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Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife

Life Is a Lazy Susan of Sh*t Sandwiches

Lionessheart: The Life and Times of Joanna Plantagenet

Nightshining

Jane Against the World: Roe v. Wade and the Fight for Reproductive Rights

Reminiscences of a Student’s Life

Always Home, Always Homesick

The Snag: A Mother, a Forest, and Wild Grief

The Wanderer’s Curse: A Memoir

Women Holding Things & Still Life with Remorse

Grass Isn’t Greener: The Everyday Conservationist’s Guide to Bringing Nature to Your Yard

Feminism in Revolt: An Anthology

Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility

Going Menopostal: What You (and Your Doctor) Need to Know About the Real Science of Menopause and Perimenopause

The Nature of Life and Death: Every Body Leaves a Trace

The Lost Voice: A Memoir

Speaking of Feminism: Today’s Activists on the Past, Present, and Future of the U.S. Women’s Movement

The Allure of Elsewhere: A Memoir of Going Solo

Girls Who Bite Back: Witches, Mutants, Slayers and Freaks

All Roads Lead to Rome: Why We Think about the Roman Empire Daily

Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male Power

Cycle Breakers: Free Yourself from Emotionally Immature Parents and Be the Parent You Wish You’d Had

Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI

Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: From China to America, a True Story of Abduction, Adoption, and Separated Twins

Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens

Uncommon Favor: Basketball, North Philly, My Mother, and the Life Lessons I Learned from All Three

Things in Nature Merely Grow

Aggregated Discontent: Confessions of the Last Normal Woman

Reasonable Creatures: Essays on Women and Feminism

Erased: What American Patriarchy Has Hidden from Us

Hashtag

The New Age of Sexism: How the AI Revolution is Reinventing Misogyny

Little Bosses Everywhere: How the Pyramid Scheme Shaped America

The Rainbow Ain’t Never Been Enuf: On the Myth of LGBTQ+ Solidarity

Second Life

How to Age Against the Machine: An Empowering Guide for Women Ageing on Their Own Terms

So Many Stars: An Oral History of Trans, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, and Two-Spirit People of Color

Stars to Steer By: Celebrating the 20th century women who went to sea

Lawless: How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, and Bad Vibes

Gulag: A History

America Redux: Visual Stories from Our Dynamic History

Desire Paths

Align Your Mind: Tame Your Inner Critic and Make Peace with Your Shadow Using the Power of Parts Work

Feminism and the Cinema of Experience

Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York

Reading Women: How the Great Books of Feminism Changed My Life

But Everyone Feels This Way: How an Autism Diagnosis Saved My Life

The Art Spy: The Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland

The Neurodiversity Edge: The Essential Guide to Embracing Autism, ADHD, Dyslexia, and Other Neurological Differences for Any Organization

Whack Job: A History of Axe Murder

How to Be Well: Navigating Our Self-Care Epidemic, One Dubious Cure at a Time

A Manual for Being Human

The Mother Code: My Story of Love, Loss, and the Myths That Shape Us

The Book Your Cat Wishes You Would Read

The Book Your Dog Wishes You Would Read

Lessons from My Teachers: From Preschool to the Present

How to Be Queer: An Ancient Guide to Sexuality

This Is Your Mother: A Memoir

The Science of Sex: Every Question About Your Sex Life Answered

Walk Yourself Well: Step into a Healthier, Happier You

It’s Probably Nothing: Critical Conversations on the Women’s Health Crisis (and How to Thrive Despite It)

The Library of Ancient Wisdom: Mesopotamia and the Making of the Modern World

Under the Henfluence: Inside the World of Backyard Chickens and the People Who Love Them

Hear Me Roar

The Fun of It: Random Records of My Own Flying and of Women in Aviation

Broken Silence: Voices of Japanese Feminism

Green River, Running Red

Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain

Plantopedia: The Definitive Guide to Houseplants

Bee Reaved

No Labels Here: A Day-to-day Guide for Parenting Children with Neurodiverse Needs

Melting Point: Family, Memory and the Search for a Promised Land

We Can Do Hard Things: Answers to Life’s 20 Questions

At Last She Stood: How Joey Guerrero Spied, Survived, and Fought for Freedom

Spitfires: The American Women Who Flew in the Face of Danger During World War II

Is Peace Possible?

Four Mothers: An Intimate Journey Through the First Year of Parenthood in Four Countries

Silly Novels by Lady Novelists

This Way Up: Old Friends, New Love, and a Map for the Road Ahead

Personhood: The New Civil War over Reproduction

A Physical Education: How I Escaped Diet Culture and Gained the Power of Lifting

Everyday Intuition: What Psychology, Science, and Psychics Can Teach Us About Finding and Trusting Our Inner Voice

Uncredited: Women’s Overlooked, Misattributed & Stolen Work

Show, Don’t Tell: A Writer, Her Teacher, and the Power of Sharing Our Stories

Understanding Octavia E. Butler

Creative Acts for Curious People: How to Think, Create, and Lead in Unconventional Ways

Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything

Love Me!

