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Trade Paperback : $15.00 Buy	Nothing to Declare Memoirs of a Woman Traveling Alone Mary Morris Picador Traveling from the highland desert of northern Mexico to the steaming jungles of Honduras, from the seashore of the Caribbean to the exquisite highlands of...

Hardcover : $65.00 Buy	A Passionate Sisterhood Women of the Wordsworth Circle Kathleen Jones Palgrave Macmillan A group biography of the women who featured in the lives of the poets William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey.

Hardcover : $49.50 Buy	Women, A Modern Political Dictionary Cheryl Law I.B. Tauris This major contribution to women’s history and gender studies describes the individuals involved in the political activism of the women’s movement...

Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	How to Win Friends, Kick Ass and Influence People Lynne Russell St. Martin's Griffin After fifteen years of international exposure as an anchor for CNN's Headline News, Lynne Russell has become one of the most recognized and beloved women...

Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	My Mother Ruth Hillary Johnson with Art by Ruth Jones St. Martin's Griffin When Hillary Johnson learned that her mother, Ruth, had terminal cancer, she left New York City and returned to Minneapolis to care for Ruth in her final...

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Here's to you, Jesúsa!

Elena Poniatowska; Translated from the Spanish by Deanna Heikkinen Farrar, Straus and Giroux

The first English edition of the masterful, moving story of one woman's life-by the acclaimed Mexican writer Elena Poniatowska's best and most accessible...

Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize - Nominee - Pacific Rim Fiction

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Trade Paperback : $13.00 Buy	Before I Say Goodbye Recollections and Observations from One Woman's Final Year Ruth Picardie Holt Paperbacks By turns humorous and heart-rending, an unforgettable account of a young woman's spiritual triumphs over breast cancer in the last year of her life Ruth...

Mass Market Paperbound : $6.99 Buy	The Huntress The True Saga of Dottie And Brandi Thorson, Modern-Day Bounty Hunters Christopher Keane and Dottie Thorson Forge Books When famed bounty hunter Ralph "Papa" Thorson is killed by a car bomb, his widow and daughter take over the family business, tracking down wanted felons. ...

Trade Paperback : $15.95 Buy	Living at the Edge of the World How I Survived in the Tunnels of Grand Central Station Tina S. and Jamie Pastor Bolnick St. Martin's Griffin In this powerful and inspiring true story, Tina S. tells of four years living in the train tunnels beneath Grand Central Station amidst the homeless and the...

Hardcover : $25.95 Buy	The Girl in the Red Coat A Memoir Roma Ligocka with Iris von Finckenstein; Translated by Margot Bettauer Dembo St. Martin's Press When she first saw Schindler's List--to whose premiere in Germany she was invited--Roma Ligocka suddenly realized she was witnessing a part of her own life....

Trade Paperback : $19.95 Buy	The Woman That I Am The Literature and Culture of Contemporary Women of Color D. Soyini Madison; Introduction by Joy Harjo, Sandra Jackson-Opoku, Angela de Hoyos, Diana Chang, and Sujata Bhatt St. Martin's Griffin Selected to represent a diversity of voices, styles, and genres, The Woman That I Am gathers 126 works of contemporary fiction, poetry, drama, autobiography,...

Trade Paperback : $15.00 Buy	Bone Black Memories of Girlhood bell hooks Holt Paperbacks Stitching together girlhood memories with the finest threads of innocence, feminist intellectual bell hooks presents a powerfully intimate account of growing...

Hardcover : $23.95 Buy	The Widening Circle A Lyme Disease Pioneer Tells Her Story Polly Murray St. Martin's Press The first person to focus attention on Lyme disease, Polly Murray tells the harrowing story of her early efforts to identify what was making her family so...

Mass Market Paperbound : $8.99 Buy	Not Without My Daughter Betty Mahmoody with William Hoffer St. Martin's Paperbacks In August 1984, Michigan housewife Betty Mahmoody accompanied her husband to his native Iran for a two-week vacation. To her horror, she found herself and her...

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The Girl from Purple Mountain

Love, Honor, War, and One Family's Journey from China to America

May-lee Chai and Winberg Chai St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books

A family memoir set against the shifting tides of twentieth-century China, The Girl from Purple Mountain begins with a mystery: the Chai family matriarch, Ruth...

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Trade Paperback : $18.99 Buy	Soul Picnic The Music and Passion of Laura Nyro Michele Kort St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books Laura Nyro was a beloved and pioneering singer-songwriter of the 1960s and 1970s, whose songs were covered with great success by the Fifth Dimension; Blood,...

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The Real Mrs Miniver

Ysenda Maxtone Graham St. Martin's Press

In 1937 the Court Page of the London Times began publishing a series of articles featuring a charming, upper-middle class English housewife named Mrs Miniver. ...

Whitbread Book Award - Nominee - Biography This award was renamed the Costa Book Award in 2006.

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Hardcover : $14.95 Buy	Heart and Sole The Shoes of My Life Written and Illustrated by Jane Eldershaw St. Martin's Press "There are only two kinds of women in the world, those who love shoes and those who had the misfortune to be born without the ability to experience total bliss...

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Meena, Heroine of Afghanistan

The Martyr Who Founded RAWA, the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan

Melody Ermachild Chavis; Foreword by Alice Walker St. Martin's Griffin

The unforgettable story of how one woman dared to start a revolution. Meena founded RAWA in 1977 as a twenty-year-old Kabul University student. She was...

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A Perfect Union

Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American Nation

Catherine Allgor Holt Paperbacks

“Delightful and discerning . . . In this evocative study a remarkable woman, creator of the ‘first lady’ role, comes vividly to life.”—The New York...

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My Name Is Iran

A Memoir

Davar Ardalan Holt Paperbacks

“Ardalan’s testimony to the feminist spirit of the pioneering women in her family, and in the face of centuries-long strictures against the advancement of...

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James Tiptree, Jr.

The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon

Julie Phillips Picador

James Tiptree, Jr., burst onto the science fiction scene in the late 1960s with a series of hard-edged, provocative stories. He redefined the genre with such...

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The Solitude of Self

Thinking About Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Vivian Gornick Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

Elizabeth Cady Stanton—along with her comrade-in-arms, Susan B. Anthony—was one of the most important leaders of the movement to gain American...

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Margaret Sanger

A Life of Passion

Jean H. Baker Hill and Wang

Undoubtedly the most influential advocate for birth control even before the term existed, Margaret Sanger ignited a movement that has shaped our society to...

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