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Meet 21 determined women who have dedicated their lives to healing others. In the 19th century, Florence Nightingale and Clara...

Drawing on family materials, historical records, and eyewitness accounts, this book shows the impact of war on individual women caught...

Spanning the impressive careers of five notable New Zealand women, this uncommon examination portrays the lives of Merimeri Penfold, Margaret...

This book is part of a series on historical female figures. It features Lucy Stone (1818 - 1893), the American...

The author of the New York Times bestselling The Six now turns her formidable biographical skills to the greatest crime...

How did she navigate the world of venture capitalists and investment bankers to engineer the sale of her company and...

Today, an entomologist in a laboratory can gaze at a butterfly pupa with a microscope so powerful that the swirling...

It’s 1985 in a small factory town near Pittsburgh. Eight-year-old Karen’s parents are lifelong workers at the Anchor Glass plant,...

On November 5, 1917, Taylorville, Illinois native Clara Taylor stepped off a Trans-Siberian Railway train into a city then called...

A fresh and sensitive examination of Eleanor Roosevelt—one of the most remarkable Americans in history—and the tortured father who would...

In 2009, Samieh Hezari made a terrible mistake. She flew from her adopted home of Ireland to her birthplace in...

Are you the world's biggest Beyoncé fan? Or do you want to find out everything there is to know about...

The story of Jewel Babb, from her early years as a tenderfoot ranch wife to her elder years as a...

Escape from Paradise is a current true adventure of a woman's escape from an arranged marriage. Set in Singapore,...

When Jill Allen-King OBE, suddenly lost her sight at the age of 24, with little help and advice available from...

This-can't-put-it-down coming of age memoir is dramatic-and-heart wrenching, as young Patsy Lou takes us on a journey through the Dust...

The autobiography of New Zealand's most significant writer Author: Frame, Janet Publisher: Counterpoint Illustration: n Language: ENG Title: An Angel at My ......

Kathleen B. Jones brings a scholar's insights and a lyrical voice to this philosophical memoir about her thirty-year fascination with...

The groundbreaking biography of one of the world's best-loved and bestselling authorsWho was the real Georgette Heyer?Georgette Heyer famously said,...

A charming and amusing view of Nin's early life, from age eleven to seventeen; the self-portrait of an innocent girl...