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1. Fierce Attachments: A Memoir
Never has the powerful, ambivalent bond between mothers and daughters been portrayed more compellingly or lucidly than in this nationally acclaimed ... More
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2. Around Sarah's Table: Ten Hasidic Women Share Their Stories of Life, Fai
by Rivka Zakutinsky, Yaffa Leba Gottlieb
In the tradition of Amy Tan's "The Joy Luck Club" and "Holy Days" by Lis Harris, Rivka Zakutinsky and Yaffa Leba Gottlieb show the inner workings of ... More
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3. Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress
by Susan Jane Gilman
The bestselling author of KISS MY TIARA returns with an original and entertaining memoir about childhood dreams, coming of age, ambition and family. ... More
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4. When I Was Puerto Rican
by Esmeralda Santiago
Selling over 16,000 copies in hardcover, this triumphant coming-of-age memoir is now available in paperback editions in both English and Spanish. In ... More
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5. The Mighty Queens of Freeville: A Mother, a Daughter, and the Town That Raised Them
by Amy Dickinson
Dickinson has made a career out of helping others, through her internationally syndicated advice column "Ask Amy." Readers love her for her honesty ... More
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6. Dreaming in Libro: How a Good Dog Tamed a Bad Woman
by Louise Bernikow
From the author of "Bark If You Love Me," a woman-falls-in-love-with-dog story, set in the quirky Big Apple
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7. The Road to Seneca Falls: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the First Woman's Rights Convention
by Judith Wellman
Feminists from 1848 to the present have rightly viewed the Seneca Falls convention as the birth of the women's rights movement in the United States ... More
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8. Equal Justice Under Law: An Autobiography
by Constance Baker Motley
Motley, a pioneer in two revolutions--black civil rights and women's rights--as a civil right lawyer, a New York state senator, a Manhattan borough ... More
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9. Remarkable New York Women
by Antonia Petrash
Presents the intriguing biographies of twelve exceptional women who made an impact not just on their home state, but on the nation and the world.
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10. Remarkable New York Women
Presents the intriguing biographies of twelve exceptional women who made an impact not just on their home state, but on the nation and the world.
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11. Too Close to the Falls
by Catherine Gildiner
The author shares her memories about growing up in the 1950s in Lewiston, New York, a small town near Niagara Falls, that are by turns hilarious and ... More
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12. The Central Park Five: The Untold Story Behind One of New York City's Most Infamous Crimes
by Sarah Burns
In this spellbinding account of the real facts of the Central Park jogger case, Sarah Burns powerfully reexamines one of New York City's most ... More
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13. The Fortune Teller's Kiss
by Brenda Serotte
There was always the incantation: "Whoever wishes you harm, may harm come to them!" And just in case that didn't work, there were garlic and cloves ... More
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14. Precious Objects: A Story of Diamonds, Family, and a Way of Life
A fascinating look at one family's journey from diamond dealing in Communist Siberia to the historic diamond district on New York's 47th Street. ... More
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15. The Other New York Jewish Intellectuals
by Hamza Alavi, Carole S Kessner (Editor)
Irving Howe. Saul Bellow. Lionel Trilling. These are names that immediately come to mind when one thinks of the New York Jewish intellectuals of the ... More
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16. In My Father's Bakery: A Bronx Memoir
by Marvin Korman
A remembrance of a neighborhood with all vignettes radiating from a bakery.
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17. The Other New York Jewish Intellectuals
by Carole S Kessner (Editor), Stephen Macedo (Editor), Yael Tamir (Editor)
Irving Howe. Saul Bellow. Lionel Trilling. These are names that immediately come to mind when one thinks of the New York Jewish intellectuals of the ... More
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18. Where She Came from: A Daughter's Search for Her Mother's History
by Helen Epstein
In the tradition of "Wild Swans", this rich and compelling family saga by the author of "Children of the Holocaust" brings to life three generations ... More
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19. Who She Was: My Search for My Mother's Life
by Samuel G Freedman
Nearly 30 years after his mother died at age 50, the acclaimed author of "JewVs. Jew" set out to discover everything he could about her lost life. ... More
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22. Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard
by Liz Murray
A "New York Times" bestseller--the stunning memoir of a young woman who at age 15 was living on the streets but survived to make it to Harvard. ... More
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23. Cultures of Opposition: Jewish Immigrant Workers, New York City, 1881-1905
by Hadassa Kosak
This work provides a reinterpretation of the origins of Jewish working-class oppositional culture in the United States. It tells how this culture was ... More
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24. Fighting for Life
by S Josephine Baker
New York's lower east side was said to be the most densely populated square mile on the face of the earth in the 1890s. City health inspectors called ... More
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25. Girls in the Van
by Beth Harpaz
AP writer Harpaz recounts the story of First Lady Hillary Clinton's 62-county campaign to become a U.S. Senator from New York. Harpaz takes readers ... More
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