Basic Books: 1466 books
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...
Woman's Best Friend
Women Writers on the Dogs in Their Lives
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2009
They may be known as man's best friend, but as the writers in this poignant, funny, and dramatic collection know, there's no gender divide when it comes to canines. Whether walking down the street, gathering at the dog park, hitting the open road, or spending one too many nights together on the couch...
For Keeps
Women Tell the Truth About Their Bodies, Growing Older, and Acceptance
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2007
Nearly every aging woman has a complicated relationship with her body.
For Keeps, an inspirational collection of personal essays from writers on their ever-changing bodies, will resonate with every maturing woman. Editor Victoria Zackheim brings together women with unique voices who have all...
The Sh!t No One Tells You About Baby #2
A Guide To Surviving Your Growing Family
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
The third book in Dawn Dais's popular Sh!t No One Tells You series covers all a parent needs to know once the reality of having two children settles in.
Around the time your first baby turns a year old your brain will turn on you. For reasons that are still not understood by science, the sleep...
It's a Boy
Women Writers on Raising Sons
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2009
The most popular question any pregnant woman is asked - aside from "When are you due?" - has got to be "Are you having a girl or a boy?" When author Andrea Buchanan, already a mom to a little girl, was pregnant with her second child, she marveled at the response of friends and...
by Marisa Bate
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
A cleverly nerdy review of feminist history told through the wide range of women who have shaped it, from Ruth Bader Ginsberg and Oprah to Beyoncé and The Spice Girls
A quirky, intelligent, and stylish review of the feminist movement, told through the stories of standout figures who have shaped...
Go Your Own Way
Women Travel the World Solo
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2007
There is nothing quite like hitting the road by yourself to awaken your senses, sharpen your mind, and build your confidence. In twenty-three beautifully crafted essays, women recount the thrills of traveling solo.
Despite threat-assessment levels and airport-security hassles, women of all...
No Touch Monkey!
And Other Travel Lessons Learned Too Late
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Zine queen Ayun Halliday confesses the best-and worst-of her globetrotting misadventures. "I laughed hard on nearly every page of this shockingly intimate memoir and deeply funny book."--STEPHEN COLBERT
Ayun Halliday may not make for the most sensible travel companion, but she is...
Expat
Women's True Tales of Life Abroad
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
It's one thing to travel abroad-to stay in charming hotels and deliberate over whether to visit this museum or relax at that café, even to head off the beaten track for a glimpse of "real" life-and another thing altogether to move to another country. Expat chronicles the experiences of...