Biography & autobiography / Women

Margaret Thatcher: From Grantham to the Falklands

von Charles Moore

With unequaled authority and dramatic detail, the first volume of Charles Moore’s authorized biography of Margaret Thatcher reveals as never before the early life, rise to power, and first years as prime minister...

Riding Barranca: Finding Freedom and Forgiveness on the Midlife Trail

von Laura Chester

In this one-year journal, a skilled horsewoman and adventurer takes her horse, Barranca, on a fleeting journey across the country—from the borderland of Arizona to the Berkshires of Massachusetts. When offered...

Mud, Sweat & Gears: Cycling from Land's End to John O'Groats (Via the Pub)

von Ellie Bennett

The tale of a scenic cycling trip—including an index of the 50 finest beers tasted on the trip

"One more wouldn't hurt," said Mick. I looked at him doubtfully. "I'm not sure. It's gone three o'clock already....

Waiting to Be Heard

von Amanda Knox

In November 2007, Amanda Knox was twenty years old and had been studying abroad in Perugia, Italy, for only a few weeks when her friend and roommate, a young English student named Meredith Kercher, was brutally...

The New Rules for Blondes

von Selena Coppock

Writer, comedienne, and full-time Blonde, Selena Coppock offers up adventures, misadventures, and golden-hued nuggets of wisdom in a laugh-out-loud anthem for those of us who really do have more fun. . . .

The...

Learning to Play with a Lion's Testicles: Unexpected Gifts from the Animals of Africa

von Melissa Haynes

Melissa visits Africa for animal conservation, but a cast of unlikely characters teaches her about grief, fear, and ultimately life.

Jane's Window: My Spirited Life in West Texas and Austin

von Jim Comer, Jane Dunn Sibley & James L. Haley

On the southern portion of what was known as the Sibley’s Pezuna del Caballo (Horse’s Hoof) Ranch in West Texas’ Culberson County are two mountains that nearly meet, forming a gap that frames a salt flat...

Tomboy Bride: A Woman's Personal Account of Life in Mining Camps of the West

von Harriet Backus

A true pioneer of the West, Harriet Backus writes about her amusing and often challenging experiences with heart felt emotion and vivid detail. New foreword by Pam Houston and afterword by author's grandson...

Keeping Hope Alive: One Woman--90,000 Lives Changed

von Hawa Abdi & Sarah J. Robbins

The moving memoir of one brave woman who, along with her daughters, has kept 90,000 of her fellow citizens safe, healthy, and educated for over 20 years in Somalia.

Dr. Hawa Abdi, "the Mother Teresa of Somalia"...

Gifts of Gratitude: The Joyful Adventures of a Life Well Lived

von Elizabeth Gaylynn Baker

Elizabeth Baker celebrates life: yours and hers, with this collection of deeply stirring stories. Within the covers of Gifts of Gratitude - The Joyful Adventures of a Life Well Lived, She narrates a series of...

Breaking Through My Limits: An Olympian Uncovered

von Alexandra Orlando

Alexandra Orlando is an Olympic athlete who dedicated seventeen years of her life to the sport of rhythmic gymnastics, winning almost two hundred medals. Despite injury, she competed at the Beijing Olympic Games...

Mary Astell: Reason, Gender, Faith

von William Kolbrener & Michal Michelson

Mary Astell: Reason, Gender, Faith includes essays from a variety of disciplinary perspectives to consider the full range of Astell's political, theological, philosophical, and poetic writings. The volume's...

Crossing Stars

von Peggy Wolff Lewis

When Phillip Creighton faces his diagnosis of cancer alone, he thinks back on his humble beginnings and painful love affairs. Moving from 1930’s Wyoming, through 1950’s Spain and Kenya, to modern Texas and...

Still Points North: One Alaskan Childhood, One Grown-up World, One Long Journey Home

von Leigh Newman

Part adventure story, part love story, part homecoming, Still Points North is a page-turning memoir that explores the extremes of belonging and exile, and the difference between how to survive and knowing how...

The Baroness: The Search for Nica, the Rebellious Rothschild

von Hannah Rothschild

Beautiful, romantic and spirited, Pannonica, known as Nica, named after her father’s favorite moth, was born in 1913 to extraordinary, eccentric privilege and a storied history. The Rothschild family had,...

Debutantes and the London Season

von Lucinda Gosling

Until the middle of the last century, the dominant feature of London's social calendar was 'the Season', and central to this was the phenomenon of the debutante. As the privileged classes descended on the capital...

Until I Say Good-Bye

von Susan Spencer-Wendel & Bret Witter

In June 2011, Susan Spencer-Wendel learned she had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)—Lou Gehrig's disease—an irreversible condition that systematically destroys the nerves that power the muscles. She was...

Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

von Sheryl Sandberg

Thirty years after women became 50 percent of the college graduates in the United States, men still hold the vast majority of leadership positions in government and industry. This means that women’s voices...

Cautious Rebel: A Biography of Susan Clay Smitzky

von Lindsey Apple

"Willa Cather wrote that 'the history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.' This is the story of the heart-and of the mind-and the conflicts within. It is the country's story. It is our...

My Mother's Wars

von Lillian Faderman

An acclaimed writer on her mother’s tumultuous life as a Jewish immigrant in 1930s New York and her life-long guilt when the Holocaust claims the family she left behind in Latvia

A story of love, war, and...