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Bold Spirit
Helga Estby's Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America
Written by Linda Lawrence Hunt
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $11.99
In 1896, a Norwegian immigrant and mother of eight children named Helga Estby was behind on taxes and the mortgage when she learned that a mysterious sponsor would pay $10,000 to a woman who walked across America.
Hoping to win the wager and save her family’s farm, Helga and her teenaged... Read more >
Helga Estby's Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America
Written by Linda Lawrence Hunt
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $11.99
In 1896, a Norwegian immigrant and mother of eight children named Helga Estby was behind on taxes and the mortgage when she learned that a mysterious sponsor would pay $10,000 to a woman who walked across America.
Hoping to win the wager and save her family’s farm, Helga and her teenaged... Read more >
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The Friend Who Got Away
Twenty Women's True Life Tales of Friendships that Blew Up, Burned Out or Faded Away
Written by Jenny Offill and Elissa Schappell
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $11.99
Losing a friend can be as painful and as agonizing as a divorce or the end of a love affair, yet it is rarely written about or even discussed. THE FRIEND WHO GOT AWAY is the first book to address this near-universal experience, bringing together the brave, eloquent voices of writers... Read more >
Twenty Women's True Life Tales of Friendships that Blew Up, Burned Out or Faded Away
Written by Jenny Offill and Elissa Schappell
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $11.99
Losing a friend can be as painful and as agonizing as a divorce or the end of a love affair, yet it is rarely written about or even discussed. THE FRIEND WHO GOT AWAY is the first book to address this near-universal experience, bringing together the brave, eloquent voices of writers... Read more >
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The Habit
A History of the Clothing of Catholic Nuns
Written by Elizabeth Kuhns
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $12.99
Curiosity about nuns and their distinctive clothing is almost as old as Catholicism itself. The habit intrigues the religious and the nonreligious alike, from medieval maidens to contemporary schoolboys, to feminists and other social critics. The first book to explore the symbolism of this attire, The Habit presents a visual gallery... Read more >
A History of the Clothing of Catholic Nuns
Written by Elizabeth Kuhns
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $12.99
Curiosity about nuns and their distinctive clothing is almost as old as Catholicism itself. The habit intrigues the religious and the nonreligious alike, from medieval maidens to contemporary schoolboys, to feminists and other social critics. The first book to explore the symbolism of this attire, The Habit presents a visual gallery... Read more >
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Home Fires Burning
Married to the Military-for Better or Worse
Written by Karen Houppert
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $13.99
As taps echoes across the cookie-cutter housing areas of upstate New York’s Fort Drum, the wives turn on the evening news, both hoping for and dreading word of their husbands overseas. It’s a ritual played out on military bases across the nation as the waiting wives of Karen Houppert’s extraordinary new... Read more >
Married to the Military-for Better or Worse
Written by Karen Houppert
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $13.99
As taps echoes across the cookie-cutter housing areas of upstate New York’s Fort Drum, the wives turn on the evening news, both hoping for and dreading word of their husbands overseas. It’s a ritual played out on military bases across the nation as the waiting wives of Karen Houppert’s extraordinary new... Read more >
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Journey from the Land of No
A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran
Written by Roya Hakakian
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $9.99
“We stormed every classroom, inscribed our slogans on the blackboard . . . Never had mayhem brought more peace. All our lives we had been taught the virtues of behaving, and now we were discovering the importance of misbehaving. Too much fear had tainted our days. Too many afternoons had passed... Read more >
A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran
Written by Roya Hakakian
