Topical/Women's History
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Belonging: A Daughter’s Search for Identity Through Loss and Love
$32.00 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“[An] outstanding debut.”–Publishers Weekly (starred review)
The award-winning journalist and co-host of CBS Saturday Morning tells the candid, and deeply personal story of he
- Author: Miller, Michelle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0063220431
- Language: English
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
$37.50 Add to cartOfficial U.S. edition with full color illustrations throughout.
New York Times Bestseller
A Summer Reading Pick for President Barack Obama, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg
From a renowned historian come
- Author: Harari, Yuval Noah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 10, 2015
- ISBN10: 0062316095
- Language: English
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The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II
$21.99 Add to cartInstant New York Times Bestseller – Winner of the General Wallace M. Greene Jr. Award from the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation
“Buzz Bissinger’s Friday Night Lights is an American classic. With The Mo
- Author: Bissinger, Buzz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 12, 2023
- ISBN10: 0062879936
- Language: English
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The Watchmaker’s Daughter: The True Story of World War II Heroine Corrie Ten Boom
$32.99 Add to cartINTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
Winner of the Florida Book Awards Gold Medal
New York Times bestselling author and master of nonfiction spy thrillers Larry Loftis writes the first major biography of Corrie ten
- Author: Loftis, Larry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0063234580
- Language: English
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Wanderers: A History of Women Walking
$16.00 Add to cartOffering a beguiling view of the history of walking, Wanderers guides us through the different ways of seeing–of being–articulated by ten pathfinding women writers.
“A wild portrayal of the passion- Author: Andrews, Kerri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 25 2021
- ISBN10: 1789145015
- Language: English
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A Rome of One’s Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire
$27.00 Read moreFrom the acclaimed author of A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, a wildly entertaining new history of Rome that uses the lives of 21 women to upend our understanding of the ancient world
- Author: Southon, Emma
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1419760181
- Language: English
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Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
$19.99 Add to cart“A remarkable–and singularly chilling–glimpse of human behavior. . .This meticulously researched book…represents a major contribution to the literature of the Holocaust.”–Newsweek
Christopher R.
- Author: Browning, Christopher R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 28, 2017
- ISBN10: 0062303023
- Language: English
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Normal Women: Nine Hundred Years of Making History
$39.99 Add to cart“Lively, timely and gloriously energetic. Each page bursts with life, and every chapter swirls with personalities left out of traditional narratives of Britain’s past. Philippa Gregory has produced so
- Author: Gregory, Philippa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: February 27, 2024
- ISBN10: 0063304325
- Language: English
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The World According to Joan Didion
$26.99 Add to cart**INDIE BESTSELLER**
A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2023 by The Millions – B&N Best Books of 2023 – “Shaped by intellectual rigor and artistic grace … McDonnell’s portrait is vibrant, fluent, sensitive,
- Author: McDonnell, Evelyn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 0063289075
- Language: English
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Cinema Speculation
$35.00 Add to cartInstant New York Times bestseller
The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: a deliriously entertaining, wickedly inte
- Author: Tarantino, Quentin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0063112582
- Language: English
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Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
$25.99 Add to cartOfficial U.S. edition with full color illustrations throughout.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically-acclaimed New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon Sa
- Author: Harari, Yuval Noah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 04, 2018
- ISBN10: 0062464345
- Language: English
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Eyeliner: A Cultural History
$26.00 Add to cartA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Pick
“Cosmetic, tool of rebellion, status signifier: Eyeliner has been all these and more. Moving through millenniums and across civilizations, Hankir give- Author: Hankir, Zahra
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0143137093
- Language: English
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The Woman They Could Not Silence: The Shocking Story of a Woman Who Dared to Fight Back
$17.99 Add to cartFrom the New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Radium Girls comes another dark and dramatic but ultimately uplifting tale of a forgotten woman whose inspirationa
- Author: Moore, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1728242576
- Language: English
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Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials
$28.00 Add to cartA “thought-provoking and timely” (The Times) global history of witch trials across Europe, Africa, and the Americas, told through thirteen distinct trials that illuminate a pattern of demonization and… [more below]
- Author: Gibson, Marion
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 16, 2024
- ISBN10: 1668002426
- Language: English
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Women Holding Things
$35.00 Add to cartFrom the critically acclaimed artist, designer, and author of the bestsellers The Principles of Uncertainty and My Favorite Things comes a wondrous collection of words and paintings that is a moving m
- Author: Kalman, Maira
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 18, 2022
- ISBN10: 0062846671
- Language: English
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Valiant Women: The Extraordinary American Servicewomen Who Helped Win World War II
$32.99 Add to cartNational Bestseller * Goodreads Choice Awards Finalist
“An ingenious look at WWII.” —Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)
A groundbreaking new history of the role of American servicewomen in WWII, illumi
- Author: Andrews, Lena S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 01, 2023
- ISBN10: 0063088339
- Language: English
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The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music
$29.99 Add to cartThe #1 New York Times Bestseller * Named one of Variety’s Best Music Books of 2021 * Included in Audible’s Best of The Year list * A Business Insider Best Memoirs of 2021 * One of NME’s Best Music Boo
- Author: Grohl, Dave
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 05, 2021
- ISBN10: 0063076098
- Language: English
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Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation
$22.00 Add to cartHarriet Tubman, forced to labor outdoors on a Maryland plantation, learned from the land a terrain for escape. Louisa May Alcott ran wild, eluding gendered expectations in New England. The Indigenous
- Series: A Norton Short
- Author: Miles, Tiya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 19, 2023
- ISBN10: 1324020873
- Language: English
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The Story of Art Without Men
$45.00 Add to cartHow many women artists do you know? Who makes art history? Did women even work as artists before the twentieth century? And what is the Baroque anyway?
Guided by Katy Hessel, art historian and founder
- Author: Hessel, Katy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 0393881865
- Language: English
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The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA
$33.00 Add to cartA “rip-roaring” (Steve Coll), “staggeringly well-researched” (The New York Times) history of three generations at the CIA, “electric with revelations” (Booklist) about the women who fought to become o… [more below]
- Author: Mundy, Liza
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0593238176
- Language: English
