The May Queen: Women on Life, Love, Work, and Pulling It All Together in Your 30s
10 best books like The May Queen: Women on Life, Love, Work, and Pulling It All Together in Your 30s (Andrea N. Richesin): The Elfish Gene: Dungeons, Dragons And Growing Up Strange, Rock She Wrote: Women Write about Rock, Pop, and Rap, Swinging on the Garden Gate: A Spiritual Memoir, Breeder: Real-Life Stories from the New Generation of Mothers, The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection, She's Such a Geek!: Women Write About Science, Technology, and Other Nerdy Stuff, Old Dogs Are the Best Dogs, Firebird, It's So You: 35 Women Write about Personal Expression Through Fashion & Style, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eleventh Annual Collection
The Elfish Gene: Dungeons, Dragons And Growing Up Strange
| Author | Mark Barrowcliffe |
| ISBN | 1405091266 |
Coventry, 1976. For a brief, blazing summer, twelve-year-old Mark Barrowcliffe had the chance to be normal.
He blew it.
While other teenagers concentrated on being coolly rebellious, Mark - like twenty million other boys in the '70s and '80s - chose to spend his entire adolescence...
| Author | Evelyn McDonnell |
| ISBN | 0815410182 |
Brings together music criticism, fan experience, and performers' first person accounts from more that 60 women writers for 1960s to the 1990s.
This intelligently compiled, wide-ranging volume provides exciting evidence of women writers' inroads made over the past three decades into...
| Author | Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew |
| ISBN | 1558964096 |
Speaks to the Soul
The language of the soul is tricky to translate, and yet this memoir speaks eloquently, honestly, and with grace. I feel blessed to have read it. We are all on a journey, one that will last a lifetime, and I recommend this to any and all who would like the voice of another traveler...
| Author | Ariel Gore |
| ISBN | 1580050514 |
In this ground-breaking anthology, Ariel Gore and Bee Lavender ask real moms — from Web site designers to tattoo-clad waitresses — to laugh, cry, scream, and shout about motherhood. Allison Crews fights to have a voice and be recognized as a teen mother. Angela Morrill eschews both doctors and...
| Author | Gardner Dozois |
| ISBN | 0312336608 |
The twenty-eight stories in this collection imaginatively take us far across the universe, into the very core of our beings, to the realm of the gods, and to the moment just after now. Included here are the works of masters of the form and of bright new talents, including: Daniel Abraham • Eleanor Arnason...
She's Such a Geek!: Women Write About Science, Technology, and Other Nerdy Stuff
| Author | Annalee Newitz |
| ISBN | 1580051901 |
She’s Such a Geek is a groundbreaking anthology that celebrates women who have flourished in the male-dominated realms of technical and cultural arcana.
Editors Annalee Newitz and Charlie Anders bring together a diverse range of critical and personal essays about the meaning of female nerdhood...
| Author | Gene Weingarten |
| ISBN | 1416534997 |
Calling all fleabags! As a big fan of geriatric canines, I howled for this book from the moment I heard about it. And, I realized quickly I was barking up the right tree here with purchase of an expensive hardback book in which the authors were clearly not dogging it. I am growling, however, because this...
| Author | Mark Doty |
| ISBN | 0060931973 |
In Firebird, Mark Doty tells the story of a ten-year-old in a top hat, cane, and red chiffon scarf, interrupted while belting out Judy Garland's "Get Happy" by his alarmed mother at the bedroom door, exclaiming, "Son, you're a boy!"
Firebird presents us with a heroic little boy who has quite...
It's So You: 35 Women Write about Personal Expression Through Fashion & Style
| Author | Michelle Tea |
| ISBN | 1580052150 |
It's So You explores the intersection between personal style and personal expression through lively personal essays by thirty-five top women writers—including two artists. In a culture that uses oppressive beauty standards to influence and determine what’s hot, how do women manage to find...
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eleventh Annual Collection
| Author | Ellen Datlow |
| ISBN | 0312187785 |
This book in the long-running series of best of the year anthologies showcases the authors favorite stories from 1997. There are some really good stories in here.
My favorite by far was Safe by Gary A Braunbeck. This story was about a shooting and its ramifications and it actually made me cry...
Standing Alone in Mecca: An American Woman's Struggle for the Soul of Islam
| Author | Asra Q. Nomani |
| ISBN | 0060571446 |
As President Bush is preparing to invade Iraq, Wall Street Journal correspondent Asra Nomani embarks on a dangerous journey from Middle America to the Middle East to join more than two million fellow Muslims on the hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca required of all Muslims once in their lifetime. Mecca is...
