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Last Flight
Written by Amelia Earhart
Format: eBook
On Sale: December 22, 2009
Price: $9.99
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Written by Amelia Earhart
Format: eBook
On Sale: December 22, 2009
Price: $9.99
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Paris and her Remarkable Women
A Guide
Written by Lorraine Liscio
Format: Hardcover, 128 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $19.95
This book evokes Paris from the MIddle Ages through the twentieth century by tracing sixteen exceptional women whose lives intersected with Paris in remarkable ways and whose eventual fame depended on the city itself. Their stories bring to life medieval culture, Enlightenment ideas, the court of Louis XiV, the chaos of... Read more >
A Guide
Written by Lorraine Liscio
Format: Hardcover, 128 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $19.95
This book evokes Paris from the MIddle Ages through the twentieth century by tracing sixteen exceptional women whose lives intersected with Paris in remarkable ways and whose eventual fame depended on the city itself. Their stories bring to life medieval culture, Enlightenment ideas, the court of Louis XiV, the chaos of... Read more >
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A Very Private Woman
The Life and Unsolved Murder of Presidential Mistress Mary Meyer
Written by Nina Burleigh
Format: eBook, 380 pages
On Sale: October 21, 2009
Price: $19.00
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The Life and Unsolved Murder of Presidential Mistress Mary Meyer
Written by Nina Burleigh
Format: eBook, 380 pages
On Sale: October 21, 2009
Price: $19.00
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The Sisters Who Would Be Queen
Mary, Katherine, and Lady Jane Grey: A Tudor Tragedy
Written by Leanda de Lisle
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $30.00
Mary, Katherine, and Jane Grey–sisters whose mere existence nearly toppled a kingdom and altered a nation’s destiny–are the captivating subjects of Leanda de Lisle’s new book. The Sisters Who Would Be Queen breathes fresh life into these three young women, who were victimized in the notoriously vicious Tudor power struggle and... Read more >
Mary, Katherine, and Lady Jane Grey: A Tudor Tragedy
Written by Leanda de Lisle
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $30.00
Mary, Katherine, and Jane Grey–sisters whose mere existence nearly toppled a kingdom and altered a nation’s destiny–are the captivating subjects of Leanda de Lisle’s new book. The Sisters Who Would Be Queen breathes fresh life into these three young women, who were victimized in the notoriously vicious Tudor power struggle and... Read more >
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The Sisters Who Would Be Queen
Mary, Katherine, and Lady Jane Grey: A Tudor Tragedy
Written by Leanda de Lisle
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $30.00
Mary, Katherine, and Jane Grey–sisters whose mere existence nearly toppled a kingdom and altered a nation’s destiny–are the captivating subjects of Leanda de Lisle’s new book. The Sisters Who Would Be Queen breathes fresh life into these three young women, who were victimized in the notoriously vicious Tudor power struggle and... Read more >
Mary, Katherine, and Lady Jane Grey: A Tudor Tragedy
Written by Leanda de Lisle
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $30.00
Mary, Katherine, and Jane Grey–sisters whose mere existence nearly toppled a kingdom and altered a nation’s destiny–are the captivating subjects of Leanda de Lisle’s new book. The Sisters Who Would Be Queen breathes fresh life into these three young women, who were victimized in the notoriously vicious Tudor power struggle and... Read more >
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Impossible Motherhood
Testimony of an Abortion Addict
Written by Irene Vilar
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $15.95
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 >
Testimony of an Abortion Addict
Written by Irene Vilar
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $15.95
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 >
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Ladies Gallery, The
A Memoir of Family Secrets
Written by Irene Vilar
Translated by Gregory Rabassa
Foreword by Carlin Romano
Format: Trade Paperback, 360 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $14.95
A shred of black lace. A broken hand mirror. A spidery strip of false eyelash. These are the fragments left to Irene Vilar, granddaughter of Lolita Lebrón, the revered political activist for Puerto Rican independence who in 1954 sprayed the U.S. House of Representatives with gunfire, wounding several congressmen, and served... Read more >
A Memoir of Family Secrets
Written by Irene Vilar
Translated by Gregory Rabassa
Foreword by Carlin Romano
Format: Trade Paperback, 360 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $14.95
A shred of black lace. A broken hand mirror. A spidery strip of false eyelash. These are the fragments left to Irene Vilar, granddaughter of Lolita Lebrón, the revered political activist for Puerto Rican independence who in 1954 sprayed the U.S. House of Representatives with gunfire, wounding several congressmen, and served... Read more >
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The Ladies Gallery
A Memoir of Family Secrets
Written by Irene Vilar
Translated by Gregory Rabassa
Foreword by Carlin Romano
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $11.99
