Biography--Women
A prison, a paradise
by Loran Hurnscot
Diaries and journals Biography--Women Biography--Literature--Britain Raine, Kathleen (aka Loran Hurnscot, 1908-2003)
A selection of her letters
Jane Welsh Carlyle; ed. by Trudy Bliss
Letters Biography--Women Biography--Literature--Britain Carlyle, Jane Welsh (Wife of Thomas C. 1801-1866)
A stolen life
a memoir
Jaycee Dugard
Memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Victims of violence Dugard, Jaycee (Crime victim, 1980-) Sexual abuse--Children Child abduction
A woman among warlords
the extraordinary story of an Afghan who dared to raise her voice
Raising my voice
Malalai Joya, w Derrick O'Keefe
Memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Politics (ministers, MPs, essayists etc.) Joya, Malalai (Afghan MP, 1978-) Women's rights Afghanistan--History--2001-today (Islamic republic)
A woman in Berlin
diary 20 April to 22 June 1945
by Anonymous; transl. by Philip Boehm, afterword by Hans Magnus Enzensberger.
World War II (1939-1945)--Germany--Berlin Berlin (Germany)--History--1933-1945 World War II (1939-1945)--Women--Germany World War II (1939-1945)--Atrocities Biography--Women Memoirs Hillers, Marta (1911-2001) Rape victiims
A woman of no importance
The untold story of WWII's most dangerous spy, Virginia Hall
Sonia Purnell
Biography--Women World War II (1939-1945) Espionage--History World War II (1939-1945)--France
Afrika dunkel lockende Welt
Tania Blixen ; aus dem Englischen von Rudolf von Scholtz.
Memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Farmers Biography--Literature--Britain Blixen, Tania (aka Isak Dinesen, Danish writer, 1885-1962)
Aimée & Jaguar
a lovestory, berlin 1943
Fischer, Erica
Biography--Women
Alexandra David-Néel
portrait of an adventurer
Ruth Middleton
Biography--Travellers Biography--Women Biography--Explorers Biography--Religion--Buddhism David-Neél, Alexandra (Belgian explorer, 1868-1969)
Alice Herz-Sommer
ein Garten Eden inmitten der Hölle. Ein Jahrhundertleben
Reinhard Piechocki; Melissa Müller
Biography--Music Biography--Jews Biography--Women Herz-Sommer, Alice (Austrian pianist, 1903-2014)
Alice Walker
a life
Evelyn C. White
Biography--Women Biography--Rebels, revolutionaries, reformers Biography--Literature--United States Walker, Alice (Author, activist, 1944-)
All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes
Maya Angelou
Biography--Women Biography--Show biz Biography--Social Sciences Biography--Literature--United States Biography--Cinema, TV & theater Memoirs Angelou, Maya (US author, 1928-2014)
Amelia Earhart
a biography
Doris L. Rich
Biography--Travellers Biography--Women Biography--Aviators Aviators--Women Earhart, Amelia (Aviator, 1897-1937)
Amelia Earhart
a life in flight
Victoria Garrett Jones
Biography--Travellers Biography--Women Biography--Aviators Aviators--Women Earhart, Amelia (Aviator, 1897-1937) Age group--Youth (10-18)
Ammonites and leaping fish
a life in time
Penelope Lively
Memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Literature--Britain Lively, Penelope (English author, 1933-)
An African love story
love, life and elephants
Daphne Sheldrick
Biography--Women Memoirs Sheldrick, Daphne (1934-) Kenya--History--1963-today (Republic) Wildlife conservationists Elephants--Africa
An American childhood
Annie Dillard
Memoirs Biography--Literature--United States Biography--Women Dillard, Annie (US author, 1945-)
An autobiography
Agatha Christie
Biography--Literature--Britain Detective and mystery stories--Authorship Christie, Agatha (1890-1976) Biography--Women
An enduring love
my life with the Shah
Farah Pahlawi; transl. from the French by Patricia Clancy
Memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Rulers (heads of gov./ chief exec.) Pahlavi, Farah (Iranian empress, 1938-) Empresses
Annie Besant
a biography
Anne Taylor
Theosophy Biography--Women Biography--Literature--Britain Besant, Annie (1847-1933) Theosophists--Biography
Annie Besant
Weisheit und Wissenschaft; die Biographie
Muriel Pécastaingt-Boissière; a.d.Franz.übers.v. Dr. Edith Zorn
Theosophy Biography--Women Biography--Literature--Britain Besant, Annie (1847-1933) Theosophists--Biography
Annie Besant
an autobiography
Annie Besant
Theosophists--Biography Besant, Annie (1847-1933) Biography--Women Biography--Spiritual persons
Anything we love can be saved
Alice Walker
Walker, Alice (Author, activist, 1944-) Biography--Literature--United States Biography--Women Memoirs
Are you somebody?
the life and times of Nuala O'Faolain.
Nuala O''Faolain
O'Faolain, Nuala. Biography--Journalists Biography--Women
Around the village green
the heart-warming memoir of a World War II childhood
Dot May Dunn
Memoirs Biography--Women Dunn, Dot May (English writer)
Au gré des jours
Françoise Héritier
Memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Social Sciences Anthropologists Héritier, Françoise (French anthropol., feminist, 1933-2017)
Aung San Suu Kyi
a biography
Jesper Bengtsson
Biography--Women Biography--Politics (ministers, MPs, essayists etc.) Biography--Rebels, revolutionaries, reformers Aung San Suu Kyi (Burmese polit., 1945-)
Autobiography
To the Is-Land
Janet Frame
Biography--Literature--New Zealand Biography--Women Memoirs Frame, Janet (1924-2004)
Bad blood
Lorna Sage
Biography--Literature--Britain Biography--Women Sage, Lorna (1943-2001) Awards--Whitbread Book Awards
Battle hymn of the tiger mother
Amy Chua
Biography--Women Mothers--Biography.--United States Mothers and daughters--China Mothers and daughters--United States East and West Chua, Amy Social stratification--Women
Becoming
Michelle Obama
Biography--Women Biography--Judges and Lawyers Biography--Education Obama, Michelle (US 1st lady, 1964-) Memoirs
Belonging
a memoir
Willa Muir
Biography--Women Biography--Literature--Britain
Berty
Mireille Albrecht
Biography--Women Biography--Rebels, revolutionaries, reformers World War II (1939-1945)--France--Résistance Albrecht, Bertie (French underminer, 1893-1943)
Beyond gurus
a woman of many worlds
Nancy Cooke de Herrera
Biography--Women Spiritual memoirs Memoirs Cooke de Herrera, Nancy (1922-2013)
Bird milk and mosquito bones
a memoir
Priyanka Mattoo
Memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Arts
Bis zur letzten Stunde
Hitlers Sekretärin erzählt ihr Leben
Traudl Junge unter Mitarbeit von Melissa Müller
Memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Rulers (heads of gov./ chief exec.) Hitler, Adolf (German chancellor, 1889-1945) Junge, Traudl (Hitler's secretary, 1920-2002)
Björk
an illustrated biography
by Mick St. Michael
Biography--Music Biography--Women Musicians
Born to rule
granddaughters of Queen Victoria, queens of Europe
Julia P. Gelardi
Biography--Rulers (heads of gov./ chief exec.) Victoria (Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901) Queens (Regents) Biography--Women Biography--Collective Alexandra Fedorovna (queen consort of Nicholas II of Russia, 1872-1918) Marie of Romania (Queen consort of Ferdinand I, 1875-1938) Maud of Norway (Queen consort of Haakon VII, 1869-1938) Sophia of Prussia (Queen consort of Constantine I of Greece, 1870-1932) Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg (Queen consort of Alfonso XIII of Spain, 1887-1969)
Born with teeth
a memoir
Kate Mulgrew
Biography--Cinema, TV & theater Biography--Women Memoirs Mulgrew, Kate (American actress, 1955-)
Botschaft der Baumfrau
Julia Butterfly Hill; a.d.Amerikan.v. Gisela Kretzschmar
Luna (Calif. Tree) Old growth forest conservation Logging--Humboldt County.--California Hill, Julia Butterfly (Environm. activist, 1974-) Conservationists--Women Biography--Women Biography--Environmentalists Memoirs Activists
Call the midwife
a true story of the East End in the 1950s
The midwife
Jennifer Worth; clinical ed. Terri Coates
Memoirs Biography--Medicine Biography--Women Midwives Worth, Jennifer (Midwife, 1935-2011)
Carmen Conde
Leopoldo de Luis
Biography--Literature--Spain Biography--Women Conde Abellán, Carmen (1907-1996)
Casalinghitudine
Clara Sereni
Memoirs Biography--Jews Biography--Women Biography--Literature--Italy Sereni, Clara (Italian author, 1946-) Cookery--Jewish Cookery--Italian
Castaway
Lucy Irvine
Travel--Australia Islands Survival--Islands Memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Travellers Books adapted into a film or play
Catherine the Great
a short history
Isabel De Madariaga
Russia--History--1762-1796 (Catherine II) Catherine II (Empress of Russia, 1729-1796) Biography--Women Biography--Rulers (heads of gov./ chief exec.) Biography--Nobility Empresses Tsars
Cautiva en Arabia
Cristina Morató
d'Andurain, Marga (1893-1948) Biography--Women Biography--Travellers Travel--Mediterranean Travel--Near & Middle East
China : autobiography, history
Birdless summer
Han Suyin
Biography--Literature--China Biography--Rebels, revolutionaries, reformers Biography--Science Biography--Women Han Suyin (1917-2012) China--History--1912-1949 (Republic) Memoirs
China : autobiography, history
My house has two doors
Han Suyin
Biography--Literature--China Biography--Rebels, revolutionaries, reformers Biography--Science Biography--Women China--History--1949-1976 (People's Republic) Han Suyin (1917-2012) Memoirs
Cigni selvatici
tre figlie della china
Jung Chang
Biography--Families Biography--Women China--History--20th century Awards--NCR Book Award Awards--National Book Awards (UK) Memoirs Chang, Jung (1952-)
Cisnes Salvajes
tres hijas de China
Jung Chang; trad. de Gian Castelli Gair
Chang, Jung (1952-) Biography--Families Biography--Women China--History--20th century Memoirs Awards--NCR Book Award Awards--National Book Awards (UK)
Clementine
the life of Mrs. Winston Churchill
Sonia Purnell
Biography--Women Biography--Nobility Churchill, Clementine (Wife of Winston, 1885-1977)
Cleopatra
a life
Stacy Schiff
Biography--Rulers (heads of gov./ chief exec.) Biography--Women Egypt--History--3150-30 BC Ptolemaic dynasty, 305-30 B.C Cleopatra VII Philopator (Queen of Egypt, 69-30 B.C)
Cleopatra
storia , mito, leggenda
Lucy Hughes-Hallett
Queens in literature Cleopatra VII Philopator (Queen of Egypt, 69-30 B.C) Biography--Women Biography--Rulers (heads of gov./ chief exec.) Egypt--History--332-30 BC (Hellenistic period)
Come, tell me how you live
an archaeological memoir
Agatha Christie
Excavations (Archaeology)--Syria Biography--Literature--Britain Excavations (Archaeology) Christie, Agatha (1890-1976) Syria--Social life and customs Biography--Women Biography--Archaeologists
Contemplating adultery
the secret life of a Victorian woman
Lotte Hamburger & Joseph Hamburger
Biography--Women Biography--Literature--Britain Austin, Sarah (Engl. transl., 1793-1867) von Pückler-Muskau, Hermann (German nobleman, 1785-1871) Adultery
Corrie ten Boom
heroine of Haarlem
Sam Wellman
Biography--Women Biography--Rebels, revolutionaries, reformers Biography--Religion--Christianity Ten Boom, Corrie (1892-1983) Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
D. H. Lawrence
a personal record
