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Fire and Rain: Nixon, Kissinger, and the Wars in Southeast Asia

Ghosts of the Orphanage

When Women Ruled the Pacific: Power and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Tahiti and Hawai‘i

Thin Skin: Essays

Romaine Brooks: A Life

Disobedient Women: How a Small Group of Faithful Women Exposed Abuse, Brought Down Powerful Pastors, and Ignited an Evangelical Reckoning

Incurable Optimist: Living with Illness and Chronic Hope

I’m Down

Speculum of the Other Woman

The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll: The Search for Dare Wright

The Women of NOW: How Feminists Built an Organization That Transformed America

Instead of a Letter

You Should Sit Down for This: A Memoir About Wine, Life, and Cookies

Seventy Letters: Personal and Intellectual Windows on a Thinker

First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge

Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings

Unfuck Your Friendships: Using Science to Make and Maintain the Most Important Relationships of Your Life

Directions to Myself: A Memoir of Four Years

Fifty Years a Feminist

Women’s Work: From Feminine Arts to Feminist Art

A Kick in the Belly: Women, Slavery and Resistance

Pink Triangles: Radical Perspectives on Gay Liberation

The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex

The Restless Dead: Necrowriting and Disappropriation

Takedown: Art and Power in the Digital Age

The Expanding Discourse: Feminism And Art History

The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing

Sudden Appearances: The Mongol Turn in Commerce, Belief, and Art

No Meat Required: The Cultural History and Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating

Flirting with Danger: The Mysterious Life of Marguerite Harrison, Socialite Spy

The Bone Woman: A Forensic Anthropologist’s Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo

It’s Up to You: A Practice to Change Your Life by Changing Your Mind

Naked Feminism: Breaking the Cult of Female Modesty

How to Live with Objects: A Guide to More Meaningful Interiors

Revitalizing Retirement: Reshaping Your Identity, Relationships, and Purpose

Man Repeller: Seeking Love. Finding Overalls.

New York New Wave: The Legacy of Feminist Art in Emerging Practice

Sistah Vegan: Black Female Vegans Speak on Food, Identity, Health, and Society

Julia Child: The Last Interview and Other Conversations

Acceptance: A Memoir

Sex Talks: The 5 Conversations That Will Transform Your Love Life

Climate Resilience: How We Keep Each Other Safe, Care for Our Communities, and Fight Back Against Climate Change

The Compost Coach: Make compost, build soil and grow a regenerative garden – wherever you live

Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists and Muses at the Heart of a Revolution

Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women

The Plague: Living Death in Our Times

Deer Creek Drive: A Reckoning of Memory and Murder in the Mississippi Delta

Seeing Ourselves: Women’s Self-Portraits

New Feminist Art Criticism

New Feminist Criticism: Art, Identity, Action

Unbound Voices: A Documentary History of Chinese Women in San Francisco

Stronger Than Infertility: The Essential Guide to Navigating Every Step of Your Journey

The Tender Parts: A Guide to Healing from Trauma through Internal Family Systems Therapy

Tell Me the Truth About Love: 13 Tales from the Therapist’s Couch

Do Less: The Unexpected Strategy for Women to Get More of What They Want in Work and Life

Girls, Aggression, and Intersectionality: Transforming the Discourse of “Mean Girls” in the United States

A Very Easy Death

How Do We Look: The Body, the Divine, and the Question of Civilization

The Vagina Book: An Owner’s Manual for Taking Care of Your Down There

Anti-Racist Ally: An Introduction to Activism and Action

Dying Green: A Journey Through End-of-Life Medicine in Search of Sustainable Health Care

Raiment

The Life Cycle: 8,000 Miles in the Andes by Bamboo Bike

Quick Confidence: Be Authentic, Boost Connections, and Make Bold Bets on Yourself

Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-Esteem

Kintsugi: Finding Strength in Imperfection

Women Artists: A Graphic Guide

The Mirror and the Palette: Rebellion, Revolution, and Resilience: Five Hundred Years of Women’s Self Portraits

