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The Language of Butterflies: How Thieves, Hoarders, Scientists, and Other Obsessives Unlocked the Secrets of the World’s Favorite Insect

Why Have Kids?: A New Mom Explores the Truth About Parenting and Happiness

A Queer and Pleasant Danger: The True Story of a Nice Jewish Boy Who Joins the Church of Scientology and Leaves Twelve Years Later to Become the Lovely Lady She is Today

From No-Knead to Sourdough: A Simpler Approach to Handmade Bread

A New Index for Predicting Catastrophes

Story Genius: How to Use Brain Science to Go Beyond Outlining and Write a Riveting Novel (Before You Waste Three Years Writing 327 Pages That Go Nowhere)

Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America’s Prison Nation

Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture

This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart: A Memoir in Halves

Out of Office: Ditch the 9-5 and Be Your Own Boss

The Modern Witchcraft Guide to Magickal Herbs: Your Complete Guide to the Hidden Powers of Herbs

The Modern Guide to Witchcraft: Your Complete Guide to Witches, Covens, and Spells

Wages for Housework: A History of an International Feminist Movement, 1972–77

Ms. Gloria Steinem: A Life

Sarah Bernhardt: The Divine and Dazzling Life of the World’s First Superstar

We Resist: Defending the Common Good in Hostile Times

Logic Made Easy: How to Know When Language Deceives You

Counter Culture: The American Coffee Shop Waitress

Say I’m Dead: A Family Memoir of Race, Secrets, and Love

Revolution And Evolution In The Twentieth Century

Living For Change: An Autobiography

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

Words Will Break Cement: The Passion of Pussy Riot

Our Bodies Their Battlefield: What War Does to Women

Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells

Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula

Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate

Once a Girl, Always a Boy: A Family Memoir of a Transgender Journey

This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman

Why Women Need Quotas

Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design

Never Stop Walking: A Memoir of Finding Home Across the World

Inside Private Prisons: An American Dilemma in the Age of Mass Incarceration

Separate and Dominate: Feminism and Racism after the War on Terror

Introduction to Transgender Studies

Modesty: A Fashion Paradox: Uncovering The Causes, Controversies And Key Players Behind The Global Trend To Conceal Rather Than Reveal

Healing with CBD: How Cannabidiol Can Transform Your Health without the High

Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery

Stray: Memoir of a Runaway

OBIT

Invisibility Blues: From Pop to Theory

Performing Jane: A Cultural History of Jane Austen Fandom

Muslim Women Are Everything: Stereotype-Shattering Stories of Courage, Inspiration, and Adventure

The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop–and Why It Matters

Yours in Struggle: Three Feminist Perspectives on Anti-Semitism and Racism

The Great Indoors: The Surprising Science of How Buildings Shape Our Behavior, Health, and Happiness

AOC: Fighter, Phenom, Changemaker

Thank You for Voting: The Maddening, Enlightening, Inspiring Truth About Voting in America

Writing Wild: Women Poets, Ramblers, and Mavericks Who Shape How We See the Natural World

Inclusify: The Power of Uniqueness and Belonging to Build Innovative Teams

How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community

Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us

Sway: Unravelling Unconscious Bias

Ink-Stained Amazons and Cinematic Warriors: Superwomen in Modern Mythology

Feminist Parenting: Perspectives from Africa and Beyond

Blueberries: Essays Concerning Understanding

Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment

Mighty Justice: My Life in Civil Rights

Breaking Mad: The Insider’s Guide to Conquering Anxiety

Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code

We Live for the We: The Political Power of Black Motherhood

If They Come in the Morning … Voices of Resistance

Tara: The Liberating Power of the Female Buddha

Gramsci’s Common Sense: Inequality and Its Narratives

The Madwoman and the Roomba: My Year of Domestic Mayhem

A Field Guide to Getting Lost

There Is No Outside: Covid-19 Dispatches

The Despair of Monkeys and Other Trifles: A Memoir by Françoise Hardy

Girl Talk: What Science Can Tell Us About Female Friendship

Raising Multiracial Children: Tools for Nurturing Identity in a Racialized World

Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights

Think Outside the Building: How Advanced Leaders Can Change the World One Smart Innovation at a Time

You Were Born for This: Astrology for Radical Self-Acceptance and Living Your Purpose

Curveballs: How to Keep It Together when Life Tries to Tear You a New One

Beyond Beautiful: A Practical Guide to Being Happy, Confident, and You in a Looks-Obsessed World

Why Won’t You Apologize?: Healing Big Betrayals and Everyday Hurts

Love Warrior

Our Time is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America

What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About #MeToo: Essays on Sex, Authority and the Mess of Life

The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias

Queer, There and Everywhere: 23 People Who Changed the World

#VERYFAT #VERYBRAVE: The Fat Girl’s Guide to Being #Brave and Not a Dejected, Melancholy, Down-in-the-Dumps Weeping Fat Girl in a Bikini

Weird but Normal: Essays

Neon Girls: A Stripper’s Education in Protest and Power

The Royal Art of Poison: Filthy Palaces, Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicine, and Murder Most Foul

Dark Sparkler

24/6 The Power of Unplugging One Day a Week

The Book of Rosy: A Mother’s Story of Separation at the Border

Beatriz Allende: A Revolutionary Life in Cold War Latin America

White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide

The Little Book of Cannabis: How Marijuana Can Improve Your Life

How the Suburbs Were Segregated: Developers and the Business of Exclusionary Housing, 1890-1960

