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The White Mosque
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The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America
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Not Just Jane
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Fierce Ambition: The Life and Legend of War Correspondent Maggie Higgins
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Behind the Door: The Dark Truths and Untold Stories of the Cecil Hotel
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Encountering Eva Hesse
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Isabella Stewart Gardner: A Life
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Flora!: A Woman in a Man’s World
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Where are the Women Architects?
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Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail
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Baby Girl: Better Known as Aaliyah
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Black TV: Five Decades of Groundbreaking Television from Soul Train to Black-ish and Beyond
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Unroyal: Three Women Who Shook the Monarchy
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Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington
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The Final Year of Anne Boleyn
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A Brilliant Life: My Mother’s Inspiring True Story of Surviving the Holocaust
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Overlooked: A Celebration of Remarkable, Underappreciated People Who Broke the Rules and Changed the World
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This Long Thread
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Janis: Her Life and Music
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Lee Krasner: A Biography
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The Women Who Changed Architecture
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Life Stories of Women Artists, 1550-1800: An Anthology
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Gator Country: Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades
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Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song
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CBK: Carolyn Bessette Kennedy: A Life in Fashion
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Screaming Hole
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Madonna: A Rebel Life
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The Wordy Shipmates
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Candace Pert: Genius, Greed, and Madness in the World of Science
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Lead Sister: The Story of Karen Carpenter
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Three Girls from Bronzeville: A Uniquely American Memoir of Race, Fate, and Sisterhood
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Jacinda Ardern: The Full Story of an Extraordinary Prime Minister
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A Rome of One’s Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire
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My Cousin Maria Schneider
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Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines
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I Lost it at the Movies: Film Writings, 1954-65
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Mischievous Creatures: The Forgotten Sisters Who Transformed Early American Science
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But Will You Love Me Tomorrow?: An Oral History of the ’60s Girl Groups
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bell hooks: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations
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Oriana Fallaci: The Journalist, the Agitator, the Legend
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She Kills Me: The True Stories of History’s Deadliest Women
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We Are Your Sisters: Black Women in the Nineteenth Century
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Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History
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The World According to Joan Didion
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Pure Wit: The Revolutionary Life of Margaret Cavendish
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Althea: The Life of Tennis Champion Althea Gibson
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Anna: The Biography
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The Richest Woman in America: Hetty Green in the Gilded Age
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Queen of the Court: The Many Lives of Tennis Legend Alice Marble
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When Women Invented Television: The Untold Story of the Female Powerhouses Who Pioneered the Way We Watch Today
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Artemisia Gentileschi
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Defiant Muses: Delphine Seyrig and Feminist Video Collectives in France in the 1970s and 1980s
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Why Marianne Faithfull Matters
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Renaissance Woman: The Life of Vittoria Colonna
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Pretty In Ink: North American Women Cartoonists 1896-2013
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The Loft Generation: From the de Koonings to Twombly: Portraits and Sketches, 1942-2011
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Gloria: A Life
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Blow by Blow: The Story of Isabella Blow
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The Meaning of Michelle: 16 Writers on the Iconic First Lady and How Her Journey Inspires Our Own
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Agnes Martin: Her Life and Art
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Eye of the Sixties: Richard Bellamy and the Transformation of Modern Art
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When Women Ruled the Pacific: Power and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Tahiti and Hawai‘i
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Romaine Brooks: A Life
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The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll: The Search for Dare Wright
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Women’s Work: From Feminine Arts to Feminist Art
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Flirting with Danger: The Mysterious Life of Marguerite Harrison, Socialite Spy
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The Bone Woman: A Forensic Anthropologist’s Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo
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Julia Child: The Last Interview and Other Conversations
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Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists and Muses at the Heart of a Revolution
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The Mirror and the Palette: Rebellion, Revolution, and Resilience: Five Hundred Years of Women’s Self Portraits