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $9.99
“We stormed every classroom, inscribed our slogans on the blackboard . . . Never had mayhem brought more peace. All our lives we had been taught the virtues of behaving, and now we were discovering the importance of misbehaving. Too much fear had tainted our days. Too many afternoons had passed... Read more >
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Kabul Beauty School
An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil
Written by Deborah Rodriguez and Kristin Ohlson
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.95
Soon after the fall of the Taliban, in 2001, Deborah Rodriguez went to Afghanistan as part of a group offering humanitarian aid to this war-torn nation. Surrounded by men and women whose skills–as doctors, nurses, and therapists–seemed eminently more practical than her own, Rodriguez, a hairdresser and mother of two from... Read more >
An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil
Written by Deborah Rodriguez and Kristin Ohlson
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.95
Soon after the fall of the Taliban, in 2001, Deborah Rodriguez went to Afghanistan as part of a group offering humanitarian aid to this war-torn nation. Surrounded by men and women whose skills–as doctors, nurses, and therapists–seemed eminently more practical than her own, Rodriguez, a hairdresser and mother of two from... Read more >
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Nightingales
The Extraordinary Upbringing and Curious Life of Miss Florence Nightingale
Written by Gillian Gill
Format: eBook, 592 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $9.99
Florence Nightingale was for a time the most famous woman in Britain–if not the world. We know her today primarily as a saintly character, perhaps as a heroic reformer of Britain’s health-care system. The reality is more involved and far more fascinating. In an utterly beguiling narrative that reads like the... Read more >
The Extraordinary Upbringing and Curious Life of Miss Florence Nightingale
Written by Gillian Gill
Format: eBook, 592 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $9.99
Florence Nightingale was for a time the most famous woman in Britain–if not the world. We know her today primarily as a saintly character, perhaps as a heroic reformer of Britain’s health-care system. The reality is more involved and far more fascinating. In an utterly beguiling narrative that reads like the... Read more >
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Subject to Debate
Sense and Dissents on Women, Politics, and Culture
Written by Katha Pollitt
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $11.99
Subject to Debate, Katha Pollitt's column in The Nation, has offered readers clear-eyed yet provocative observations on women, politics, and culture for more than seven years. Bringing together eighty-eight of her most astute essays on hot-button topics like abortion, affirmative action, and school vouchers, this selection displays the full range of... Read more >
Sense and Dissents on Women, Politics, and Culture
Written by Katha Pollitt
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $11.99
Subject to Debate, Katha Pollitt's column in The Nation, has offered readers clear-eyed yet provocative observations on women, politics, and culture for more than seven years. Bringing together eighty-eight of her most astute essays on hot-button topics like abortion, affirmative action, and school vouchers, this selection displays the full range of... Read more >
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They Went Whistling
Women Wayfarers, Warriors, Runaways, and Renegades
Written by Barbara Holland
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $11.99
Throughout history there have been women, endowed with curiosity and abundant spirit, who stepped out of the cave, cast off the shackles of expectation, and struck out for new territory. In this ode to bold, brash, and sometimes just plain dangerous women, Barbara Holland reanimates those rebels who defied convention and... Read more >
Women Wayfarers, Warriors, Runaways, and Renegades
Written by Barbara Holland
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $11.99
Throughout history there have been women, endowed with curiosity and abundant spirit, who stepped out of the cave, cast off the shackles of expectation, and struck out for new territory. In this ode to bold, brash, and sometimes just plain dangerous women, Barbara Holland reanimates those rebels who defied convention and... Read more >
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Who Cooked the Last Supper?
