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As Wil prepares to turn 21, she starts taking stock of her life. Recently released from the hospital after breaking up with her college boyfriend, she still feels depressed, not [...]

Think of her as the Vidal Sassoon of Japan. She is Ikue Yamazaki, now 75, and this book reveals her to be curmudgeon, feminist, shrewd businesswoman, artist, dreamer, and superstitious [...]

This book makes the Singapore caning incident seem tame. French national Saubin, then 20 and traveling through Asia, was set up by her Chinese lover, arrested for trafficking heroin, and [...]

What happens when a middle-aged English author-publisher's quiet London life collides with that of a charismatic, mad, American black militant? Total unpredictability, of course; that's what makes this story so [...]

Kipnis, Aaron and Herron, Elizabeth. Feb. 1994. 256p. index. Morrow, $22.95 (0-688-11924-7). Galley. 305.3 Sex role ∥ Communication--Sex differences [BKL] 93-31479 Aiming to explore the differences between the sexes and [...]

Kennedy, Geraldine. Jan. 1994. 304p. illus. Clover Park, PO. Box 5067, Santa Monica, CA 90409-5067, $22 (0-9628632-1-1). Galley. YA 916.6 Sahara--Description and travel ∥ Voyages and travels [BKL] 93-073120 It [...]

Booth, Alan. May 1995. 416p. Kodansha, $25 (1-56836-065-7). Galley. 952.04'8 Japan--Description and travel [OCLC] 95-6264 Likening Booth to fellow quirky British traveler-writer Bruce Chatwin is inevitable, but Booth was kinder [...]

It's hard to believe some stories are true, so fantastic are their circumstances; this novel based on the life of Lue Gim Gong, a world-renowned plant cultivator who developed an [...]

The authors of Overcoming Overeating ( 1988) consider women's eating disorders and distorted self-images. They promote a combination of behavior and thought modification to get at not only eating patterns [...]

Were it not for the title, this book would be more likable. Our Health, Our Lives suggests that it is related to the landmark Our Bodies, Ourselves. Anyone expecting the [...]

Lee, Chang-Rae. Mar. 1995. 336p. Putnam/Riverhead, $21.95 (1-57322-001-9). Galley. Lyrical, mysterious, and nuanced, the poignant moodiness of this first novel by a 28-year-old Korean American lingers long after the final [...]

In this levelheaded and compassionate book, the founder of an organization that teaches self-defense to all ages addresses some of the key issues of women's safety. Made up of case [...]

Another wonderful-horrible story emerges from behind the bamboo curtain to show just how inhumane and brutal Mao's Cultural Revolution really was. As a toddler, Niu-Niu watched her house be destroyed, [...]

Her curiosity piqued by a few old photographs, Chong retraced a family history that spanned an ocean and linked two continents. The epic tale she unearthed was that of her [...]

Medical sociologist Davis tries to codify the complex decision-making process women undergo when deciding whether to alter their appearance surgically and to reconcile how a feminist could choose to alter [...]

Few reminiscences are as beautifully written and thoughtfully shaped as this one, and few are as interesting. Davis recounts the passion and the urgency of the Communist Party in the [...]

Laferriere, Dany. Tr. by David Homel. Dec. 1994. 21 Op. Coach House; dist. by Consortium, paper, $11.95 (0-88910-480-8). Galley. See Focus, p.475. Liu Sola. Chaos and All That. Tr. by [...]

Wise, Nancy Baker and Wise, Christy. Nov. 1994. 276p. index. illus. Jossey-Bass, $24 (1-55542-703-0). Galley. YA 331.4'0973 Women--Employment--U.S--History--20th century ∥ World War, 1939--1945--Women--U.S. [CIP] 94-11929 Rosie the Riveter--that World War [...]

Women's Words, Women's Stories: Nov. 1994. 528p. illus. Tilbury. dist. by Consortium, $24.95 (0-88448-143-3). Galley. YA 305.4'0973 Women--U.S.--Biography [CIP] 94-15754 Editor Edgerly affords us an intimate view of the inner [...]

Ferguson, Trudie C. and Sharples, Madeline. Nov. 1994. 264p. New Horizon, $23.95 (0-88282-092-3); paper, $13.95 (0-88282-093-1). Galley. YA 305.5'62 Blue collar workers--Interviews ∥ Women in trade unions--Interviews ∥ Women--Employment [BKL] [...]

