This novel unfolds as a series of entries in the journal of a suburban housewife attending college for the first time at the age of thirty-five. Ella’s growing consciousness begins to shake the foundations of her life, and she comes to the realization that she is irrevocably changedand that to be true to herself, she must make painful choices.First published in 1972, Ella Price's Journal is a deeply authentic literary rendering of a woman’s struggle to give voice to what Betty Friedan in The Feminine Mystique called the problem that has no name,” and a novel that affirms the possibility of growth toward a richly intense and authentic life at any age.

Ella Price's journal;: A novel

Bryant, Dorothy

Lippincott

Jessamyn Posey, an aspiring writer, joins forces with a handsome young homicide detective to investigate the poisoning murder of India Wonder, a celebrated author.

Killing Wonder

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Popular Library

The Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You is part love story, part science fiction, at once Jungian myth and utopian allegory. “Truly unforgettable!”—San Francisco Chronicle The kin of Ata live only for the dream. Their work, their art, their love are designed in and by their dreams, and their only aim is to dream higher dreams. Into the world of Ata comes a desperate man, who is first subdued and then led on the spiritual journey that, sooner or later, all of us must make. “A masterful novel . . . a beautiful, symbolic journey of the soul, the journey of a serious dreamer.”—Berkely Monthly

The Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You

Literature & Fiction

United States

Random House]

1987 American Book Award Winner    This ambitious and enchanting novel is both modern-day epic and a work of great emotional and spiritual death. Bold in its historical scope, rich in colorful settings, and eminently readable, Confessions of Madame Psyche also reaches inward, toward quieter truths.     The novel is narrated by Mei0li Murrow, born in San Francisco in 1895, the illegitimate daughter of a charismatic confidence man and the Chinese prostitute he has "rescued" from the streets. After her mother's early death, Mei-li is left to care of her mercenary half-sister Erika. When the young Mei-li, by pure coincidence, predicts the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, Erika contructs her identity as "Madame Psyche"-exploiting Mei'li's exoticism and her clients' yearnings for contact with the dead in a series of ingeniously orchestrated seances that win her renown as a medium in California and then in the death-soaked Europe of the First World War.    Ironically, it is when she manages to finally reject the popular "spirituality" that has made her famous that Mei-li experiences a truer spiritual vision: One day, while walking on the beach, she has a revelation of her connection to all of life-"an experience of hidden reality which I have never doubted...and which left me permanently changed by what I then knew and know still and will always know."    Mei-li's subsequent journey leads her through the aspirations and disappointments of a utopian commune in the Santa Cruz Mountains in the 1920s; to the poverty of migrant work camps in the Depression-era Salinas Valley; and to the courage of the first strikes on San Jose's cannery row. Finally, when the relentless Erika cheats her out of an inheritance by having her committed to the Napa State Hospital, Mee-li finds her greatest wisdom and peace among the outcasts of the asylum-and there writes her "confessions."    Mei'li's story is ensconed in the rich history of Northern California in the first half of the twentieth century, and peopled by comrades of many classes and cultures and lovers both male and female; but her central odyssey remains one of inner discovery. In Confessions of Madame Psyche, Dorothy Bryant has created a character who is so honest in her search for truth, growth, and spiritual understanding that this quest becomes inherent to her survival.

Confessions of Madame Psyche

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Recovering in the hospital after a mysterious accident, retired San Francisco teacher Anna Giardino retraces the events of her life. As she recovers tender but painful memories of her working-class Italian American childhood, her years teaching and eventual disillusionment, she arrives at a new affirmation of her work and life. May Sarton calls the novel a "divining rod into the springs of education....We find ourselves confronted with the grandeur and despair of what it is to be a teacher."

Miss Giardino

NY, NY, U.S.A. : Feminist Press at The City Univ. of New York, 1978

Writing a Novel

Ata Books

Clean, bright used copy with tight binding. NEVER a library book.

Garden of Eros

Prisoners

A bond grows between Sally Morgan, a fifty-year-old woman whose marriage is dissolving and whose children no longer need her, and the twenty-five-year-old prison inmate she corresponds with and encourages to write poetry

Prisoners: A Novel

Jessamyn Posey, an aspiring writer, joins forces with a handsome young homicide detective to investigate the poisoning murder of India Wonder, a celebrated author

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Ella Price's journal;: A novel

Killing Wonder

The Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You

Confessions of Madame Psyche

Miss Giardino

Writing a Novel

Garden of Eros

Prisoners

Prisoners: A Novel

Killing Wonder