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Beloved Sisters and Loving Friends: Civil War Letters from Rebecca Primus of Royal Oak, Maryland, and Addie Brown of Hartford, Connecticut, 1854-1868, Historical African-American Memoirs
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Harlem Nocturne: Women Artists and Progressive Politics During World War II
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The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever
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Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell’s Invisible Life
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Queen Bey: A Celebration of the Power and Creativity of Beyoncé Knowles-Carter
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Narcas: The Secret Rise of Women in Latin America’s Cartels 
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Good Stuff: A Reminiscence of My Father, Cary Grant
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Three Sisters: A True Holocaust Story of Love, Luck, and Survival 
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The Art of Dora Carrington
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Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom
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Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I: The Mother and Daughter Who Forever Changed British History
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Silk: A History in Three Metamorphoses Weaving Together Biography, Global History and Science Writing
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Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
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Goddesses and Heroines: Meet More Than 80 Powerful Women From Around the World
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No Compromise: The Work of Florence Knoll
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Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller
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Kitty Fisher: The First Female Celebrity
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Why Sinéad O’Connor Matters
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Parachute Women: Marianne Faithfull, Marsha Hunt, Bianca Jagger, Anita Pallenberg, and the Women Behind The Rolling Stones
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All I Need to Know I Learned from the Golden Girls: Bigger, Better, Blanchier Second Edition
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Ida Lupino, Director: Her Art and Resilience in Times of Transition
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Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians
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Beyond the Shores: A History of African Americans Abroad
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Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life
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Sylvia Pankhurst: Sexual Politics and Political Activism
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Georgia O’Keeffe
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Flora Tristan
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Blue Eyes and a Wild Spirit
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Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power
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Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America
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Swipe Up for More!: Inside the Unfiltered Lives of Influencers
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My Friend Anne Frank: The Inspiring and Heartbreaking True Story of Best Friends Torn Apart and Reunited Against All Odds
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Lady Caroline Lamb: A Free Spirit
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Everything She Touched: The Life of Ruth Asawa 
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Fearless Women: Feminist Patriots from Abigail Adams to Beyoncé
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Wisdom of Wildly Creative Women: Real Stories from Inspirational, Artistic, and Empowered Women
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Homecoming: The Scottish Years of Mary, Queen of Scots
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May Alcott Nieriker, Author and Advocate: Travel Writing and Transformation in the Late Nineteenth Century
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An Iron Girl in a Velvet Glove: The Life of Joan Rhodes
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The Adventurous Life of Amelia B. Edwards: Egyptologist, Novelist, Activist
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Red Hot Mama: The Life of Sophie Tucker
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Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon
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Voices in the Shadows: Women and Verbal Art in Serbia and Bosnia
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Seduced by the Light: The Mina Miller Edison Story
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Vivian Maier Developed: The Untold Story of the Photographer Nanny
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In Search of Mary Seacole: The Making of a Cultural Icon
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Women, Gender and Art in Asia, c. 1500-1900
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Reversing the Gaze: What If the Other Were You?
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It’s a Stick-Up: 20 Real Wheat Paste-Ups from the World’s Greatest Street Artists
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Honey, Baby, Mine: A Mother and Daughter Talk Life, Death, Love (and Banana Pudding)
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The Art of the Woman: The Life and Work of Elisabet Ney
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Cleopatra’s Daughter: From Roman Prisoner to African Queen
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The First Lady of World War II
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Berenice Abbott: A Life in Photography
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As If!: The Oral History of Clueless as told by Amy Heckerling and the Cast and Crew
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Edison’s Ghosts: The Untold Weirdness of History’s Greatest Geniuses
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Lies My Mother Told Me: Tall Tales from a Short Woman
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50 Women Artists You Should Know
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Baseline Shift: Untold Stories of Women in Graphic Design History
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Eighteenth Century Women Artists: Their Trials, Tribulations and Triumphs
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Messalina: A Story of Empire, Slander and Adultery
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Don’t Think, Dear: On Loving and Leaving Ballet
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Our Brave Foremothers: Celebrating 100 Black, Brown, Asian, and Indigenous Women Who Changed the Course of History
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Women Artists
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Visitors: An American Feminist in East Central Europe
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Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West
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Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This?
