Fiction. Women's Studies. Disability Studies. A middle school teacher relies on eight interchangeable heads to cope with her job. A woman tries to negotiate life with her arthritis witch and her boyfriend's seizure elf. The Germanic goddess Berchta,...
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Fiction. African & African American Studies. 2020 William Saroyan Prize Shortlist. It's 1919, a time when traveling medicine shows can still find audiences eager to buy miracle "cures" and watch old-fashioned variety acts onstage. Stephanie Allen's ...
Fiction. African & African American Studies. THE HOUSE OF ERZULIE tells the eerily intertwined stories of an ill-fated young couple in the 1850s and the troubled historian who discovers their writings in the present day. Emilie St. Ange, the daughte...
Poetry. Women's Studies. The microbiologist Mary A. Hood has been acclaimed for poetry and essays that combine a scientist's expertise with a gift for lyrical descriptions of the natural world. ALL THE SPECTRAL FRACTURES: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS offe...
Fiction. Asian & Asian American Studies. Semi-Finalist, Thurber Prize for American Humor. Marty Wu, compulsive reader of advice manuals, would love to come across as a poised young advertising professional. Instead she trips over her own feet and bl...
Fiction. Women's Studies. The thirty-six stories in this anthology, all by women authors, center around female characters who follow their own paths and tell the powers-that-be what they don't want to hear. These women stand up for themselves, for e...
Fiction. Latino/Latina Studies. Women's Studies. First place winner of the 2016 International Latino Book Awards for Best Popular Fiction in English. Just before her father's sudden death, Cuban-American artist Veronica Gonzalez is offered her first...
Fiction. For decades, Della Brown has tried to forget her service as a U.S. Army nurse in Vietnam. But when she receives a letter from a fellow combat nurse, once her closest friend, all the memories come flooding back: Della's nightmarish introduct...
Fiction. Showing a distinctly un-glamorous side of Southern California, these lyrical short stories are set in run-down diners and other neighborhood eateries with names that range from the prosaic (Breakfast) to the whimsical (Egg Heaven). In one p...