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Sneaky Little Revolutions: Selected essays of Charmian Clift

The Mother of the Brontës: When Maria Met Patrick

Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit & Glamour of an Icon

Why Patti Smith Matters

Miss Willmott’s Ghosts: The Extraordinary Life and Gardens of a Forgotten Genius

Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman

The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think

Hilma af Klint: A Biography

The World Record Book of Racist Stories

Extraordinary Women In History: 70 Remarkable Women Who Made a Difference, Inspired & Broke Barriers

Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries

Queens of the Underworld: A Journey into the Lives of Female Crooks

Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life

The Secret Lives of Royal Women: Fascinating Biographies of Queens, Princesses, Duchesses, and Other Regal Women

Pirate Queen: The Life of Grace O’Malley, 1530-1603

Sister Novelists: The Trailblazing Porter Sisters, Who Paved the Way for Austen and the Brontës

A Woman Like Her: The Story Behind the Honor Killing of a Social Media Star

The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation

As It Turns Out: Thinking about Edie and Andy

Inventing the It Girl: How Elinor Glyn Created the Modern Romance and Conquered Early Hollywood

Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker, 1965–2000

Seduction: Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes’s Hollywood

Bright Galaxies, Dark Matter, and Beyond: The Life of Astronomer Vera Rubin

Blood, Fire and Gold: The story of Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici

Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self

Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It

Nora Ephron: A Biography

Listen, World!: How the Intrepid Elsie Robinson Became America’s Most-Read Woman

Folk Fashion: Understanding Homemade Clothes

The Pinks: The First Women Detectives, Operatives, and Spies with the Pinkerton National Detective Agency

Vera Rubin: A Life

Admissions: A Memoir of Surviving Boarding School

Cleopatra: Her History, Her Myth

Henrietta Maria: Conspirator, Warrior, Phoenix Queen

Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality

Sidelined: Sports, Culture, and Being a Woman in America

The Case of the Married Woman: Caroline Norton: A 19th Century Heroine Who Wanted Justice for Women

The Believer: Encounters with the Beginning, the End, and our Place in the Middle

The Last Castle: The Epic Story of Love, Loss, and American Royalty in the Nation’s Largest Home

Somebody’s Daughter

The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy’s Vanishing Explorers

The Daughters of Kobani: A Story of Rebellion, Courage, and Justice

Confident Women: Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of the Feminine Persuasion

Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop

You Don’t Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War

With Her Fist Raised: Dorothy Pitman Hughes and the Transformative Power of Black Community Activism

The Girl Explorers

Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

The Sediments of Time: My Lifelong Search for the Past

Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry

A Light So Lovely: The Spiritual Legacy of Madeleine L’Engle, Author of A Wrinkle in Time

Forgotten Women: The Scientists

Forgotten Women: The Writers

Forgotten Women: The Leaders

Forgotten Women: The Artists

Watching the Tree

The Blessings of a Good Thick Skirt: Women Travellers and Their World

The Book of Moods: How I Turned My Worst Emotions Into My Best Life

The Philosopher Queens: The lives and legacies of philosophy’s unsung women

Loved and Wanted: A Memoir of Choice, Children, and Womanhood

The Power of Adrienne Rich: A Biography

The Women with Silver Wings: The Inspiring True Story of the Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II

Constance Fenimore Woolson: Portrait of a Lady Novelist

Ladies of the Canyons: A League of Extraordinary Women and Their Adventures in the American Southwest

Resilience: Two Sisters and a Story of Mental Illness

Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge

Isis: Eternal Goddess of Egypt and Rome

Alone atop the Hill: The Autobiography of Alice Dunnigan, Pioneer of the National Black Press

Women of Courage

Friends and Enemies: A Life in Vogue, Prison, & Park Avenue

Soviet Women and Their Art: The Spirit of Equality

Southern Women: More Than 100 Stories of Innovators, Artists, and Icons

Long Live the Queens: Mighty, Magnificent and Bloody Marvellous Monarchs History’s Forgotten

Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits

The Lady Queen: The Notorious Reign of Joanna I, Queen of Naples, Jerusalem, and Sicily

Lost Souls of Horror and the Gothic: Fifty-Four Neglected Authors, Actors, Artists and Others

Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath

Dissenter on the Bench: Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Life and Work

Her Story: A Timeline of the Women Who Changed America

Restless Spirits: Ghost Stories by American Women, 1872-1926

A Life with Mary Shelley

Dangerous Ambition: Rebecca West and Dorothy Thompson: New Women in Search of Love and Power

Reclaiming Her Time: The Power of Maxine Waters

She Come By It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs

Just Kids from the Bronx: Telling It the Way It Was: An Oral History

No Place for a Woman: A Life of Senator Margaret Chase Smith

Lucie Aubrac: The French Resistance Heroine Who Outwitted the Gestapo

Shirley Chisholm: Catalyst for Change

Drunk from the Bitter Truth: The Poems of Anna Margolin

The Daughters of Yalta: The Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans: A Story of Love and War

Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee

Golem Girl

Dreaming in French: The Paris Years of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis

Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America

The Haunting of Alma Fielding: A True Ghost Story

The Devil Comes to Dartmoor: The Haunting True Story of Mary Howard, Devon’s ‘Demon Bride’

Hannah Arendt: A Life in Dark Times

Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters

Anne Sexton: Teacher of Weird Abundance

The Book of Joan: Tales of Mirth, Mischief, and Manipulation

The Tale of Beatrix Potter: A Biography

Marie Curie and Her Daughters: The Private Lives of Science’s First Family

The Writer’s Library: The Authors You Love on the Books That Changed Their Lives

Sex with Presidents: The Ins and Outs of Love and Lust in the White House

Hypatia’s Heritage: A History of Women in Science from Antiquity to the Late Nineteenth Century

