Women

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...

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...

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,...

Wangari Muta Maathai is one of Africa's most celebrated female activists. Originally trained as a scientist in Kenya and abroad, Professor Maathai returned to her home country of Kenya with a renewed political consciousness. There, she began her long...

Although Cora Du Bois began her life in the early twentieth century as a lonely and awkward girl, her intellect and curiosity propelled her into a remarkable life as an anthropologist and diplomat in the vanguard of social and academic change.Du Bois...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Alex Award - YALSA 2004 and Booklist Editor's Choice for Young Adults and New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age and School Library Journal Adult Books...

Bo, Jenny and I is a memoir describing the life of a young woman growing up in unusual circumstances, as well as a discussion of political and sociological effects of troubled times upon "ordinary people." After an early childhood in pre-war...

A member in the Society of the Sacred Heart for nearly thirty years president of Manhattanville College in New York recipient of a doctorate in philosophy philanthropic advisor to the Rockefeller family beloved wife of Jerome I. Aron pivotal board member...

The story of Harriet Smith Pullen's early life, from her childhood journeys by covered wagon to her family's subsistence in sod houses on the Dakota prairie where they survived grasshopper plagues, floods, fires, blizzards, and droughts is a narrative of...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER "As exciting as any spy novel" (Daily News, New York), The Princess Spy follows the hidden history of an ordinary American girl who became one of the OSS's most daring World War II...

This biography of writer, translator, teacher, and feminist Ada Gobetti, the first in English or Italian, frames her activism in the Resistenza as a chapter in a lifetime of resistance. By the time Turin was liberated in April 1945, writer,...

While African National Congress narratives dominate much of the scholarship on South Africa's freedom struggle, Josie Mpama/Palmer's political life offers a different perspective. Highly critical of the patriarchal attitudes that hindered black women...

In 1573, the alchemist Anna Zieglerin gave her patron, the Duke of Braunschweig-Wolfenbuttel, the recipe for an extraordinary substance she called the lion's blood. She claimed that this golden oil could stimulate the growth of plants, create gemstones,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062656230Author Stella GreyFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 198mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950495313Author Marilyn KrieteFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Lucid House Publishing LLCPublisher Lucid House Publishing LLCWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780195385830Author Caroline P MurphyFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Oxford University Press IncPublisher Oxford University Press IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645338485Author Bipolar BarbieFormat PaperbackPage Count 398Imprint Bipolar BarbiePublisher Bipolar BarbieWeight(grams) 531g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995565401Author Mary Church AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Copperbelt BooksPublisher Copperbelt Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915170019Author Savannah HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Jad Publishing LimitedPublisher Jad Publishing LimitedWeight(grams) 159g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780446694872Author SouadFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Warner Books IncPublisher Time Warner Trade PublishingWeight(grams) 263gDimensions(mm) 230mm *...

The American book tour that catapulted Gertrude Stein from quirky artist to a household name.In 1933, experimental writer and longtime expatriate Gertrude Stein skyrocketed to overnight fame with the publication of an unlikely best seller, The...

With this first volume of a two-part biography of the Transcendentalist critic and feminist leader, Margaret Fuller, Capper has launched the premier modern biography of early America's best-known intellectual woman. Based on a thorough examination of all...