 | Brainless: The Lies and Lunacy of Ann Coulter by Joe Maguire
Buy used from: $1.82 there is no other way to ring in the new year than to read a book about the truth about ann coulter.
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 | Life Inside by Mindy Lewis
Buy used from: $0.01 the tale of a young girl in the sixties in a mental hospital. quite provocative.
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 | Give Me Your Good Ear (Coming of Age) by Maureen Brady
Buy used from: $0.25 coming of age/feminist consciousness. short and sweet.
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 | Good and Evil by Michael Pearl
Buy used from: $2.91 a freaky bible comic book written by some crazy christians who co opted today's discourse of diversity into evil. creeeepy.
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 | Grassroots: A Field Guide for Feminist Activism by Jennifer Baumgardner
Buy new: $12.82 / Used from: $3.50 excellent book for people who have good feminist ideas but need some prodding to follow through. it made me want to get up and do something instead of just sitting around feeling bad that i'm not doing anything.
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 | Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools by Jonathan Kozol
Buy used from: $1.09 absolutely heartbreaking. although the copyright of this book is 1991, I know there has not been any change.
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 | All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks
Buy used from: $6.97 wonderful. everyone should read this book.
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 | GenderQueer: Voices From Beyond the Sexual Binary
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $6.74 amazing. illustrates the power of gender digression and shows that we can explode the binary, one person at a time.
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 | Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (Harper Fiction) by Gregory Maguire
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $2.70 my partner read this and couldn't put it down so i read it too and it is severely overrated. the end was interesting but overall, the book sucked.
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 | Transgender Warriors : Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman by Leslie Feinberg
Buy new: $18.21 / Used from: $2.99 fabulous history of gender identity narrated by leslie feinberg.
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 | Cry, the Beloved Country (Oprah's Book Club) by Alan Paton
Buy used from: $1.59 reread this one. i love the poetry of this book. it is absolutely beautiful.
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 | Storming Heaven by Denise Giardina
Buy used from: $2.09 another reread. story about unionizing west virginia's mines back in the day. historical fiction. read it again in one sitting.
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 | Imagining Argentina by Lawrence Thornton
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 love the poetry of this book too. another reread- was too lazy to go to the library. the end always makes me tear up a little.
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 | Q Road : A Novel by Bonnie Jo Campbell
Buy used from: $1.75 it was okay. the story is set outside of the city/town i currently live in- kalamazoo michigan, so it was interesting to hear about the fictional backwater ways of kalamazoo county. wasn't anything amazing.
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 | Choke by Chuck PALAHNIUK
Buy used from: $0.98 really odd and sort of messed up. good read though. very interesting. my first chuck.
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 | JUMPING THE GREEN: A Novel by Leslie Schwartz
Buy used from: $6.63 interesting but not that great. sort of haunting.
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 | Self Storage: A Novel by Gayle Brandeis
Buy new: $11.90 / Used from: $0.01 a commentary on life in a more diverse suburbia after september 11th. not great but not horrible.
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 | A Wild Ride Up the Cupboards: A Novel by Ann Bauer
Buy new: $12.35 / Used from: $0.01 excellent family drama.
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 | The Doctor's Wife by Elizabeth Brundage
Buy used from: $1.00 fabulous story about a women's health doctor and a crazy anti-choice group. excellent.
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 | The Solace of Leaving Early by Haven Kimmel
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 way too slow, but once i got to the end i wanted to know what happened with the girls.
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 | No Good-byes by Elaine Kagan
Buy used from: $0.01 nothing too fantastic. interesting interweaving of the 3 main female characters.
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 | Blood Orange by Drusilla Campbell
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $0.01 really liked this one- reminded me of jodi picoult.
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 | Look at Me: A Novel by Jennifer Egan
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.01 crap. absolutely horrid.
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 | The Torn Skirt by Rebecca Godfrey
Buy used from: $0.01 nothing like some teenage angst.
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 | The Kindness of Strangers by Katrina Kittle
Buy new: $11.66 / Used from: $0.01 horrific topic written about beautifully.
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 | A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
Buy new: $14.96 / Used from: $1.16 an amazing story. everyone should read it.
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 | In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
Buy new: $9.75 / Used from: $0.98 beautiful.
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 | Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $7.86 fabulous book in graphic novel form- although it did make me realize how much literature i haven't read. i need to get on that.
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 | Things Unspoken by Anitra Sheen
Buy used from: $3.14 it was okay. not amazing.
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| The Girls A Novel by Elaine Kagan
Buy used from: $14.75 a somewhat interesting look at how childhood friendships can fall apart.
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| Amy and Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout
Buy used from: $2.66 a mother/daughter saga. not amazing, but passed the time.
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| Tunnel of Love by Hilma Wolitzer
Buy used from: $0.01 comical melodrama about family. pretty good.
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 | An Egg on Three Sticks by Jackie Fischer
Buy used from: $2.88 about a daughter coping with her mother's nervous breakdown.
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 | Happiness Sold Separately by Lolly Winston
Buy new: $11.19 / Used from: $0.01 the story of a couple who are trying to get pregnant- the husband has an affair, and everything gets jumbled together. very witty- a quick satisfying read.
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 | Make Believe : A Novel by Joanna Scott
Buy used from: $2.50 ok. interesting story.
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 | Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
Buy used from: $5.39 interesting story. i have a love/hate relationship with the way it was structured, and at sometimes i felt it was a bit confusing, but there were some really great passages, such as the one that claimed that god was the original plagiarizer.
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 | Good Grief by Lolly Winston
Buy used from: $1.06 comical novel about something tragic. best quote- "the funny thing about rock bottom is there's stuff underneath it. You think, This is it: I'm at the bottom now. it's all uphill from here! Then you discover the escalator goes down one more floor to another level of bargain basement junk".
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 | The Speed of Light (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Elizabeth Rosner
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $0.01 beautifully written; intertwines the story of 3 troubled people beautifully.
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 | Abide with Me: A Novel by Elizabeth Strout
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $2.50 i liked the main story- the other stories didn't tie in as well as they should have.
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 | This is My Daughter: A Novel by Roxana Robinson
Buy new: $23.04 / Used from: $0.01 hated the main male character. what an arse. liked the older girl. all together, not that great.
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