Women

No Worries If Not is a funny, relatable coming-of-age story, that explores Soph Galustian's experiences of poverty, queerness, mental health, grief and community. She recounts her life from childhood, to teens, into adulthood through a mixture of short...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593129753Author Manjit ThappFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

I am in the very fortunate position of having been able to contribute to two waves of feminism: The Women's Liberation Movement and the new wave that is taking place now. Trigger Warning: My Lesbian Feminist Life is both an engaging autobiography and a...

Award-winning author Helen Humphreys tells a beautiful tale in this brilliant memoir of the writing life as told through the dogs Humphreys has lived with and loved over a lifetime.An artist's solitude is a sacred space, one to be guarded and kept apart...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528999243Author Juliet FisherFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Jean Harlow, the Godmother of Blondes, lit the torch for the blonde bombshell, creating an image and persona that would be passed on for generations to come. Jean's life was cut tragically short at the age of 26, but the flame reignited in the 1950s with...

Jean Harlow, the Godmother of Blondes, lit the torch for the blonde bombshell, creating an image and persona that would be passed on for generations to come. Jean's life was cut tragically short at the age of 26, but the flame reignited in the 1950s with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771338134Author Nicole LuongoFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Inanna Publications and Education Inc.Publisher Inanna Publications and Education Inc...

This edition of Anne Clifford's (1590-1676) diaries and memoirs is the first to include all of her autobiographical writing. Clifford was a prominent noble woman who writes about her experiences in the courts of Elizabeth, James and Charles I. She tells...

This is a lavish pictorial record produced in collaboration with the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG). It features 200 unique photographs taken by Isabella Bird that transport the reader to the China of the late 19th century. It includes supporting...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780609809549Author Rita Golden GelmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House IncPublisher Random House USA...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782080204028Author Michele FitoussiFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint FlammarionPublisher Editions FlammarionWeight(grams) 1180g

With fascinating lives on every page, the Dictionary offers concise entries that illustrate the lives of Scottish women from the distant past to the early twenty-first century, as well as the worldwide Scottish diaspora.Book InformationISBN...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912408641Author Kathryn HeymanFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Myriad EditionsPublisher Myriad Editions

A powerful memoir about how one woman resurrects her life and career in the glamorous but sexist wine industry.Natalie MacLean, a bestselling wine writer, is shocked when her husband of twenty years, a high-powered CEO, demands a divorce. Then an online...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906022075Author Ann KramerFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Snake River Press LtdPublisher Snake River Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982168315Author Cecily StrongFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

In this memoir-in-essays full of spot-on observations about home, work, and creative life, Philpott takes on the conflicting pressures of modern womanhood with wit and heart. She offers up her own stories to show that identity crises don't happen just...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501116391Author Amber SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399582233Author Blair ImaniFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Ten Speed Press

In May 1936 Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace wrote to Caroline Henderson to praise her contributions to American ""understanding of some of our farm problems."" His comments reflected the national attention aroused by Henderson's articles, which...

Behind every great woman... is another great woman. Here, the extraordinary achievements, relationships and secret histories of 84 pioneering women are revealed in inspirational stories which together show the indomitable strength of womankind. From...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580083652Author Madeleine KammanFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 414gDimensions(mm) 228mm...

On a butterfly farm in the Maya Mountains, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of the national bestseller The Tenth Island finds enduring hope during cataclysmic times. Atop a hill in the rainforest of Belize, next to the ruins of a fallen...

Haben grew up spending summers with her family in the enchanting Eritrean city of Asmara. There, she discovered courage as she faced off against a bull she couldn't see, and found in herself an abiding strength as she absorbed her parents' harrowing...

Commemorating the 70th anniversary of the arrival of the Empire Windrush, Stephen Bourne's War to Windrush explores the lives of Britain's immigrant community through the experiences of Black British women during the period spanning from the beginning of...

Training her eye on traits that other biographers have neglected and mining newly released diaries and letters, Barbara Perry captures Rose Kennedy's genuine contributions to her family's political dynasty. Rose's perfectionism created a family image...

Was What's My Line TV Star, media icon, and crack investigative reporter and journalist Dorothy Kilgallen murdered for writing a tell-all book about the JFK assassination? If so, is the main suspect in her death still at large?These questions and more...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061133947Author Isabel VincentFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week'This is such a great idea for a book, and Michelle Dean carries it off, showing us the complexities of her fascinating, extraordinary subjects, in print and out in the world. Dean writes with vigor, depth, knowledge and...

New York Times Bestseller "Sharp and prescient...The appeal of Valenti's memoir lies in her ability to trace objectification through her own life, and to trace what was for a long time her own obliviousness to it...Sex Object is an antidote to the fun...

For ten years Gary McKinnon became the unwilling focus of Anglo-US diplomatic relations. A computer systems analyst living in London, he firmly believed that the US government was withholding vital information about the presence of UFOs. The unremarkable...

The names of few medieval monarchs and their queens are better known than Eleanor of Aquitaine, uniquely queen of France and queen of England, and her second husband Henry II. Although academically labelled medieval', their era was the violent...

Dubbed 'the poster girl of Palestinian militancy', Leila Khaled's image flashed across the world after she hijacked a passenger jet in 1969. The picture of a young, determined looking woman with a checkered scarf, clutching an AK-47, was as era-defining...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780547053561Author Dale PetersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 768Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 853gDimensions(mm) 230mm * 165mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524732103Author Helena KellyFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Knopf Publishing GroupPublisher Knopf Publishing GroupWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623545284Author Alisa JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Imagine Publishing, IncPublisher Charlesbridge Publishing,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859651455Author Guus LuijtersFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Plexus Publishing LtdPublisher Plexus Publishing Ltd

A reexamination of Austen's unpublished writings that uncovers their continuity with her celebrated novels-and that challenges distinctions between her "early" and "late" workJane Austen's six novels, published toward the end of her short life, represent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583673171Author Nancy StoutFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.