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Marina Warner and the Ethics of Telling Silenced Stories

Daring: The Life and Art of Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun

You Are More Than Magic: The Black and Brown Girls’ Guide to Finding Your Voice

Brag!: The Art of Tooting Your Own Horn without Blowing It

Finding Your People: The Ultimate Guide to Friendship

From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers

Hot Mess: Mothering Through a Code Red Climate Emergency

Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction

Gypsy: A Memoir

Bookish: How Reading Shapes Our Lives

Unequal: The Math of When Things Do and Don’t Add Up

Against Citizenship: The Violence of the Normative

Raising Readers: How to Nurture a Child’s Love of Books

The Salt Stones: Seasons of a Shepherd’s Life

Tell Her Story: Eleanor Bumpurs & the Police Killing That Galvanized New York City

Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present

Exposure

Coping in Good Times and Bad

Salt On Your Tongue: Women and the Sea

You Are Not Alone in This: Supporting a Loved One’s Mental Health Without Losing Your Own

Born: A History of Childbirth and the Female Struggle to Govern Our Bodies

And You May Find Yourself…

Tissue

Growing in to Autism

Roaring Girls: The Forgotten Feminists of British History

I Should Be Smarter By Now: Stories of Persistence, Delusion, and Occasional Success

Wild for Austen: A Rebellious, Subversive, and Untamed Jane

Classical Mythology of the Constellations: Timeless Tales of the Starry Night Sky

Ugly: Giving Us Back our Beauty Standards

Mother Mary Comes to Me

Twelve Feminist Lessons of War

The Improbable Victoria Woodhull: Suffrage, Free Love, and the First Woman to Run for President

Friends with Words: Adventures in Languageland

Loveable: A Memoir: One Woman’s Path from Good to Free

Unbossed: How Black Girls Are Leading the Way

Autistic and Black

Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women’s Digital Resistance

Resting Bitch Face: Poems

Unbreakable: A Woman’s Guide to Aging with Power

The Motherhood Myth: A Depth Therapist’s Guide to Redefine Parenting, Reimagine Intimacy, and Reclaim the Self

The Real America: The Tangled Roots of Race and Identity

Living for Pleasure: An Epicurean Guide to Life

Both/And: Essays by Trans and Gender-Nonconforming Writers of Color

Holding: A Memoir About Mothers, Drugs, and Other Comforts

How to Make Your Brain Your Best Friend: A Neuroscientist’s Guide to a Healthier, Happier Life

Everything We Do is Music: How 20th-Century Classical Music Shaped Pop

How to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of De-Extinction

Taboo: Conversations We Never Had About Sex, Body Image, Work and Relationships

Passing for Human: A Graphic Memoir

A Truce That Is Not Peace

February House: The Story of W. H. Auden, Carson McCullers, Jane and Paul Bowles, Benjamin Britten, and Gypsy Rose Lee, Under One Roof in Brooklyn

A Little Original Sin: The Life and Work of Jane Bowles

The Great Crashes: Lessons from Global Meltdowns and How to Prevent Them

Unseen Flesh: Gynecology and Black Queer Worth-Making in Brazil

Tate Women Artists

Kuleana: A Story of Family, Land, and Legacy in Old Hawai’i

How to Talk to Yourself: From Self-Doubt to Self-Confidence

Mythica: A New History of Homer’s World, Through the Women Written Out of It

Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream

Paperback Therapy: Therapist-approved tools and advice for mastering your mental health

Sluts: The truth about slutshaming and what we can do to fight it

Living with Jane Austen

Main Character Energy: How to own the narrative of your life

Mission Europe: The Secret History of the Women of SOE

The Damage of Words: A Memoir of Healing Self-Hate and Gaining Self-Mastery

The ADHD Women’s Wellbeing Toolkit: Embrace Your Authentic Self and Harness Your True Potential

