Basic Books: 1466 books
I Love Mondays
And Other Confessions from Devoted Working Moms
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
A growing number of women today are fortunate enough to enjoy both parenting and having a meaningful career. These moms look forward to going back to work on Mondays (even if they don’t admit it aloud), and many consider their job to be a major part of their identity, not just the daily grind.”...
Marrying George Clooney
Confessions from a Midlife Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
While wide awake in the middle of the night (welcome to menopause!), Amy Ferris began chronicling every one of her funny, sad, hysterical, down and dirty, and raw to the bones stories. Along with fantasizing about marrying George Clooney, Ferris is faced with a plethora of other insomnia-induced thoughts...
A Unicorn in a World of Donkeys
A Guide to Life for All the Exceptional, Excellent Misfits Out There
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
An empowerment manifesto for creatives, misfits, innovators, and disruptors from the star of So You Think You Can Dance and creator of Broadway's Finding Neverland
A Unicorn in a World of Donkeys offers a playbook for living a creative and authentic life. Using her own story as a launching...
Unscrewed
Women, Sex, Power, and How to Stop Letting the System Screw Us All
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
An urgent account of sexual politics, feminism, and the rules of power in America-and a potent vision for the way forward
As a veteran feminist and agenda-setting sex educator, Jaclyn Friedman is on the frontlines of the war for equity between the sexes. In Unscrewed, Friedman brings her sharp...
Cunt, 20th Anniversary Edition
A Declaration of Independence
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
The twentieth-anniversary edition of the original women's empowerment manifesto
An ancient title of respect for women, the word "cunt" long ago veered off its noble path. Inga Muscio traces the road from honor to expletive, giving women the motivation and tools to claim the term as...
Super You
Release Your Inner Superhero
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
From Academy Award-nominee Emily V. Gordon, creator of the blockbuster movie The Big Sick, comes a super-powered guide-to-life with comic-book flair and real-world wisdom for living your best life
Superheroes don't start from glorious beginnings. Their origins are almost always marked by traumatic...
The List
100 Ways to Shake Up Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2008
Get a tattoo, ride in a fire truck, or use food as foreplay-in short, get out there and shake things up! Fun, inspirational, and incredibly motivating, The List offers one hundred ideas-ranging from challenging to outrageous-for women who have been craving a little novelty in their lives.
With...
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...
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....