Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: Random House On Sale: April 2, 2013 Price: $22.00 ISBN: 978-1-4000-6611-7 (1-4000-6611-5)
The story of Maya Angelou’s extraordinary life has been chronicled in her multiple bestselling autobiographies. But now, at last, the legendary author shares the deepest personal story of her life: her relationship with her mother.
For the first time, Angelou reveals the triumphs and struggles of being the daughter of Vivian Baxter...
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Format: Hardcover, 392 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library On Sale: October 17, 2006 Price: $25.00 ISBN: 978-0-307-26460-2 (0-307-26460-2)
A gripping vision of our society radically overturned by a theocratic revolution, Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid's Talehas become one of the most powerful and most widely read novels of our time.
Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, serving in the household of the enigmatic Commander and his bitter...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Bantam On Sale: January 27, 2009 Price: $16.00 ISBN: 978-0-553-38455-0 (0-553-38455-4)
From the authors of Women Don’t Ask, the groundbreaking book that revealed just how much women lose when they avoid negotiation, here is the action plan that women all over the country requested—a guide to negotiating anything effectively using strategies that feel comfortable to you as a woman.
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Bantam On Sale: February 27, 2007 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-0-553-38387-4 (0-553-38387-6)
By neglecting to negotiate her starting salary for her first job, a woman may sacrifice over half a million dollars in earnings by the end of her career. Yet, as research reveals, men are four times more likely to ask for higher pay than are women with the same qualifications. From...
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Format: Hardcover, 832 pages
Publisher: Knopf On Sale: April 13, 2010 Price: $40.00 ISBN: 978-0-307-26556-2 (0-307-26556-0)
Newly translated and unabridged in English for the first time, Simone de Beauvoir’s masterwork weaves together history, philosophy, economics, biology, and a host of other disciplines to analyze the Western notion of “woman” and to postulate on the power of sexuality.
Sixty years after its initial publication, The Second Sexis still...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: November 2, 2010 Price: $16.00 ISBN: 978-1-4000-9578-0 (1-4000-9578-6)
Here are the life stories of three women who connect us to our national past and provide windows onto a social and political landscape that is strangely familiar yet shockingly foreign.
Berkin focuses on three “accidental heroes” who left behind sufficient records to allow their voices to be heard clearly and to...
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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...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks On Sale: May 23, 2006 Price: $16.00 ISBN: 978-0-8129-7045-6 (0-8129-7045-4)
For sheer bravado and style, no woman in the North or South rivaled the Civil War heroine Rose O’Neale Greenhow. Fearless spy for the Confederacy, glittering Washington hostess, legendary beauty and lover, Rose Greenhow risked everything for the cause she valued more than life itself. In this superb portrait, biographer Ann...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 312 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press On Sale: May 15, 2012 Price: $17.00 ISBN: 978-0-8070-4465-0 (0-8070-4465-2)
*2011 ALA Stonewall Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award
The first book to cover the entirety of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender history, from pre-1492 to the present.
In the 1620s, Thomas Morton broke from Plymouth Colony and founded Merrymount, which celebrated same-sex desire, atheism, and interracial marriage. Transgender evangelist Jemima Wilkinson, in the early...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books On Sale: January 27, 2009 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-0-345-50088-5 (0-345-50088-1)
Food inspires pleasure and anxiety, shame and obsession. We are constantly judged on how we look, so we’ve come to judge ourselves (and others) on what and how we eat.
These evocative essays, from some of the most talented and popular writers working today, tackle this universal subject with humor, longing, and...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks On Sale: March 14, 2006 Price: $17.95 ISBN: 978-0-8129-7079-1 (0-8129-7079-9)
This compelling and richly researched book presents a fascinating portrait of Mary Robinson–darling of the London stage, mistress to the most powerful men in England, feminist thinker, and bestselling author. Though one of the most flamboyant free spirits of the late eighteenth century, Mary led a life that was marked by...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Modern Library On Sale: June 13, 2006 Price: $15.95 ISBN: 978-0-8129-6987-0 (0-8129-6987-1)
Empress Catherine II brought Europe to Russia, and Russia to Europe, during her long and eventful reign (1762—96). She fostered the culture of the Enlightenment and greatly expanded the immense empire created by Czar Ivan the Terrible, shifting the balance of power in Europe eastward. Famous for her will to power...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau On Sale: August 4, 2009 Price: $16.00 ISBN: 978-0-385-52018-8 (0-385-52018-2)
Winner of the 2009 Asian American Literary Award For Nonfiction, given by the Asian American Writers’ Workshop Winner of the PEN USA Literary Award for Research Nonfiction A New York Times Notable Book of 2008 One of the Washington Post’s best books of 2008 A Seattle Times best nonfiction book of 2008 One of the Christian...Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 360 pages
Publisher: Other Press On Sale: September 17, 2007 Price: $14.95 ISBN: 978-1-59051-281-4 (1-59051-281-2)
Pen/Hemingway Award Finalist
Slavery as it existed in Africa has seldom been portrayed–and never with such texture, detail, and authentic emotion. Inspired by actual 19th-century court records, Unconfessed is a breathtaking literary tour de force. They called her Sila van den Kaap, slave woman of Jacobus Stephanus Van der Wat of Plettenberg...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: One World/Ballantine On Sale: December 30, 2003 Price: $16.00 ISBN: 978-0-345-45413-3 (0-345-45413-8)
"...a cogent history of black feminist struggles and debates up until now." —The Women's Review of Books
Two of America’s leading African-American intellectuals provide the most comprehensive critique to date of the state of relations between Black men and women. Dr. Johnetta Cole and Dr. Beverly Guy-Sheftall argue that, in the 21st century,...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks On Sale: February 26, 2013 Price: $17.00 ISBN: 978-0-8129-7855-1 (0-8129-7855-2)
“Outstanding . . . [Isobel Coleman] takes us into remote villages and urban bureaucracies to find the brave men and women working to create change in the Middle East.”—Los Angeles Times
Inthis timely and important book, Isobel Coleman shows how Muslim women and men across the Middle East are working within...
