Women

Life doesn't come with an instruction book for the role of perfect wife and mother. However, as Love Taza creator Naomi Davis?discovered on her journey from newlywed Juilliard dancer to mother of five, a joyful life is a work of art that only you can...

On 3 August 1845, Emily Dickinson declared, "All things are ready"-and with this, her life as a poet began. Despite spending her days almost entirely "at home", Dickinson's interior world was extraordinary. She loved passionately, was ambivalent towards...

Throughout her prodigious life, activist and lawyer Pauli Murray systematically fought against all arbitrary distinctions in society, channeling her outrage at the discrimination she faced to make America a more democratic country. In this definitive...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570756030Author Wendy M. WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Orbis Books (USA)Publisher Orbis Books (USA)

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143123385Author Alyssa HaradFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 214gDimensions(mm) 196mm * 129mm *...

'The degradations, the wrongs, the vices, that grow out of slavery, are more than I can describe.' Harriet Jacobs was born a slave in the American South and went on to write one of the most extraordinary slave narratives. First published...

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 9780960103126Author Hak Ja Han MoonFormat PaperbackPage Count 370Imprint Washington Times Global Media GroupPublisher Washington Times Global Media...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316821490Author Claire SylviaFormat HardbackPage Count 237Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 408g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345432711Author Hilary du PreFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 360gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780778333333Author Amber TamblynFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Mira BooksPublisher Mira BooksWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 218mm * 150mm * 25mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250097712Author Charles J ShieldsFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 340g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of School Library Journal Best Books of the Year - Adult 2013.Book InformationISBN 9780307594884Author Sonia SotomayorFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Alfred A...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061228155Author Phoebe DamroschFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812971064Author Azar NafisiFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

The six Mitford girls were blessed with beauty, wit and talent, yet they led very distinct, cultural lives and not one sister, except for Diana and Unity, shared the same opinion or ideology. Nancy Mitford was the ultimate tease and her talent for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583228555Author Annie ErnauxFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 90g

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

One woman embarked on a dance journey around the world, finding out how each dance tells a story of its country and learning how beautiful life can be when you take the lead.If you could do anything you wanted, what would it be? Alienor Salmon was...

An authoritative reassessment of one of the Third Reich's most notorious war criminals, whose alleged sexual barbarism made her a convenient scapegoat and obscured the true nature of Nazi terror.On September 1, 1967, one of the Third Reich's most...

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 9781524745363Author Robert WeintraubFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint E P Dutton & Co IncPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593445884Author Geena RoceroFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

"A defining chronicle of strength and spirit" (Kirkus Reviews), Surpassing Certainty is a portrait of a young woman searching for her purpose and place in the world-without a road map to guide her. This memoir "should be required reading for your 20s"...

Janina Beauman was thirteen-years-old when Hitler's decree forced her family into the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw. The young, bright and lively girl suddenly found herself in a cramped flat hiding with other Jewish families. At first even curfews and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Isinglass Teen Read Award 2015.Book InformationISBN 9780316286633Author Malala YousafzaiFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Little, Brown &...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743200424Author James FoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 530Imprint TouchstonePublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 598gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 32mm

On July 29, 2009, Air National Guard major Mary Jennings 'MJ' Hegar was shot down while on a Medevac mission on her third tour in Afghanistan. Despite being wounded, she continued to fight and saved the lives of her crew and their patients. But soon she...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615602226Author Sibel D EdmondsFormat PaperbackPage Count 354Imprint Sibel EdmondsPublisher Sibel EdmondsWeight(grams) 472gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

An Oxford Childhood is a personal reminiscence of growing up in Cowley, Oxford in the 1920s. The author's detailed memories describe every aspect of life in the years following the Great War. The clothes she wore, the furnishings of her parents' house...

'I believe in grafting hard, training right, eating well . . . and having a good time!'WORK HARDVicky Pattison knows that achieving your dreams takes hard work, hustle, a sense of humour and a killer outfit. And now she's sharing her insider secrets for...

'I believe in grafting hard, training right, eating well . . . and having a good time!'WORK HARDVicky Pattison knows that achieving your dreams takes hard work, hustle, a sense of humour and a killer outfit. And now she's sharing her insider secrets for...

"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...

Proclaimed "girl-pervert" Oriana Small, AKA Ashley Blue, a veritable artist at heart, weaves through the intricacies of a decade in and out of the adult film industry, love, drugs, and her own firebrand of what it means to live ecstatically. From...

A genius of literary suspense, known to millions as the author of the "The Lottery", Shirley Jackson (1916-1965) plumbed the cultural anxiety of postwar America better than anyone. Based on a wealth of previously undiscovered correspondence and dozens of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312425722Author Wendy KannFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...

Jane Dolby fell in love with a fisherman - the most dangerous peacetime occupation that exists - leading her to find a place in a traditional British world that many have forgotten. Jane was not expecting to fall in love, but she did with Colin, a local...

Jane Dolby fell in love with a fisherman - the most dangerous peacetime occupation that exists - leading her to find a place in a traditional British world that many have forgotten. Jane was not expecting to fall in love, but she did with Colin, a local...

One of Hollywood's first scandals was nearly its last. 1936 looked like it would be a great year for the movie industry. With the economy picking up after the Great Depression, Americans everywhere were sitting in the dark watching the stars-and few...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645472827Author Cristina MoonFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc