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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"From the author compared to Norah Ephron and Nancy Mitford, not to mention Jane Austen, comes a new novel celebrating the beauty, mischief, and occasional treachery of language. The Grammarians are Laurel and Daphne Wolfe, identical, inseparable redheaded twins who share an obsession with words. They speak a secret "twin" tongue of their own as toddlers; as adults making their way in 1980s Manhattan, their verbal infatuation continues, but this love,...
3) Mrs. Poe
Author
Language
English
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Struggling to support her family in mid-19th-century New York, writer Frances Osgood makes an unexpected connection with literary master Edgar Allan Poe and finds her survival complicated by her intense attraction to the writer and the scheming manipulations of his wife.
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
The diary of a Russian woman poet describing life in her gritty Moscow apartment. It is a tiny place which she shares with her senile mother, her son who is a small time crook and just out of jail, and with her daughter who keeps getting pregnant and doesn't look after her children. Offsetting the depressing surroundings, lots of black humor.
Author
Publisher
Open Road Integrated Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Ever since her husband left her -- seemingly vanishing into thin air -- Charleen Forrest has supported herself and her fifteen-year-old son on what she earns as an obscure poet and part-time gofer for an even more obscure scientific journal. But when her estranged mother remarries -- prompting an unplanned reunion -- Charleen finds herself moving out of her familiar existence. -- from the back cover
8) Rosewater
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Elsie is a sexy, funny, and fiercely independent woman in south London. But, at just twenty-eight, she is also tired. Though she spends her days writing tender poetry in her journal, her nights are spent working long hours for minimum wage at a neighborhood dive bar. Not even sleeping with her alluring coworker, Bea, can quell her existential dread. The difficulty of being estranged from her family, struggle of being continually rejected from jobs,...
Author
Publisher
Black Stone Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"When Bianca appears late one night at her brother's house in Santa Ana, she is barely conscious, though not alone. Jubilee, wrapped in a fuzzy pink romper, is buckled into a car seat. Jubilee, who Bianca feeds and clothes and bathes and loves. Jubilee, who Bianca could not leave behind. Jubilee, a doll in her arms. Told in alternating points of view, Jubilee reveals both the haunting power of our lived experiences and the surreal possibility of the...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
All through her childhood in Tehran, Forugh Farrokhzad is told that Persian daughters should be quiet and modest. She is taught only to obey, but she always finds ways to rebel-gossiping with her sister among the fragrant roses of her mother's walled garden, venturing to the forbidden rooftop to roughhouse with her three brothers, writing poems to impress her strict, disapproving father, and sneaking out to flirt with a teenage paramour over café...
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
©2017.
Language
English
Description
"Manuela Beltrán, a poet haunted by a troubled childhood, is bent on revenge for the wrongs she suffered at the hands of her mother's lover. Her vendetta will draw together a cast of enigmatic characters, the inhabitants of Gamboa's 'dark valley.' There is Tertullian, an Argentine who claims to be the Pope's son, ready to consort to extreme methods to create a harmonious society. There is Ferdinand Palacios, a Colombian priest with a dark paramilitary...
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"The daughter of a Venetian musician, Aemilia Bassano came of age in Queen Elizabeth's royal court. The Queen's favorite, she developed a love of poetry and learning, maturing into a young woman known not only for her beauty but also her sharp mind and a quick tongue. When Aemilia becomes the mistress of Lord Hunsdon, she fears her mind will languish--until she crosses paths with an impetuous playwright named William Shakespeare and begins an impassioned...
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese
Pub. Date
©2017.
Language
English
Description
"A young, aspiring poet in a quiet Irish village thinks her life of books suits her perfectly until a charismatic newcomer from America broadens her horizons. Siobhan Doyle grew up with her Uncle Kee at their family pub The Leeside, in rural Ireland. Kee has been staunchly overprotective of Siobhan ever since her mother's death in an IRA bombing, but now that she's an adult, it's clear that in protecting her Kee has unwittingly kept her in a state...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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"From the author of Star-Crossed...Behind every great love song is a great love story. It's been seven years and Diana is finally ready to marry her long-time fiancé, Arie; she's even composing a beautiful love song for him, working on it in hotels and concert halls as she criss-crosses the world as a classical pianist. Before she can finish it, though, tragedy strikes--and Diana is lost to Arie forever. But her song might not be... In Australia,...
16) Muse
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"The story of an editor caught up in a publishing scandal around the manuscript of a renowned and beautiful female poet"--
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