Rachel Pollack, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $23.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-24659-4
Throughout part one, Pollack (Godmother Night) succeeds in building suspense over the identity of the mysterious woman of the title, but once the secret is out in part two, the novel becomes a treatise on transsexualism with much talk about a...
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Rachel Pollack, Author . Magic Realist $14.95 (209p) ISBN 978-1-905572-09-0
A perfect, powerful deck of tarot cards weaves through this slightly haphazard assortment of eight fables from World Fantasy Award–winner Pollack (Unquenchable Fire
). The underwhelming title story sets the stage for tales that run the gamut...
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Rachel Pollack, Author Overlook Press $23.95 (390p) ISBN 978-0-87951-447-1
This compelling, surrealistic fantasy takes place in the U.S. 87 years after a second Revolution--mystical, feminist and green; in this America, the laws of nature embrace miracles as everyday but honored occurrences, which are monitored and...
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Rachel Pollack, Author Overlook Press $13.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-87951-530-0
Pollack's Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning feminist fantasy is set mainly in New York's Hudson Valley. (Aug.)
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Rachel Pollack, Author Franklin Watts $0 (246p) ISBN 978-0-531-15070-2
Jaimi Cooper has spent seven years as a planet rep, negotiating one contract after another to buy rare deposits of rhovium, the crystal essential to spaceflight. Now, anticipating a promotion out of field work, he comes to the Lukai, a tribe who...
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Rachel Pollack, Author St. Martin's Press $18.95 (202p) ISBN 978-0-312-11077-2
Pollack's latest presumes knowledge of its prequel, Unquenchable Fire, in which entities known as Bright Beings, Malignant Ones and Benign Ones actively participate in human affairs. In any case, this is a first-rate work, comprised of two related...
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Rachel Pollack, Author St. Martin's Press $24.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-14606-1
Departing from the future society she traced in Unquenchable Fire and Temporary Agency (a Nebula Award finalist), Pollack imagines with flair a fantasy world sprawled across the back of a giant turtle. At a dance at a college in a city ""in the...
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Rachel Pollack, Author, Zins, Editor . Llewellyn $16.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-7387-0507-1
Tied closely to an intricate painting by Hermann Haindl, this comprehensive look at the tradition of the Tree of Life is part art extrapolation, part multi-denominational history. The "journey of balance and growth" refers as much to the...
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Rachel Pollack, Author, Cheryl Schwartz, With Puffin Books $6.99 (160p) ISBN 978-0-14-037254-0
""You are not alone"" is the intrinsic message of this frank, reassuring book aimed at teenagers who either are questioning their sexual orientations or have acknowledged that they are gay. The authors repeatedly emphasize the importance of self-acce
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Rachel Pollack, Author, Cheryl Schwartz, With Viking Children's Books $14.99 (160p) ISBN 978-0-670-85845-3
""You are not alone"" is the intrinsic message of this frank, reassuring book aimed at teenagers who either are questioning their sexual orientations or have acknowledged that they are gay. The authors repeatedly emphasize the importance of self-acce
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Rachel Pollack. PM, $14 trade paper (128p) ISBN 978-1-62963-578-1
This haphazard but enjoyable collection, primarily a celebration and exploration of trans identities, includes short stories, an essay, and an interview with boundary-breaking author Pollack (Godmother Night). Pollack’s stories flit from fantastical
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