Food critic Dorothy Daniels loves what she does. Discerning, meticulous, and very, very smart, Dorothy's clear mastery of the culinary arts make it likely that she could, on any given night, whip up a more inspired dish than any one of the chefs she writes about. Dorothy loves sex as much as she loves food, and while she has struggled to find a long-term partner that can keep up with her, she makes the best of her single life, frequently traveling...

Originally published in 1864, "Moods" was the first book produced by Louisa May Alcott under her real name and pre-dated her hugely popular novel "Little Women". Written for a noticeably more mature audience then her most famous works, "Moods" revolves around the intersecting lives of an abolitionist spinster and a fallen Cuban beauty. Louisa May Alcott (1832 - 1888) was an American short story writer, novelist, and poet most famous for writing the...

This modernist, experimental, and controversial novel examines gender politics in the lives of an American family.   Lesbian poet, journalist, and illustrator Djuna Barnes's debut novel was a sensation when it was originally published in 1928. A bawdy parody of patriarchal repression, the book was heavily censored upon its release in America. An exploration of sexuality that is thought to be based on Barnes's own life, the novel depicts a family...

The Odd Women (1893) is a novel by George Gissing. Inspired by a report of over one million more women living in Britain than men, Gissing sought to explore the societal and personal implications of unmarried life while exploring the demands of the growing feminist movement. The Odd Women is a story of romance, independence, and the pressures of society that poses important questions about convention in Victorian England while proving surprisingly...

Presented here is Volume II of our Feminist Literary Classics series, featuring three more of the most important feminist novels ever written: To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, Daughter of the Samurai by Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto and My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin. The first book in this collection is To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf's experimental and brilliant third novel. This semi-autobiographical book was hailed in its time as a...

Peaky Blinders meets Ocean's 8 in The Forty Elephants, an epic novel set in Roaring Twenties London, based on the real-life, all-female gang of the same name who specialized in crime as high art, targeting posh department stores and elites.

London in the 1920s is no place for a woman with a mind of her own. Gang wars, violence, and an unforgiving world have left pickpocket Alice Diamond scrambling to survive in The Mint, the gritty neighborhood

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"The 666 Dating Myth: Why Superficial Standards Keep You Single (and What You Should Really Be Looking For)" offers a fresh, insightful, and funny take on the modern dating world. In a culture obsessed with height, six-pack abs, and six-figure incomes, this book challenges the superficial standards that are holding you back from finding true love. Author [Author Name] breaks down the numbers, debunks the myths, and guides you through redefining what...

Antoinette is a concert violinist and opera singer. She travels and advocates for causes that aim to make the world a better place.She has a friend, Lilith, who does that as a lawyer, politician...and witch.A few months into the year, they receive a surprise visit from an alien botanist, Ileandra.Follow them throughout an entire year on their adventures!

Novels in English by northern Nigerian writers are few, so the arrival of a new one is an exciting literary event. This dramatic story of the efforts of the heroine and her friends to bring about change in the social conditions of women in Nigeria addresses pressing political issues which rarely appear in fiction-the legal status of Muslim women, the limitations imposed on them by traditional and religious conventions, the restrictions on their economic...

"It is -32083 years from the starting point, belonging to the era of matrilineal primitive tribes."The Gatling space capsule, which is responsible for closing the canopy of cross-time and space live broadcasts, accidentally fell into a parallel time and space 30,000 years ago during a mission. According to the detector prompts, this should be a matriarchal society.But when the team leader climbed out of the cockpit and looked at the low-altitude silent...