by E. T.; ed. by J. D. Chambers
Memoirs Biography--Women Chambers, Jessie (1886-1944) Biography--Literature--Britain Lawrence, David Herbert (Engl. writer, 1885-1930)
Danbé
Aya Cissoko; Marie Desplechin
Biography--Women Biography--Sports Cissoko, Aya (French boxer, 1978-) Memoirs Boxing (Sports)
Dancing in the light
Shirley MacLaine
Biography--Show biz Biography--Spiritual persons Biography--Women MacLaine, Shirley (US actress, 1934-) Memoirs
Das bewegte Leben der Alice Schwarzer
die Biographie
Anna Dünnebier; Gert v. Paczensky
Biography--Journalists Biography--Women Feminism--History Schwarzer, Alice (German feminist, 1942-)
Das denkende Herz
die Tagebücher
von Etty Hillesum
Biography--Women
Daughter of France
the life of Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, Duchesse de Montpensier, 1627-1693 (La Grande Mademoiselle)
by V. Sackville-West
Biography--Nobility Biography--Women Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans (1627-1693)
Daughter of the killing fields
Asrei's story
Theary C. Seng
Memoirs Biography--Women Seng, Theary (Khmer Rouge victim, 1971-) Cambodia--History--1975-1979 (Khmer Rouge) Refugees--Women
De eeuw van de kersenbloesem
Miki Sakamoto
Biography--Families Biography--Women Japan--Social life and customs--20th century Sakamoto, Miki (1950-)
De gouden kooi
Zainab Salbi en Laurie Becklund; vert.d. Jeannet Dekker
Biography--Women Biography--Literature--Arabia Memoirs Salbi, Zainab (1969-) Iraq--History--1979-1991 (Saddam Hussein)
Dear Fatty
Dawn French
Memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Literature--Britain Biography--Cinema, TV & theater French, Dawn (1957-)
Der Club der Lügner
Roman
Mary Karr; dt.v. Sabine Roth
Memoirs Biography--Literature--United States Karr, Mary (American writer, 1955-) Biography--Women
Der Himmel über Maralal
mein Leben als Frau eines Samburu-Kriegers
Christina Hachfeld-Tapukai
Memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Journalists Hachfeld-Tapukai, Christina (German journalist) Kenya--Social life and customs--21st century Africa, East--Social life and customs Tribes--Social life and customs Tribes--Africa
Der Schwindel
Dörte Stähler
Memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Travellers Africa, West--Social conditions Stähler, Dörte (German writer, 1954-) Developing countries--Social conditions
Desert dawn
Waris Dirie and Jeanne d'Haem
Memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Victims of violence Dirie, Waris (Somali model, 1965-) Fashion models Female circumcision--Somalia
Desert flower :
the extraordinary life of a desert nomad.
Waris Dirie and Cathleen Miller.
Women's rights--Somalia Social reformers--Women Dirie, Waris (Somali model, 1965-) Women--In politics Social stratification--Women Biography--Women Biography--Politics (ministers, MPs, essayists etc.) Biography--Rebels, revolutionaries, reformers Memoirs
Desert queen
the extraordinary life of Gertrude Bell, adventurer, adviser to kings, ally of Lawrence of Arabia
Janet Wallach
Colonial administrators Bell, Gertrude Lowthian (1868-1926) Orientalists--Women Colonial administrators Biography--Women Biography--Social Sciences
Desire & duty at Oneida
Tirzah Miller's intimate memoir
Robert S. Fogarty
Herrick, Tirzah Miller (1946-1902) Memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Religion--Christianity Communalism
Deutschland zuliebe
Leben und Sterben der Geschwister Scholl; die Geschichte der Weißen Rose
Richard Hanser; a.d.Amerikan.v. Dieter Dörr
Anti-Nazi movement--Germany Anti-fascistic movement Scholl, Hans (German resistance member, 1918-1943) Scholl, Sophie (German resistance member, 1921-1943) Weiße Rose / White Rose Biography--Rebels, revolutionaries, reformers Biography--Women Biography--Collective--20th century
Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank
Frank, Anne (1929-1945) Diaries and journals Biography--Women World War II (1939-1945)--Netherlands World War II (1939-1945)--Atrocities
Die Päpstin Johanna
der Skandal eines weiblichen Papstes. Eine Rezeptionsgeschichte
Elisabeth Gössmann
Biography--Religion--Christianity Biography--Women Joan (Legendary female pope) Christianity--Doctrinal controversies
Die Schöpferin von Harry Potter
Das Leben der J. K. Rowling
Sean Smith; a.d.Engl.v. Ulrich Hoffmann
Biography--Literature--Britain Biography--Women Rowling, Joanne K. (Brit. writer, 1965-)
Dieser Hunger nach Leben
Béatrice, 20, in Malaysia unschuldig zum Tode verurteilt
Béatrice Saubin; a.d.Frz.v. Xénia Gharbi & Martin Schoske
Memoirs Biography--Criminals Biography--Women Saubin, Béatrice (1959-) Drugs--Smuggle and trade Death penalty--Condemned persons
Dix ans avec Alexandra David-Néel
Marie-Madeleine Peyronnet
Memoirs Peyronnet, Marie-Madeleine (1930-) Biography--Women Biography--Travellers David-Neél, Alexandra (Belgian explorer, 1868-1969) Travel--Tibet
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
an African childhood
Alexandra Fuller
Zimbabwe--History--1964-1980 Fuller, Alexandra (Writer, 1969-) Memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Literature
Donne bianche per i Maharajah
dome occidentali che infransero le convenzioni sociali per sposre dei principi indiani
Coralie Younger
Biography--Collective India--History--1765-1947 (Raj) Biography--Women Biography--Rulers (heads of gov./ chief exec.)
Donne d'Oriente
Gilbert Sinoué; trad. di Guiliano Corà
Women--History Biography--Women Biography--Collective
Dschungelkind
Sabine Kuegler
Jungles--Indonesia Fayu (Indonesian people) Papua (Indonesia)--Social life and customs Memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Travellers Kuegler, Sabine (German author, 1972-) Books adapted into a film or play
Dying to be me
my journey from cancer, to near death, to true healing
Anita Moorjani
Biography--Women Memoirs Moorjani, Anita (1959-) Cancer--Patients Near-death experiences Cancer regression, Spontaneous
Eat, pray, love
oder eine Frau auf der Suche nach allem quer durch Italien, Indien und Indonesien
Elizabeth Gilbert; a.d.Amerik.v. Maria Mill
Travel writers Memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Travellers
Eat, pray, love
one woman's search for everything across Italy, India and Indonesia
Elizabeth Gilbert
Travel writers Gilbert, Elizabeth (1969-) Memoirs Biography--Travellers Biography--Women American fiction--Autobiographical American fiction--Travel Books adapted into a film or play
Educated
Tara Westover
Memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Literature--United States Biography--Religion--Mormonism Mormon fundamentalism
Eigensinnige Frauen
zehn Porträts
Dieter Wunderlich
Biography--Women Biography--Collective
Ein Leben zwischen den Sprachen
Swetlana Geier; aufgez.v. Taja Gut
Interviews Memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Literature--Russia Geier, Swetlana (Translator, 1923-2010)
Eine Kerze, die an beiden Enden brennt
das Leben der Rosa Luxemburg
Frederik Hetmann
Biography--Women Biography--Rebels, revolutionaries, reformers Luxemburg, Rosa (German communist, 1871-1919)
Einmal Hans mit scharfer Soße
Leben in zwei Welten
Hatice Akyün
Memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Journalists Biography--Literature--Germany Akyün, Hatice (Turkish-German writer, 1969-) Social stratification--Racial, ethnic or national groups Minorities--Germany Books adapted into a film or play
Elefanti in giardino
Kuki Gallmann
Biography--Women Biography--Environmentalists Gallmann, Kuki (1943-) Memoirs Biography--Literature--Africa
Eleni
Nicholas Gage
Biography--Collective Biography--Women
Elles ont conquis le monde
les grandes aventurières, 1850-1950
prés.p. Alexandra Lapierre
Discoveries in geography / Exploration Biography--Collective--19th century Biography--Collective--20th century Biography--Explorers Biography--Travellers Biography--Women Women--Travel
Emilie, Emilie
l'ambition féminine au XVIIIème siècle
Elisabeth Badinter
Feminism--History Women--France Biography--Women d'Epinay, Louise (1726-1783) Du Châtelet, Gabrielle Emilie (Math., 1706-1749) Social stratification--Women Women--Social role and status
Empress Dowager Cixi
the concubine who launched modern China
Jung Chang
China--History--1875-1908 (Guangxu) Cixi (Tzu-hsi, Empress Dowager of China, 1835-1908) Biography--Women Biography--Rulers (heads of gov./ chief exec.)
Enamored with place
as woman, as architect
Wendy Bertrand
Architects--Women Travelers--Women Memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Architects Bertrand, Wendy (US architect)
Enfance, au féminin
Taslima Nasreen; trad. du Bengali par Philippe Benoît
Biography--Women Biography--Medicine Feminism and literature Women--Islam Nasrin, Taslima (1962-) Memoirs Bengal (India)--Manners and customs
English women
Edith Sitwell
Biography--Collective Biography--Women
Es wird mir fehlen, das Leben
Ruth Picardie, m. Matt Seaton & Justine Picardie; dt.v. Kim Schwaner
Memoirs Biography--Journalists Biography--Women Picardie, Ruth (Brit. journalist, 1964-1997)
Eten, bidden, beminnen
de zoektocht van een vrouw in Italië, India en Indonesië
Elizabeth Gilbert; vert.Martine Jellema
Travel writers Memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Travellers
Even the stars look lonesome
Maya Angelou
Biography--Literature--United States Biography--Women Biography--Show biz Biography--Cinema, TV & theater Biography--Social Sciences Angelou, Maya (US author, 1928-2014) Memoirs
Everybody matters
a memoir
Mary Robinson
Memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Rulers (heads of gov./ chief exec.) Biography--Politics (ministers, MPs, essayists etc.) Robinson, Mary (Irish president, 1944-)
Expecting Adam
a true story of birth, transformation & unconditional love
Martha Beck
Memoirs Biography--Women Beck, Martha (US life coach, 1962-) Down syndrome Pregnancy--Psychological aspects
Fair game
my life as a spy, my betrayal by the White House
Valerie Plame Wilson; w an afterword by Laura Rozen
Memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Miscellaneous Wilson, Valerie Plame (CIA member, 1963-) Intelligence officers--United States Intelligence services--CIA--Operations Iraq--History--US occupation (2003-2011) Intelligence officers--Women
Faith of Helen Keller
Helen A. Keller
Biography--Literature--United States Biography--Women Keller, Helen (1880-1968) Memoirs Handicapped--Civil rights
Falling leaves
the true story of an unwanted Chinese daughter
Adeline Yen Mah
Biography--Women Memoirs Mah, Adeline Yen (1937-) Women--Chinese American Social stratification--Women
Fanny Stevenson
entre passion et liberté
Alexandra Lapierre
Biography--Women Biography--Journalists Biography--Literature--United States Stevenson, Fanny (US writer, 1840-1914)
Fathers
reflections by daughters
ed. by Ursula Owen
Fathers and daughters Biography--Collective--20th century Biography--Women
Fear of fifty
a midlife memoir
Erica Jong
Biography--Literature--United States Jong, Erica (1942-) Memoirs Biography--Women
Feuilles d'automne
récit.
