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Glucose Revolution: The Life-Changing Power of Balancing Your Blood Sugar

Eighteenth Century Women Artists: Their Trials, Tribulations and Triumphs

Sundressed: Natural Fabrics and the Future of Clothing

It’s OK That You’re Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn’t Understand

Oh My Mother!: A Memoir in Nine Adventures

Planet Palm: How Palm Oil Ended Up in Everything — And Endangered the World

You Take Care: Lessons in Looking After Yourself—for Every Body

Man-Made: How the bias of the past is being built into the future

Romaine Wasn’t Built in a Day: The Delightful History of Food Language

Stealing from the Saracens: How Islamic Architecture Shaped Europe

The Ottomans: A Cultural Legacy

Taking Care: The Story of Nursing and Its Power to Change Our World

Real Estate

Life Design for Women: Conscious Living as a Force for Positive Change

Microcrafts: Tiny Treasures to Make and Share

No Longer Radical: Understanding Mastectomies and Choosing the Breast Cancer Care That’s Right For You

Up to Speed: The Groundbreaking Science of Women Athletes

Photography Fifth Edition: A Cultural History

A Hidden Wisdom: Medieval Contemplatives on Self-Knowledge, Reason, Love, Persons, and Immortality

Messalina: A Story of Empire, Slander and Adultery

How to Tidy Your Mind: Tips and Techniques to Help You Reduce Mental Clutter and Find Calm

Historical Perspectives on Sustainable Fashion: Inspiration for Change

Managing Expectations: A Memoir in Essays

The Warhol Economy: How Fashion, Art, and Music Drive New York City

Flight Paths: How a Passionate and Quirky Group of Pioneering Scientists Solved the Mystery of Bird Migration

Diversifying the Courts: Race, Gender, and Judicial Legitimacy

Under the Skin: Tattoos, Scalps, and the Contested Language of Bodies in Early America

Anxiously Attached: Becoming More Secure in Life and Love

Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City

My Own Magic: A Reappearing Act

Everyday Utopia: What 2,000 Years of Wild Experiments Can Teach Us About the Good Life

A Life of One’s Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again

Don’t Think, Dear: On Loving and Leaving Ballet

The Power of Wonder: The Extraordinary Emotion That Will Change the Way You Live, Learn, and Lead

A Renaissance of Our Own: A Memoir & Manifesto on Reimagining

Unf*ck Your Grief: Using Science to Heal Yourself and Support Others

Quietly Hostile: Essays

The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins

Not Funny: Essays on Life, Comedy, Culture, Et Cetera

Reset!: A Blueprint for a Better Life

Our Brave Foremothers: Celebrating 100 Black, Brown, Asian, and Indigenous Women Who Changed the Course of History

Be the Calm or Be the Storm: Leadership Lessons from a Woman at the Helm

Love and Trouble: Memoirs of a Former Wild Girl

The Origins of You: How Breaking Family Patterns Can Liberate the Way We Live and Love

All Made Up: A Girl’s Guide to Seeing Through Celebrity Hype and Celebrating Real Beauty

Women Artists

Look at the Lights, My Love

The Art of Bouncing Back: Find Your Flow to Thrive at Work and in Life Any Time You’re Off Your Game

Build Your Village: A Guide to Finding Joy and Community in Every Stage of Life

Quant by Quant: The Autobiography of Mary Quant

Tinder Translator: An A-Z of Modern Misogyny

Icons of Art: Women Artists

The Way We Eat Now: How the Food Revolution Has Transformed Our Lives, Our Bodies, and Our World

Master Conflict Without Being a Bitch: Get Results Without Losing Your Cool

Visitors: An American Feminist in East Central Europe

Queens of a Fallen World: The Lost Women of Augustine’s Confessions

Unapologetically Ambitious: Take Risks, Break Barriers, and Create Success on Your Own Terms

Insomnia Doc’s Guide to Restful Sleep: Remedies for Insomnia and Good Sleep Health

