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The Ancient Guide to Modern Life

No Justice in the Shadows: How America Criminalizes Immigrants

New Woman Fiction: Women Writing First-Wave Feminism

That’s the Way It Was: Stories of Struggle, Survival and Self-Respect in Twentieth-Century Black St. Louis

Hannah Arendt: A Life in Dark Times

Ar’n’t I a Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South

The Middle Ages in 50 Objects

Women of Will: The Remarkable Evolution of Shakespeare’s Female Characters

New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan

Mental Floss Presents Be Amazing

The Tale of Beatrix Potter: A Biography

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

Horrible Words: A Guide to the Misuse of English

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

Phallacy: Life Lessons from the Animal Penis

Black Fatigue: How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and Spirit

Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America

Rosa Parks: My Story

Just Us: An American Conversation

It Still Moves: Lost Songs, Lost Highways, and the Search for the Next American Music

Groundwork: Local Black Freedom Movements in America

Can’t Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation

The Calamity Form: On Poetry and Social Life

The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks

Women, Culture, and Politics

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

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

Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains

Somebody to Love?: A Rock-and-Roll Memoir

Book of Awesome Women Writers

The Artistry of Anger: Black and White Women’s Literature in America, 1820-1860

All God’s Children

Shadow Bodies: Black Women, Ideology, Representation, and Politics

Our Ice Is Vanishing / Sikuvut Nunguliqtuq: A History of Inuit, Newcomers, and Climate Change

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

Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism

Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land

Queer Brown Voices: Personal Narratives of Latina/o LGBT Activism

Daughters of Mother Earth: The Wisdom of Native American Women

To Believe in Women: What Lesbians Have Done For America – A History

My Own Words

If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future

Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America

50 Films That Changed Bollywood, 1995-2015

Alone Together: Love, Grief, and Comfort in the Time of COVID-19

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

Words of Her Own: Women Authors in Nineteenth-Century Bengal

Cassandra Speaks: When Women Are the Storytellers, the Human Story Changes

Artcurious: Stories of the Unexpected, Slightly Odd, and Strangely Wonderful in Art History

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

Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East

Life Stages and Native Women: Memory, Teachings, and Story Medicine

Chinese Women’s Cinema: Transnational Contexts

The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)

Nevertheless, She Wore It: 50 Iconic Fashion Moments

Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition

The Portable Hannah Arendt

The Dead Ladies Project: Exiles, Expats, and Ex-Countries

The Hidden History of American Fashion: Rediscovering 20th-Century Women Designers

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

A Disability History of the United States

The Women Who Made New York

Mend!: A Refashioning Manual and Manifesto

Bubblegum Music is the Naked Truth: The Dark History of Prepubescent Pop, from the Banana Splits to Britney Spears

Men in Dark Times

On Violence

Hannah Arendt: The Last Interview and Other Conversations

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

Men to Avoid in Art and Life

Under Magnolia: A Southern Memoir

Super Serious

33 1/3: Nick Drake’s Pink Moon

The Darkest Web: Drugs, Death and Destroyed Lives… The Inside Story of the Internet’s Evil Twin

The Choice: Embrace the Possible

Four Queens: The Provençal Sisters Who Ruled Europe

Royal Witches: From Joan of Navarre to Elizabeth Woodville

The Human Cosmos: A Secret History of the Stars

Melania and Me: The Rise and Fall of My Friendship with the First Lady

The Sawbones Book: The Hilarious, Horrifying Road to Modern Medicine

Daring: My Passages: A Memoir

Tomboy: The Surprising History and Future of Girls Who Dare to Be Different

She Votes: How U.S. Women Won Suffrage, and What Happened Next

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

On Corruption in America: And What Is at Stake

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

Compañeras: Zapatista Women’s Stories

African American Women of the Old West

Surrealist Women: An International Anthology

Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots

Azadi

Sisters in Hate: American Women on the Front Lines of White Nationalism

Identity and Capitalism

Mad and Bad: Real Heroines of the Regency

After the Last Border: Two Families and the Story of Refuge in America

Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town

Inequality: A Short History

Greek Myths: Meet the Heroes and Heroines, Monsters and Gods of Ancient Greece

Medieval Writings on Female Spirituality

Modern Scottish Women Poets

In Bed with the Ancient Egyptians

Culver City Chronicles

Looking for Miss America: A Pageant’s 100-Year Quest to Define Womanhood

A Cargo of Women: Susannah Watson and the Convicts of the Princess Royal

The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir

Hidden Heroines: The Forgotten Suffragettes

My Name is Victoria: The Extraordinary Story of One Woman’s Struggle to Reclaim Her True Identity