Adeline Yen Mah ; tradits de l'anglais par Joyce Jolas.
Chinese Americans--Social life and customs Mah, Adeline Yen (1937-) Physicians--Women Social stratification--Women Biography--Women Biography--Medicine Memoirs
Fiction ruined my family
Jeanne Darst
Memoirs Writing Biography--Women
Finding mañana
a memoir of a Cuban exodus
Mirta Ojito
Memoirs Biography--Women Ojito, Mirta (Cuban refugee, 1964-) Cuba--History
First among sufis
the life and thought of Rabia al-Adawiyya, the woman saint of Basra
by Widad el Sakkakini; transl. by Dr. Nabil Safwat
Sufism--Teachers Biography--Religion--Islam and Sufism Biography--Women Rabia al-Adawiyya (Rabiah al Basri, Sufi mystic, 717-801)
Flight into freedom
the autobiography of the Findhorn community
Eileen Caddy; Liza Hollingshead
Memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Spiritual persons Caddy, Eileen (Findhorn co-founder, 1917-2006) Findhorn Community Community life Community organization
Françoise Giroud
une ambition française
Christine Ockrent
Biography--Literature--France Biography--Journalists Biography--Politics (ministers, MPs, essayists etc.) Biography--Women Giroud, Françoise (1916-2003)
Frauen, die die Welt bewegten
geniale Frauen der Vergangenheit entrissen...
Martha Schad
Biography--Collective Biography--Women
Frida Kahlo
autoportrait d'une femme
Rauda Jamis
Biography--Arts Biography--Women Artists--Women Painters--Mexican Kahlo, Frida (Mexican painter, 1907-1954)
Frida Kahlo
Malerin der Schmerzen, Rebellin gegen das Unabänderliche
Hayden Herrera; a.d.Amerikan.v. Dieter Mulch
Painters--Mexican Biography--Women Biography--Arts Kahlo, Frida (Mexican painter, 1907-1954)
Frida Kahlo, 1907-1954
Leid und Leidenschaft
Andrea Kettenmann
Biography--Arts Biography--Women Kahlo, Frida (Mexican painter, 1907-1954) Painters--Mexican
Gala
Dalís skandalöse Muse
Tim McGirtk; i.Dt.übertr.v. Joachim Rehork
Biography--Women Biography--Arts Dali, Gala (Wife of Salvador, 1894-1982) Surrealism (Arts)
Galileo's daughter
a drama of science, faith, and love
Dava Sobel
Biography--Science Biography--Religion--Christianity Galilei, Galileo (1564-1642) Galilei, Maria Celeste (1600-1634) Astronomers Nuns--Christianity Biography--Women
Gather together in my name
Maya Angelou
Memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Literature--United States Biography--Peace, civil & human rights activists Angelou, Maya (US author, 1928-2014)
Geisha
Liza Dalby
Biography--Women Biography--Collective Biography--Prostitutes and pimps
George Eliot
by Leslie Stephen
Biography--Literature--Britain Biography--Women Eliot, George (Engl. writer, 1819-1880)
George Sand
by the late Elme Marie Caro; transl. by Gustave Masson
Biography--Literature--France Sand, George (French writer, 1804-1876) Biography--Women
George Sand
Huguette Pirotte
Sand, George (French writer, 1804-1876) Biography--Women Biography--Literature--France
Gertrude Bell
queen of the desert, shaper of nations
Georgina Howell
Bell, Gertrude Lowthian (1868-1926) Orientalists--Women Colonial administrators Biography--Women Biography--Social Sciences
Getting lost
Annie Ernaux; translated by Alison L. Strayer
Memoirs Biography--Women Awards--Nobel Prize Romances French literature
Girls who rocked the world
Heroines from Joan of Arc to Mother Teresa
Michelle Roehm McCann & Amelie Welden
Biography--Collective Biography--Women Age group--Youth (10-18)
Goddess
the secret lives of Marilyn Monroe
Anthony Summers
Biography--Women Biography--Cinema, TV & theater Monroe, Marilyn (US actress, 1926-1962)
Good night stories for rebel girls
100 tales of extraordinary women
Elena Favilli & Francesca Cavallo
Success in business--Case studies Successful people Biography--Women Age group--Youth (10-18)
Good night stories for rebel girls
100 inspiring young changemakers
Biography--Women Feminism Age group--Youth (10-18)
Gratwanderung
Jewgenia Ginsburg; aus dem Russischen von Nena Scharwina
Prisoners--Political Memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Victims of violence Concentration camps--Soviet Union Biography--Historians Ginzburg, Yevgenia (Soviet historian, gulag prisoner, 1904-1977)
Great Catherine
Carolly Erickson
Russia--History--1762-1796 (Catherine II) Catherine II (Empress of Russia, 1729-1796) Empresses Biography--Women Biography--Nobility Biography--Rulers (heads of gov./ chief exec.) Tsars
Great Catherine
portrait of a woman
Robet K. Massie
Russia--History--1762-1796 (Catherine II) Catherine II (Empress of Russia, 1729-1796) Empresses Biography--Women Biography--Nobility Biography--Rulers (heads of gov./ chief exec.) Tsars
Haar laatste dood
herinneringen van een dochter
Susanna Sonnenberg
Memoirs Biography--Women Sonnenberg, Susanna (1965-)
Harem within
tales of a Moroccan girlhood
Fatima Mernissi
Biography--Women Mernissi, Fatima (1940-)
Helen Keller
sketch for a portrait
by Van Wyck Brooks
Keller, Helen (1880-1968) Physically handicapped--Health and healing Biography--Women
Het begon toen ik veertien was
Mijn jeugd en gedwongen huwelijk in een sekte
Elissa Wall & Lisa Pulitzer; vert.d. Wim Holleman
Sects (Religion) Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Mormon fundamentalism Forced marriage Polygamy Memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Religion--Mormonism Wall, Elissa (Sect victim, 1986-) Sexual abuse--Children Books adapted into a film or play
Hildegard von Bingen
haar leven, mystiek, muziek en geneeskunde
Louis A. M. van den Bercken
Biography--Religion--Christianity Biography--Medicine Biography--Music Biography--Women Saints--Christianity--Women Hildegard of Bingen (Saint, 1098-1179)
Hildegarde de Bingen
conscience inspirée du XIIe siècle
Régine Pernoud
Biography--Women Biography--Religion--Christianity Biography--Medicine Biography--Music Hildegard of Bingen (Saint, 1098-1179) Saints--Christianity--Women
Hillary
a biography of Hillary Rodham Clinton
Karen Blumenthal
Biography--Women Biography--Politics (ministers, MPs, essayists etc.) Clinton, Hillary Rodham (1954-)
Histoire d'une âme
manuscrits autobiographiques
Sainte Thérèse de l'enfant-Jésus et de la Sainte-Face
Memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Religion--Christianity Saints--Christianity--Women Thérèse of Lisieux (Saint, 1873-1897) Letters Diaries and journals
Hope abandoned
Nadezhda Mandelstam
Memoirs Mandelstam, Nadezhda (1899-1980) Biography--Literature--Russia Biography--Women
House with four rooms
Rumer Godden
Biography--Literature--Britain Biography--Women Memoirs Rumer Godden, Margaret (1907-1998)
I am an island
Tamsin Calidas
Memoirs Biography--Women Calidas, Tamsin (1971-) Travel--Great Britain--Scotland Islands
I am Malala
the girl who stood up for education and was shot by the Taliban
Malala Yousafzai with Christina Lamb
Biography--Women Memoirs Yousafzai, Malala (1997-) Education--Women Children's rights Women's rights--South Asia Afghanistan--History--1992-2001 (Taliban Emirate) Afghanistan--Social life and customs
I give you my life
the autobiography of a Western Buddhist nun
Ayya Khema; transl. by Sherab Chödzin Kohn
Spiritual memoirs Buddhism--Nuns Biography--Women Biography--Religion--Buddhism
I know why the caged bird sings
Maya Angelou
Biography--Literature--United States Biography--Women Biography--Show biz Biography--Cinema, TV & theater Biography--Social Sciences Memoirs Angelou, Maya (US author, 1928-2014)
Ich schenke euch mein Leben
die Lebensgeschichte einer deutschen Buddhistin
Ayya Khema
Spiritual memoirs Buddhism--Nuns Biography--Women Biography--Religion--Buddhism
Ik weet waarom gekooide vogels zingen
Maya Angelou
Biography--Literature--United States Biography--Women Biography--Show biz Biography--Cinema, TV & theater Biography--Social Sciences Memoirs Angelou, Maya (US author, 1928-2014)
illustrated West with the night
West with the night
Beryl Markham ; Linda Sunshine (Editor).
