Mudwoman

Mudwoman
Title Mudwoman PDF eBook
Author Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher Harper Collins
Pages 503
Release 2012-03-20
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0062095641

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“Oates is just a fearless writer…with her brave heart and her impossibly lush and dead-on imaginative powers.” —Los Angeles Times “[An] extraordinarily intense, racking, and resonant novel.” —Booklist (starred review) One of the most acclaimed writers in the world today, the inimitable Joyce Carol Oates follows up her searing, New York Times bestselling memoir, A Widow’s Story, with an extraordinary new work of fiction. Mudwoman is a riveting psychological thriller, taut with dark suspense, that explores the high price of repression in the life of a respected university president teetering on the precipice of a nervous breakdown. Like Daphne DuMaurier’s gothic masterwork, Rebecca, and the classic ghost story, The Turn of the Screw, by Henry James, Oates’s Mudwoman is a chilling page-turner that hinges on the power of the imagination and the blurry lines between the real and the invented—and it stands tall among the author’s most powerful and beloved works, including The Falls, The Gravedigger’s Daughter, and We Were the Mulvaneys.

Mud Woman

Mud Woman
Title Mud Woman PDF eBook
Author Nora Naranjo-Morse
Publisher University of Arizona Press
Pages 134
Release 1992
Genre Poetry
ISBN 9780816512812

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A noted sculptor turns her talents to poetry in a collection that explores the satisfactions and complications of being a Pueblo Indian woman in the late twentieth century

We Were the Mulvaneys

We Were the Mulvaneys
Title We Were the Mulvaneys PDF eBook
Author Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher HarperCollins UK
Pages 391
Release 2012-12-20
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0007502133

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The unforgettable story of the rise, fall and ultimate redemption of an American family.

Firethorn

Firethorn
Title Firethorn PDF eBook
Author Sarah Micklem
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 402
Release 2007-11-01
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1416588477

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Firethorn, the first volume in an epic trilogy, is a stunning debut. Sarah Micklem has introduced an unforgettable heroine into the fantasy pantheon. Loving, reckless, and indomitable, Firethorn travels through an imaginary world as real as history and as marvelous as legend. Firethorn flees a life of drudgery to live alone in the forest, relying on her knowledge of herb lore to survive. She returns transformed, indebted to the god who saved her life, and blessed -- or cursed -- with uncanny abilities and a nagging sense of destiny. After a few nights of dalliance with Sire Galan, a high-caste warrior on his way to join the king's army, Firethorn seizes the chance to go with him, only to find she has exchanged one form of servitude for another. The army readies for war in the vast encampment of the Marchfield, where men prey on each other and women dare go nowhere alone. Among the lowborn harlots and the highborn dames of the camp, Firethorn learns to use her gifts as a healer, venturing into realms of dream and shadow. Desire drew Firethorn and Sire Galan together, but love binds them -- a love that has no place in the arrangement between a warrior and his sheath. When Galan makes a wager with disastrous consequences, Firethorn uses her gifts to intervene in his fate and learns just how hard it can be to tell honor from dishonor, justice from vengeance. Sarah Micklem has written an extraordinary tale -- at once magical and earthbound, beautiful and violent. She immerses readers in a remarkably imagined world where gods are meddlesome, the highborn uphold their privileges with casual brutality, and a woman's only recourse may be the strength she finds within.

Unholy Loves

Unholy Loves
Title Unholy Loves PDF eBook
Author Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher New York : Vanguard Press
Pages 362
Release 1979
Genre Fiction
ISBN

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Miss Oates turns her piercing eye upon the men and women who people a prestigious upstate college, probing the marriage, affairs, and comic intrigues that lie beneath the school's serene exterior.

That Book Woman

That Book Woman
Title That Book Woman PDF eBook
Author Heather Henson
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 40
Release 2011-07-26
Genre Juvenile Fiction
ISBN 1442439599

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An exquisitely illustrated paean to everyone who struggles to learn how to read, and to everyone who won’t give up on them. Cal is not the readin' type. Living way high up in the Appalachian Mountains, he'd rather help Pap plow or go out after wandering sheep than try some book learning. Nope. Cal does not want to sit stoney-still reading some chicken scratch. But that Book Woman keeps coming just the same. She comes in the rain. She comes in the snow. She comes right up the side of the mountain, and Cal knows that's not easy riding. And all just to lend his sister some books. Why, that woman must be plain foolish—or is she braver than he ever thought? That Book Woman is a rare and moving tale that honors a special part of American history—the Pack Horse Librarians, who helped untold numbers of children see the stories amid the chicken scratch, and thus made them into lifetime readers.

Situated Lives

Situated Lives
Title Situated Lives PDF eBook
Author Louise Lamphere
Publisher Routledge
Pages 510
Release 2014-04-08
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1135250510

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Situated Lives brings together the most important recent feminist and critical research that situates gender in relationship to the historical and material circumstances where gender, race, class and sexual orientation intersect and shape everyday interaction. Contributors include: Barbara Babcock, Jean Comaroff, Sarah Franklin, Faye Ginsburg, Matthew Gutmann, Faye V. Harrison, Louise Lamphere, Ellen Lewin, Jos^'e Lim^'on, Iris Lopez, Emily Martin, Mary Moran, Kirin Narayan, Aihwa Ong, Devon G. Pe^~na, Beatriz Pesquera, Helena Ragon^'e, Rayna Rapp, Judith Rollins, Leslie Salzinger, Denise Segura, Carol Stack, Ann Stoler, Donald D. Stull, Brett Williams, Patricia Zavella.