Women

An extraordinary woman. An extraordinary time. Here is an inspiring story of Morgan (18731952), the youngest daughter of financier J. P. Morgan, and her pioneering use of photography to advance her social work and philanthropic mission. Time and again,...

Inspired by her own foremothers' legacies and the friendships formed throughout her life, Rozella Kennedy centres and celebrates the stories of 100 Black, Brown, Asian, and Indigenous women-both famous and little-known-who changed the course of US...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954622098Author Miriam ZadekFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Gallaudet University PressPublisher Gallaudet University PressWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771332460Author Lorrie JorgensenFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Inanna Publications and Education Inc.Publisher Inanna Publications and Education...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781436382021Author Dawn RennaFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint Xlibris CorporationPublisher Xlibris CorporationWeight(grams) 152g

Award-winning author Merle Massie brings to the page the life and career of Sylvia Fedoruk (1927-2012), which encompassed some of the most ground-breaking scientific, athletic and public transformations of the twentieth century. A pioneer in leading-edge...

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...

Florence Hope Luscomb's life spanned nearly all of the twentieth century. Born into a remarkable family of abolitionists and progressive thinkers, the young Florence accompanied her feminist mother to lectures and political rallies, soon choosing a...

West Coast-based Aunt K (the author) writes to niece DeeDee, ostensibly to bring her up to speed on family history and share anecdotes about their North Carolina relatives, past and present. The letters soon evolve into broader discussions of community,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641828567Author A J CrowFormat HardbackPage Count 230Imprint Austin MacauleyPublisher Austin MacauleyWeight(grams) 354g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982171803Author Doreen CunninghamFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 259g

Belle Brezing made a major career move when she stepped off the streets of Lexington, Kentucky, and into Jennie Hill's bawdy house - an upscale brothel run out of a former residence of Mary Todd Lincoln. At nineteen, Brezing was already infamous as a...

In her extraordinary career as a prison reformer, Miriam Van Waters worked tirelessly to champion the cause of socially disadvantaged and delinquent women. Yet, it was her sensational battle to retain the superintendency of the Massachusetts Reformatory...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781597096249Author Sarah CannonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Red Hen PressPublisher Red Hen PressWeight(grams) 159g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781649798725Author Chef Terri RogersFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Austin Macauley Publishers LLCPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers...

Stunningly illustrated, Sportswomen Legends Alphabet celebrates the essential A to Z of women who have blazed the trail in their sport: from Wilma Rudolph to Florence Griffith Joyner, Nadia Comăneci to Serena Williams. There’s never been a better time to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063000179Author Cokie RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

A New York socialite and feminist, Alva Vanderbilt Belmont was known to be domineering, temperamental, and opinionated. Her resolve to get her own way regardless of the consequences stood her in good stead when she joined the American woman suffrage...

In these lively life stories, women market traders from Ghana comment on changing social and economic times and on reasons for their prosperity or decline in fortunes. Gracia Clark shows that market women are intimately connected with economic policy on...

When Juliette Kinzie first visited Chicago in 1831, it was anything but a city. An outpost in the shadow of Fort Dearborn, it had no streets, no sidewalks, no schools, no river-spanning bridges. And with two hundred disconnected residents, it lacked any...

This female Mad Men-like story chronicles the legendary Cosmopolitan magazine editor's rise to power as both a cultural icon and trailblazer who redefined what it means to be an American woman. In the mid-Sixties, Helen Gurley Brown, author of the...

It was a beautiful fall day in Connecticut when Colleen Alexander, a lifelong competitive athlete, rode her bike home from work, having just learned her job with the nonprofit PeaceJam was secure. She had survived a diagnosis of lupus and brain surgery...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451645613Author Amanda LindhoutFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771135887Author Bonnie RobichaudFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Between the LinesPublisher Between the Lines

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385720168Author Ann MarloweFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 266gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 132mm...

Behind some of the most popular works of science fiction, fantasy, and horror there are forgotten stories of female creators. It's no secret that genres like science fiction, fantasy, horror, and more, have evolved from niche interest to mainstream...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804171441Author Heidi JulavitsFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 231gDimensions(mm)...

The year was 1951, and Nell Peters, just out of high school in the north woods of Wisconsin, was about to join the army. Feeling woefully unworldly, she asked the undertaker's grandson to initiate her into sex before she ventured off. She wasn't in the...

". . . vital to understanding this period of East European Jewish history. As Hyman promises, the memoir . . . read[s] like a novel." -Russian ReviewIn this striking autobiography Puah Rakovsky (1865-1955) tells of her experiences as a Jewish woman in...

Viramma tells her fascinating life story with the unsentimentality, humor and dramatic sense of a born storyteller: her carefree childhood; her marriage before puberty; giving birth to twelve children 'very gently, like stroking a rose'; adult life as an...

This is the compelling story of former Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, his wife Margaret and their 70-year relationship - personal and political, private and public. It is a story of how two extraordinary people, side by side, led the Australian nation...

This book details the fascinating life story of Michelle Obama, emphasizing her own personal and professional accomplishments, her life partnership with President Barack Obama, and her distinctive approach to the role of First Lady. Independent and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781558617513Author Merle HoffmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Feminist Press at The City University of New YorkPublisher Feminist Press at The City...

Andreea is thirteen and looking forward to taking part in a Romanian dance performance on a trip to Paris with her friends. However she skips school one day and gets in a car with a boy she doesn't know. They have a terrible crash which leaves her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781622889303Author Christine StewartFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Stephen F. Austin University PressPublisher Stephen F. Austin University...

Have you ever wondered what it's like to argue before the Supreme Court of the United States?In this poignant and compelling memoir, Lisa Sarnoff Gochman captures the terror, wonder, and joy of preparing for and arguing a landmark criminal case before...

"A world changing book on health and wellness for this millennium" -Living Now Book AwardsSometimes, in the blink of an eye, the unthinkable can happen; events...

Forget Doris Day singing on the stagecoach. Forget Robin Weigert's gritty portrayal on HBO's Deadwood. The real Calamity Jane was someone the likes of whom you've never encountered. That is, until now.This book is a definitive biography of Martha Canary,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593189856Author Brenda JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for National Book Awards 2013. Nominated for Plutarch Award 2014.Book InformationISBN 9780307948830Author Jill LeporeFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint...