Women
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Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More ?Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist
$24.99 Read moreWith a foreword by Eric Metaxas, best-selling author of Bonhoeffer and Amazing Grace.
The enthralling biography of the woman writer who helped end the slave trade, changed Britain’s upper classes, and
- Author: Prior, Karen Swallow
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 28 2014
- ISBN10: 1400206251
- Language: English
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Holding Silvan: A Brief Life
$16.95 Read moreIn the opening of “Holding Silvan: A Brief Life, ” Monica Wesolowska gives birth to her first child, a healthy-seeming boy who is taken from her arms for “observation” when he won’t stop crying. Withi… [more below]
- Author: Wesolowska, Monica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: March 05 2013
- ISBN10: 098600071X
- Language: English
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Making a Difference: My Fight for Native Rights and Social Justice
$26.95 Add to cartThis stirring memoir is the story of Ada Deer, the first woman to serve as head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Deer begins, “I was born a Menominee Indian. That is who I was born and how I have liv
- Series: New Directions in Native American Studies #19
- Author: Deer, Ada
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: September 26 2019
- ISBN10: 0806164271
- Language: English
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Sarah Morgan: The Civil War Diary of a Southern Woman
$22.00 Add to cartBorn into one of the best families of Baton Rouge, Sarah Morgan was not yet twenty when she began her diary in January 1862, nine months after the start of the Civil War. She was soon to experience a … [more below]
- Author: East, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: October 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0671785036
- Language: English
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The Box Must Be Empty: A Memoir of Complicated Grief, Spiritual Despair, and Ultimate Healing
$19.99 Add to cartWhat happens when buried grief rises two decades late, upending the life you’ve built on its coffin? When you add loss upon loss by constantly moving, serving a church organization–and possible cult-… [more below]
- Author: Kriete, Marilyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 274
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1950495310
- Language: English
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Fire at the Stymie Club-Stories from the Mississippi to Chesapeake Country
$25.00 Add to cartFire at the Stymie Club is a retrospective collection of stories
set mainly in St. Louis, in Springfield, Illinois and in Maryland,
along the Chesapeake Bay’s western shore, where author Sandra Olivett
- Author: Martin, Sandra Olivetti
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 466
- Publish Date: June 30 2023
- ISBN10: 9798985347777
- Language: English
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Summoned by the Earth: Becoming a Holy Vessel for Healing Our World
$24.99 Add to cartThe most pressing question in these uncertain times may well be, How can we bring healing and protection to the Earth? It was this very question that Cynthia Jurs carried with her in 1990 as she climb… [more below]
- Author: Jurs, Cynthia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1632261324
- Language: English
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Burning Lights
$19.00 Add to cartThis charming memoir by Bella Chagall recalls her childhood in Vitebsk, the Russian-Jewish market town where she and her husband, Marc Chagall, grew up. Her warm reminiscences of Jewish family life in… [more below]
- Author: Chagall, Bella
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 274
- Publish Date: March 12 1988
- ISBN10: 0805208631
- Language: English
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Detour: My Bipolar Road Trip in 4-D
$17.99 Add to cartBy all appearances, Lizzie Simon was perfect. She had an Ivy League education, lots of friends, a loving family, and a dazzling career as a theater producer by the age of twenty-three. But that wasn’t… [more below]
- Author: Simon, Lizzie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 18 2003
- ISBN10: 0743446607
- Language: English
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Flappers
$34.99 Add to cartBy the 1920s, women were on the verge of something huge. Jazz, racy fashions, eyebrowraising new attitudes about art and sex–all of this pointed to a sleek, modern world, one that could shake off the
- Author: Mackrell, Judith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: January 13 2015
- ISBN10: 0374535043
- Language: English
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East to the Dawn: The Life of Amelia Earhart
$21.99 Add to cartAmelia Earhart (1897-1937) captured the hearts of America after becoming the first woman to fly across the Atlantic in 1928. Nine years later, her disappearance on an around-the-world flight brought h
- Author: Butler, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 520
- Publish Date: August 01, 2009
- ISBN10: 030681837X
- Language: English
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American Ghost: A Family’s Extraordinary History on the Desert Frontier
$18.99 Add to cart“A haunting story about the long reach of the past.”–Maureen Corrigan, NPR’S Fresh Air
“In this intriguing book, Nordhaus] shares her journey to discover who her immigrant ancestor really was–and wh
- Author: Nordhaus, Hannah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0062249207
- Language: English
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Paris Without End: The True Story of Hemingway’s First Wife
$18.99 Add to cart“A bittersweet modern love story that] reads as easily as a novel.” —Vogue
“Fascinating. . . . A detailed, grittier portrait of the woman Hemingway loved and left.” —Newsday
Hadley Richardson and Ern
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Diliberto, Gioia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 06 2011
- ISBN10: 0062108824
- Language: English
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The Princess Spy: The True Story of World War II Spy Aline Griffith, Countess of Romanones
$28.00 Read moreINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER
“As exciting as any spy novel” (Daily News, New York), The Princess Spy follows the hidden history of an ordinary American girl w- Author: Loftis, Larry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 09 2021
- ISBN10: 198214386X
- Language: English
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Rust: A Memoir of Steel and Grit
$23.99 Add to cart“Elements of Tara Westover’s Educated… The mill comes to represent something holy to [Eliese] because it is made not of steel but of people.”
One woman’s story of working
—New York Times Book Review- Author: Goldbach, Eliese Colette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 05 2021
- ISBN10: 1250239419
- Language: English
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Massacre on the Merrimack: Hannah Duston’s Captivity and Revenge in Colonial America
$30.00 Add to cartNow in paperback, Massacre on the Merrimack is a riveting true story of murder, captivity, revenge, and escape, set against the fiery backdrop of America’s pre-colonial past. It’s the incredible tale … [more below]
- Author: Atkinson, Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1493029983
- Language: English
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Unplanned: The Dramatic True Story of a Former Planned Parenthood Leader’s Eye-Opening Journey Across the Life Line
$16.99 Read moreRetailers Choice Award winner, 2012
Abby Johnson quit her job in October 2009. That simple act became a national news story because Abby was the director of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Texas who, af… [more below]- Author: Johnson, Abby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1414396546
- Language: English
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Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life: A Memoir
$18.00 Add to cartA memoir in bite-size chunks from the author of the viral Modern Love column “You May Want to Marry My Husband.”
” Rosenthal] shines her generous light of humanity on the seemingly humdrum moments of … [more below]- Author: Rosenthal, Amy Krouse
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 06 2005
- ISBN10: 1400080460
- Language: English
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From WHITE to BLACK: One Life Between Two Worlds
$25.00 Add to cartIris Duplantier Rideau’s story is one of rags to riches-of accomplishing the nearly impossible by a Black woman born into a poor Creole family in New Orleans. Stung by the ugly hatred of racism around
- Author: Rideau, Iris Duplantier
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: June 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1734990228
- Language: English
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Step into Your Spotlight: Inspiring Women to Play Bigger
$38.99 Add to cartHave you ever had a whispering in your soul calling you to play bigger? You had creative dreams as a child of what your life might be like. Yet, for whatever reason, you put those thoughts aside. Life
- Author: Parr Kerner, Heidi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: February 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1958481890
- Language: English
