Female Authors Who Made History | Biography

Best Female Authors Of All Time on April 2024 Shopping Deals at Bestonio.com

  • It All Comes Back to You: A Book Club Recommendation!

    • ASIN: 0578448831
    • ISBN: 0578448831
    • Manufacturer: The Art of Dixie

    "It All Comes Back to You is one of those stories you need to savor. You want to put the book down so as to have more to read tomorrow, but you can't. It becomes attached to you, a part of you. "Dan Brown, Author of Reunion Alabama, 1947.War's over, cherry-print dresses, parking above the city lights, swing dancing.Beautiful, seventeen-year-old Vio... [Read More]

  • Wolves at the Door: The True Story Of America's Greatest Female Spy

    • UPC: 884203109865
    • ASIN: 159921072X
    • ISBN: 159921072X
    • Brand: Lyons Press
    • Manufacturer: Lyons Press

    Virginia Hall left her Baltimore home in 1931 to enter the Foreign Service and went to work for the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) when Hitler was building toward the peak of his power in Europe. She was assigned to France, where she helped the Resistance movement, escaped prisoners of war, and American Allied paratroopers. By 1942 she ... [Read More]

  • Then She Was Gone: A Novel

    • ASIN: 1501154656
    • ISBN: 1501154656
    • Brand: Atria Books
    • Manufacturer: Atria Books

    A 2018 Goodreads Choice Award Finalist—Top 5 Best Mystery & Thriller * A Suspense Magazine “Best of 2018” Thriller/Suspense Pick “An acutely observed family drama with bone-chilling suspense.” —People “Jewell teases out her twisty plot at just the right pace, leaving readers on the edge of their seats. Her multilayered characters are ... [Read More]

  • Little Fires Everywhere: A Novel

    • ASIN: 0735224315
    • ISBN: 0735224315
    • Brand: Penguin Books
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

    The #1 New York Times bestseller!Soon to be a Hulu limited series starring Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington.Named a Best Book of the Year by: People, The Washington Post, Bustle, Esquire, Southern Living, The Daily Beast, GQ, Entertainment Weekly, NPR, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, iBooks, Audible, Goodreads, Library Reads, Book of the Month, Pa... [Read More]

  • Educated: A Memoir

    • ASIN: 0399590501
    • Brand: Random House
    • Manufacturer: Random House

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, AND BOSTON GLOBE BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW • ONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR • BILL GATES’S HOLIDAY READING LIST • FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE’S AWARD IN AUTOBIOGRAPHY • FIN... [Read More]

  • The Nightingale: A Novel

    • UPC: 753922637631
    • ASIN: 1250080401
    • ISBN: 1250080401
    • Brand: St. Martin's Griffin
    • Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin

    A #1 New York Times bestseller, Wall Street Journal Best Book of the Year, and soon to be a major motion picture, this unforgettable novel of love and strength in the face of war has enthralled a generation. France, 1939 - In the quiet village of Carriveau, Vianne Mauriac says goodbye to her husband, Antoine, as he heads for the Front. She doesn't ... [Read More]

  • The Woman I Was Before: A gripping emotional page turner with a twist

    • ASIN: 1786819473
    • ISBN: 1786819473
    • Manufacturer: Bookouture

    ‘Wow, what a corker of a novel… exactly the sort of novel that creeps into your life and you don’t want to put down… will keep you turning the pages, anxiously, excitedly and soon to reach a thrilling conclusion.’ Goodreads Reviewer, 5 starsA new home can be a happy ending. Or a fresh start. Or a hiding place...Of all the emotions single ... [Read More]

  • Milk and Honey

    • UPC: 884640411002
    • ASIN: 144947425X
    • ISBN: 9781449474256
    • Brand: Rupi Kaur
    • Manufacturer: Andrews McMeel Publishing

    #1 New York Times bestseller Milk and Honey is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. About the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity.The book is divided into four chapters, and each chapter serves a different purpose. Deals with a different pain. Heals a different heartache. Milk and Honey takes readers through a j... [Read More]

  • All About Love: New Visions

    • UPC: 884968027749
    • ASIN: 0060959479
    • ISBN: 9780060959470
    • Brand: imusti
    • Manufacturer: William Morrow Paperbacks

    The acclaimed first volume in bell hooks' "Love Song to the Nation"“The word ‘love’ is most often defined as a noun, yet . . . we would all love better if we used it as a verb,” writes bell hooks as she comes out fighting and on fire in All About Love. Here, at her most provocative and intensely personal, bell hooks (renowned scholar, cul... [Read More]

  • Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission

    • ASIN: 038549565X
    • ISBN: 038549565X
    • Brand: Anchor
    • Manufacturer: Anchor

    “The greatest World War II story never told” (Esquire)—an enthralling account of the heroic mission to rescue the last survivors of the Bataan Death March. On January 28, 1945, 121 hand-selected U.S. troops slipped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Their mission: March thirty rugged miles to rescue 513 POWs languishing in a hellish camp... [Read More]