The Women's History of the World
Written by Rosalind Miles
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $11.99
Men dominate history because men write history. There have been many heroes, but no heroines. This is the book that overturns that "phallusy of history," giving voice to the true history of the world — which, always and forever, must include the contributions of millions of unsung women. Here is the... Read more >
The Women's History of the World
Written by Rosalind Miles
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $11.99
Men dominate history because men write history. There have been many heroes, but no heroines. This is the book that overturns that "phallusy of history," giving voice to the true history of the world — which, always and forever, must include the contributions of millions of unsung women. Here is the... Read more >
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City of Widows
An Iraqi Woman's Account of War and Resistance
Written by Haifa Zangana
Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
On Sale: November 6, 2007
Price: $20.00
In City of Widows, Haifa Zangana tells the story of her country, from the early twentieth century through the US-UK invasion and the current occupation. She brings to light a sense of Iraq as a society mainly of secularists who have been denied, through years of sanctions, war, and occupation, a... Read more >
An Iraqi Woman's Account of War and Resistance
Written by Haifa Zangana
Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
On Sale: November 6, 2007
Price: $20.00
In City of Widows, Haifa Zangana tells the story of her country, from the early twentieth century through the US-UK invasion and the current occupation. She brings to light a sense of Iraq as a society mainly of secularists who have been denied, through years of sanctions, war, and occupation, a... Read more >
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In Search of Hope
The Global Diaries of Mariane Pearl
Written by Mariane Pearl
Preface by Cindi Leive
Foreword by Angelina Jolie
Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2007
Price: $39.95
Mariane Pearl started traveling the globe for Glamour magazine in 2006 to profile courageous women and show that hope is stronger than fear. During the first year of writing her monthly "Global Diary" column, Pearl logged nearly 100,000 miles and met 12 brave, determined women-true agents of change in their communities-who... Read more >
The Global Diaries of Mariane Pearl
Written by Mariane Pearl
Preface by Cindi Leive
Foreword by Angelina Jolie
Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2007
Price: $39.95
Mariane Pearl started traveling the globe for Glamour magazine in 2006 to profile courageous women and show that hope is stronger than fear. During the first year of writing her monthly "Global Diary" column, Pearl logged nearly 100,000 miles and met 12 brave, determined women-true agents of change in their communities-who... Read more >
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The Female Thing
Dirt, envy, sex, vulnerability
Written by Laura Kipnis
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: October 9, 2007
Price: $14.00
From the author of the acclaimed Against Love comes a pointed, audacious, and witty examination of the state of the female psyche in the post-post-feminist world of the twenty-first century.Women remain caught between feminism and femininity, between self-affirmation and an endless quest for self-improvement, between playing an injured party and claiming... Read more >
Dirt, envy, sex, vulnerability
Written by Laura Kipnis
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: October 9, 2007
Price: $14.00
From the author of the acclaimed Against Love comes a pointed, audacious, and witty examination of the state of the female psyche in the post-post-feminist world of the twenty-first century.Women remain caught between feminism and femininity, between self-affirmation and an endless quest for self-improvement, between playing an injured party and claiming... Read more >
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The Essential Feminist Reader
Edited by Estelle Freedman
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
On Sale: September 18, 2007
Price: $17.95
Including: Susan B. Anthony Simone de Beauvoir W.E.B. Du Bois Hélène Cixous Betty Friedan Charlotte Perkins Gilman Emma Goldman Guerrilla Girls Ding Ling • Audre Lorde John Stuart Mill Christine de Pizan Adrienne Rich Margaret Sanger Huda Shaarawi • Sojourner Truth Mary Wollstonecraft Virginia Woolf
The Essential Feminist Reader is the first... Read more >
Edited by Estelle Freedman
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
On Sale: September 18, 2007
Price: $17.95
Including: Susan B. Anthony Simone de Beauvoir W.E.B. Du Bois Hélène Cixous Betty Friedan Charlotte Perkins Gilman Emma Goldman Guerrilla Girls Ding Ling • Audre Lorde John Stuart Mill Christine de Pizan Adrienne Rich Margaret Sanger Huda Shaarawi • Sojourner Truth Mary Wollstonecraft Virginia Woolf
The Essential Feminist Reader is the first... Read more >
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Women Who Love Sex
Ordinary Women Describe Their Paths to Pleasure, Intimacy, and Ecstasy
Written by Gina Ogden
