There's more than cherished memories waiting for literature professor and sometime-detective Kate Fansler when she returns to the Theban, an exclusive preparatory school on Manhattan's Upper East Side for wealthy New York girls, to teach a seminar on Antigone. Because hidden behind the century-old doors of the Theban's hallowed halls lurks a real-life tragedy of ancient Greek proportions--and a parallel nightmare with a life all its own that's destined...

Follows Allegra from the age of three to thirteen as she illustrates her story of growing up in Brooklyn in the 1950s - pre-bas-mitzvah, pre-Jewish feminism, pre-having-a-destiny other than marriage, time. She contents with the narrowness, bigotries, and limitations of her family as she comes to recognize them.

How a Southern lady became a hippie. After discovering she is lesbian, Ellen Sommers divorces her husband, quits her job and follows her new love to a commune in California. From there it is downhill all the way, drugs, alcohol, the company of bomb throwers, bisexual love, on the run from police and a mental asylum. A look at the radicalism of the 1970s by the author of The Revolution of Little Girls.

"Written by Sharon Blackie, these twelve, beautifully written stories are original for modern readers, but based on existing folklore and fairy tales. They all focus on women who have the ability to transform themselves, or who have been transformed or enchanted - who have the ability to shape-shift, to renew themselves, to cross over from one element to another - from land to water, this world and the Otherworld, woman-kind to wild creature. Blackie,...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's first and only detective novel begins with a murder to confound any mystery fan: a local attorney, Wade Vaughn, is found dead in his study with a bullet in his temple, a knife in his back, a gaping wound in his skull, a cord around his neck, and a poisoned whiskey glass by his side. As the plot unfolds, it reveals motives for murder as numerous as the means: Vaughn is an evil man who has abused and blackmailed clients, servants,...

"Sophie is young and queer and into feminist theory. She decides to study abroad, choosing Paris for no firm reason beyond liking French comics. Feeling a bit lonely and out of place, she's desperate for community and a sense of belonging. She stumbles into what/who she's looking for when she meets Zena. An anarchist student-activist committed to veganism and shoplifting, Zena offers Sophie a whole new political ideology that feels electric. Enamored--of...