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The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

Technology Is Not the Problem

Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes

Nostalgia: A History of a Dangerous Emotion

A Woman Like Me: A Memoir

Panic Proof: The New Holistic Solution to End Your Anxiety Forever

Riot Woman: Using Feminist Values to Destroy the Patriarchy

Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters

Sleater-Kinney’s Dig Me Out

Connie: A Memoir

How to Stay Safe Online: A digital self-care toolkit for developing resilience and allyship

Voyage of the Sable Venus: And Other Poems

Dangerous Fictions: The Fear of Fantasy and the Invention of Reality

Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman’s Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue

Fearless Speech: Breaking Free from the First Amendment

Have a Good Trip: Exploring the Magic Mushroom Experience

American Bulk: Essays on Excess

All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess

Raised by a Serial Killer: Discovering the Truth About My Father

The Housekeeper’s Secret

Galileo’s Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love

The Disappearance of Lydia Harvey: A True Story of Sex, Crime and the Meaning of Justice

Contemporary Black Women Filmmakers and the Art of Resistance

Flannery O’Connor and the Scandal of Faith

The Phantom of Fifth Avenue: The Mysterious Life and Scandalous Death of Heiress Huguette Clark

Here You Are, Courageous: Transform Your Relationship with Fear, Anxiety and Panic and Reclaim Your Life

Politically Incorrect: Women Artists and Female Imagery in Early Modern Europe

Playing Possum: How Animals Understand Death

One Week in January: New Paintings for an Old Diary

The Jamestown Brides

Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity

The Kids Are All Right: Parenting with Confidence in an Uncertain World

Slowing: Discover Wonder, Beauty, and Creativity through Slow Living

Scented Visions: Smell in Art, 1850-191

The Cure for Women: Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Challenge to Victorian Medicine That Changed Women’s Lives Forever

Giant Love: Edna Ferber, Her Best-Selling Novel of Texas, and the Making of a Classic American Film

Oh Miriam!: Stories from an Extraordinary Life

Naked Portrait: A Memoir of my Father, Lucian Freud

Mamá Didn’t Raise a Pendeja: Anti-Affirmations Inspired by Tough-Love Abuela

Kindred Creation: Parables and Paradigms for Freedom—Black Worldmaking to Reclaim Our Heritage and Humanity

How to Fuck Like a Girl: Essays

Stand in My Window: Meditations on Home and How We Make It

The Icon and the Idealist: Margaret Sanger, Mary Ware Dennett, and the Rivalry That Brought Birth Control to America

Didion and Babitz

Releasing Toxic Anger for Women: Somatic Practices and CBT Skills to Transform Negative Thoughts, Soothe Stress, and Stay True to Yourself

Mad Wife

Nora Ephron at the Movies

Under the Bus: How Working Women Are Being Run Over

Feminist Auteurs: Reading Women’s Films

Ageless Aging: A Woman’s Guide to Increasing Healthspan, Brainspan, and Lifespan

The Cultural Politics of Emotion

We Oughta Know: How Céline, Shania, Alanis, and Sarah Ruled the ’90s and Changed Music

Grown Woman Talk: Your Guide to Getting and Staying Healthy

Sage Warrior

The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear

My Black Country: A Journey Through Country Music’s Black Past, Present, and Futur

Brown Faces, White Spaces: Confronting Systemic Racism to Bring Healing and Restoration

The Price of Children: Stolen Lives in a Land Without Choice

Too Much: A Guide to Breaking the Cycle of High-Functioning Codependency

Well Worn: Visible Mending for the Clothes You Love

The Time of My Life: Dirty Dancing

Flourishing Kin: Indigenous Wisdom for Collective Well-Being

The Queen’s Path: A Revolutionary Guide to Women’s Empowerment and Sovereignty

The Age of Living Machines: How the Convergence of Biology and Engineering Will Build the Next Technology Revolution

Beyond Coffee: A Sustainable Guide to Nootropics, Adaptogens, and Mushrooms

The Planets

Being the Change: Lessons and Strategies to Teach Social Comprehension

Women in East Asian Cinema: Gender Representations, Creative Labour and Global Histories

Acts of Resistance: The Power of Art to Create a Better World

From the Ground Up: The Women Revolutionizing Regenerative Agriculture

Tiny Pep Talks: Bite-Size Encouragement for Life’s Annoying, Stressful, and Flat-Out Lousy Moments

Why Am I Like This?: My Brain Isn’t Broken (and Neither Is Yours)

Cher: The Memoir, Part One

A Continuous State of War: Empire Building and Race Making in the Civil War-Era Gulf South

Alice James

I Decided to Live as Me: An Illustrated Checklist for How to Stop Comparing Yourself to Others So You Can Learn to Love Yourself

Resist: How a Century of Young Black Activists Shaped America

Still Life at Eighty: The Next Interesting Thing

Her Space, Her Time: How Trailblazing Women Scientists Decoded the Hidden Universe

The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

Take Back The Fight: Organizing Feminism for the Digital Age

Honor Girl: A Graphic Memoir

Because I’m Not Myself, You See: A Memoir of Motherhood, Madness and Coming Back From the Brink

Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

In Such Good Company: Eleven Years of Laughter, Mayhem, and Fun in the Sandbox

Somebody with a Little Hammer

Misfits: A Personal Manifesto

It Was the Best of Sentences, It Was the Worst of Sentences: A Writer’s Guide to Crafting Killer Sentences

The Use of Photography

The Second Fifty: Answers to the 7 Big Questions of Midlife and Beyond

The Financial Activist Playbook: 8 Strategies for Everyday People to Reclaim Wealth and Collective Well-Being

