Women
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Burnt: A Memoir of Fighting Fire
$27.00 Read moreBurnt is a captivating and “evocative” (Erin Brockovich) memoir of trailblazing and firefighting from California’s first–and only–female chief of fire protection, a pioneering woman in a male-domina… [more below]
- Author: Frank, Clare
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1419763903
- Language: English
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Untamed: The Wildest Woman in America and the Fight for Cumberland Island
$18.00 Add to cartCarol Ruckdeschel is the wildest woman in America. She wrestles alligators, eats roadkill, rides horses bareback, and lives in a ramshackle cabin that she built by hand in an island wilderness. A comb… [more below]
- Author: Harlan, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: 3-Mar-15
- ISBN10: 0802123856
- Language: English
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A Woman’s Story
$12.95 Add to cartWINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
A New York Times Notable Book “A deeply affecting account of mothers and daughters, youth and age, and dreams and reality” (Kirkus Reviews) Upon her mother- Author: Ernaux, Annie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: August 05 2003
- ISBN10: 1583225757
- Language: English
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Untold Power: The Fascinating Rise and Complex Legacy of First Lady Edith Wilson
$32.00 Read moreA nuanced portrait of the first acting woman president, written with fresh and cinematic verve by a leading historian on women’s suffrage and power
While this nation has yet to elect its first woman p- Author: Roberts, Rebecca Boggs
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0593489993
- Language: English
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The Stories We Tell: Every Piece of Your Story Matters
$31.99 Add to cartAN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Imagine if all the worn-out, untrue, painful chapters of our lives started to quiet, and the beautiful, unique pieces of who we are were to rise. Imagine if the sto
- Author: Gaines, Joanna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1400333873
- Language: English
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West with the Night: A Memoir
$20.00 Add to cartA new edition of a great, underappreciated classic of our time
Beryl Markham’s West with the Night is a true classic, a book that deserves the same acclaim and readership as the work of her contempora- Author: Markham, Beryl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 22, 2013
- ISBN10: 0865477639
- Language: English
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Defiant Dreams: The Journey of an Afghan Girl Who Risked Everything for Education
$28.00 Read moreA searing, deeply personal memoir of a tenacious Afghan girl who educated herself behind closed doors and fought her way to a new life.
“Stories like this inspire me. Seeing the way people like Sola M- Author: Mahfouz, Sola
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 06, 2023
- ISBN10: 0593359763
- Language: English
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Pure Wit: The Revolutionary Life of Margaret Cavendish
$29.95 Add to cartA biography of the remarkable–and in her time scandalous–seventeenth-century writer Margaret Cavendish, who pioneered the science fiction novel.
“My ambition is not only to be Empress, but Authoress- Author: Peacock, Francesca
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: 2-Jan-24
- ISBN10: 1639366032
- Language: English
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What We Talk about When We’re Over 60
$19.95 Add to cartThose of us who are over sixty are not amused at being compared to aging wine, and certainly not cheese. In this book thirty of us – writers, educators, businesswomen, motivational speakers, mothers, … [more below]
- Author: Daley, Sherri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 310
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 1941165230
- Language: English
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When the World Didn’t End: A Memoir
$28.00 Read moreIn this immersive, spell-binding memoir, an acclaimed screenwriter tells the story of her childhood growing up with the infamous Lyman Family cult–and the complicated and unexpected pain of leaving t… [more below]
- Author: Turner, Guinevere
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 0593237595
- Language: English
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Agent Josephine: American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy
$22.99 Add to cartThe New Yorker, Best Books of 2022
Singer. Actress. Beauty. Spy. During WWII, Josephine Baker, the world’s richest and most glamorous en
Vanity Fair, Best Books of 2022
Booklist, Best Books of 2022- Author: Lewis, Damien
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1541700678
- Language: English
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Bell Hooks: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations
$18.99 Add to cart“With a thoughtful introduction by Mikki Kendall, it will remind you why she was loved, honored, challenged and respected.” – Ms. Magazine
“This new collection is essential reading for both longtime- Series: Last Interview
- Author: Hooks, Bell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 18, 2023
- ISBN10: 1685890792
- Language: English
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The Hungry Season: A Journey of War, Love, and Survival
$30.00 Read moreA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year Longlisted for the 2024 Plutarch Award Longlisted for the 2023 California Book Awards
In the tradition of- Author: Hamilton, Lisa M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 0316415898
- Language: English
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The First Lady of World War II: Eleanor Roosevelt’s Daring Journey to the Frontlines and Back
$26.99 Read moreThe first book to tell the full story of Eleanor Roosevelt’s unprecedented and courageous trip to the Pacific Theater during World War II.
On August 27, 1943, news broke in the United States that First
- Author: McKenna Schmidt, Shannon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1728256615
- Language: English
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American Girls: One Woman’s Journey Into the Islamic State and Her Sister’s Fight to Bring Her Home
$29.00 Read moreA brilliant, deeply reported narrative about religious extremism, radicalization, and the bonds of family: the story of an American woman who traveled to ISIS-controlled Syria with her two children an… [more below]
- Author: Roy, Jessica
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1982151315
- Language: English
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Althea: The Life of Tennis Champion Althea Gibson
$32.00 Read moreWASHINGTON POST BEST NONFICTION OF 2023
KIRKUS REVIEWS’ BEST BIOGRAPHIES OF 2023 SHORLISTED FOR THE 2023 WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR “A captivating book that brilliantly reveals an American s- Author: Jacobs, Sally H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1250246555
- Language: English
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Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell’s Invisible Life
$32.00 Add to cartA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR – WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION FINALIST – This is the story of the marriage behind some of the most famous literary works of the 20th century –and a probing… [more below]
- Author: Funder, Anna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 0593320689
- Language: English
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Zami: A New Spelling of My Name: A Biomythography
$17.99 Add to cartZami: A Carriacou name for women who work together as friends and lovers
“Zami is a fast-moving chronicle. From the author’s vivid childhood memories in Harlem to her coming of age in the late 1950s,- Series: Crossing Press Feminist (Paperback)
- Author: Lorde, Audre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 01, 1982
- ISBN10: 0895941228
- Language: English
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The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife
$27.99 Read more“”No one is coming to rescue me. I am going to have to rescue me.””
As a twenty-three-year-old singer and the soon-to-be wife of youth pastor Joshua Harris, nothing in Shannon Harris’s secular upbring
- Author: Harris, Shannon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: August 29, 2023
- ISBN10: 150648316X
- Language: English
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Educated: A Memoir
$30.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, AND BOSTON GLOBE BESTSELLER – One of the most acclaimed books of our time: an unforgettable memoir about a young woman who, kept out of school, leaves her surv
- Author: Westover, Tara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 20, 2018
- ISBN10: 0399590501
- Language: English
