Topical/Women's History
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Lessons from the Edge: A Memoir
$21.99 Read moreINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An inspiring and urgent memoir by the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine–a pioneering diplomat who spent her career advancing democracy in the post-Soviet world, and
- Author: Yovanovitch, Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 23, 2023
- ISBN10: 0063268639
- Language: English
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The Girls Who Fought Crime: The Untold True Story of the Country’s First Female Investigator and Her Crime Fighting Squad
$26.99 Read moreFor fans of Margot Lee Shetterley and Liza Mundy comes an inspiring feminist tale of a woman who dedicated her entire life to the New York Police Department, upending the patriarchy and the status quo
- Author: Eder, Mari
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 1728271797
- Language: English
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Women in Intelligence: The Hidden History of Two World Wars
$35.00 Add to cartA groundbreaking history of women in British intelligence, revealing their pivotal role across the first half of the twentieth century
From the twentieth century onward, women took on an extraordinar- Author: Fry, Helen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 17, 2023
- ISBN10: 0300260776
- Language: English
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Becoming Cliterate: Why Orgasm Equality Matters–And How to Get It
$16.99 Add to cartWe’ve been thinking about sex all wrong. Mainstream media, movies, and porn have taught us that sex = penis + vagina, and everything else is just secondary. Standard penetration is how men most reliab
- Author: Mintz, Laurie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 15, 2018
- ISBN10: 0062664557
- Language: English
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The Last Madam: A Life in the New Orleans Underworld
$17.99 Add to cartThe incredible life of French Quarter legend Norma Wallace — and a portrait of an era in New Orleans history rife with charm and decadence (“Wonderful. . . admirably recreates a slice of a life other… [more below]
- Author: Wiltz, Christine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: March 13, 2001
- ISBN10: 0306810123
- Language: English
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The Angel Makers: Arsenic, a Midwife, and Modern History’s Most Astonishing Murder Ring
$32.99 Read more“The angel makers is a true-crime story like no other-a 1920s midwife who may have been the century’s most prolific killer, leading a murder ring of women responsible for the deaths of at least 160 me… [more below]
- Author: McCracken, Patti
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0063275031
- Language: English
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The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music
$21.99 Add to cartInstant #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
- Author: Grohl, Dave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 31, 2023
- ISBN10: 0063076101
- Language: English
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Who Cooked the Last Supper?: The Women’s History of the World
$20.00 Add to cartWho Cooked the Last Supper? overturns the phallusy of history and gives voice to the untold history of the world: the contributions of millions of unsung women.
Men dominate history because men write- Author: Miles, Rosalind
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 10, 2001
- ISBN10: 0609806955
- Language: English
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Servants of the Damned: The Dark Side of American Law
$18.99 Add to cartNational Bestseller
“A powerful and important picture of how mega law firms distort justice.”—David Cay Johnston, Washington Post
The NYT’s Business Investigations Editor reveals the dark side of Ameri
- Author: Enrich, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 006314218X
- Language: English
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Pandora’s Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
$18.99 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“Funny, sharp explications of what these sometimes not-very-nice women were up to, and how they sometimes made idiots of . . . but read on!”–Margaret Atwood, author of The Ha
- Author: Haynes, Natalie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 29, 2022
- ISBN10: 0063139464
- Language: English
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Man Enough: Undefining My Masculinity
$17.99 Read moreA GRIPPING, FEARLESS EXPLORATION OF MASCULINITY
The effects of traditionally defined masculinity have become one of the most prevalent social issues of our time. In this engaging and provocative new b
- Author: Baldoni, Justin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 0063055600
- Language: English
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Woman, Captain, Rebel: The Extraordinary True Story of a Daring Icelandic Sea Captain
$16.99 Add to cartA daring and magnificent historical narrative nonfiction account of Iceland’s most famous female sea captain who constantly fought for women’s rights and equality–and who also solved one of the count
- Author: Willson, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 31, 2023
- ISBN10: 1728240050
- Language: English
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All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
$22.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER – NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A renowned historian traces the life of a single object handed down through three generations of Black women to craft a “deeply layered and ins… [more below]
- Author: Miles, Tiya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1984855018
- Language: English
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Dreaming the Beatles: The Love Story of One Band and the Whole World
$21.99 Read moreAn NPR Best Book of the Year – Winner of the Virgil Thomson Award for Outstanding Music Criticism
“This is the best book about the Beatles ever written” —Mashable
Rob Sheffield, the Rolling Stone colu
- Author: Sheffield, Rob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 19 2018
- ISBN10: 0062207660
- Language: English
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Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History
$18.99 Add to cartInspired by author Tori Telfer’s Jezebel column “Lady Killers,” this thrilling and entertaining compendium investigates female serial killers and their crimes through the ages.
When you think of serial
- Author: Telfer, Tori
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 10, 2017
- ISBN10: 0062433733
- Language: English
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The Man Who Hated Women: Sex, Censorship, and Civil Liberties in the Gilded Age
$27.00 Add to cartSmithsonian Magazine, 10 Best History Books of 2021 – “Fascinating . . . Purity is in the mind of the beholder, but beware the man who vows to protect yours.” –Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker
Anthony- Author: Sohn, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 12, 2022
- ISBN10: 125017483X
- Language: English
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We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence
$17.99 Read more- Author: Cooper, Becky
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1538746859
- Language: English
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Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine
$18.99 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
For fans of Hidden Figures and Radium Girls comes the remarkable story of three Victorian women who broke down barriers in the medical field to become the first women doctors
- Author: Campbell, Olivia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 15, 2022
- ISBN10: 0778311988
- Language: English
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A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
$19.00 Add to cartA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Chosen as a BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR by NPR, the New York Public Library, Amazon, the Seattle Times, the Washington Independent Review of Books, PopSugar, the Minneapolis Star- Author: Purnell, Sonia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 24 2020
- ISBN10: 0735225311
- Language: English
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The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive
$17.99 Add to cart- Author: Adlington, Lucy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 0063030934
- Language: English
