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In Their Names: The Untold Story of Victims’ Rights, Mass Incarceration, and the Future of Public Safety

Desire Change: Contemporary Feminist Art in Canada

Dry Humping: A Guide to Dating, Relating, and Hooking Up Without the Booze

Encountering Eva Hesse

Tea: A Global History

I Didn’t Know I Needed This: The New Rules for Flirting, Feeling, and Finding Yourself

The XX Brain

Smell Detectives: An Olfactory History of Nineteenth-Century Urban America

Mid-Century Modernism and the American Body: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Power in Design

Self and Identity: The Basics

In Search of a Beautiful Freedom: New and Selected Essays

In Blood and Ashes: Curse Tablets and Binding Spells in Ancient Greece

ADHD for Smart Ass Women: How to Fall in Love with Your Neurodivergent Brain

Fix You, Fix Your Dog: The little blue book on managing your dogs behavior

Isabella Stewart Gardner: A Life

Stolen, Smuggled Sold: On the Hunt for Cultural Treasures

Exquisite Materials: Episodes in the Queer History of Victorian Style

I Hope This Finds You Well: Poems

Flora!: A Woman in a Man’s World

Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement

Visualizing Feeling: Affect and the Feminine Avant-garde

Perfect: Feeling Judged on Social Media

Women’s Liberation!: Feminist Writings that Inspired a Revolution & Still Can

Borderlines: The Shiftings of Gender in British Romanticism

Fat Off, Fat On

Where are the Women Architects?

The Farmer’s Wife

Sashiko Handy Pocket Guide: 27 Designs, Tips & Tricks for Successful Stitching

Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail

Getting Over Ourselves: Moving Beyond a Culture of Burnout, Loneliness, and Narcissism

Into the Dark: What darkness is and why it matters

Baby Girl: Better Known as Aaliyah

Invisible Wealth: 5 Principles for Redefining Personal Wealth in the New Paradigm

British Vogue – January 2024

Time

Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth

Your Journey to Financial Freedom: A Step-by-Step Guide to Achieving Wealth and Happiness

Breaking Free: The Lie of Equality and the Feminist Fight for Freedom

Normal Gets You Nowhere

Reading Fashion in Art

Female Body Image in Contemporary Art: Dieting, Eating Disorders, Self-Harm, and Fatness

Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care

Textile Portraits: People and Places in Textile Art

Tokens: The Future of Money in the Age of the Platform

Sugarless: A 7-Step Plan to Uncover Hidden Sugars, Curb Your Cravings, and Conquer Your Addiction

A Time of One’s Own: Histories of Feminism in Contemporary Art

How to Survive in Medieval England

Creative Basket Weaving: Basket Designs, Plus Wall Hangings, Trays, and Other Decorative Home Items

Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed

Good Apple: Tales of a Southern Evangelical in New York

Tough Titties: On Living Your Best Life When You’re the F-ing Worst

To My Sisters: A Guide to Building Lifelong Friendships

Black TV: Five Decades of Groundbreaking Television from Soul Train to Black-ish and Beyond

Old Mistresses

Streetwise

America the Beautiful?: One Woman in a Borrowed Prius on the Road Most Traveled

Unroyal: Three Women Who Shook the Monarchy

50 Ways to Rewire Your Anxious Brain: Simple Skills to Soothe Anxiety and Create New Neural Pathways to Calm

What Was I Thinking?: How Being a Stand Up Did Nothing to Prepare Me to Become a Single Mother

Visible Empire: Botanical Expeditions and Visual Culture in the Hispanic Enlightenment

Design Social Change: Take Action, Work Toward Equity, and Challenge the Status Quo

The Cycle Syncing Handbook: Identify Hormonal Patterns, Build Holistic Habits, and Embrace the Power of Your Menstrual Cycle

Narrative Healing: Awaken the Power of Your Story

Everybody’s Favorite: Tales from the World’s Worst Perfectionist

Love and Money, Sex and Death

It Was an Ugly Couch Anyway: And Other Thoughts on Moving Forward

Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington

A Poetry Handbook

Stan and Nan

The Final Year of Anne Boleyn

Super Easy Quilting for Beginners

Sexual Consent

On Community

I Had a Miscarriage: A Memoir, a Movement

Talkin’ Up to the White Woman: Indigenous Women and Feminism

Captive Revolution: Palestinian Women’s Anti-Colonial Struggle within the Israeli Prison SystemCaptive Revolution

A Brilliant Life: My Mother’s Inspiring True Story of Surviving the Holocaust

Overlooked: A Celebration of Remarkable, Underappreciated People Who Broke the Rules and Changed the World

12 Bytes: How We Got Here. Where We Might Go Next

Decolonizing Therapy: Oppression, Historical Trauma, and Politicizing Your Practice

Whore of New York: A Confession

Feminist Art Manifestos: An Anthology

This Long Thread

Janis: Her Life and Music

Stepping Out: The Unapologetic Style of African Americans over Fifty

SLAY the Bully: How to Negotiate with a Narcissist and Win

Broken Horses

Amigurumi Cats

A Year in Practice: Seasonal Rituals and Prompts to Awaken Cycles of Creative Expression

Unfinished Woman

Lee Krasner: A Biography

Cacophony of Bone

Knit Fold Pleat Repeat: Simple Knits, Gorgeous Garments

The Space Between

The Women Who Changed Architecture

Find It in Everything

The Darcy Myth: Jane Austen, Literary Heartthrobs, and the Monsters They Taught Us to Love

