From the New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Radium Girls comes another dark and dramatic but ultimately uplifting tale of a forgotten woman whose inspirational journey sparked lasting change for...
Biographies and autobiographies
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Author:Moore, KateSummary: - Author:Moore, KateSummary:
Committed to an insane asylum in 1860 to keep her in line, Elizabeth Packard refused to be silenced and challenged the medical science of the day.
- Author:Kingston, Maxine HongSummary:
- Author:Price, JillSummary:
Jill Price cannot forget anything. Ask her what she had for breakfast on any given day in 1970, and she'll tell you. She'll even tell you the major news events for that day. In this astonishing memoir, she shares what it's like to...
- Author:Arrowsmith-Young, BarbaraSummary:
Barbara Arrowsmith-Young was born with severe learning disabilities that caused teachers to label her slow, stubborn-or worse. As a child, she read and wrote everything backward, struggled to process concepts in language, continually...
- Author:Herwig, MalteSummary:
Pablo Picasso called Françoise Gilot “The Woman Who Says No.” Tiny, talented, and feisty, and an accomplished artist in her own right, Gilot left Picasso after a ten-year relationship, the only woman to escape his intense attentions...
- Author:Fagone, JasonSummary:
The true story of the greatest codebreaking duo that ever lived, an American woman and her husband who invented the modern science of cryptology together and used it to confront the evils of their time, solving puzzles that unmasked...
- Author:Walters, EvelynSummary:
Ten women artists, counterparts of the Group of Seven, are finally being given their due. Long overlooked by critics and historians, they are today amongst the most sought-after Canadian painters. The Beaver Hall Group ventured into a...
- Author:Bream, ShannonSummary:
The women of the Bible lived timeless stories--by examining them, we can understand what it means to be a woman of faith. People unfamiliar with Scripture often assume that women play a small, secondary role in the Bible. But in fact,...
- Author:Gregory, PhilippaSummary:
Gregory joins two eminent historians to explore the real-life characters behind her Wars of the Roses novels. Gregory and her team describe the extraordinary lives of the heroines of her Cousins' War series: Jacquetta, Duchess of...
- Author:Landdeck, Katherine SharpSummary:
The thrilling true story of the daring female aviators who helped the United States win World War II -- only to be forgotten by the country they served. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Cornelia Fort was already...
- Author:Wong, LindsaySummary:
In this jaw-dropping, darkly comedic memoir, a young woman comes of age in a dysfunctional Asian family whose members blamed their woes on ghosts and demons when in fact they should have been on anti-psychotic meds. Lindsay Wong grew up...
- Author:McMillan, AmberSummary:
"The Woods is the cure-all to Perfect Island Getaway nostalgia. It's a story of everyday domestic survival, peopled by both loveable eccentrics and possibly murdersome cranks, foregrounding the little-known history of violence...
- Author:Lawrence, KenSummary:
Bill O'Reilly, FOX News commentator and host of the political talk show The O'Reilly Factor, is known for expressing his opinions. Is he "fair and balanced" or unabashedly partisan? In The World According to Bill O...
- Author:Szabo, Gyorgyi, Lemyre, CarlSummary:
Author Gyorgyi Szabo was Ervin Laszlo’s Personal Assistant for many years and travelled around the globe with him on numerous occasions. A highly accomplished Hungarian-born world citizen herself, Gyorgyi participated in the lectures...
- Author:Lawrence, KenSummary:
In all of his books Michael Moore has proven to be outspoken and outrageous. This compilation of quotes from interviews and a variety of other sources presents Moore's views on everything from politics to filmmaking and the state of...
- Author:Lawrence, KenSummary:
Oprah Winfrey rose out of hardship and incredible poverty to become one of the most recognized and well-respected people in the world. In The World According to Oprah, Ken Lawrence captures this amazing woman in her own words, as she...
- Author:McDowell, MartaSummary:
A must-read companion to the Little House books The universal appeal of Laura Ingalls Wilde's books springs from a life lived in partnership with the land, on farms she and her family settled across the Northeast and Midwest. In...
- Author:Hanagarne, JoshuaSummary:
At first glance, Josh Hanagarne seems an improbable librarian. He stands 6'7", competes in strongman contests, and was diagnosed in high school with Tourette's syndrome. But books are his first love. Everything in Josh's life--from his...
- Author:Rowe, BillSummary:
Part memoir, part history, The Worst and Best of the Premiers and Some We Never Had is Bill Rowe’s most ambitious work of non-fiction to date. The book observes with a critical and humorous eye the landscape of Newfoundland and...
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