Kabul Beauty School: An American Woma...
Deborah RodriguezSoon 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'seeme...
Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shap...
Cokie RobertsIn Founding Mothers, Cokie Roberts paid homage to the heroic women whose patriotism and sacrifice helped create a new nation. Now the number one New York Times bestselling author and renowned political commentator'praised in USA Today...
Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raise...
Cokie RobertsCokie Roberts's #1 New York Times bestseller We Are Our Mothers Daughters examined the nature of women's roles throughout history and led USA Today to praise her as a "custodian of time-honored values." Her second bestseller...
My Secret Garden: Women's Sexual Fant...
Nancy FridayWhen it first appeared, My Secret Garden created a storm of outrage and exhilaration. Women who read it were astonished to find in its pages the hidden content of their own sexual fantasies. More outspoken, graphic, and taboo-shatteri...
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into...
Nicholas D. KristofFrom two of our most fiercely moral voices, a passionate call to arms against our era’s most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women and girls in the developing world.With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof...
1666: The Great Fire of London sweeps through the streets and a heavily pregnant woman flees the flames. A few months later she gives birth to a child disfigured by a red birthmark. 1718: Sixteen-year-old Eliza Tally sees the gleaming...
Beyond Heaving Bosoms: The Smart Bitc...
Sarah WendellThe Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name...We do it in the dark. Under the sheets. With a penlight. We wear sunglasses and a baseball hat at the bookstore. We have a 'special place' where we store them. Let's face it: Not many folks are ...
Formerly released as "The Wild Woman Archetype." Myths stories about the instinctual nature of women. With every woman there is a wild creature, a powerful force filled with passion creativity. Helps you discover free you...
Ladies of the Night: A Historical and...
Gene SimmonsGene Simmons mega-rock star, businessman, marketing genius and self-proclaimed free spirit follows up his best-selling books Kiss And Make-Up and Sex, Money, Kiss with Ladies of the Night, an examination of the history of prostitution...
The Price of Motherhood: Why the Most...
Ann CrittendenTHE 10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION OF THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER THAT CHANGED AMERICA'S VIEW OF MOTHERHOODIn the pathbreaking tradition of Backlash and The Second Shift, this provocative book shows how mothers are systematically disadvantag...
The Dangerous Old Woman: Myths and St...
Clarissa Pinkola Estes PhdDr. Estes asks, "Did you know, you were born as the first, and the last and the best and the only one of your kind, and that eccentricity is the first sign of giftedness? These are two of the crone truths I have to offer you.&quo...
Untie the Strong Woman: Blessed Mothe...
Clarissa Pinkola EstesCall her Our Lady, La Nuestra Señora, Holy Mother--or one of her thousands of other names," says Dr. Estes. "She wears hundreds of costumes, dozens of skin tones, is patroness of deserts, mountains, stars and oceans. ...
The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Wo...
Melinda Gates“The Moment of Lift is an urgent call to courage. It changed how I think about myself, my family, my work, and what’s possible in the world. Melinda weaves together vulnerable, brave storytelling and compelling data to make this o...
A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary S...
Caroline MooreheadIn January 1943, 230 women of the French Resistance weresent to the death camps by the Nazis who had invaded and occupied theircountry. This is their story, told in full for the first time—a searing andunforgettable chronicle of ter...
The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Se...
Jenny NordbergAn investigative journalist uncovers a hidden custom that will transform your understanding of what it means to grow up as a girlIn Afghanistan, a culture ruled almost entirely by men, the birth of a son is cause for celebration and t...
The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women ...
Lynn PovichThe inspiration for the original television seriesIt was the 1960sa time of economic boom and social strife. Young women poured into the workplace, but the Help Wanted” ads were segregated by gender and the Mad Men” office...