Love Has No Boundaries Anthology: Volume 1
The stories you are about to read celebrate love, sex and romance between men. They are a product of the Love Has No Boundaries promotion sponsored by the Goodreads M/M Romance Group, and each anthology is published as a gift to you.
What Is Love Has No Boundaries?
The Goodreads M/M Romance...
Inheriting the Trade: A Northern Family Confronts Its Legacy as the Largest Slave-Trading Dynasty in U.S. History
| Author | Thomas Norman DeWolf |
| ISBN | 0807072818 |
In 2001, at forty-seven, Thomas DeWolf was astounded to discover that he was related to the most successful slave-trading family in American history, responsible for transporting at least 10,000 Africans to the Americas. His infamous ancestor, U.S. senator James DeWolf of Bristol, Rhode Island,...
The Mammoth Book of Erotica
| Author | Maxim Jakubowski |
| ISBN | 0786707879 |
A newly revised and updated edition of the bestselling collection of contemporary erotic fiction, this anthology of erotic short stories has been revised and expanded with new sensual tales especially commissioned for the volume. So it is that Vicki Hendricks, Michael Hemmingson, Thomas Roche,...
Mommy Wars: Stay-at-Home and Career Moms Face Off on Their Choices, Their Lives, Their Families
| Author | Leslie Morgan Steiner |
| ISBN | 0812974484 |
With motherhood comes one of the toughest decisions of a woman’s life: Stay at home or pursue a career? The dilemma not only divides mothers into hostile, defensive camps but pits individual mothers against themselves. Leslie Morgan Steiner has been there. As an executive at The Washington Post,...
The Secret Habit of Sorrow
| Author | Victoria Patterson |
| ISBN | 1640090525 |
Victoria Patterson, whose writing Vanity Fair has called “brutal, deeply empathetic, and emotionally wrenching,” returns with a new collection of stories that contains echoes of Denis Johnson and Raymond Carver, along with the emotional depth and density of Elena Ferrante.
There’s...
The Boy with the Perpetual Nervousness: A Memoir of an Adolescence
| Author | Graham Caveney |
| ISBN | 1509830677 |
Graham Caveney was born in 1964 in Accrington: a town in the north of England, formerly known for its cotton mills, now mainly for its football team. Armed with his generic Northern accent and a record collection including the likes of the Buzzcocks and Joy Division, Caveney spent a portion of his youth...
Unforgettable Heroes Boxed Set
UNFORGETTABLE HEROES - Eight Contemporary Romance Novels Boxed Set
Eight award-winning and bestselling authors share their favorite contemporary romance heroes--all boxed up for you in one sexy and irresistible package! From a sexy carpenter to magnetic CEO, a rough-and-ready cowboy...
Plight of the Living Dead: What Real-Life Zombies Reveal about Our World--And Ourselves
| Author | Matt Simon |
| ISBN | 0143131419 |
A brain-bending exploration of real-life zombies and mind controllers, and what they reveal to us about nature--and ourselves
Zombieism isn't just the stuff of movies and TV shows like The Walking Dead. It's real, and it's happening in the world around us, from wasps and worms to dogs and moose--and...
Love Is Always Write: Volume Five
The stories you are about to read celebrate love, sex and romance between men. They are a product of the Love Is Always Write promotion sponsored by the Goodreads M/M Romance Group and are published as a free gift to you.
What Is Love Is Always Write?
The Goodreads M/M Romance Group invited...
5 Bestselling Authors Bring You 5 Sexy Stories
Ever want a taste of genres? Together, we bring you five stories in contemporary, paranormal, and everything in between. We bring the heat, the heroes, and the stories that make you scream for more.
The Dom Who Loved Me (Masters and Mercenaries...
| Author | N.T. Morley |
| ISBN | 0425202690 |
This is quite a neat concept: from one side, you get thirty short stories from the perspective of the "master", or sexually dominant person (usually a man); flip the book over and turn it upside-down and you get thirty stories from the perspective of the "sub" or submissive person (usually a woman).
Some...
Revolting Librarians Redux: Radical Librarians Speak Out
| Author | Katia Roberto |
| ISBN | 0786416084 |
"Revolting librarians aren't defined by what they are, they are defined by what they do. In fact, it's not even what they do, but how they do it"--Katia Roberto and Jessamyn West, in the Preface. This compilation of witty, insightful, and readable writings on the various aspects of alternative librarianship...
| Author | Kate Douglas |
| ISBN | 0758219873 |
They're powerful, sensual men who are on the prowl, looking for the perfect mate-- a woman willing to embrace adventure beyond the imagination, and explore her wildest, most uninhibited side... "Chanku Journey" by Kate Douglas Jacob, Baylor, and Shannon are an ancient sensual race of shapeshifters...
