Natasha Whitton
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 Virginia
Woolf: An Inner Life
A Journey from Pain to Love:
A Journal of Compassion in an Internet World
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Where the River Runs
Adventures of Riley
An Atomic Romance
broken water
 The Bad Behavior of Belle
Cantrell
Edges: O Israel O Palestine
Good Wolf
The Sweetest Hours
The Dwelling Place
The Convent and the Rose
Sultana's Dream
 Shelby
and the Shifting Rings
The Body of Poetry: Essays
on Women, Form & The Poetic Self
Walking the Line
Brazillian Waxes ,
Lazy Ovaries and Outrageous Orgasms
Cow Tippers
Dreams and Other Ailments
Acts of Love
By Alvia Golden
 Fudoki
Adam and Eve
By Ruth Rendell
Bethlehem Road
By Nancy Crowe
Consequence: Beyond
Resisting Rape
By Loolwa Khazzoom
Cranberry Queen
By Kathleen DeMarco
Dark Room
By Rachel Seiffert
Falling Angels
By Tracy Chevalier
Love Letters to Vermont
-- a New England Journal
By Elayne Clift (also includes author interview)
Poetry
of Jayne Jaudon Ferrer
 Red Threads, The South
Asian Queer Connection in Photographs
The Writing
Group Book: Creating and Sustaining a Successful Writing Group
The
Girl's Guide to Traveling Solo
"No Means No"
Isn't Funny--
A Crazy for You
By Jennifer Crusie
North of 60
By Toni Graeme
Thoughts From
a Queen Sized Bed
By Mimi Schwartz
Sex Drives: Fantasies
of Fascism in Literary Modernism
By Laura Frost
Shell Shaker
By LeAnne Howe
Tender Heart
By Ana Corman
 Fear of Flying
Just Kiss Me and
Tell Me You Did the Laundry
Walking With Elephants
by Karen S. Bell
Blue Moon
by C. D. Ledbetter
Croning
Tales
By Elayne Clift
Crossing
the Chemo Room
By Lonna Lisa Williams
Feeding
Christine
By Barbara Chepaitis
First Resort
By Nanci Little
Forever
Unti We Meet
By Vicki M. Taylor
Happily
Ever After
By Wendy Paris
Jimmy's Girl
By Stephanie Gertler
 Ain’t
No Mountain
By Sharon Ewell Foster
I am Woman Hear Me
Whisk: The Third Wave Geminists' Guide to Cookbooks
When You’re About
to Go Off the Deep End, Don’t Take Your Kids With You
By Kelly E. Nault
Kitchen
Essays
By Agnes Jekyll
Laughing
in the Dark
By Patrice Gaines
Swimming
Toward Ocean
By Carole Glickfeld
Love Sick
By Sue William Silverman
Mommy Deadest
By Jean Marcy
The Brand New Kid
by Katie Couric
The
Living Blood
By Tananarive Due.
Featured Author interview & book review.
Tipping the Velvet
by Sarah Waters
Silence is Deadly:
Judaism Confronts Wifebeating
by Naomi Graetz
Land of a Thousand
Hills: My Life in Rwanda
by Rosamond Halsey Carr with Ann Howard Halsey
A Cross and a Star:
Memoirs of a Jewish Girl in Chile
by Marjorie Agosín
Bridget Jones's Diary
by Helen Fielding
Oprah's Book Club:
A review & opinionated editorial
Affinity
by Sarah Waters
Seduction: a Portrait of
Anais Nin
By Margot Beth Duxler
And Give You Peace
By Jessica Treadway
Handfuls of Time
By Ruth Daigon
Summer Pleasures: An Interview
and Book Review with Jacqueline Carey
Dear Sisters: Dispatches
from the Women's Liberation Movement
By Rosalyn Baxandall and Linda Gordon, Editors
Lettice Delmer
By Susan Miles
The Demon of Longing
By Gail Gilliland
The Diaries of Emily Saidouili
By Bettye Hammer Givens
Don’t Ever Tell Me
You Can’t!
