Women

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781613748893Author Asia BibiFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Chicago Review PressPublisher Chicago Review PressWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 206mm *...

Born Betsy Bowen into grinding poverty, the woman who reinvented herself as Eliza Jumel was raised in a brothel, indentured as a servant, and confined to a workhouse when her mother was in jail. Seizing opportunities and readjusting facts to achieve the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853985600Author Grace Growing MedicineFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint George RonaldPublisher George Ronald PublisherWeight(grams) 118g

Spanning two centuries, this collection documents the lives of fifteen remarkable Latinas who witnessed, defined, defied, and wrote about the forces that shaped their lives. As entrepreneurs, community activists, mystics, educators, feminists, labor...

In 1849, a young German bride and her husband stepped off a ship in Corpus Christi Bay to establish their home in the new frontier settlement. For the next three decades Maria von Bluecher wrote letters home describing the hardships of droughts and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812973396Author Jane JuskaFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

The Buels have used a rich trove of documents to tell the story of a Connecticut woman, Mary Fish Silliman (1736-1818), whose adventures illuminate the day-to-day realities of living through the American Revolution.About the AuthorThe late Joy Day Buel...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732743434Author Ehris UrbanFormat PaperbackPage Count 356Imprint Green Place BooksPublisher Green Writers PressWeight(grams) 500g

Lucile Morris Upton landed her first newspaper job out West in the early 1920s, then returned home to spend half a century reporting on the Ozarks world she knew best. Having come of age just as women gained the right to vote, she took advantage of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684750634Author Suellen WedmoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Gooseberry PatchPublisher Gooseberry Patch

Contains new facts concerning Nixon, Watergate, and the death of Dorothy Hunt, wife of E. Howard Hunt Dorothy Hunt, "An Amoral and Dangerous Woman" tells the life story of ex-CIA agent Dorothy Hunt, who married Watergate mastermind and confessed...

In the last half of 1945, news of the war's end and aftermath shared space with reports of a battle on the home front, led by a woman. She was Elizabeth O. Hayes, MD, doctor for a mining concern that owned the town of Force, PA, where sewage was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781613736586Author Josephe Marie FlynnFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Chicago Review PressPublisher Chicago Review PressWeight(grams) 452g

Traces the remarkable life of a feminist poet through the items and images that have have defined her experiences My Life in 100 Objects is a personal reflection on the events and moments that shaped the life and work of one extraordinary woman. With a...

To the Wilderness is the memoir of an outdoorswoman's life in search of the wild. Improvising a canoe route through deep Maine woods, she discovered—a century after Thoreau—not the forest primeval but a commercial forest, B.C. (Before Chainsaw). Later,...

After college, Anne Thomas Soffee journeyed to Los Angeles to start a career as a rock journalist and small-time heavy metal flack. This hilarious peek into the early years of the hair-band era reveals the hierarchy of fishnets, bustiers, and chicks with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555972929Author Barrie Jean BorichFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Graywolf Press,U.S.Publisher Graywolf Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 644g

The Remarkable Women series profiles the lives of the state's most fascinating figures-women from many different backgrounds, and from various walks of life. With enduring strength and compassion, these remarkable women broke through social, cultural, or...

In 1900, the young and beautiful Leonel Ross Campbell became the first female reporter to work for the Denver Post. As the journalist known as Polly Pry, she ruffled feathers when she worked to free a convicted cannibal and when she battled the powerful...

A New York Times Bestseller!"No women need apply." Western towns looking for a local doctor during the frontier era often concluded their advertisements in just that manner. Yet apply they did. And in small towns all over the West, highly trained women...

As settlements and civilization moved West to follow the lure of mineral wealth and the trade of the Santa Fe Trail, prostitution grew and flourished within the mining camps, small towns, and cities the nineteenth-century Nevada and Utah. Whether...

Updated and expanded for its twentieth anniversary-the beloved book that tells the stories of the women who traveled West. In Heart of the Trail Mary Barmeyer O'Brien beautifully captures the triumphs and tribulations of women who crossed the American...

Westlake Girl: My Oregon Frontier Childhood is the true story of a spirited girl coming of age in an isolated village on the Oregon coast from 1928 to 1936. It portrays the artless feminist strivings of a capable girl who dreamed of a career in the Coast...

The first woman ever elected to the U.S. Congress, Jeannette Rankin represented Montana for two terms in the U.S. House of Representatives. A leading advocate for both woman suffrage and world peace, she was instrumental in securing the right or Montana...

Moving portraits of fourteen independent women who helped make Ohio what it is today. Ohio's Remarkable Women: Daughters, Wives, Sisters, and Mothers Who Shaped History profiles the lives of the state's most important historical figures--women from...

How did Virginia become the amazing state that it is today you may wonder? Virginia's Remarkable Women: Daughters, Wives, Sisters, and Mothers Who Shaped History recognizes the women who shaped the Old Dominion. The lives of female teachers, writers,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781449081317Author C. M. RubinFormat HardbackPage Count 134Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouse

The Gold Rush West was dotted with mining boomtowns and bustling new cities that sprang up overnight around strikes. Fortunes were made and lost daily, lawlessness was commonplace, and gambling dens, saloons, brothels, and dance halls thrived, but after...

Louise Larocque Serpa often said she was born "in the wrong place, to the wrong woman, at the wrong time." Born in 1925 and growing up in New York society with a mother who was never satisfied with her rather lanky, unpolished daughter,...

When Ohio newspapers published the story of Alice Chenoweth's affair with a married man, she changed her name to Helen Hamilton Gardener, moved to New York, and devoted her life to championing women's rights and decrying the sexual double standard. She...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999499597Author Madeleine May Kunin, GovernorFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Green Writers PressPublisher Green Writers PressWeight(grams) 306g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991069934Author Lorene HumpalFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Titletown Publishing, LLCPublisher Titletown Publishing, LLCWeight(grams) 344g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780970414366Author Angela BenhamFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Old City Publishing,IncorporatedPublisher Old City Publishing,Incorporated

Born on the Idaho frontier, Florence James was a New York City suffragette. The first to put Jimmy Cagney on stage, she founded both the Negro Repertory Theatre and the Seattle Repertory Playhouse. She worked with Francis Farmer, Paul Robson, and Helen...

The reflections in Sons and Mothers delve deep into the often close, but sometimes troubled, relationships that exist between mothers and sons. With remarkable honesty and grace, the contributors tell of the complicated, vulnerable, and inspirational...

Longtime fans of Rich's writing will welcome this engaging and thoughtful biography of her life. There is also a wonderful section that includes many of Rich's essays and stories - which were published in magazines but never appeared in book form - as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874136074Author Martha Fowke SansomFormat HardbackPage Count 210Imprint University of Delaware PressPublisher Rowman & Littlefield

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853986478Author Earl RedmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 486Imprint George Ronald Publisher LtdPublisher George Ronald Publisher LtdWeight(grams)...

The success of the civil rights movement demanded extraordinary courage of ordinary people. During her short life, Ruby Doris Smith Robinson became one of the most important leaders in the black struggle for equality. By age 24, Robinson's intelligence,...

In 2011, Jennifer Pharr Davis became the overall record holder on the Appalachian Trail. By hiking 2,181 miles in 46 days-an average of 47 miles per day-she became the first female to ever set that mark. But this is not a book about records or numbers;...