Jean "Stevie" Stevenson, the indomitable heroine of Coffee Will Make You Black, is back -- somewhat older and wiser, with some experience and a college degree -- diving headfirst into the hot tub, free love, yoga, and vegetarian lifestyle of 1970s San Francisco. In this liberating new world of raised consciousness, mind-expanding, and disco-dancing, a soul sister with passion and daring has room to experiment with life and love to find out who she really is.Jean "Stevie" Stevenson, the indomitable heroine of Coffee Will Make You Black, is back-somewhat older and wiser, with some experi... View More...
Life turns out in ways you never expected. The eighteen million women born in the first years of the baby boom grew up anticipating a life of rules--go to college, get married, have a family. But when the time came, the cultural, social and political tumult of the late 1960s catapulted them into options that no previous generation had even considered. The Women Who Broke All the Rules is the first book to celebrate the ordinary but extraordinary women who made decisions that have changed every woman's life. Against extreme odds and without role models, these women made unprecedented life choic... View More...
First Edition Hard Cover in Like New condition. Pages are clean. Binding is tight. Jacket in Like New condition with Light surface and edge wear. Signed and dedicated by author on inside cover. Ships same or next day. View More...
One woman's moving story of her journey with her mother to find their past and the tragedy that haunts itIn 1937, Edith Westerfeld's parents--before being killed by the Nazis--sent her from Germany to live with relatives in America. Fifty-four years later, Edith decided that it was time to, with her grown daughter Fern, revisit the town she had left so many years before. For Edith the trip was a chance to reconnect and reconcile with her past; for Fern it was a chance to learn what lay behind her mother's silent grief. On their journey, Fern and her mother shared many extraordinary encounters ... View More...
HARDCOVER. Very Good Condition. Binding tight, pages clean. Dust Jacket bright and whole, with light wrinkle at head and tail of spine, and lightly at corners. Solid reading copy! View More...
Gloria Steinem's classic bestseller -- called "the ultimate self-help book" by the Los Angeles Times. For decades, Gloria Steinem has led a social revolution against injustice. In Revolution from Within she sets out to restore the self-authority that such injustice has undermined -- in men as well as women, across boundaries of race, class, age, sexuality, and ability. Steinem uses stories from her own life and the lives of others to illustrate the many connections between the personal and the political, offering readers lessons on how to bring down all barriers to equality -- both external a... View More...
*** Softcover in Good + condition. Binding tight, pages clean. No previous owner names. Some light edgewear and yellowing to pages. Corner clipped from first inside page. *** View More...
*** Softcover in Very Good - condition. Binding tight, pages clean. Previous owner sticker on inside of cover. Covers open widely, some light edgewear. *** View More...
PAPERBACK. Good + Condition. Binding tight, pages secure. Previous owner's gift inscription on inner front cover. Previous store's price in pencil on first page. Some wear to edges and corners. Nice reading copy! Out of print. View More...
Embarking from England in the early 1800s, seventeen-year-old Lavinia Andrews and her family land in the tiny Newfoundland settlement of Cape Random, a remote fishing outpost set in a stark, rocky landscape on the edge of the sea. Here the Andrewses find themselves among a strange and intriguing group of outcasts with whom they must eke out a living. As the community grows--struggling to survive against the dangers of starvation, accident, and illness--deep friendships develop, as do marriages, rivalries, and intrigues, all set against the backdrop of the magnificent and wild ocean. Epic in sc... View More...
