Basic Books: 1466 books
The Dead Moms Club
A Memoir about Death, Grief, and Surviving the Mother of All Losses
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Kate Spencer lost her mom to cancer when she was 27. In The Dead Moms Club, she walks readers through her experience of stumbling through grief and loss, and helps them to get through it, too. This isn't a weepy, sentimental story, but rather a frank, up-front look at what it means to go through gruesome...
by Julie Scelfo
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Artists and intellects, builders and makers -- these are the women who made New York the most exciting and influential city in the world
Read any history of New York City and you will read about men. You will read about men who were political leaders and men who were activists and cultural...
by Dawn Dais
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
They’re getting bigger. And you’re not getting any more sleep.
Second in the Sh!t No One Tells You series, in The Sh!t No One Tells You About Toddlers Dawn Dais tells it like it is again offering real advice for parents of growing children. Filled with tips, encouragement, and a strong...
How to Stop Feeling Like Sh*t
14 Habits that Are Holding You Back from Happiness
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
For everyone who loved You Are a Badass and The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck--a cut-through-the-crap guide to quitting the self-destructive habits that undermine happiness and success
How to Stop Feeling Like Sh*t is a straight-shooting approach to self-improvement for women, one that offers...
Undecided
How to Ditch the Endless Quest for Perfect and Find the Career-and Life-That's Right for You
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
In a world of unprecedented opportunity-and pressure-women are struggling more than ever to make career decisions and move forward without second-guessing themselves. Young women graduate from college and believe they have to find the perfect path and then can’t decide which way to go. Undecided...
The New Better Off
Reinventing the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Are we living the good life-and what defines 'good', anyway? Americans today are constructing a completely different framework for success than their parents' generation, using new metrics that TEDWomen speaker and columnist Courtney Martin has termed collectively the "New Better Off". The...
The Quarter-Acre Farm
How I Kept the Patio, Lost the Lawn, and Fed My Family for a Year
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
When Spring Warren told her husband and two teenage boys that she wanted to grow 75 percent of all the food they consumed for one year-and that she wanted to do it in their yard-they told her she was crazy.
She did it anyway.
The Quarter-Acre Farm is Warren’s account of deciding-despite...
Fast Girl
Don't Brake Until You See the Face of God and Other Good Advice from the Racetrack
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
Life in Ingrid Steffensen’s New Jersey suburb was safe, comfortable, and predictable. A college professor, wife, and mother of a preadolescent daughter, her carefully cultivated world was comprised of the usual suspects: family, work, book clubs, yoga classes, and date nights. Then, one day-thinking...
My So-Called Freelance Life
How to Survive and Thrive as a Creative Professional for Hire
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2008
Tired of clocking in and losing out? Want to pursue creative, fulfilling work on your own time and also make a living in the process? My So-Called Freelance Life is a how-to guidebook for women who want to avoid the daily grind and turn their freelance dreams into reality. Michelle Goodman, author...
The Boss of You
Everything A Woman Needs to Know to Start, Run, and Maintain Her Own Business
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008
Female entrepreneurs are a growing force to be reckoned with. Each year, more and more women take the initiative and start their own business ventures-at twice the rate of men. Women continue to reshape the business world with innovative models, both large and small. So why is there a lack of clear-cut,...
The Anti 9 to 5 Guide
Practical Career Advice for Women Who Think Outside the Cube
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2010
Today, lots of women would love to integrate their passion with their career and are seeking advice on how to do just that. Michelle Goodman, a self proclaimed, "wage-slave" has written a fun, reassuring, girlfriend-to-girlfriend guide on identifying your passion, transitioning out of that...
The Big Fix
Hope After Heroin
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
After surviving nearly a decade of heroin abuse and hard living on the streets of San Francisco’s Tenderloin District, Tracey Helton Mitchell decided to get clean for good.
With raw honesty and a poignant perspective on life that only comes from starting at rock bottom, The Big Fix tells...
No Excuses
9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think about Power
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
An invaluable guidebook, which contends that the most vexing problems facing women today isn't that doors of opportunity aren't open but that not enough women are walking through them
Feminist icon Gloria Feldt pulls no punches in this new book, which argues that the most confounding problem...
Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls
A Handbook for Unapologetic Living
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls is a manifesto and call to arms for women of all sizes and ages. With smart and spirited eloquence, veteran blogger Jes Baker calls on women to be proud of their bodies, fight against fat-shaming, and embrace a body-positive worldview to change public perceptions...