Summary: A collection of twenty-six crime stories, written by top women authors during the past century, includes pieces by Dorothy L. Sayers, Sara Paretsky, Shirley Jackson, Ngaio Marsh, Ruth Rendell, J.A. Jance, and other notables.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOMTremain, Rose
Summary: "Trapped in a London apartment, Beth remembers a transgressive love affair in 1960s Paris. The most famous writer in Russia takes his last breath in a stationmaster's cottage, miles from Moscow. A young woman who is about to marry a rich aristocrat instead begins a torrid relationship with a construction worker. A father, finally free of his daughter's demands, embarks on a long swim from his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TRESummary: This collection of original stories by today's finest women writers--including Tracy Chevalier, Francine Prose, Elizabeth McCracken, Tessa Hadley, Audrey Niffenegger, and more--takes inspiration from the opening line in Charlotte Bront©±'s most beloved novel, Jane Eyre. A fixture in the literary canon, Charlotte Bront©± is revered by readers all over the world. Her novels featuring...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REAOrringer, Julie.
Summary: Nine fiercely beautiful, impossible to put down stories from a young writer who has already received immediate worldwide attention. Julie Orringer's characters all of them submerged by loss, whether of parents or lovers or a viable relationship to the world in general struggle mightily against the wildly engulfing forces that threaten to overtake us all. All of them learn, gloriously if at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ORRSummary: Stories about women for women. The collection is divided into such categories as Initiation and Righteous Rage. The stories range from rape and murder, to women using brains and guile to have their way with men.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILSummary: A darkly luminous new anthology collecting the most terrifying horror stories by renowned female authors, presenting anew these forgotten classics to the modern reader.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2019