Markham, Beryl Aviators--Women Biography--Women
Im Geist der Versöhnung
Ein Leben zwischen zwei Welten
Noor
Noor (Queen of Jordan, 1951-) Biography--Women Biography--Rulers (heads of gov./ chief exec.) Memoirs Queens (Regents)
In the Land of Invisible Women
a female doctor's journey in the Saudi Kingdom
Qanta A. Ahmed, MD
Memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Medicine Ahmed, Qanta A. (MD, fem.activist) Travel--Saudi-Arabia Muslims--Biography Physicians--Women Saudi Arabia--Social life and customs
Inside out
Demi Moore
Memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Cinema, TV & theater Moore, Demi (US actress, 1962-)
Inside the kingdom
my life in Saudi Arabia
The veiled kingdom
Carmen Bin Laden
Memoirs Biography--Women Bin Laden, Carmen (1954-)
Irrenhaus am Lotos-See
Erfahrungen einer Schweizer Psychiaterin in Kashmir 1969 - 1980
Erna M. Hoch
Hoch, Erna M. Biography--Women Biography--Psychology Memoirs
Isadora Duncan and Sergej Jessenin
der Dichter und die Tänzerin
Carola Stern
Biography--Farmers Biography--Women Biography--Dance Biography--Literature--Russia Duncan, Isadora (US dancer, 1877-1927) Yesenin, Sergei Alexandrovich (Russian poet, 1895-1925) Couples
Jane Austen
by Victor Lucas
Biography--Literature--Britain Biography--Women
Jane Austen
a French appreciation; with a new study of Jane Austen
by Léonie Villard; by R. Brimley Johnson; transl. by Veronica Lucas
Biography--Literature--Britain Biography--Women Austen, Jane (Brit. author, 1775-1817)
Jean-Paul Sartre und Simone de Beauvoir
die Geschichte einer ungewöhnlichen Liebe
Axel Madsen; dt.v. Pauline Schulz
Biography--Literature--France Biography--Philosophy de Beauvoir, Simone (French writer, 1908-1986) Sartre, Jean-Paul (French philosopher, 1905-1980) Biography--Women Feminism and literature Philosophy--Existentialism
Jeanne d'Arc
et autres textes
Jules Michelet
Biography--Religion--Christianity Biography--Women Biography--Military Biography--Rebels, revolutionaries, reformers Joan of Arc (Saint, 1412-1431) France--History
Jeanne d'Arc
jeune fille de france brûlée vive
Max Gallo
Biography--Rebels, revolutionaries, reformers Biography--Women Biography--Religion--Christianity Joan of Arc (Saint, 1412-1431)
Jeanne d'Arc
Régine Pernoud
Biography--Religion--Christianity Joan of Arc (Saint, 1412-1431) Biography--Women Biography--Rebels, revolutionaries, reformers
Joan of Arc
the image of female heroism
Marina Warner
Biography--Women Biography--Military Biography--Religion--Christianity Saints--Christianity Joan of Arc (Saint, 1412-1431)
Kate remembered
Katharine Hepburn - a personal biography
A. Scott Berg
Biography--Women Biography--Cinema, TV & theater Hepburn, Katharine (US actress, 1907-2003)
Kindermund
Pola Kinski
Memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Cinema, TV & theater Kinski, Pola (German actress, 1953-)
Komponistinnen aus 500 Jahren
eine Kultur- und Wirkungsgeschichte in Biographien und Werkbeispielen
Eva Weissweiler
Biography--Music Biography--Women Biography--Collective Composers
L'histoire d'Helen Keller
Lorena A. Hickok; trad. de l'américain p. Renée Rosenthal
Keller, Helen (1880-1968) Physically handicapped--Health and healing Biography--Women Blind--United States--Biography Age group--Youth (10-18)
L'hivers le plus froid
une jeune américaine en Europe libérée
Paula Fox; traduit de l'américain par Marie-Hélène Dumas
Biography--Literature--United States Biography--Women Memoirs Fox, Paula (1923-) Travel--Europe Travel--Historical accounts World War II (1939-1945)--Aftermath
L'impératrice Cixi
la concubine qui fit entrer la Chine dans la modernité
Jung Chang; trad. de l'anglais p. Marie Boudewyn
China--History--1875-1908 (Guangxu) Cixi (Tzu-hsi, Empress Dowager of China, 1835-1908) Biography--Women Biography--Rulers (heads of gov./ chief exec.)
L'Irrégulière
ou Mon itinéraire Chanel
Edmonde Charles-Roux
Biography--Women Biography--Business, economy, finance Chanel, Coco (Fashion designer, 1883-1871)
La ferme africaine
Isak Dinesen; trad. du danois p. Yvonne Manceron
Memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Literature--Britain Blixen, Tania (aka Isak Dinesen, Danish writer, 1885-1962)
La mia Birmania
Aung San Suu Kyi in conversazione con Alan Clements; trad. di Alessandra Petrelli
Interviews Biography--Women Biography--Rebels, revolutionaries, reformers Biography--Rulers (heads of gov./ chief exec.) Biography--Politics (ministers, MPs, essayists etc.) Aung San Suu Kyi (Burmese polit., 1945-)
La Reine Noire
Catherine de Médicis (1519-1589)
Jean Orieux; texte N. & F. Lacaf & B. Lagrange; dessins F. Lacaf
Comics and cartoons--Historical de' Medici, Catherine (1519-1589) Biography--Nobility Biography--Women Biography--Rulers (heads of gov./ chief exec.)
La rivière et son secret
des camps de Mao à Jean-Sébastien Bach; le destin d’une femme d’exception
Aus dem Französischen von Anna Kamp
Biography--Music Biography--Women Pianists Zhu Xiao-Mei (Chinese pianists, 1949-) Memoirs
La rueda de la vida
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, M.D.
Psychology--Applied Spiritual memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Psychology Kübler-Ross, Elisabeth (1926-2004)
Lab girl
Hope Jahren
Memoirs Biography--Science Biography--Biologists and Naturalists Biography--Women Jahren, Hope (US Geobiologist, 1969-) Awards--National Book Critics Circle Award (USA) Geobotany
Le donne Estensi
donne e cavalieri, amori, armi e seduzioni
Sara Accorsi
Italy--History Women--History Este (Family) Courts and courtiers Nobility--History--Italy Biography--Families Biography--Nobility Biography--Women
Leap of faith
memoirs of an unexpected life
Queen Noor
Noor (Queen of Jordan, 1951-) Biography--Women Biography--Rulers (heads of gov./ chief exec.) Memoirs Queens (Regents)
Learning true love
how I learned and practiced social change in Vietnam
Chân Không (Cao Ngoc Phuong)
Spiritual memoirs Biography--Spiritual persons Biography--Religion--Buddhism Biography--Women Chân Không (Buddhist nun, 1938-) Nuns--Buddhism
Leaving Mother Lake
a childhood at the edge of the world.
Namu and Christine Mathieu.
Namu (1966-, Yang Erche Namu) Singers--Women Biography--Music Biography--Women
Leaving the Saints
how I lost the Mormons and found my faith
Martha Beck
Memoirs Biography--Spiritual persons Biography--Women Biography--Religion--Mormonism Beck, Martha (US life coach, 1962-) Christianity--Denominations--Mormons
Leben wär eine prima Alternative
Tagebuchaufzeichnungen und Briefe
Maxie Wander; hrsg. v. Fred Wander
Letters Diaries and journals Wander, Maxie (1933-1977) Cancer--Patients Biography--Women Biography--Literature--Germany
Lecons particulieres
Hélène Grimaud
Grimaud, Hélène (French pianist, 1969-) Pianists Biography--Women Biography--Music Memoirs
Leggere Lolita a Teheran
Azar Nafisi
Biography--Literature--Iran / Persia Nafisi, Azar (1947-) Memoirs Biography--Literature--Islamic world Biography--Women
Les reines de France au temps des Bourbons
Les femmes du Roi-Soleil
Simone Bertière
France--History--1589-1789 (Bourbon) Biography--Rulers (heads of gov./ chief exec.) Biography--Women Biography--Nobility Biography--Collective Queens (Regents) Women--History Louis XIV (King of France, 1638-1715)
Les vernis noirs
Sirkku Talja-Larrivoire
Memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Celebrities Beauty queens Talja-Larrivoire, Sirkku (Miss Finland 1955, 1936-)
Let the whole thundering world come home
a memoir
Natalie Goldberg
Memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Literature--United States Biography--Education Biography--Spiritual persons Goldberg, Natalie (US author, 1948-)
Leven in het land van "nee"
opgroeien als meisje in revolutionair Iran
Roya Hakakian
Memoirs Biography--Literature--Iran / Persia Biography--Literature--United States Biography--Women Iran--History--20th century Iran--Social life and customs
Leven tussen de koppensnellers
het verhaal van een Dajakmeisje
Riska Orpa Sari
Dayak (Borneo people) Biography--Women Memoirs Riska Orpa Sari (Dayak author)
Lexikon der Rebellinnen
von A bis Z
Florence Hervé; Ingeborg Nodinger
Biography--Collective Biography--Women Biography--Rebels, revolutionaries, reformers
Liefde in een verscheurd land
Joanna uit Koerdestan: het ware verhaal van haar ontsnapping aan de wraak van de Irakezen
Jean P. Sasson
Iraq--History--1979-1991 (Saddam Hussein) Ethnic relations Kurds Biography--Rebels, revolutionaries, reformers Biography--Women Hussain, Joanna Al-Askari (Iraqi freedom fighter, 1972-)
Lies my mother never told me
a memoir
Kaylie Jones
Memoirs Biography--Literature--United States Biography--Women Alcoholics Jones, Kaylie (US author, 1960-)
Lieux de Marguerite Duras
Marguerite Duras
Biography--Literature--France Duras, Marguerite (1914-1996) Biography--Women
Life of Charlotte Bronte
Elizabeth Gaskell
Brontë, Charlotte (English writer, 1816-1855) Biography--Literature--Britain Biography--Women
Life of Elizabeth I
Alison Weir
Biography--Rulers (heads of gov./ chief exec.) Biography--Women Elizabeth I. (Queen of England, 1533-1603)
Life with Picasso
Françoise Gilot & Carlton Lake
Memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Arts Artists--France Artists--Spain Gilot, Françoise (French painter, 1921-) Picasso, Pablo (Spanish painter, 1881-1973)
Life, culture and education on the academic plantation
womanist thought and perspective
Dierdre Glenn Paul
Feminist criticism Biography--Women Social stratification Discriminatory practices--Education Education--Social aspects
Like a queen
by Constance Hall
Women--Social conditions Spiritual life--Practice Parenting Memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Celebrities
Little daughter
a memoir of survival in Burma and the West
Zoya Phan with Damien Lewis
Refugees--Burma Karen (Southeast Asian people) Phan, Zoya (1980-) Biography--Rebels, revolutionaries, reformers Biography--Politics (ministers, MPs, essayists etc.) Biography--Women
Lou
histoire d'une femme libre
Françoise Giroud
Authors, German--20th century--Biography Andreas-Salomé, Lou (German-Russian writer, psychoanalyst, 1861-1937) Biography--Literature--Germany Biography--Women Biography--Psychology
Lou Andreas-Salomé
by Dorian Astor
Biography--Literature--Germany Biography--Psychology Biography--Women Andreas-Salomé, Lou (German-Russian writer, psychoanalyst, 1861-1937)
Lou Andreas-Salomé
l'alliée de la vie
Stéphane Michaud
Biography--Women Biography--Literature--Russia Biography--Psychology Andreas-Salomé, Lou (German-Russian writer, psychoanalyst, 1861-1937)
Love warrior
Glennon Doyle
Memoirs Biography--Women Eating disorders Marriage Self-help Relationships
Lucrezia Borgia
Ferdinand Gregorovius
Biography--Women Biography--Nobility Borgia, Lucrezia (Ital.duchess, 1628-1699) Renaissance Italy--History--1494-1796
Lucrezia Borgia
a chapter from the morals of the Italian Renaissance
by Ferdinand Gregorovius
Biography--Women Biography--Nobility Borgia, Lucrezia (Ital.duchess, 1628-1699) Renaissance Italy--History--1494-1796
Lumineux destin d'Alexandra David-Neél
Jean Chalon
Biography--Literature--BeNeLux David-Neél, Alexandra (Belgian explorer, 1868-1969) Biography--Women
M train
Patti Smith
Memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Music Biography--Arts Smith, Patti (US musician, 1946-)
M train
Patti Smith; trad. de l'anglais p. Nicolas Richard
Memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Music Biography--Arts Smith, Patti (US musician, 1946-)
Ma vie
esquisse de quelques souvenirs
Lou Andreas-Salomé
Biography--Psychology Biography--Women Biography--Literature--Germany Andreas-Salomé, Lou (German-Russian writer, psychoanalyst, 1861-1937)
Madam Secretary
Madeleine Albright, with Bill Woodward.
