https://www.giantbooks.org/books daily 1.0 2025-11-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68a84b06ee9dcd52a48f8b48/a408bf4f-3067-42dd-af87-703dd2793d1c/Giant+White+logo+final.jpg https://www.giantbooks.org/books/marjorielee-dhtlf monthly 0.5 2025-10-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68a84b06ee9dcd52a48f8b48/72c796a8-3c12-4c8a-bf55-258cec7aa09e/Untitled+design+%2863%29.png Books - Marjorie Lee "In The Lion House, Marjorie Lee has written a book that is both brilliant and brave. She delves beneath the surface of deeds and emotions to deftly expose the savage that lies in all of us, even those who live in supposed serenity in the suburbs. Every woman will recognize parts of herself in the two leading characters....This is an exciting, original book brimming over with dialogue that is devastating in its pungency and its perception." Lucy Freeman author of Fight Against Fears https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68a84b06ee9dcd52a48f8b48/06736e2e-75c2-47ab-b076-10ad85a2ea08/Untitled+design+%2862%29.png Books - Marjorie Lee The Eye of Summer is the story of two cousins, a young girl and boy, attractive, talented, precocious, and frightened. They have been given good schooling, good books, good taste--everything except a sense of belonging. Behind their glib facade, they are vulnerable and insecure. As they continue to grow, each year closer and more dependent upon each other, their demands become more urgent and complex. Dream evolves to nightmare, and their relationship turns into a devouring attachment in which innocence can no longer survive. With a blend of compassion and bitter humor, Marjorie Lee brings brilliantly to life her protagonists' gallant efforts to gain an understanding of themselves and of each other. https://www.giantbooks.org/books/ruthstout-nnnte monthly 0.5 2025-10-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68a84b06ee9dcd52a48f8b48/a3e25268-8856-45dc-8f8f-f4371112838c/Untitled+design+%2829%29.png Books - Ruth Stout Do your own thinking and follow through with actions…do what you feel like doing and not what’s expected of you…don’t believe you are caught in the cogs of a wheel from which you can’t escape. These are the tenets of Ruth Stout’s no-nonsense, endlessly practical 1960 book, It’s a Woman’s World. Stout, author of the much-admired The Ruth Stout No-Work Garden Book, may not challenge traditional gender roles, but she displays a fierce independence along with a wealth of specific advice about how to upend life’s daily challenges. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68a84b06ee9dcd52a48f8b48/2589e982-be34-4e29-b342-1af28b0081d9/Untitled+design+%2830%29.png Books - Ruth Stout In this 1962 book, Ruth Stout, author of How to Have a Green Thumb Without an Aching Back and It’s a Woman's World, shows in her inimitably outspoken, common-sense, and practical fashion how to achieve more enjoyment and peace of mind in daily living by recognizing that humble joys are better than none, making our minds toe the mark, growing up emotionally, not depending on things that can desert you, and throwing petty values on the trash pile, among other techniques. https://www.giantbooks.org/books/shirleyverel-barcs monthly 0.5 2025-10-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68a84b06ee9dcd52a48f8b48/236d5d49-7960-4e7c-bd52-fba08ef51cd1/Untitled+design+%2831%29.png Books - Shirley Verel The Dark Side of Venus, Shirley Verel’s “overlooked treasure,” tells the story of love between two women in mid-century England, in writing that is “beautifully and unforgettably wrought…bold and precise while personal and evocative.” (From the Afterword.) First published in 1960, the novel is a classic of lesbian literature—a suspenseful and moving, nuanced and literate story of love in the face of the destructive forces of societal convention. Includes an afterword by Dia Tsung, publisher of theinkbrain. https://www.giantbooks.org/books/veracaspary-cg6fg monthly 0.5 2025-10-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68a84b06ee9dcd52a48f8b48/ddc5ed09-5cee-4f53-807c-45c06cd6fb51/Untitled+design+%2864%29.png Books - Vera Caspary Thinking she is being escorted to a Halloween party by a masked guest, a schoolteacher finds herself in the