Research Catalog

Title

Read on-- women's fiction : reading lists for every taste / Rebecca Vnuk.

Author

Vnuk, Rebecca.

Publication

Santa Barbara, Calif. : Libraries Unlimited/ABC-CLIO, ©2009.

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Details

Description

xiv, 126 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

An indispensable book for every readers' advisor offers new reading lists of women's fiction for RA, handouts, websites, or for readers to browse for that next great read.

Series Statement

Read on series

Uniform Title

Read on series

Alternative Title

Women's fiction

Subject

• 1900-2009
• American fiction > 21st century > Bibliography
• American fiction > 20th century > Bibliography
• American fiction > Women authors > Bibliography
• Women > Books and reading > United States
• Fiction in libraries > United States
• Readers' advisory services > United States
• Public libraries > United States > Book lists
• American fiction
• American fiction > Women authors
• Fiction in libraries
• Public libraries
• Readers' advisory services
• Women
• Women > Books and reading
• United States

Genre/Form

• bibliographies.
• Bibliographies
• Lists
• Bibliographies.
• Romans.

Note

• Includes index.

Contents

Ch. 1. Story -- Oh No He Didn't! -- Getting Crafty -- Working Women -- Dating Game -- What Would You Do? -- Second Chances -- Soap Operas -- Milestone Birthdays -- Big Transition -- It's Beginning to Look a lot like Christmas -- Grand Dames of Story -- World Will Never Be the Same Again: Life During Wartime -- In Sickness and in Health: Women Dealing with Illness -- Ch. 2. Character -- Like Mother, Like Daughter -- Dissimilar Sisters -- Nobody Told Me There'd Be Days Like These: Mommy Lit -- Pregnant Pauses -- What's the Matter with Kids These Days? -- Mothers-In-Law -- After He's Gone: Widow Lit -- Here Comes the Bride -- There Goes the Bride -- Unhappy in Their Own Way -- Putting the Fun in Dysfunctional -- I Get By with a Little Help -- Of a Certain Age -- With Friends Like These -- We're All the Same After All: Multicultural Reads -- Sappho's Daughters: Lesbian Women's Fiction -- Songbirds -- All the World's a Stage -- Ch. 3. Setting -- Brit Lit -- Rich Are Different -- In a Different Time -- Single in the City -- South Shall Rise Again -- Our Town -- What's Cooking? -- Queens of the Wild Frontier -- American Beauty -- Ch. 4. Mood -- Cry Me a River -- I Still Miss My Ex, But My Aim Is Getting Better -- Mysterious Ladies -- Gentle Reads -- Beyond Oprah -- Ladies Who Laugh -- Thrill of It All -- Beautiful and Blessed Are They: Christian Chick Lit -- Paranormal Paramours -- Isn't It Romantic? -- Turn Up the Heat: Sexy Stories -- Ch. 5. Language -- Fast Talk -- Never Hit "Reply All" -- Dear Diary -- Girl Talkin' -- Literary Lasses -- Classics in the Field -- Keep It Short and Sweet.

ISBN

• 9781591586340
• 1591586348

LCCN

2009012315

OCLC

• ocn318420830
• 318420830
• SCSB-1522834

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library