Dubcon: Fanfiction, Power, and Sexual Consent

In the Pines: A Lynching, a Lie, a Reckoning

Negotiating Feminisms: Sandra Cisneros and Ana Castillo’s Intergenerational Women

Woman Without Shame: Poems

Finding Your Calm: Twelve Methods to Release Anxiety, Relieve Stress & Restore Peace

A Woman I Know: Female Spies, Double Identities, and a New Story of the Kennedy Assassination

Life Stories of Women Artists, 1550-1800: An Anthology

The Right Kind of Wrong

Brutalities: A Love Story

The New Rules of Menopause: A Mayo Clinic Guide to Perimenopause and Beyond

Little Girl Lost

Curious Species: How Animals Made Natural History

A Matter of Appearance

Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself

Make Money Move: A Guide to Financial Wellness

Gator Country: Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades

The Death of a Jaybird: Essays on Mothers and Daughters and the Things They Leave Behind

Enough

Your Voice in My Head

The Risk It Takes to Bloom: On Life and Liberation

The Life List: Master Every Moment and Live an Audacious Life

The Denim Diaries

Deep Care: The Radical Activists Who Provided Abortions, Defied the Law, and Fought to Keep Clinics Open

Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food

Catching the Light

Conversations with Birds

Shakespeare Saved My Life: Ten Years in Solitary with the Bard

A Line in the World: A Year on the North Sea Coast

Essence and Alchemy: A Natural History of Perfume

Last Chance Texaco: Chronicles of an American Troubadour

Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song

Knitting for Radical Self-Care: A Modern Guide

Look Alive Out There: Essays

Play Like a Man: My Life in Poster Children

What Kind of Woman: Poems

1000 Japanese Knitting & Crochet Stitches: The Ultimate Bible for Needlecraft Enthusiasts

KIY: Knit-It-Yourself: 15 Modern Sweater Designs to Stitch and Wear

CIY: Crochet-It-Yourself: 15 Modern Crochet Designs to Stitch and Wear

Little Earthquakes: A Memoir

Subway Art

Unshakeable: Trauma-Informed Mindfulness for Collective Awakening

Dolls of Our Lives: Why We Can’t Quit American Girl

Lesbian Love Story: A Queer History of Sapphic Romance

CBK: Carolyn Bessette Kennedy: A Life in Fashion

The Only Woman in the Room

Screaming Hole

Black and Female: Essays

My Body Is Distant: A Memoir

Girlhood

Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them

Executive Presence: The Missing Link between Merit and Success

Memoirs of a Wartime Interpreter: From the Battle for Moscow to Hitler’s Bunker

Off-Earth: Ethical Questions and Quandaries for Living in Outer Space

This Much is True

The Art of Gifting Naturally: Simple, Handmade Projects to Create for Friends and Family

How to Be the Love You Seek: Break Cycles, Find Peace, and Heal Your Relationships

Dirtbag: Essays

Silent Racism: How Well-meaning White People Perpetuate the Racial Divide

Liliana’s Invincible Summer

Creep: Accusations and Confessions

Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

Blood on Their Hands: Murder, Corruption, and the Fall of the Murdaugh Dynasty

Gracious: A Practical Primer on Charm, Tact, and Unsinkable Strength

In Their Time: A History of Feminism in Western Society

Swan: Poems and Prose Poems

The Stirrings: A Memoir in Northern Time

Seeing: A Memoir of Truth and Courage from China’s Most Influential Television Journalist

Hell If We Don’t Change Our Ways

From From: Poems

Madonna: A Rebel Life

Screaming on the Inside: The Unsustainability of American Motherhood

Pat in the City: My Life of Fashion, Style, and Breaking All the Rules

What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition

How to Be Multiple: The Philosophy of Twins

Easy Crafts for the Insane: A Mostly Funny Memoir of Mental Illness and Making Things

Collapse Feminism: The Online Battle for Feminism’s Future

In the Name of Plants: From Attenborough to Washington, the People behind Plant Names

Why We Need to Be Wild: One Woman’s Quest for Ancient Human Answers to 21st Century Problems

This Is So Awkward: Modern Puberty Explained

Eyeliner: A Cultural History

Imperial Island: An Alternative History of the British Empire

Bite Back: Feminism, media, politics, and our power to change it all

Be Everything at Once: Tales of a Cartoonist Lady Person

The Art of Frugal Hedonism: A Guide to Spending Less While Enjoying Everything More

Erased: Missing Women, Murdered Wives

How to Become a Gardener: Find Empowerment in Creating Your Own Food Security

Love 2.0: How Our Supreme Emotion Affects Everything We Feel, Think, Do, and Become

Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative

Letters to the Future: On equality and Gender

Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country

The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs

The Insomnia Diaries

A Mother’s Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy

Wandering through Life: A Memoir

Ill Feelings

Book of Earth: A Guide to Ochre, Pigment, and Raw Color

Creative Business Handbook: Follow Your Passions and Be Your Own Boss

Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe

Boundary Boss: The Essential Guide to Talk True, Be Seen, and (Finally) Live Free

Candace Pert: Genius, Greed, and Madness in the World of Science

Consent Laid Bare: Sex, Entitlement & the Distortion of Desire

Women, Art, and Society