The award-winning author of In the Shadow of Polio draws on research in the fields of psychology, social science, biology, and anthropology, as well as the experiences of ordinary women from across the country, to explore the reasons why some people are able to overcome their troubled childhoods to [...]
Traces the story of Mary Clarke, describing her choice to leave her comfortable home for a spiritual life among drug lords and inmates in one of Mexico's most notorious jails, where she organized the Servants of the Eleventh Hour community of sisters and led numerous criminals through profound spiri[...]
"Mother Courage and Her Children" is a classic in the repertory of Western theater. Written in response to the outbreak of World War II, this "chronicle play" of the Thirty Years War follows one of Brecht's most enduring characters, Courage, as she trails the armies across Europe, selling provisions[...]
A television producer and illegitimate daughter of a white mother and abusive black father describes the complicated factors that caused her mother to place her in the custody of an African-American family at the age of four, her identity struggles throughout the civil rights period, and the difficu[...]
A chilling, compulsively readable novel of psychological suspense from the author of "The Dead Lie Down" and "The Other Woman's House"
Sally Thorning is watching the news with her husband one night when she hears an unexpected name--Mark Bretherick. It's a name she shouldn't know, but last year[...]
The New York Times bestselling memoir of pilgrimage and metamorphosis by the author of "The Secret Life of Bees" and her daughter.
Sue Monk Kidd has touched the hearts of millions of readers with her beloved novels and acclaimed nonfiction. Now, in this wise and engrossing dual memoir, she and [...]
E]ntertaining, bracingly honest and, yes, thought-provoking. The New York Times Book Review
At once provocative and laugh-out-loud funny, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother ignited a global parenting debate with its story of one mother s journey in strict parenting. Amy Chua argues thatWestern pa[...]
The masterly novellas that established Ludmilla Petrushevskaya as one of the greatest living Russian writers--including a new translation of the modern classic "The Time Is Night"
"Love them, - they'll torture you; don't love them, -they'll leave you anyway."
After her work was suppressed [...]
Now a major motion picture starring Judi Dench: the heartbreaking true story of an Irishwoman and the secret she kept for 50 years
When she became pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena Lee was sent to a convent to be looked after as a "fallen woman." Then the nuns took her baby f[...]
A supportive guide that gives busy moms permission to care for themselves, from a popular parenting blogger with one million Facebook followers "Would you rather have a perfect mom, or a happy one?" This is the question that popular parenting blogger Rebecca Eanes couldn't get out of her head. So sh[...]
A chilling, compulsively readable novel of psychological suspense from the author of Little Face and The CarrierSally Thorning is watching the news with her husband when she hears a name she never thought she'd hear again: Mark Bretherick.
It's a name she shouldn't recognize. Last year, a work t[...]
On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold walked into Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. Over the course of minutes, they would kill twelve students and a teacher and wound twenty-four others before taking their own lives.
For the last sixteen years, Sue Klebold, Dylan s mothe[...]
The Hunter, the Stag, and the Mother of Animals offers an in-depth exploration of the changing traditions of belief in pre-Bronze and Bronze Age North Asia. Esther Jacobson-Tepfer centers her argument on a female deity and her evolution up until the early Iron Age, across a 2,000 year period. Throug[...]
When most Americans think of environmentalism, they think of the political left, of vegans dressed in organic-hemp fabric, lofting protest signs. In reality, writes Jacob Darwin Hamblin, the movement-and its dire predictions-owe more to the Pentagon than the counterculture. In Arming Mother Nature,[...]
Religion is often denounced as one of the tools used by patriarchal societies to maintain the status quo, and especially to persuade women to accept subordinate roles. This does not explain, however, the existence of many religious groups in which women are both leaders and the majority of participa[...]