The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks

Maya Deren: Incomplete Control

Sister Love: The Letters of Audre Lorde and Pat Parker 1974-1989

Frida Kahlo: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations

Gentleman Jack: A Biography of Anne Lister, Regency Landowner, Seducer and Secret Diarist

Book of Awesome Women Writers

Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley

She’s A Rebel: The History of Women in Rock & Roll

A Bad Woman Feeling Good: Blues and the Women Who Sing Them

The Wicked Sisters: Women Poets, Literary History, and Discord

The Women Who Made New York

Men in Dark Times

Hannah Arendt: The Last Interview and Other Conversations

Oscar Micheaux and His Circle: African-American Filmmaking and Race Cinema of the Silent Era

33 1/3: Nick Drake’s Pink Moon

The Choice: Embrace the Possible

Four Queens: The Provençal Sisters Who Ruled Europe

Royal Witches: From Joan of Navarre to Elizabeth Woodville

Chasing Chopin: A Musical Journey Across Three Centuries, Four Countries, and a Half-Dozen Revolutions

Under the Bridge: The True Story of the Murder of Reena Virk

African American Women of the Old West

Mad and Bad: Real Heroines of the Regency

What Girls Need: How to Raise Bold, Courageous, and Resilient Women

33 1/3: Bobbie Gentry’s Ode to Billie Joe

The Little Princesses: The Story of the Queen’s Childhood by Her Nanny, Marion Crawford

AOC: The Fearless Rise of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and What It Means for America

The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches 1968-1992

Ladysitting: My Year with Nana at the End of Her Century

Jane Austen: A Life

The Girl from Purple Mountain: Love, Honor, War, and One Family’s Journey from China to America

Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells

The Black Cabinet: The Untold Story of African Americans and Politics During the Age of Roosevelt

Princess of the Hither Isles: A Black Suffragist’s Story from the Jim Crow South

Vita & Virginia: A Double Life

Princess Noire: The Tumultuous Reign of Nina Simone

Strong Women: 15 Biographies of Influential Women History Overlooked

Outraged: Why Everyone is Shouting and No One is Talking

The Lonely Life: An Autobiography

Abundant Beauty: The Adventurous Travels of Marianne North, Botanical Artist

There I Am: The Journey from Hopelessness to Healing—A Memoir

Wheels Within Wheels: The Making of a Traveller

Lady Romeo: The Radical and Revolutionary Life of Charlotte Cushman, America’s First Celebrity

What It Takes: How I Built a $100 Million Business Against the Odds

Yes, I Can Say That: When They Come for the Comedians, We Are All in Trouble

Queens of the Resistance: Elizabeth Warren

Clever Maids: The Secret History of the Grimm Fairy Tales

Testament of Youth

A Place for Everything

No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram

Who Did It First?: 50 Scientists, Artists, and Mathematicians Who Revolutionized the World

Queens of the Resistance: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Queens of the Resistance: Maxine Waters

Queen of Vaudeville: The Story of Eva Tanguay

Use the Power You Have: A Brown Woman’s Guide to Politics and Political Change

Memoirs of an Early Arab Feminist: The Life and Activism of Anbara Salam Khalidi

Stranger in the Shogun’s City: A Japanese Woman and Her World

Queens of the Resistance: Nancy Pelosi

Harriet Tubman and the Fight for Freedom: A Brief History with Documents

Calamity: The Many Lives of Calamity Jane

Art is a Tyrant: The Unconventional Life of Rosa Bonheur

The Other Madisons: The Lost History of a President’s Black Family

Dressed in Dreams: A Black Girl’s Love Letter to the Power of Fashion

The AOC Way: The Secrets of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Success

Heroism Begins with Her: Inspiring Stories of Bold, Brave, and Gutsy Women in the U.S. Military

Nancy Cunard: Heiress, Muse, Political Idealist

The Earth in Her Hands: 75 Extraordinary Women Working in the World of Plants

Zoo Station: The Story of Christiane F.

Minnie Lansbury: Suffragette, Socialist, Rebel Councillor

Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture

Ms. Gloria Steinem: A Life

Sarah Bernhardt: The Divine and Dazzling Life of the World’s First Superstar

Counter Culture: The American Coffee Shop Waitress

Say I’m Dead: A Family Memoir of Race, Secrets, and Love

Words Will Break Cement: The Passion of Pussy Riot

Muslim Women Are Everything: Stereotype-Shattering Stories of Courage, Inspiration, and Adventure

AOC: Fighter, Phenom, Changemaker

Writing Wild: Women Poets, Ramblers, and Mavericks Who Shape How We See the Natural World

Queer, There and Everywhere: 23 People Who Changed the World

Dark Sparkler

Beatriz Allende: A Revolutionary Life in Cold War Latin America

One Last Lunch: A Final Meal With Those Who Meant So Much To Us

Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings

America’s Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines

Atomic Women: The Untold Stories of the Scientists Who Helped Create the Nuclear Bomb

Youth

Childhood

The War Queens: Extraordinary Women who Ruled the Battlefield

America’s First Female Serial Killer: Jane Toppan and the Making of a Monster

Jane’s Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World

Up All Night: Ted Turner, CNN, and the Birth of 24-Hour News

Death in Ten Minutes: The Forgotten Life of Radical Suffragette Kitty Marion

Sylvia Townsend Warner: A Biography

Grandmothers: Essays by 21st-century Grandmothers

Ongoingness: The End of a Diary

A Carlin Home Companion: Growing Up with George