"Isn't New York's motto, 'Give me your tired, your poor, your undersexed'? In New York, the party never stops and love's always just around the corner. At least, that's what queer journalist Esther Mollica told herself when she quit her job during the 2008 recession and moved three thousand miles away to become New York City's first blogger on lesbian dating. Her hometown brought her nothing but heartache, and none more devastating than learning that...

Deeply researched and briskly written, this first-ever biography of Scidmore draws heavily on her own writings to follow major events of a helf-century as seen through the eyes of a remarkable woman who was far ahead of her time.

Nicole came to Afghanistan to make a killer war documentary, but when the helicopter she bribed to take her closer to the enemy gets shot down she finds a lot more action than she had bargained for--and it is up to an Army Special Forces team to locate and rescue her and her cameraman.

May's a tough-talking, hard-smoking lecturer in English. She's also an Iraqi from a Sunni-Shi'ite background living in Baghdad. Bee is a London mum of three. They should have nothing in common. But when a simple email brings them together, they discover a friendship that overcomes all their differences of culture, religion and age.

In the span of a generation, oil-rich Venezuela spiraled into a dire state of economic collapse. This is Venezuelan reporter Paula Ramón's memoir about her relationship with her family and homeland.

"When fiery and idealistic Kitty O'Kane excapes the crushing poverty of Dublin's tenements, she's determined that no one should ever suffer like she did. As she sets out to save the world, she finds herself at the forefront of events that shaped the early twentieth century. While working as a maid, she survives the sinking of the Titantic. As a suffragette in New York's Greenwich Village, she's jailed for breaking storefront windows. And in traveling...