Cabinet officers Albright, Madeleine Ambassadors Biography--Women Biography--Politics (ministers, MPs, essayists etc.)
Madame Curie
Eve Curie
Biography--Science Biography--Women
Madame K
Van Indish kind tot Haagse dame
Yvonne Keuls
Biography--Literature--BeNeLux Biography--Women Keuls, Yvonne (1931-)
Malala
the girl who stood up for education and was shot by the Taliban
I am Malala
Malala Yousafzai with Patricia McCormick
Biography--Women Memoirs Yousafzai, Malala (1997-) Education--Women Children's rights Women's rights--South Asia Afghanistan--History--1992-2001 (Taliban Emirate) Afghanistan--Social life and customs Age group--Youth (10-18)
Marguerite Yourcenar
l invention d une vie
Josyane Savigneau
Yourcenar, Marguerite (1903-1987) Biography--Literature--France Biography--Women
Maria Stuart
Stefan Zweig
Biography--Rulers (heads of gov./ chief exec.) Biography--Nobility Biography--Women Mary Stuart (Queen of Scots, 1542-1587)
Maria Theresa
and Other Studies
G. P. Gooch
Biography--Rulers (heads of gov./ chief exec.) Biography--Women Biography--Nobility Maria Theresa (Austrian empress, 1717-1780) Joseph II (German emperor, 1741-1790) Marie Antoinette (French queen, 1755-1793)
Maria Theresa
Edward Crankshaw
Biography--Rulers (heads of gov./ chief exec.) Biography--Women Biography--Nobility Maria Theresa (Austrian empress, 1717-1780)
Marie Antoinette
the journey
Antonia Fraser
Biography--Women Biography--Nobility Marie Antoinette (French queen, 1755-1793)
Marie Antoinette
Bildnis eines mittleren Charakters
Stefan Zweig
Biography--Social Sciences Biography--Rulers (heads of gov./ chief exec.) Queens (Regents) Marie Antoinette (French queen, 1755-1793) Biography--Women
Marie Curie
Ibi Lepscky ; illustrated by Paolo Cardoni ; translated from the Italian by Marcel Danesi
Chemists--Juvenile literature Curie, Marie (1867-1934) Chemists Biography--Science Biography--Women Age group--Kids (6-10)
Marie Stuart
Stefan Zweig; trduit de l'allemand par Alzir Hella
Biography--Rulers (heads of gov./ chief exec.) Biography--Nobility Biography--Women Mary Stuart (Queen of Scots, 1542-1587)
Marie-Antoinette
Stefan Zweig; trad. de l'allemand p Alzir Hella
Biography--Social Sciences Biography--Rulers (heads of gov./ chief exec.) Queens (Regents) Marie Antoinette (French queen, 1755-1793) Biography--Women
Marina Tsvetaeva
L'éternelle insurgée
Henri Troyat
Biography--Literature--Russia Biography--Women Tsvetaeva, Marina Ivanovna (1892-1941)
Mary McCarthy
a life
Carol Gelderman
Biography--Women Biography--Literature--United States Biography--Peace, civil & human rights activists
Mary Poppins, she wrote
the life of P. L. Travers
Valerie Lawson
Biography--Women Biography--Literature--Australia Biography--Journalists Biography--Show biz Travers, Pamela Lyndon (1899-1996)
Mayada, Daughter of Iraq
one woman's survival under Saddam Hussein.
Sasson, Jean P.
Women--Social conditions--Saudi Arabia Iraq--History--1979-1991 (Saddam Hussein) Iraq--History--1991-2003 Al-Askari, Mayada (1955-) Prisoners--Political Biography--Women Biography--Politics (ministers, MPs, essayists etc.)
Mehr Mut als Kleider im Gepäck
Frauen reisen im 19. Jahrhundert durch die Welt
Julia Keay; a.d.Engl.v. Ulrike Budde
Biography--Collective--19th century Biography--Women Biography--Travellers
Mein geteiltes Herz
eine große Liebe zwischen Sumatra, Shanghai und Deutschland
Claire Hake; Nicoline Hake
Biography--Women Memoirs Hake, Claire (-1990) Indonesia--History--1602-1945 (Dutch colony)
Mein Leben als Minenräumerin
Vera Bohle
Memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Journalists Biography--Applied sciences War--Technical aspects Engineering--Military Mines--Clearance Public safety--Control of explosives and firearms
Mein Leben ohne mich
ein Bericht
Jutta Winkelmann
Memoirs Biography--Cinema, TV & theater Biography--Rebels, revolutionaries, reformers Biography--Literature--Germany Biography--Women Winkelmann, Jutta (German artist, 1949-2017) Graphic novels
Memoirs of a Revolutionist
Vera Figner
Memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Rebels, revolutionaries, reformers Figner, Vera (Russian revolutionary, 1852-1937)
Memoirs of Mary Wollstonecraft
by William Godwin; w. a pref. by John Middleton Murry
Biography--Women Biography--Literature--Britain Biography--Philosophy Biography--Rebels, revolutionaries, reformers Social activists Women's rights Wollstonecraft, Mary (Engl. philos. 1759-1797)
Memorias de Africa
Isak Dinesen
Memoirs Biography--Travellers Biography--Women Biography--Farmers Blixen, Tania (aka Isak Dinesen, Danish writer, 1885-1962)
Memories van een keizerin
Farah Diba Pahlawi
Memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Rulers (heads of gov./ chief exec.) Pahlavi, Farah (Iranian empress, 1938-) Empresses
Men we reaped
A memoir
Jesmyn Ward
Memoirs Race relations Biography--Women African American authors--Biography Poverty Death
Message from an unknown Chinese mother
stories of loss and love
Xinran
Mothers--China--Biography Family policy--China Memoirs Adoptees Biography--Women Women--Crimes against Women--Social conditions--China
Model
the ugly business of beautiful women
Michael Gross
Biography--Collective--20th century Biography--Women Modeling (Fashion)
Mom & me & Mom
Maya Angelou
Memoirs Biography--Women Biography--African Americans Biography--Literature--United States Angelou, Maya (US author, 1928-2014)
Morville hours
Katherine Swift
Gardens--History.--England Gardens Swift, Katherine Gardens--Formal layout Gardeners--Women Gardens--Monasteries Biography--Women
My Emily Dickinson
Susan Howe
Poets--American Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) Women authors Biography--Literature--United States Biography--Women
My girlhood : an autobiography
Taslima Nasrin
Biography--Women Biography--Literature--Pakistan Biography--Medicine Feminism and literature Women--Islam Nasrin, Taslima (1962-) Memoirs
My god of surprises
a memoir of my personal journey in faith
Maria Estefania Fernandes
Spiritual memoirs Biography--Travellers Fernandes, Maria Estefania Biography--Women
My invented country
a memoir
Isabel Allende
Biography--Women Biography--Literature--Latin America
My life
by Isadora Duncan
Memoirs Biography--Dance Biography--Women Duncan, Isadora (US dancer, 1877-1927)
My religion
by Helen Keller
Spiritual memoirs Keller, Helen (1880-1968) Biography--Literature--United States Biography--Women
Narrative of Sojourner Truth, a bondswoman of olden time
with a history of her labors and correspondence, drawn from her "Book Of Life"
ed. w. an introd. & notes by Nell Irvin Painter
Memoirs Biography--Victims of violence Biography--Women Truth, Sojourner (Activist, 1797-1883)
Nicht ohne meine Tochter
Betty Mahmoody; William Hoffer; a.d.Amerikan.übers.v. Herlind Grau u. Klara D. Klein
Memoirs Biography--Women Mahmoody, Betty (US-Iranian refugee, 1945-) Abused wives Iran--Social life and customs Books adapted into a film or play
Noch ein Martini und ich lieg unterm Gastgeber
Dorothy Parker, eine Biografie
Michaela Karl
Biography--Women Biography--Literature--United States
Nomadentochter
Waris Dirie; dt. v. Theda Krohm-Linke
Memoirs Dirie, Waris (Somali model, 1965-) Biography--Women Biography--Victims of violence Fashion models Female circumcision--Somalia
Not without my daughter
Betty Mahmoody; w. William Hoffer
Memoirs Biography--Women Mahmoody, Betty (US-Iranian refugee, 1945-) Abused wives Iran--Social life and customs Books adapted into a film or play
Nothing to Declare
memoirs of a woman traveling alone
Mary Morris
Travel--Central America Memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Travellers
Nothing too much
one woman, many circles
Helen Byron
Spiritual memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Arts Byron, Helen (Artist, 1919-)
Nympho and other maniacs
Irving Wallace
Biography--Women Biography--Prostitutes and pimps Biography--Collective
On the way to satori
a woman's experience of enlightenment
Gerta Ital; transl. from the German by Timothy M. Green
Spiritual memoirs Ital, Gerta (1904-1988) Buddhism--Zen--Japan Enlightenment (Spirituality) Biography--Spiritual persons Biography--Women
Once in a house on fire
Andrea Ashworth
Memoirs Biography--Women Ashworth, Andrea (English author, 1969-) Child abuse Violence--Intra-family Awards--Somerset Maugham Award
Onteerd
Mukhtar Mai en Marie-Thérèse Cuny; vert.d. Nini Wielink
Memoirs Biography--Women Pakistan--Social conditions--21st century Women--Social conditions--Pakistan Social welfare problems and services--Women Rape victiims
Ontwaken in vrijheid
Fransje van Riel with Nomfusi Vinah Yekani, vert. uit het Engels door Jeannet Dekker.
