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Janet Heidiger Kafka Prize
The Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize is annually awarded for fiction by an American woman.
The Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women's Studies and the Department of English at the University of Rochester have awarded the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for fiction by an American woman since 1975....
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Ordinary People
Ordinary People is Judith Guest's first novel. Published in 1976, it tells the story of a year in the life of the Jarretts, an affluent suburban family trying to cope with the aftermath of two traumatic events.
Although it won critical praise and...
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Song of Solomon
Song of Solomon is a 1977 novel by Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning American author Toni Morrison. It follows the life of Macon "Milkman" Dead III, an African-American male living in Michigan, from birth to adulthood.
This book won the National...
During the Reign of the Queen of Persia
During the Reign of the Queen of Persia is a book written by Joan Chase.
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Always Coming Home
Always Coming Home is a novel by Ursula K. Le Guin published in 1985. This novel is about a cultural group of humans—the Kesh—who "might be going to have lived a long, long time from now in Northern California." (p. i) Part novel, part textbook,...
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Mary Reilly
Mary Reilly is a 1990 parallel novel by American writer Valerie Martin. It is a re-working of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic novel The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. It was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1990 and the...
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Through the Arc of the Rain Forest
Through the Arc of the Rain Forest is a novel by Japanese-American author Karen Tei Yamashita. The novel follows several characters over the course of several years. It is narrated by a small, plastic ball that orbits the head of the main character,...
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The Book of Mercy
The Book of Mercy is the debut novel of the American writer Kathleen Cambor.
Narrated in alternate chapters by Edmund Mueller, a 83-year-old retired Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania firefighter, and his daughter, Anne, a 42-year-old psychiatrist and single...
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The Aguero Sisters
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Lost in Translation
Lost in Translation is the title of a novel written by Nicole Mones and was published by Bantam Dell in 1999, it is the story of an American woman trying to lose her past by living as a translator in China.
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Disturbance of the Inner Ear
Disturbance of the Inner Ear is a book written by Joyce Hackett.
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