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The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women’s Rights
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Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies: How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature
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Project 562: Changing the Way We See Native America
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Grief and Women Writers in the English Renaissance
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Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker
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June Jordan: Her Life and Letters
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Bloodroot: Reflections on Place by Appalachian Women Writers
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Material Enlightenment: Women Writers and the Science of Mind, 1770-1830
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Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt’s Ancient Temples from Destruction
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Letters from Tove
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Alice Neel: The Art of Not Sitting Pretty
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A Woman of Influence: The Spectacular Rise of Alice Spencer in Tudor England
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Cat Power: A Good Woman
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Jennifer Juniper
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Barbie and Ruth: The Story of the World’s Most Famous Doll and the Woman Who Created Her
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Nobody Ever Asked Me about the Girls: Women, Music, and Fame
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Woman, Captain, Rebel: The Extraordinary True Story of a Daring Icelandic Sea Captain
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Lawbreaking Ladies: 50 Tales of Daring, Defiant, and Dangerous Women from History
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Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York’s Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist
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I Came a Stranger: The Story of a Hull-House Girl
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The True History of Merlin the Magician
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Magnificent Rebel: Nancy Cunard in Jazz Age Paris
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The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman
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Dressing Barbie: A Celebration of the Clothes That Made America’s Favorite Doll and the Incredible Woman Behind Them
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Revolutionary Women of Texas and Mexico: Portraits of Soldaderas, Saints, and Subversives
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Rise: Extraordinary Women of Colour who Changed the World
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Forever Barbie: The Unauthorized Biography of a Real Doll
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Femme Magnifique: 50 Magnificent Women Who Changed The World
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Great and Horrible News: Murder and Mayhem in Early Modern Britain
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Untold Power: The Fascinating Rise and Complex Legacy of First Lady Edith Wilson 
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Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Enquiry and Hope
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Quartet: How Four Women Changed the Musical World
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How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind
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Making A Masterpiece: The stories behind iconic artworks
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Women Who Made Science History
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Lifting as We Climb: Black Women’s Battle for the Ballot Box
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Bookish Broads: Women Who Wrote Themselves into History
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The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science
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Why She Wrote: A Graphic History of the Lives, Inspiration, and Influence Behind the Pens of Classic Women Writers
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A Life By Design: The art and lives of Florence Broadhurst
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Helen of Troy
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The Fight of Our Lives: My Time with Zelenskyy, Ukraine’s Battle for Democracy, and What It Means for the World
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Agrippina: Empress, Exile, Hustler, Whore
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Dismantling the Patriarchy, Bit by Bit: Art, Feminism, and Digital Technology
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Eurydice and the Birth of Macedonian Power
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Becoming Julia de Burgos: The Making of a Puerto Rican Icon
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Queens of the Age of Chivalry: England’s Medieval Queens, Volume Three
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What a Library Means to a Woman: Edith Wharton and the Will to Collect Books
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Wild Unrest: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Making of the Yellow Wall-Paper
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Nora Ephron: The Last Interview and Other Conversations
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Black Women Will Save the World: An Anthem
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Things I Should Have Told My Daughter: Lies, Lessons & Love Affairs
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Refocus: The Films of Elaine May
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Already Toast: Caregiving and Burnout in America
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She Memes Well
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Twice as Hard: The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, from the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century
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B.F.F.: A Memoir of Friendship Lost and Found
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Pirate Queens: The Lives of Anne Bonny & Mary Read
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Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart
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Forty Favours The Brave
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Lives of the Wives: Five Literary Marriages
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Nerd: Adventures in Fandom from This Universe to the Multiverse
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Re-sisters: Recordings of Cosey Fanni Tutti, Delia Derbyshire and Margery Kempe
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