NATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE BLACKBOARD NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR “Practical, hilarious, and common sense advice for self-care and self-recovery.”—Common Boundary Wise, intimate, and full of practical insights, In the Company of My Sisters is the first book by a Black psychotherapist to address the issue of self-esteem in Black women's lives. Julia A. Boyd has drawn from a wealth of experience—her own and that of her "sister circle"—to take a hard and honest look at the realities and issues Black women face. "I wrote this book to validate and celebrate who we are," Boyd has said. "We have been the recipients of many distorted messages about our ethnicity and our femaleness."

In the Company of My Sisters

Self-Help

Boyd, Julia

Self-Esteem

Plume

On 25 January 1849, Punch responded to an event that took place in upstate New York with a rhyme about 'excellent Miss Blackwell!'. On that day, Elizabeth Blackwell became the first modern woman to earn a degree from a recognised medical college. For an immigrant Englishwoman with neither money nor connections this was no mean achievement. But Elizabeth was a determined woman, who did not flinch from difficult issues. As a 'doctress', she addressed taboo subjects such as venereal disease, prostitution and masturbation. Deciding early on not to get married, she still sought a family and in 1854 adopted an orphan. Yet, despite her own achievements and close friendships with many of the leaders of the Suffragist movement, she discouraged her own daughter's ambitions. Conversely, her friendship with Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, inspired Anderson to become England's first woman doctor. With friends such as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Charles Kingsley, George Eliot and an argumentative relationship with Florence Nightingale, Elizabeth Blackwell was one of the foremost women of her time. This new biography uncovers the life of this remarkable, complex, controversial and pioneering woman doctor whose vision and sheer guts in the face of enormous odds changed social history.

The Excellent Doctor Blackwell: The Life of the First Woman Physician

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Sutton Pub Ltd

The Excellent Doctor Blackwell: The Life of the First Female Physician

A Dance with the Dragon: The Vanished World of Peking's Foreign Colony

History

Asia

I.B.Tauris

Hannah Riddell: An Englishwoman in Japan

Tuttle+publishing

In the late nineteenth century hundreds of Christian missionaries were despatched to Japan to convert the "heathen," a task that many felt could be accomplished within a few decades. That expectation proved to be wildly optimistic, since today fewer than one percent of Japanese are Christian. The efforts and even the names of those early missionaries are now largely forgotten, but the work of one woman, Hannah Riddell, proved to be vital and lasting.While visiting the Honmyoji temple in Kumamoto, Hannah encountered a group of lepers - "in every degree of loathsomeness" - and her life suddenly changed. Though she continued her efforts to save the souls of ordinary Japanese, Hannah became determined to improve the wretched lives of lepers. Against great odds, she founded one of the first modern leprosariums in Japan, but Hannah's iron will and splendid lifestyle soon put her at odds with her English colleagues and their small missionary community was torn apart.Undaunted, Hannah continued her work independently and came to know many of the great figures of Meiji Japan. Hannah's story and that of her niece, Ada, who ran the hospital after her aunt's death until its dramatic closure in 1941, poignantly describe the valiant battle against a terrible disease. At the same time the narrative vividly brings to life early encounters between the Japanese and the English and their very different cultures.

Historical

Tuttle Pub

Bewick gleanings

Graham

A Village in the Third Reich: How Ordinary Lives Were Transformed by the Rise of Fascism

An intimate portrait of German life during World War II, shining&nbsp;a light on ordinary people living in a picturesque Bavarian village under Nazi rule, from a past winner of the&nbsp;Los Angeles Times&nbsp;Book Prize for History. Hidden deep in the Bavarian mountains lies the picturesque village of Oberstdorf--a place where for hundreds of years people lived simple lives while history was made elsewhere.&nbsp;Yet even this remote idyll could not escape the brutal iron grip of the Nazi regime. From the author of the international bestseller&nbsp;Travelers in the Third Reich&nbsp;comes&nbsp;A Village in the Third Reich, shining a light on the lives of ordinary people. Drawing on personal archives, letters, interviews and memoirs, it lays bare their brutality and love; courage and weakness; action, apathy and grief; hope, pain, joy, and despair. Within its pages we encounter people from all walks of life - foresters, priests, farmers and nuns; innkeepers, Nazi officials, veterans and party members; village councillors, mountaineers, socialists, slave labourers, schoolchildren, tourists and aristocrats. We meet the Jews who survived - and those who didn't; the Nazi mayor who tried to shield those persecuted by the regime; and a blind boy whose life was judged "not worth living." This is a tale of conflicting loyalties and desires, of shattered dreams--but one in which, ultimately, human resilience triumphs.&nbsp;These are the stories of ordinary lives at the crossroads of history.

Patel, Angelika

Europe

Pegasus Books

This fascinating and shocking history of the rise of the Nazis draws together a multitude of expatriate voices―even Charles Lindbergh and Samuel Beckett―into a powerful narrative charting this extraordinary phenomenon.
Without the benefit of hindsight, how do you interpret what’s right in front of your eyes?
The events that took place in Germany between 1919 and 1945 were dramatic and terrible, but there were also moments of confusion, of doubt―even of hope. How easy was it to know what was actually going on, to grasp the essence of National Socialism, to remain untouched by the propaganda, or predict the Holocaust?
Travelers in the Third Reich is an extraordinary history of the rise of the Nazis based on fascinating first-hand accounts, drawing together a multitude of voices and stories, including politicians, musicians, diplomats, schoolchildren, communists, scholars, athletes, poets, fascists, artists, tourists, and even celebrities like Charles Lindbergh and Samuel Beckett. Their experiences create a remarkable three-dimensional picture of Germany under Hitler―one so palpable that the reader will feel, hear, even breathe the atmosphere.
These are the accidental eyewitnesses to history. Disturbing, absurd, moving, and ranging from the deeply trivial to the deeply tragic, their tales give a fresh insight into the complexities of the Third Reich, its paradoxes, and its ultimate destruction.

Travelers in the Third Reich: The Rise of Fascism: 1919-1945

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