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Women's Literature January 2017
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The most dangerous place on earth : a novel
by Lindsey Lee Johnson
Arriving as a replacement teacher in a privileged Bay Area school, Molly becomes intrigued with the hidden lives and challenging ambitions of her students, who are struggling with a tragedy from their middle-school years. A first novel.
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History of wolves : a novel
by Emily Fridlund
Living with her parents in a nearly abandoned counterculture commune, 14-year-old Linda finds her perspectives and desires changed by the scandal-marked arrest of a teacher and the secrets of a new neighbor family as she wrestles with the consequences of actions and failures in the name of love.
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Difficult women
by Roxane Gay
A collection of stories by the award-winning author of Bad Feminist explores the hardscrabble lives, passionate loves and quirky human connections experienced by diverse protagonists, including a woman who pretends she does not know that her husband and his identical twin switch places with her.
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Scratch : writers, money, and the art of making a living
by Manjula Martin
A collection of entertaining and inspiring essays, contributed by some of today’s top authors—including Jonathan Franzen, Nick Hornby, Susan Orlean, Alexander Chee and Jennifer Weiner—candidly describes the complexities that arise when a person attempts to write for a living. Original.
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Small admissions
by Amy Poeppel
Becoming profoundly unmotivated after being dumped by her French boyfriend, a summa cum laude graduate takes a job in the admissions department of a prestigious school, where she endures a season of nasty applicants, winsome underdogs and pushy parents. A first novel.
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