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The Story Behind: The Extraordinary History Behind Ordinary Objects

Fashion Victims: The Dangers of Dress Past and Present

Two or Three Things I Know for Sure

Motherlove in Shades of Black: The Maternal Psyche in the Novels of African American Women

Happy Birthday or Whatever: Track Suits, Kim Chee, and Other Family Disasters

Spellwork for Self-Care: 40 Spells to Soothe the Spirit

The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life

It’s Only Blood: Shattering the Taboo of Menstruation

Cleverlands: The secrets behind the success of the world’s education superpowers

Who Knew?: Questions That Will Make You Think Again

The Storytelling Non-Profit: A practical guide to telling stories that raise money and awareness

Bouncing Back from Rejection: Build the Resilience You Need to Get Back Up When Life Knocks You Down

Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good

A Mind Spread Out on the Ground

Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do

Rise & Resist: How to Change the World

Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso: A Tale of Race, Sex, and Violence in America

When You’re Not OK: A Toolkit for Tough Times

Interviews/Entrevistas

How Your Story Sets You Free

Comic Venus: Women and Comedy in American Silent Film

Cleopatra: Last Queen of Egypt

Smashing It: Working Class Artists on Life, Art and Making It Happen

Life Isn’t Binary: On Being Both, Beyond, and In-Between

Race, Culture, and Gender: Black Female Experiences of Violence and Abuse

Radical Heart

“Don’t You Know Who I Am?”: How to Stay Sane in an Era of Narcissism, Entitlement, and Incivility

Black Lives Matter and Music: Protest, Intervention, Reflection

The Leader You Want to Be: Five Essential Principles for Bringing Out Your Best Self—Every Day

The Happiness Effect: How Social Media Is Driving a Generation to Appear Perfect at Any Cost

Liberation in Print: Feminist Periodicals and Social Movement Identity

1968 and Global Cinema

Empowered Boundaries: Speaking Truth, Setting Boundaries, and Inspiring Social Change

Believe Me: How Trusting Women Can Change the World

Working in a Multicultural World: A Guide to Developing Intercultural Competence

The Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World

Protein Powder Cooking…Beyond the Shake

This Naked Mind: Control Alcohol, Find Freedom, Discover Happiness & Change Your Life

Turkish Guest Workers in Germany: Hidden Lives and Contested Borders, 1960s to 1980s

The Life of Bessie Coleman: First African American Woman Pilot

Why We Can’t Sleep: Women’s New Midlife Crisis

Finding My Voice: My Journey to the West Wing and the Path Forward

Borderwork: Feminist Engagements With Comparative Literature

Free Cyntoia: My Search for Redemption in the American Prison System

Coding Literacy: How Computer Programming Is Changing Writing

Black Woman Reformer: Ida B. Wells, Lynching, and Transatlantic Activism

Oppression and the Body: Roots, Resistance, and Resolutions

Fighter in Velvet Gloves: Alaska Civil Rights Hero Elizabeth Peratrovich

A Feeling of Belonging: Asian American Women’s Public Culture, 1930-1960

Lead from the Outside: How to Build Your Future and Make Real Change

Vegan in an Instant: 103 Plant-Based Recipes for Your Instant Pot

Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza

The Social Meaning of Money: Pin Money, Paychecks, Poor Relief, and Other Currencies

The Bodies of Women: Ethics, Embodiment and Sexual Differences

The Big Push: Exposing and Challenging the Persistence of Patriarchy

Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto

Women, Power and Politics in 21st Century Iran

Feminism and Contemporary Art: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Laughter

Earning Power: Women and Work in Los Angeles, 1880-1930

Honor Your Anger: How Transforming Your Anger Style Can Change Your Life

The Spark of Life: Electricity in the Human Body

Uncanny Valley: A Memoir

Stay Woke: A People’s Guide to Making All Black Lives Matter

The Little Book of Big Lies: A Journey into Inner Fitness

The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms

Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe’s Hidden Dimensions

Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette

You’re Not Listening: What You’re Missing and Why It Matters

The Art of Rest: How to Find Respite in the Modern Age

Overground Railroad: The Green Book & Roots of Black Travel in America

Rebel Daughters: Women and the French Revolution

Micro Miracles Discover The Healing Power Of Enzymes

We Are Indivisible: A Blueprint for Democracy After Trump

The Kids Are in Bed: Finding Time for Yourself in the Chaos of Parenting

The Wondrous Workings of Planet Earth: Understanding Our World and Its Ecosystems

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

The Year of No Nonsense: How to Get Over Yourself and On with Your Life

Kill Reply All: A Modern Guide to Online Etiquette, from Social Media to Work to Love

Setting Boundaries Will Set You Free: The Ultimate Guide to Telling the Truth, Creating Connection, and Finding Freedom

St. Marks Is Dead: The Many Lives of America’s Hippest Street

The Joy of Movement: How Exercise Helps Us Find Happiness, Hope, Connection, and Courage

The Epigenetics Revolution

On Photography

Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol

The Scars of Evolution: What Our Bodies Tell Us About Human Rights

Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space

F*ck No!: How to Stop Saying Yes When You Can’t, You Shouldn’t, or You Just Don’t Want To