A shred of black lace. A broken hand mirror. A spidery strip of false eyelash. These are the fragments left to Irene Vilar, granddaughter of Lolita Lebrón, the revered political activist for Puerto Rican independence who in 1954 sprayed the U.S. House of Representatives with gunfire, wounding several congressmen, and served... Read more >
A Memoir of Family Secrets
Written by Irene Vilar
Translated by Gregory Rabassa
Foreword by Carlin Romano
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $11.99
A shred of black lace. A broken hand mirror. A spidery strip of false eyelash. These are the fragments left to Irene Vilar, granddaughter of Lolita Lebrón, the revered political activist for Puerto Rican independence who in 1954 sprayed the U.S. House of Representatives with gunfire, wounding several congressmen, and served... Read more >
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First Ladies
An Intimate Group Portrait of White House Wives
Written by Margaret Truman
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: September 30, 2009
Price: $16.00
This well-informed, intimate look at 29 women whose lives were intertwined with those who lead and have led this country presents forthright interviews with Lady Bird Johnson, Hillary Clinton, Nancy Reagan, and others, while warmly recalling Pat Nixon and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Ms. Truman's legendary frankness is present but so, too... Read more >
An Intimate Group Portrait of White House Wives
Written by Margaret Truman
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: September 30, 2009
Price: $16.00
This well-informed, intimate look at 29 women whose lives were intertwined with those who lead and have led this country presents forthright interviews with Lady Bird Johnson, Hillary Clinton, Nancy Reagan, and others, while warmly recalling Pat Nixon and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Ms. Truman's legendary frankness is present but so, too... Read more >
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Cancer Vixen
A True Story
Written by Marisa Acocella Marchetto
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: September 29, 2009
Price: $16.95
Coming in paperback: the groundbreaking graphic memoir that has inspired breast cancer patients to fight back—and do it with style.
“What happens when a shoe-crazy, lipstick-obsessed, wine-swilling, pasta-slurping, fashion-fanatic, about-to-get-married big-city girl cartoonist with a fabulous life finds . . . a lump in her breast?” That’s the question that sets... Read more >
A True Story
Written by Marisa Acocella Marchetto
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: September 29, 2009
Price: $16.95
Coming in paperback: the groundbreaking graphic memoir that has inspired breast cancer patients to fight back—and do it with style.
“What happens when a shoe-crazy, lipstick-obsessed, wine-swilling, pasta-slurping, fashion-fanatic, about-to-get-married big-city girl cartoonist with a fabulous life finds . . . a lump in her breast?” That’s the question that sets... Read more >
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Sisters in War
A Story of Love, Family, and Survival in the New Iraq
Written by Christina Asquith
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: September 29, 2009
Price: $26.00
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 >
A Story of Love, Family, and Survival in the New Iraq
Written by Christina Asquith
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: September 29, 2009
Price: $26.00
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 >
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American Priestess
The Extraordinary Story of Anna Spafford and the American Colony in Jerusalem
Written by Jane Fletcher Geniesse
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: September 8, 2009
Price: $17.95
For generations, The American Colony Hotel in Jerusalem has been a well-known retreat for journalists, diplomats, pilgrims and spies. However, few know the story of Anna Spafford, the enigmatic evangelist who was instrumental in its founding
Branded heretics by Jerusalem’s established Christian missionaries when they arrived in 1881, the Spaffords and... Read more >
The Extraordinary Story of Anna Spafford and the American Colony in Jerusalem
Written by Jane Fletcher Geniesse
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: September 8, 2009
Price: $17.95
For generations, The American Colony Hotel in Jerusalem has been a well-known retreat for journalists, diplomats, pilgrims and spies. However, few know the story of Anna Spafford, the enigmatic evangelist who was instrumental in its founding
Branded heretics by Jerusalem’s established Christian missionaries when they arrived in 1881, the Spaffords and... Read more >
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The Girls of Room 28
Friendship, Hope, and Survival in Theresienstadt
Written by Hannelore Brenner
Translated by John E. Woods and Shelley Frisch
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2009
Price: $26.00
From 1942 to 1944, twelve thousand children passed through the Theresienstadt internment camp, near Prague, on their way to Auschwitz. Only a few hundred of them survived the war. In The Girls of Room 28, ten of these children—mothers and grandmothers today in their seventies—tell us how they did it.
The... Read more >
Friendship, Hope, and Survival in Theresienstadt
Written by Hannelore Brenner
Translated by John E. Woods and Shelley Frisch
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2009
Price: $26.00
From 1942 to 1944, twelve thousand children passed through the Theresienstadt internment camp, near Prague, on their way to Auschwitz. Only a few hundred of them survived the war. In The Girls of Room 28, ten of these children—mothers and grandmothers today in their seventies—tell us how they did it.
