Biography & autobiography / Women

Love Isn't Supposed to Hurt

by Christi Paul & Sanjay Gupta

Like millions of other women, CNN's Headline News and truTV's In Session anchor Christi Paul blamed herself for the emotional abuse heaped on her by her first husband, whose violent, profanity-laced tirades...

Confessions of a Hostie: True Stories of an International Flight Attendant

by Danielle Hugh

If you have ever wondered what it would be like to be a jet-setting hostie, or international flight attendant, then spending a little time in Danielle's life is a captivating journey. You might be surprised...

Running of the Bride: My Frenzied Quest to Tie the Knot, Tear Up the Dance Floor, and Figure Out Why My 15 Minutes of Fame

by Rachel Eddey

My frenzied quest to tie the knot, tear up the dance floor, and figure out why my 15 minutes of fame included commercial breaks.

Whatever Is Contained Must Be Released: My Jewish Orthodox Girlhood, My Life as a Feminist Artist

by Helene Aylon

Up from orthodoxy into the art world’s creative chaos—a feminist artist’s whimsical memoir of heady times.

Antonia and Her Daughters

by Marlena de de Blasi

Seeking some peace and quiet from renovations at via Del Duomo, Marlena de Blasi escapes to the mountains of Tuscany where she meets the extraordinary Antonia, imperious matriach of four generations of strong-willed...

Kiskadee Girl

by Maggie Harris

Powerful forces surge through British Guiana as it transforms into independent Guyana, South American forest a bare step away from the towns. Old World chilly proprieties smack against everything the New World...

A Fine Brother: The Life of Captain Flora Sandes

by Louise Miller

A fascinating character of her times and an inspiration to women the world over, Flora Sandes is brought to life and restored to her rightful place in history by this authorized biography, compiled with the...

Growing Up in Italy in a Time of War

by Gioietta Vitale

The wonderful reality is that there is no escape. It is our maturity which keeps us linked to our past like prisoners. Sometimes we tend not to remember, and we lock up our memories in the most remote place...

Growing Up in Italy in a Time of War

by Gioietta Vitale

The wonderful reality is that there is no escape. It is our maturity which keeps us linked to our past like prisoners. Sometimes we tend not to remember, and we lock up our memories in the most remote place...

My Extraordinary Ordinary Life

by Sissy Spacek & Maryanne Vollers

In her delightful and moving memoir, Sissy Spacek writes about her idyllic, barefoot childhood in a small East Texas town, with the clarity and wisdom that comes from never losing sight of her roots. Descended...

Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake

by Anna Quindlen

INCLUDING AN EXCLUSIVE CONVERSATION BETWEEN MERYL STREEP AND ANNA QUINDLEN

“[Quindlen] serves up generous portions of her wise, commonsensical, irresistibly quotable take on life. . . . What Nora Ephron does...

In My Father's Country: An Afghan Woman Defies Her Fate

by Saima Wahab

Born in Kabul, Afghanistan, at age three Saima Wahab watched while her father was arrested and taken from their home by the KGB.  She would never see him again. When she was fifteen an uncle who lived in Portland,...

Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found

by Jennifer Lauck

With the startling emotional immediacy of a fractured family photo album, Jennifer Lauck's incandescent memoir is the story of an ordinary girl growing up at the turn of the 1970s and the truly extraordinary...

How Great Women Lead: A Mother-Daughter Adventure into the Lives of Women Shaping the World

by Bonnie St. John & Darcy Deane

In boardrooms and lecture halls, on the field and at home, strong female leaders are making a statement around the globe. In HOW GREAT WOMEN LEAD Bonnie St. John and her teenage daughter, Darcy Deane, explore...

Shattered Dreams

by Matilda Kauffman

Matilda grew up Amish in western Maryland. She was married in the Amish church. But after six good years of marriage, something began to go wrong. This is the heart rending story of one woman's walk that is...

Never Say Never: Finding a Life That Fits

by Ricki Lake

The world first met Ricki Lake in 1988 as Tracy Turnblad in the film Hairspray. Weighing in at just over 200 pounds, the 5'3" teenager challenged what it meant to be an overweight woman in America: this fat...

Against Wind and Tide: Letters and Journals, 1947-1986

by Anne Morrow Lindbergh & Reeve Lindbergh

Why, as an eager and talented writer, has Anne Morrow Lindbergh published so relatively little in forty years of marriage?” asked reviewer John Barkham in 1970. “After a promising start with those first...

Anything We Love Can Be Saved

by Alice Walker

In Anything We Love Can Be Saved, Alice Walker writes about her life as an activist, in a book rich in the belief that the world is saveable, if only we will act. Speaking from her heart on a wide range of topics--religion...

Encore Performance (with embedded videos): How One Woman's Passion Helped a Town Tap Into Happiness

by Vicki G Riordan

The inspiring true story of a woman who learned that it’s never too late to live the life you want

As a young girl growing up in the 1950s in central Pennsylvania, Vicki Grubic Riordan idolized stars like...

No Ordinary Life: The Biography of Elizabeth J. McCormack

by Charles Kenney

A biography of Elizabeth McCormack, regarded by many as the very soul of philanthropy whose unstinting practical advice and compassion have helped to inform the distribution of hundreds of millions of dollars...