She Writes Press: 369 books

• The interest people have in a memoir featuring a brilliant but disturbed father and a dysfunctional American family is exemplified in the seven years Jeanette Walls’s memoir The Glass Castle has remained on the NY Times bestseller list, and in the fact that a film version of the story was just...

• Americans check out more than 2 billion items each year from their public libraries. • Andrew Carnegie gave away $60 million to fund1689 libraries in this country, meaning many are nostalgic about their childhood libraries. • With 16,000 public libraries, there are more public libraries than...

An acclaimed spokesperson for equality at the helm of And Baby, a pioneer magazine, radio show, and TV series on alternative parenting, Michelle Darné found herself at once callously erased from the lives of her children and silenced by the law. Parent Deleted is a gripping tale of one non-biological,...

• Over 8 million people a year suffer from the loss of a close family member. • It is estimated that over 20,000 will die from non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 2017. • Almost 50% of women now giving birth for the first time are single parents.

• Fiction and the subgenre of romance are top sellers among women readers. • Many Christian/inspirational romance bestsellers are stories of women overcoming a painful past in order to restore their faith and their belief in love. • As of 2014, the Romance Writers of America cited the romance-book business reporting a total annual sales value of more than $1 billion.

• According to the American Cancer Society, the number of female cancer survivors in the United States is 8,156,120. Of this, 3,560,570 are breast cancer survivors. In addition, ACS estimates that there will be 852,630 new cancer cases in 2017. • In the United States, approximately 38 percent...

NYT-bestselling author Laura Fraser journeys from the SpaghettiOs of her American childhood to savor the best of Italian cuisine and the culture that cooked it up. Using the same dreamy, delicious prose that made An Italian Affair a best-selling memoir, these essays will delight readers who loved...

Growing up, Teresa Wiltz always knew that she was black. Her parents, the mixed-race descendants of both the enslaved and the enslavers—and a stray American Indian or two—made it abundantly clear: we’re black. Be proud. And she was proud. Problem was, everyone else was always questioning her...

Fresh out of Catholic high school, Michigan girl Meghan Ward heads for the Paris runways at the tender age of 18. She had never intended to be a model. In fact, she had the typical thinking-person’s qualms about the industry, particularly the unhealthy images of women it promotes. But she had the...

Susan Ito is a struggling college student, a young adult on the cusp of parental independence, when she meets her birth mother for the first time. Instead of launching into adulthood, she finds herself entangled in longing for this new kind of mother love where she sees her own self, mirrored in mysterious...

In this long short story, a writer arrives at an old manor for a six-week residency, only to discover that while there, she can’t seem to write a word. The longer she stays, the more she loses her grasp on who she is and what she needs to say, until gradually, the background becomes the foreground,...

Ona Gritz has had cerebral palsy all her life, but until she gave birth to her son, she didn’t really understand what it meant to be disabled. Her cerebral palsy affects her coordination and balance but not enough to have ever truly hindered her. “For the most part, I considered my disability...

An urban woman moves to the country and falls in love with a horse—an embodiment of nature, wisdom, and living in the moment. She is not exactly a spring chicken, as the village people are quick to point out, and she hasn’t been in the saddle since she was a child. Her tireless quest for the world’s...

Annie Burke floats aimlessly through her twenties until she bumps into a former high school crush: Freddie Marcatelli, captain of all the teams and still a local star. As they start to date, her suspicion that they’re from different universes is confirmed when she invites him to visit her mother’s...