The... Read more >
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The Girls of Room 28
Friendship, Hope, and Survival in Theresienstadt
Written by Hannelore Brenner
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 1, 2009
Price: $26.00
From 1942 to 1944, twelve thousand children passed through the Theresienstadt internment camp, near Prague, on their way to Auschwitz. Only a few hundred of them survived the war. In The Girls of Room 28, ten of these children—mothers and grandmothers today in their seventies—tell us how they did it.
The... Read more >
Friendship, Hope, and Survival in Theresienstadt
Written by Hannelore Brenner
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 1, 2009
Price: $26.00
From 1942 to 1944, twelve thousand children passed through the Theresienstadt internment camp, near Prague, on their way to Auschwitz. Only a few hundred of them survived the war. In The Girls of Room 28, ten of these children—mothers and grandmothers today in their seventies—tell us how they did it.
The... Read more >
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The Necklace
Thirteen Women and The Experiment That Transformed Their Lives
Written by Cheryl Jarvis
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: August 25, 2009
Price: $15.00
One day in Ventura, California, Jonell McLain saw a beautiful diamond necklace in a jewelry store window and wondered: Why are personal luxuries so plentiful yet accessible to so few? What if we shared what we desired? Several weeks, dozens of phone calls, and one great leap of faith later, Jonell... Read more >
Thirteen Women and The Experiment That Transformed Their Lives
Written by Cheryl Jarvis
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: August 25, 2009
Price: $15.00
One day in Ventura, California, Jonell McLain saw a beautiful diamond necklace in a jewelry store window and wondered: Why are personal luxuries so plentiful yet accessible to so few? What if we shared what we desired? Several weeks, dozens of phone calls, and one great leap of faith later, Jonell... Read more >
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The Slippery Year
Written by Melanie Gideon
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: August 4, 2009
Price: $24.95
“We are all so curious. Hungry for the truth. If only we could ask the questions we really want to ask of each other and get the real answers. Like how many times a month do you have sex? What prescription drugs are you on? Are you happy? Really happy? Happy... Read more >
Written by Melanie Gideon
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: August 4, 2009
Price: $24.95
“We are all so curious. Hungry for the truth. If only we could ask the questions we really want to ask of each other and get the real answers. Like how many times a month do you have sex? What prescription drugs are you on? Are you happy? Really happy? Happy... Read more >
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The Slippery Year
Written by Melanie Gideon
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: August 4, 2009
Price: $24.95
“We are all so curious. Hungry for the truth. If only we could ask the questions we really want to ask of each other and get the real answers. Like how many times a month do you have sex? What prescription drugs are you on? Are you happy? Really happy? Happy... Read more >
Written by Melanie Gideon
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: August 4, 2009
Price: $24.95
“We are all so curious. Hungry for the truth. If only we could ask the questions we really want to ask of each other and get the real answers. Like how many times a month do you have sex? What prescription drugs are you on? Are you happy? Really happy? Happy... Read more >
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Growing Girls
Written by Jeanne Marie Laskas
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: July 22, 2009
Price: $13.00
Award-winning author Jeanne Marie Laskas has charmed and delighted readers with her heartwarming and hilarious tales of life on Sweetwater Farm. Now she offers her most personal and most deeply felt memoir yet as she embarks on her greatest, most terrifying, most rewarding endeavor of all….
A good mother, writes Jeanne Marie... Read more >
Written by Jeanne Marie Laskas
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: July 22, 2009
Price: $13.00
Award-winning author Jeanne Marie Laskas has charmed and delighted readers with her heartwarming and hilarious tales of life on Sweetwater Farm. Now she offers her most personal and most deeply felt memoir yet as she embarks on her greatest, most terrifying, most rewarding endeavor of all….
A good mother, writes Jeanne Marie... Read more >
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Mr. Jefferson's Women
Written by Jon Kukla
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: June 3, 2009
Price: $14.95
From the acclaimed author of A Wilderness So Immense comes a pioneering study of Thomas Jefferson's relationships with women, both personal and political.
The author of the Declaration of Independence, who wrote the words “all men are created equal,” was surprisingly uncomfortable with woman. In eight chapters, Kukla examines the evidence... Read more >
Written by Jon Kukla
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: June 3, 2009
Price: $14.95
From the acclaimed author of A Wilderness So Immense comes a pioneering study of Thomas Jefferson's relationships with women, both personal and political.
The author of the Declaration of Independence, who wrote the words “all men are created equal,” was surprisingly uncomfortable with woman. In eight chapters, Kukla examines the evidence... Read more >
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Pretty Is What Changes
Written by Jessica Queller
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $14.00
A timely, affecting memoir from the front lines of medical science: When genetics can predict how we may die, how then do we decide how to live?
