Women

In Paris for a weekend visit, Elizabeth Bard sat down to lunch with a handsome Frenchman—and never went home again. Was it love at first sight? Or was it...

Julie Powell thought cooking her way through Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking was the craziest thing she'd ever do—until she embarked on ...

One of the most popular television and cultural icons ever, Regis Philbin has been entertaining television audiences for more than fifty years—as a belove...

One accident. Two victims. Three deaths. A moving account of grief and its aftermath. In the fall of 2009, Catherine Gourdier and the other members of her...

In A Landmark Book, An Extraordinary Young Woman Recounts Her Coming-of-age As A Transgender Teen--a Deeply Personal And Empowering Portrait Of Self-revelat...

Magda Szubanski's Childhood In A Suburban Migrant Family Was Haunted By The Demons Of Her Father's Life In Wartime Poland. At Nineteen, Fighting In The Wars...

What happens when a coffee-drinking, cigarette-smoking, steak-eating twenty-five-year-old atheist decides it is time to get in touch with her spiritual side...

Former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada Beverley McLachlin offers an intimate and revealing look at her life, from her childhood in the Alberta...

Acknowledgements: A Cultural Memoir And Other Essays Is A Collection Of Previously Unpublished Writing By National Post Columnist Barbara Kay. This Wide-ran...

“[A] tale of power, perseverance and passion . . . a great story in the hands of a master storyteller.”—The Wall Street Journal The Pulitzer Priz...

The Popular Comedian Traces Her Youth In Atlanta's Most Troubled Neighborhood At The Height Of The Crack Epidemic, Discussing Her Experiences With Petty Cri...

I spent my 11th wedding anniversary planning my husband's funeral. If I could just figure out how to make that rhyme, it would be the beginning of a great ...

Winner, New Brunswick Book Award (Non-Fiction) and APMA Best Atlantic-Published Book AwardMary Pratt’s art has captivated millions of Canadians. Her lumin...

An intimate look at the life and music of modern pop’s most legendary figure, Taylor Swift, from leading music journalist Rob Sheffield.A cultural phenome...

One of Wall Street Journal's Ten Best Books of the Year * Winner of the National Jewish Book Awards for Holocaust Memoir and Sephardic Culture * Recipient o...

A Warm, Hilarious Collection Of Stories And Reflections On Motherhood From The #1 New York Times Bestselling Author, Photographer, Businesswoman, And Star O...

“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,...

Beloved, profoundly moving account of the author's marriage, the couple's search for faith and friendship with C. S. Lewis, and a spiritual strength that s...

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...

"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...