Women

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781960803061Author Caroline KurtzFormat PaperbackPage Count 550Imprint Catalyst PressPublisher Catalyst PressWeight(grams) 699g

Last Boat to Yokohama tells a story of both tragedy and grandeur in the 20th century. It recounts the life and work of Beate Sirota Gordon: the influence of her father, Leo Sirota, one of the greatest pianists of his generation; her secret work ensuring...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639364992Author Celia BrayfieldFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 157mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781591932550Author Sarah Guy-LevarFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Advance Publishing In.,USPublisher Advance Publishing In.,USWeight(grams) 511g

The success of the civil rights movement demanded extraordinary courage of ordinary people. During her short life, Ruby Doris Smith Robinson became one of the most important leaders in the black struggle for equality. By age 24, Robinson's intelligence,...

Great Dames is a collection of biographical sketches, memoirs, and essays about twentieth-century Canadian women from all walks of life. While attempting to capture the meaning of the ordinary lives of extraordinary women, it also explores the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743256100Author Pamela MarinFormat HardbackPage Count 229Imprint Free PressPublisher Free PressWeight(grams) 372g

A thousand years ago, a young Japanese girl embarked on a journey from deep in the countryside of eastern Japan to the capital. Forty years later, with the long account of that journey as a foundation, the mature woman skillfully created an autobiography...

Filled with dramatic, ironic, and sometimes tragic turns, this superb biography captures the story of one of America's most extraordinary figures, producing at once the best life of Fuller ever written and one of the great biographies in American history...

The extraordinary life and legacy of legendary journalist Cokie Roberts-a trailblazer for women-remembered by her friends and family.Through her visibility and celebrity, Cokie Roberts was an inspiration and a role model for innumerable women and girls...

After moving from the U.S. to London after college, Kathy Eldon longed for a more vibrant life. In 1978, her wishes were granted. Kathy moved with her husband and two young children to Kenya - an opportunity that might provide the adventure and life...

The life of Arsinoe II (c. 316-c.270 BCE), daughter of Ptolemy Soter, the founder of the Ptolemaic dynasty, is characterized by dynastic intrigue. Her marriage to her full brother Ptolemy II, king of Egypt, was the first of the sibling marriages that...

A hilariously intimate memoir that gets to the turbulent joys and pains of coming of age and looking for love as a Black woman in America. In the car she'd had since high school--with the boyfriend she'd had just as long riding shotgun--Minda Honey made...

THE GLOBE AND MAIL: BOOKS TO READ IN FALL 2023Martha Baillie’s richly layered response to her mother’s passing, her father's life, and her sister’s suicide is an exploration of how the body, the rooms we inhabit, and our languages offer the psyche a...

This exhilarating saga about two intrepid young women who leave the affluence of their New York home to teach school on the Western frontier in 1916 is authentically created using actual letters home and interviews with descendants.Dorothy Woodruff and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590171103Author Professor Jessica MitfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint New York Review of BooksPublisher New York Review of BooksWeight(grams)...

Gisele d'Estoc was the pseudonym of a nineteenth-century French woman writer and, it turns out, artist who, among other things, was accused of being a bomb-planting anarchist, the cross-dressing lover of writer Guy de Maupassant, and the fighter of at...

In early China, was it correct for a woman to disobey her father, contradict her husband, or shape the public policy of a son who ruled over a dynasty or state? According to the Lienu zhuan, or Categorized Biographies of Women, it was not only...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781558612709Author Flavia AlayaFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Feminist Press at The City University of New YorkPublisher Feminist Press at The City...

A hilariously intimate memoir that gets to the turbulent joys and pains of coming of age and looking for love as a Black woman in America. In the car she'd had since high school--with the boyfriend she'd had just as long riding shotgun--Minda Honey made...

Unstoppable Warrior Women is a collaboration of 40 women telling their stories of building meaningful lives after sexual abuse, racism, early pregnancies, lots of wrong men, and every other obstacle a woman can face. Unstoppable Warrior Women inspires...

Water Mask is an adventurous memoir from Monica Devine, an itinerant therapist who travels to villages throughout Alaska and builds a life in this vast, captivating landscape. She traverses mountains, navigates sea ice with whalers, and whirls two...

What do Susan Sarandon, Barbara Hershey, Meryl Streep, Bette Midler, and Cher have in common?All have portrayed lesbian characters on the silver screen. Although cinema and television in the last three decades of the twentieth century have been a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781602232778Author Deb VanasseFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint University of Alaska PressPublisher University of Alaska PressWeight(grams) 539g

Enriched Classics offer readers accessible editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and commentary. Each book includes educational tools alongside the text, enabling students and readers alike to gain a deeper and more developed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781642934281Author Mindie BarnettFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Post Hill PressPublisher Post Hill PressWeight(grams) 204g

Margaret Fuller is recognized as one of the key social and literary figures in 19th century America - as prominent a woman in intellectual circles as there was in her period, which ended with her death in 1850. Capper is writing a full biography in two...

The astonishing career of Galla Placidia (c. 390-450) provides valuable reflections on the state of the Roman empire in the fifth century CE. In an age when emperors, like Galla's two brothers, Arcadius (395-408) and Honorius (395-423), and nephew,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952636486Author Alisa FreedmanFormat HardbackPage Count 618Imprint Association for Asian StudiesPublisher Association for Asian Studies

Berenice II (c. 264-221 BCE), daughter of King Magas of Cyrene and wife of Ptolemy III Euergetes, came to embody all the key religious, political, and artistic ideals of Ptolemaic Alexandria. Though she arrived there nearly friendless, with the taint of...

Winner of the 1993 Bancroft Prize and praised in The Nation as 'the richest account we have yet of Fuller's formative years,' the first volume of Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life was acclaimed by critics and scholars alike as the finest...

Harriet Ross Tubman, born enslaved in Maryland emerged from the most oppressive of conditions to lead others to freedom along the Underground Railroad and then continue her fight against slavery on the battlefields of the Civil War. During the last fifty...

In any other context, saying that someone was "for the birds" would hardly be polite. But applied to Connie Hagar, it would be high praise. The diminutive birdwatcher nicknamed Connie was reared as Martha Conger Neblett in early...

"Memory is Our Home" is a powerful biographical memoir based on the diaries of Roma Talasiewicz-Eibuszyc, who was born in Warsaw before the end of World War I, grew up during the interwar period and who, after escaping the atrocities of World...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771601276Author Gudrun PflugerFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Rocky Mountain BooksPublisher Rocky Mountain BooksWeight(grams) 467g

In the 1970s, Annie Chappell dreams of a homesteading life-a life like the one depicted in Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House in the Big Woods, where the world is uncomplicated. If she can get to that place, she thinks, the trouble she faces at...

Patience Darton's unpublished letters and papers from 1930s Spain and 1950s China are at the heart of this new biography by Angela Jackson, together with testimony from recorded interviews and a wealth of photographs that illustrate the life of this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802145161Author Cheng NienFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062859365Author Editors of Garden and GunFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

A daughter creates a coherent narrative out of fragments of her mother's writings about her extraordinary life in twentieth-century Holland and Canada.Book InformationISBN 9780773529687Author Marianne BrandisFormat HardbackPage Count 440Imprint...