  • The Alice Network: A Novel

    • ASIN: 0062654195
    • ISBN: 0062654195
    • Brand: William Morrow Paperbacks
    • Manufacturer: William Morrow Paperbacks

    Featuring an exclusive excerpt from Kate Quinn's next incredible historical novel, THE HUNTRESS NEW YORK TIMES & USA TODAY BESTSELLER#1 GLOBE AND MAIL HISTORICAL FICTION BESTSELLEROne of NPR's Best Books of the Year!One of Bookbub's Biggest Historical Fiction Books of the Year!Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick!The 2017 Girly Book Club Book of the ... [Read More]

  • Their Eyes Were Watching God

    • ASIN: 0061120065
    • ISBN: 0061120065
    • Brand: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
    • Manufacturer: Amistad

    A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick“A deeply soulful novel that comprehends love and cruelty, and separates the big people from the small of heart, without ever losing sympathy for those unfortunates who don’t know how to live properly.” —Zadie SmithOne of the most important and enduring books of the twentieth century, Their Eyes Were Wa... [Read More]

  • The Dancing Girls: An absolutely gripping crime thriller with nail-biting suspense (Detective Jo Fournier)

    • ASIN: 1786818248
    • ISBN: 1786818248
    • Manufacturer: Bookouture

    ‘Wow, what a book!! I don't think I drew a full breath for the entire time I was reading… I took it everywhere I went… I needed to read it at every opportunity!… Unbelievably twisty… I loved every word of it!’ Goodreads Reviewer, 5 starsJo pulled together the victims’ pictures. In all cases their arms were askew, in a way that looked ... [Read More]

  • The Best Friend: An utterly gripping psychological thriller with a breathtaking twist

    • ASIN: 1786815281
    • ISBN: 1786815281
    • Manufacturer: Bookouture

    ‘I can tell we’re going to be the best of friends…’When Louisa Sullivan takes her little boy to his first playdate at a new friend’s house she doesn’t realise life is about to change for her family. Because she’s about to meet Darcy Lane.Darcy is a woman who has everything – a dream house, a powerful husband and enviable wealth.She�... [Read More]

  • The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion: A Novel

    • ASIN: 0812977173
    • ISBN: 0812977173
    • Brand: Random House Trade Paperbacks
    • Manufacturer: Random House Trade Paperbacks

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Look for special features inside. Join the Random House Reader’s Circle for author chats and more.The one and only Fannie Flagg, beloved author of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, Can’t Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You, is at her hilarious and superb best in this new comic mystery no... [Read More]

  • The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules: A Novel (League of Pensioners)

    • ASIN: 0062447971
    • ISBN: 0062447971
    • Brand: Harper Paperbacks
    • Manufacturer: Harper Paperbacks

    #1 International BestsellerThe Best Exotic Marigold Hotel meets The Italian Job in internationally-bestselling author Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg’s witty and insightful comedy of errors about a group of delinquent seniors whose desire for a better quality of life leads them to rob and ransom priceless artwork.Martha Andersson may be seventy-nine-... [Read More]

  • Sacred Woman: A Guide to Healing the Feminine Body, Mind, and Spirit

    • ASIN: 0345434862
    • ISBN: 0345434862
    • Brand: One World
    • Manufacturer: One World

    A transformative journey of physical and ancestral healing from a renowned herbalist, natural health expert, and dedicated healer of women’s bodies and women’s souls   “Just when I thought I was all alone, I found myself walking with a group of conscious women who were taking sacred steps and speaking sacred words. We were on our way to Quee... [Read More]

  • Madame Fourcade's Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France's Largest Spy Network Against Hitler

    • ASIN: 0812994760
    • ISBN: 0812994760
    • Manufacturer: Random House

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The little-known true story of Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, the woman who headed the largest spy network in occupied France during World War II, from the bestselling author of Citizens of London and Last Hope Island“Brava to Lynne Olson for a biography that should challenge any outdated assumptions about who deserves to... [Read More]

  • One Good Deed

    • ASIN: 1538750562
    • ISBN: 1538750562
    • Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing

    The #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci introduces an unforgettable new character: Archer, a straight-talking former World War II soldier fresh out of prison for a crime he didn't commit.It's 1949. When war veteran Aloysius Archer is released from Carderock Prison, he is sent to Poca City on parole with a short list of do's and a mu... [Read More]

  • The Life We Bury

    • ASIN: 1616149981
    • ISBN: 1616149981
    • Brand: Seventh Street Books
    • Manufacturer: Seventh Street Books

    A USA Today bestseller and book club favorite! College student Joe Talbert has the modest goal of completing a writing assignment for an English class. His task is to interview a stranger and write a brief biography of the person. With deadlines looming, Joe heads to a nearby nursing home to find a willing subject. There he meets Carl Iverson, and ... [Read More]

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