YVONNE FAIR TESSLER - Braille Institute of America

HARRISON, SUE
Mother Earth, Father Sky
RC 31959
The author, a student of Native American languages who has also done
archaeological research, chronicles the migration of an ancient Native
American tribe in Ice Age America. Chagak has just been given the
status of woman when her village is attacked, and everyone is killed
except her and her baby brother. Chagak then begins a journey in
search of her grandfather that becomes a quest for survival and
revenge.
My Sister the Moon
RC 34011
This sequel to Mother Earth, Father Sky (RC 31959) focuses on the
two sons of Chagak and her husband Kayugh and on Kiin, the
girl-child of Gray Bird. Gray Bird had let Kiin live only because
Kayugh promised to marry her to one of his sons. Now sixteen, Kiin,
often abused by her father, is ready to be wed. But she is intended for
one son and in love with the other.
HILL, CAROL, 1942-
Henry James' Midnight Song
RC 38359
Set in Vienna at the end of the nineteenth century, a time when
Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Edith Wharton, and Henry James were
creating considerable excitement in intellectual circles. It was also a
time when women were murdered with surprising frequency and
anti-Semitism was on the rise. When a Frenchman arrives to
investigate the crimes, each celebrity becomes either a witness or a
suspect, while the detective undergoes psychoanalysis.
HOBHOUSE, JANET, 1948-
The Furies
RC 38378
Published posthumously, this autobiographical novel portrays four
generations of women. The author thinly disguises herself as Helen
Lowell, whose fractured childhood evolves within an exclusively
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