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Women in Print
Women readers, editors, librarians, authors, journalists, booksellers, and others are the subjects in this stimulating new collection on modern print culture. The essays feature women like Marie Mason Potts, editor of Smoke Signals, a mid-twentieth century periodical of the Federated Indians of California; Lois Waisbrooker, publisher of books and journals on female sexuality and women's rights in the decades after the Civil War; and Elizabeth Jordan, author of two novels and editor of Harper's Bazaar from 1900 to 1913. The volume presents a complex and engaging picture of print culture and of the forces that affected women's lives in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Published in collaboration among the University of Wisconsin Press, the Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America (a joint program of the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the Wisconsin Historical Society), and the University of Wisconsin–Madison General Library System Office of Scholarly Communication.
The Jasmine Trade
Everything was set. Seventeen-year-old Marina Lu had even ordered custom-made gowns for the ten bridesmaids who, in several months' time, would have preceded her down the aisle at her storybook wedding. There isn't going to be a wedding. Marina lies dead, alone in her shiny status car in a suburban shopping center parking lot, her two-carat diamond engagement ring refracting another abruptly shattered Los Angeles dream. Was her death merely a carjacking gone bad? Or is there more to the story? Marina's murder chillingly introduces Los Angeles Times reporter Eve Diamond to a subculture of "parachute kids," the rich Asian teens who are left to their own devices in California while their parent...
Kindred
Fifty select poems by nineteen outstanding poets including Dorothy Winslow Wright, Daniel S. Janik, Gary "Doc" Krinberg, Stacey Lorinn Joy, Bipul Banerjee, Anna Banasiak, Jana Gartung, Hongri Yuan, Cigeng Zhang, Heidi Willson, Kaethe Kauffman, Irtika Kazi, Ihar Kazak, Shikeb Siddiqui, T.W. Behz, Thomas Koron, Uhene, Ken Rasti and Derek Bickerton. Edited by Doc Krinberg.
Fleur de Leigh in Exile
Diane Leslie's first novel, Fleur de Leigh's Life of Crime, chronicled young Fleur Leigh's glamorous misadventures in 1950s Hollywood. "Très charmant indeed," Entertainment Weekly praised this Library Journal and Los Angeles Times Best Book of 1999. Fleur de Leigh in Exile finds fifteen-year-old Fleur in diminished circumstances. She transferred mid-semester to Tucson's Rancho Cambridge West -- the cheapest boarding school in all the United States -- where frail students convalesce in the arid clime and dine on the mess hall's "adobe melt." "Think of yourself as a conquistador," her B-movie actress mother urges, but Fleur's eyes are widened to the evils of prejudice and the burdens of comba...
The Last Embrace
A tale inspired by the true unsolved disappearance of actress Jean Spangler in 1949 finds former stenographer and OSS spy Lily Kessler secretly investigating the murder of a Hollywood starlet, a case that is further complicated when other aspiring actresses meet a similar demise. By the author of Sugar Skull. Simultaneous.
Last Lullaby
“Nobody can do multicultural Los Angeles better than Denise Hamilton.” —The Denver Post Now, the Edgar Award–nominated author sends reporter Eve Diamond on a suspense-charged investigation of the deadly criminal element in the city as colorful and unpredictable as Eve herself. Shadowing a customs official for a story, Eve is a witness when gunfire erupts at LAX. A beautiful Asian woman is killed, and her little girl is swept away by the INS. Eve suspects the toddler is being used by smugglers who trade in human lives. With the return of her ex-lover, Eve has everything to lose as she races to protect the child from ruthless armed men -- and may find herself caught in their sights.
Reading Oprah
An analysis of how Oprah's Book Club has changed America's reading habits.
Well-read Lives
In a compelling approach structured as theme and variations, the author offers insightful profiles of a number of accomplished women born in Americas Gilded Age who lost and found themselves in books, and worked out a new life purpose around them. Some wo
The Half-Life of Deindustrialization
Examines how contemporary American working- class literature reveals the long- term effects of deindustrialization on individuals and communities
