Women

Arlyne Brickman dated the wiseguys but she was wiser than them all... SOON BE A MAJOR FILM Born in 1934, the daughter of a Jewish mobster, Arlyne Brickman (then Weiss) grew up on Manhattan's Lower East Side. She idolised gangster's...

Strong, feisty, brave and brilliant, Kathleen Turner is a woman to be reckoned with. One of the most revered actresses of her generation and beyond, she is a woman who goes after what she wants and gets it. In this memoir, she reveals her astonishing...

Before Chappaquiddick captures Mary Jo Kopechne's intelligence, idealism, and beauty. Weaving her life story into the fabric of the Kennedy brothers' political careers, Kashatus sets this promising young political consultant free from the rumors and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681373195Author Francoise GilotFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956356604Author Patsy WhyteFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Kailyard PublishingPublisher Kailyard Publishing

The definitive biography of Vera Brittain, acclaimed author of Testament of Youth. With a new introduction by Mark Bostridge.'Riveting and authoritative' Kate Figes, Independent on Sunday'Honest, precise and smart' Natasha Walter, Guardian'They succeed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307744654Author William KuhnFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 407gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

In the months before she died, Florence Ballard, the spunky teenager who founded the most successful female vocal group in history-the Supremes-told her own side of the story. Recorded on tape, Flo shed light on all areas of her life, including the...

Systemic racism and sexism caused one of South Africa's most important writers to disappear from public consciousness. Is it possible to justly restore her historical presence? Regina Gelana Twala, a Black South African woman who died in 1968 in...

First published posthumously in 1987, Pauli Murray's Song in a Weary Throat was critically lauded, winning the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award and the Lillian Smith Book Award among other distinctions. Yet Murray's name and extraordinary influence receded...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544960091Author Elizabeth WurtzelFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 132mm...

Loretta Lynn and the late Patsy Cline are legends--country icons and sisters of the heart. For the first time ever Loretta tells their story: a celebration of their music and their relationship up until Patsy's tragic and untimely death.Full of laughter...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780228844211Author Francine ProulxFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Tellwell TalentPublisher Tellwell TalentWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781401324360Author Sissy SpacekFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Hachette BooksPublisher Hachette BooksWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 157mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735279995Author Jann ArdenFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Vintage CanadaPublisher Vintage CanadaWeight(grams) 132g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985300302Author Linda JucovyFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Stampede BooksPublisher Stampede BooksWeight(grams) 395g

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781502564917Author Joan WardFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint CreateSpacePublisher CreateSpace

Drawing on her own experiences as a woman of Iranian and British Isle descent, writer Hollay Ghadery dives into conflicts and uncertainty surrounding the bi-racial female body and identity, especially as it butts up against the disparate expectations of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611804638Author Anne CushmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939931030Author Hilde SpielFormat PaperbackPage Count 347Imprint New Vessel PressPublisher New Vessel Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781414396545Author Abby JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Tyndale House PublishersPublisher Tyndale House Publishers

This book traverses continents and historic eras through Claire Ray Harper's vivid account of life in the Inayat Khan family. With ancestral roots in both the East and the West, this remarkable family endured two World Wars and the post-war years, while...

In this highly anticipated follow-up to the enormously successful Seven Men, New York Times bestselling author Eric Metaxas gives us seven captivating portraits of some of the greatest women who ever lived, each of whom changed the course of history by...

For the past four years Jane Miller, author of Crazy Age: Thoughts on Being Old, has been writing a column for an American magazine called In These Times. Her beautifully observed pieces about life, politics and Britain open a window to her American...

Packaged in handsome, affordable trade editions, Clydesdale Classics is a new series of essential literary works. It features literary phenomena with influence and themes so great that, after their publication, they changed literature forever. From the...

Actress and sex symbol Brigitte Bardot had a stunning career in France and America in the mid-20th century. Since the 1970s, she has dedicated her life to the welfare and protection of animals, with much personal involvement. In this book the author...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735279971Author Jann ArdenFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Prentice Hall PressPublisher Prentice Hall Press

Raised in a small town in Georgia with no money or connections, Pat Mitchell challenged expectations to become one of media's most admired leaders-the first woman president of PBS and CNN productions, an award-winning film and TV producer, and the...

Based on popular essays in New York Times' Modern Love and Salon, as well as an Off-Broadway one-person play, The Pleasure Plan is a sexual healing odyssey, a manifesto for women to claim pleasure as a priority, and a love story all at once.Fifty percent...

"I began writing about power because I had so little," Octavia E. Butler once said. Butler's life as an African American woman--an alien in American society and among science fiction writers--informed the powerful works that earned her an ardent...

A 2015 Amelia Bloomer List Selection"You will be a son, my daughter." With these stunning words Ukmina learned that she was to spend her childhood as a boy.In Afghanistan there is a widespread practice of girls dressing as boys to play the role of a son...

A look inside the personal life of every first lady in American history, based on original interviews with major historiansC-SPAN's yearlong history series, First Ladies: Influence and Image , featured interviews with more than fifty preeminent...

Elizabeth Bishop, the Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet, sought inspiratin in Brazil, where she met and fell in love with Lota de Macedo Soares, a self-trained Brazilian architect. The fact that these two women had an intimate relationship caused an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780395957899Author Diane MiddlebrookFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 462g

A boldly illustrated celebration of literary history's most revolutionary, talented women writers Women have written some of our most extraordinary literary works while living in societies and cultures that tried to silence them. These women dared to...

A rare and often intimate glimpse at the resilience and perserverance of Native women who face each day positively and see the richnes in their lives.About the AuthorWilma Mankiller: Wilma Mankiller was an author, activist, and former principal chief of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781449081317Author C. M. RubinFormat HardbackPage Count 134Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouse

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375760266Author Melissa EtheridgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 215gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670095278Author Neena GuptaFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint PenguinPublisher Penguin Random House IndiaWeight(grams) 570gDimensions(mm) 240mm * 160mm...