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Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Publisher: Random House On Sale: April 27, 2010 Price: $26.00 ISBN: 978-1-4000-6695-7 (1-4000-6695-6)
Over the centuries and throughout the world, women have struggled for equality and basic rights. Their challenge in the Middle East has been intensified by the rise of a political Islam that too often condemns women’s empowerment as Western cultural imperialism or, worse, anti-Islamic. In Paradise Beneath Her Feet, Isobel Coleman...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 508 pages
Publisher: New York Review Books On Sale: August 1, 2006 Price: $18.95 ISBN: 978-1-59017-214-8 (1-59017-214-0)
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, between the reign of Louis XIII and the Revolution, French aristocratic society developed an art of living based on a refined code of good manners.
Conversation, which began as a way of passing time, eventually became the central ritual of social life. In the salons...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks On Sale: June 13, 2006 Price: $14.95 ISBN: 978-0-375-75970-3 (0-375-75970-0)
In The Lady and the Panda, Vicki Constantine Croke relates the remarkable story of Ruth Harkness and her extraordinary journey to capture a panda—a bear that had for countless centuries lived in secret in the labyrinth of lonely cold mountains. In The Lady and the Panda, Vicki Constantine Croke offers an...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Anchor On Sale: September 18, 2001 Price: $13.95 ISBN: 978-0-385-72028-1 (0-385-72028-9)
A profoundly courageous and insightful memoir, An American Storydocuments the events that have shaped journalist Debra Dickerson's conscience.
The daughter of former sharecroppers, Dickerson never imagined she would emerge from her squalid St. Louis neighborhood to become an acclaimed journalist with a Harvard Law degree. A constant reader and a straight-A...
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Format: eBook
Publisher: Beacon Press On Sale: August 6, 2010 Price: $26.95 ISBN: 978-0-8070-4453-7 (0-8070-4453-9)
Professor Gail Dines has written about and researched the porn industry for over two decades. She attends industry conferences, interviews producers and performers, and speaks to hundreds of men and women each year about their experience with porn. Students and educators describe her work as “life changing.”
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books On Sale: December 30, 2008 Price: $16.00 ISBN: 978-0-345-49699-7 (0-345-49699-X)
Chairman of the flagship office of the largest advertising agency network in the world, McCann Erickson, Nina DiSesa is a master communicator, a ceiling crasher, and a big-time realist. In Seducing the Boys Club, DiSesa shows you how S&M–seduction and manipulation–is the secret to winning over (and surpassing) the big guys...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks On Sale: November 30, 2004 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-0-8129-6897-2 (0-8129-6897-2)
2005 BOOK SENSE BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD, ADULT NON-FICTION
Alessandra Cecchi is not quite fifteen when her father, a prosperous cloth merchant, brings a young painter back from northern Europe to decorate the chapel walls in the family’s Florentine palazzo. A child of the Renaissance, with a precocious mind and a...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks On Sale: April 10, 2007 Price: $9.95 ISBN: 978-0-8129-7735-6 (0-8129-7735-1)
On January 5, 1924, a well-dressed young woman, accompanied by a male companion, walked into a Brooklyn grocery, pulled a “baby automatic” from the pocket of her fur coat, emptied the cash register, and escaped into the night. Dubbed “the Bobbed Haired Bandit” by the press, the petite thief continued her...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: NYRB Classics On Sale: June 5, 2007 Price: $14.95 ISBN: 978-1-59017-232-2 (1-59017-232-9)
Elaine Dundy’s semi-autobiographical comic novel follows the misadventures of an American girl who impulsively quits college and heads off to conquer Paris in the 1950s.
Sally Jay Gorce sets out to become an actress, but what she really wants to do is experience the wide world, and to “make her wits...
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