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A "smart, juicy, deeply reported" (Katie Couric) biography of the most successful female broadcaster of all time-Barbara Walters-a woman whose personal demons fueled an ambition that broke all the rules...

"Winning, cheeky, and illuminating....What appears initially as a folly with a look-at-this cover and title becomes, thanks to Radke's intelligence and curiosity, something much meatier, entertaining, and wise." - The...

This stirring and vibrant account of women's athleticism throughout history "will leave readers feeling inspired and powerful" ( Ms . magazine). Part group biography, part cultural history, Strong Like Her...

In her stunning memoir, Wendy Lawless tells the often heartbreaking tale of her unconventional upbringing with an unstable alcoholic and suicidal mother-a real-life Holly Golightly turned Mommie Dearest-and the uncommon...

Nomad is a philosophical memoir, telling how Ayaan Hirsi Ali came to America in search of a new life, and the difficulties she faced in reconciling her two worlds. With...

Rejecting the deadening conventions of their Victorian elders, the rebel girls demanded new freedoms and new rights. They took their suffrage message out to the remotest Yorkshire dales and fishing...

As war rages in her beloved homeland and her husband is taken away to fight in it, a young mother faces the most difficult decision of her life -- which...

Barbara Pierce Bush was one of the country's most popular and powerful figures, yet her full story has never been told. THE MATRIARCH tells the riveting tale of a woman...

IN THIS LUMINOUS MEMOIR, LEGENDARY SINGER AND ACTRESS NATALIE COLE TELLS A REMARKABLE STORY OF LIFE-THREATENING ILLNESS AND RECOVERY, AND THE STORY OF A DEATH THAT BROUGHT NEW LIFE. In...

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year A Washington Post Best Nonfiction of the Year One of PEOPLE's Top 10 Books of the Year "Delicious and infuriating...unputdownable. "...

A gripping and important memoir by a Finnish woman who migrated to Stalin's Soviet Russia in the 1930s and escaped in 1941. Under the Sickle and the Sledgehammer was originally...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER * The acclaimed author of Bird by Bird brings her brilliant combination of humor and warmth to a "smart, funny, and comforting" chronicle of single motherhood ( Los...

Women & Success will take you on a journey of self-discovery. In this ground breaking book, you will read stories from successful and inspiring women and will begin to reflect...

This is a must read for women who care about their financial future. Fraud is one of the fastest growing industries in the world and you are a target. Trish...

From journalist Michelle Dean, winner of the National Book Critics Circle's 2016 Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing, Sharp combines biography, original research, and critical reading into a powerful...

The Body Snatchers, written in an engaging and witty style, looks at the rampant conditioning of women and girls by those pushing starvation imagery. there is hardly a woman alive...

The truth about why straight women aren't satisfied in the bedroom - and what to do about it Pleasure should be a simple thing, but straight women are at the...

Effie Gray, a beautiful and intelligent young socialite, rattled the foundations of England's Victorian age. Married at nineteen to John Ruskin, the leading art critic of the time, she found...

Is love "blind" when it comes to gender? For women, it just might be. This unsettling and original book offers a radical new understanding of the context-dependent nature of female...

While books about the lives of women in church history are abundant, in this book Simonetta Carr focuses on the important questions they asked--relevant both in the past and today....

Kabul was always more beautiful in the snow. Even the piles of rotting rubbish in my street, the only source of food for the scrawny chickens and goats that our...

From a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer comes an exuberant memoir of personal loss and longing, and finding connection on the remote Azorean Islands of the Atlantic Ocean. Reporter Diana Marcum is...

Translating Myself and Others is a collection of candid and disarmingly personal essays by Pulitzer Prizewinning author Jhumpa Lahiri, who reflects on her emerging identity as a translator as well...

"Aida Rodriguez is part of the next wave of talented comedic storytellers that I dreamt about when I was trying to break down barriers in the industry. Besides being a...

WINNER 2024 NAACP IMAGE AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING LITERARY WORK BIOGRAPHY/AUTOBIOGRAPHY An engrossing social history of the unsinkable Mollie Moon, the stylish founder of the National Urban League Guild and fundraiser...

From balancing on a wingtip to circling with eagles, Take Flight tells the stories of Australian women who have leapt, tumbled and dived, and reached for the stars. Helicopter pilot...

" Friendship, love and a beautiful sense of togetherness sew together this gem of a book. B Michael...presents to us a portrait of a woman who was a rare gift...

Thoroughly revised and expanded for a new generation of readers, this classic guide to enjoying literature to its fullest-a lively, enlightening, and entertaining introduction to a diverse range of writing...

Drawn from NPR Music's acclaimed, groundbreaking series Turning the Tables , the definitive book on the vital role of Women in Music-from Beyonce to Odetta, Taylor Swift to Joan Baez,...

Born in 1902 in Seattle, Washington, Frances Lovell Oldham left her hometown in her early twenties to pursue a journalism career in Europe. At a time when women rarely found...

Drawn from NPR Music's acclaimed, groundbreaking series Turning the Tables , the definitive book on the vital role of Women in Music-from Beyonce to Odetta, Taylor Swift to Joan Baez,...

Virginia Woolf, Agatha Christie, and Sylvia Plath are three of our most famous authors for the first time this book tells the story of the remarkable mothers who shaped them....

For over 16 centuries, women have been undertaking great journeys and writing about their experiences, yet the traditional image of them is still that of an intrepid Victorian lady vigorously...

When the First World War broke out, the suffragettes suspended their campaigning and joined the war effort. For pioneering suffragette doctors (and life partners) Flora Murray and Louisa Garrett Anderson...

From the wickedly funny and feminist creator and host of the Throwing Shade podcast, a collection of hilarious personal essays and political commentary perfect for fans of Lindy West and...

A Telegraph Book of 2018 An Observer Pick of 2018 A New Statesman Book of 2018 A definitive history and anarchic celebration of the fight for women's right to vote;...

Elizabeth II is within a few years of becoming the longest-reigning British monarch. Michael Paterson paints a portrait of one of the world's great leaders of state, as well as...

Celebrate the Joys That Are Sweet, Rich, and Delicious Chocolate is a blessing. It makes us feel warm and wonderful. But as we learn from the true stories in Chocolate...

Dancer, singer, gang member, cocaine addict and artist's favourite: Betty May - aka the Tiger Woman - was a woman like no other. Born into abject poverty in Limehouse, Betty...

GIRL TO CITY follows one young woman's progression from Elton John fan in the Pittsburgh suburbs to Manhattan art student; from punk show habitue to fledgling musician to cult singer-songwriter...

The #1 New York Times bestselling (mostly true) memoir from the hilarious author of Furiously Happy . "Gaspingly funny and wonderfully inappropriate."- O, The Oprah Magazine When Jenny Lawson was...

In the New York Times bestseller that the Washington Post called " Lean In for misfits," Sophia Amoruso shares how she went from dumpster diving to founding one of the...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'I am Black because I come from the earth's inside now take my word for jewel in the open light.' Impassioned...

The extraordinary story of American special operator and trailblazer Shannon Kent, who hunted high value targets on classified missions in the most dangerous locales on earth while trying to balance...

This sumptuous book showcases the work of women jewellers in the 20th century. Beginning with Arts & Crafts jewellers in Britain, Europe and North America, the author then examines the...