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The Encyclopedia of Ugly Fashion: A Hilarious Introspective of History’s Best Worst Fashion Trends
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The Power We Hold: Reclaiming Our Health from a System That Fails Women
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You’re History: The Twelve Strangest Women in Music
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Women Who Ruled the World: 5000 Years of Female Monarchy
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Women, Art, And Power And Other Essays
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The Widow Clicquot: The Story of a Champagne Empire and the Woman Who Ruled It 
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Hidden Portraits: Six Women Who Shaped Picasso’s Life
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Without Consent: A Landmark Trial and the Decades-Long Struggle to Make Spousal Rape a Crime
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The Scientist and the Spy: A True Story of China, the FBI, and Industrial Espionage
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Indignity: A Life Reimagined
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The Resilience Myth: New Thinking on Grit, Strength, and Growth After Trauma 
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Shibui: The Japanese Art of Finding Beauty in Aging
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Hate: The Uses of a Powerful Emotion
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Don’t Burn Anyone at the Stake Today
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Queen Mother: Black Nationalism, Reparations, and the Untold Story of Audley Moore
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The Mole People: Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York City
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The Art of the SNL Portrait
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The Story of Tudor Art: A History of Tudor England Through its Art and Objects
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History of a Six Weeks’ Tour
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The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis
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Sex Scandals of Ancient Greece and Rome
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Margaret Beaufort: Survivor, Rebel, Kingmaker
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The Holy Mountain
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The Fire: Voices of a Generation in Iran, Ukraine, & Afghanistan
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Teenage Daydream: We are the Girls Who Play in a Band
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Empire of Orgasm: Sex, Power, and the Downfall of a Wellness Cult
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Surviving Rome: The Economic Lives of the Ninety Percent
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Winning the Earthquake: How Jeannette Rankin Defied All Odds to Become the First Woman in Congress
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Torpedoed: The True Story of the World War II Sinking of “The Children’s Ship”
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Eleanor: A 200-Mile Walk in Search of England’s Lost Queen
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Night Vision: In search of the true dark
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Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman’s Fight to End Ableism
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On a Mission: The Smithsonian History of US Women Astronauts
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The Queen of Swords
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Unbearable: Five Women and the Perils of Pregnancy in America
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Assata Taught Me: State Violence, Racial Capitalism, and the Movement for Black Lives
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Your Name Here
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The Book of Revelations: Women and Their Secrets From the 1950s to the Present Day 
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Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness
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Convent Wisdom: How Sixteenth-Century Nuns Could Save Your Twenty-First-Century Life
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Muse: Uncovering the Hidden Figures Behind Art History’s Masterpieces
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The Stolen Crown: Treachery, Deceit, and the Death of the Tudor Dynasty
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The History of Art in One Sentence: 500 Years of Art (But Funny)
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Black-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore
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Pre-Code Essentials: Must-See Cinema from Hollywood’s Untamed Era, 1930-1934 
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Deep Red
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Some Wear Leather, Some Wear Lace: The Worldwide Compendium of Postpunk and Goth in the 1980s
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The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Elia W. Peattie: Twenty-Two Short Stories of the Strange and Unusual
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Goth: Undead Subculture
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Shadow of the Bridge: The Delphi Murders and the Dark Side of the American Heartland
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The Female Gothic: New Directions
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Ghostlore: Unveiling 50 Phantoms That Have Haunted History
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The Real History of Dracula
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Feral and Hysterical: Mother Horror’s Ultimate Reading Guide to Dark and Disturbing Fiction by Women
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Giallo!: Genre, Modernity, and Detection in Italian Horror Cinema
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Return of the Monstrous-Feminine: Feminist New Wave Cinema
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Sick Houses: Haunted Homes and the Architecture of Dread
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Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology
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Pretend We’re Dead: Capitalist Monsters in American Pop Culture
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Recreational Terror: Women and the Pleasures of Horror Film Viewing
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Thou Savage Woman: Female Killers in Early Modern Britain
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Feminist Afterlives of the Witch: Popular Culture, Memory, Activism
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The Disquieting Death of Emma Gill: Abortion, Death, and Concealment in Victorian New England
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The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
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Gothic Feminism: The Professionalization of Gender from Charlotte Smith to the Brontës
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Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy
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Your Favorite Scary Movie: How the Scream Films Rewrote the Rules of Horror
