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	How I Came To the Goddess - Patricia Austin(1 day) Open Mic Poetry - featuring Nancy Fierstein(3 days) Open Book: A Reading & Exhibition of Books Made in the Bookmaking Workshop with Shay Youngblood(10 days) Readings, Signing & Reception - Experiments in a Jazz Aesthetic: Activism, Academia, & the Austin Project (13 days) Conscious Relationship for Women with Heather Ash Amara(15 days) Fall Equinox Music Show featuring Nancy Scott & Friends(17 days) An Evening with Lesbian Authors - Carsen Tate, VK Powell & Julie Cannon(18 days) Brown Babies, Pink Parents - Amy Ford(20 days) BookWoman BookGroup - Just Don’t Call Me Ma’am(22 days) Reading + Signing with Panthea Reid, author of "Tillie Olsen: One Woman, Many Riddles"(23 days) more

Jay started working at BookWoman in May, 2009, in hopes of making a contribution to one of the few remaining feminist bookstores in the country. Jay has an English Literature and Philosophy degree from Mount Holyoke College and is currently working towards an MFA in Photography via the Academy of Art, San Francisco's online program.

August Book Picks

Jay's monthly reading list, filled with fabulous books you should run to BookWoman to buy. Immediately.

Bright-Sided: How Positive Thinking Is Undermining America (Paperback)

By Barbara Ehrenreich

$15.00

ISBN-13: 9780312658854
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Picador, 08/01/2010

Bright-Sided: How Positive Thinking Is Undermining America - I think the title says it all. From Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed, the writing is top notch and her unique insights promise to provide great food for thought.

Believer, Issue 73 (Paperback)

By Editors of the Believer

$12.00

ISBN-13: 9781934781777
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: McSweeney's, Believer Magazine, 07/01/2010

This is the music issue - complete with CD. Full of great articles and fabulous writing, the Believer is a wonderful read.

Barbara Kruger (Hardcover)

By Hal Foster (Introduction by), Miwon Kwon (Contribution by), Martha Gever (Contribution by)

$65.00

ISBN-13: 9780847833252
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Rizzoli, 04/01/2010

It's Barbara Kruger - what else do you need to know? Her art is fabulous and groundbreaking. Her messages get to the point and offer blunt statements for people to heed. This should be in every feminist art lover's library.

You're a Horrible Person, But I Like You: The Believer Book of Advice (Paperback)

By The Believer

$13.95

ISBN-13: 9780307475237
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Vintage, 04/01/2010

From the Believer magazine comes this hilarious advice book, filled with the sage wisdom from Sarah Silverman, Sarah Vowell, Amy Sedaris, Janeane Garofalo, Rainn Wilson, and Michael Sera, among others.