Octavia E. Butler author of "Kindred" i think she is one of less than 5 female, african-american, science fiction writers. and she is young too! kindred is an amazing book i could not put it down.
2006-08-04 11:35:07
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answered by ChornayaKiska 3
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Caridad Ferrer: Adios to My Old Life - A Latina songwriter possibly lands her big break.
Justina Chen Headley: Nothing but the Truth (and a few little white lies) - A half-Caucasian, half-Taiwanese girl struggles to come into her own and get out from underneath her strict mother's thumb.
Tanya Lee Stone: A Bad Boy Can Be Good for a Girl - The intertwining stories of three very different women who have dated the same deceitful man. Written in verse.
Charlotte Vale Alen: Fresh Air - An elderly woman who lives pretty much like a hermit sees a little girl in front of her house - and the unlikely pair become fast friends.
2006-08-04 14:32:34
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answered by Willow_Whedon 3
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What You Owe Me by Bebe Moore Campbell
From Publishers Weekly
The friendship between a black woman and a new immigrant in 1940s California sets in motion events that span two generations in Campbell's (Singing in the Comeback Choir) densely plotted new novel. Hosanna Clark, a maid at an elegant Los Angeles hotel, befriends her new white co-worker Gilda Rosenstein, a Holocaust survivor whose family had owned a cosmetics factory. When Hosanna tries a special lotion Gilda has made, she persuades Gilda to produce it for Hosanna to sell to local black women. They are very successful, and at Gilda's suggestion they open a joint bank account. Not long after, Gilda and her new husband disappear with all their profits. Daughter Matriece, a witness to Hosanna's struggle to survive on her own, resolves to achieve the success her mother never had; she eventually becomes a division president in Gilda's cosmetics empire. Ignorant of Matriece's identity, Gilda mentors the young woman, with whom she feels an unexplained bond. Gilda's reaction, when she finally learns the truth, is unexpected, and she startles everyone with a surprising proposal that brings the story to a neat conclusion. Numerous subplots crowd the novel, covering issues from reparations and education to romance and betrayal. Campbell's detailed treatment of each accounts for the book's length, but all are credibly tied to the central tale. Character portraits are sometimes shallow, and the story's length tests the reader's stamina, but those with the patience to follow its intricate, entwined relationships will find the novel rewarding.
2006-08-04 13:00:45
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answered by socaljules 3
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Dashka Slater: "The Wishing Box"
Harriet Doerr: "Consider this Senora"
Isabel Allenda: "Paula"
Mary Karr: "Cherry"
Sandra Scofield
And don't forget Toni Morrison. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature (around 1995)
2006-08-04 11:43:22
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answered by Bob 3
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I would suggest two women who are well known but not household names. One is Maxine Hong-Kingston, especially her novel "Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book." It is her first fiction novel. She is known as a non-fiction writer, but in either field she is amazingly creative, brilliantly creative, and wonderfully witty. It is always a pleasure for me to read her works and her works are also very illuminating, especially in regard to Chinese/Chinese-American issues.
The second author is Octavia E. Butler, known primarily as a science fiction writer. Her works of science fiction are told from a Black perspective and for a while she was the ONLY acknowledged Black woman writer in the field. Her Xenogenisis trilogy (Dawn, Imago, and Adulthood Rites) stand as one of the most intriguing trilogies in science fiction history, primarily because she includes a feminist perspective, a Black perspective, and a perspective on aliens that is more honest and realistic than what is often found in SF by white writers who have never experienced "alienation" in a profound sense. Her writing isn't "black" per-se, but it WILL ofter insights into the ways that Humans view racial issues, and she provides some interesting insights into what we would also call ALIEN, since the aliens in her stories are NEVER the kinds of aliens that you see in Star Wars or Star Trek, or novels that derive from those sorts of shallow images of "universal existence."
2006-08-04 12:28:22
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answered by chipchinka 3
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A Distant Calling, by P. Thorpe Christiansen, adventure romance
2006-08-04 12:05:03
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answered by chris 5
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I know a very good book its by V.C. Andrews she wrote a series called Flowers in the Attic now if you choose this book the books after all have different titles so dont be confused when you go to look for it.
2006-08-12 09:53:12
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answered by A Friend Of The Band I Swear 2
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Something Borrowed by Emily Giffin
The Sisters of APF by Zane
2006-08-11 14:15:47
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answered by Jáe 2
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jenny nimmo has a series called children of th red king. its kinda like harry potter. so far there are 5 boooks ive read 4 of them and they are great!look her up on google or something
2006-08-04 13:03:36
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answered by turkey slobber 1
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if u like murder mysteries and u think agatha christie is the Queen of Crime, u shld read P.D. James too - (she's a woman too, by the way). P.D. James shld share this title with agatha christie.
2006-08-11 16:42:56
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answered by inquisitive 2
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