By Celia Ruiz Tomlinson
The Puzzle Bark Tree
By Stephanie Gertler
The Seduction of
Water
by Carol Goodman
Thoughts While
Having Sex
By Stephanie Lehmann
Drifting
By Stephanie Gertler
 Madeleine
Is Sleeping: A Novel
By Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum
The Gentlemen’s
Club
By Becky Due
The Chili
Queen
By Sandra Dallas
Inventing
Memory
By Anne Harris
Mozart’s
Wife
By Juliet Waldron
Bent
On Writing
Edited by Elizabeth Ruth
Questing
Marilyn
By Marilyn Barnicke Belleghem
 The Celestial
Jukebox
By Cynthia Shearer
The
Storyteller with Nike Airs and other Barrio Stories
By Kleya Forté-Escamilla
The
Dance of the Dissident Daughter
By Sue Monk Kidd
Twentynine
Palms
By Deanne Stillman
 Yeah, I Said It
By Wanda Sykes
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Eat, Pray,
Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and
Indonesia
By Elizabeth Gilbert
Another America
By Barbara Kingsolver
Breaking the Political
Glass Ceiling: Women and Congressional Elections
By Barbara Palmer and Dennis Simon
 Buddha Da
By Anne Donovan
The House of Many Faces
By Konstantina Dimitra Mahlia
Mektoub: A Young Woman's War
Journal
By Nicole Solignac O'Connor
A Tale of Two Sisters
By Anna Maxted
There Were No Windows
By Norah Hoult
Welcome to Wisteria Lane:
On America's Favorite Desperate Housewives
Edited by Leah Wilson
 The
Thrall's Tale
By Judith Lindbergh
The Blank Wall
By Elisabeth Sanxay Holding
Why Can't You Communicate
Like Me?
By Laura Browne
Jasmine in Her Hair:
Culture and Cuisine from Pakistan
By Huma Siddiqui
Short Songs
By Amelia Fielden
James Tiptree,
Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon
By Julie Phillips
War for
the Oaks
Love
 Meanwhile, Next
Door to the Good Life
Stalking
the Divine: Contemplating Faith with the Poor Clares
When
Your Voice Tastes Like Home: Immigrant Women Write
Undead and
Unwed
Louisa and
the Missing Heiress
Triumph
Over Grief
Back
to Work: A Guide for Women Returners
 Ada
Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic
Beacons
of Hope
It’s
My Heaven
Briar
Rose
How
Can I Forgive You?
 Every
Dream Interpreted
Inventing
Victor
Miriam
the Medium
Sea Gate
 Around
the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing and Havana
Cupid
Traps
The Wilderness
Within
Don't
Mean Nothing: Short Stories of Vietnam
The
Uterine Crisis
 Tritcheon
Hash
Hildegarde
and the Great Green Shirt Factory
Marrying
Mozart
 Necrologue:
The Diva Book of the Dead and the Undead
Solitaire
The
Right Words at the Right Time
Women
in a World at War: Seven Dispatches from the Front
 Hunting
the Last Wild Man
Erotic
Fairy Tales: A Romp through the Classics
 Masters
of the Air
By Deborah Tash
When a Rooster
Crows at Night
By Therese Park
Extremities
By Kathe Koja
Mirrored
Lives
By Lib Lander and Jan Lander
Occasions
of Sin
By Sandra Scofield
Preserves
By Nancy Takacs
Problems
in Living
By Melissa Brown Levine
The
Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands
By Laura Schlessinger
A Return
to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue
by Wendy Shalit
There's
Something About Harry Potter
by J. K. Rowling
Fairy
Tales for Feminists: Jane Green's Jemima J and Ugly Duckling
to Swans
review + author interview
The Cure
For Death by Lightning
by Gail Anderson-Dargatz
Far and Beyon'
By Unity Dow
Head Case, a
Rock and Roll Novel
By Kathleen Strelow
Slay Me Tender
By Jenny Scholten
The Territory
of Men: A Memoir
By Joelle Fraser
The
Way We Make Sense
By Dawn Karima Pettigrew
 Season
of the Body: Essays
By Brenda Miller
Serious
as a Heart Attack
By Louisa Luna
She’s
the Girl
By Susan Brooks
Soul Choices:
Six Paths to Find Your Life Purpose
By Kathryn Andries
Dancing
in Circles
By Debra Tash
Darkness
Calls
By Caridad Pineiro
Death by
Death
By Clare McNab
Demeter
and Persephone
By Tamara Agha-Jaffar
Swimming
in the Ocean
By Catherine Jenkins
The Doctor’s
Wife
By Elizabeth Brundage
 The Secrets of Jin-Shei
By Alma Alexander
The
World That Was Ours
By Hilda Bernstein
Tough
at the Top
By Nicky Edwards
Zoo Gang
Girls
By Joan Arndt
Are
You in the Mood?
