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"Fed up with her married Miami boyfriend, savvy Dulce has no problem stealing his drug-dealer stash and fleeing to her family in the Caribbean. But when she gets bored in rural Santo Domingo, she escapes on a sugar daddy adventure to Puerto Rico. Her new life is one endless party, until she's caught in Hurricane Maria--and witnesses the brutal collision of colonization and climate change, as well as the international vultures who plunder the tragedy...

From an outspoken Iranian author comes a "charming, powerful novella" that is banned in Iran for its depiction of female freedom ( Publishers Weekly ). "Parsipur is a courageous, talented woman, and above all, a great writer." -- Marjane Satrapi, author of Persepolis This modern literary masterpiece follows the interwoven destinies of five women -- including a wealthy middle-aged housewife, a prostitute, and a schoolteacher -- as they arrive by different...

In the Nigerian city of Enugu, two women - Nwabulu, a beautiful housemaid who is in love with a rich man's son, and Julie, educated and privileged, relate the stories of their lives as they await their fate.

The hero of When Women Were Warriors becomes a hero, not by defeating her enemies in battle, although she does that too, but by learning to master herself and to understand the human heart. She becomes, not a powerful person, but a person of power.

The bizarre events that have been occuring across the United States -- unexplained "oddities" tracked by Air Defense, mysterious disappearances, shocking deaths -- seem to have no bearing on Benita Alvarez-Shipton's life. That is, until the soft-spoken thirty-six-year-old bookstore manager is approached by a pair of aliens asking her to transmit their message of peace to the powers in Washington. An abused Albuquerque wife with low self-esteem, Benita...

"Winner of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, "Thanks for This Riot" explores the limits of kindness, the weight of being needed, and the fear of being misunderstood"-- Provided by publisher.

"A most important novel."-The New York Times Book Review A new edition of Louise Meriwether's classic novel about a young Black girl's coming-of-age in Harlem in the 1930s, featuring new writing celebrating Meriwether's life, work, and activism. Francie Coffin is the daughter of a number runner, someone who collects bets for the underground lottery that drives Harlem's secret economy. In Louise Meriwether's classic novel, we see 1930s Harlem through...

"Born from the obsessive and highly idiosyncratic mind of a cult figure of the Japanese underground, these stories borrow themes and subjects familiar to readers of Philip K. Dick and fuses them with a conflicted, tortured, and intense imagination"-- Provided by publisher.

"A biting novel from an electrifying new voice, Kristi DeMeester's Such a Pretty Smile is a heart-stopping tour-de-force about powerful women, angry men, and all the ways in which girls fight against the forces that try to silence them. There's something out there that's killing. Known only as The Cur, he leaves no traces, save for the torn bodies of girls, on the verge of becoming women, who are known as trouble-makers; those who refuse to conform,...