Women

'What guts. What attitude! These are the immortals I wish I'd learned about at school.'OLIVIA COLMAN Channel the feminist power of mythical goddesses in this witty, inspirational gift book. 'Wonderful.' CERYS MATTHEWSWhether it's the Norse warrior...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986226694Author Violet BlueFormat PaperbackPage Count 390Imprint Digita PublicationsPublisher Digita PublicationsWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

"Paris, Baby!" is the natural next entry in a genre that's previously been focused on finding love or the right baguette in the 7th. It's richly textured and full of details of what it's really like to be a single mum-to-be in a city where chic is...

Harriet's parents hoped that, after leaving boarding school and doing `the Season', she would meet and marry a suitable young man. But she was to disappoint them. Just after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, she set off for Peshawar to see for herself...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385516150Author Lesley HazletonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Doubleday & Co Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 227g

In 1978, more than 3,500 letters written over a thirty-year friendship between Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok were discovered by archivists. Although the most explicit letters had been burned (Lorena told Eleanor's daughter, "Your mother wasn't...

National bestseller 2017 National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) Finalist ABA Indies Introduce Winter / Spring 2017 Selection Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Spring 2017 Selection ALA 2018 Notable Books Selection An intimate and poignant...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854113719Author Ellen DavidFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854113719Author Ellen DavidFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales Press

Learn from Kellie Gerardi What It's Like to Be a Female Astronaut"Kellie is probably one of the best ambassadors for spaceflight in the 21st century that the industry could have." Lucy Hawking, author of George's Secret Key to the Universe and host of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525652861Author Lisa-Jo BakerFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint ConvergentPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 374g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780446540827Author Belle De JourFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Warner Books IncPublisher Time Warner Trade PublishingWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925302936Author Ms Jacki FerroFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint ATF PressPublisher ATF PressWeight(grams) 340g

Nadia Boulanger's life spanned nearly a century, and at her death she was still director of the American School of Music at Fontainebleau, which she helped found after World War I. Enormously influential, she taught many distinguished performers and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788491041900Author Malala YousafzaiFormat PaperbackPage Count 356Imprint AlianzaPublisher AlianzaWeight(grams) 522g

A vivid and compelling biography of Patience Collier - an actress whose career spanned a golden age of performance from the 1930s to the 1980s - and an overview of theatre, film, TV and radio in Britain over half a century. Though Patience Collier's...

An enthralling new biography of the woman behind Bayreuth In this meticulously researched book, Oliver Hilmes paints a fascinating and revealing picture of the extraordinary Cosima Wagner-illegitimate daughter of Franz Liszt, wife of the conductor Hans...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060545550Author Susan NagelFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781504302722Author Abby LiveringhouseFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Balboa Press AustraliaPublisher Balboa Press AustraliaWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374531355Author Georgina HowellFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Sarah Crichton BooksPublisher Sarah Crichton BooksWeight(grams) 449gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780778388098Author Ida CookFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Park RowPublisher Park RowWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 132mm * 20mm

She was everything everyone else wanted her to be. Until she followed her own path. Helena Rho was six years old when her family left Seoul, Korea, for America and its opportunities. Years later, her Korean-ness behind her, Helena had everything a...

From Elizabeth Bishop's introduction: 'When I first came to Brazil, in 1952, I asked my Brazilian friends which Brazilian books I should begin reading ... They frequently recommended this little book, "Minha Vida de Menina" ... In English the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593767235Author Emma BoldenFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Soft Skull PressPublisher Soft Skull Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800992313Author Richard Rhys O'BrienFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y LolfaDimensions(mm) 215mm * 140mm * 29mm

The rebirth of the feminine surrounds us in many forms--from the global movement for women's rights to a renewed interest in feminine spirituality, the Goddess, and the Divine Mother. What is the spiritual meaning of this rebirth? What is the feminine...

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 *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143119852Author Catherine GildinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 268gDimensions(mm) 195mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781988058962Author Rajyo AllenFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Manor House Publishing IncPublisher Manor House Publishing IncWeight(grams) 320g

Byzantine princess Anna Komnene is known for two things: plotting to murder her brother to usurp the throne, and writing the Alexiad, an epic history of her father Alexios I Komnenos (1081-1118) that is a key historical source for the era of the First...

James Tiptree, Jr, burst onto the science fiction scene in the late 1960s with a series of hard-edged, provocative stories. He redefined the genre with such classics as Houston, Houston, Do You Read? and The Women Men Don't See. For nearly ten years he...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578894454Author Janine HarrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Rivette PressPublisher Rivette PressWeight(grams) 109gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316085250Author Jo Ann BeardFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...

Meryl Streep is the most celebrated actress of our time. She's a chameleon who disappears fully into each character she plays. She never tackles the same role twice. Instead, she leverages her rarified platform to channel a range of tough, complicated...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525560968Author Lisa DonovanFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 312gDimensions(mm) 207mm * 141mm *...

A gripping chronicle of psychological manipulation and abuse at a "therapeutic" boarding school for troubled teens, and how one young woman fought to heal in the aftermath.At fifteen, Elizabeth Gilpin was an honor student, a state-ranked swimmer and a...

Does an exciting weekend for you mean scrubbing all the grouting in your bathroom with a toothbrush? Have you ever felt the urge to kidnap the cable guy and tie him to the bed like Kathy Bates in Misery because you are terrified the TV will stop working...

Drawing on her own long association with Markham, as well as diaries, letters, and interviews, Errol Trzebinski unravels the complexities of one of the century's great personalities. Markham's memoir, West with the Night, was rediscovered in 1983 and...