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The Kabul Beauty School
Hachette Australia 2010; US$ 22.64The international bestseller. Enter the war-torn capital of Afghanistan, where tanks rumble through the streets and women are regarded as second-class citizens. Meet Deborah Rodriguez, a down-to-earth woman from the USA, who went to Kabul with a beauty degree and the urge to help. A year after her arrival, Deborah Rodriguez joined the Kabul Beauty... more...
The Kabul Beauty School
Hodder & Stoughton 2011; Not AvailableIn the tradition of Reading Lolita in Tehran , a look at the lives of women in Afghanistan through the lens of The Kabul Beauty School. more...
The Girls Who Went Away
Penguin Group US 2007; US$ 16.00In this deeply moving and myth-shattering work, Ann Fessler brings out into the open for the first time the astonishing untold history of the million and a half women who surrendered children for adoption due to enormous family and social pressure in the decades before Roe v. Wade. An adoptee who was herself surrendered during those years and recently... more...
Margaret Thatcher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2013; US$ 14.99With unequaled authority and dramatic detail, the first volume of Charles Moore?s authorized biography of Margaret Thatcher reveals as never before the early life, rise to power, and first years as prime minister of the woman who transformed Britain and the world in the late twentieth century. Moore has had unique access to all of Thatcher?s private... more...
The Confident Woman
Faithwords 2006; US$ 9.99What keeps women from being their best? Joyce has been helping women better themselves by helping identify emotional barriers and physical, mental, and spiritual obstacles in their lives for years. Now she provides another answer-confidence. Our society has an insecurity epidemic, women in particular. Compensating by pretending to be secure-a common... more...
The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe
Grand Central Publishing 2009; US$ 12.99From New York Times bestselling author J. Randy Taraborrelli comes the definitive biography of the most enduring icon in popular American culture. When Marilyn Monroe became famous in the 1950s, the world was told that her mother was either dead or simply not a part of her life. However, that was not true. In fact, her mentally ill mother was very... more...
Nine Parts of Desire
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 15.00With a New Afterword As a prizewinning foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal , Geraldine Brooks spent six years covering the Middle East through wars, insurrections, and the volcanic upheaval of resurgent fundamentalism. Yet for her, headline events were only the backdrop to a less obvious but more enduring drama: the daily life of... more...
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Random House 2011; US$ 12.00In 1985 Jeanette Winterson's first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit , was published. It was Jeanette's version of the story of a terraced house in Accrington, an adopted child, and the thwarted giantess Mrs Winterson. It was a cover story, a painful past written over and repainted. It was a story of survival. This book is that story's the... more...
How To Be a Woman
Ebury Publishing 2011; US$ 10.67It's a good time to be a woman: we have the vote and the Pill, and we haven't been burnt as witches since 1727. However, a few nagging questions do remain... Why are we supposed to get Brazilians? Should we use Botox? Do men secretly hate us? And why does everyone ask you when you're going to have a baby? Part memoir, part rant, Caitlin... more...
Stays and Body Image in London
Pickering & Chatto Publishers 2011; US$ 99.00This book fills a significant gap in the literature on eighteenth-century social and cultural history. Starting with their production and trade, Sorge-English looks at the intricacies of the staymakers craft, the role of gender in the design and manufacture of stays and the changing shape of stays over time. more...









