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Order Any Book In Print from W&CF Online!
You can get any book in print—most often in two to five days—from womenandchildrenfirst.com. Search by title, author or ISBN by entering it in the search field near the top of the screen. (Or click on Advanced Search to zero in more quickly.) Put the books you want in your shopping cart and choose
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Upcoming Events Title of Event: Barbara Bonfigli
When: Wednesday, July 8, 2009 7:30 PM
Location: Women & Children First
Description: Café Tempest: Adventures on a Small Greek Island
Café Tempest promises to do for Greece what A Year in Provence did for France. When Sarah, a thirty-something American transplant to Greece, directs the locals in Shakespeare’s The Tempest, a hilarious adventure ensues. Sarah has her own tempestuous relationships to sort out, but she is guided by her philosophy, “You love who you love.” Witty, evocative, and beautifully written, this novel puts you right in the heart of Greek island life, alive with the sights, tastes and memorable characters that inhabit it. Wine will be served and guests will be introduced to the “Tempestini,” the world’s first summer cocktail based on retsina.
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The Women & Children First Staff have picked out favorites that will be sure to please everyone on your shopping list
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The Rapture
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Jensen, Liz
was not attracted by the title of this book; however, it is a powerful novel, combining fundamentalist religion, psychology, physics, and, of course, relationships. The main character, Gabrielle, is a child psychologist who has been injured in an automobile accident, now residing in a wheel chair. She is newly employed at a hospital designed for seriously troubled children, many of whom have murdered someone or tried to kill themselves. Bethany, one of the other main characters, killed her mother. She is assigned to Gabrielle. She seems to know when climate-based disasters will occur, but only her previous therapist believed her. Why does she know? Should Gabrielle take her “knowledge” seriously and warn people? It’s a page-turner for sure. |
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Warm weather + a love for reading = a great reason to join a book group. You're bound to find something you want to read in any or all of our 5 book groups. Take a look and come to any group you want to!
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The Red Leather Diary: Reclaiming a Life Through the Pages of a Lost Journal
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Koppel, Lily
Monday, July 20th, 2009, 7:30 p.m.
For more than half a century, the red leather diary languished inside a steamer trunk. Rescued from a Dumpster on Manhattan's Upper West Side, it found its way to Lily Koppel, a young writer, who opened its tarnished brass lock and journeyed into an enthralling past. The diary painted a breathtaking portrait of a bygone New York--of glamorous nights at El Morocco and elegant teas at Schrafft's during the 1920s and '30s--and of the headstrong, endearing teenager who filled its pages with her hopes, heartaches, and vivid recollections. Intrigued, Koppel followed her only clue, a frontispiece inscription, to its now ninety-year-old owner, Florence Wolfson, and was enchanted as Florence, reunited with her diary, rediscovered a lost younger self burning with artistic fervor.
Joining intimate interviews with original diary entries, "The Red Leather Diary" re-creates the romance and promise of a remarkable era and brings to life the true story of a daring, precocious young dreamer. |
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Women & Children First has a long history and a reason for being--in addition, of course, to loving books and wanting to get the right ones into the right hands. We have also established The Women's Voices Fund to help support feminist programming at Women & Children First. Read about us to learn more.
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Unique and provocative selections from a great diversity of voices...all personally recommended by the independent booksellers of America.
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The House of Paper
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Dominguez, Carlos Maria,
Sis, Peter,
Caistor, Nick
"I was utterly charmed by this short, lyrical, literary, almost otherworldly mystery of bibliomania taken to its extreme. With illustrations by Peter Sis." --Dale Szczeblowski, Porter Square Books, Cambridge, MA |
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