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: September 11, 2007
Price: $21.95
Wonderful sex does more than melt both body and soul; it brings power, energy, and deep satisfaction to all aspects of our lives. In this unique book, women who consider themselves highly sexually responsive talk in intimate detail about what gives them the greatest pleasure. They redefine sex—based on how women... Read more >
Ordinary Women Describe Their Paths to Pleasure, Intimacy, and Ecstasy
Written by Gina Ogden
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: September 11, 2007
Price: $21.95
Wonderful sex does more than melt both body and soul; it brings power, energy, and deep satisfaction to all aspects of our lives. In this unique book, women who consider themselves highly sexually responsive talk in intimate detail about what gives them the greatest pleasure. They redefine sex—based on how women... Read more >
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Ani DiFranco
Verses
Written by Ani DiFranco
Format: Hardcover, 96 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2007
Price: $18.95
With eight Grammy nominations and sales of over 4.5 million, Ani DiFranco is one of America’s most fiercely independent and beloved musicians, as well as an outspoken voice of conscience. For the first time, she releases a book of poetry and paintings, capturing her essential artistry that has helped define and... Read more >
Verses
Written by Ani DiFranco
Format: Hardcover, 96 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2007
Price: $18.95
With eight Grammy nominations and sales of over 4.5 million, Ani DiFranco is one of America’s most fiercely independent and beloved musicians, as well as an outspoken voice of conscience. For the first time, she releases a book of poetry and paintings, capturing her essential artistry that has helped define and... Read more >
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Black Women For Beginners
Written by S. Pearl Sharp
Illustrated by Beverly Hawkins Hall
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: August 21, 2007
Price: $14.95
There’s a Black Woman on each of the seven continents and in almost every country. So no matter where you go, she’s already been there. She travels with forces greater than herself. Her presence is everywhere.Black Women For Beginners chronicles the trials and triumphs of Black Women from antiquity to the... Read more >
Written by S. Pearl Sharp
Illustrated by Beverly Hawkins Hall
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: August 21, 2007
Price: $14.95
There’s a Black Woman on each of the seven continents and in almost every country. So no matter where you go, she’s already been there. She travels with forces greater than herself. Her presence is everywhere.Black Women For Beginners chronicles the trials and triumphs of Black Women from antiquity to the... Read more >
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Forsaken
Afghan Women
Photographed by Lana Slezic
Format: Hardcover, 96 pages
On Sale: July 1, 2007
Price: $35.00
In March 2004, when award-winning photographer Lana Šlezic began an assignment in Afghanistan, she never dreamed she would stay for two years. At the time she believed that since the ousting of the suffocating Taliban in 2001, Afghan women and girls were living under considerably less oppressive conditions. She soon discovered... Read more >
Afghan Women
Photographed by Lana Slezic
Format: Hardcover, 96 pages
On Sale: July 1, 2007
Price: $35.00
In March 2004, when award-winning photographer Lana Šlezic began an assignment in Afghanistan, she never dreamed she would stay for two years. At the time she believed that since the ousting of the suffocating Taliban in 2001, Afghan women and girls were living under considerably less oppressive conditions. She soon discovered... Read more >
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Women Who Light the Dark
Photographed by Paola Gianturco
Foreword by Kavita Ramdas
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: July 1, 2007
Price: $45.00
Across the world, local women are helping one another tackle the problems that darken their lives—domestic violence, sex trafficking, war, poverty, illiteracy, discrimination, inequality, malnutrition, disease. These women may lack material resources, but they possess a wealth of an even more precious resource: imagination—their imaginations light the dark.
Women in... Read more >
Photographed by Paola Gianturco
Foreword by Kavita Ramdas
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: July 1, 2007
Price: $45.00
Across the world, local women are helping one another tackle the problems that darken their lives—domestic violence, sex trafficking, war, poverty, illiteracy, discrimination, inequality, malnutrition, disease. These women may lack material resources, but they possess a wealth of an even more precious resource: imagination—their imaginations light the dark.
Women in... Read more >
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Harriet Tubman
Imagining a Life
Written by Beverly Lowry
Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
On Sale: June 12, 2007
Price: $26.00
Imagining a Life
Written by Beverly Lowry
Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
On Sale: June 12, 2007
Price: $26.00
“I am at peace with God and all mankind.”
