Sisters in War
A Story of Love, Family, and Survival in the New Iraq
Written by Christina Asquith

Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: September 29, 2009
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-6704-6 (1-4000-6704-9)

Caught up in a terrifying war, facing choices of life and death, two Iraqi sisters take us into the hidden world of women’s lives under U.S. occupation. Through their powerful story of love and betrayal, interwoven with the stories of a Palestinian American women’s rights activist and a U.S. soldier, journalist... Read more >

Civil War Wives
The Lives and Times of Angelina Grimke Weld, Varina Howell Davis, and Julia Dent Grant
Written by Carol Berkin

Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: September 8, 2009
Price: $28.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-4446-7 (1-4000-4446-4)

In the life stories of three “accidental heroes”—women whose marriages provided them with position and perspective they would not otherwise have had—Carol Berkin, one of the nation’s premier historians, offers a unique understanding of the tumultuous social and political landscape of their time.

Drawing on private and public records, Berkin shows us... Read more >

A Truth Universally Acknowledged
33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen
Edited by Susannah Carson
Foreword by Harold Bloom

Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-6805-0 (1-4000-6805-3)

For so many of us a Jane Austen novel is much more than the epitome of a great read. It is a delight and a solace, a challenge and a reward, and perhaps even an obsession. For two centuries Austen has enthralled readers. Few other authors can claim as many fans... Read more >

Half the Sky
Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
Written by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn

Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: September 8, 2009
Price: $27.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-26714-6 (0-307-26714-8)

From two of our most fiercely moral voices, a passionate call to arms against our era’s most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women and girls in the developing world.

With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as our guides, we undertake an odyssey through Africa and Asia... Read more >

The Queen Mother
The Official Biography
Written by William Shawcross

Format: Hardcover, 1120 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $40.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-4304-0 (1-4000-4304-2)

“A biography to last the ages . . . [It] is a complete marshaling of the events in the long life of his earl’s daughter who was unexpectedly propelled onto the throne . . . A definite portrait of this first commoner to become Queen Consort since the seventeenth century emerges.”... Read more >

Impossible Motherhood
Testimony of an Abortion Addict
Written by Irene Vilar

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Other Press
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-1-59051-320-0 (1-59051-320-7)

Irene Vilar was just a pliant young college undergraduate in thrall to her professor when they embarked on a relationship that led to marriage—a union of impossible odds—and fifteen abortions in fifteen years. Vilar knows that she is destined to be misunderstood, that many will see her nightmare as an instance... Read more >