Women

In 1993, white American Fulbright scholar Amy Biehl was killed in a racially motivated attack near Cape Town, after spending months working to promote democracy and women's rights in South Africa. The ironic circumstances of her death generated enormous...

English novelist, short-story writer, playwright and journalist, Graham Greene was one of the most widely read novelist of the 20th-century, a superb storyteller. Adventure and suspense are constant elements in his novels and many of his books have been...

Richard M. Nixon remains an enigma even thirty years after his resignation. Of the many portraits of this complex man, none have been more intimate or revealing than this memoir from his personal physician, friend, and confidante of more than forty...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812968866Author Helen KellerFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 312gDimensions(mm) 202mm...

Lydia Pinkham was one of the 19th century's most remarkable businesswomen, her influence spreading beyond the late 1800s and her native New England. A champion of equal rights for women and blacks at a time when such causes lacked widespread support,...

Dawn Powell was a gifted satirist who moved in the same circles as Dorothy Parker, Ernest Hemingway, renowned editor Maxwell Perkins, and other midcentury New York luminaries. Her many novels are typically divided into two groups: those dealing with her...

Caroline Kearney faced a heartbreaking dilemma. In 1865 she was newly widowed, thirty-one years old, and the mother of six children. She had hoped her husband would leave his sheep station in Victoria, Australia to her sons. Instead, his will required...

Colicky horses, trucks high-centered in pastures, late nights spent in barns birthing calves--the trials and tribulations of farm and ranch life are as central to its experience as amber waves of grain and Sunday dinners at the ranch house. Ankle High...

How did Arizona become the amazing state that it is today you may wonder? More than Petticoats: Remarkable Arizona Women recognizes the women who shaped "The Grand Canyon State." Female teachers, writers, entrepreneurs, and artists from...

How did Tennessee become the amazing state that it is today you may wonder? More than Petticoats: Remarkable Tennessee Women recognizes the women who shaped the "Volunteer State." The lives of female teachers, writers, entrepreneurs, and...

More than Petticoats: Remarkable Colorado Women, 2nd Edition celebrates the women who shaped the Centennial State. Short, illuminating biographies and archival photographs and paintings tell the stories of women from across the state who served as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743255233Author Alison SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 304g

Telling Our Lives explores how three working-class women—from Jewish, African-American, and Irish-American backgrounds—connect across their differences through storytelling and conversation. Three distinct voices intertwine in this book as the authors,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593183984Author Katie Gee SalisburyFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint Dutton / SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

In the summer of 2009, as she was covering the popular uprisings in Tehran for the New York Times , Iranian journalist Nazila Fathi received a phone call. They have given your photo to snipers," a government source warned her. Soon after, with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374609849Author Sloane CrosleyFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint MCDPublisher MCDWeight(grams) 454g

At the time of her death in 1780, British-born Esther DeBerdt Reed-a name few know today-was one of the most politically important women in Revolutionary America. Her treatise "The Sentiments of an American Woman" articulated the aspirations of...

At the time of her death in 1780, British-born Esther DeBerdt Reed-a name few know today-was one of the most politically important women in Revolutionary America. Her treatise "The Sentiments of an American Woman" articulated the aspirations of...

In early China, was it correct for a woman to disobey her father, contradict her husband, or shape the public policy of a son who ruled over a dynasty or state? According to the Lienu zhuan, or Categorized Biographies of Women, it was not only...

Love and Liberation reads the autobiographical and biographical writings of one of the few Tibetan Buddhist women to record the story of her life. Sera Khandro Kunzang Dekyong Chonyi Wangmo (also called Dewe Dorje, 1892-1940) was extraordinary not only...

Compelling images of cinnamon-robed monks confronting the guns and clubs of Burma's military junta outraged the world in September 2007. Then communications links were cut, and curfews, interrogations, midnight raids, beatings, and arrests crushed the...

A “fifties girl” tells the fascinating story of her marriages to novelist Billy Lee Brammer and Congressman Bob Eckhardt, and how these relationships propelled her into the multifaceted life she has led on her own terms. Child of the Great Depression,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780947522476Author Jenny ColemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Otago University PressPublisher Otago University PressWeight(grams) 484g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812971538Author Jane PauleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 198gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781485309437Author Karina M. SzczurekFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Protea BoekhuisPublisher Protea Boekhuis

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400054626Author Liz MohnFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 272g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608082018Author Kayce Stevens HughlettFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint WriteLife LLCPublisher WriteLife LLCWeight(grams) 498gDimensions(mm) 228mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375425721Author Liz MohnFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 420g

More than Petticoats: Remarkable North Carolina Women, 2nd Edition celebrates the women who shaped the Tar Heel State. Short, illuminating biographies and archival photographs and paintings tell the stories of women from across the state who served as...

More than Petticoats: Remarkable Kentucky Women, 2nd Edition celebrates the women who shaped the Bluegrass State. Short, illuminating biographies and archival photographs and paintings tell the stories of women from across the state who served as...

More than Petticoats: Remarkable Kansas Women celebrates the women who shaped the Sunflower State. Short, illuminating biographies and archival photographs and paintings tell the stories of women from across the state, including a dentist, an orator, a...

More than Petticoats: Remarkable Oregon Women, 2nd Edition celebrates the women who shaped the Beaver State. Short, illuminating biographies and archival photographs and paintings tell the stories of women from across the state who served as teachers,...

More than Petticoats: Remarkable Florida Women, 2nd Edition celebrates the women who shaped the Sunshine State. Short, illuminating biographies and archival photographs and paintings tell the stories of women from across the state who served as teachers,...

From Baroness Pontalba to Kate Chopin to Mahalia Jackson, More than Petticoats: Remarkable Louisiana Women celebrates the women who shaped the Pelican State. Short, illuminating biographies and archvial photographs and paintings tell the stories of women...

More than Petticoats: Remarkable New Hampshire Women celebrates the women who shaped the Granite State. Short, illuminating biographies and archvial photographs and paintings tell the stories of women from across the state who served as teachers,...

More than Petticoats: Remarkable Illinois Women chronicles the stories of twelve Illinois women who lived in the era of True Womanhood and dedicated themselves to charity toward family and strangers. Unwittingly, these women forged a legacy that expanded...

More than Petticoats: Remarkable South Carolina Women celebrates the women who shaped the Palmetto State. Short, illuminating biographies and archival photographs and paintings tell the stories of women from across the state who served as teachers,...

More than Petticoats: Remarkable Missouri Women celebrates the women who shaped the Show-Me State. Short, illuminating biographies and archival photographs and paintings tell the stories of women from across the state who served as teachers, writers,...

A major new illustrated volume on the visual diary of extraordinary artist and traveller Henriette, Baroness Hyde de Neuville, who lived and worked in America during the early nineteenth century. Artist in Exile is the first in-depth, illustrated...

Diana Mitford, the most glamorous of the Mitfords, rivetingly narrates her life populated with key characters of 20th century history. Evelyn Waugh and Oswald Mosley fell in love with her, while not only Winston Churchill but also Adolf Hitler adored her...