It Changed My Life
A classic of modern feminism--brings back years of struggle for those who were there, and recreates the past for the readers of today who were not yet born during these struggles for the opportunities and respect to which women can now feel entitled.
--Betty Friedan

Strange Fruit:  Billie Holliday
Margolick's careful reconstruction of the story behind the song includes a discography of "Strange Fruit" recordings as well as newly uncovered photographs.
--David Margolick

Maria Tallchief: prima ballerina
Tallchief's memoir is the story of the rigors and pleasures of a dancer's life--an artist's rapid rise to fame that began on an Indian reservation in Oklahoma.
--Maria Tallchief & Larry Kaplan

A Kind of Grace
Memoir of "the best female athlete ever" - winner of 6 Olympic medals, the current world-record holder in the heptathlon; one-time world-record holder in the long jump; and an All-America basketball player.
--Jackie Joyner-Kersee & Sonja Steptoe

Rachel Carson: witness for nature
Rachel Carson, already a famous nature writer, became a reluctant reformer. Lear provides a compelling portrait of the determined woman behind the publicity shy but brilliant scientist and writer.
--Linda Lear

Obsessive Genius: the inner world of Marie Curie
Draws on diaries, letters, and family interviews to discuss the lesser-known achievements and scientific insights of the Nobel Prize-winning scientist, documenting how she was compromised by the prejudices of a male-dominated society.
--Barbara Goldsmith

The Thorny Rose of Texas: Ann Richards
This is the first full-scale biography of Governor Ann Richards of Texas, a charismatic, sharp-tongued political phenomenon on a national scale.
--Mike Shropshire & Frank Schaefer

The Diary of Frida Kahlo
Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) remains a compelling force in the art world. This facsimile of her remarkable diary reveals the passion and enormous strength of the last ten years of her anguished life.

My Invented Country     Mi País Inventado
The author explores the role of memory and nostalgia in shaping her books and her life from childhood and through the millitary coup in Chile which claimed the life of her uncle in 1973 and sent her into exile.
--Isabel Allende

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
Looks at the creation of Aretha Franklin's first hit album and sets her music against a background of the feminist and civil rights movements of the late 1960s.
--Aretha Franklin

Dear Mrs. Parks
Correspondence between Rosa Parks and various children in which the "Mother of the Modern Day Civil Rights Movement" answers questions and encourages young people to reach their highest potential.
--Rosa Parks & Gregory J. Reed

Speaking Truth to Power
More than seven years after her astonishing testimony in the Clarence Thomas hearings, Anita Hill reflects on the hearings and sheds new light on this event.
--Anita Hill

Failure Is Impossible
Juxtaposed with contemporary reports and biographical essays, the words of this legendary suffragist reveal Susan B. Anthony as a loyal, caring friend, and an eloquent, humorous crusader.
--Lynn Sherr

Fanny Brice: the original funny girl
Illuminates the life of the woman who inspired the spectacularly successful Broadway show and movie Funny Girl, the vehicle that catapulted Barbra Streisand to super stardom.
--Herbert Goldman