Biography & Autobiography - Women

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That Woman: The Life of Wallis Simpso...

Anne Sebba

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...

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Published: Feb 2013

Murder of a Medici Princess

Caroline P. Murphy

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...

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Published: May 2009

Late Bloomer's Revolution, The

Amy Cohen

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 ...

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Published: Jul 2008

why I'm like this: True Stories

Cynthia Kaplan

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 ...

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Published: Jun 2003

Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspirin...

Ben Montgomery

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-...

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Published: Apr 2016

Call Me Madam: From Mother to Madam

Dawn Annandale

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 ...

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Published: May 2008

The Enigma Woman: The Death Sentence ...

Kathleen A. Cairns

"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...

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Published: Apr 2009

Now They Call Me Infidel: Why I Renou...

Nonie Darwish

A political and personal odyssey from hatred to love When Nonie Darwish was a girl of eight, her father died while leading covert attacks on Israel. A high-ranking Egyptian military officer stationed with his family in Gaza, he was c...

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Published: Nov 2007

Passionate Nomad: The Life of Freya S...

Jane Fletcher Geniesse

Freya Stark—traveler, explorer, Arabist, and woman of letters—began the extraordinary adventures that would glamorize her—and would catapult her into public life for the next sixty years—in 1927. And with the publication of Th...

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Published: Jul 2001

Rust

Eliese Colette Goldbach

"Elements of Tara Westover’s Educated... The mill comes to represent something holy to [Eliese] because it is made not of steel but of people." —New York Times Book ReviewOne woman's story of working in the backb...

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Published: Jan 2021

Piano Girl: A Memoir

Robin Meloy Goldsby

Piano Girl is the story of a young woman’s accidental career as a cocktail lounge piano player. This entertaining memoir provides a glimpse into the comedies, tragedies, and mundane miracles witnessed from the business side of t...

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Published: May 2006

Stella Grey's Dating Diary

Stella Grey

Nora Ephron meets Bridget Jones's Diary in Guardian columnist Stella Grey's heartrendingly honest, witty memoir about her online odyssey to find real love in a virtual world. "The literary equivalent of the When Harry Met Sally l...

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Published: May 2017

The Marriage Bureau: True Stories fro...

Penrose Halson

A riveting glimpse of life and love during and after World War II—a heart-warming, touching, and thoroughly absorbing true story of a world gone by.In the spring of 1939, with the Second World War looming, two determined twenty-four...

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Published: May 2017

The Necklace: Thirteen Women and The ...

Cheryl Jarvis

The true story of thirteen women who took a risk on an expensive diamond necklace and, in the process, changed not only themselves but a community.Four years ago, in Ventura, California, Jonell McLain saw a diamond necklace in a local...

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Published: Aug 2009

She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassm...

Jodi Kantor

The instant New York Timesbestseller "An instant classic of investigative journalism...'All the President's Men' for the Me Too era." -- Carlos Lozada, The Washington Post From Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Jodi Kan...

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Published: Jun 2020

The Fabulous Bouvier Sisters: The Tra...

Sam Kashner

A poignant, evocative, and wonderfully gossipy account of the two sisters who represented style and class above all else—Jackie Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill—from the authors of Furious Love.When sixty-four-year-old Jackie Ken...

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Published: Sep 2019

Jefferson's Daughters: Three Sisters,...

Catherine Kerrison

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...

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Published: Jan 2019

The Favored Daughter: One Woman's Fig...

Fawzia Koofi

As America prepares to draw down its forces in Afghanistan, this story of survival and hope from a voice of the country's most oppressed group could not be more timely. Born to the second of her father's seven wives in rural Afghanis...

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Published: Apr 2013

Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of D...

Brenda Maddox

In 1962, Maurice Wilkins, Francis Crick, and James Watson received the Nobel Prize, but it was Rosalind Franklin's data and photographs of DNA that led to their discovery. Brenda Maddox tells a powerful story of a remarkably single-mi...

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Published: Oct 2003

Eliza Hamilton: The Extraordinary Lif...

Tilar J. Mazzeo

From the New York Times bestselling author of Irena's Children comes a "vivid, compelling, and unputdownable new biography" (Christopher Andersen, #1 New York Times bestselling author) about the extraordinary life and times ...

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Published: Jul 2019

The Woman They Could Not Silence: One...

Kate Moore

From the New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Radium Girls comes another dark and dramatic but ultimately uplifting tale of a forgotten woman whose inspirational journey sparked lasting change f...

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Published: Feb 2022

Prisoner of Tehran: One Woman's Story...

Marina Nemat

What would you give up to protect your loved ones? Your life?In her heartbreaking, triumphant, and elegantly written memoir, Prisoner of Tehran, Marina Nemat tells the heart-pounding story of her life as a young girl in Iran during th...

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Published: May 2008

And Now We Have Everything: On Mother...

Meaghan O'Connell

Selected as One of the Best Books of the Year by: National Public Radio, Esquire, Bustle, Refinery29, Thrillist, Electric Literature, Powell's, Autostraddle, BookRiot, Women.com"Smart, funny, and true in all the best ways, this book m...

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Published: Apr 2019

The Sunset Strip Diaries

Amy O'Hare

There comes a time in every girl's life, where she has to choose good or choose bad. Amy Asbury chose bad, hands down. Good meant wallflowers, secretaries and subservient wives. Bad meant power- and a possible escape from a life of se...

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Published: Jan 2011

On Being Human: A Memoir of Waking Up...

Jennifer Pastiloff

" A] powerful account of hearing loss and learning to communicate in a new way--through yoga, gratitude and radical honesty." --People, "The Best New Books" Centered around the touchstone stories Jen tells in ...

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Published: Jun 2020

Learning to Drive: And Other Life Sto...

Katha Pollitt

Celebrated for her award-winning political columns, criticism, and poetry, Katha Pollitt offers something new in this poignant, hilarious, and sometimes outrageous collection of stories drawn from her own life. With deep feeling and s...

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Published: Sep 2008

Gravel on the Side of the Road

Kris Radish

A woman who worries about carrying a .38 special in her purse, nearly drowns in a desert canyon, flies into the war in Bosnia, dances with the FBI, tells Geraldo he shouldn t put guests in hotel rooms with rats and spends time with mu...

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Published: Jul 2014

Swing

Ashleigh Renard

PERFECTIONIST MOM TAKES DOING IT ALL TO THE NEXT LEVEL AS THE WORLD'S WORST ATTEMPTED SWINGER Waiting in line to use the bathroom in a fancy New York City sex club is just like waiting to use the bathroom anywhere else. Well, anywher...

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Published: May 2021

My Story

Elizabeth Smart

For the first time, ten years after her abduction from her Salt Lake City bedroom, Elizabeth Smart reveals how she survived and the secret to forging a new life in the wake of a brutal crimeOn June 5, 2002, fourteen-year-old Elizabet...

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Published: Sep 2014

Without Reservations: The Travels of ...

Alice Steinbach

"In many ways, I was an independent woman," writes Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Alice Steinbach. "For years I'd made my own choices, paid my own bills, shoveled my own snow." But somehow she had become depen...

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Published: Mar 2002
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