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

Embroidery: Threads and Stories from Alabama Chanin and The School of Making

Liberty’s Dawn: A People’s History of the Industrial Revolution

The Menopause Companion: A Beginner’s Guide to Owning Your Transition, from Peri to Post

Harlem Nocturne: Women Artists and Progressive Politics During World War II

The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt’s Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer

Why Women Read Fiction: The Stories of Our Lives

Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World

Conversations on Letting Go: Guidance, Meditations, and Exercises to Help You Live Authentically

Myself When Young

Valiant Women: The Extraordinary American Servicewomen Who Helped Win World War II

Women, Gender and History in India

Beijing Rules: How China Weaponized Its Economy to Confront the World

The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever

Gut Fix: Discover the herbal remedies, diet tips, and supplements clinically shown to heal your gut

Women in Design

Birth Control: The Insidious Power of Men Over Motherhood

Beastly: The 40,000-Year Story of Animals and Us

Twilight Cities: Lost Capitals of the Mediterranean

Translating Myself and Others

Arguing for a Better World: How Philosophy Can Help Us Fight for Social Justice

Strong Like Water: Finding the Freedom, Safety, and Compassion to Move Through Hard Things – and Experience True Flourishing

Louise Dupin’s Work on Women: Selections

Hormonal

Procrastination: What It Is, Why It’s a Problem, and What You Can Do About It

Womancode: Perfect Your Cycle, Amplify Your Fertility, Supercharge Your Sex Drive and Become a Power Source

Women in the Picture: Women, Art and the Power of Looking

Full Surrogacy Now

When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge

Blight: Fungi and the Coming Pandemic

Encyclopedia of Goddesses and Heroines

The EMDR Workbook for Trauma and PTSD: Skills to Manage Triggers, Move Beyond Traumatic Memories, and Take Back Your Life

You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation

Rememberings: Scenes from My Complicated Life

The Moving Form of Film: Historicising the Medium through Other Media

The Measure of Our Age: Navigating Care, Safety, Money, and Meaning Later in Life

Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell’s Invisible Life

Uncut Funk: A Contemplative Dialogue

Embroidery: A Modern Guide to Botanical Embroidery

This Is What You’re Really Hungry For

Queen Bey: A Celebration of the Power and Creativity of Beyoncé Knowles-Carter

Burn the Page: A True Story of Torching Doubts, Blazing Trails, and Igniting Change

Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape

Feminist Antifascism. Counterpublics of the Common

Would You Rather?: A Memoir of Growing Up and Coming Out

Black Girl, Call Home

Narcas: The Secret Rise of Women in Latin America’s Cartels

Bumpin’: The Modern Guide to Pregnancy: Navigating the Wild, Weird, and Wonderful Journey From Conception Through Birth and Beyond

Queer Lives Across the Wall: Desire and Danger in Divided Berlin, 1945-1970

Your Name Is Not Anxious: A Very Personal Guide to Putting Anxiety in Its Place

Pandora’s Box

Finding Latinx: In Search of the Voices Redefining Latino Identity

Contradiction Days: An Artist on the Verge of Motherhood

They Call It Love: The Politics of Emotional Life

Feminist Rehearsals: Gender at the Theatre in Early Twentieth-Century Argentina and Mexico

Entering the Picture: Judy Chicago, The Fresno Feminist Art Program, and the Collective Visions of Women Artists

A Pity Party Is Still a Party: A Feel-Good Guide to Feeling Bad

The No Club: Putting a Stop to Women’s Dead-End Work

The Language of Emotions (Revised and Updated): What Your Feelings Are Trying to Tell You

A History of Ancient Rome in 100 Lives

Good Stuff: A Reminiscence of My Father, Cary Grant

Resilient Grieving: How to Find Your Way Through a Devastating Loss (Finding Strength and Embracing Life After a Loss that Changes Everything)

Happy Plants, Happy You: A Plant-Care & Self-Care Guide for the Modern Houseplant Parent

Unbroken: The Trauma Response Is Never Wrong: And Other Things You Need to Know to Take Back Your Life

