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All About My Mother: Samuel Adamson
All About My Mother is a passionate hymn to the strength and spirit of women; a kaleidoscopic drama embracing motherhood, love and desire; a homage to the great Hollywood movies.Following ... More
Alma Mahler-Werfel: Diaries 1898-1902: Antony Beaumont
Born in 1879 in Vienna, Alma Mahler-Werfel was the daughter of the popular landscape painter, Emil J. Schindler. Her stepfather, Carl Moll, was instrumental in forming the Secession movement and ... More
Anywhere But Here: Mona Simpson
Published to extraordinary critical acclaim in 1987, Mona Simpson's exceptional first novel tells the story of a mother and daughter, Adele and Ann, making their way west from Bay City ... More
As in Eden: R. M. Lamming
A novel of startling freshness and power. Here are the voices of seven strong women and their men who speak out from biblical times with a clarity and passion that ... More
Asleep: Banana Yoshimoto
Banana Yoshimoto has a magical ability to animate the lives of her young characters, and here she spins the stories of three women, all bewitched into a spiritual sleep. One, ... More
Aunt Margaret's Lover: Mavis Cheek
Aunt Margaret, surrogate mother to teenage Saskia, has just waved goodbye to her niece. She has sent her to Canada for a year. Now, buoyed up by an unexpected legacy ... More
Autobiography: Diana Cooper
Lady Diana Cooper’s autobiography covers the years from her earliest childhood (as Lady Diana Manners, youngest daughter of the eighth Duke of Rutland) to retirement at Chantilly and the death ... More
Ball of Fire: Stefan Kanfer
To viewers all over the world, Lucille Ball remains the ultimate screwball housewife, getting in and out of outlandish scrapes with hilarious finesse. But Stefan Kanfer's biography looks behind the ... More
The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth: Frances Wilson
From the acclaimed writer Frances Wilson, an immensely powerful new biography of Wordsworth’s beloved sister, collaborator and muse.Often presented as a self-effacing virgin or sacrificial saint, Dorothy Wordsworth was in ... More
The Barracks: John McGahern
Elizabeth Reegan, after years of freedom - and loneliness - marries into the enclosed Irish village of her upbringing. The children are not her own; her husband is straining to ... More
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