A Horse at Night: On Writing

Knowing You: The difference that makes the difference

The Real Valkyrie: The Hidden History of Viking Warrior Women

A Feminist Theory of Refusal

Mott Street: A Chinese American Family’s Story of Exclusion and Homecoming

I’ve Had to Think Up a Way to Survive: On Trauma, Persistence, and Dolly Parton

The Shame Machine: Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation

The Electricity of Every Living Thing: A Woman’s Walk in the Wild to Find Her Way Home

Fragrant: The Secret Life of Scent

Love Without Reason: The Lost Art of Giving a F*ck

First and Only: What Black Women Say About Thriving at Work and in Life

My What If Year: A Memoir

Feminine Genius: The Provocative Path to Waking Up and Turning On the Wisdom of Being a Woman

Save Your Brain: Simple steps and proven strategies to reduce your risk of cognitive decline – before it’s too late

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking

Woman: An Intimate Geography

Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You: A Memoir

Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West

Beautiful Trauma: An Explosion, an Obsession, and a New Lease on Life

Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents―and What They Mean for America’s Future

Edit Your Life: A Handbook for Living with Intention in a Messy World

The Diary Keepers: World War II in the Netherlands, as Written by the People Who Lived Through It

Own Your Money: Practical Strategies to Budget Better, Earn More, and Reach Your 6-Figure Savings Goals

Better Late than Never: Understand, Survive and Thrive Midlife ADHD Diagnosis

Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This?

The Rise and Decline of Patriarchal Systems: An Intersectional Political Economy

Sustainable Badass: A Zero-Waste Lifestyle Guide

Eating Wildly: Foraging for Life, Love and the Perfect Meal

The Joyful Environmentalist

Leaves, Roots & Fruit: A Step-by-Step Guide to Planting an Organic Kitchen Garden

Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma

Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?

The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women’s Rights

Own Your Space: Attainable Room-by-Room Decorating Tips for Renters and Homeowners

The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet

Don’t Call Me Home: A Memoir

Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies: How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature

You Will Find Your People

Ordinary Notes

Homesick

Tell Me What You Want: A Therapist and Her Clients Explore Our 12 Deepest Desires

The Book of SHE: Your Heroine’s Journey into the Heart of Feminine Power

Hello, Molly!: A Memoir

Film Bodies: Queer Feminist Encounters with Gender and Sexuality in Cinema

Overcoming Unwanted Intrusive Thoughts: A CBT-Based Guide to Getting Over Frightening, Obsessive, or Disturbing Thoughts

Problem Solver: Maximizing Your Strengths to Make Better Decisions

The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Essays on Desire and Consumption

Everything That Rises: A Climate Change Memoir

Toward a Feminist Ethics of Nonviolence

A Sweet Floral Life: Romantic Arrangements for Fresh and Sugar Flowers

Good Relations: Cracking the Code of How to Get on Better

The Letters of Shirley Jackson

Feminist Psychology: History, Practice, Research, and the FutureFeminist Philosophy

A Mind Of One’s Own: Feminist Essays On Reason And Objectivity

Not Everyone is Going to Like You: Thoughts From a Former People Pleaser

Grief and Women Writers in the English Renaissance

The Angel Makers: Arsenic, a Midwife, and Modern History’s Most Astonishing Murder Ring

Radius: A Story of Feminist Revolution

Stash: My Life in Hiding

They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent

That Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Means: The 150 Most Commonly Misused Words and Their Tangled Histories

Queer Timing: The Emergence of Lesbian Sexuality in Early Cinema

Formidable: American Women and the Fight for Equality, 1920-2020

I Didn’t Do the Thing Today: Letting Go of Productivity Guilt to Embrace the Hidden Value in Daily Life

The Queen of Distraction: How Women with ADHD Can Conquer Chaos, Find Focus, and Get More Done

Biting the Hand: Growing Up Asian in Black and White America

Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker

What Do You Want Out of Life?: A Philosophical Guide to Figuring Out What Matters

What Does It Matter?: Live with Less Stress and More Joy

And Then What?: Inside Stories of 21st Century Diplomacy

Toxic Positivity: Keeping It Real in a World Obsessed with Being Happy

Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans

June Jordan: Her Life and Letters

Material Enlightenment: Women Writers and the Science of Mind, 1770-1830

Heroines in History: A Thousand Faces

Climate Optimism: Celebrating Systemic Change Around the World

Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt’s Ancient Temples from Destruction