Things I Learned from Falling

The Future of Whiteness

No, You Shut Up: Speaking Truth to Power and Reclaiming America

One Last Lunch: A Final Meal With Those Who Meant So Much To Us

The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters

How to Shit in the Woods: An Environmentally Sound Approach to a Lost Art

Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings

A Time of Birds: Reflections on cycling across Europe

Watermarks: Life, Death and Swimming

Seeing Race Again: Countering Colorblindness across the Disciplines

Bibliophile: An Illustrated Miscellany

Women with Attention Deficit Disorder

Cannibal Culture: Art, Appropriation, And The Commodification Of Difference

Revealing Whiteness: The Unconscious Habits of Racial Privilege

America’s Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines

Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America

Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood

Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century

Leap In: A Woman, Some Waves, and the Will to Swim

Cannabis and CBD for Health and Wellness: An Essential Guide for Using Nature’s Medicine to Relieve Stress, Anxiety, Chronic Pain, Inflammation, and More

The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness

How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships

Feasting Wild: In Search of the Last Untamed Food

Shortlisted: Women in the Shadows of the Supreme Court

Are All the Women Still White?: Rethinking Race, Expanding Feminisms

Synthesizing Gravity: Selected Prose

Femmenism and the Mexican Woman Intellectual from Sor Juana to Poniatowska: Boob Lit

“Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?”: A Psychologist Explains the Development of Racial Identity

Atomic Women: The Untold Stories of the Scientists Who Helped Create the Nuclear Bomb

Why Bother: Discover the Desire for What’s Next

Bluebird: Women and the New Psychology of Happiness

The Influence Effect: A New Path to Power for Women Leaders

The End of Eve

The Fire Never Goes Out: A Memoir in Pictures

A Woman’s Guide to Cannabis: Using Marijuana to Feel Better, Look Better, Sleep Better–and Get High Like a Lady

Fairest: A Memoir

Dependency

Youth

Childhood

The War Queens: Extraordinary Women who Ruled the Battlefield

Self-Care for the Real World

America’s First Female Serial Killer: Jane Toppan and the Making of a Monster

Jane’s Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World

When I Fell From the Sky

Country Girl: A Memoir

Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents

Brown Album: Essays on Exile and Identity

Up All Night: Ted Turner, CNN, and the Birth of 24-Hour News

Death in Ten Minutes: The Forgotten Life of Radical Suffragette Kitty Marion

Sylvia Townsend Warner: A Biography

Murder by the Book: The Crime That Shocked Dickens’s London

Love Behind Bars: The True Story of an American Prisoner’s Wife

Pickles and Preserves: A Savor the South Cookbook

Balance & Other B.S. : How to Hold it Together When you are doing it all

Don’t Go Crazy Without Me

Wuhan Diary: Dispatches from the Original Epicenter

Tree Story: The History of the World Written in Rings

The Forest City Killer: A Serial Murderer, a Cold-Case Sleuth, and a Search for Justice

Grandmothers: Essays by 21st-century Grandmothers

Ongoingness: The End of a Diary

Fuck Happiness: How Women Are Ditching the Cult of Positivity and Choosing Radical Joy

Violation: Collected Essays by Sallie Tisdale

Trans Like Me: A Journey for All of Us

A Carlin Home Companion: Growing Up with George

Gender and Agency: Reconfiguring the Subject in Feminist and Social Theory

Women of Color in Tech: A Blueprint for Inspiring and Mentoring the Next Generation of Technology Innovators

V is for Vagina: Your A to Z Guide to Periods, Piercings, Pleasures, and so much more

300 Arguments

Hustling Verse: An Anthology of Sex Workers’ Poetry

Not Knowing: The Art of Turning Uncertainty into Opportunity

The Guardians: An Elegy for a Friend

Staying in the Game: The Playbook for Beating Workplace Sexual Harassment

Three Thousand Stitches: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives

Actually, the Comma Goes Here: A Practical Guide to Punctuation

One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924-1965

Here, There and Everywhere: Best-Loved Stories of Sudha Murthy

a fire like you

Daughters of the Sun: Empresses, Queens and Begums of the Mughal Empire

Questions for Ada

Find Your Voice: The Secret to Talking with Confidence in Any Situation

Madonna and Me: Women Writers on the Queen of Pop

How to Drag a Body and Other Safety Tips You Hope to Never Need: Survival Tricks for Hacking, Hurricanes, and Hazards Life Might Throw at You

The Ambivalent Internet: Mischief, Oddity, and Antagonism Online

Mending Life: A Handbook for Repairing Clothes and Hearts

The Two Kinds of Decay

The Equivalents: The Untold Story of the Five Friends Who Started a Personal, Political, and Artistic Revolution

If It’s Purple, Someone’s Gonna Die: The Power of Color in Visual Storytelling

Sex Matters: How Male-Centric Medicine Endangers Women’s Health and What We Can Do About It

The Complete A to Z for Your V: A Women’s Guide to Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Your Vagina–Health, Pleasure, Hormones, and More

Stray

Buffy Sainte-Marie: The Authorized Biography

A Good Time to be a Girl: Don’t Lean In, Change the System

Yeah, No. Not Happening.: How I Found Happiness Swearing Off Self-Improvement and Saying F*ck It All—and How You Can Too

Claire Denis

Aroused: The History of Hormones and How They Control Just About Everything

The Bystander Effect

The Bitter Taste of Victory: Life, Love, and Art in the Ruins of the Reich

Witches!: The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem

soft thorns

Be the Change You Want to See in the World: 365 Things You Can Do for Yourself And Your Planet

Set Me On Fire: A Poem For Every Feeling

Giving Up the Ghost : A Memoir

Sea of Strangers

The Strength In Our Scars

The Sustainable(ish) Living Guide: Everything you need to know to make small changes that make a big difference

Womenomics: Write Your Own Rules for Success