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-Premiere Issue-
November 2005


It's easy to order books online from Women & Children First

Ordering your books online from a feminist bookstore is one way to support your local (or not-so-local) women's bookstore - and make your own life easier at the same time. This list of books reviewed in this issue makes it a cinch to order all the books you want at one time, in a single shopping cart.

To order:
1. Click on a book you wish to order.
The link will take you to the page on WCF's web site that features the book.
Then click on the "Add to Shopping Cart" button.
2. To add another book, click your back button twice to return to this page and choose your next book.
3. To order books not on this list, click the "Continue Shopping" button to seach WCF's database (which includes most books currently in print, whether by women or not).
4. When you're finished, click "Checkout" to complete the ordering process.

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Ann Christophersen is reading...

Truth and Consequences, Alison Lurie, $24.95, Viking Books
Times Like These, Rachel Ingalls, $16, Graywolf
and Mrs. Caliban,$12.95, Harvard Common Press
The Circus in Winter, Cathy Day, $13, Harcourt
The Tender Bar, J. R. Moehringer, $23.95, Hyperion
Fire Sale, Sara Paretsky, $25.95, Putnam
Three Incestuous Sisters, Audrey Niffenegger, $27.95, Harry N. Abrams
and The Time Traveler’s Wife, $14, Harvest/HBJ
Bait & Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream, Barbara Ehrenreich, $24, Metropolitan Books
and Nickel & Dimed, $13, Owl Books


Linda Bubon suggests...

The History of Love, Nicole Krauss, $23.95, Norton
A Complicated Kindness, Miriam Toews, $13.95, Counterpoint
Julie/Julia, Julie Powell, $23.95, Little Brown
War on the Family: Mothers in Prison and the Families They Leave Behind, Renny Golden, $22.95 paper, Routledge
Ella Baker & the Black Freedom Movement, Barbara Ransby, $19.95, 496 pages, University of North Carolina Press
Telling Our Lives: Conversations on Solidarity and Difference, Frida Kerner Furman, Linda Williamson Nelson, and Elizabeth A. Kelly, $26.95, Rowman & Littlefield

Pam Harcourt raves (and rants)

Magic for Beginners, Kelly Link, $24, Small Beer Press
Travel Light, Naomi Mitchison, $12, Peapod Classics/Small Beer Press
Tiny Ladies in Shiny Pants, Jill Soloway, $21.95, Free Press
On Beauty, Zadie Smith, $24.95, Penguin
and White Teeth, $14.95, Vintage
Red Light: Superheroes, Saints, and Sluts, Anna Camilleri, $18.95, Arsenal Pulp Press
and I Am a Red Dress: Incantations on a Grandmother, a Mother, and a Daughter, $16.95, Arsenal Pulp Press
Women’s Letters: America from the Revolutionary War to the Present, Lisa Grunwald and Stephen J. Adler, $35, 824 pages, Dial Press


Tish Hayes recommends.....

How to Rent a Negro, Damali Ayo, $14.95, Lawrence Hill Books
Necklace of Kisses, Francesca Lia Block, $21.95, HarperCollins
Leave Me Alone I’m Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books, Maureen Corrigan, $24.95, Random House
Firekeeper, Pattiann Rogers, $16, Milkweed Editions

Mysteries

The G-String Murders, Gypsy Rose Lee, $13.95, Feminist Press
and February House, Sherill Tippins, $24.00, Houghton Mifflin
The Vanished Priestess, Meredith Blevins, $6.99, Forge
and The Hummingbird Wizard, $6.99, Forge
and The Red Hot Empress, $24.95, Forge
Evil Intent, Kate Charles, $24.95, Poisoned Pen Press

Funeral Music, Morag Joss, $6.99, Dell
and Fearful Symmetry, $6.99, Dell
and Fruitful Bodies, $6.99, Dell
and Half Broken Things, $22.00, Delacorte
Murder in the Marais, Cara Black, $13.00, Soho
and Murder in Clichy, $24.00, Soho Press
The Typhoon Lover, Sujata Massey, $23.95, HarperCollins
and The Salaryman's Wife, $7.50, Harper

New in Paperback:
Orange Crushed, Pamela Thomas-Graham, $14.00, Pocket
and A Darker Shade of Crimson, $6.99, Pocket
and Blue Blood, $6.99, Pocket
Absent Friends, S.J. Rozan, $12.00, Delta

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Graphics © Judy Horacek

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