Yekani, Nomfusi Vinah. Women--Africa Social stratification--Women Biography--Women Memoirs
Oprah Winfrey
a biography
Helen S. Garson
Biography--Women Biography--Cinema, TV & theater Television personalities Winfrey, Oprah (US billionaire, 1954)
Orange is the new black
Piper Kerman; trad. de l'anglais p. Jacques Martinache
Memoirs Biography--Criminals Biography--Women Kerman, Piper (US felon, 1969-) Money laundering Prisoners Books adapted into a film or play
Out of Africa
Isak Dinesen; w an introd. by Bernardine Kielty
Memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Literature--Britain Blixen, Tania (aka Isak Dinesen, Danish writer, 1885-1962)
Out of the dark
one woman s harrowing journey to discover her past
Linda Caine
Biography--Psychology Biography--Women Caine, Linda (1951-) Psychotherapy--Case studies Abused children Women--Abuse Mentally ill Suicide--Fiction
Ouvehoeren
verhaalen uit de peeskammer
Martine en Louise Fokkens
Memoirs Biography--Prostitutes and pimps Biography--Women Fokkens, Martine (Dutch prostitute, 1942-) Fokkens, Louise (Dutch prostitute, 1942-)
Partir avant les pluies
mémoires
Alexandra Fuller; trad. de l'anglais p. Anne Rabinovitch
Fuller, Alexandra (Writer, 1969-) Memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Literature Immigrants--North America
Passionate minds
the great scientific affair
David. Bodanis
Biography--Science Mistresses--Biography.--France France--Intellectual life--18th century Biography--Literature--France Biography--Women Du Châtelet, Gabrielle Emilie (Math., 1706-1749) Mathematicians
Passionate nomad
the life of Freya Stark
Jane Fletcher Geniesse
Biography--Women Biography--Travellers Stark, Freya (Explorer, 1893-1993)
Peace Pilgrim
her life and work in her own words
compiled by some of her friends
Biography--Women Peace Pilgrim (US peace activist, 1908-1981)
Pepita
V. Sackville-West
Biography--Dance Biography--Women de la Oliva, Josefa (Pepita, Span.dancer, 1830-1871)
Per primo hanno ucciso mio padre
Loung Ung; trad. di Sara Puggioni
Memoirs Biography--Women Ung, Loung (Human rights activist, 1970-) Cambodia--History--1975-1979 (Khmer Rouge)
Perfect Hostage
a life of Aung San Suu Kyi
Justin Wintle
Biography--Politics (ministers, MPs, essayists etc.) Biography--Women Aung San Suu Kyi (Burmese polit., 1945-) Burma--History--1948-1988
Persepolis
The story of a childhood
Marjane Satrapi
Memoirs Biography--Arts Biography--Literature--France Biography--Literature--Iran / Persia Biography--Women Biography--Cinema, TV & theater Satrapi, Marjane (Iranian-French artist, writer, 1969-) Graphic novels
Persepolis
The story of a return
Marjane Satrapi
Memoirs Biography--Arts Biography--Literature--France Biography--Literature--Iran / Persia Biography--Women Biography--Cinema, TV & theater Satrapi, Marjane (Iranian-French artist, writer, 1969-) Graphic novels
Personal history
Katharine Graham
Memoirs Biography--Journalists Biography--Business, economy, finance Graham, Katharine (US publisher, 1917-2001) Publishers and publishing Biography--Women Newspaper publishing Investigative reporting--Cases
Princess in the land of snows
the life of Jamyang Sakya in Tibet
Jamyang Sakya & Julie Emery ; foreword by the Dalai Lama ; introduction by B. Alan Wallace
Sakya, Jamyang (1934-) Buddhism--Priests' spouses Memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Religion--Buddhism
Private revolutions
Coming of age in a new China
Yuan Yang
China--History China--Politics and government--20th century Women Biography--Women
Provoked
the story of Kiranjit Ahluwalia.
Kiranjit Ahluwalia and Rahila Gupta.
Abused wives--Biography--Great Britain Marital violence--Great Britain Ahluwalia, Kiranjit. Abused wives Murderers--Women Marital violence Biography--Women
Queens of the conquest
England's Medieval Queens, 1066-1167
Alison Weir
Great Britain--History--1066-1154 (Norman kings) Queens (Regents) Biography--Women Biography--Collective
Rad des Lebens
Elisabeth Kuebler-Ross
Biography--Philosophy Kübler-Ross, Elisabeth (1926-2004) Biography--Women
Rage for fame
the ascent of Clare Boothe Luce
Sylvia Jukes Morris
Biography--Diplomats Biography--Literature--United States Biography--Politics (ministers, MPs, essayists etc.) Biography--Women Luce, Clare Boothe (US author & politician, 1903-1987)
Rage for fame
The honorable Clare Boothe Luce
Sylvia Jukes Morris
Biography--Diplomats Biography--Literature--United States Biography--Politics (ministers, MPs, essayists etc.) Biography--Women Luce, Clare Boothe (US author & politician, 1903-1987)
Reflections of Eden
my life with the Orangutans of Borneo
Biruté M. F. Galdikas
Primates--Behavior Indonesia--Borneo Orangutans--Behaviour Animals--Conservation of habitat Memoirs Biography--Biologists and Naturalists Biography--Environmentalists Galdikas, Biruté Mary (Canadian anthropol., primatol., conservat., 1946-) Biography--Women
Reinas malditas
Cristina Morató
Queens (Regents) Biography--Collective Biography--Women Biography--Rulers (heads of gov./ chief exec.) Biography--Nobility Christina (Queen of Sweden, 1626-1689) Elisabeth (Empress, consort of Franz Joseph I. of Austria 1837-1898) Victoria (Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901) Eugénie (Empress, consort of Napoleon III. of France,1826-1920) Alexandra (Empress, consort of Nicholas I. of Russia, 1798-1860)
Revenue guérie de l'au-delà
une NDE m'a sauvée
Anita Moorjani; trad. de l'anglais p. Christine Lefranc
Biography--Women Memoirs Moorjani, Anita (1959-) Cancer--Patients Near-death experiences Cancer regression, Spontaneous
Rien où poser sa tête
Françoise Frenkel
Memoirs Biography--Jews Biography--Women Biography--Literature Frenkel, Françoise (Polish refugee, 1889-1975)
Romantic outlaws
the extraordinary lives of Mary Wollstonecraft & Mary Shelley
Charlotte Gordon
Biography--Women Biography--Literature--Britain Biography--Philosophy Wollstonecraft, Mary (Engl. philos. 1759-1797) Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft (writer, 1797-1851) Biography--Peace, civil & human rights activists
Romy Schneider
Mythos und Leben
Alice Schwarzer
Biography--Women Biography--Cinema, TV & theater Schneider, Romy (German actress, 1938-1982)
Rose
my life in service to Lady Astor
Rosina Harrison
Memoirs Biography--Servants and slaves Biography--Women Harrison, Rosina (Pesonal maid, 1899-1989)
Roter Vogel erzählt
die Geschichte einer Dakota
Zitkala-Ša; m.Ill.v. Angel de Cora; a.d.Engl.v. Frank Elstner u. Ulrich Grafe
Memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Literature--United States Biography--Music Zitkala-Sa (Dakota writer, 1876-1938) Biography--Arts de Cora, Angel (Winnebago painter, 1871-1919) Folk tales--Native Americans
round-heeled woman
my late-life adventures in sex and romance
Jane Juska
Juska, Jane Women--Old age Biography--Women
Running like a girl
Alexandra Heminsley
Marathon running Memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Sports Heminsley, Alexandra (Brit. runner, 1976-)
Saint Bernadette Soubirous
1844-1879
Francis Trochu; transl. & adptd by John Joyce S.J.
Biography--Religion--Christianity Biography--Women Saints--Christianity--Women Hagiography St. Bernadette (1844-1879)
Saving the white lions
one woman's battle for Africa's most sacred animal
Linda Tucker; fwd by Andrew Harvey
Lions--South Africa Wildlife conservationists Memoirs Biography--Environmentalists Biography--Women Tucker, Linda (S African wildlfe conserv., 1963-)
Shakespeare's wife
Germaine Greer
Biography--Women Shakespeare, Ann (William's wife)
Shelf life
romance, mystery, drama, and other page-turning adventures from a year in a bookstore
Suzanne Strempek Shea
Memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Literature--United States Booksellers and bookselling
Simone de Beauvoir
Claude Francis
Biography--Literature--France Biography--Women de Beauvoir, Simone (French writer, 1908-1986)
Simone de Beauvoir
Claude Francis
de Beauvoir, Simone (French writer, 1908-1986) Biography--Women Biography--Literature--France
Simone de Beauvoir
Rebellin und Wegbereiterin
Alice Schwarzer
Biography--Women Biography--Literature--France Biography--Philosophy Feminism--History de Beauvoir, Simone (French writer, 1908-1986)
Simone Veil, l'immortelle
Bresson, scénario; Duphot, dessins
French fiction--Biographical Veil, Simone (French politician, 1927-2017) Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--France Biography--Women Biography--Jews Biography--Politics (ministers, MPs, essayists etc.) Graphic novels
Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas
Maya Angelou
Biography--Show biz Biography--Women Biography--Cinema, TV & theater Biography--Social Sciences Biography--Literature--United States Memoirs Angelou, Maya (US author, 1928-2014)
Sister Ruth
Victor C. Hall
Biography--Women Biography--Religion--Christianity Heathcock, Ruth Sabina (1901-?) Aboriginal Australians
Small fry
Lisa Brennan-Jobs
Memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Journalists Brennan-Jobs, Lisa (US writer, 1978-)
Sogni perduti
Enzo Biagi
Biography--Women Biography--Collective Celebrities--Anecdotes
Sold
a story of modern-day slavery
Zana Muhsen, w. Andrew Crofts
Yemen--Social conditions Women--Islam Abused wives--Biography--Great Britain Arranged marriage--Arabia Child marriage Biography--Women Muhsen, Zana (1965-) Muhsen, Nadja (1966-) Memoirs
Somewhere towards the end
Diana Athill
Aging Old age Biography--Women Biography--Literature--Britain Memoirs Athill, Diana
Songs of blood and sword
a daughter's memoir
Fatima Bhutto
Memoirs Biography--Families Biography--Politics (ministers, MPs, essayists etc.) Bhutto (Pakistani family) Biography--Women
Sonnenkinder
mein Leben für die Armen in Indien
Nicole Mtawa
Memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Miscellaneous Poor children Social problems and services--Poverty--India
Sonny boy
Annejet van der Zijl
Biography--Peace, civil & human rights activists Nods, Waldemar (Surinamese underminer, 1908-1945) van der Lans, Rika (Dutch underminer, 1891-1945) Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Netherlands Netherlands--History--1901-today Biography--Women Letters
Soul surfer
a true story of faith, family, and fighting to get back on the board
Bethany Hamilton, with Sheryl Berk & Rick Bundschuh
Surf boarding Sharks Amputees--Rehabilitation Memoirs Biography--Sports Biography--Women Hamilton, Bethany (US surf boarder, 1990-)
Spy princess
the life of Noor Inayat Khan
Shrabani Basu; foreword by M.R.D. Foot