The High-Protein Vegan Cookbook

High on Arrival

Breaking Up with Sugar: Divorce the Diets, Drop the Pounds, and Live Your Best Life

A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution

Graphic Design: The New Basics

This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: Mapping the Relationship Between Online Trolling and Mainstream Culture

Invisible: How Young Women with Serious Health Issues Navigate Work, Relationships, and the Pressure to Seem Just Fine

I Have Chosen to Stay and Fight

The New Killer Diseases: How the Alarming Evolution of Mutant Germs Threatens Us All

The Sex Factor: How Women Made the West Rich

Body Respect: What Conventional Health Books Get Wrong, Leave Out, and Just Plain Fail to Understand about Weight

Shut Up, You’re Welcome

Declutter: SUPER Practical Guide to Organize and Clear Your: Mind, Home, Relationships, Digital Life And More

Dreaming in Code: Ada Byron Lovelace, Computer Pioneer

Fragile Bully: Understanding Our Destructive Affair With Narcissism in the Age of Trump

Average is the New Awesome: A Manifesto for the Rest of Us

Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

Camgirl

Before and After: The Incredible Real-Life Stories of Orphans Who Survived the Tennessee Children’s Home Society

So Close to Being the Sh*t, Y’all Don’t Even Know

Before and After the Book Deal: A Writer’s Guide to Finishing, Publishing, Promoting, and Surviving Your First Book

Building a Life Worth Living: A Memoir

Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated

Blaze Your Own Trail: An Interactive Guide to Navigating Life with Confidence, Solidarity and Compassion

Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes

The Magical Language of Others

Underbug: An Obsessive Tale of Termites and Technology

The Confidence Game: The Psychology of the Con and Why We Fall For It Every Time

Women In Europe Between The Wars: Politics, Culture And Society

Get a Life: The Diaries of Vivienne Westwood

Females

Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking

The Best American Food Writing 2019

The Plant-Powered Diet: The Lifelong Eating Plan for Achieving Optimal Health, Beginning Today

Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen

The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read (and Your Children Will Be Glad That You Did)

Notes from No Man’s Land: American Essays

Priestdaddy: A Memoir

Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster

Vegan with a Vengeance: Over 150 Delicious, Cheap, Animal-Free Recipes That Rock

Bad Blood

Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions

Coventry: Essays

A Life’s Work: On Becoming a Mother

Feminine Gospels: Poems

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

The Undying

Here We Are: American Dreams, American Nightmares

Wardrobe Crisis: How We Went From Sunday Best to Fast Fashion

Five Days Gone: The Mystery of My Mother’s Disappearance as a Child

Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait

What My Mother and I Don’t Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence

What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance

Weird Parenting Wins: Bathtub Dining, Family Screams, and Other Hacks from the Parenting Trenches

The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters

Oculus

The Broken Road: George Wallace and a Daughter’s Journey to Reconciliation

The Season: A Social History of the Debutante

The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays

The Heartland: An American History

No Hard Feelings: The Secret Power of Embracing Emotions at Work

Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother’s Time, My Mother’s Time, and Mine

In the Country of Women

The Optimist’s Telescope: Thinking Ahead in a Reckless Age

Things We Didn’t Talk About When I Was a Girl

I Miss You When I Blink

The National Team: The Inside Story of the Women who Changed Soccer

Formation: A Woman’s Memoir of Stepping Out of Line

Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee

Broken Places & Outer Spaces: Finding Creativity in the Unexpected

Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets

H is for Hawk

Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

The Fifth Season

The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination

A Wild and Precious Life: A Memoir

The Needle’s Eye: Passing through Youth

Guest House for Young Widows: Among the Women of ISIS

Hollywood’s Eve: Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L.A.

Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States

The Beneficiary: Fortune, Misfortune, and the Story of My Father

Madame Fourcade’s Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France’s Largest Spy Network Against Hitler

Spotify Teardown: Inside the Black Box of Streaming Music

Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession

Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard

The Extra Woman: How Marjorie Hillis Led a Generation of Women to Live Alone and Like It

Live Alone and Like It

Annie Leibovitz: Photographs

Iran Awakening: A Memoir of Revolution and Hope

Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature

Reclaiming the F Word: The New Feminist Movement

Annie Leibovitz at Work

The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth

The Curious Feminist: Searching for Women in a New Age of Empire

A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812

Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women

Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday

A Year by the Sea

Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History

Vivian Maier: Street Photographer

Spectacles

The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices

Feminists Don’t Wear Pink (And Other Lies): Amazing Women on What the F-Word Means to Them

Happy Fat: Taking Up Space in a World That Wants to Shrink You

Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics

Don’t Touch My Hair

Women’s Colonial Gothic Writing, 1850-1930: Haunted Empire

You Got This: Everything You Need to Master Authentic Public Speaking

Artist Toolbox: Drawing Tools & Materials: A practical guide to graphite, charcoal, colored pencil, and more

The Art of Minimalism: A Simple Guide to Declutter and Organize Your Life

Vegan Style: Your Plant-based Guide to Fashion – Beauty – Home – Travel

Genius and Ink: Virginia Woolf on How To Read

Supreme Ambition: Brett Kavanaugh and the Conservative Takeover