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English
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"An audacious new novel about the bodies we live in and the bodies we desire In Brexit Britain, a young transgender doctor called Ry is falling in love - against their better judgement - with Victor Stein, a celebrated professor leading the public debate around AI. Meanwhile, Ron Lord, just divorced and living with Mum again, is set to make his fortune launching a new generation of sex dolls for lonely men everywhere. Across the Atlantic, in Phoenix,...
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Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
230 p. ; 22 cm.
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English
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This memoir is a tough-minded search for belonging, for love, an identity, a home, and a mother by the author of "Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit"--winner of the Whitbread First Novel award and the inspiration behind the award-winning BBC television adaptation "Oranges."
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
292 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A collection of stories written annually at Christmas includes tales of trees with magical powers, a tinsel baby that talks, flying dogs, philosophical fairies, and a haunted house.
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"A captivating collection of ghost stories from "one of the most gifted writers working today" (New York Times), Night Side of the River is as ingeniously provocative as it is downright spooky. In this delightfully chilling collection, the iconic Jeanette Winterson turns her fearless gaze to the realm of ghosts, interspersing her own encounters with the supernatural alongside hair-raising fictions. Lifting the veil between the living and the dead,...
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Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
206 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mankind has rendered its planet unlivable and is beginning to colonize a new blue planet. Our heroine Billie Crusoe's flight to the future is also a return to the distant past - "Everything is imprinted forever with what once was." What begins as a witty, satirical futurist adventure deepens into a dazzling exploration of our relationship to environment, to power and technology, and to what defines us as humans.
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Series
Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First United States edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 283 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A modern retelling of Shakespeare's "The Winter's Tale" moves from London after the 2008 financial crisis to the storm-ravaged American city of New Bohemia, in a story of the destructive effect of jealousy and the redemptive power of love.
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English
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Winner of the Whitbread Prize for best first fiction, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a coming-out novel from Winterson, the acclaimed author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. The narrator, Jeanette, cuts her teeth on the knowledge that she is one of God's elect, but as this budding evangelical comes of age, and comes to terms with her preference for her own sex, the peculiar balance of her God-fearing household crumbles.
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Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
ix, 224 pages ; 19 cm.
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English
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Alice Nutter fights for justice when a group of Pendle women are accused of witchcraft during the reign of England's James I, when being Catholic is considered an act of treason and the Latin High Mass is comparable to the satanic Black Mass.
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Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
232 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Taken in by the enigmatic blind keeper of the Cape Wrath lighthouse, an orphaned Silver listens as the aged man recounts stories that center around a nineteenth-century clergyman who lived a paradoxical life.
12) The passion
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Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
1988, c1987
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
160 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Set during the tumultuous years of the Napoleonic Wars, The Passion intertwines the destinies of two remarkable people: Henri, a simple French soldier, who follows Napoleon from glory to Russian ruin; and Villanelle, the red-haired, web-footed daughter of a Venetian boatman, whose husband has gambled away her heart. In Venice's compound of carnival, chance, and darkness, the pair meets their singular destiny.
13) Hansel and Greta
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Publisher
Haymarket Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
29 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Greta lives with her brother, Hansel, on the edge of a great forest, a forest in danger of destruction. GreedyGuts, their aunt, doesn't appreciate Hansel and Greta's plans to replant trees and save the forest. In fact, she thinks they're horrible little vegetarians. GreedyGuts doesn't give two hoots about nature. She favors luxury and living it up: eating, shopping, and partying hard. And so she hatches a plan to get rid of the meddling, do-gooder...
14) Weight
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Series
Publisher
Canongate
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
xvi, 151 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Myth of Atlas and Heracles retold and performed by Dick Hill and Susie Breck. Weight turns the familiar on its head to show us ourselves in a new light.
15) Gut symmetries
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Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1997
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
223 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Aboard the QE2 and under the stars, three lives converge. Two physicists - Jove, a married man, and Alice, a single woman - meet and commence an affair, only for Alice to fall in love with Jove's wife, Stella, a poet. Winterson captures all three sides of this triangle of desire - and the rich history that has brought them together - with her prodigious passion and intellect. Encompassing ideas that reach from the Greeks to the Grand Unified Theories...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 324 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Twelve eye-opening, mind-expanding, funny, and provocative essays on the implications of artificial intelligence for the way we live and the way we love from New York Times bestselling author Jeanette Winterson. "Talky, smart, anarchic and quite sexy," wrote Dwight Garner in the New York Times about Jeanette Winterson's last novel, Frankissstein, her first foray into the subject of AI. In 12 Bytes, Winterson's first nonfiction since her bestselling...
19) The PowerBook
Author
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
289 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
20) Tanglewreck
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
414 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Silver sets out to find the Timekeeper--a clock that controls time--and to protect it from falling into the hands of two people who want to use the device for their own nefarious ends.
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