Waris Dirie leads a double life -- by day, she is an international supermodel and human rights ambassador for the United Nations; by night, she dreams of the simplicity of life in her native Somalia and the family she was forced to le...

The New York Times bestselling memoir of a woman whose curiosity led her to the world's most remote places and then into fifteen months of captivity: "Exquisitely told…A young woman's harrowing coming-of-age story and an extrao...

Recounts the stories of nine women who made unconventional choices in order to bring about remarkable life achievements, including World Series of Poker Tournament champion Annie Duke, Iditarod winner Libby Riddles, and Playboy model-...

A delicious group biography of the young American heiresses who married into the British aristocracy at the turn of the twentieth century – the real women who inspired Downton Abbey.Towards the end of the nineteenth century and for ...

In 1996, a small Irish press approached Nuala O'Faolain to publish a collection of her opinion columns from the Irish Times. She offered to write an introduction to explain the life experience that had shaped this Irish woman's views...

Five devastating human stories and a dark and moving portrait of Victorian London—the untold lives of the women killed by Jack the Ripper Polly, Annie, Elisabeth, Catherine, and Mary Jane are famous for the same thing, though they n...

When Joan Kelly took a weekend job as a professional submissive in a private dungeon, it seemed she'd finally found a perfect outlet for her pent-up desires. Suddenly, Joan was being paid to do things she'd only fantasized about. Hav...

Some girls turn to alcohol. Some to drugs. Kerry Cohen turned to sex. This is her memoir.

Now available in paperback, the entrancing story of how one woman's journey of self-discovery gave her the courage to persevere in re-creating her life.Life is a work in progress, as ever-changing as a sandy shoreline along the beach....

Five years ago, after an exhaustive countrywide search, the Chicago Tribune announced Amy Dickinson as the next Ann Landers. They wanted a contemporary voice and they found it. Bracingly witty and honest, Amy's voice is more Nora Ephr...

Jo Ann Beard beautifully evokes her childhood in the early '60s, a time in which mothers continued to smoke right up to labor, one's own scabs were deeply interesting, and Barbie dolls seemed to get naked of their own volition, knowin...

A single city woman meets Mr. Right-he has amber eyes and a wily heart. There's only one catch . . . he has four legs and a tail.Relatively indifferent to the natural world, allergic to dogs, and happily independent, writer Louise Ber...

From acclaimed biographer Paula Byrne, the sensational true tale that inspired the major motion picture Belle (May 2014) starring Tom Wilkinson, Miranda Richardson, Emily Watson, Penelope Wilton, and Matthew Goode—a stunning story...

Describes how, inspired by a stunning portrait by pre-Raphaelite painter Sir Edward Burne-Jones and the discovery of a long-forgotten trunk of old letters, the author investigated her own family history to uncover a long-hidden story ...

When Amelia Earhart mysteriously disappeared in 1937 during her attempted flight around the world, she was already known as America's most famous female aviator. Her sense of daring and determination, rare for women of her time, broug...

By the 1920s, women were on the verge of something huge. Jazz, racy fashions, eyebrowraising new attitudes about art and sex—all of this pointed to a sleek, modern world, one that could shake off the grimness of the Great War and st...

The secret story of Virginia Hall, America's greatest World War II spy heroine.

The first full scale biography of Wallis Simpson to be written by a woman, exploring the mind of one of the most glamorous and reviled figures of the Twentieth Century, a character who played prominently in the blockbuster film The Ki...

In Murder of a Medici Princess, Caroline Murphy illuminates the brilliant life and tragic death of Isabella de Medici, one of the brightest stars in the dazzling world of Renaissance Italy, the daughter of Duke Cosimo I, ruler of Flor...

The debut of a sparkling and reassuring memoirist -- an inspiration to late bloomers everywhere'I like to consider myself a late bloomer, meaning someone who will eventually, however late, come into bloom. Although when and if I will ...

In 1851 Olive Oatman was a thirteen-year-old pioneer traveling west toward Zion with her Mormon family. Within a decade, she was a white Indian with a chin tattoo, caught between cultures. The Blue Tattoo tells the harrowing story of ...

A kind of Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants for women in midlife, The Traveling Necklace is the story of thirteen women who took a chance on a $37,000 diamond necklace and learned more than they ever thought possible about themselves...

Cynthia Kaplan takes us on a hilarious and sometimes heartbreaking journey through her unique, uncensored world -- her bungled romantic encounters and unsung theatrical experiences; her gadget-obsessed father and her mother, who, if ...

The remarkable untold story of Thomas Jefferson's three daughters—two white and free, one black and enslaved—and the divergent paths they forged in a newly independent America  Thomas Jefferson had three daughters: Martha and Mar...

Emma Gatewood told her family she was going on a walk and left her small Ohio hometown with a change of clothes and less than two hundred dollars. The next anybody heard from her, this genteel, farm-reared, sixty-seven-year-old great-...

Six marriages, six heartbreaks, one shared beginning.   In her forties – a widow, too young, too modern to accept the role – Becky Aikman struggled to make sense of her place in an altered world.  In this transcendent and infe...

When Dawn Annandale's marriage fell apart she was overwhelmed by debt and turned to prostitution to support her family. After one year, a near-fatal car crash and numerous encounters with men, she made the decision to stop working as ...

Barnaby Conrad's 1950s nightclub was nestled in the heart of San Francisco's cabaret and nightlife district. Charming, personable, and witty, the author is both celebrity and fan as he shares hilarious and surprising anecdotes, deligh...

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"Crack shot." "Enigma woman." "Good with ponies and pistols." "A much-married woman."What if such an unconventional woman—and the press unanimously agreed that Nellie May Madison was indeed un...