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Books for Women

- Issue 3 -
December 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.
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4. When you're finished, click "Checkout" to complete the ordering process.

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For the Kids

Winter's Tale, Robert Sabuda, Little Simon, $26.95.
Can You See What I See? Night Before Christmas, Walter Wick, Scholastic, $13.99.
Hanukkah, Shmanukkah! Esme Raji Codell, Hyperion, $16.99, cloth.
Jazz A B Z: An A to Z Collection of Jazz Portraits, Wynton Marsalis, Candlewick Press, $24.99 hard cover. Gr. 4-8.
The Color of My Words, Lynn Joseph, Harper Trophy, $5.99.

Ann Christophersen is reading...

Fearless Women: Midlife Portraits, Nancy Alspaugh and Marilyn Kentz, photography by Mary Ann Halpin, Stewart, Tabori and Chang, $27.50, cloth.
A Day in the Life of the American Woman: How We See Ourselves, by Sharon Wohlmuth, Carol Saline, and Dawn Sheggeby, Bulfinch, $35.00.
Queens: Portraits of Black Women and their Fabulous Hair, by Michael Cunningham, photographer, and George Alexander, Doubleday, $29.95, cloth.
Guadalupe: Body and Soul, Marie-Pierre Colle, Vendome, $24.95, cloth.
Living Artists, compiled by Ivy Sundel, Crow Woods Press, $28.50, oversized
Circle Stories, Riva Lehrer, Gescheidle, $20.00, paper.
Wild Girls: Paris, Sappho and Art - The Lives & Loves of Natalie Barney and Romaine Brooks, Diana Souhami, St. Martin's Press, $29.95.
Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love, Ann Fadiman, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $22.00, cloth.
A Short History of Myth, Karen Armstrong, Canongate, $18.00, cloth.
The Penelopiad, Margaret Atwood, Canongate, $18.00, cloth.
Weight, Jeanette Winterson, Canongate, $18.00, cloth.

Linda Bubon suggests...

Hidden Kitchens, the Kitchen Sisters (Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva), Rodale, $27.50, cloth; $19.95, CD.
And They All Sang, Studs Terkel, New Press, $25.95.
Leave Me Alone I'm Reading, Maureen Corrigan, Random House, $24.95.
Eudora Welty: A Biography, Suzanne Marrs, Harcourt, $28.00.

Pam Harcourt raves (and rants)

Graphic Novels: Everything You Need to Know, Paul Gravett, Collins, $24.95, oversize paper.
Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi, Pantheon, $17.95.
Persepolis 2, Marjane Satrapi, Pantheon, $17.95.
Embroideries, Marjane Satrapi, Pantheon, $16.95.
Bazaar Bizarre: Not Your Granny's Crafts! Greg Der Ananian, Viking Studio, $16.95, paper.
The Art of Knitting, Françoise Tellie-Lamagne, Hudson, $39.95.
Lesbian Pulp Fiction: The Sexually Intrepid World of Lesbian Paperback Novels, 1950 - 1965, Katherine V. Forrest, Cleis Press, $18.95, paper.
Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan, Jan Heller, ed., Copper Canyon Press, $40.00, cloth.
Writers on the Air: Conversations About Books, Donna Seaman, Peter Dry Books, $24.95.
A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present, Howard Zinn, Harper Perennial Modern Classics, $18.95, paper.
Life Mask, Emma Donoghue, Harcourt, $14.00.
Without Apology: Girls, Women, and the Desire to Fight, Hager Cohen, $$$
Women's Letters: America from the Revolutionary War to the Present, Lisa Grunwald and Stephen J. Adler, eds., Dial Press, $35.00.

Tish Hayes recommends.....

Decreation, Anne Carson, Knopf, $24.95.
Pregnancy And Power: A Short History of Reproductive Politics in America, Rickie Solinger, NYU Press, $27.95.
Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organizing for Reproductive Justice, South End Press, $20.00, paper.
Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke, Peter Guralnick, Little Brown, $27.95.
Mangoes & Curry Leaves: Culinary Travels Through the Great Subcontinent, Jeffrey Alford, Naomi Duguid, Artisan, $45.00, cloth.
Woody Guthrie Art Works, Steven Brower and Nora Guthrie, Rizzoli, $45.00.
The Worst Noel: Hellish Holiday Tales, Harper Collins, $14.95, hardcover.
Indelible Acts, A.L. Kennedy, Vintage, $12.00.
Natural History, Justina Robson, Bantam/Spectra, $13.00.
Silver Screen, Justina Robson, Bantam/Spectra, $13.00.
Atonement, Ian McEwan, Anchor, $14.95.
The Time of Our Singing, Richard Powers, Picador, 16.00.
Invasion of the Dykes to Watch Out For, Alison Bechdel, Alyson, $14.95.
Life Mask, Emma Donoghue, Harvest, $14.00
With or Without You, Lauren Sanders, Akashic Books, $14.95.
What the L, Kate Clinton, Carroll & Graf, $14.95, paper.
HomoCore: The Loud and Raucous Rise of Queer Rock, David Ciminelli and Ken Knox, Alyson Publications, $15.95, paper.
What Night Brings, Carla Trujillo, Curbstone Press, $15.95.

Mysteries

The Lighthouse, P.D. James, Knopf, $25.95.
S is for Silence, Sue Grafton, Putnam, $26.95.
Fire Sale, Sara Paretsky, Putnam, $25.95.
A Dark and Deadly Deception, Eleanor Taylor Bland, St. Martin's/Minotaur, $23.95.
Predator, Patricia Cornwell, Putnam, $26.95.
Faithless, Karin Slaughter, Delacorte, $25.00
Locked Rooms, Laurie R. King, Bantam, $24.00.

New in Paperback:
The Conquest, Yxta Maya Murray, Rayo, $12.95.
Jackson Park, Charlotte Carter, One World/Ballantine, $12.95.
Trip Wire, Charlotte Carter, One World/Ballantine, $12.95.
Point of Honour, Madeleine E. Robins, Tor, $6.99.