Hometown Betrayal: A Tragic Story of Secrecy and Sexual Abuse in Mormon Country

Tacky: Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer

Resurface: A Guide to Navigating Life’s Biggest Transitions

Against the Odds: New Zealand’s First Women Doctors

How to Lose Your Mother: A Daughter’s Memoir

In the Rhododendrons: A Memoir with Appearances by Virginia Woolf

The Intermediaries: A Weimar Story

Women of the Fairy Tale Resistance: The Forgotten Founding Mothers of the Fairy Tale and the Stories That They Spun

Fetishized: A Reckoning with Yellow Fever, Feminism, and Beauty

Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler

The Women of Microsoft: Empowering Stories from the Minds that Coded the World

Fat and Furious: Igniting Radical Fat Resistance

With Her Own Hands: Women Weaving Their Stories

How to Be Unmothered: A Trinidadian Memoir

Generation Care: The New Culture of Caregiving

Yellow Notebook: Diaries Volume I 1978–1987

One Day I’ll Remember This: Diaries 1987–1995

How to End a Story: Diaries 1995–1998

Cat Gods, Goddesses, Deities, and Demons: A Guide to Feline Folklore and Mythology

The Elephant in the Room: How to Stop Making Ourselves and Other Animals Sick

Almost 30: A Definitive Guide to a Life You Love for the Next Decade and Beyond

Semi-Well-Adjusted Despite Literally Everything

Fallosophy: My Trip Through Life with MS

If You Don’t Like This, I Will Die: An Influencer Memoir

Stolen Women: Reclaiming Our Sexuality, Taking Back Our Lives

Hate Won’t Win: Find Your Power and Leave This Place Better Than You Found It

Grassroots: A Field Guide for Feminist Activism

Vanessa Bell: The Life and Art of a Bloomsbury Radical

The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and the Arts

The Creation of Anne Boleyn: A New Look at England’s Most Notorious Queen

Quickies: One Hundred Little Lessons for Living Sexily Ever After in Midlife

Standstill: The art of evading my problems across three continents

Rehab: An American Scandal

How to Build a Goddamn Empire: Advice on Creating Your Brand with High-Tech Smarts, Elbow Grease, Infinite Hustle, and a Whole Lotta Heart

Hotshot: A Life on Fire

Accessory: Former Miss Australia. Convicted Drug Trafficker. Gangland Girlfriend.

Glitz, Glam, and a Damn Good Time: How Mamie Fish, Queen of the Gilded Age, Partied Her Way to Power

Others Like Me: The Lives of Women Without Children

Victorian London: The Life of a City, 1840-187

Weekends at Bellevue

Women, Feminism and Italian Cinema

Elizabeth’s London: Everyday Life in Elizabethan London

Dr Johnson’s London: Everyday Life in London in the Mid 18th Century

Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age

Taking Down Backpage: Fighting the World’s Largest Sex Trafficker

Blessings and Disasters: A Story of Alabama

Putting Myself Together: Writing 1974

Vigorous Reforms: Women Writers and the Politics of Health in the Nineteenth-Century United States

Consent Laid Bare: Sex, Entitlement, and the Distortion of Desir

Are You Mad at Me?: How to Stop Focusing on What Others Think and Start Living for You

This Isn’t Working: How Working Women Can Overcome Stress, Guilt, and Overload to Find True Success

Trying

This Happened to Me: A Reckoning

Where Are the Women Architects?

Gather Together in My Name

Young Women, Girls and Postfeminism in Contemporary British Film

Threads of Empire: A History of the World in Twelve Carpets

Sanctuary

The Painter’s Fire: A Forgotten History of the Artists Who Championed the American Revolution

Breaking the Grass Ceiling: The History of the Women’s Football Association

Emotional Capital for the Triple Win

Slöjd: The Swedish Art of Wood and Textile Handicrafts

All I Ever Wanted Was to Be Hot

Sloppy: Or: Doing It All Wrong

Thrive Solo: Embracing the Freedom, Joy, and Opportunity of a Single, Childfree Life

A Year with the Seals: Unlocking the Secrets of the Sea’s Most Charismatic and Controversial Creatures

Remember When: My life with Alzheimer’s

Not Funny Ha-Ha

Proof of Life: Let Go, Let Love, and Stop Looking for Permission to Live Your Life