By Stephanie Lehmann
Assignation
at Vanishing Point
By Jane Satterfield
Nine
Lives: Stories of Women Business Owners Landing on their Feet
By Mary Cantando with Laurie Zuckerman
One-Hit
Wonder
By Lisa Jewell
Plucked
and Burned: A Closer Look at America’s Chicken Industry
By Sylvia Tomlinson
The
Fire This Time: Young Activists and the New Feminism
Edited by Vivien Labaton and Dawn Lundy Martin
The
Shadow Within
By Karen Hancock
Namako:
Sea Cucumber
By Linda Watanabe McFerrin
 Child of a
Rainless Year
By Jane Lindskold
Deadly
Behavior
By Dee Sullivan
Experiences
Of The Heart
By Imee C. Nudas
 Jaded
By Lucy Hawking
Mountain
Shadows
By Patricia Reiss Brooks
Runaway
By Alice Munro
 The
Skeptic's Guide to The Adventures of Life
By Connie R. Siewert
The
Montana Stories
By Katherine Mansfield
The
Feminine Connection
By Dr. Gayle Owens
Hot
Flashes
Edited by Linda Watanabe McFerrin and Laurie McAndish
King
The
Pied Piper of South Shore
By Caryn Lazar Amster
The
Covenant and The Betrayal
By Beverly Lewis
Tell
Me, Grandmother
By Virginia SutterNelson
and the Huruburu Bird
By Mairéad Byrne
A
Fistful of Sky
By Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Hypocrite
In A Pouffy White Dress
By Susan Jane Gilman |
Featured Novel
&
Interview with Cherie Priest
 The Memory Keeper's Daughter
By Kim Edwards
My Breasts, My
Choice: Journeys through Surgery
By Barbara Brown, Maureen Aslin & Betsy Carey
The Venice Apartment and Other
Stories
By Erna Cooper
at her feet
By Nadia Davids
Cleave
By Moira Egan
The Nature Sonnets
By Jill Williams
Sweet to Burn
By Beverly Burch
Horizons
By Mary Rosenblum
Traveling Mercies:
Some Thoughts on Faith
By Anne Lamott
Many Faces to Many Places
By Judy Azar LeBlanc
Silver Dreams
By Sondra Rice Newman
In My Dreams Neruda
By Katie Kingston
 No
One Should Get Pregnant Alone
By Elaine D. Fox
The Icarus Girl
Motherhood Confidential
 Someone
Not Really Her Mother
A New Woman Reader: Fiction,
Articles and Drama of the 1890s
Confessions of a Recovering
Slut and Other Love Stories
 Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin
It Stops With Me: Memoirs
of a Canuck Girl
A Thousand Tomorrows
Bodies of Glass
Of Water and Dragons
 Dissolution of Ghosts
Henrietta Maria: Charles
I's Indomitable Queen
Fear, Phobias and Frozen
Feet
Intricate Moves: Poems About
Rape
Hello Gorgeous: Beauty Products
in America 40s-60s
Letters to Virginia Woolf
 Why
Are We Reading Ovid's Handbook on Rape?
