Women
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Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White
$24.95 Add to cartDarkroom: A Memoir in Black and White is an arresting and moving personal story about childhood, race, and identity in the American South, rendered in stunning illustrations by the author, Lila Quinte… [more below]
- Author: Weaver, Lila Quintero
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: March 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0817357149
- Language: English
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The Wrong Calamity: A Memoir
$15.99 Add to cartAn intimate and compellingly honest memoir of a woman coming into her own after profound pain and grief.
Marsha Jacobson agreed to marry a secretive and controlling man because she saw no way out. He
- Author: Jacobson, Marsha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1959096931
- Language: English
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My Journey to Lhasa: The Classic Story of the Only Western Woman Who Succeeded in Entering the Forbidden City
$19.99 Add to cart“Involves us intensely in a world that no longer exists–that of free Tibet. . . . Fervent and admirably unsentimental . . . [David-Neel] had to exercise the utmost ingenuity to survive.”– New York T
- Author: David-Neel, Alexandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: August 23 2005
- ISBN10: 0060596554
- Language: English
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Child of the Dark: The Diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus
$7.95 Add to cartA powerful and gripping memoir depicting the harsh realities of life in the favelas of Brazil in the 1950s, and one woman’s resilience in the face of poverty, racism, and social inequality.
Living … [more below]- Author: de Jesus, Carolina Maria
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 07 2003
- ISBN10: 0451529103
- Language: English
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Extraordinary Wing Women: True Stories of Life-Altering, World-Changing Sisterhood
$32.00 Add to cartA beautifully illustrated gift book celebrating the beauty, power, and joy of female friendship.
Wingman: a pilot who flies behind and outside the leader of a flying formation.
While researching her fi
- Author: Joy, Kimothy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0063161117
- Language: English
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Contradiction Days: An Artist on the Verge of Motherhood
$26.00 Read moreFor readers of Rachel Cusk and Maggie Nelson, the rapturous memoir of a soon-to-be-mother whose obsession with the reclusive painter Agnes Martin threatens to upend her life
Five months pregnant and s- Author: Novak, Joanna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 25, 2023
- ISBN10: 1646220765
- Language: English
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Garden Secrets of Bunny Mellon
$35.00 Add to cartA treasure trove of Bunny Mellon’s garden design philosophy and advice from her personal archive.
Garden Secrets of Bunny Mellon is for anyone who has enjoyed time spent in a garden, from aspiring gard
- Author: Holden, Linda Jane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 20 2020
- ISBN10: 1423655400
- Language: English
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Eleanor
$21.00 Add to cartThe New York Times bestseller from prizewinning author David Michaelis presents a “stunning” (The Wall Street Journal) breakthrough portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt, America’s longest-serving First Lady,… [more below]
- Author: Michaelis, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: October 19 2021
- ISBN10: 1439192049
- Language: English
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The Power of Days: A Story of Resilience, Dignity, and the Fight for Women’s Equity
$29.95 Read moreThe journey to overcome one of the world’s most prevalent taboos is proof that no divide is impossible to bridge.
This is the story of one woman’s path to create a grassroots effort that has now helpe- Author: Mergens, Celeste
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1637743742
- Language: English
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Fatty Fatty Boom Boom: A Memoir of Food, Fat, and Family
$29.00 Read more“A delicious and mouthwatering book about food and family, the complicated love for both, and how that shapes us into who we are . . . I absolutely loved it!” –Valerie Bertinelli
Rabia Chaudry–known- Author: Chaudry, Rabia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 08, 2022
- ISBN10: 1643750380
- Language: English
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We Are Not Here to Be Bystanders: A Memoir of Love and Resistance
$17.99 Add to cartLinda Sarsour, co-organizer of the Women’s March, shares an “unforgettable memoir” (Booklist) about how growing up Palestinian Muslim American, feminist, and empowered moved her to become a globally r… [more below]
- Author: Sarsour, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 2, 2021
- ISBN10: 1982105178
- Language: English
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Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir
$18.00 Add to cartShortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize for Biography
An electric portrait of the artist as a young woman that asks how a writer finds her voice
Longlisted for The Orwell Prize for Political Writing- Author: Solnit, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 09, 2021
- ISBN10: 0593083342
- Language: English
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Tomboyland: Essays
$14.95 Add to cartA fiercely personal and startlingly universal essay collection about the mysteries of gender and desire, of identity and class, of the stories we tell and the places we call home.
Flyover country, the
- Author: Faliveno, Melissa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: August 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1542014182
- Language: English
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The Very Secret Sex Lives of Medieval Women: An Inside Look at Women & Sex in Medieval Times (Human Sexuality, True Stories, Women in History)
$18.95 Add to cartAn inside look at sexual practices in medieval Europe
- Author: Gilbert, Rosalie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 27 2020
- ISBN10: 164250307X
- Language: English
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A Brave and Lovely Woman: Mamah Borthwick and Frank Lloyd Wright
$34.95 Read moreMamah Borthwick was an energetic, intelligent, and charismatic woman who earned a master’s degree at a time when few women even attended college, translated writings by a key figure of the early femin… [more below]
- Author: Borthwick, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0299342905
- Language: English
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Our Brave Foremothers: Celebrating 100 Black, Brown, Asian, and Indigenous Women Who Changed the Course of History
$20.00 Add to cartInspired by her own foremothers’ legacies and the friendships formed throughout her life, Rozella Kennedy centers and celebrates the stories of 100 Black, Brown, Asian, and Indigenous women–both famo… [more below]
- Author: Kennedy, Rozella
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 11, 2023
- ISBN10: 1523514558
- Language: English
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Soundings: Journeying to Alaska in the Company of Whales
$17.99 Add to cartA gorgeous journey…You will be glad you’ve joined her. –Susan Orlean, author of On Animals and The Library Book In this lyrical memoir of motherhood, love, and resilience that “captures rarely obse… [more below]
- Author: Cunningham, Doreen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 11, 2023
- ISBN10: 1982171804
- Language: English
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Uncultured: A Memoir
$20.00 Add to cartIn the vein of Educated and The Glass Castle, Uncultured is more than a memoir about an exceptional upbringing, but about a woman who, no matter the lack of tools given to her, is determined to overco
- Author: Young, Daniella Mestyanek
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 7, 2023
- ISBN10: 125083547X
- Language: English
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In the Company of Women: Inspiration and Advice from Over 100 Makers, Artists, and Entrepreneurs
$35.00 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller
Named One of the Ten Best Books of the Year by Essence Named a Best Holiday Gift Book by Real Simple, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Bosto- Author: Bonney, Grace
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: October 04 2016
- ISBN10: 1579655971
- Language: English
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Queens of a Fallen World: The Lost Women of Augustine’s Confessions
$30.00 Read moreFINALIST: THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2023
The vibrant and surprising lives of the women in Augustine’s Confessions
While many know of Saint Augustine and his Confessions, few are aware of how his life- Author: Cooper, Kate
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 18, 2023
- ISBN10: 1541646010
- Language: English
