And John Phillips, legendary founder and songwriter of the Mamas and the Papas, experienced it all. Now Phillips takes us on a dizzying roller-coaster ride from stardom in L.A. to drug busts in the Big Apple. In an intimate, gritty, all- too-true self-portrait, he offers a startling, reflective look at the turbulent sixties and beyond.
Daphne du Maurier: The Secret Life of the Renowned Storyteller
by Margaret ForsterThe authorized biography of the author of Rebecca, a novel first published in 1938 and still a steady seller. Du Maurier was an intensely emotional and unconventional woman, and Forster draws on hitherto unpublished letters, including a cache of previously unknown love letters between Du Maurier and actress Gertrude Lawrence. Includes photos. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc. , Portland, OR
Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America
by Eugene RobinsonInstead of one black America, today there are four. There was a time when there were agreed-upon "black leaders," when there was a clear "black agenda," when we could talk confidently about "the state of black America"--but not anymore. -from Disintegration. The African American population in the United States has always been seen as a single entity: a "Black America" with unified interests and needs. In his groundbreaking book,Disintegration, Pulitzer-Prize winning columnist Eugene Robinson argues that over decades of desegregation, affirmative action, and immigration, the concept of Black America has shattered. Instead of one black America, now there are four: a Mainstream middle-class majority with a full ownership stake in American society; a large, Abandoned minority with less hope of escaping poverty and dysfunction than at any time since Reconstruction's crushing end; a small Transcendent elite with such enormous wealth, power, and influence that even white folks have to genuflect; and two newly Emergent groups--individuals of mixed-race heritage and communities of recent black immigrants--that make us wonder what "black" is even supposed to mean. Robinson shows that the four black Americas are increasingly distinct, separated by demography, geography, and psychology. They have different profiles, different mindsets, different hopes, fears, and dreams. What's more, these groups have become so distinct that they view each other with mistrust and apprehension. And yet all are reluctant to acknowledge division. Disintegration offers a new paradigm for understanding race in America, with implications both hopeful and dispiriting. It shines necessary light on debates about affirmative action, racial identity, and the ultimate question of whether the black community will endure.
In The River Sweet
by Patricia HenleyNational Book Award finalist Patricia Henley captivates us with this engrossing novel of a woman whose long-held secret will transform her life and her marriage. From all appearances, Ruth Anne Bond is enviably lucky. Her husband, Johnny, still treats her like a young lover. Her grown daughter is a staunch friend. Her steady work and devotion to the church have quietly made her a pillar of the community. Then one long Indiana summer brings some unexpected communiqués—including one she has both craved and feared for thirty years. As long-hidden truths threaten to emerge, for the first time in her marriage Ruth Anne is faced with memories she and Johnny never discuss: of a year spent in Saigon in 1968—and a past she has yet to acknowledge. Probing questions of family and faith, Patricia Henley offers us a tender, far-sighted novel about seeking answers and achieving grace.
Clocks and Culture, 1300-1700
by Carlo M. CipollaThe history of the clock opens a window on how different cultures have viewed time and on Europe's path to industrialization.
Charlotte Bronte: A Passionate Life
by Lyndall GordonCharlotte Bronte: A Passionate Life looks beyond the insistent image of the modest Victorian lady, the slave to duty in the shadow of tombstones. Instead we see a strong, fiery woman who shaped her own life and transformed it into art. This biography looks at the shared gifts and class ambitions of the Bronte family - at the active feminist, Mary Taylor; at the demanding mentor, Constantin Heger; and at the rising publisher, George Smith - as Charlotte strove to possess them in life and fiction. Her highly autobiographical novels refused current bars to women's writing to release a public voice which could speak intimately to her readers.
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.