Vagina: A New Biography

200 English Grammar Mistakes

The Fallacies of Racism (1st Edition): Understanding How Common Perceptions Uphold White Supremacy

Sonita: Daughters for Sale

To Hear the Trees Speak

You Wanna Be on Top?: A Memoir of Makeovers, Manipulation, and Not Becoming America’s Next Top Model

Personal Color: The Definitive Guide to Finding and Wearing Your Best Colors

The Trembling Hand: Reflections of a Black Woman in the Romantic Archive

Digital Black Feminism

When Women Run the World Sh*t Gets Done: Celebrating the Power of Women Now

Putafeminista: A Manifesto of Sex Worker Feminism

Remembering Women: Lessons from the Ancient World

Witches: A Tale of Sorcery, Scandal and Seduction

Sweet Nothings

Techno-Capitalism: The Rise of the New Robber Barons and the Fight for the Common Good

Big Freakin’ Change: How to Gain Confidence by Stepping Out Before You Are Ready

Naturally: The Herbalist’s Guide to Health and Transformation

Treating Traumatic Loss: A Clinician’s Guide to Helping Clients Cope with a Sudden, Violent, or Difficult Death Using the GRIEF Approach

The Traumatic Loss Workbook: Powerful Skills for Navigating the Grief Caused by a Sudden or Unexpected Death

Shouting Out Loud: Lives of the Raincoats

Talk to Me Nice: The Seven Trust Languages for a Better Workplace

Nobody Ever Told Me Anything

Tell Me What You Like: An Honest Discussion of Sex and Intimacy After Sexual Assault

Torn : Four Women’s Stories of Why They Left – or Why They Stayed

Gwyneth: The Biography

The Art of Immersive Storytelling: Strategies from the Gaming World

Immersive Storytelling for Real and Imagined Worlds: A Writer’s Guide

The Conjuring of America: Mojos, Mermaids, Medicine, and 400 Years of Black Women’s Magic

Own Your Story: Understanding the past to create your future

The Girl Who Baptized Herself: How a Lost Scripture About a Saint Named Thecla Reveals the Power of Knowing Our Worth

When Women Get Sick: An Empowering Approach for Getting the Support You Need

Vanessa Bell: Portrait of the Bloomsbury Artist

Graphic Reproduction: A Comics Anthology

Queer Feminist Science Studies: A Reader

Broken Brains

A Beginner’s Guide to Greek Mythology: An Introduction to the Gods and Goddesses, Mythical Creatures, and Muses of Ancient Greece

In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist Prose

Woman: The American History of an Idea

You Have a New Memory

Stiffed: The Betrayal Of The American Man

Healing Sexual Trauma Guided Journal: Writing and Somatic Practices to Help You Process, Heal, and Feel Safe

Cool Sex: An Essential Young Adult Guide to Loving, Mindful Sex

Today Was Fun: A Book About Work (Seriously)

The Club: Where American Women Artists Found Refuge in Belle Époque Paris

Singlewomen in the European Past, 1250-1800

How to Be a Living Thing: Meditations on Intuitive Oysters, Hopeful Doves, and Being Human in the World

I Thought I Heard You Speak: Women at Factory Records

Girl Head: Feminism and Film Materiality

Perfumes: The Guide 2018

The Cost of Sexism: How the Economy Is Built for Men and Why We Must Reshape It

The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism

Margaret Fuller: A New American Life

After Lives: On Biography and the Mysteries of the Human Heart

Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast

Graffiti Grrlz: Performing Feminism in the Hip Hop Diaspora

Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future – 20th Anniversary Edition

The Last Empress of France: The Rebellious Life of Eugénie de Montijo

The Power of Knitting: Stitching Together Our Lives in a Fractured World

In This Economy?: How Money & Markets Really Work

To Desire Differently

Sisters in the Mirror: A History of Muslim Women and the Global Politics of Feminism

Angelica: For Love and Country in a Time of Revolution

Mean Girl Feminism: How White Feminists Gaslight, Gatekeep, and Girlboss

The Science Question in Feminism

Bitch: The Journey of a Word