—Harriet Tubman to Mary Talbert, on the occasion of their last visit, 1913
Now, from the award-winning novelist and biographer, an astonishing reimagining of the remarkable life of Harriet Tubman—the “Moses of Her People.”
During her lifetime Harriet Tubman was an escaped slave, lumberjack, laundress...
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Dear Diary
Written by Lesley Arfin
Introduction by Chloe Sevigny
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: June 1, 2007
Price: $20.00
A collection of a girl's funniest diary entries from 12 to 25 years old. She updates each entry by tracking down the people involved and asking awkward questions like, "Do you remember when I tried to beat you up?" Sometimes old friends apologize. Sometimes they become new enemies. No matter who... Read more >
Written by Lesley Arfin
Introduction by Chloe Sevigny
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: June 1, 2007
Price: $20.00
A collection of a girl's funniest diary entries from 12 to 25 years old. She updates each entry by tracking down the people involved and asking awkward questions like, "Do you remember when I tried to beat you up?" Sometimes old friends apologize. Sometimes they become new enemies. No matter who... Read more >
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Dr. Rice in the House
Edited by Amy Scholder
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: May 8, 2007
Price: $13.95
We have been bombarded by images of the U.S. Secretary of State as the Great Diplomat, walking onto the tarmac of a foreign country as if she were a rock star, an intellectual giant, and the embodiment of the American dream all rolled into one. Meanwhile, she has spoken out against... Read more >
Edited by Amy Scholder
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: May 8, 2007
Price: $13.95
We have been bombarded by images of the U.S. Secretary of State as the Great Diplomat, walking onto the tarmac of a foreign country as if she were a rock star, an intellectual giant, and the embodiment of the American dream all rolled into one. Meanwhile, she has spoken out against... Read more >
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The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs. Beeton
The First Domestic Goddess
Written by Kathryn Hughes
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
On Sale: May 8, 2007
Price: $18.95
The First Domestic Goddess
Written by Kathryn Hughes
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
On Sale: May 8, 2007
Price: $18.95
In Victorian England there was only one fail-safe authority on matters ranging from fashion to puddings to scullery maids: Beeton’s Book of Household Management. In this delightful, superbly researched biography, award-winning historian Kathryn Hughes pulls back the lace curtains to reveal the woman behind the book--Mrs. Beeton, the first domestic diva...
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Hypatia of Alexandria
Mathematician and Martyr
Written by Michael Deakin
Format: Hardcover, 222 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2007
Price: $29.99
In the late fourth and early fifth centuries of our era, Hypatia of Alexandria was the world’s greatest living mathematician and astronomer. A strikingly beautiful woman and a devoted celibate, she lived in a city as turbulent and troubled as Baghdad or Beirut is today. She achieved fame not only in... Read more >
Mathematician and Martyr
Written by Michael Deakin
Format: Hardcover, 222 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2007
Price: $29.99
In the late fourth and early fifth centuries of our era, Hypatia of Alexandria was the world’s greatest living mathematician and astronomer. A strikingly beautiful woman and a devoted celibate, she lived in a city as turbulent and troubled as Baghdad or Beirut is today. She achieved fame not only in... Read more >
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Kabul Beauty School
An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil
Written by Deborah Rodriguez and Kristin Ohlson
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 10, 2007
Price: $11.99
Soon after the fall of the Taliban, in 2001, Deborah Rodriguez went to Afghanistan as part of a group offering humanitarian aid to this war-torn nation. Surrounded by men and women whose skills–as doctors, nurses, and therapists–seemed eminently more practical than her own, Rodriguez, a hairdresser and mother of two from... Read more >
An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil
Written by Deborah Rodriguez and Kristin Ohlson
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 10, 2007
Price: $11.99
Soon after the fall of the Taliban, in 2001, Deborah Rodriguez went to Afghanistan as part of a group offering humanitarian aid to this war-torn nation. Surrounded by men and women whose skills–as doctors, nurses, and therapists–seemed eminently more practical than her own, Rodriguez, a hairdresser and mother of two from... Read more >
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