In A Ribbon of
Rhythm
 Dream House
By Barbara Bean
Email
Episodes
By Yvonne Perry
Gormglaith
By Heidi Wyss
I
Don’t Know How She Does It
By Allison Pearson
I
Promise Not to Tell
By Brenda M. Weber
Mercurochrome:
New Poems
By Wanda Coleman
The Farming
of Bones
by Edwidge Danticat
Bitter
Kisses
By Wendy Iliff
Sweetest
Dream
By Doris Lessing
Nin
By Cass Dalglish
The
Prisoner's Wife
By Asha Bandele
Sex
Drives
By Laura Frost
She
Walks In Beauty
By Nicole Conn
The Girls'
Guide to Hunting and Fishing
by Melissa Banks
An Island
Garden
by Celia Thaxter
Jane Sexes it Up
By Merri Lisa Johnson, Editor
Also, read excerpts from this reviewed
book
Date Rape at the Redneck
Riviera
and
Wanting Him Anyhow: Third
Wave Feminism & the Problem of Romance
Bitch: In Praise of Difficult
Women
by Elizabeth Wurtzel
Rita Mae
Brown 's Website: a Review
Women of
Color, Women of Words Website: a Review
Whose Manifesta?
A Collaborative Project/Review of the Third Wave Theory/History
The
Case for Marriage: Why Married People are Happier, Healthier,
and Better Off Financially
by Linda J. Waite and Maggie Gallagher
Bobbie Ann Mason's
books
Conversations
with Audre Lorde
Joan Wylie Hall, Editor
Bucket
of Blood: The Ragman’s War
By R. S. Sukle
Cerulean
Blue
By Wray Miller
Feminism Gets
a Face-Lift: The Face of Love: Feminism and The Beauty
Question
No
Kidding
by Wendy Tokunaga
Our Bodies
Our Selves
Elizabeth
I
by Anne Somerset
Shakespeare's
Troy
by Heather James
Salt and
Saffron
by Kamila Shamsie
Susan
Faludu's Stiffed vs. Fight Club
A
Review of By a Woman's Hand: A Guide to Mystery Fiction by
Women
and other sources
 Vixen
By Lynnette D’Anna
Why We Love:
The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love
By Helen Fisher
Our
Bodies Are Ourselves by Joan Jacobs Brumberg, The Body
Project: An Intimate History of American Girls, and The
Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler
In Tuscany
by Frances Mayes
Ann Petry's
The Street and
Jessie Redmon Fauset's There is Confusion
All We
Know of Love
by Katie Schneider
Bruno's
Dream and A Fairly Honourable Defeat
by Iris Murdoch
The House of Gentle
Men
by Kathy Hepinstall
Paradise
by Toni Morrison
The God
of Small Things
by Arundhati Roy
The 'Stephanie
Plum' Novels
by Janet Evanovich
Freezing
Persons
by Laura Feldman
The Girl
with the Funny Name
by Fatima Castañeda
Fidelity
by Susan Glaspell
Bastard
Out of Carolina
by Dorothy Allison
Patchwork
Girl: Review of a Hypertext book
Disobedience
by Jane Hamilton
Past:
Perfect! Present: Tense! Insights from One Woman’s Journey
as the Wife of a Widower
By Julie Donner Anderson
Sea-Born
Women
By B.J. Mountford
Second
Generation
By Susan Scutti
Soulmate
By Kimberly Buteau
The
Hunt
By Jan Neuharth
Whitegirl
By Kate Manning
Women
in Pants: Manly Maidens, Cowgirls, and Other Renegades
By Catherine Smith and Cynthia Greig
Work
the Sex
By Coral Hull
In
the River Sweet
By Patricia Henley
Mariana
By Monica Dickens
An
Accidental Woman
By Barbara Delinsky
Shattered
Sonnets Love Cards and Other Off and Back Handed Importunities
By Olena Kalytiak Davis
Psappha:
A Novel of Sappho
By Peggy Ullman Bell
Sheet
Music
By M.J. Rose
The
Way We Make Sense
By Dawn Karima Pettigrew
Livin’
the Blues and Riding With The Queen
By Jennie Shortridge
The
Dry Well
By Dawn Lyons |