World War II (1939-1945)--Secret service--Great Britain Khan, Noor Inayat (Spy, 1914-1944) Intelligence officers--Women World War II (1939-1945) Biography--Women Biography--Military
Taking on the world
Ellen MacArthur
Biography--Sports Biography--Travellers Biography--Women Memoirs MacArthur, Ellen (British sailor, 1976-) Travel--Oceans
Tant que dure le jour
Susan Travers; traduit de l'anglais par Hélène Prouteau
Memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Military Travers, Susan (1909-2003)
Tanz im Licht
Shirley MacLaine
Biography--Show biz Biography--Spiritual persons Biography--Women MacLaine, Shirley (US actress, 1934-) Memoirs
Teresa de Jesús
una mujier extraordinaria
Cathleen Medwick; trad. Marcelo Covián Fasce
Biography--Religion--Christianity Biography--Women Saints--Christianity--Women Mystics Teresa of Avila (Saint Teresa of Jesus, 1515-1582)
Teresa of Avila
Shirley du Boulay
Biography--Religion--Christianity Biography--Literature--Spain Biography--Women Mystics Saints--Christianity--Women Teresa of Avila (Saint Teresa of Jesus, 1515-1582) Biography--Mystics
Terrazza proibita
Fatima Mernissi
Biography--Women Mernissi, Fatima (1940-)
The beautiful struggle
a memoir
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Memoirs Biography--Women Biography--African Americans Coates, Ta-Nehisi (US writer, 1975-) Biography--Literature--United States
The bolter
Idina Sackville, the woman who scandalised 1920s society and became White Mischief's infamous seductress
Frances Osborne
Biography--Women Biography--Nobility Divorced women Sackville, Idina (English aristocrat, 1893-1955) Women--Sexual behavior
The book of Margery Kempe
a modern version
by W. Butler-Bowdon
Memoirs Spiritual memoirs Biography--Religion--Christianity Biography--Women Kempe, Margery (English mystic, 1373-1438)
The Buddha from Brooklyn
Martha Sheryll
Buddhism--Women Burroughs, Catherine Biography--Religion--Buddhism Biography--Women
The cost of living
Deborah Levy
Autobiography--Authorship Biography--Women Memoirs Feminism Essays
The Crippled Tree
China; Autobiography; History
The unforgettable story of war and revolution in China
Han Suyin
Biography--Literature--China Biography--Rebels, revolutionaries, reformers Biography--Science Biography--Women China--History--1912-1949 (Republic) Han Suyin (1917-2012) Memoirs
The Cypress Tree
a love letter to Iran
Kamin Mohammadi
Memoirs Biography--Women Iran--Social life and customs Mohammadi, Kamin (Iranian exile, 1969-)
The diary of Fanny Burney
Biography--Women Biography--Literature--Britain Diaries and journals Burney, Fanny (Mme d'Arblay, 1752-1840)
The Downing Street years
Margaret Thatcher
Thatcher, Margaret (Brit.prime minister, 1925-2013) Memoirs Biography--Rulers (heads of gov./ chief exec.) Biography--Women Biography--Politics (ministers, MPs, essayists etc.) Prime ministers--Great Britain Books adapted into a film or play
The faraway nearby
Rebecca Solnit
Spiritual memoirs Biography--Literature--United States Biography--Women Solnit, Rebecca (US writer, 1961-) Authorship Storytelling--Psychological aspects
The Flame Trees of Thika
memories of an African childhood
Elspeth Huxley; ill. by Francesca Pelizzoli
Memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Literature--Africa Biography--Literature--Britain Huxley, Elspeth Joscelin (English writer, 1907-1997) Africa--History--Colonies--20th century
The girl with the lower back tattoo
Amy Schumer
Memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Celebrities Biography--Cinema, TV & theater Schumer, Amy (US comedian, 1981-)
The heart of a woman
Maya Angelou
Memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Literature--United States Biography--Peace, civil & human rights activists Angelou, Maya (US author, 1928-2014)
The hiding place
by Corrie ten Boom, with John & Elizabeth Sherrill
Memoirs Biography--Women Ten Boom, Corrie (1892-1983) Biography--Rebels, revolutionaries, reformers Biography--Religion--Christianity Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Netherlands Books adapted into a film or play
The house on Carnaval Street
from Kabul to a home by the Mexican sea
Deborah Rodriguez
Memoirs Biography--Women Rodriguez, Deborah (Writer)
The kindness of strangers
Kate Adie
Memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Journalists Adie, Kathryn (BBC journalist, 1945-)
The last courtesan
Writing my mother's memoir
Manish Gaekwad
Memoirs Biography--Women
The letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple
Letters Biography--Nobility Biography--Women Osborne, Dorothy (Lady Temple, 1627-1695) Temple, William (Engl. statesman, 1628-1699)
The liars' club
a memoir
Mary Karr
Memoirs Biography--Literature--United States Biography--Women Karr, Mary (American writer, 1955-)
The life and times of Elizabeth I
Biography--Rulers (heads of gov./ chief exec.) Biography--Nobility Biography--Women Elizabeth I. (Queen of England, 1533-1603) Great Britain--History--1485-1603 (Tudor) Age group--Youth (10-18)
The life of Teresa of Jesus
Saint Teresa of Aliva; translated from the Spanish and edited by E. Allison Peers ; from the critical edition of P. Silverio de Santa Teresa ; introduction by Benedicta Ward
Teresa of Avila (Saint Teresa of Jesus, 1515-1582) Spiritual memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Religion--Christianity Saints--Christianity--Women Mystics
The life of the heart
George Sand and her times; a biography
by Frances Winwar
Biography--Literature--France Sand, George (French writer, 1804-1876) Biography--Women
The Norton book of women's lives
Edited by Phyllis Rose
Biography--Women Journals Women's studies Feminism Biography--Collective--20th century
The outrun
Amy Liptrot
Orkney islands Alcoholics--Rehabilitation Nature--Psychological aspects Memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Journalists Liptrot, Amy (Scottish journalist, 1986-) Awards--PEN/Ackerley Prize Awards--Wainwright Prize
The silent woman
Silvia Plath & Ted Hughes
by Janet Malcolm
Biography--Literature--United States Biography--Literature--Britain Biography--Women Poets--English Plath, Sylvia (US poet, 1932-1963) Hughes, Ted (English poet, 1930-1998)
The singing creek where the willows grow
the rediscovered diary of Opal Whiteley
pres. by Benjamin Hoff
Diaries and journals Biography--Women Biography--Biologists and Naturalists Whiteley, Opal (US nature writer, 1897-1992)
The story of a soul
The autobiography of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux
transl. w. an introd. by John Beevers
Memoirs Thérèse of Lisieux (Saint, 1873-1897) Biography--Women Biography--Religion--Christianity Nuns--Christianity Saints--Christianity Christianity--Religious experience
The story of my life
by Ellen Terry
Terry, Alice Ellen (1847-1928) Theater--Shakespearean Biography--Women Biography--Cinema, TV & theater Memoirs
The swan in the evening
fragments of an inner life
Rosamond Lehmann
Memoirs Biography--Literature--Britain Biography--Women Lehmann, Rosamond (Engl. novelist, transl., 1901-1990)
The tale of Beatrix Potter
a biography
by Margaret Lane; with four coulor and eight black and white plates
Biography--Women
The true story of Pocahontas
by Lucille Recht Penner; ill. by Pamela Johnson
Age group--Kids (6-10) Reading--Study and teaching--Elemantary education Natives of North America--History Biography--Tribal persons Biography--Women Pocahontas (Powhatan Native American, 1596-1617)
The unfinished autobiography of Alice A. Bailey
Memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Spiritual persons Theosophists--Biography Bailey, Alice Ann (US theosophist,1880-1949)
The veiled kingdom
a unique insight into Saudi society and the Bin Laden family
Inside the kingdom
Carmen Bin Ladin; [written in collaboration with Ruth Marshall]
Bin Laden, Carmen (1954-) Memoirs Biography--Women
The wheel of life
a memoir of living and dying
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Spiritual memoirs Kübler-Ross, Elisabeth (1926-2004) Biography--Women Biography--Psychology Death
The wives of Henry VIII
The six wives of Henry VIII
Antonia Fraser
Biography--Rulers (heads of gov./ chief exec.) Biography--Women Henry VIII (King of England, 1491-1547) Queens (Regents) Catherine of Aragon (Queen consort of Henry VIII, 1485-1536) Boleyn, Anne (Queen, consort of Henry VIII, 1507-1536) Seymour, Jane (Queen consort of Henry VIII, 1508-1537) Anne of Cleves (Queen consort of Henry VIII, 1515-1557) Howard, Catherine (Queen consort of Henry VIII, 1523-1542) Parr, Catherine (Queen consort of Henry VIII, 1512-1548)
The woman who changed her brain
how I left my learning disability behind, and other stories of cognitive transformation
Barbara Arrowsmith-Young
Memoirs Biography--Women Learning disorders Cognitive science Arrowsmith-Young, Barbara (Learning lecturer, 1951-) Neuroplasticity Memory and Learning
Theatre street
the reminiscences of Tamara Karsavina
Memoirs Biography--Dance Biography--Women Karsavina, Tamara (1885-1978) Ballet dancers
Things I don't want to know
A response to George Orwell's 1946 essay 'Why I Write'
Deborah Levy
Autobiography--Authorship Biography--Women Memoirs Essays Feminism
This is the story of a happy marriage
Ann Patchett
Memoirs Biography--Literature--United States Biography--Women Patchett, Ann (US author, 1963-)
Tibet
my story, an autobiography
Pema Jetsun ; with Gilles van Grasdorff
Tibet--History Tibet (China)--Biography Memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Administration (Civil servants, public officials) Jetsun Pema (1940-) Dalai Lama XIV (Tenzin Gyatso, 1935-)
Tina Turner, Queen of Rock
Angela Schöneck
Biography--Women Biography--Music Turner, Tina (American singer, 1939-)
To keep faith
by Mary Middleton Murry
Memoirs Biography--Literature--Britain Biography--Women Middleton Murry, Mary (Wife of John) Middleton Murry, John Sr. (Engl. writer, 1889-1957)
To Speak For the Trees
my life's journey from ancient Celtic wisdom to a healing vision of the forest
Diana Beresford-Kroeger
Trees--Communication Forest ecology Memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Science Biography--Biologists and Naturalists Beresford-Kroeger, Diana (Irish author, 1944-)
To tell at last
survival under false identity, 1941-45
Blanca Rosenberg
Biography--Jews Biography--Women Memoirs Rosenberg, Blanca (1913-1998) Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives Jews--Europe, Eastern
Tochter der schwarzen Berge
Befreit. Die Heimkehr der Sklavin.
Mende Nazer mit Damien Lewis ; aus dem Englischen von Karin Dufner.
Biography--Women Biography--Women Nuba (African people) --Biography Nazer, Mende.
