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Citizen 13660
$19.95 Add to cartMine Okubo was one of over one hundred thousand people of Japanese descent – nearly two-thirds of whom were American citizens – who were forced into “protective custody” shortly after Pearl Harbor. Ci
- Series: Classics of Asian American Literature
- Author: Okubo, Miné
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0295993545
- Language: English
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House of Psychotic Women: Expanded Edition: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films
$39.95 Add to cartHOUSE OF PSYCHOTIC WOMEN has attained canonical status, having ushered in a new way of writing about film. Kier-La Janisse’s acclaimed book is an autobiographical exploration of female neurosis in hor… [more below]
- Author: Janisse, Kier-La
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 01 2024
- ISBN10: 191305134X
- Language: English
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Once Upon a School: A Story of Dreaming Big, Falling Hard, and Bouncing Back
$17.99 Add to cartWhat do you do when you see something you can’t ignore? That’s what happened to Kate Kennedy one day as she drove down the Courtland Street corridor in Atlanta, Georgia. After that day, she could not
- Author: Kennedy, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 9798989970803
- Language: English
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Health and Safety: A Breakdown
$27.00 Add to cartFrom the New Yorker staff writer and acclaimed author of Future Sex (“introspective and breathtakingly honest”–New York Times Book Review), a memoir about drugs, techno, and New York City
In the summ- Author: Witt, Emily
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 0593317645
- Language: English
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Falling Leaves: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter
$19.00 Read moreThe emotionally wrenching yet ultimately uplifting memoir of a Chinese woman struggling to win the love and acceptance of her family.
Born in 1937 in a port city a thousand miles north of Shanghai, Ad- Author: Mah, Adeline Yen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 06 1999
- ISBN10: 0767903579
- Language: English
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Masai Story: My Fight for Love and the Future of Indigenous People
$22.95 Read moreA German environmentalist decides to love a Maasai – and to live in one of the most patriarchal cultures in the world. On a research trip to Africa, biologist Stephanie Fuchs meets Sokoine, a traditio… [more below]
- Author: Fuchs, Stephanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: June 28 2024
- ISBN10: 1955047650
- Language: English
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Venus and Aphrodite: A Biography of Desire
$18.99 Add to cartA “lively, wide-ranging” (TheTimes, UK)cultural history of the goddess of love
Aphrodite was said to have been born from the sea, rising out of a froth of white foam. But long before the ancient Gree- Author: Hughes, Bettany
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 1541606043
- Language: English
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Accidental Activist
$19.95 Add to cartMary Allen Jolley served as legislative assistant to Congressman Carl Elliott, D-AL, helping draft the National Defense Education Act of 1958. She later
accepted an appointment by President Kennedy to
- Author: Jolley, Mary Allen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: June 28 2024
- ISBN10: 1604893818
- Language: English
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Half a Life: Half a Life: A Memoir
$17.00 Add to cartBy turns comic, tragic, and heartrending, “Half a Life” is a bold, unsentimental portrait of the artist as a girl from nowhere, making herself up from scratch, acting up, and finally overcoming the co… [more below]
- Author: Ciment, Jill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 18 1997
- ISBN10: 0385488912
- Language: English
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The Dragon from Chicago: The Untold Story of an American Reporter in Nazi Germany
$29.95 Add to cartFor fans of unheralded women’s stories, a captivating look at Sigrid Schultz–one of the earliest reporters to warn Americans of the rising threat of the Nazi regime
“No other American correspondent- Author: Toler, Pamela D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0807063061
- Language: English
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Three Years on the Great Mountain: A Memoir of Zen and Fearlessness
$24.95 Read moreAn invigorating memoir about a young woman pushed to her limits at a Zen monastery in Hawai’i, where she learns that the key to unlocking the ultimate breakthrough is igniting her fighting spirit.
At- Author: Moon, Cristina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 1645472825
- Language: English
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Eventually Everything Connects: Eight Essays on Uncertainty
$21.95 Add to cartJoyous musings on the meaningful and the mundane for troubled times.
In her debut graphic novel, Sarah Firth ponders some of life’s deepest philosophical questions: Why are we here? How are we suppos
- Author: Firth, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1637790686
- Language: English
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Riding Like the Wind: The Life of Sanora Babb
$27.95 Add to cartThis saga of a writer done dirty resurrects the silenced voice of Sanora Babb, peerless author of midcentury American literature.
In 1939, when John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath was published, it- Author: Dunkle, Iris Jamahl
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 0520395441
- Language: English
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Directions to Myself: A Memoir of Four Years
$27.00 Read moreNew York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice – A sharply observed memoir of motherhood and the self, and a love letter to Maine, by a writer Eula Biss calls “witty, sly, critical, inventive” and whose m… [more below]
- Author: Julavits, Heidi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0451498518
- Language: English
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Slow Cooked: An Unexpected Life in Food Politics Volume 78
$37.43 Add to cart“A chronicle of hard work and a public health resource, Slow Cooked is also proof that it’s never too late.”—New York Times
Marion Nestle reflects on her late-in-life career as a world-renowne- Series: California Studies in Food and Culture
- Author: Nestle, Marion
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 294
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 520384156
- Language: English
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Everybody (Else) Is Perfect: How I Survived Hypocrisy, Beauty, Clicks, and Likes
$17.00 Add to cartFrom the former editor-in-chief of Nylon comes a provocative and intimate collection of personal and cultural essays featuring eye-opening explorations of hot button topics for modern women, including… [more below]
- Author: Korn, Gabrielle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1982127767
- Language: English
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Saint Everywhere: Travels in Search of the Lady Saints
$11.99 Add to cartA PEOPLE Pick – PEOPLE Magazine
A SCIBA Award Finalist
Traveling with-and learning from-the women saints
While visiting Siena, Italy, Mary Lea Carroll grew fascinated with the remarkable story of St. Cat
- Author: Carroll, Mary Lea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 06 2021
- ISBN10: 1684428386
- Language: English
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Valerie Solanas: The Defiant Life of the Woman Who Wrote Scum (and Shot Andy Warhol)
$22.95 Add to cartThe electrifying story of the woman who wrote SCUM Manifesto and shot Andy Warhol.
- Author: Fahs, Breanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 22 2014
- ISBN10: 1558618481
- Language: English
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What I Know about the Old Ways: The Life and Wisdom of a Flathead Indian Reservation Elder
$14.95 Read moreAgnes Vanderburg was a widely respected Salish elder on the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana. She was born at the dawn of the twentieth century when horses provided transport. Her elders… [more below]
- Author: Vanderburg, Agnes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: December 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1934594326
- Language: English
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Slow Motion: A Memoir of a Life Rescued by Tragedy
$17.99 Add to cart“Chilling. . . . There is a gritty honesty to her cautionary confession that will alert others to listen for and respond to wake-up calls of their own.” — New York Times Book Review
Slow Motion is the
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Shapiro, Dani
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 26 2010
- ISBN10: 0061826693
- Language: English
