Seal Press imprint: 263 books
by Tamara Duricka Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
On the eve of her 31st birthday, after yet another painful breakup, Tamara Duricka Johnson decides it’s time to overhaul her dating habits. When a friend jokingly suggests that she embark on a dating project,” inspiration strikes: in honor of turning 31, she'll go on 31 dates in 31 days - and...
Hot & Heavy
Fierce Fat Girls on Life, Love & Fashion
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
In this fun, fresh, fat-positive anthology, fat activist and sex educator Virgie Tovar brings together voices from an often-marginalized community to talk about and celebrate their lives. Hot & Heavy rejects the idea that being thin is best, instead embracing the many fabulous aspects of being...
Better Than I Ever Expected
Straight Talk About Sex After Sixty
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2009
Better Than I Ever Expected is a warm, witty, and honest book that contends with the challenges and celebrates the delights of older-life sexuality. It asserts that women over sixty are at the top of their game when it comes to enjoying sex.
Joan Price’s woman-to-woman straight talk transcends the...
Why We Ride
Women Writers on the Horses in Their Lives
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
Women and their horses - a symbiotic relationship based on trust, camaraderie, friendship, and love. In Why We Ride, Verna Dreisbach collects the stories of women who ride, sharing their personal emotions and accounts of the most important animals in their lives.
This collection of stories...
Word Warriors
35 Women Leaders in the Spoken Word Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2007
Female spoken word artists have become the spokeswomen for a new generation. This demanding oral poetry of the early 21st century has defined a vanguard of lithely muscled voices; women who think and act decisively to create their distinctive and desperately earned realities. The combination of the...
Licking the Spoon
A Memoir of Food, Family, and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Recipes and cookbooks, meals and mouthfuls have framed the way Candace Walsh sees the world for as long as she can remember, from her frosting-spackled childhood to her meat-eschewing college years to her post-college phase as a devoted Martha Stewart's Entertaining disciple.
In Licking the...
Gorge
My Journey Up Kilimanjaro at 300 Pounds
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
The inspiring memoir of a plus-size woman who summited Kilimanjaro while overcoming fat prejudice and her own demons--"I was moved and inspired by every page of this beautiful book" (Cheryl Strayed)
Kara Richardson Whitely was determined to reach the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro. But...
Dancing at the Shame Prom
Sharing the Stories That Kept Us Small
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Shame is a powerful thing. It can weigh on your heart and mind, diminish your sense of self-worth, and impact the way you live in the world. But what happens when you share that secret burden?
Amy Ferris, Hollye Dexter, and the writers they brought together are all ready to let go of shame....
Girl in Need of a Tourniquet
Memoir of a Borderline Personality
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2010
An honest and compelling memoir, Girl in Need of a Tourniquet is Merri Lisa Johnson’s account of her borderline personality disorder and how it has affected her life and relationships. Johnson describes the feeling of "bleeding out" - unable to tell where she stopped and where her partner...
Screw Everyone
Sleeping My Way to Monogamy
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Screw Everyone is comedian Ophira Eisenberg’s wisecracking account of how she spent most of her life saying yes” to everything-and everyone-and how that attitude ultimately helped her overcome her phobia of commitment.
Skeptical about long-term relationships, Eisenberg approached dating...
Found
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Found is Jennifer Lauck's sequel to her New York Times bestseller Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found. More than one woman’s search for her biological parents, Found is a story of loss, adjustment, and survival. Lauck’s investigation into her own troubled past leads her to research that shows...
A Thousand Sisters
My Journey into the Worst Place on Earth to Be a Woman
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
Lisa J. Shannon had a good life—a successful business, a fiancé, a home, and security. Then, one day in 2005, an episode of Oprah changed all that. The show focused on women in Congo, the worst place on earth to be a woman. She was awakened to the atrocities there—millions dead, women raped and...
Tales from the Expat Harem
Foreign Women in Modern Turkey
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2009
As the Western world struggles to comprehend the paradoxes of modern Turkey, Tales from the Expat Harem reveals its most personal nuances. This illuminating anthology provides a window into the country from the perspective of thirty-two expatriates from seven different nations-artists, entrepreneurs,...
Ask Me About My Divorce
Women Open Up About Moving On
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2009
It’s time to get past the idea that divorce equals failure. Sure, it may not be what you had in mind when you walked down the aisle, but if it’s the escape hatch into a better life, it should be filled with more promise. It can be celebrated.
Ask Me About My Divorce is a spicy, fun, riveting...