Eleven months after her mother succumbs to cancer, Jessica Queller has herself tested for the BRCA “breast cancer” gene mutation. The results come back positive... Read more >
Written by Jessica Queller
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $14.00
A timely, affecting memoir from the front lines of medical science: When genetics can predict how we may die, how then do we decide how to live?
Eleven months after her mother succumbs to cancer, Jessica Queller has herself tested for the BRCA “breast cancer” gene mutation. The results come back positive... Read more >
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Educating Alice
Adventures of a Curious Woman
Written by Alice Steinbach
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: April 2, 2009
Price: $14.95
Eight years ago, Alice Steinbach, a Pulitzer Prize–winning columnist for the Baltimore Sun, decided to take a break from her life. She took a leave from job, friends, and family for a European journey of self-discovery, and her first book, Without Reservations, was the exquisite result.
But once Steinbach had opened the... Read more >
Adventures of a Curious Woman
Written by Alice Steinbach
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: April 2, 2009
Price: $14.95
Eight years ago, Alice Steinbach, a Pulitzer Prize–winning columnist for the Baltimore Sun, decided to take a break from her life. She took a leave from job, friends, and family for a European journey of self-discovery, and her first book, Without Reservations, was the exquisite result.
But once Steinbach had opened the... Read more >
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Freedom in the Family
A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights
Written by Tananarive Due and Patricia Stephens Due
Format: eBook, 416 pages
On Sale: April 2, 2009
Price: $23.00
Patricia Stephens Due fought for justice during the height of the Civil Rights era. Her daughter, Tananarive, grew up deeply enmeshed in the values of a family committed to making right whatever they saw as wrong. Together, in alternating chapters, they have written a paean to the movement—its hardships, its nameless... Read more >
A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights
Written by Tananarive Due and Patricia Stephens Due
Format: eBook, 416 pages
On Sale: April 2, 2009
Price: $23.00
Patricia Stephens Due fought for justice during the height of the Civil Rights era. Her daughter, Tananarive, grew up deeply enmeshed in the values of a family committed to making right whatever they saw as wrong. Together, in alternating chapters, they have written a paean to the movement—its hardships, its nameless... Read more >
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Las Mamis
Escritores latinos recuerdan a sus madres
Edited by Esmeralda Santiago and Joie Davidow
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: April 2, 2009
Price: $12.00
Una maravillosa antología nueva--las escritoras y los escritores latinos más admirados comparten recuerdos de sus madres.
Las mujeres amorosamente retratadas en las Las Mamis representan la diversidad de la vida y cultura latinas. Provienen de las familias ricas de las grandes ciudades de Latinoamérica, de familias campesinas emigrantes y también de la... Read more >
Escritores latinos recuerdan a sus madres
Edited by Esmeralda Santiago and Joie Davidow
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: April 2, 2009
Price: $12.00
Una maravillosa antología nueva--las escritoras y los escritores latinos más admirados comparten recuerdos de sus madres.
Las mujeres amorosamente retratadas en las Las Mamis representan la diversidad de la vida y cultura latinas. Provienen de las familias ricas de las grandes ciudades de Latinoamérica, de familias campesinas emigrantes y también de la... Read more >
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Spygirl
True Adventures from My Life as a Private Eye
Written by Amy Gray
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: April 2, 2009
Price: $12.95
While her friends are making mad cash and getting massages at their dot-com jobs, Amy Gray quits her low-status publishing position to realize her girlhood dream of being a private investigator. Joining a small Manhattan agency, she finds herself plunged into an intriguing world of “con men, lunatics, narcissists, polygamists, sociopaths... Read more >
True Adventures from My Life as a Private Eye
Written by Amy Gray
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: April 2, 2009
Price: $12.95
While her friends are making mad cash and getting massages at their dot-com jobs, Amy Gray quits her low-status publishing position to realize her girlhood dream of being a private investigator. Joining a small Manhattan agency, she finds herself plunged into an intriguing world of “con men, lunatics, narcissists, polygamists, sociopaths... Read more >
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The Lady and the Panda
The True Adventures of the First American Explorer to Bring Back China's Most Exotic Animal
Written by Vicki Croke
Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: March 25, 2009
Price: $14.95
Here is the astonishing true story of Ruth Harkness, the Manhattan bohemian socialite who, against all but impossible odds, trekked to Tibet in 1936 to capture the most mysterious animal of the day: a bear that had for countless centuries lived in secret in the labyrinth of lonely cold mountains. In... Read more >
The True Adventures of the First American Explorer to Bring Back China's Most Exotic Animal
Written by Vicki Croke
Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: March 25, 2009
Price: $14.95
Here is the astonishing true story of Ruth Harkness, the Manhattan bohemian socialite who, against all but impossible odds, trekked to Tibet in 1936 to capture the most mysterious animal of the day: a bear that had for countless centuries lived in secret in the labyrinth of lonely cold mountains. In... Read more >
