The Woman Upstairs

Written by Claire Messud

Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: April 30, 2013
Price: $25.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-59690-1 (0-307-59690-7)

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Emperor’s Children, a masterly new novel: the riveting confession of a woman awakened, transformed and betrayed by a desire for a world beyond her own.

Nora Eldridge, an elementary school teacher in Cambridge, Massachusetts, long ago compromised her dream to be a successful... Read more >

Lean In
Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
Written by Sheryl Sandberg

Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: March 11, 2013
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-34994-9 (0-385-34994-7)

Thirty years after women became 50 percent of the college graduates in the United States, men still hold the vast majority of leadership positions in government and industry. This means that women’s voices are still not heard equally in the decisions that most affect our lives. In Lean In, Sheryl Sandberg... Read more >

Wild
From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Written by Cheryl Strayed

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 26, 2013
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-47607-4 (0-307-47607-3)

At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother’s death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life. With no experience or training, driven only by... Read more >

Outlaw Marriages
The Hidden Histories of Fifteen Extraordinary Same-Sex Couples
Written by Rodger Streitmatter

Format: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-0342-8 (0-8070-0342-5)

For more than a century before gay marriage became a hot-button political issue, same-sex unions flourished in America. Pairs of men and pairs of women joined together in committed unions, standing by each other “for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health” for periods of thirty or forty–sometimes as many... Read more >

In My Father's Country
An Afghan Woman Defies Her Fate
Written by SAIMA WAHAB

Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Publisher: Crown
On Sale: April 24, 2012
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-88494-7 (0-307-88494-5)

Born in Kabul, Afghanistan, at age three Saima Wahab watched while her father was arrested and taken from their home by the KGB. She would never see him again. When she was fifteen an uncle who lived in Portland, Oregon brought her to America. Having to learn an entire new language... Read more >