Welfare Warriors: The Welfare Rights Movement in the United States

Treasury of Greek Mythology

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

Max Factor and Hollywood: A Glamorous History

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

Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture

The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches 1968-1992

Anger: The Conflicted History of an Emotion

Catland: The Soft Power of Cat Culture in Japan

The Lonely War

Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments

Jane Austen: A Life

Glitter Up the Dark: How Pop Music Broke the Binary

Autobiography of Mother Jones

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

Unsinkable

84, Charing Cross Road

Edith’s Story

A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland

Two Trees Make a Forest: Travels Among Taiwan’s Mountains & Coasts in Search of My Family’s Past

Tokyo Street Style

American Resistance: From the Women’s March to the Blue Wave

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

Why the Ramones Matter

Princess Noire: The Tumultuous Reign of Nina Simone

Strong Women: 15 Biographies of Influential Women History Overlooked

Hearts And Minds: The Untold Story of the Great Pilgrimage and How Women Won the Vote

Simone de Beauvoir and the Colonial Experience: Freedom, Violence, and Identity

The Men in My Life: A Memoir of Love and Art in 1950s Manhattan

Gender Inequality in Our Changing World: A Comparative Approach (500 Tips)

The Lonely Life: An Autobiography

Hell in the Heartland: Murder, Meth, and the Case of Two Missing Girls

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

The Right to Be Elected: 100 Years Since Suffrage

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

Double Lives: A History of Working Motherhood

Unspeakable Acts: True Tales of Crime, Murder, Deceit, and Obsession

Clever Maids: The Secret History of the Grimm Fairy Tales

A History of Women in 100 Objects

Testament of Youth

Dangerous Voices: Women’s Laments and Greek Literature

Burdens of History: British Feminists, Indian Women, and Imperial Culture, 1865-1915

The Literary Life Of Cairo: One Hundred Years In The Heart Of The City

We Are Not Yet Equal: Understanding Our Racial Divide

Cold Cases: A True Crime Collection: Unidentified Serial Killers, Unsolved Kidnappings, and Mysterious Murders

She Proclaims: Our Declaration of Independence from a Man’s World

Czech Feminisms: Perspectives on Gender in East Central Europe

Drawn to Purpose: American Women Illustrators and Cartoonists

No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram

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

Korean Women in Leadership

The End of White Politics: How to Heal Our Liberal Divide

Bright Precious Thing

The Button Box: The Story of Women in the 20th century told through the clothes they wore

They Didn’t See Us Coming: The Hidden History of Feminism in the Nineties

Say It Louder!: Black Voters, Voices & the Shaping of American Democracy

Queen of Vaudeville: The Story of Eva Tanguay

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

Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes

Frontier Women and Their Art: A Chronological Encyclopedia

From Angel to Office Worker: Middle-Class Identity and Female Consciousness in Mexico, 1890–1950

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

Ghosting the News: Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy

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

Contraception: A Concise History

The Fashion Forecasters: A Hidden History of Color and Trend Prediction

No Modernism Without Lesbians

Vintage Luxury Fashion: Exploring the Rise of the Secondhand Clothing Trade

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

Raising Our Hands: How White Women Can Stop Avoiding Hard Conversations, Start Accepting Responsibility, and Find Our Place on the New Frontlines

Calamity: The Many Lives of Calamity Jane

Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present

Twisted: The Tangled History of Black Hair Culture

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

Daughter of the Boycott: Carrying On a Montgomery Family’s Civil Rights Legacy

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

Daughters of the Earth: The Lives and Legends of American Indian Women

Nancy Cunard: Heiress, Muse, Political Idealist

A History of the World in 500 Walks

Living with Jim Crow: African American Women and Memories of the Segregated South

Gender and the Mexican Revolution: Yucatán Women and the Realities of Patriarchy

Dreaming of Dixie: How the South Was Created in American Popular Culture

Minnie Lansbury: Suffragette, Socialist, Rebel Councillor

How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs: The Destruction of the Syrian Arab Kingdom in 1920 and the Rise of Anti-Liberal Islamism

The Lumbee Indians: An American Struggle

Raised in Ruins: A Memoir

Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South: Race, Identity, and the Making of a Nation

Liberated Threads: Black Women, Style, and the Global Politics of Soul

Revolutions: How Women Changed the World on Two Wheels