Seal Press imprint: 263 books
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...
Literary Mama
Reading for the Maternally Inclined
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
Becoming a mother takes more than the physical act of giving birth or completing an adoption: it takes birthing oneself as a mother through psychological, intellectual, and spiritual work that continues throughout life. Yet most women’s stories of personal growth after motherhood tend to remain...
Working Sex
Sex Workers Write About a Changing Industry
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2007
Being a sex worker isn’t something to write home about for most women (and men) in the $12 billion-a-year sex industry.
Prostitutes, strippers, and adult film stars put themselves, and what they do for a living, out on the street, stage, and TV screen every day, but they often keep their...
Click
When We Knew We Were Feminists
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
When did you know you were a feminist? Whether it happened at school, at work, while watching TV, or reading a book, many of us can point to a particular moment when we knew we were feminists. In Click, editors Courtney E. Martin and J. Courtney Sullivan bring us a range of women-including Jessica...
Loaded
Women and Addiction
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2007
Having an addiction can follow the path of a great relationship that goes sour: there’s the first blush of romance, the seduction (you know you want to”), and the downward spiral into either obsession or breaking free.
Jill Talbot is no stranger to addiction. Part autobiography, part...
Blended
Writers on the Stepfamily Experience
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
95 million adults have a step relationship, according to a 2011 report. That’s 95 million unexpected experiences; 95 million unique perspectives; 95 million laughs, 95 million tears, and 95 million new families.
Blended explores stepfamilies from the inside out through the perspectives of...
Drinking Diaries
Women Serve Their Stories Straight Up
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
Whether you drink it or not, alcohol is likely a potent part of your life: our culture is saturated in it. Ask any woman you know to tell you a drinking story, and she’ll come up with one-in fact, she may even come up with five. With friends and with coworkers, at date night and at ladies' night,...