The Anti-Ableist Manifesto: How to Build a Disability-Inclusive World

The Official Dopamine Nation Workbook: A Practical Guide to Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

The World She Edited

Re-Regulated: Set Your Life Free from Childhood PTSD and the Trauma-Driven Behaviors That Keep You Stuck

Dorothy Parker in Hollywood

You’re Not the Problem: The Impact of Narcissism and Emotional Abuse and How to Heal

Moments of Being: A Collection of Autobiographical Writing

I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest with You

The Thinking Muse: Feminism and Modern French Philosophy

Dancing with Iris: The Philosophy of Iris Marion Young

Political Responsibility Refocused: Thinking Justice after Iris Marion Young

Mama: A Queer Black Woman’s Story of a Family Lost and Found

Hope for Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued from the Brink

Feminism in Women’s Detective Fiction

The Heroine’s Journey: For Writers, Readers, and Fans of Pop Culture

An Angel at My Table: The Complete Autobiography

Likeable Badass: How Women Get the Success They Deserve

The Owl Was a Baker’s Daughter: Obesity, Anorexia Nervosa, and the Repressed Feminine – A Psychological Study

I Do Everything I’m Told

Intersecting Voices

Unruly: A Guide to Reclaiming Your True Self

Sexism & Sensibility: Raising Empowered, Resilient Girls in the Modern World

Women in Vinyl: The Art of Making Vinyl

A Writer’s Diary

One Garden Against the World: In Search of Hope in a Changing Climate

Selling Sexy: Victoria’s Secret and the Unraveling of an American Icon

Speak / Stop

Mother / Founder: 68 Women on the Trials and Triumphs of Starting a Business and Raising a Family

Rumbles: A Curious History of the Gut

Negative Space

Gather Me: A Memoir in Praise of the Books That Saved Me

To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness

Gory Details

Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s

Season of the Witch: The Book of Goth

Perils of the Night: A Feminist Study of Nineteenth-Century Gothic

Fairytale and Gothic Horror: Uncanny Transformations in Film

Bloody Women: Women Directors of Horror

Gothic Music: The Sounds of the Uncanny

Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters

All That Remains: A Renowned Forensic Scientist on Death, Mortality, and Solving Crimes

Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind

Gender and Contemporary Horror in Film

The Brothers Grimm: A Biography

Our Vampires, Ourselves

Body Phobia: The Western Roots of Our Fear of Difference

The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime

Scent and Subversion: Decoding A Century Of Provocative Perfume

Woman with a Movie Camera: My Life as a Russian Filmmaker

Death Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond

American Sherlock: Murder, forensics, and the birth of crime scene investigation

In the Groove: The Vinyl Record and Turntable Revolution

How to Disappear: Notes on Invisibility in a Time of Transparency

Disobedient Bodies: Reclaim Your Unruly Beauty

Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen

Korean Horror Cinema

The Healing Power of Storytelling: Using Personal Narrative to Navigate Illness, Trauma, and Loss

Horror Noire

It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror

The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science

Turn Your Pain Into Art

The Impostor Heiress: Cassie Chadwick, The Greatest Grifter of the Gilded Age

Your Magical Life: A Young Witch’s Guide to Becoming Happy, Confident, and Powerful

Defectors: The Rise of the Latino Far Right and What It Means for America

What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator

Conversations with Monsters: On Mortality, Creativity, And Neurodivergent Survival

Nuclear War: A Scenario

Woman and the Demon: The Life of a Victorian Myth

Alex & Me: How a Scientist and a Parrot Discovered a Hidden World of Animal Intelligence—and Formed a Deep Bond in the Process

I Do (I Think): Conversations About Modern Marriage

The DBT Workbook for Narcissistic Abuse and Gaslighting

Trick or Treat: A History of Halloween

Clay and Bones: My Life as an FBI Forensic Artist

Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed

Dark Tide: Growing Up with Ted Bundy

A Deathly Compendium of Poisonous Plants: Wicked Weeds and Sinister Seeds

The PLAN: Manage Your Time Like a Lazy Genius

Lifeform

Against Interpretation and Other Essays

Creepy Cross-Stitch: 25 Spooky Projects to Haunt Your Halls

The Book of Hallowe’en

Ten Days in a Mad-House

Heart on My Sleeve: Stories from a Life Well Worn

Ghosts: A Haunted History

Women in Rock Memoirs: Music, History, and Life-Writing

Unstoppable!: My Journey from World Champion to Athlete A to 8-Time NCAA National Gymnastics Champion and Beyond

Listening in the Dark: Women Reclaiming the Power of Intuition

Ancestors: A Prehistory of Britain in Seven Burials

Buried: An alternative history of the first millennium in Britain

Crypt: Life, Death and Disease in the Middle Ages and Beyond

Laura’s Ghost: Women Speak About Twin Peaks

Magickal Cross-Stitch: 25 Witchy Projects to Enchant Your Home

Naked Imperfection

Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black and White, Body and Soul in American Music

Night Magic: Adventures Among Glowworms, Moon Gardens, and Other Marvels of the Dark

From Here to the Great Unknown

Cats of the World

The Observable Universe: An Investigation

Beyond Self-Defense: How to Say No, Set Boundaries, and Reclaim Your Agency—An Empowering Guide to Safety, Risk Assessment, and Personal Protection

Bone of the Bone: Essays on America by a Daughter of the Working Class

The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World

I Spit On Your Celluloid: The History of Women Directing Horror Movies

On Sex and Gender: A Commonsense Approach

Black Women of the Civil Rights Movement

Haunted States: An American Gothic Guidebook

If You Can’t Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury

Directional Living: A Transformational Guide to Fulfillment in Work and Life

Shame on You: How to Be a Woman in the Age of Mortification