Valerie Miner

• Jan-1982
• / Suspense
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"Blood Sisters" is a gripping story created with themes of real substance and wide appeal. While this sizzling novel is considered a classic of 1970s feminist literary fiction, the story is all too timely today as we face violent debate about nati...

• Jan-1983
• / Suspense
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An assistant professor’s fight against campus harassment soon becomes a fight for her life in this “totally compelling and utterly modern mystery” (Judy Grahn, American Book Award–winning author).

Assistant ...

• Aug-1989
• / General Fiction
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This novel in stories tracks ten years in the life of Susan, a journalist and feminist, during a time of transition in America Susan is an activist. And yet, though her political ideals form the center of her life, she questions her convictions. At...

• Aug-1989
• / General Fiction
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A collection of stories touching on the lives and upbringing of women across the world, spanning Europe, America, Africa and Asia. The author is a political activist in America and her previous novels include "Movement", "Blood Sisters", "All Good wo...

• Jun-1994
• / General Fiction
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“Here comes a walking fire,” the Fool says to Lear as he sees Gloucester walking across a heath carrying a torch. This novel opens in fall, 1988, as Cora, an anti-war activist, returns to the U.S. from Canada where she has lived for twenty years....

• Aug-2003
• / General Fiction
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Here is a collection of short stories that spans the globe but also finds time to examine the quiet shifts in an individual’s sense of self. In Trespassing and Other Stories, Valerie Miner touches on the lives and histories of many people in di...

• Sep-2004
• / Science Fiction
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Abundant Light, Valerie Miner's fourth collection of short fiction, reveals a master storyteller writing in her prime. This collection looks closely at definitions of family and asks how this fragile and frightening entity can shape us, nurture us, o...

• Apr-2007
• / Literary
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Loss and renewal in the lives of an individual and a community

After Eden is a provocative novel that examines the meaning of home and homelessness among people who see such issues as more than abstractions. In a story populated by Pomo Ind...

• Sep-2013
• / General Fiction
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Doctor Monica Murphy quits her cutting-edge Minneapolis medical practice to work at Catholic medical mission in a decaying hill station in northern India. There, she confronts questions about the nature of faith, religious imperialism, the troubled p...

• Aug-2014
• / Historical
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As World War II rages abroad, a group of women forge the bonds of sisterhood in America In 1938, while tensions in Europe are reaching a boiling point, four young women with big ambitions enter secretarial school in San Francisco. Motivated to att...

• Aug-2014
• / General Fiction
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These thirteen stories by acclaimed writer Valerie Miner explore family and intimacy in ways that are simultaneously surprising and deeply familiarThe complex nature of relationships is at the foreground of this poignant and tender collection. In the...

• Aug-2014
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-2020
• / Psychological Suspense
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Compelling and vivid, the stories in Bread and Salt use the metaphor of salvage to consider the reclamation of the natural environment, human relationships, and material objects. The characters in these stories live and travel in Tunisia, India, Indo...