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The First Witch of Boston
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America’s Most Gothic: Haunted History Stranger than Fiction
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How to Art: Bringing a Fancy Subject Down to Earth
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The Girl Bandits of the Warsaw Ghetto: The True Story of Five Courageous Young Women Who Sparked an Uprising
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Tenderheaded: A Memoir
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Banished Citizens: A History of the Mexican American Women Who Endured Repatriation
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The Monsters We Make: Murder, Obsession, and the Rise of Criminal Profiling
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The Home I Worked to Make: Voices from the New Syrian Diaspora
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The Arrogant Ape: The Myth of Human Exceptionalism and Why It Matters
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Heiresses: Marriage, Inheritance, and Slavery in the Caribbean
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Tales of the Dark Feminine: Inspirational Stories of the World’s Fiercest Goddesses
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Just Pills: The Extraordinary Story of a Revolution in Abortion Care
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Art Fraud: 50 Fakes That Fooled the Art World
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Curse of Riches
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The History Gossip: A Slice of Ye Olde Scandal for Every Day of the Year 
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Seven Rivers: A Journey Through the Currents of Human History
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The Bible of British Taste: Stories of Home, People and Place
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Magic from the Hilltops and Hollers: Folk Witchery, Superstitions, and Healing Practices from Appalachia
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The Crone Zone: How to Get Older with Style, Nerve, and a Little Bit of Magic
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Extractive Capitalism: How Commodities and Cronyism Drive the Global Economy
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Fearless, Sleepless, Deathless: What Fungi Taught Me about Nourishment, Poison, Ecology, Hidden Histories, Zombies, and Black Survival
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The Age of Movies: Selected Writings of Pauline Kael
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Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers
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The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam
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The Great Cosmic Mother: Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth
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The Eternal Forest: A Memoir of the Cuban Diaspora
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Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth, and Power
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How to Kill a Witch: The Patriarchy’s Guide to Silencing Women
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The Genius of Trees: How They Mastered the Elements and Shaped the World
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Scream with Me: Horror Films and the Rise of American Feminism (1968-1980)
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Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave: My Cemetery Journeys 
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Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice
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Feminist History for Every Day of the Year
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One Nation Under Blackmail, Vol. 1: The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Crime that Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein
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One Nation Under Blackmail, Vol. 2: The Sordid Union between Intelligence and Organized Crime That Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein
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Heroic Women Throughout History: The Women Who Didn’t Back Down Because It Got Too Hard 
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Ways of Looking at a Woman
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A Short History of the Gaza Strip
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Madame Brussels: The Life and Times of Melbourne’s Most Notorious Woman
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All Consuming: Why We Eat the Way We Eat Now
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How to Be a Saint: An Extremely Weird and Mildly Sacrilegious History of the Catholic Church’s Biggest Names
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Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind
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Fly, Wild Swans: My Mother, Myself and China
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More Musical Women Throughout History: More Women Who Fought For Music
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5001 Nights at the Movies
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When We Spoke to the Dead: How Ghosts Gave American Women Their Voice
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Adapting Gender: Mexican Feminisms from Literature to Film
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Subversive Intent: Gender, Politics, and the Avant-Garde
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I Am Not Your Enemy: A Memoir
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Why Fascists Fear Teachers: Public Education and the Future of Democracy
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Queens at War: England’s Medieval Queens
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Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Literature
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Antimemetics: Why Some Ideas Resist Spreading
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We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution
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Unwed & Unbothered: The Defiant Lives of Single Women Throughout History
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A Secret Sisterhood: The Literary Friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Virginia Woolf
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Fighting for the Puyallup Tribe: A Memoir
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Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy
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The Knowing: How the Oppression of Indigenous Peoples Continues to Echo Today
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Restoration London: Everyday Life in the 1660s
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Loudmouth: Emma Goldman vs. America (A Love Story)
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For the Sun After Long Nights: The Story of Iran’s Women-Led Uprising
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The Nature of Fashion: A Botanical Story of Our Material Lives
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The Waterbearers: A Memoir of Mothers and Daughters
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Bad Indians Book Club: Reading at the Edge of a Thousand Worlds
