Topical/Women's History
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Hell and Other Destinations: A 21st-Century Memoir
$18.99 Add to cart“Richly detailed. . . an intimate portrait of a diplomat.” —New Yorker
Now in paperback with a new epilogue
In this revealing, funny, and inspiring memoir, seven-time New York Times bestselling author
- Author: Albright, Madeleine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 26 2022
- ISBN10: 0062802275
- Language: English
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Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries
$27.99 Read more‘Excellent . . . bursting with extraordinary women’ – Anita Anand
“My hope is that this book will inspire as I have been inspired. It’s a love letter to the importance of h
‘Brilliant’ – Daisy Buchanan- Author: Mosse, Kate
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1529092191
- Language: English
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90s Bitch: Media, Culture, and the Failed Promise of Gender Equality
$17.99 Read moreFinalist for the Los Angeles Press Club Book Award, muse to a Givenchy fashion collection, and recommended by the The New York Times, The Skimm, US Weekly, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Refi
- Author: Yarrow, Allison
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 19 2018
- ISBN10: 0062412345
- Language: English
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Figuring
$21.00 Add to cartNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY ESQUIRE AND BOOKPAGE
Figuring explores the complexities of love and the human search for truth and meaning through the interconnected lives of several historical figur- Author: Popova, Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: January 28 2020
- ISBN10: 0525565426
- Language: English
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All She Lost: The Explosion in Lebanon, the Collapse of a Nation and the Women Who Survive
$28.00 Read more‘Poignant and compelling… will resonate with anyone who cares about justice and the abuse of power’ – Lindsey Hilsum, Channel 4 News International Editor and author of Sandstorm
‘Essential and urgent- Author: Mawad, Dalal
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1399406256
- Language: English
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Women Photograph: What We See: Women and Nonbinary Perspectives Through the Lens
$30.00 Read moreOpen your eyes to a new world view with 100 women and nonbinary photojournalists’ stories from behind the lens.
85% of photojournalists are men. That means almost everything that is reported in the w- Author: Zalcman, Daniella
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0711278547
- Language: English
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Finding Phoebe: What New Testament Women Were Really Like
$21.99 Add to cartForget what you think you know about women in the early church.
In this learned yet accessible book, Susan E. Hylen introduces first-century primary sources to illuminate readers’ understanding of N- Author: Hylen, Susan E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0802882064
- Language: English
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Roe: The History of a National Obsession
$27.00 Read moreThe leading U.S. expert on abortion law charts the many meanings associated with Roe v. Wade during its fifty-year history
“Ziegler sets a brisk pace but delivers substantial depth. . . . A must-read- Author: Ziegler, Mary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: January 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0300266103
- Language: English
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Dr. Martha Cannon of Utah: The Unexpected Victorian Life of America’s First Female State Senator
$24.99 Read morePrudery, Polygamy and Politics
Dr. Martha Hughes Cannon was no hands-on-the-plow pioneer. She was no stereotypical polygamous wife. Nor was she a prim lady who blushed at the word “legs.” Victorian Mo
- Series: The History Press
- Author: Jacobson, Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1467155071
- Language: English
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Legends of Women’s Gymnastics
$9.95 Read moreFrom the first women who fought to bring gymnastics to the Olympics to the international superstars of today, Legends of Women’s Gymnastics tells the stories of the women who have thrilled and inspire… [more below]
- Series: Legends of Women’s Sports
- Author: Huddleston, Emma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1634943015
- Language: English
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Unbound: A Story of Snow and Self-Discovery
$15.99 Add to cartSteph Jagger had always been a force of nature. She grew up emulating the men in her life–chasing success, climbing the corporate ladder, playing by the rules of a masculine ideal–and by all account
- Author: Jagger, Steph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 06 2018
- ISBN10: 0062418114
- Language: English
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Little Sister: My Investigation Into the Mysterious Death of Natalie Wood
$17.99 Read moreIn this memoir, Lana Wood investigates the mysterious drowning of her sister, the actress Natalie Wood, and clears up the myths and misconceptions behind one of the most notorious celebrity deaths of
- Author: Wood, Lana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 15, 2022
- ISBN10: 0063081636
- Language: English
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Making Space for Women: Stories from Trailblazing Women of Nasa’s Johnson Space Center
$30.00 Add to cartFrom the creation of the Manned Spacecraft Center to the launching of the International Space Station and beyond, Making Space for Women explores how careers for women at Johnson Space Center have cha
- Series: Pioneering Women: Leaders and Trailblazers, Sponsored by the Jane Nelson Institute for Women’s Leade
- Author: Ross-Nazzal, Jennifer M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 17 2022
- ISBN10: 1623499933
- Language: English
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My First Thirty Years: A Memoir
$16.99 Add to cart“Thirty years ago, I lay in the womb of a woman, conceived in a sexual act of rape, being carried during the prenatal period by an unwilling and rebellious mother, finally bursting from the womb only
- Author: Beasley, Gertrude
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 28 2021
- ISBN10: 1728242886
- Language: English
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The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth
$18.99 Add to cartWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography
In this critically acclaimed true crime tale of “welfare queen” Linda Taylor, a Slate editor reveals a “wild, only-in-America story” of pol… [more below]- Author: Levin, Josh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 14 2020
- ISBN10: 0316513288
- Language: English
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Good Time Girls of the Pacific Northwest: A Red-Light History of Washington, Oregon, and Alaska
$19.95 Add to cartAs more and more pioneers braved the harsh, unforgiving conditions of moving West, prostitution grew and flourished within the mining camps, small towns, and cities of the nineteenth-century Pacific N… [more below]
- Author: Collins, Jan Mackell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 24 2020
- ISBN10: 1493038095
- Language: English
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Why We Dream: The Transformative Power of Our Nightly Journey
$15.99 Add to cartA fresh, revelatory foray into the new science of dreams–how they work, what they’re for, and how we can reap the benefits of our own nocturnal life
While on a research trip in Peru, science journal- Author: Robb, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 12 2019
- ISBN10: 0358108497
- Language: English
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The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
$19.99 Add to cartIn the tradition of Simon Winchester and Dava Sobel, The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code tells one of the most intriguing stories in the history of language, masterfully bl
- Author: Fox, Margalit
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 15 2014
- ISBN10: 0062228862
- Language: English
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A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France
$19.99 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller
“A haunting account of bravery, friendship, and endurance.” –Marie Claire
The riveting and little-known story of a group of female members of the French resistance who were dep
- Series: P.S. #1
- Author: Moorehead, Caroline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 23 2012
- ISBN10: 0061650714
- Language: English
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Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am
$28.00 Add to cartGlamour, danger, liberation: in a Mad Men-era of commercial flight, Pan Am World Airways attracted the kind of young woman who wanted out, and wanted up
Required to have a college education, speak tw- Author: Cooke, Julia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0358251400
- Language: English
