Women

“We Are the Luckiest is a masterpiece. It’s the truest, most generous, honest, and helpful sobriety memoir I’ve read. It’s going to save lives.”â€...

Perhaps the most influential monarch ever to rule England, Queen Elizabeth I is at once the best- and least-known of queens. She was a very private person,...

A Simon & Schuster Book. Simon & Schuster Has A Great Book For Every Reader.Categories: History WorldWomen in History

Abigail Adams was the daughter of a country parson, a lively, brilliant girl of eighteen when she met the fiery young lawyer, John Adams. Immediately attra...

eleanor And Franklin Is One Of The Most Highly Acclaimed Biographies Written In Recent Times. Its Author, Joseph Lash, Won The Pulitzer And National Book A...

#1 New York Times Bestseller"Amy Schumer's book will make you love her even more. For a comedian of unbridled (and generally hilarious) causticity, Schumer...

"A captivating book that brilliantly reveals an American sports legend long overlooked. Sally Jacobs tells the riveting story of Althea Gibson, my persona...

Product Description INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"My Body offers a lucid examination of the mirrors in which its author has seen herself, and her i...

Critics across the country have raved about Joyce Carol Oates’s ground-breaking memoir A Widow’s Story, lauding its blazing honesty and raw emotion, ca...

A powerful, often funny, always inspiring memoir from a beloved comedian, professional orator, actor, entertainer, gone all too soon.Candy Palmater loved to...

Describes The Life Of The Kennedy Family Matriarch Using Information Culled From Her Newly-made-public Diaries And Letters From Defying Her Father's Wishes ...

From One Of The World’s Most Renowned Cave Divers, A Firsthand Account Of Exploring The Earth’s Final Frontier: The Hidden Depths Of Our Oceans And The ...

Despite All The Gossip, The Larger-than-life Personality And Influence Of This Very Human Woman Has Never Been Captured. Biographer Mann Uses Untapped Sourc...

She lost her arm in a shark attack and nearly died, but she never lost her faith. Now a major motion picture, Soul Surfer is the moving story of Bethany Ha...

This Way Up: Old Friends, New Love, and a Map for the Road AheadCategories: Politics & Social Sciences SociologyReference

An Outspoken, Christian Reproductive Justice Advocate And Abortion Provider--one Of The Few Doctors To Provide Such Services To Women In Mississippi And Ala...

Hey you guys, it's Leslie. I'm excited to share my story with you. Now, I'm gonna be honest: Some of the details might be vague because a b*tch is fifty-fi...

A Kyoto Geisha Describes Her Initiation Into An Okiya At The Age Of Four, The Intricate Training That Made Up Most Of Her Education, Her Successful Career, ...

i Was Sitting On The Kitchen Floor, Heaving In Sobs, And All I Could Think Was: 'this Can't Possibly Be Me.' In A Candid Account, Marie Osmond, Beloved Ac...

A true story of food, Paris, and the fulfillment of a lifelong dream. Publishers Weekly When the author, an American journalist and software executive wo...

The stirring true story of a girl who survived the brutality of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia retraces her steps from the forced "evacuation" of Phnom Penh in...

Joseph Boyden.Categories: Literature & Fiction World LiteratureCanadian

Taking its place next to Breakfast at Tiffany's and In Cold Blood on the Modern Library bookshelf is this new and original edition of Capote's most famous...

What is it like to be old? Diana Athill made her reputation as a writer with the candour of her memoirs - her commitment, in her words, 'to understand, to b...

Breaking night: (Urban slang) staying up through the night, until the sun rises Breaking Night is the stunning memoir of a young woman who at age fifteen w...

A remarkable history with elements of both In the President’s Secret Service and The Butler, The Residence offers an intimate account of the service staf...

Winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Biography An extraordinarily frank, honest, and generous book by one of America's most famous and admired women, Per...

At 18, Carolyn Jessop Was Coerced Into An Arranged Marriage With A Total Stranger, 32 Years Her Senior, Who Already Had Three Wives. Arranged Plural Marriag...

A trenchant memoir of a troubled American childhood from the child's point of view describes growing up in an East Texas refinery town, life in the midst of...

With This Second Memoir, Home Work: A Memoir Of My Hollywood Years, Andrews Picks Up The Story With Her Arrival In Hollywood And Her Phenomenal Rise To Fame...

Now the FX limited series Fosse/Verdon starring Sam Rockwell and Michelle Williams with Lin-Manuel Miranda executive producing. “Wasson is a smart and s...

A New York Times Bestseller An Unlikely Political Star Tells The Inspiring Story Of The Two-decade Journey That Taught Her How Washington Really Works—and...

Janis Ian was catapulted into the spotlight in 1966 at the age of fifteen, when her soul-wrenching song "Society's Child" became a hit. An intimate portra...

The Author Reveals How She Has Developed Her Paranormal Abilities And Used Them To Investigate Hauntings And Aid Police In Solving Crimes. Sylvia Browne And...

In Foley Is Good, Mick Foley — former Commissioner of the World Wrestling Federation, aka Cactus Jack, Dude Love, and Mankind — picks up right where his s...

It's 3 A.m. And Elizabeth Gilbert Is Sobbing On The Bathroom Floor. She's In Her Thirties, She Has A Husband, A House, They're Trying For A Baby - And She D...

Mit Psychologist And Bestselling Author Of Reclaiming Conversation And Alone Together, Sherry Turkle's Intimate Memoir Of Love And Work In This Vivid And Po...

Admired and beloved by movie audiences for over sixty years, four-time Academy Award-winner Katharine Hepburn is an American classic. Now Miss Hepburn brea...

Prof. Nafisi Resigned From Her Job As Professor Of English Literature At A University In Tehran In 1995 Due To Repressive Government Policies. For The Next ...

Whether chugging up the Congo on a paddle-wheel steamboat, rubbing elbows with pygmy chiefs (or wealthy colonial neighbors), being pursued through the dark...

A James Beard Award-winning writer captures life under the Red socialist banner in this wildly inventive, tragicomic memoir of feasts, famines, and three ge...

INSTANT #1 TORONTO STAR and GLOBE AND MAIL BESTSELLERSophie Grégoire Trudeau invites readers on a deeply personal journey toward self-knowledge, acceptance...

MC YOGI’s remarkable story of transformation through yoga and music. Before he was one of the most well-known yoga teachers in North America and an inter...

This updated paperback edition of Gloria Steinem's classic bestseller -- called "the ultimate self-help book" by the Los Angeles Times -- features a new Pre...

when It Was Published In 1995, Mary Karr's the Liars' Club Took The World By Storm And Raised The Art Of The Memoir To An Entirely New Level, As Well As B...

The Tattoo Chronicles is an illustrated diary that offers an intimate look at a crucial year in the personal and professional life of Kat Von D, the chari...

Now a major motion picture from Clint Eastwood, starring Tom Hanks—the inspirational autobiography by one of the most captivating American heroes of our ...

An Affecting Memoir From The Country's Youngest Sommelier, Tracing Her Path Through The Glamorous But Famously Toxic Restaurant World At Just Twenty-one, Th...