Basic Books: 1466 books
The Pirate Queen
In Search of Grace O'Malley and Other Legendary Women of the Sea
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
The Pirate Queen begins in Ireland with the infamous Grace O’Malley, a ruthless pirate and scourge to the most powerful fleets of sixteenth-century Europe. This Irish clan chieftain, sea captain, and pirate queen was a contemporary of Elizabeth I, a figure whose life is the stuff of myth. Regularly...
Purge
Rehab Diaries
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Purge is a beautifully crafted memoir that has a Girl, Interrupted feel. In this raw and engaging account of her months in rehab, Nicole Johns documents her stay in a residential treatment facility for eating disorders. Her prose is lucid and vivid, as she seamlessly switches verb tenses and moves...
Equally Wed
The Ultimate Guide to Planning Your LGBTQ+ Wedding
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
By and large, most wedding books in the market are still centered around one bride and one groom. And yet, the advent of full marriage equality in the United States has made a new, polished wedding planning book dedicated to guiding LGBTQ couples both timely and essential. Kirsten Palladino will fill...
I'm Not Really a Waitress
How One Woman Took Over the Beauty Industry One Color at a Time
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
Inspiring women to pursue their own colorful dreams, I'm Not Really a Waitress tells the story of how Suzi Weiss-Fischmann transformed a small dental supply company into a #1 beauty brand around the world
Today, OPI is known as a global beauty brand, famous for its trend-setting colors, unforgettable...
How Does That Make You Feel?
True Confessions from Both Sides of the Therapy Couch
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
How Does That Make You Feel? obliterates the boundaries between the shrink and the one being shrunk with unabashedly candid writers breaking confidentiality and telling all about their experiences in therapy.
This revelatory, no-punches-pulled book brings to light both sides of the relationship”...
Tech Boss Lady
How to Start-up, Disrupt, and Thrive as a Female Founder
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
The founder of Girls in Tech offers first-hand accounts of the realities of startup life, with the very best advice from top women entrepreneurs
You know startups are hard, but what is it like to fail, or have a falling out with your co-founder, or to go through hundreds of pitches in an effort...
Colonize This!
Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2019
Newly revised and updated, this landmark anthology offers gripping portraits of American life as seen through the eyes of young women of color
It has been decades since women of color first turned feminism upside down, exposing the feminist movement as exclusive, white, and unaware of the concerns...
Whipping Girl
A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
In the updated second edition of Whipping Girl, Julia Serano, a transsexual woman whose supremely intelligent writing reflects her background as a lesbian transgender activist and professional biologist, shares her powerful experiences and observations-both pre- and post-transition-to reveal the ways...
The CHAOS Cure
Clean Your House and Calm Your Soul in 15 Minutes
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2018
With the help of New York Times bestselling author and housekeeping guru Marla Cilley, you'll cure your household CHAOS (Can't Have Anyone Over Syndrome) by changing your messy home into a soothing sanctuary
Are you suffering from CHAOS, otherwise known as Can't Have Anyone Over Syndrome? If...
Feminism and Pop Culture
Seal Studies
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2008
Whether or not we like to admit it, pop culture is a lens through which we alternately view and shape the world around us. When it comes to feminism, pop culture aids us in translating feminist philosophies, issues, and concepts into everyday language, making them relevant and relatable. In Feminism...
by Ijeoma Oluo
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
In this New York Times bestseller, Ijeoma Oluo offers a hard-hitting but user-friendly examination of race in America
Widespread reporting on aspects of white supremacy--from police brutality to the mass incarceration of African Americans--have made it impossible to ignore the issue of race....
The Other Side of Paradise
Life in the New Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Change looms in Havana, Cuba's capital, a city electric with uncertainty yet cloaked in cliché, 90 miles from U.S. shores and off-limits to most Americans. Journalist Julia Cooke, who lived there at intervals over a period of five years, discovered a dynamic scene: baby-faced anarchists with Mohawks...
Goodbye to All That
Writers on Loving and Leaving New York
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
From Roxane Gay to Cheryl Strayed, 28 groundbreaking writers share their visceral, heart-bending stories about the everlasting magic-and unavoidable misery-of living in New York City
In 1967, Joan Didion wrote an essay called Goodbye to All That, a work of such candid and penetrating prose...
Shades of Blue
Writers on Depression, Suicide, and Feeling Blue
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
The silent epidemic of depression affects millions of people and takes dozens of lives everyday, while our culture grapples with a stigma against open discussion of mental health issues. Editor Amy Ferris has collected these stories to illuminate the truth behind that stigma and offer compassion,...