Ice: From Mixed Drinks to Skating Rinks—a Cool History of a Hot Commodity

Three Sisters: A True Holocaust Story of Love, Luck, and Survival

The Art of Dora Carrington

The Dress Diary of Mrs Anne Sykes

Behold the Monster: Confronting America’s Most Prolific Serial Killer

Save the Cat! Writes a Young Adult Novel: The Ultimate Guide to Writing a YA Bestseller

Creative Mending: Beautiful Darning, Patching and Stitching Techniques

MOTHERCARE: On Obligation, Love, Death, and Ambivalence

Strike Sparks: Selected Poems, 1980-2002

A Place in the World: Finding the Meaning of Home

Chasing the Truth: A Young Journalist’s Guide to Investigative Reporting

Is There No Place on Earth for Me?

Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom

What They Don’t Teach You about Money: Habits to Get You Unstuck and on the Road to Financial Freedom

The Multi-Hyphen Life: Work Less, Create More, and Design a Life That Works for You

The Rooster House: My Ukrainian Family Story

Visible Mending: A Modern Guide to Darning, Stitching and Patching the Clothes You Love

Don’t Call It a Cult: The Shocking Story of Keith Raniere and the Women of NXIVM

The Yoga Engineer’s Manual: The Anatomy and Mechanics of a Sustainable Practice

How to Win at Feminism

Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future

Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture

Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I: The Mother and Daughter Who Forever Changed British History

Silk: A History in Three Metamorphoses Weaving Together Biography, Global History and Science Writing

In the Flo: Unlock Your Hormonal Advantage and Revolutionize Your Life

Stand: A Memoir on Activism. A Manual for Progress

To Name the Bigger Lie: A Memoir in Two Stories

The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir

Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death

Strip Tees: A Memoir of Millennial Los Angeles

How to Write Erotica

Laughter in the Dark: Egypt to the Tune of Change

Life on Other Planets: A Memoir of Finding My Place in the Universe

Owner of a Lonely Heart

Loud Black Girls: 20 Black Women Writers Ask: What’s Next?

Goddesses and Heroines: Meet More Than 80 Powerful Women From Around the World

Stress Wisely: How to Be Well in an Unwell World

No Compromise: The Work of Florence Knoll

No Ordinary Assignment

Maybe We’ll Make It

The Way of the Fearless Writer: Mindful Wisdom for a Flourishing Writing Life

How We Do It: Black Writers on Craft, Practice, and Skill

Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and Notebooks: 1941-1995

Embodied Activism: Engaging the Body to Cultivate Liberation, Justice, and Authentic Connection – A Practical Guide for Transformative Social Change

Unearthing Joy: A Guide to Culturally and Historically Responsive Teaching and Learning

Out of Africa / Shadows on the Grass

Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller

Disentangling from Emotionally Immature People: Avoid Emotional Traps, Stand Up for Your Self, and Transform Your Relationships as an Adult Child of Emotionally Immature Parents

Evidence of Things Seen: True Crime in an Era of Reckoning

Kitty Fisher: The First Female Celebrity

The Death Doula’s Guide to Living Fully and Dying Prepared: An Essential Workbook to Help You Reflect Back, Plan Ahead, and Find Peace on Your Journey

It’s Not That Radical: Climate Action to Transform Our World

Wonder Drug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims

Lesbians on Television: New Queer Visibility & the Lesbian Normal

The Panic Years: Dates, Doubts, and the Mother of All Decisions

I’ll Drink to That: A Life in Style, with a Twist

Sisterhood Heals: The Transformative Power of Healing in Community

The Light Room

Literacy in a Long Blues Note: Black Women’s Literature and Music in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

The Power of One: How I Found the Strength to Tell the Truth and Why I Blew the Whistle on Facebook

Rivermouth: A Chronicle of Language, Faith, and Migration

Women in Roman Law and Society

I Am More than My Body: The Body Neutral Journey

Why Sinéad O’Connor Matters

How to Have Feminist Sex

Cut Flower Growing: A Beginner’s Guide to Planning, Planting and Styling Cut Flowers, No Matter Your Space

Parachute Women: Marianne Faithfull, Marsha Hunt, Bianca Jagger, Anita Pallenberg, and the Women Behind The Rolling Stones

Traveling with People I Want to Punch in the Throat