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This classic account of self discovery and railroad life describes Linda Grant Niemann's travels as an itinerant brakeman on the Southern Pacific. Boomer combines travelogue, Wild West adventure, sexual memoir, and closely observed ethnography. A...

From Suffragette to Homesteader opens a unique window into the past. Central to this book is a powerful memoir written in 1952 by Ethel Marie Sentance as an anniversary present for her husband, Clarence. The memoir begins in 1883 and details Ethel's...

Without a map, navigate by the stars. Susan Tweit began learning this lesson as a young woman diagnosed with an autoimmune disease that was predicted to take her life in two to five years. Offered no clear direction for getting well through conventional...

Wilma Pearl Mankiller's great-grandfather had survived the deadly forced westward march of Native Americans known as the "Trail of Tears." She rose to lead the Cherokee Nation more than 150 years later as principal chief, the first elected female chief...

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world."--Margaret Mead This quotation--found on posters and bumper stickers, and adopted as the motto for hundreds of organizations worldwide--speaks to the global influence...

Charged by the Venetian Inquisition with the conscious and cynical feigning of holiness, Cecelia Ferrazzi (1609-1684) requested and obtained the unprecedented opportunity to defend herself through a presentation of her life story. Ferrazzi's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910383476Author Irit AmielFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd

Raised in a family of landed gentry located in Transkei, a region now part of South Africa, during the early 20th century, this vivid and spirited autobiography shares the unique story of a black woman's search for identity and fulfillment through...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524745370Author Robert WeintraubFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint E P Dutton & Co IncPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

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...

Virginia C. Gildersleeve was the most influential dean of Barnard College, which she led from 1911 to 1947. An organizer of the Seven College Conference, or "Seven Sisters," she defended women's intellectual abilities and the value of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781368076517Author Ginger ZeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint HyperionPublisher Hyperion

By 1996, millions of South Sudanese have been killed, died of starvation, or fled the decades-long civil war ravaging their country. So when the Presbyterian Church in the United States begins recruiting a development team to work with war refugees in...

"Intrepid and empathetic, gifted with the dispassionate gaze of a born observer...a harmonious collage of worldview and character, a wunderkammer of experiences in a life fully lived." -Melissa Febos, The New...

Elsie Clews Parsons was a pioneering feminist, eminent anthropologist and ardent social critic; she challenged Americans to develop flexible and dynamic gender, family and social arrangements that would fit the 20th century. From 1912, she incorporated...

The stunning, intimate essays in Anxious Attachments take us through the life stages of a woman living in the American Southwest from the 1970s to the present. As she moves from adolescence into adulthood, the narrator grapples with attachments that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781861517432Author Sarah LeptisFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint Mereo BooksPublisher Mereo BooksWeight(grams) 168gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 9mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609809133Author Chavisa WoodsFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781572842953Author Marta EvansFormat PaperbackImprint Agate B2Publisher Agate B2Weight(grams) 127g

A memoir of falling in love, the fallout of infidelity, and everything messy in between - and the inspiration behind the hit CBC podcast."Beautifully and powerfully written, Alone: A Love Story left me heartbroken and inspired at the same time." - Terry...

The pioneering Iranian poet and filmmaker Forugh Farrokhzad was an iconic figure in her own day and has come to represent the spirit of revolt against patriarchal and cultural norms in 1960s Iran. Five decades after her tragic death at the age of 32,...

Author, advocacy journalist, disability rights activist, feminist, and founder of Mouth magazine, Lucy Gwin (1943-2014) made her mark by helping those in "handicaptivity" find their voice. Gwin produced over one hundred issues of the...

From age four to 18, Sue William Silverman was sexually abused by her father, a high-ranking government official. This is an often graphic memoir of those years which recounts how Silverman's mother ignored her distress, thus conspiring in an attempt to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679724360Author Jill K. ConwayFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 227g

When she joins a pair of hitchhikers on a trip to California, a young Midwestern woman embarks on a journey about memory and knowledge, beauty and realization. This true story, set in 1971, recounts a fateful, nine-day trip into the American...

Vietnam, January, 1968. As the citizens of Hue are preparing to celebrate Tet, the start of the Lunar New Year, Nha Ca arrives in the city to attend her father's funeral. Without warning, war erupts all around them, drastically changing or cutting short...

Zarah Petri was just a little girl when her family left Hungary to finda new life in Canada in the 1920s. She showed spunk and a greatimagination that would serve her well as a new immigrant and youngmarried woman. Zarah and her family lived through the...

For half a century Sarah Josepha Hale was the best known and most influential woman in America. As editor of Godey's Lady's Book, Hale was the leading cultural arbiter for the growing nation. Many turned to her for advice on what to read, what to cook,...

This volume is being published on the occasion of the exhibition Women in Balance at the Museo Salvatore Ferragamo in Florence. Wanda Miletti Ferragamo, wife of Salvatore Ferragamo, was an extraordinary figure who combined the traditional role of a woman...

A "riveting and enlightening account" (Bookreporter) of a mostly unknown chapter in the life of Eleanor Roosevelt-when she moved to New York's Greenwich Village, shed her high-born conformity, and became the progressive leader who pushed for change as...

MOMMIES WHO DRINK is a collection of true stories that track Paesel's experience of motherhood - the common bond that either unites women in friendship or polarizes them to different camps. Wickedly funny and painfully honest, these stories explore what...

At a time when women were finding their voices comes Hell Cat of the Hague: The Nel Slis Story, the remarkable tale of a female journalist who became the Associated Press' first correspondent in The Hague after WWII. This story delves into the origins...

An intimate memoir of Jewish adolescence and life from a young woman's perspective in an Eastern European shtetl at the end of the nineteenth century.Book InformationISBN 9780674019706Author Hinde BergnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Harvard...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593189887Author Brenda JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593189863Author Brenda JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525436508Author Peter FinnFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA Inc

A Mind of Her Own: Helen Connor Laird and Family, 1888 - 1982 captures the public achievement and private pain of a remarkable Wisconsin woman and her family, whose interests and influence extended well beyond the borders of the state. The eldest child...

Buying the Night Flight is Georgie Anne Geyer's retelling of her thrilling rise from cub reporter to foreign correspondent as she made her way into the male-dominated world of journalism. Geyer transports the reader to Guatemala, Cuba, Egypt, Russia, and...

While the adage may go, "Behind every great man is a great woman," the story of Maria Longworth Storer necessitates a new adage-at the front of every great city is a great woman. After being shunted into the biographies and history books of other people,...

Now reprinted, this revealing autobiography includes a prologue and epilogue written by two of the author's sons, Leeroy and Peter, who have pieced together more of this poignant love and life story. Nora's father, as Director General of the Soviet...