Person in Progress: A Road Map to the Psychology of Your 20s

selected unpublished blog posts of a mexican panda express employee

Mother Media: Hot and Cool Parenting in the Twentieth Century

Poets Square: A Memoir in Thirty Cats

Wave: A Memoir

(Un)Stuck

Vivid and Repulsive as the Truth: The Early Works of Djuna Barnes

Uptown Girl: A Memoir

This American Woman: A One-in-a-Billion Memoir

No Words for This

The Solace of Open Spaces

Tove Jansson: Life, Art, Words

Atomic Dreams: The New Nuclear Evangelists and the Fight for the Future of Energy

Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf

Turning to Birds: The Power and Beauty of Noticing

Healing Pelvic Pain

Shooting Out the Lights

Inside and Out: A Story of Family, Self and Sport

Suffragettes to She-Devils: Women’s Liberation and Beyond

Wendat Women’s Arts

The Morning They Came for Us: Dispatches from Syria

Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon and the Journey of a Generation

Meaning: A Very Short Introduction

Portrait of an Artist: A Biography of Georgia O’Keeffe

Background for Love

The Modern Money Manifesto: The No-Nonsense Guide to Boosting Your Finances

Bad Friend: A Century of Revolutionary Friendships

Shatterproof: How to Thrive in a World of Constant Chaos (And Why Resilience Alone Isn’t Enough)

The Last American Road Trip: A Memoir

Human/Nature: On life in a wild world

The Colour Bible: The definitive guide to colour in art and design

Ignite: Unlock Your Brain’s True Potential and Change Your Life

On My Own: A Memoir

Nan Goldin: I’ll Be Your Mirror

The 10: A Memoir of Family and the Open Road

Finding Loretta: An Adopted Daughter’s Search to Define Family

The Dinner Party: Restoring Women to History

Stigmata

Clay: A Human History

Labour of Love: A Midwife’s Stories of Birth, Life and Speaking Up for Women

Be My Baby: A Memoir

Find Work-Life Balance

A Year of Compassion: 52 Weeks of Living Zero-Waste, Plant-Based, and Cruelty-Free

Cosmopolitan Cinema: Cross-cultural Encounters in East Asian Film

Death in the Jungle: Murder, Betrayal, and the Lost Dream of Jonestown

A Complicated Passion: The Life and Work of Agnès Varda

Essential Sashiko

Cloth 100 Artists: Contemporary & Heritage Techniques

World Eaters: How Venture Capital Is Cannibalizing the Economy

Eve Bites Back: An Alternative History of English Literature

Uncertain: The Wisdom and Wonder of Being Unsure

Bibliotherapy in the Bronx

Women of War: The Italian Assassins, Spies, and Couriers Who Fought the Nazis

Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves

Secrets of the Icewomen: The Power of Cold and Breathwork to Balance Hormones, Bolster Health, and Unlock Inner Potential

Through the Glass Ceiling: Reflections on Feminism from the C-Suite

The Next Day: Transitions, Change, and Moving Forward

A Protest History of the United States

A Wilder Way: How Gardens Grow Us

Syme’s Letter Writer: A Guide to Modern Correspondence

Managing Up: How to Get What You Need from the People in Charge

It’s Never Too Late to Begin Again: Discovering Creativity and Meaning at Midlife and Beyond

Riding Like the Wind: The Life of Sanora Babb

Afterimages: On Cinema, Women and Changing Times

The Business of Being a Writer, Second Edition

Of My Own Making: A Memoir

Lesbians: Where are we now?

Constant Reader: The New Yorker Columns 1927-28

Dearly Beloved: Prince, Spirituality, and This Thing Called Life

The Reclining Nude: Agnès Varda, Catherine Breillat, and Nan Goldin

Jane: A Murder

Visual and Other Pleasures

Clothes Make the Man: Female Cross Dressing in Medieval Europe

Feminist Theory and the Classics

When I Grow up: A Memoir

Unravelling Women’s Art: Creators, Rebels, & Innovators in Textile Arts

The Narrowing: A journey through anxiety and the body

Learning to Trust Yourself: Breaking Through the Blocks That Hold You Back

Greek Tragedy

Otter Country: An Unexpected Adventure in the Natural World

Ten Men: A Year of Casual Sex

Pay Up: The Future of Women and Work (and Why It’s Different Than You Think)

Art, Inc.: The Essential Guide for Building Your Career as an Artist

Chicken-Fried Women: Friendship, Kinship, and the Women Who Made Us This Way

Defund: Black Lives, Policing, and Safety for All

Crimes Unspoken: The Rape of German Women at the End of the Second World War

Yves Klein

The Acid Queen: The Psychedelic Life and Counterculture Rebellion of Rosemary Woodruff Leary

Matriarch: A Memoir

The World of Nancy Kwan: A Memoir by Hollywood’s Asian Superstar

Medicine River: A Story of Survival and the Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools

You’re the Boss: Become the Manager You Want to Be (and Others Need)

Accidentally on Purpose

On The Body

Prisons We Choose to Live Inside

Man’s Dominion: The Rise of Religion and the Eclipse of Women’s Rights

Women’s Lives, Men’s Laws

30 Days to a New Relationship with Alcohol

Wild Science: Unexpected Encounters When Working in Nature

Give Me Strength: How I Turned My Back on Restriction, Nurtured the Body I Love, and How You Can Too

Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World

Sad Tiger

The Genius of Birds

The Last Sex: Feminism and Outlaw Bodies

Salty: Lessons on Eating, Drinking, and Living from Revolutionary Women

The Revolutionary Self: Social Change and the Emergence of the Modern Individual, 1770-1800

On Muscle: The Stuff That Moves Us and Why It Matters

I’m That Girl: Living the Power of My Dreams

The Hollow Half: A Memoir of Bodies and Borders

Radical Intimacy

On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families

How to Do Hard Things: Actual Real Life Advice on Friends, Love, Career, Wellbeing, Mindset, and More