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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)

Birdgirl: A Young Environmentalist Looks to the Skies in Search of a Better Future

Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season: Selected Poems

The Ultimate Self-Esteem Toolkit: 25 Tools to Boost Confidence, Achieve Goals, and Find Happiness

The Ultimate Anxiety Toolkit: 25 Tools to Worry Less, Relax More, and Boost Your Self-Esteem

The Ultimate Time Management Toolkit: 25 Productivity Tools for Adults with ADHD and Chronically Busy People

How to Love Yourself

Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock

Good Mourning: Honest conversations about grief and loss

Nobody Wants Your Sh*t: The Art of Decluttering Before You Die

What Has Life Taught You?: 10 Eternal Questions Answered by 40 Exceptional People

The Art of Chilling Out for Women: 100+ Ways to Replace Worry and Stress with Spiritual Healing, Self-Care, and Self-Love

Mushrooming: An Illustrated Guide to the Fantastic, Delicious, Deadly, and Strange World of Fungi

Understanding ADHD in Girls and Women

Body into Balance: An Herbal Guide to Holistic Self-Care

Silk Road: A New History

The True History of Merlin the Magician

The Hard Parts: A Memoir of Courage and Triumph

The Southernization of America: A Story of Democracy in the Balance

Appetite for Dysfunction: A Cautionary Tale

Women and the Crusades

The Mirror Book

The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction

“I’m happy when everyone else is happy” and other lies I told myself!

Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

My Brain Has Too Many Tabs Open: How to Untangle Our Relationship with Tech

Without a Doubt: How to Go from Underrated to Unbeatable

The Freelance Mindset: Unleashing Your Side Hustles for Better Work, Play, and Life

Send Yourself Roses: Thoughts on My Life, Love, and Leading Roles

Go Back and Get It: A Memoir of Race, Inheritance, and Intergenerational Healing

The Roman Triumph

How to Read Now: Essays

Gut Feelings: The Microbiome and Our Health

Angela Davis: An Autobiography

The Life Council: 10 Friends Every Woman Needs

What’s Eating Us: Women, Food, and the Epidemic of Body Anxiety

Raceless: In Search of Family, Identity, and the Truth About Where I Belong

The Rising of the Women: Feminist Solidarity and Class Conflict, 1880-1917

Adult Survivors of Toxic Family Members: Tools to Maintain Boundaries, Deal with Criticism, and Heal from Shame After Ties Have Been Cut

Financial Feminism: A Woman’s Guide To Investing for a Sustainable Future

Dance Your Way Home: A Journey Through the Dancefloor

Insight: Why We’re Not as Self-Aware as We Think, and How Seeing Ourselves Clearly Helps Us Succeed at Work and in Life

You Could Make This Place Beautiful

Magnificent Rebel: Nancy Cunard in Jazz Age Paris

Once upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature

Period: The Real Story of Menstruation

So Sorry for Your Loss: How I Learned to Live with Grief, and Other Grave Concerns

The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal

Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains

Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life

The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman

I Don’t Need Therapy: (And Other Lies I’ve Told Myself)

Microjoys: Finding Hope (Especially) When Life Is Not Okay

I Am Debra Lee

Hidden Brilliance: Unlocking the Intelligence of Autism

Drama Free: A Guide to Managing Unhealthy Family Relationships

Is This Normal?: Judgement-Free Straight Talk About Your Body

12 Tiny Things: Simple Ways to Live a More Intentional Life

The Power of Language: How the Codes We Use to Think, Speak, and Live Transform Our Minds

Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility

A History of Science: From Agriculture to Artificial Intelligence

Crying in the Bathroom

Still Distracted After All These Years: Help and Support for Older Adults with ADHD

Decoding Your Emotional Blueprint: A Powerful Guide to Transformation Through Disentangling Multigenerational Patterns

Windfall: The Prairie Woman Who Lost Her Way and the Great-Granddaughter Who Found Her

Rekha’s Kitchen Garden: Seasonal Produce and Homegrown Wisdom from a Year in One Gardener’s Plot

The Gender Penalty: Turning Obstacles into Opportunities for Women at Work

Women with Attention Deficit Disorder: Embrace Your Differences and Transform Your Life

Lapidarium: The Secret Lives of Stones

Dressing Barbie: A Celebration of the Clothes That Made America’s Favorite Doll and the Incredible Woman Behind Them

Paris: The Memoir

Womb: The Inside Story of Where We All Began

Complaint!

Succeeding with Adult ADHD: Daily Strategies to Help You Achieve Your Goals and Manage Your Life – (2nd Edition)

Queer Asia: Decolonising and Reimagining Sexuality and Gender

Living Resistance: An Indigenous Vision for Seeking Wholeness Every Day

The Longest Race: Inside the Secret World of Abuse, Doping, and Deception on Nike’s Elite Running Team

The Penguin Book of Feminist Writing: From Christine de Pizan to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Weathering: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society

Calmfidence: How to Trust Yourself, Tame Your Inner Critic, and Shine in Any Spotlight

Black Ball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation That Saved the Soul of the NBA

Hoop Muses: An Insider’s Guide to Pop Culture and the (Women’s) Game

Revolutionary Women of Texas and Mexico: Portraits of Soldaderas, Saints, and Subversives

Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems

Egg: A Dozen Ovatures

Embrace Your Empathy: Make Sensitivity Your Strength

Where We Meet the World: The Story of the Senses

Rise: Extraordinary Women of Colour who Changed the World

Soft Skills for Dummies

Forever Barbie: The Unauthorized Biography of a Real Doll

My Life with Things: The Consumer Diaries

Pardon My French: Food, Faux Pas and Franglish: One Family’s Riotous Year in the South of France

The Critic’s Daughter: A Memoir

Rebel Girls: Youth Activism and Social Change Across the Americas

Mending with Boro: Japanese Running Stitch & Patching Techniques

Femme Magnifique: 50 Magnificent Women Who Changed The World

Emotional Labor: The Invisible Work Shaping Our Lives and How to Claim Our Power

Black Tudors: The Untold Story

Habit Forming: Drug Addiction in America, 1776-1914

Great and Horrible News: Murder and Mayhem in Early Modern Britain

Unseen: Unpublished Black History from The New York Times Photo Archives

Why Am I So Anxious? Powerful Tools for Recognizing Anxiety and Restoring Your Peace

Untold Power: The Fascinating Rise and Complex Legacy of First Lady Edith Wilson

The Social Brain: The Psychology of Successful Groups