Toen ik je zag
mijn leven met Antonie
Isa Hoes
Memoirs Biography--Cinema, TV & theater Biography--Women Hoes, Isa (Dutch actress, 1967-) Kamerling, Antonie (Dutch actor, 1966-2010)
Tot het laatse uur
het intrigerende levensverhaal van Hitlers secretaresse
Traudl Junge
Memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Rulers (heads of gov./ chief exec.) Hitler, Adolf (German chancellor, 1889-1945) Junge, Traudl (Hitler's secretary, 1920-2002)
Trailing
a memoir
Kristin Louise Duncombe
Doctors Without Borders Africa, East--Social life and customs Humanitarian assistance Anxiety Memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Psychology Duncombe, Kristin Louise (US psychotherapist)
Traveling with pomegranates
a mother and daughter journey to the sacred places of Greece, Turkey, and France
Sue Monk Kidd; Ann Kidd Taylor
Memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Literature--United States Kidd, Sue Monk (US novelist, 1948-) Sacred places--Mediterranean Travel--Mediterranean Mothers and daughters--Personal narratives
Truth and beauty
a friendship
Ann Patchett
Memoirs Grealy, Lucy (Irish-US poet, 1963-2002) Patchett, Ann (US author, 1963-) Biography--Literature--United States Biography--Women
Twintig kippen voor een zadel
mijn jeugd in Afrika
Robyn Scott; vert. Lilian Schreuder
Biography--Women Biography--Journalists Memoirs Scott, Robyn (1981-)
Two quiet lives
David Cecil
Biography--Literature--Britain Gray, Thomas (English poet, 1716-1771) Osborne, Dorothy (Lady Temple, 1627-1695) Biography--Women
Um Füsse bat ich, und er gab mir Flügel
Biographie der indischen Ärztin Mary Verghese
Dorothy C. Wilson
Biography--Medicine Biography--Women Verghese, Mary Puthisseril (1925-1986)
Una morte dolcissima
Simone de Beauvoir; trad. di Clara Lusignoli
Memoirs Biography--Literature--France Biography--Philosophy Biography--Women de Beauvoir, Simone (French writer, 1908-1986) Death--Apparent, Imminent Cancer--Patients Medicine--Ethics
Und nirgends eine Karawane
die Weltreisen der Ida Pfeiffer (1797-1858)
Eka Donner
Biography--Travellers Biography--Women Ida Pfeiffer (Austrian traveller, 1797-1858)
Und plötzlich waren wir Verbrecher
Geschichte einer Republikflucht
Dorothea Ebert; Michael Proksch
Germany--History--1945-1990 (Division) Biography--Families Biography--Women Ebert, Dorothea (1960-) Proksch, Michael (1958-) Memoirs Refugees--Germany Germany (East)--Social conditions
Une vie
Simone Veil
Memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Politics (ministers, MPs, essayists etc.) Veil, Simone (French politician, 1927-2017)
Unorthodox
the scandalous rejection of my Hasidic roots
Deborah Feldman
Memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Jews Feldman, Deborah (US writer, 1986-) Jews--Hasidic Judaism--Relationships and attitudes Judaism--Hasidism
Untamed
Glennon Doyle
Memoirs Biography--Women Self-help LGBTQ Feminism
Variations sauvages
Hélène Grimaud
Biography--Music Wolves--Fiction Grimaud, Hélène (French pianist, 1969-) Biography--Women Biography--Music
Variazioni selvagge
Hélène Grimaud; trad. di Patrizia Farese
Biography--Music Wolves--Fiction Grimaud, Hélène (French pianist, 1969-) Memoirs Biography--Music Biography--Women
Verrückter kann man gar nicht leben
Ärztin, Nonne, Powerfrau
Ruth Pfau
Travel--Afghanistan Travel--Pakistan Afghanistan--History--1992-2001 (Taliban Emirate) Social work Biography--Religion--Christianity Biography--Women Biography--Medicine Pfau, Ruth (Christian missionary, 1929-2017) Memoirs
Vie écrite par elle-même
Thérèse d'Avila; trad. de l'espagnol p. le père Grégoire de Saint Joseph
Teresa of Avila (Saint Teresa of Jesus, 1515-1582) Spiritual memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Religion--Christianity Saints--Christianity--Women
Virginia Woolf
Viviane Forrester
Biography--Women Biography--Literature--Britain Woolf, Virginia (Brit.writer, 1882-1941) Awards--Prix Goncourt
Vom Glück, mit der Natur zu leben
Naturbeobachtungen aus dem Jahr 1906
das Tagebuch der Edith Holden
Seasons Diaries and journals Biography--Biologists and Naturalists Biography--Women Holden, Edith Blackwell (English naturalist, 1871-1920)
Von Mao zu Bach
wie ich die Kulturrevolution überlebte
Aus dem Französischen von Anna Kamp
Biography--Music Biography--Women Pianists Zhu Xiao-Mei (Chinese pianists, 1949-) Memoirs
Votes for women!
the pioneers and heroines of female suffrage
Jenni Murray
Biography--Women Biography--Collective Women's rights Social stratification--Women
Wanja und die wilden Hunde
mein Leben in fünf Jahreszeiten
Maike Maja Nowak
Memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Applied sciences Biography--Education Dogs--Training
Warten auf Antwort
ein deutsches Schicksal
Margret Bechler
Memoirs Biography--Women Bechler, Margret (Wife of a Wehrmacht officer, 1914-2004) World War II (1939-1945)--Women--Germany World War II (1939-1945)--Aftermath World War II (1939-1945)--Campaigns--Eastern Front
Wartime diary
Simone de Beauvoir; transl. & notes by Anne Deing Cordero
Biography--Literature--France Biography--Women Biography--Philosophy Diaries and journals de Beauvoir, Simone (French writer, 1908-1986)
We of the never-never
the Australian classic
Mrs Aeneas Gunn
Memoirs Biography--Farmers Biography--Women Frontier and pioneer life Australia--Social life and customs
Weavers of wisdom
women mystics of the twentieth century
Anne Bancroft
Mysticism--Comparative Women and religion Biography--Collective--20th century Biography--Women Biography--Spiritual persons Biography--Mystics Spiritual biography Spiritual life--Women
When in Rome
chasing la dolce vita
Penelope Green
Travel--Italy--Rome Immigrants--Italy Memoirs Biography--Journalists Biography--Women
Where memories gather
chuckles & wisdom
Hilary Lyons
Memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Travellers Biography--Medicine Biography--Religion--Christianity Travel--Sierra Leone Anecdotes Missions--Africa Missions--Christian
White cargo
Felicity Kendal
Memoirs Biography--Cinema, TV & theater Biography--Women Kendal, Felicity (Engl.actress, 1946-)
Widening circles
Joanna Macy
Biography--Religion--Buddhism Biography--Women Biography--Environmentalists Macy, Joanna (1929-) Deep ecology Systems theory
Wiiedersehen in Barsaloi
Corinne Hofmann
Masai (African people)--Biography Hofmann, Corinne Women--White Masai (African people) Biography--Women
Wild
from lost to found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Cheryl Strayed
Travel--By hiking Travel--United States--West Women--Travel Books adapted into a film or play Memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Travellers Strayed, Cheryl (US memoirist, 1968-) Spiritual memoirs Awards--Oregon Book Award
Wild
מסע רגלי לגילוי עצמי
שריל סטרייד
Travel--By hiking Travel--United States--West Women--Travel Books adapted into a film or play Memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Travellers Strayed, Cheryl (US memoirist, 1968-) Spiritual memoirs Awards--Oregon Book Award
Wild Irish women
Extraordinary lives from history
Marian Broderick
Ireland--History Women Irish Literature--History and criticism Feminism Biography--Women
Wild swans
three daughters of China.
Jung Chang
Chang, Jung (1952-) Biography--Families Biography--Women China--History--20th century Memoirs Awards--NCR Book Award Awards--National Book Awards (UK)
Wilde Schwäne
Die Geschichte einer Familie : drei Frauen in China von der Kaiserzeit bis heute.
Jung Chang ; aus dem Englischen von Andrea Galler und Karlheinz Dürr
Biography--Families Biography--Women Memoirs Chang, Jung (1952-) China--History--20th century Awards--National Book Awards (UK) Awards--NCR Book Award
Wilde zwanen
drie dochters van China
Jung Chang; u.h. Engels vert.d. Paul Syrier
Memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Families Chang, Jung (1952-) China--History--20th century Awards--National Book Awards (UK) Awards--NCR Book Award
Witwe im Wahn
das Leben der Alma Mahler-Werfel
Oliver Hilmes
Biography--Arts Biography--Women
Woman in the mist
the story of Dian Fossey and the mountain gorillas of Africa
Farley Mowat
Fossey, Dian (US primatologist, 1932-1985) Gorillas Biography--Women Biography--Biologists and Naturalists Conservationists--Women Wildlife conservation
Woman warrior
memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts
Maxine Hong Kingston
Biography--Women Memoirs Kingston, Maxine Hong (1940-) Awards--National Book Critics Circle Award (USA)
Women of Sufism
a hidden treasure. Writings and stories of mystic poets, scholars & saints
sel. & introd. by Camille Adams Helminski
Sufism--Teachers Sufism--Poetry Women--Islam Biography--Collective Biography--Women
Zlata's diary
a child's life in Sarajevo
Zlata Filipović; transl. w notes by Christina Pribichevich-Zorić
Diaries and journals Biography--Victims of violence Biography--Women Filipović, Zlata (Bosnian war survivor, 1980-) Age group--Youth (10-18)
Лелия или жизнь жорж санд
Андре Моруа
Sand, George (French writer, 1804-1876) Biography--Literature--France Biography--Women
ברבורי פרא
רונג ג'אנג
Chang, Jung (1952-) Biography--Families Biography--Women China--History--20th century Memoirs Awards--NCR Book Award Awards--National Book Awards (UK)
בתו של סטלין
רוזמרי סוליבן
Biography--Women Biography--Police Alliluyeva, Svetlana (Stalin's daughter, 1926-2011)
שלום לך מסה הקטנה
ניצה סקולניק
Memoirs Biography--Women Skolnik, Nitzah Incest Rape victiims
அன்னா தாஸ்தாயெவ்ஸ்கியின் காதல்
Anna Dostoevskyin Kaathal
அன்னா தாஸ்தாயெவ்ஸ்கி. தமிழில் -சுரா
Diaries and journals Biography--Women Biography--Literature--Russia Dostoyevskaya, Anna (Russian writer, 1846-1918)
டாக்டர் அன்னிபெசன்ட்
Dr Annie Besant
முரளி கிருஷ்ணன்
Biography--Spiritual persons Biography--Women Besant, Annie (1847-1933) Theosophists--Biography
டோட்டோ-சான், ஜன்னலில் ஒரு சிறுமி
Totto-Chan, Jannalil oru Sirumi
Tedsuko Kuroyanaki
Education--Psychic Education--Philosophy and theory Memoirs Biography--Women Biography--Arts
பெண் கல்விப் போராளி மலாலா
Pen Kalvi Porali Malala
ஜெகாதா
Biography--Women Yousafzai, Malala (1997-) Children's rights Women's rights--South Asia Afghanistan--History--1992-2001 (Taliban Emirate) Afghanistan--Social life and customs
மறக்க முடியாத மனிதர்கள்
Marakka mudiyatha manithargal
பி. எஸ். ஆச்சார்யா
Biography--Religion--Christianity Biography--India Biography--Women