Women

Ruth Blau: A Life of Paradox and Purpose explores the life of a curious, if not mysterious, character in modern Jewish history. Born a French Catholic, Ruth Blau (Ben-David) (1920-2000) lived a constantly twisting life. During World War II, Blau was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307460745Author Patti LuPoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 306gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Victoria Woodhull, Mary Wollstonecraft, Aimee Semple McPherson, Edwina Mountbatten, Margaret Argyll and Chanel were all women who dared. They had no time for what society said they could and couldn't do and would see the world bend before they did. In...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781087901039Author Channon RoseFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 195gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 8mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345802637Author Caroline BlackwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 244gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865477636Author Beryl MarkhamFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint North Point PressPublisher North Point PressWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 206mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541674233Author Bettany HughesFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 140mm * 20mm

TRANSLATED BY ALISON McCULLOUGH'One of the best books on the many diverse migrations to London . . . revealing the extent to which the diversity of immigrant origins has had transformative effects - through food, music, diverse types of knowledge and so...

Meet 50 women, from queens and politicians to explorers and sports figures, who changed the world. These 50 women pursued their ambitions and achieved their dreams - even when the world tried to tell them they shouldn't. They enjoyed successes and...

'I squeezed through the narrow gap and out into the hallway and I stood for a moment, unable to decide where to go. Should I make a dash for the kitchen, where my mother would be swigging from a bottle? Or should I run upstairs and try to find somewhere...

'I squeezed through the narrow gap and out into the hallway and I stood for a moment, unable to decide where to go. Should I make a dash for the kitchen, where my mother would be swigging from a bottle? Or should I run upstairs and try to find somewhere...

"In the beginning, woman was truly the sun. An authentic person. Now she is the moon, a wan and sickly moon, dependent on another, reflecting another's brilliance."-Hiratsuku Raicho Raicho Hiratsuka (1886-1971) was the most influential figure in the...

History has seen many women make their mark by defying the limits set against them, stepping out of the boxes they had been put in and forging their own path.She Who Dares is a collection of pen portraits of ten extraordinary women who dared to defy the...

Mixing fiction, history, psychoanalysis, and personal fantasy, Teresa, My Love turns a past world into a modern marvel, following Sylvia Leclercq, a French psychoanalyst, academic, and incurable insomniac, as she falls for the sixteenth-century Saint...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982128012Author Katie RoipheFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Free PressPublisher Free PressWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 25mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143127024Author Jenifer RingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 279g

Frank Capra called her, "The greatest emotional actress the screen has yet known." Yet she was one of its most natural, timeless, and underrated stars. Now Victoria Wilson, gives us the most complete portrait we have yet had, or will have, of this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307473417Author Bob SpitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 131mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307473417Author Bob SpitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 131mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813035062Author Doris RichFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint University Press of FloridaPublisher University Press of FloridaWeight(grams) 466g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767908719Author Joan AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 196gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506471853Author Amy FrykholmFormat HardbackPage Count 217Imprint Broadleaf BooksPublisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 318g

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk is hailed as one of the most charismatic political leaders of the twentieth century, but little is known today about his one and only wife, Latife Hanim. A multilingual intellectual educated at the Sorbonne, Latife's marriage to...

Go Simple, Go Solo, Go Now In 1958, while flying from one island to another, Audrey Sutherland sees the remote and roadless northeast side of Molokai, with its spectacular sea cliffs and waterfalls. Always an adventurer, she decides that she must find...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593138090Author Tina BrownFormat HardbackPage Count 592Imprint 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 9780063079014Author Jessi HempelFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 481gDimensions(mm)...

From an acclaimed musician comes an inside look at one of the most controversial and influential civil rights movements of our time.Nights in Tents is a memoir of the profoundly moving, and often hysterical, circumstances a fifty-one-year-old...

From Snow White to Moana, from Pinocchio to Frozen, the animated films of Walt Disney Studios have moved and entertained millions. But few fans know that behind these groundbreaking features was an incredibly influential group of women who fought for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593237595Author Guinevere TurnerFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Elizabeth Waterston is a 2011 Fellow of The Royal Society of Canada. The fourth volume of the immensely successful The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery covers the years from 1929 to 1935, a tumultuous period in the writer's life. By 1929, Montgomery...

CHOSEN BY MAGGIE O'FARRELL IN THE GUARDIAN AS ONE OF HER BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR'It's a slice of a life . . . a complex, intelligent, beautiful, thoughtful, rather lyrical book' -Cathy Rentzenbrink, author of The Last Act of Love'A moving treatise on...

2013 Gold Winner IBPA Ben Franklin Awards In a memoir remarkable for its quiet confidence and acute natural observation, the author of Paddling Hawaii and Paddling My Own Canoe begins with her decision, at age 60, to undertake a solo, summer-long...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553265965Author Robert SpechtFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Bantam Books IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 174mm *...

From a trusted advisor and devoted friend of Mother Teresa comes a "powerful" (The Washington Free Beacon) firsthand account of the miraculous woman behind the saint and a book that is "rich in reflection on contemporary sanctity" (George Weigel).Mother...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611804256Author Vicki MackenzieFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)...

This is a story that starts with tragedy, but which is filled with incredible resilience. It is not just a memoir, or a self-help book, it is a generous gift to the reader. Mwangala's vulnerability in sharing what she has learned makes this a book we...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594485688Author Wendy McClureFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 327gDimensions(mm) 208mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538713006Author Lauren MarinoFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Grand Central PublishingPublisher Grand Central PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780620833714Author Wendy RichardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Wendy RichardsPublisher Wendy RichardsWeight(grams) 213gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780671447489Author Joanna StrattonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 462g