The Unspoken Truths for Career Success: Navigating Pay, Promotions, and Power at Work

Make Some Space: Tuning Into Total Refreshment Centre

The Miracle of Flexibility: A Head-to-Toe Program to Increase Strength, Improve Mobility, and Become Pain Free

Still, I Cannot Save You: A Memoir of Sisterhood, Love, and Letting Go

Voyager: Constellations of Memory

Reclaiming Body Trust: A Path to Healing & Liberation

How to Kill an Earworm: And 500+ Other Psychology Facts You Need to Know

Letters from Tove

Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad English

Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother

When Bad Things Happen in Good Bikinis: Life After Death and a Dog Called Boris

Why Fashion Matters

The Book of Boundaries: Set the Limits That Will Set You Free

I Am Not a Slut: Slut-Shaming in the Age of the Internet

The 5 Practices of Highly Resilient People: Why Some Flourish When Others Fold

Two Weeks Notice: Find the Courage to Quit Your Job, Make More Money, Work Where You Want, and Change the World

Alice Neel: The Art of Not Sitting Pretty

Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood, 2023 Edition

How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975-2001

9 Wonder Words: A Language for Living Well—Even When All Hell Breaks Loose

The Gift of Intensity: How to Win at Life and Love as a Highly Sensitive and Emotionally Intense Person

The Happiness Makeover: Overcome Stress and Negativity to Become a Hopeful, Happy Person

Cat Power: A Good Woman

Taming Your Amygdala: Brain-Based Strategies to Quiet the Anxious Mind

Jennifer Juniper

The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science

Women Don’t Owe You Pretty

Unearthed: A Lost Actress, a Forbidden Book, and a Search for Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust

The Everyday Herbalist

Living, Thinking, Looking: Essays

Feminist Philosophies of Life

The Ghost Club

Awkword Moments: A Lively Guide to the 100 Terms Smart People Should Know

Barbie and Ruth: The Story of the World’s Most Famous Doll and the Woman Who Created Her

Reset: Powerful Habits to Own Your Thoughts, Understand Your Feelings, and Change Your Life

Your Weight Is Not the Problem

Nobody Ever Asked Me about the Girls: Women, Music, and Fame

Woman, Captain, Rebel: The Extraordinary True Story of a Daring Icelandic Sea Captain

The Beauty

Real Self-Care: A Transformative Program for Redefining Wellness (Crystals, Cleanses, and Bubble Baths Not Included)

Life in Five Senses: How Exploring the Senses Got Me Out of My Head and into the World

A Stone Is Most Precious Where It Belongs

Lawbreaking Ladies: 50 Tales of Daring, Defiant, and Dangerous Women from History

The Portfolio Life: How to Future-Proof Your Career, Avoid Burnout, and Build a Life Bigger than Your Business Card

Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York’s Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist

Thriving in a Male-Dominated Workplace

How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain

Grow the F*ck Up: How to Be an Adult and Get Treated Like One

The Everyday Feminist: The Key to Sustainable Social Impact Driving Movements We Need Now More than Ever

The Kingdom of Prep: The Inside Story of the Rise and (Near) Fall of J.Crew

The American Way of Death Revisited

Feminist Philosophy

The Sum of Us

The Patriarchs: The Origins of Inequality

Crash Landing: The Inside Story of How the World’s Biggest Companies Survived an Economy on the Brink

The Secret Life of You: How a bit of alone time can change your life, relationships, and maybe the world

Women Who Kill: Gender and Sexuality in Film and Series of the Post-Feminist Era

Languages Are Good For Us

I Came a Stranger: The Story of a Hull-House Girl

Why We Sing

Beyond Distraction: Five Practical Ways to Focus the Mind

The Urgent Life: My Story of Love, Loss, and Survival

Redefining Your Life D.I.E.T.: Transform How You Look, Feel, and Perform

The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape

Sisterhood Economy: Of, By, For Wo(men)