Biographie & Autobiographie / Femmes

Incidents In TheLife Of A Slave Girl - Illustrated & Annotated

de Harriet Ann Jacobs & Bob Carruthers

Harriet Ann Jacobs (February 11, 1813 - March 7, 1897) was an American writer, who escaped from the horrors of slavery and became an abolitionist speaker and reformer. Jacobs' single work, Incidents in the Life...

Clues to Christie

Harley Quin & Satterthwaite #6, Tommy &Tuppence #11, Mr. Parker Pyne #5, Superintendent Battle #7, Colonel Race #5

de Agatha Christie

Dying to read Agatha Christie for the first time or to re-read one of her classic mysteries but don’t know where to start? This fully authorized and comprehensive guide to the Queen of Mystery includes an...

Shattered Dreams

de 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...

Tenterfield: My Happy Childhood in Care

de Margaret Irvine

Margaret Irvine was the youngest of twelve children, and was taken into local council care aged 2. She was brought up in Tenterfield House, with 39 other children, and this is her story of her happy life there,...

A Treasury of Miracles for Women: True Stories of Gods Presence Today

de Karen Kingsbury

A collection of amazing and touching stories that celebrates women and shows that miracles are still possible.

Great Dames: What I Learned from Older Women

de Marie Brenner

"Fascinating, gossipy, entertaining. . . ."

— New York Times Book Review

They are ten outstanding women of the century. Each had an aura, including Thelma Brenner, the first great dame her daughter ever knew....

The Biography of Florence Nightingale

de Lytton Strachey

Florence Nightingale was a healer, a comforter, and a nurturer. But like all of us, she had a dark side. Because of her mystique and her charisma, she always got what she wanted. Seldom did anyone really know...

Many Blessings: A Tapestry of Accomplished Africian American Women

de Sonnee Weedn

Many Blessings: A Tapestry of Accomplished African American Women by Sonnee Weedn, Ph.D. Ten years ago, Marin County psychologist, Dr. Sonnee Weedn, was asked to treat a young, urban, African American woman....

Dolly Madison - Influential Women in History

de Anon.

This book is part of a series on historical female figures. It features Dolly Madison, wife of James Madison, and First Lady of the United States between 1809 and 1817. Many of the earliest books, particularly...

La Grande Therese: The Greatest Swindle of the Century

de S Hilary & Hilary Spurling

While writing her biography of Matisse, which won the Whitbread Biography and Book of the Year 2005, Hilary Spurling came across the scandal that nearly destroyed the French Third Republic. Reading like a novella,...

The Hallelujah Lass: A Story Based on the Life of Salvation Army Pioneer Eliza Shirley

de Wendy G. Lawton

A fascinating true-life story of 16-year-old Eliza Shirley, who traveled from England to the United States to pioneer the work of the Salvation Army.

Westchester Burning: Portrait of a Marriage

de Amine Wefali

Amine Wefali had four beautiful children and houses in Westchester, Nantucket, and Florida--but her marriage had become acrimonious. She had moved into the attic of her exclusive home in Westchester, a suburb...

The Net Result - Book 4

de Lucille Orr & John Rich

This final book in a series of four books; includes the success stories of business and professional women who won the title of "Telecom Australian Executive Woman of the Year" in its inaugural year as a national...

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

de 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...

Hello Life

de Kristen Marie

Hello Life is a hilarious memoir that reads like a juicy romance novel. You will laugh out loud as you follow Kristen Marie's outrageous and sometimes risqué adventures as she questions her religion and traditional...

Amazing Mothers - A Short eBook: Inspirational Stories

de Charles Margerison

The Amazing People Club® brings you a unique collection of eStories which demonstrate the strength of motherhood and the sacrifices that all mothers make; whether personal, political, or financial, to raise...

Hiding Places

de Deborah Elizabeth Merriman

Deborah Elizabeth was a precarious little girl who retreated to her hiding places where she found not only safety from abuse, but a place where her imaginations took her into her own world of happiness. Her...

Not Just Bonnets and Bustles; Victorian Women Travellers in Africa

de Eliza Bradley, Annie Hore & Helen Caddick

Victorian women travellers were not the docile creatures we imagine. Instead they were fearless women who ventured out when communication was a hand-carried letter, there were no telephones, no guidebooks and...

To Have Not

de Frances Lefkowitz

At the age of seven, Frances Lefkowitz began to realize other people had things that she did not and might never have. This was the moment when the world divided in two, between the Haves and the Have Nots....

This Child Will Be Great: Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa's First Woman President

de Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

In January 2006, after the Republic of Liberia had been racked by fourteen years of brutal civil conflict, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf—Africa's "Iron Lady"—was sworn in as president, an event that marked a tremendous...