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Angela Carter's Book of Wayward Girls and Wicked Women
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Include books by the same authorA Tyranny of Petticoats
J. Anderson Coats, Andrea Cremer, Y.S. Lee, Katherine Longshore, Marie Lu, Kekla Magoon, Marissa Meyer, Saundra Mitchell, Beth Revis, Caroline Tung Richmond, Lindsay Smith, Robin Talley, Leslye Walton, Elizabeth Wein · 354 pages
Criss-cross America on dogsleds and ships, stagecoaches and trains from pirate ships off the coast of the Carolinas to the peace, love, and protests of 1960s Chicago. Join fifteen of today s most talented writers of young adult literature on a thrill ride through history with American girls charting their own course. They are monsters and mediums, bodyguards and barkeeps, screenwriters and sch
Dangerous Women Part I
George R.R. Martin, Gardner Dozois · 290 pages
Reader, I Married Him: Stories Inspired by Jane Eyre
Tracy Chevalier · 304 pages
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 Brontë's most beloved novel, Jane Eyre. A fixture in the literary canon, Charlotte Brontë is revered by readers all over the world. Her novels featuring unforgettable, st
Fearless Girls, Wise Women & Beloved Sisters: Heroines in Folktales from Around the World
Kathleen Ragan · 480 pages
Don't Bet on the Prince: Contemporary Feminist Fairy Tales in North America and England
Jack D. Zipes · 273 pages
Black Swan, White Raven
Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling · 368 pages
An anthology of revisionist fairy tales, many with a feminist slant. In the tale of Snow White, the villain is not the stepmother but the stepfather and the dwarfs are wise women. A total of 19 tales.
Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives: Stories from the Trailblazers of Domestic Suspense
Sarah Weinman · 356 pages
A salute to the real femmes fatales of the domestic suspense genre, and the deceitful children, deranged husbands, vengeful friends, and murderous wives they unleashed. Sarah Weinman, one of today's preeminent authorities of crime fiction, brings together fourteen chilling stories by women who -- from the 1940s through the mid-1970s -- took a scalpel to contemporary society and sliced away to rev
Sisters of The Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology
Ann VanderMeer, Jeff VanderMeer · 352 pages
A Moment on the Edge: 100 Years of Crime Stories by Women
Elizabeth George · 560 pages
New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth George serves up a century's worth of superb crime fiction penned by women. This veritable all-star team delivers tales of dark deeds that will keep you reading long into the night. Included are these works: "A Jury of Her Peers" by Susan Glaspell The Summer of People" by Shirley Jackson "The Irony of Hate" by Ruth Rendell "Country Lovers" by Nadine Gor
Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances
John Green, Maureen Johnson, Lauren Myracle · 368 pages
In three intertwining short stories, several high school couples experience the trials and tribulations along with the joys of romance during a Christmas Eve snowstorm in a small town. Holiday tales of love and romance.
Dangerous Women: Original Stories from Today's Greatest Suspense Writers
Otto Penzler, Lorenzo Carcaterra, Michael Connelly, John Connolly, Thomas H. Cook, Jeffery Deaver · 384 pages
Prepare to meet the most seductively female and the most shockingly fatal of femmes fatales, brought to you by seventeen of today's finest authors of mystery and suspense fiction. Award-winning editor Otto Penzler presents a collection of short and sizzling masterpieces of kisses and kiss-offs, gams and gats, published for the first time anywhere. In "***Third Party***," Jay McInerney takes you on
Girls' Night In
Lauren Henderson, Chris Manby, Sarah Mlynowski, Jill A. Davis, Stella Duffy, Lisa Jewell, Marian Keyes, Sophie Kinsella, Adele Lang, Carole Matthews, Anna Maxted, Megan McCafferty, Alisa Valdes, Isabel Wolff, Meg Cabot, Jessica Adams, Louise Bagshawe, Emily Barr, Jenny Colgan, Lynda Curnyn, Jennifer · 338 pages
21 TALES FROM THE HOTTEST FEMALE WRITERS In this must-have short-story collection, Jennifer Weiner revisits on of her Good in Bed characters (and tells the story from, ahem, his point of view), Jill A. Davis (Girl's Poker Night) offers darkly humorous take on starting over in New York and working with "the Elizabeths" and Alisa Valdes-Rodriquez (The Dirty Girls Social Club) muses on how differe
Kicking It
Faith Hunter, Kalayna Price · 353 pages
"New York Times bestselling author Rachel Caine has modern-day potions witches Holly and Andrew facing off against a firebrand politician who wears literally killer boots in a Texas-sized rodeo of trouble. Boot-loving Cadogan vampire Lindsey must team up with off-again, on-again vampire partner Luc when a woman from her past is targeted by supernaturals in New York Times bestselling author Chloe N
The Chick is in the Mail
Esther M. Friesner · 317 pages
An anthology of short stories about female warriors. Friesner has edited several "Chicks" collections in the same vein, including _Chicks in Chainmail_, _Chicks and Chained Males_, and _Did You Say Chicks?_
Immortal: Love Stories with Bite
Rachel Caine, Kristin Cast, Claudia Gray, Nancy Holder, Tanith Lee, Richelle Mead, Cynthia Leitich Smith, Rachel Vincent
Tales of the Slayer, Vol. 4
Michael Reaves, Scott Allie, Robert Joseph Levy, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Greg Cox, Kara Dalkey, Jane Espenson, Nancy Holder · 323 pages
Once Upon a Dream
Nora Roberts, Jill Gregory, Ruth Ryan Langan, Marianne Willman · 382 pages
The four ladies who brought us Once upon a Castle and Once upon a Star are at it again with this latest anthology, Once upon a Dream. These stories revolve around the magic and dreams that draw our heroes and heroines together.
Dangerous Women
Gardner Dozois · 784 pages
This volume of warriors, bad girls and dragonriders includes stories by worldwide bestselling authors. This first volume includes an original 35,000 word novella revealing the origins of the civil war in Westeros (before the events in *A Game of Thromes*.)
Tales of the Slayer, Vol. 1
Doranna Durgin, Christie Golden, Yvonne Navarro, Nancy Holder, Greg Rucka, Mel Odom · 320 pages
Tales of the Slayer, Vol. 2
Scott Allie, Laura J. Burns, Rebecca Rand Kirshner, Todd McIntosh, Michael Reaves, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Melinda Metz, Max Allan Collins, Matthew V. Clemens, Greg Cox, Kara Dalky, Jane Espenson · 368 pages
Bite
Laurell K. Hamilton, Charlaine Harris, MaryJanice Davidson, Angela Knight, Vickie Taylor · 297 pages
A never-before-published Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter story from New York Times bestselling author Laurell K. Hamilton. A brand-new story from New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris, featuring the much-loved Sookie Stackhouse.A hot new novella from USA Today bestselling author MaryJanice Davidson, set in the world of Undead and Unwed's Betsy Taylor, the newly, and reluctantly,crowned Va