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	Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth: New Poems Walker, Alice \| Random House, © 2003 \| 811 Walker Sometimes edgy, sometimes uplifting poems exploring love, friendship, the home and the strength of women. Reserve This Title
	The Amateur Marriage Tyler, Anne \| Knopf, © 2004 \| FIC T A sympathetic but mismatched couple endure years of unhappy wedlock. Reserve This Title
	Breathing for a Living: A Memoir Rothenberg, Laura \| Hyperion Press, © 2003 \| B Rothenberg The bittersweet story of a student's fight with cystic fibrosis. Reserve This Title
	Colors Passing Through Us: Poems Piercy, Marge \| Knopf, © 2003 \| 811 Piercy Bold and visionary poems explore life on Cape Cod, politics, and passion. Reserve This Title
	Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens Dunn, Jane \| Knopf, © 2004 \| B Elizabeth D An exploration of the intertwined lives of Elizabeth I of England and her cousin Mary Queen of Scots. Reserve This Title
	Empress Orchid Min, Anchee \| Houghton Mifflin , © 2004 \| FIC M The private life of Tsu Hsi, the last empress of the Manchu dynasty, is revealed. Reserve This Title
	Knee-Deep in Wonder Reynolds, April \| Metropolitan Books, © 2003 \| FIC R A dazzling first novel of family secrets spanning four generations in the deep South. Reserve This Title
	The Lady and the Unicorn Chevalier, Tracy \| E P Dutton, © 2003 \| FIC C An artist becomes enamored of his patron's young daughter in this story of the famous medieval tapestries. Reserve This Title
	Loving Donovan: A Novel in Three Stories McFadden, Bernice L. \| E P Dutton, © 2003 \| FIC M Family tragedy and abuse haunt Donovan and Campbell, two damaged adults from Brooklyn who still pursue love. Reserve This Title
	Naked in the Promised Land: A Memoir Faderman, Lillian \| Houghton Mifflin , © 2003 \| B Faderman The life of the only child of an unmarried Holocaust survivor, from pin-up girl to academic. Reserve This Title
	Property: A Novel Martin, Valerie \| Nan A. Talese, © 2003 \| FIC M Reexamines questions of power and resistance, violence and sex in the antebellum South. Reserve This Title
	Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx LeBlanc, Adrian Nicole \| Scribner, © 2003 \| 974.7275 L An intimate and detailed portrait of family life in the Bronx. Reserve This Title
	Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books Nafisi, Azar \| Random House, © 2003 \| B Nafisi Eight women meet in secret to discuss Western literature, and are transformed. Reserve This Title
	The Rules of Engagement Brookner, Anita \| Random House, © 2003 \| FIC B Two women, childhood friends, discover that they can still make dangerous choices. Reserve This Title
	Shaking the Tree: A Collection of New Fiction and Memoir by Black Women Danquah, Meri Nana-Ama \| W.W. Norton, © 2003 \| 818.008 S Anthology showcases a new generation of black women writers, including asha bandele, ZZ Packer and Rebecca Walker. Reserve This Title
	The Time Traveler's Wife Niffenegger, Audrey \| MacAdam/Cage, © 2003 \| FIC N A dashing librarian is whisked around in time in this odd and enchanting love story. Reserve This Title
	Triangle: The Fire That Changed America Von Drehle, David \| Atlantic Monthly Press, © 2003 \| 974.7104 V The dramatic story of the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire, and the men and women who perished. Reserve This Title
	The Trouble with Islam : A Muslim's Call for Reform in Her Faith Manji, Irshad \| St. Martin's Press, © 2004 \| 297 M A gay, Canadian Muslim asks hard questions of her religion. Reserve This Title
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