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Girl Gangs, Zines, and Powerslides: A History of Badass Women Skateboarders
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A Life in Letters
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A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Brontë to Lessing
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Writing Caste/Writing Gender: Narrating Dalit Women’s Testimonies 
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Forgotten Women
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The Woman’s Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets
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Cat Call: Reclaiming the Feral Feminine
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Eternally Electric: The Message in My Music
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Red Pockets: A Tale of Inheritance, Ghosts and the Future
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The Trials of Laura Fair: Sex, Murder, and Insanity in the Victorian West
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The Last Extinction: The Real Science Behind the Death of the Dinosaurs
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The Stronger Sex: What Science Tells Us About the Power of the Female Body
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Arm in Arm: The Grimké Sisters’ Fight for Abolition and Women’s Rights
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Nowhere Girl: Life as a Member of ADHD’s Lost Generation
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Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present
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Uncommon People: Britpop and Beyond in 20 Songs
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Strong Roots: A Memoir of Food, Family, and Ukraine
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Greyhound: A Memoir
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The Fight for Sex Ed: The Century-Long Battle Between Truth and Doctrine
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From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers
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Hot Mess: Mothering Through a Code Red Climate Emergency
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Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction
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Gypsy: A Memoir
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Tell Her Story: Eleanor Bumpurs & the Police Killing That Galvanized New York City
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Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present
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Born: A History of Childbirth and the Female Struggle to Govern Our Bodies
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Roaring Girls: The Forgotten Feminists of British History
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Wild for Austen: A Rebellious, Subversive, and Untamed Jane
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Classical Mythology of the Constellations: Timeless Tales of the Starry Night Sky
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Twelve Feminist Lessons of War
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The Improbable Victoria Woodhull: Suffrage, Free Love, and the First Woman to Run for President
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Elizabeth Bishop: Lines of Connection
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Friends with Words: Adventures in Languageland
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Resting Bitch Face: Poems
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Everything We Do is Music: How 20th-Century Classical Music Shaped Pop
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How to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of De-Extinction
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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
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The Great Crashes: Lessons from Global Meltdowns and How to Prevent Them
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Tate Women Artists
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Kuleana: A Story of Family, Land, and Legacy in Old Hawai’i
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Mythica: A New History of Homer’s World, Through the Women Written Out of It
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Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream
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Living with Jane Austen
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Mission Europe: The Secret History of the Women of SOE
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Hometown Betrayal: A Tragic Story of Secrecy and Sexual Abuse in Mormon Country
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Making Silence Speak: Women’s Voices in Greek Literature and Society
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Against the Odds: New Zealand’s First Women Doctors
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In the Rhododendrons: A Memoir with Appearances by Virginia Woolf
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The Intermediaries: A Weimar Story
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Women of the Fairy Tale Resistance: The Forgotten Founding Mothers of the Fairy Tale and the Stories That They Spun
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Fetishized: A Reckoning with Yellow Fever, Feminism, and Beauty
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The Women of Microsoft: Empowering Stories from the Minds that Coded the World
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With Her Own Hands: Women Weaving Their Stories
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Cat Gods, Goddesses, Deities, and Demons: A Guide to Feline Folklore and Mythology
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The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and the Arts
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The Creation of Anne Boleyn: A New Look at England’s Most Notorious Queen
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Glitz, Glam, and a Damn Good Time: How Mamie Fish, Queen of the Gilded Age, Partied Her Way to Power
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Others Like Me: The Lives of Women Without Children
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Victorian London: The Life of a City, 1840-187
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Women, Feminism and Italian Cinema
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Elizabeth’s London: Everyday Life in Elizabethan London
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Dr Johnson’s London: Everyday Life in London in the Mid 18th Century
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Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
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Taking Down Backpage: Fighting the World’s Largest Sex Trafficker
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Blessings and Disasters: A Story of Alabama
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Vigorous Reforms: Women Writers and the Politics of Health in the Nineteenth-Century United States
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Where Are the Women Architects?
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Gather Together in My Name
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