Women

From the New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Radium Girls comes another dark and dramatic but ultimately uplifting tale of a forgotten woman whose inspirational journey sparked lasting change for women's rights...

Set in the entertainment world in France, this searing memoir explores the realities of being a mixed or biracial French citizen. In Blind Spot, Myriam Tadesse exposes the difficulty, even the impossibility, for France to truly understand and celebrate...

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 9780994439925Author Christine HoyFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Tale PublishingPublisher Tale PublishingWeight(grams) 277gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm...

From a prize-winning historian, a new portrait of an extraordinary activist and the turbulent age in which she livedGoddess of Anarchy recounts the formidable life of the militant writer, orator, and agitator Lucy Parsons. Born to an enslaved woman in...

Experience the captivating journey of a trailblazing woman who defied conventions and created a lasting legacy.Born at the start of the Civil War, Juliette "Daisy" Gordon Low struggled to reconcile being a good Southern belle with being true to her...

Una Marson's work embodied anti-colonialism, anti-racism, feminism, class politics and pan-Africanism in the first half of the twentieth century. Her poetry and dramatic work symbolically ushered in a new era in Jamaica's literary landscape and her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Books for a Better Life (Relationships) 2013 and Books for a Better Life (Relationships) 2014.Book InformationISBN 9781451697247Author Glennon DoyleFormat...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Books for a Better Life (Relationships) 2013 and Books for a Better Life (Relationships) 2014.Book InformationISBN 9781451697247Author Glennon DoyleFormat...

Moravians came to Pennsylvania in 1740 as missionaries to the Indians and as members of the Moravian Church were required to write an autobiography summing up their lives. This work is a collection of 18th-century Moravian spiritual narratives written by...

Caterina Corner, a Venetian noblewoman and the last Queen of Cyprus, led a complex and remarkable life. In 1468, Corner married King Jacques II Lusignan of Cyprus at the behest of her family, whose ambitions matched those of the Venetian republic anxious...

The artistic achievements of Romaine Brooks (1874-1970), both as a major expatriate American painter and as a formative innovator in the decorative arts, have long been overshadowed by her fifty-year relationship with writer Natalie Barney and a...

In 1999, 30-year-old Nada Bakos moved from her lifelong home in Montana to Washington, DC, to join the CIA. Quickly realizing her affinity for intelligence work, Nada was determined to rise through the ranks of the agency first as an analyst and then as...

From an acclaimed musician comes an inside look at one of the most controversial and influential civil rights movements of our time.Nights in Tents is a memoir of the profoundly moving, and often hysterical, circumstances a fifty-one-year-old...

Frank and often outrageous, this is an account of a 40-something Englishwoman's epic 4,000 mile cycle ride from Seattle to Mexico, via the snow-covered Rockies, mostly alone and camping in the wild. She runs appalling risks and copes in a gutsy,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743285001Author Haven KimmelFormat PaperbackPage Count 338Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 393gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812979091Author Mark SealFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 244gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

In this unforgettable and "essential feminist memoir of women's lives" (Sarah Wildman, author of Paper Love) the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir Perfection unearths her mother's hidden past in in Nazi-occupied Austria.To Julie Metz, her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679744610Author Jill Ker ConwayFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 239gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939931498Author Clara BeaudouxFormat PaperbackPage Count 285Imprint New Vessel PressPublisher New Vessel Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063079014Author Jessi HempelFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 481gDimensions(mm)...

A group biography of four beloved women who fought sexism, covered decades of American news, and whose voices defined NPR In the years after the Civil Rights Act of 1964, women in the workplace still found themselves relegated to secretarial positions or...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780228889304Author Wendy SarkissianFormat PaperbackPage Count 536Imprint Tellwell TalentPublisher Tellwell TalentWeight(grams) 576gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804173445Author Amy S. GreenbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 374gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780449906644Author Catherine MauriceFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint FawcettPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 306gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

Why did Life Magazine dub her "the most hated woman in America"? Did she unravel the moral fiber of America or defend the Constitution? They found her heaped in a shallow grave, sawed up, and burned. Thus ended Madalyn Murray O'Hair, the...

Sofia Coppola (b. 1971) was baptized on film. After appearing in The Godfather as an infant, it took twenty-five years for Coppola to take her place behind the camera, helming her own adaptation of Jeffery Eugenides's celebrated novel The Virgin Suicides...

"Getting tuberculosis in the middle of your life is like starting downtown to do a lot of urgent errands and being hit by a bus. When you regain consciousness you remember nothing about the urgent errands. You can't even remember where you were going."...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781956841206Author Sandra C RuckdeschelFormat PaperbackPage Count 34Imprint Tidalwave ProductionsPublisher Tidalwave ProductionsWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645255812Author Meg HeartFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Kmd BooksPublisher Kmd Books

Raised like a princess in one of the most powerful families in the American South, Henrietta Bingham was offered the helm of a publishing empire. Instead, she ripped through the Jazz Age like an F. Scott Fitzgerald character: intoxicating and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of New York Times Editors' Choice 2007.Book InformationISBN 9780385721493Author Linda ColleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House...

When her husband was appointed by President Barack Obama to be U.S. Ambassador to Spain and Andorra, Susan Solomont uprooted herself. She left her career, her friends and family, and a life she loved to join her husband for a three-and-a-half-year tour...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865651593Author Edmonde Charles-RouxFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Vendome PressPublisher Vendome PressWeight(grams) 1814gDimensions(mm) 267mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375700873Author Margaret Bullitt-JonasFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

Generous Women' is about the women who have given so much much of themselves to the man I am today,"" writes Earl Hamner. This fond appreciation is a warm thank-you for gifts freely given and a reminder that, truly, no man is an island unto himself...

The GIs called her Joey. Hundreds owed their lives to the tiny Filipina woman who was one of the top spies for the Allies during World War II, stashing explosives, tracking Japanese troop movements, and smuggling maps of fortifications across enemy lines...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451657821Author Tim CrothersFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 222gDimensions(mm)...

This collection of opinion editorials and recent essays solidifies Midge's standing as one of the most versatile talents in Native and American writing today.-Samantha Majhor, American Indian Culture and Research JournalBury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996706605Author Tw NealFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint Neal EnterprisesPublisher Neal EnterprisesWeight(grams) 140g