Women
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My Amy: The Life We Shared
$19.99 Read moreA moving, intimate look at the life of Amy Winehouse by her best friend.
The death of icon Amy Winehouse at age just twenty-seven rocked the music world. Through the headlines the world thought they- Author: James, Tyler
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1641607815
- Language: English
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A Memoir of Home, War, and Finding Refuge – Biruta’s Story
$16.95 Add to cartA compelling memoir of a Latvian war refugee’s flight and displacement during WWII.
What if the comforts and security of your childhood were suddenly ripped away from you? In 1939, Biruta, a nine-year-
- Author: Hardes, Lilita Z.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: September 15 2020
- ISBN10: 0578738252
- Language: English
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Orlean Puckett: The Life of a Mountain Midwife
$16.95 Add to cartMountain midwife Orlean Puckett endured many trials during her lifetime. A bride at the age of 16, she had given birth to and buried 24 babies by the time she was in her mid-thirties. When John Pucket
- Author: Smith, Karen Cecil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 166
- Publish Date: January 01 2003
- ISBN10: 1887905723
- Language: English
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Coming of Age: My Journey to the Eighties
$18.95 Add to cartMany readers are already familiar with Madeleine Kunin, the former three-term governor of Vermont, who served as the deputy secretary of education and ambassador to Switzerland under President Bill Cl
- Author: Kunin, Madeleine May
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: November 22 2019
- ISBN10: 1732854084
- Language: English
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The Missing Kennedy: Rosemary Kennedy and the Secret Bonds of Four Women
$15.95 Add to cartRosemary Kennedy, younger sister of President John F. Kennedy, was lobotomized in 1941 at age 23. In 1959, she was put out of public view at a remote facility in rural Wisconsin, where, for more than
- Author: Koehler-Pentacoff, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: October 06 2016
- ISBN10: 1610881753
- Language: English
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Pure Joy’s Life Through the Wrong End of My Binoculars
$20.00 Add to cartThe simple humor of this Southern-style family will hit home for many readers. Walsh hopes to honor family and others associated with her stories in her best “Southernese” Tennessee style! This book i
- Author: Walsh, Joy Smith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 172
- Publish Date: April 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1954978863
- Language: English
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Nebraska Roots
$15.95 Add to cartIn Nebraska Roots, Leah Lambert presents the story of her own evolution from sheltered child to self-aware young woman.
Throughout the book, Lambert weaves in historical references along with some ghos
- Author: Lambert, Leah Jesse
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 354
- Publish Date: May 31 2023
- ISBN10: 9798886792225
- Language: English
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Women Caught in the Crossfire: One Woman’s Quest for Peace in South Sudan
$24.99 Add to cartThe experiences of one woman among many that were thrust into the hardships of civil war in South Sudan during the violent struggle for independence from 1983 to 2011, explore the question: What becom
- Author: Makuac, Abuk Jervas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 226
- Publish Date: October 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1736231669
- Language: English
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Owsley and Me: My LSD Family
$18.95 Add to cartOwsley and Me is an insider’s account of sixties counterculture, told by the partner of Owsley “Bear” Stanley.
- Author: Stanley, Rhoney Gissen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: April 16 2013
- ISBN10: 0983358931
- Language: English
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The Folded Clock: A Diary
$20.00 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book
Rereading her childhood diaries, Heidi Julavits hoped to find incontrovertible proof that she was always destined to be a writer. Instead, they “revealed me to possess th- Author: Julavits, Heidi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 08 2016
- ISBN10: 0804171440
- Language: English
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Nothing to Tell: Extraordinary Stories of Montana Ranch Women
$18.95 Add to cartSitting at the kitchen tables of twelve women in their eighties who were born in or immigrated to Montana in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century, between 1982 and 1988 oral historian Donna … [more below]
- Author: Gray, Donna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0762779098
- Language: English
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The Amy Award Anthology
$9.99 Add to cartThe short memoirs in this anthology are the inaugural finalists of what has become known, affectionately, as The Amy Award. The pieces represent a range of styles: a lyric essay; a travel chronicle; a
- Author: Wearing, Alison
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: April 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1778140203
- Language: English
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West with the Night
$19.99 Add to cartMarkham is often described as “the first person” to fly the Atlantic east to west in a solo non-stop flight, though most now dispute this claim. When Markham decided to take on the Atlantic crossing, … [more below]
- Author: Markham, Beryl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: June 13 2012
- ISBN10: 1607964589
- Language: English
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Candy Barr: The Small-Town Texas Runaway Who Became a Darling of the Mob and the Queen of Las Vegas Burlesque
$24.95 Add to cartThis is the story of the iconic Texan figure name Juanita Slusher, a.k.a Candy Barr. She was once a notorious burlesque dancer known for her athletic choreography and live music accompaniment, command… [more below]
- Author: Schwarz, Ted
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: May 21 2008
- ISBN10: 1589793412
- Language: English
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The Husband Hunters: American Heiresses Who Married Into the British Aristocracy
$21.00 Add to cartA delicious group biography of the young American heiresses who married into the British aristocracy at the turn of the twentieth century – the real women who inspired Downton Abbey.
Towards the end o- Author: De Courcy, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 10 2019
- ISBN10: 1250164605
- Language: English
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Kissing Asphalt: The Courageous True Story of One Child’s Unbreakable Spirit-From Kidnapping & Abuse to Self-Love
$24.99 Add to cartResilience isn’t inherited. It’s a hard-fought skill forged by our ability to pick up the broken pieces of our past and remake them into something new.
Meet four-year-old Delicia, a poor but carefree c
- Series: Resilientaf #1
- Author: Niami, Delicia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1647047714
- Language: English
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Compelled to Witness: Women’s Memoirs of the French Revolution
$14.95 Add to cartFrom Marie Antoinette during her final days in prison, to Charlotte Robespierre, the sister of the man responsible for ordering hundreds to the guillotine, women on both sides of the revolution were b
- Author: Yalom, Marilyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 28 2015
- ISBN10: 098605822X
- Language: English
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Insatiable: Porn — A Love Story
$18.00 Add to cartAsa Akira (28) has already had an extremely unusual life. Educated at the United Nations International School in Manhattan, she soon was earning a good living by stripping and working as a dominatrix … [more below]
- Author: Akira, Asa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 20 2015
- ISBN10: 080212349X
- Language: English
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Object Lessons (Revised)
$22.99 Add to cartIn this important prose work, one of our major poets explores, through autobiography and argument, a woman’s life in Ireland together with a poet’s work. Eavan Boland beautifully uncovers the powerful
- Author: Boland, Eavan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0393314375
- Language: English
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And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready
$19.82 Add to cartA raw, funny, and fiercely honest account of becoming a mother before feeling like a grown up.
When Meaghan O’Connell got accidentally pregnant in her twenties and decided to keep the baby, she reali- Author: O’Connell, Meaghan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 16 2019
- ISBN10: 0316393851
- Language: English