middle of a gang war and a moral dilemma pitting her independence against two very different sorts of love. https://www.giantbooks.org/books/lindamichaels-p5g59 monthly 0.5 2025-08-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68a84b06ee9dcd52a48f8b48/83dd1c41-bb4b-453b-8024-c24e2a905d2d/Untitled+design+%2837%29.png Books - Linda Michaels Newly arrived in New York City, a naïve young woman on the make finds that her innocuous department store job is an entre into the world of syndicate gambling that soon ensnares her. Numbers Girl, a 1961 novel is an example of single working women trapped in a social structure that provides few options for independence. https://www.giantbooks.org/books/fannichols-a6j36 monthly 0.5 2025-10-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68a84b06ee9dcd52a48f8b48/392c68c7-2999-4127-91d6-c62f0ef2b9a5/Untitled+design+%2832%29.png Books - Fan Nichols “A thriller that truly thrills” (Pretty Sinister Books blog), Be Silent, Love (1960) is the story of a woman who finds herself a passenger in a hit-and-run car and a captive of her secret commitments. With a new introduction by J F Norris. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68a84b06ee9dcd52a48f8b48/e99cd2a2-29b9-407e-beb6-884dbbdb481e/Untitled+design+%2833%29.png Books - Fan Nichols When his brother’s wife is found dead, Mitch Mercer takes his brother—a brain-injured ex-fighter—on the run to a rural gambling house, where their troubles only get worse. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68a84b06ee9dcd52a48f8b48/f5e243c8-fd05-47f1-a5d5-d8b1bd1a2987/Untitled+design+%2834%29.png Books - Fan Nichols Wanted for a murder she didn’t commit, a New York City lounge singer hides out in a Florida backwater, where she finds herself caught among a handsome but weak piano player, a possessive racketeer, a local dope syndicate, and a Federal agent. In this 1954 tale of suspense, Fan Nichols again uses an expert crime novel to depict the societal traps that capture women. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68a84b06ee9dcd52a48f8b48/3394b661-cace-4192-81f1-52b8f4e39115/Untitled+design+%2836%29.png Books - Fan Nichols In her 1951 novel Dolly, Fan Nichols gives us a pulpier version of Patricia Highsmith, in which a small weakness of an itinerate worker expands into a damning self-created downward spiral toward destruction as he fruitlessly attempts to free himself from a femme fatale. “Dolly is a real book written by a really lovely woman. Instead of containing the agreed upon ‘realism’ of the literary cults of the Cerf Bored tradition, it contains real realism…. Fan has always been adored by readers who read because they want to instead of to accumulate fake culture….” Jack Woodford (from the introduction) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68a84b06ee9dcd52a48f8b48/6dd6b4c7-4e6f-42da-980a-65283065aed9/Untitled+design+%2835%29.png Books - Fan Nichols See all formats and editions When a murder plot between an heiress and chauffeur goes wrong a lone-wolf insurance investigator finds himself torn between the seductive daughter and a beautiful innocent bystander. https://www.giantbooks.org/books/ursulaparrott-p5g59-6azcp monthly 0.5 2025-11-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68a84b06ee9dcd52a48f8b48/9a5a779a-22c5-4072-9d4b-05b4168f0f61/Untitled+design+%2851%29.png Books - Ursula Parrott The 1930 follow-up to the scandalous bestseller Ex-Wife, Ursula Parrott’s Strangers May Kiss is a moving melodrama of a young woman who arrives in Jazz Age New York, seeking adventure and determined to avoid marriage, and enters into a long-term affair with a brilliant newspaper reporter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68a84b06ee9dcd52a48f8b48/7800c3ef-cd73-438b-913d-db1a3dbd009d/Untitled+design+%2839%29.png Books - Ursula Parrott Navy Nurse is the romance of an avowed pacifist nurse and a duty-bound Navy commander on a hospital ship in the Atlantic during World War II. