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This dramatic story recounts Mary, Queen of Scots's remaining days held captive in Fotheringay Castle. In scenes alternating between Mary's prison and Elizabeth's court at Westminster, Schiller's play gradually builds a compelling picture of a tragic...

"Makes an excellent case for Parrott as an unjustly forgotten historical figure."-The New Yorker"Remind[s] us of the brazenly talented women sidelined by convention."-New York Times The riveting biography of Ursula Parrott-best-selling author, Hollywood...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476795713Author Teresa CarpenterFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 231mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063143845Author Leah McSweeneyFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 213mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780358299615Author Hallie RubenholdFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 132mm...

Jane Addams (1860-1935) was a leading statesperson in an era when few imagined such possibilities for women. In this fresh interpretation, the first full biography of Addams in nearly forty years, Louise W. Knight shows Addams's boldness, creativity, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611808155Author Mayumi OdaFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc

Ever heard of Allied spy Noor Inayat Khan, a Muslim woman whom the Nazis considered highly dangerous? Or German painter and entomologist Maria Sibylla Merian, who planned and embarked on the world s first scientific expedition? How about Huang Daopo, the...

Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White is an arresting and moving personal story about childhood, race, and identity in the American South, rendered in stunning illustrations by the author, Lila Quintero Weaver. In 1961, when Lila was five, she and her...

In 1930s Luang Prabang, the beautiful and demure Kham-Phiou was much admired. On a New Year's Day, the life of the aristocratic young woman changed when she caught the eye of a sophisticated older man - Prince Souvanna Phouma. The prince fell madly in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995683778Author Nicky CrabtreeFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Sunesis Ministries LtdPublisher Sunesis Ministries LtdWeight(grams) 113g

Autobiography of the famous flyer which describes her own ambitions to become a pilot and offers advice to others.ReviewsMiss Earhart knows a great deal about aviation, especially as arts and business and her pages are full of experiences, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Booklist Editor's Choice for Young Adults and School Library Journal Adult Books for Young Adults and YALSA Best Books for Young Adults.Book InformationISBN...

In the bestselling tradition of The Notorious RBG comes a lively, informative, and illustrated tribute to one of the most exceptional women in American history-Harriet Tubman-a heroine whose fearlessness and activism still resonate today.Harriet Tubman...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143038702Author Norah VincentFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 215gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 134mm...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312306908Author Melody Ermachild ChavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 295g

Mendings tells an intimate story about family, selfhood, and the love and loss lodged in garments. In this narrative about making meaning of brokenness and grief, Megan Sweeney reflects on her childhood entanglement with her mother, her loss-filled...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400079094Author Anne LamottFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 193gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250164605Author Anne De CourcyFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942762140Author Neesha ArterFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Heliotrope Books LLCPublisher Heliotrope Books LLCWeight(grams) 277gDimensions(mm)...

If questions of subjectivity and identification are at stake in all biographical writing, they are particularly trenchant for contemporary women biographers of women. Often, their efforts to exhume buried lives in hope of finding spiritual foremothers...

Hanna Sheehy Skeffington was the most significant feminist in twentieth-century Ireland - an activist, writer and polemicist of the highest rank. An advocate of feminism, socialism, and republicanism, her writings - published in Britain and America as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781869928858Author Kim FarnellFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Mandrake of OxfordPublisher Mandrake of OxfordWeight(grams) 340g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781560987253Author Doris L. RichFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Smithsonian BooksPublisher Smithsonian BooksWeight(grams) 1g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802123855Author Will HarlanFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint 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 9781989555330Author Karen GosbeeFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint The Sutherland House Inc.Publisher The Sutherland House Inc.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849353670Author Kimberly DarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint AK PressPublisher AK Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807080467Author Rafia ZakariaFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 306gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 154mm * 17mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307278340Author Kate M. TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 287gDimensions(mm) 202mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781631680694Author Marcia ClarkFormat HardbackImprint Graymalkin MediaPublisher Graymalkin MediaWeight(grams) 726g

The fascinating life of Frances Jennings, elder sister of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, charting her marriages and changes of fortune, her exile and return, her ambition, political manoeuvring and sincere piety. Frances Jennings, elder sister of...

Two of the most famous mosaics from the Byzantine period, from the church of San Vitale in Ravenna, depict the sixth-century Emperor Justinian and, on the wall facing him, his wife, Theodora (497-548). This magestic portrait gives no inkling to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Los Angeles Times Book Prize 2022 and PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography 2023.Book InformationISBN 9780525436102Author Tomiko Brown-NaginFormat...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772584233Author Carmen GroverFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Demeter PressPublisher Demeter PressWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 150mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781989555347Author Marci WarhaftFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint The Sutherland House Inc.Publisher The Sutherland House Inc.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993401008Author Margaret ReardonFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Catherine ArmstrongPublisher Catherine Armstrong

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991601547Author Tia BeccaFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Le Reve Enterprises, LLCPublisher Le Reve Enterprises, LLCWeight(grams) 132gDimensions(mm)...

The first biography of a visionary twentieth-century American performer who devoted her life to the revival of ancient Greek cultureThis is the first biography to tell the fascinating story of Eva Palmer Sikelianos (1874-1952), an American actor,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783038691044Author Laurie TheurerFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Bergli Books LtdPublisher Bergli Books Ltd