Topical/Women's History
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She Came to Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman
$25.99 Add to cartIn the bestselling tradition of The Notorious RBG comes a lively, informative, and illustrated tribute to one of the most exceptional women in American history–Harriet Tubman–a heroine whose fearles… [more below]
- Author: Dunbar, Erica Armstrong
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1982139595
- Language: English
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A Brief History of Feminism
$16.95 Add to cartAn engaging illustrated history of feminism from antiquity through third-wave feminism, featuring Sappho, Mary Magdalene, Mary Wollstonecraft, Sojourner Truth, Simone de Beauvoir, and many others.
The- Author: Patu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0262548674
- Language: English
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Mary Magdalene: Women, the Church, and the Great Deception
$18.00 Read moreFrom one of Italy’s most renowned historians of religion, an exciting new portrait of one of Christianity’s most complex–and most misunderstood–figures: Mary Magdalene
Jesus’ favorite and most devot
- Author: Valerio, Adriana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1609457056
- Language: English
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No Man’s Land: The Trailblazing Women Who Ran Britain’s Most Extraordinary Military Hospital During World War I
$18.99 Add to cartThe “absorbing and powerful” (Wall Street Journal) story of two pioneering suffragette doctors who shattered social expectations and transformed modern medicine during World War I. A month after war b… [more below]
- Author: Moore, Wendy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1541672755
- Language: English
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Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol
$21.99 Add to cart*A Finalist for the Spirited Award for Best New Book on Drinks Culture, History or Spirits*
*A Guardian Best History and Politics Book of 2022*“At last, the feminist history of booze we’ve been waiting… [more below]
- Author: O’Meara, Mallory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1335005471
- Language: English
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The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II
$34.50 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: 784
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 63242257
- Language: English
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The Excellent Doctor Blackwell: The life of the first woman physician
$16.99 Add to cartWhen British-born Elizabeth Blackwell earned her medical degree in America in 1849 there was an international outcry. Few at the time would have disagreed with the actress Fanny Kemble’s remark – ‘Wha
- Author: Boyd, Julia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 346
- Publish Date: April 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1839012935
- Language: English
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No Life for a Lady
$24.95 Add to cartWhen Agnes Morley Cleaveland was born on a New Mexico cattle ranch in 1874, the term “Wild West” was a reality, not a clich?. In those days cowboys didn’t know they were picturesque, horse rustlers we… [more below]
- Series: Women of the West
- Author: Cleaveland, Agnes Morley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 356
- Publish Date: August 01 1977
- ISBN10: 0803258682
- Language: English
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Ravensbruck: Life and Death in Hitler’s Concentration Camp for Women
$23.00 Add to cartMonths before the outbreak of World War II, Heinrich Himmler–prime architect of the Holocaust–designed a special concentration camp for women, located fifty miles north of Berlin. Only a small numbe… [more below]
- Author: Helm, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: March 22 2016
- ISBN10: 0307278719
- Language: English
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Just Getting Started
$19.99 Add to cart“For my money, Tony Bennett is the best singer in the business, the best exponent of a song. He excites me when I watch him. . . . He moves me. He’s the singer who gets across what the composer has in
- Author: Bennett, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 14 2017
- ISBN10: 0062476785
- Language: English
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The Pirate Queen: Queen Elizabeth I, Her Pirate Adventurers, and the Dawn of Empire
$18.99 Add to cart“A highly colorful, swashbuckling read, one that will give you new respect for Britain’s first Elizabeth.” —Seattle Times
An illuminating revisionist biography about Queen Elizabeth I and her merchant
- Author: Ronald, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: June 24 2008
- ISBN10: 0060820675
- Language: English
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The Slow Moon Climbs: The Science, History, and Meaning of Menopause
$19.95 Add to cartA surprising look at the role of menopause in human history-and why we should change the ways we think about it
Are the ways we look at menopause all wrong? Susan Mattern says yes and, in The Slow Moo- Author: Mattern, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 069121672X
- Language: English
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Lifting as They Climbed: Mapping a History of Trailblazing Black Women in Chicago
$19.95 Add to cartAn essential guidebook to influential Black women from Chicago’s South and West Sides, and their social, cultural, and artistic contributions to movements both past and present.
Geographically, histor- Author: Kaba, Mariame
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 1642599018
- Language: English
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Beneath the Tamarind Tree: A Story of Courage, Family, and the Lost Schoolgirls of Boko Haram
$22.99 Add to cart“It is no accident that the places in the world where we see the most instability are those in which the rights of women and girls are denied. Isha Sesay’s indispensable and gripping account of the br
- Author: Sesay, Isha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0062686615
- Language: English
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We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria
$17.99 Add to cartLONG-LISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE MEDAL
Reminiscent of the work of Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich, an astonishing collection of intimate wartime testimonies and poetic fragments from a cross-section
- Author: Pearlman, Wendy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 07 2018
- ISBN10: 0062654446
- Language: English
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Tudor History: A Captivating Guide to the Tudors, the Wars of the Roses, the Six Wives of Henry VIII and the Life of Elizabeth I
$29.99 Add to cartIf you want to discover the captivating history of the Tudors, then keep reading…
Four captivating manuscripts in one book:
- The Tudors: A Captivating Guide to the History of England from Henry VII
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 346
- Publish Date: December 22 2019
- ISBN10: 1647481724
- Language: English
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The Lady and the Mountain Man: Isabella Bird, Rocky Mountain Jim, and their Unlikely Friendship
$19.95 Add to cart**2022 Will Rogers Medallion Award Gold Winner for Western Biographies and Memoirs**
Isabella Bird was a proper Victorian lady, a minster’s daughter, a writer who traveled the globe. She was expected t… [more below]
- Author: Enss, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: August 01 2021
- ISBN10: 149304592X
- Language: English
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Cinema Speculation
$21.00 Add to cart- Author: Tarantino, Quentin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0063112574
- Language: English
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First Generations
$20.00 Add to cartCarol Berkin’s multicultural history reconstructs the lives of American women in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries-women from European, African, and Native backgrounds-and examines their varied
- Author: Berkin, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0809016060
- Language: English
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Unflinching Courage: Pioneering Women Who Shaped Texas
$18.99 Add to cartIn Unflinching Courage, former United States Senator and New York Times bestselling author Kay Bailey Hutchison brings to life the incredible stories of the resourceful and brave women who shaped the
- Author: Hutchison, Kay Bailey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0062130714
- Language: English