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68a84b06ee9dcd52a48f8b48/aecebcb5-fdd1-441e-95af-a47d5a33e8ec/Untitled+design+%2838%29.png Books - Ursula Parrott In this 1943 romantic adventure by the author of the acclaimed novel Ex-Wife, two pilots, a man and a woman, are forced to land in a remote, snowbound forest, where for months they battle cold, storms, hunger, and the moral dilemma of their mutual attraction while engaged to two others. https://www.giantbooks.org/books/bonniegolightly-p5g59-6azcp-zsgyc monthly 0.5 2025-11-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68a84b06ee9dcd52a48f8b48/35cd6f8e-2fd6-4e04-b683-c703ca488bc6/Untitled+design+%2853%29.png Books - Bonnie Golightly In Bonnie Golightly’s 1959 novel Beat Girl, Chloe Longtree, a quick-witted, wealthy, seventeen-year-old orphan, sets out to establish herself in New York City. Confident but vulnerable, she searches from the Upper East Side to Greenwich Village for “Beautiful People.” The deception and disappointment she encounters, although harsh, are steps toward empowerment in this poignant and funny work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68a84b06ee9dcd52a48f8b48/58983a5d-e55d-4d46-8a64-58a1b815449d/Untitled+design+%2852%29.png Books - Bonnie Golightly The Wild One by Bonnie Golightly is a 1957 novel about a sensitive, perceptive teenager from a wealthy family—her father dead and her mother a dying alcoholic—who falls in and out of love with older men as she seeks to understand her developing identity. Poignant, funny, and captivating, The Wild One has been compared with Françoise Sagan’s Bonjour Tristesse and deserves a new and broader audience. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68a84b06ee9dcd52a48f8b48/6b285372-d315-4cce-8a0b-74541b846b0c/Untitled+design+%2818%29.jpg Books - Bonnie Golightly In the 1960 novel The Intimate Ones, Bonnie Golightly delves into the slowly unraveling lives of three young New York City grifters with biting humor, deep insight, and striking empathy, particularly for the societal cruelty toward young women.   This edition of The Intimate Ones contains a rare profile of Bonnie Golightly based in part on an extensive interview conducted with her shortly before her death. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68a84b06ee9dcd52a48f8b48/581c79c2-60f0-46d9-8f27-f946ac6bc976/Untitled+design+%2850%29.png Books - Bonnie Golightly Nine years married, a wife suspects she is pregnant while a husband suspects he is about to be fired after a corporate takeover. In this novelization of the 1958 film The High Cost of Loving, Bonnie Golightly invests a screwball-comedy plot with authentic emotions of marital joys and frustrations and big-business cruelty. https://www.giantbooks.org/books/elaine-dundy monthly 0.5 2025-11-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68a84b06ee9dcd52a48f8b48/8d0960b6-672f-4a0d-9211-99362ae018a1/PRINT+VERSION+%283%29.png Books - Elaine Dundy Elaine Dundy’s follow-up to the immensely successful novel The Dud Avocado was a now-little-known play, My Place, first performed in 1962. Set in the dressing room of an actress who doesn’t have a place of her own to live, My Place, according to author Clancy Sigal depicts "a new race of working-class, provincial, free-living and insecure actors, without traditions or education and needing and resisting both. These are tough, poignant young people, wanting to be themselves but desperately afraid of being phonied up if anyone official, or anything systematic, touches them. In this sense they are symptomatic of that whole social class of ‘new wave’ young English people. We envy their groping and their embattled pride.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68a84b06ee9dcd52a48f8b48/f0d6a229-69cf-4f2b-ad38-906915c54f07/PRINT+VERSION+%282%29.png Books - Elaine Dundy Elaine Dundy’s follow-up to the immensely successful novel The Dud Avocado was a now-little-known play, My Place, first performed in 1962. Set in the dressing room of an actress who doesn’t have a place of her own to live, My Place, according to author Clancy Sigal depicts "a new race of working-class, provincial, free-living and insecure actors, without traditions or education and needing and resisting both. These are tough, poignant young people, wanting to be themselves but desperately afraid of being phonied up if anyone official, or anything systematic, touches them. In this sense they are symptomatic of that whole social class of ‘new wave’ young English people. We envy their groping and their embattled pride.”