It's strange: a biography that says you can learn the most about its subject--one of the world's best-known, most revered filmmakers--by watching his films. On-screen, Fellini's childhood and adolescence, his [...]

What happens when a seventysomething woman suddenly finds herself with three teenagers to raise? This isn't the setup for a sitcom but a slice of Carpenter's life. She had already [...]

During her six years covering the Middle East for the Wall Street Journal, Brooks sought to find out how Muslim women feel about their societies' attitudes toward women. What she [...]

As one of the most prominent high-ranking female politicians of her day, Dianne Feinstein has always generated interest. But biographies of politicians rarely afford a glimpse behind the public persona, [...]

Thanks to skilled writing, sharp observation, and irreverent humor, Hitt's travel memoir is engaging without being cute, insightful without being self-absorbed, informative without being boring. It starts with what, for [...]

There are real gems of insight in these essays by an Italian American woman who grew up in a Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn at a time when the WASP dream [...]

As the web of secrecy surrounding China's recent past continues to unravel, stories too amazing for fiction emerge as frequently as sexual harassment charges against Bill Clinton. One example is [...]

Every once in a while, a childhood memoir effortlessly transports us to another world in which we dwell happily for the duration of the book. From its opening - 'I [...]

The subject matter of editor Robinson's book - women past and present who, against conventional wisdom, dared venture off to see the world - is inherently interesting. And the concept [...]

Pu Ning. Twenty-six Years in Communist Chinese Prisons. Tr. by Tung Chung-Hsuan and others. Apr. 1994. 272p. Grove/Atlantic, $21 (0-8021-1454-7). Galley. YA 895.1'351 Wu-ming-shih, pseud. ∥ Political prisoners--china--biography [BKL] 93-12025 [...]

Henry, Sherrye. June 1994. 416 p. Macmillan, $25 (0-02-551015-0). Galley. 305.4'0973 Women --U.S.--Attitudes [BKL] 93.38876 Henry thinks American women do not understand equality. A broadcast journalist for many years, she [...]

Glendinning, Chellis. May 1994. 240p. index. Shambhala; dist. by Random, paper, $13 (0-87773-996-X). Galley. 155.9'1 Human ecology--Psychological aspects ∥ Civilization, Modem--20th century--Psychological aspects [BKL] 93-39136 This brilliant, offbeat, and ultimately [...]

Choosing to live hundreds of miles from civilization, without running water, electricity, medical care, and other comforts of twentieth-century life, shouldn't amaze us anymore. Kawatski's story, however, is still pretty [...]

Feng Jicai is an extraordinary writer and thinker wildly popular in China but relatively unknown outside it. His title refers to the ideal size of the golden lotus,' i.e., the [...]

The son of American Presbyterian missionaries in Shanghai, where he was born, Espey in this delightful collection of essays manages to respect his childhood experiences while still pointing out the [...]

Bell is right to acknowledge the courageous contributions the earliest female flyers made to aviation; it was against great odds, she points out, that women broke the gender barrier and [...]

This is an honest and frightening memoir of growing up in Communist China during the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s. Min describes a systematically deprived Shanghai childhood (the [...]

Branden practically invented the concept of self-esteem and was probably most responsible for promoting it in this country. His latest book is another solid effort that builds on his previous [...]

Kogawa, Joy. Jan. 1994. 352p. Doubleday/Anchor, paper, $9 (0-385-46885-7). Galley. The title means someday, and it refers to redress for the treatment of Japanese Canadians during World War II. Like [...]

Schweid, Richard. Jan. 1994. 208p. Ten Speed, $16.95 (0-89815-578-9); paper, $9.95 (0-89815-585-1). Galley. 946'.72 Barcelona (Spain)--Description travel [BKL] 93-34508 What's life like in post-Franco Barcelona? Schweid spent a year--fall 1991 [...]

Saheblam, Freidoune. Jan. 1994. 168p. Arcade; dist. by Little, Brown, $15.95 (1-55970-233-8). Galley. 306.73'6 Adultery--Iran--Case studies ∥ Storing--Iran [BKL] 93-2173 It is hard to believe that in 1986 a woman [...]

Engwicht, David. Reclaiming Our Cities and Towns: Better Living with Less Traffic. Dec. 1993. 192p, index. illus. New Society, $39.95 (0-86571-282-4); paper, $12.95 (0-86571-283-2). Galley. Anyone who has suffered the [...]